There wasn't much time for lunch, so Xu Zheng and Yan Lao discussed when to come, and whether to recruit someone to form a task force and who to want.

Xu Zheng decided to wait for the case to be a bit eyebrow before applying for the formation of a task force, and Yan Lao was now counting on Xu Zheng to help him satisfy his regrets, so he naturally had no opinion on this.

The two reached a preliminary agreement and were quite satisfied, and Xu Zheng was even more looking forward to using this task force to investigate the case of the hidden assassination of the official Yue'er by the way.

In this case, it is justified for him to investigate the case, otherwise when the case is solved, he will not be able to apply for bonuses and medals.

As for Yan Lao, he has 100% trust in Xu Zheng to solve the strange death case of Du Meijuan, and is willing to pave the way for this young man.

Besides, this is also the last burning of the torch before it turns to ashes.

On the way back, Zhu Qing and Pei Tianshi enthusiastically signed up, and both of them had the same reason, they were willing to work hard to make up for Yan Lao's last regret.

Xu Zheng didn't know if they were sincere, or if it was for merit and bonuses, but the original intention was not important, and the deeds were not careful, as long as the two of them worked hard to handle the case.

Back at the unit, Xu Zheng finished his work and went to Liujianghe's office to report his work.

He had already heard about Xu Zheng's incident last night, but he felt that it was a private matter, and the two of them were not hypocritical enough to talk about the future, so he didn't mention it today.

"During this period of time, the work in South China and East China, your five groups have done a very good job, and in another half a month, I expect that there will be a lot fewer newly discovered wanted criminals in China..."

Liu Jianghe suddenly felt a little sad as he spoke, "The face recognition launched by Zheng Heming's studio of your Pingjiang Provincial Department has a lot of children found this time.

These two efforts can be said to have wiped out most of the fugitives and abducted children in the country.

In another year or two, our work will be too easy. ”

Xu Zheng didn't hear the joy from the leader's mouth, and understood in his heart that most of the wanted criminals were arrested this time, and the new wanted criminals were either arrested quickly or abroad.

And wanted criminals abroad are not only difficult to catch, but also more troublesome.

Failing to catch wanted criminals means that the work department is not doing well, and Xu Zheng can't do anything about it, he can't come up with a way to increase the number of wanted criminals.

"Liu Hall, the ship is naturally straight to the bridgehead, if the domestic security environment requires the dissolution of the domestic pursuit bureau, this is also a good thing.

Isn't this the original intention of being a police officer? ”

Liu Jianghe shook his head with a smile, "You have comforted me, let me remind you that there are people below for the sake of performance and indicators."

Deliberately exaggerating the impact of the case and applying to the ministry to issue them A/B wanted criminals, in this way, their local wanted criminals will increase, and the indicators and credits will naturally not be less.

Therefore, when you audit, you must strictly control the first pass, otherwise we will be found out, and we will be criticized. ”

Xu Zhengqing knows that he will never underestimate the things that local cadres have done for the sake of indicators.

Sometimes they obviously discover the illegal acts of criminal gangs, but in order to catch big fish, for greater credit, they sit back and watch these criminal gangs make bigger cases.

"I understand, don't worry, my side will definitely stick to the principles."

Coming out of Liu Jianghe's office, Xu Zheng wanted to go to Hu Chenglin again, but this Director Hu was in a meeting, so he could only go back to his office first.

After getting off work, he, Zhu Qing and Pei Tianshi came to Yan Lao's office in the Municipal Bureau Archives again.

But today is not Yan Lao alone, there are two women standing next to the old man.

Looking at his face, the slightly older one should be Yan Lao's daughter, and the girl should be his granddaughter or granddaughter.

The girl didn't look big, at most she had just entered college, and her voice was soft, "Grandpa, your body is like this and you still sit in the dark archives all day, which is not good for your health."

You're going to come with us to the hospital, right? ”

Yan Lao looked helpless, unmoved by his granddaughter's persuasion, and he didn't seem to want to explain his insistence anymore, so he glanced at his daughter with a straight face.

But his daughter didn't seem to see it, and still looked at the girl.

Xu Zheng happened to see this scene when he walked in, just when he didn't know whether to exit first, or take a step forward.

Yan Lao happened to see him, and a smile appeared on his face, "Xiao Xu is here, come here, let me introduce you, this is my granddaughter, Fang Hua."

Haha, she adores you. ”

Xu Zhengke didn't see the adoration in the girl's eyes, but hated and disgusted, probably regarded them as one of the accomplices who caused Yan Lao's illness.

