After moving the body to his house, Shi Lei turned his head to look at the mother and daughter who were standing at the door with him.

"Then ask the little girl to start cleaning your house, use a vacuum cleaner, the more carefully the better. Please mom stay here. ”

Xiaomei nodded palely, glanced at her mother, and then went back to clean up the room.

Shi Lei asked Liu Jing: "The thing used to strangle him should be a wire, right?" ”

"Ah...... Yes, it's the wires on the fan. ”

"This wire needs to be replaced so that it doesn't show its feet. However, I'll figure it out later. Speaking of which-" Shi Lei asked again, "Today, have you made an appointment to meet this person?" ”

Liu Jing shook his head.

"No, he came to the store out of the blue during the day, so I would only meet him in the evening at a restaurant near our store. At that time, we broke up, but then he came to my house again. ”

"Restaurants...... Is it? "Then it's impossible to expect no one to witness it," Shi Lei thought.

He reached into the corpse's coat pocket and took out a crumpled hundred-dollar bill, two of which were crumpled up.

"Ah, that's my ......"

"Did you give it to him?"

Seeing her nodding, Shi Lei handed her the money, but she refused to reach out to take it.

Shi Lei got up, took out the wallet from the inner pocket of the suit he hung on the wall, took out two hundred yuan from it, and put all the banknotes belonging to the corpse into his wallet.

"So you won't feel disgusted, will you?" He showed Liu Jing the money he took out of his wallet.

After a slight hesitation, she whispered thank you and took the banknote

Shi Lei began to rummage through the corpse's clothes pockets again, and he took out his wallet from his trouser pocket. There is only a little money and driver's licenses, invoices, etc.

Zhang Fu ...... The address is Xiping Road in the suburbs. Does he live in this place now? He asked Liu Jing after reading his driver's license.

She frowned and tilted her neck. "I don't know, but I don't think so. He seems to have lived on Xiping Road too, but I've heard him mention it before, and it seems that he was kicked out because he couldn't pay the rent. ”

"The driver's license itself was renewed last year, so it should be that the household registration has not been changed, and another place to live has been found."

"I think he probably moved around because he didn't have a regular job and couldn't rent any good houses."

"It should be." Shi Lei's gaze stayed on one of the invoices. It was printed with a rental hotel house, and the amount was 120 yuan for two nights, as if it had been paid in advance. He showed that to Liu Jing. And he said: "It seems that he lives here, and if there is no way to check out, sooner or later the people at the hotel will forcibly open the room." You may call the police when you find out that a tenant is missing, but you may ignore it for fear of getting into trouble. It's probably because of this kind of thing that you often ask to pay for the house in advance, but it's dangerous to be too optimistic about everything. ”

Shi Lei continued to rummage through the corpse's pockets and found the key. There is a medallion on it, engraved with the number 305. I saw Liu Jing staring at the key with blank eyes, and she didn't seem to have a clue about what to do in the future.

The sound of a vacuum cleaner could be heard faintly next door. Presumably Xiaomei is cleaning desperately, she must feel that she is in a state of anxiety about the future future, at least she should try her best to do what she can, so she is cleaning so desperately.

I have to protect them, Shi Lei felt so deeply again. Now he must muster all his wisdom and strength to prevent tragedy from befalling them.

"Does this person have any relatives or friends who are in regular contact?" Shi Lei asked again.

"I don't know, because it's really been a long time since we met again."

"Did you hear him talk about his plans for tomorrow or something? For example, who are you going to meet? ”

"I haven't heard of it."

Shi Lei's gloved hand tugged at the corpse's cheek, and when he looked closer, he could see Zhang Fu's molars with braces.

"He's had his teeth treated."

"When he married me, he went to the dentist for a while."

"How many years ago was that?"

"About seven years ago."

That is, you can't expect the cases to be destroyed, Shi Lei thought.

"Does this person have a criminal record?"

"Probably not, I don't know after divorcing me."

"So maybe it's a bit of a problem."

"...... right"

Even if you don't have a criminal record, you must have had your fingerprints taken for violating traffic rules. Shi Lei doesn't know if the police's scientific way of handling cases will even compare the fingerprints of traffic violators, but it is safer to include them.

No matter how the body is disposed of, there must be mental preparation for the identity of the deceased to be exposed. However, it is still necessary to buy time, and not to leave fingerprints and dental impressions.