There is no possibility of curing advanced stomach cancer, and stomach disease is one of the occupational diseases of the police, and many police officers have it.

Xu Zheng only felt that he was wronged, but he couldn't explain it to the little girl, so he first nodded to Yan Lao's daughter and said hello, and then replied to Yan Lao, "Why don't you go home with your family first."

Let's borrow your office to study the case. ”

Yan Lao secretly glared at Xu Zheng, his time was running out now, and he couldn't hold on one day, and now he was only thinking about solving Du Meijuan's case.

Anything else can be left for later.

Including what happened behind him.

Yan Lao was helpless, and his tone was sincere, "Wanyu, Xiaohua, you go back first, I have a job here, and it is inconvenient for you to be here." ”

Yan Wanyu looked at her about forty years old, it is estimated that she is Yan's youngest daughter, she is very rich, and it can be seen from her dress and demeanor that she should be very rich in her current life.

She knows her father's temper, no one can persuade her, in front of outsiders, she can't say anything now, but if she is allowed to walk away directly, she can't rest assured of her old father's body.

In short, she hopes that she can be by her side when her father is really bad, and it will not be in vain for her father and daughter.

So Old Lady Yan's words, she just shook her head, "That's it, Dad, let's take a step back, Xiaohua and I are waiting for you on the side."

Give you an hour to work.

When the time comes, you have to go home with us immediately. ”

"Mom is right, grandpa, you are so old, why are you disobedient?" Fang Hua pretended to sigh on the side, saying that her disobedient grandfather had caused her a lot of trouble.

Yan Lao was silent, Xu Zheng instantly felt the eyes of the mother and daughter looking at him like knives, he smiled slightly, nodded and said, "An hour is just right, I also have to get off work early to accompany my daughter." ”

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get started." Yan Lao had no choice but to listen to everyone's opinions.

It's just that next, Yan Wanyu walked to the side to find a chair to sit down, but Fang Hua, the little girl, sat next to Yan Lao with a curious and innocent expression, and she didn't mean to leave at all.

"Leave her alone, this girl is determined to be Maori Kogoro, what should we do." Yan Lao looked at Xu Zheng's puzzled eyes and explained.

Fang Hua pretended to be annoyed, flicked his ponytail, and argued in a low voice: "I'm going to be a detective like Miss Marple, okay!?" ”

Xu Zheng smiled, Miss Marple, like Sherlock Holmes, is a character in literature who is known for his detective and intelligence.

Yan Lao didn't stop Fang Hua from contacting this case, it seems that the little girl does have some skills.

As for whether it was in line with the procedures for people other than the police to contact and participate in the investigation of the backlog of cases in the archives, Xu Zheng did not consider this, and some of the files in the archives were originally allowed to be viewed by outsiders.

Besides, no one accounts for such a trivial matter.

As long as Fang Hua doesn't publicize it to the outside world, who cares.

said that it was to do the right thing, but in fact, there was not much that everyone could do to investigate Du Meijuan's murder at the beginning, and most of the time spent this hour was spent familiarizing themselves with the case file.

Xu Zheng hugged a computer, flipped through the file page by page, and watched some investigation videos twice, especially the video of the informant Chang Lele's confession several times.

He looked at it in the most detail.

Although the informant is the first suspect, this time Xu Zheng did not analyze the case according to the previous investigation method.

Because I have reopened this case several times before, I have tried many ways of investigating.

For example, the source of the knife stuck in Du Meijuan's heart is the fruit knife used in the rental house where her boyfriend lives, and no traces of the murderer can be found from the knife.

For example, the source of the wedding dresses and suits on Du Meijuan and her boyfriend, the police found that these clothes were bought by the two of them a long time ago, and the murderer just found them in Du's room and put them on.

For example, investigating Du Meijuan's benefactors, this woman is a princess in a bar, and she sells her art and body, basically there will be more than ten transactions every month.

There are more than 100 benefactors in a year, and it is impossible for the police to investigate them one by one, but there are no suspicious people who have investigated over the years.

Another example is the person who has conflicts with Du Meijuan, whether male or female, and the police who handle the case have also found many people.

It's just that they haven't found out who the suspect is.

There is also monitoring, the monitoring of the funeral home, the monitoring of the community where Du Meijuan rents a house, the monitoring of the community where her boyfriend lives...

In the end, many reconnaissance directions and paths were found to be all wrong.

Xu Zheng simply read the dossier, feeling helpless in his heart, the whole case seems to be very simple, but the whole action cannot be completed by one person.

First of all, the murderer wanted to steal Du Meijuan's boyfriend's body from the funeral home, and then rushed to her home to commit a crime against her.

The period must be completed before 3 o'clock in the morning if everything goes smoothly, after all, it takes more than an hour to rush from the funeral home in the East Sixth Ring Road to the vicinity of Sanlitun.

In addition, they have to change clothes for Du Meijuan and the others, and the whole process may be completed by one person, but there will definitely be omissions.

It's just that at the scene of the crime, the murderer did not leave suspicious clues.

Xu Zheng can only identify whether Du Meijuan's bedroom is the scene of the first crime from the photos and videos taken by the case-handling unit back then, and after studying for a long time, he has to admit that this is indeed the scene of the first crime.

First of all, the cause of Du Meijuan's death was indeed that a sharp weapon pierced her heart and bled to death, and there were no illegal drugs in her blood, and the blood flowing on the bed and ground in her room also confirmed the cause of her death.

Secondly, Du Meijuan's boyfriend Song Hao, his time of death is the fifteenth day of the first month of 2026, and the cause of death is a drunk driving accident.

By the time of Du Meijuan's death, he had been dead for three days, and the weather was relatively warm that year, with an average daytime temperature of more than ten degrees in the capital.

Song Hao's corpse has long had a stench, even if the funeral home has placed drugs to suppress cadaverine on the corpse, but when the murderer moved to Du Meijuan's house, the disgusting smell of cadaverine could not be suppressed.

Cadaverine is a liquid that the corpse begins to secrete three hours after death, and the corpse odor comes from it, which is poisonous.

It can be seen that Du Meijuan's bedroom is the first crime scene, and there is no place to be suspicious.

Let's talk about Du Meijuan, this woman, she is the deceased, the victim, all the starting points of this case revolve around her to carry out investigations, she is 28 years old this year, and she is not an older young woman.

This woman is still capable, she works in Sanlitun and can earn 600,000 to 800,000 yuan a year, of which the normal salary, that is, the basic salary plus commission, can be about 300,000.

Most of the money left over was prostitution and tips.

And unlike those pure salesmen who only do business for men and women, she also helps her customers introduce other female services.

Especially when she was originally a student at a university in Beijing, she had a way to contact those students who wanted to make money.

So the referral fee she has accumulated is also very considerable.

It stands to reason that she has been in this business for three years and should have saved a lot of money in her hands, but she still has Alipay and 10,000 yuan in her bank account.

Looking at her expenses again, you can see that the bulk of her spending money is that she secretly bought a house of more than 120 square meters in her hometown.

The monthly payment is 3,100 yuan.

Her family didn't know about her buying a house, including her boyfriend's family, and as for Song Hao, it is estimated that he didn't know about it either.

Because he almost didn't transfer more than 2,000 dollars to Du Meijuan.

In addition, Du Meijuan also spends a lot on weekdays, clothes, bags, jewelry, etc. are all famous brands, and even perfume is high-end, in the words of her colleagues.

Low-priced perfumes will only drive away customers.

So the perfumes they use are basically high-end products.

Du Meijuan is very optimistic, and her colleagues who have been in contact with her for a long time, both men and women, recognize her generosity, unlike some women who obviously make a lot of money, and they are more stingy than the other.

Love takes advantage of small advantages.

"How about Xiaoxu, have you found anything?" Yan Lao can be said to be very familiar with the file of this case, first, he has handled this case before, and second, he will ponder it when he has time over the years.

Xu Zheng came back to his senses, only to find that he didn't know when Fang Hua, the little girl, was sitting beside him, her round little face was full of curiosity, he smiled and confessed to Yan Lao:

"Your expectations are too high, if I find out in an hour, it doesn't seem like you're too much"

"Hmph, I dare to say that my grandfather is a waste of firewood!" Fang Hua cocked the tip of her nose, her eyes rolled, and she directly offended the two of them with one sentence.

Of course, Yan Lao would not be angry, he laughed, "Xiao Xu is right, grandpa is indeed a waste of firewood, otherwise this case would not have been wronged for ten years."

How many decades are there in my life? ”

Fang Hua grinned and affirmed: "Grandpa will definitely live for another ten years, didn't you say that as long as you have faith, there is nothing that cannot be done." ”

"Haha." Yan Lao and Xu Zheng looked at each other and laughed at the same time, saying so, but there are too many helpless things in reality.

Looking at Zhu Qing and Pei Tianshi, who had been studying the case silently, Xu Zheng asked with curiosity: "You two have been watching for a long time and haven't spoken, is it possible that there is good news?" ”