Liu Jing sighed, listening to Shi Lei's ears was particularly heartwarming, and he once again made up his mind that he must not let her despair.

This is a real problem. Once the identity of the deceased is identified, the police will definitely come to Liu Jing. Can their mother and daughter withstand the repeated interrogations of the criminal police? If you only prepare a set of fragile denials, as long as the police catch the contradictions, there will be flaws immediately, and then you will definitely be tempted to tell the truth and the truth.

You have to have perfect logic and the best defense strategy in place, and you have to structure it now.

Don't worry, he told himself. Anxiety doesn't solve the problem, and there must be a solution to this equation.

Shi Lei closed his eyes. He always does this when faced with math problems. As soon as the information from the outside world is isolated, the mathematical program will start to deform in his mind, but now he has no mathematical equations in his head.

At last he finally opened his eyes and glanced at the alarm clock on the table, it was already half past eight. Then he moved his gaze to Liu Jing. She didn't even dare to get out of the atmosphere, and shrank behind in a panic.

"Please help me take off this person's clothes. Take off not only your jacket, but also your sweater and trousers. If you don't hurry up, the corpse will harden. ”

Shi Lei said that he had already started to pull out his coat.

"Ah, okay." Liu Jing also began to help, but probably didn't want to touch the corpse, her fingertips were trembling.

"No need, I'll take care of it here, you go and help your daughter."

“…… I'm sorry," Liu Jing lowered his face and slowly stood up.

"Ms. Liu," Shi Lei called to her back. Then he turned to her and said, "You need an alibi, please think about that." ”

"Attest to the scene? But we don't. ”

"That's why it's made." Think about it first. ”

Liu Jing nodded slightly.

3

Someone called the city criminal police detachment and said that a naked male corpse had been found under the river embankment next to the sewage treatment plant.

Tian Chunda, the head of the criminal investigation team, who was running errands outside, immediately rushed to the scene.

The body was dumped next to the river embankment, covered with blue plastic sheeting, presumably from a construction site.

The finder was an old man jogging on the embankment. It is said that he saw what looked like a human foot at one end of the plastic sheet, so he trembled and lifted the plastic sheet to find out.

"That old man heard that he was seventy-five years old, and he was able to run on such a cold day. However, I still saw such an unlucky thing at this age, and I sympathized with him from the bottom of my heart. ”

After Hao Dong, the criminal policeman who arrived first, told him about the situation, Tian Chunda couldn't help frowning, and the hem of his coat fluttered in the wind.

"Xiao Hao, have you seen the corpse?"

"Looked." Hao Dong replied.

"The bodies were abandoned in a horrific state. First of all, the body was completely naked, the shoes and socks were taken off, and they were misfigured, and their heads were made like broken watermelons. In addition, the fingers of the deceased were burned, and the fingerprints were completely destroyed. The deceased was a man with strangulation marks on his neck and purple marks on the wrists of his hands that had been pressed, as if one person was pressing the deceased's hands to prevent him from struggling, and the other was strangling his neck. Other than that, there do not appear to be significant external injuries.

Tian Chunda also observed the corpse. basically agreed with Hao Dong's opinion.

At a distance of about 100 meters from the scene, the police found all the clothes of the suspected victim. Clothing was stuffed in a bucket and partially incinerated, including coats, sweaters, trousers, socks, and underwear. It was judged that the prisoner should have left after lighting the fire, but he did not expect that the clothes did not continue to burn, and soon went out automatically.

The media reported on the case, and the police received a lot of information, but none of it was very useful.

On the other hand, the police also compared the list of missing persons who reported to the police, but still did not find a possible target.

Then Tian Chunda decided to thoroughly investigate whether there was a man who had recently disappeared alone, or a hotel guest who had suddenly disappeared, and finally got a piece of information.

In a hotel on the outskirts of the city, a male guest has gone missing. The hotel found out that the guest was missing on March 11, the day the body was found. Since it was past the check-out time, the hotel staff went to check on the room, only to find a little luggage left in the room, but the guest was nowhere to be seen. After receiving the report, the operator did not call the police because he had already collected the money in advance, and only called the police after seeing the police report.

The police immediately collected hair and fingerprints from the room and luggage, and the hair and the corpse were identical.

The name of the missing guest in the hotel registration book is Zhang Fu.