It is a crooked tube building, the top of the building is extremely asymmetrical with the bottom, and it sits aggrievedly in the middle of two neat residential buildings. A long corridor runs through more than a dozen homes, filled with residents' clothes and bed sheets, and the pungent smell of laundry detergent fills the humid air.

"Knock knock!" I knocked on the door of a household.

After investigation, the owner of this household is called Liu Danyun, Zheng Pingping's ex-wife, and since the divorce, she has moved in here with her daughter.

"Knock knock!"

"Not at home?" After knocking for a long time and no one opened the door, Li Meng looked at me in a daze.

This is a relatively old tube building, with poor sound insulation, and the doors of every house are not considered anti-theft doors. I pressed my ear to the door, and I could faintly hear the sound of a TV coming from inside, and after a while, the TV was turned off and the sound stopped abruptly.

There must be someone in there!

"Is it Ms. Liu Danyun's house?" I raised my voice and knocked hard a few more times.

After two minutes, no one came to open the door.

"There's nothing going to happen inside, is it?" A bad premonition came over me.

"I'm going to break down the door." Li Meng took a few steps back, pulling out his stance and preparing to break in. The door in front of me was very shabby, and the hinge was a little loose, so it was not a problem to break the door a few steps away.

I hurriedly stopped her, the police trespassing on a house is not a trivial matter.

After about two minutes, a trembling voice came from inside: "Mistaken." ”

I looked up at the house number, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it, we had just checked with the community before we came.

"Open the door, police!"

I was about to speak, Li Meng suddenly shouted, I don't know if it's the menstrual period, she is a little irritable today.

But the voice was so good that the next moment the door opened a crack, revealing half of his face and one eye.

"We're the police, and we're looking for you to investigate something."

The door opened a little more, and a woman leaned out and looked at us with some panic in her eyes.

"Hello, we are the police of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and we are here to investigate some things with you." Today we were wearing civilian clothes, and after that, we showed the woman our ID. She nodded a little smugly, and opened the door to let us in.

The house is a one-bedroom living room, about 60 square meters, although the house is small, but it is very clean and tidy.

"Two officers, please take a seat." She sat us down, poured two more glasses of water and handed them over, shaking her body.

Everyone usually sees the police very closely, but one day when the police came to the door, they were still a little panicked.

"You are Ms. Liu Danyun, we are here this time to learn from you about Zheng Ping's situation." I slowed my tone and tried to calm her down.

She didn't speak, but nodded weakly.

"May I ask ...... Zheng Pingping?"

I was halfway through my sentence when I suddenly heard a noise in my bedroom, and the sensitivity of my profession alerted me immediately, and I reached for my waist and stared at the closed bedroom door.

Seeing this, Liu Danyun hurriedly stood up and shouted into the house: "Yaoyao, come out, it's the police uncle and aunt who are here to visit." ”

In a moment, the bedroom door lock turned, opening a gap to reveal half of a girl's face.

The identical behavior of the two of them aroused my suspicions, this kind of behavior is subconscious, they must be afraid of something.

I made a gesture to Li Meng beside me, Li Meng stood up and walked to the bedroom, gently pushed the door open, and a little girl stood in the doorway, looking at her in a daze.

"The little girl is so beautiful, what's your name?" Li Meng bowed slightly, and asked in a very cute voice.

"My name is Zheng Nianyao." The girl replied softly.

Li Meng gently combed the girl's sideburns and drooping hair: "My sister is a police officer in the community, can I talk to you?" ”

"Okay." The girl nodded weakly.

Li Meng glanced back at me, led the girl into the bedroom, and closed the door with her backhand.

Now, the woman sat across from me, huddled together, and stopped talking.

"Don't be nervous, we're here today to ask you something about Zheng Ping." I whispered.

The woman's gaze kept dodging, and her hands were clasped together: "Okay." ”

"How long have you been divorced from Zheng Pingping?"

"It's been two and a half years."

"What is the reason?"

The woman let out a long sigh, tears unconsciously appeared in her eyes, and she seemed to have countless grievances: "He failed in business that year, and it seems that he got into a lawsuit, and I don't know the specifics, but I only know that later the court came, he lost a lot of money, and the house and car were sold." ”

I nodded and listened to her continue.

"During the period after that, he seemed to be a different person, drinking non-stop every day, and after drinking, he would make fun of me and the child, scolding people, and beating people. During that time, I was beaten and my nose was blue and my face was swollen and I didn't dare to go out, but I understood him, the failure of the business gave him a big blow, and he thought that he would endure it and it would pass, but after he got drunk, he was like crazy, not only beating me, but also beating the child, and then ...... Then we got divorced. The woman's tears were like beads with broken threads, and a few short words reminded her of that dark time, and her body shook from crying.

I hurriedly pulled out a few pieces of paper and handed them over, and asked her softly, "Has he ever come to you after the divorce?" ”

"After the divorce, I didn't dare to go back to my parents' house with my children, so I rented a house outside, and he once drank too much and went to my parents' house to ask for someone, and I had a big quarrel with my parents and almost started. Later, he didn't know where I lived, and he came to the house to beat and scold and smash things. Later, I moved away with my children, a total of six times in the past two years, just to avoid him......" The woman choked incessantly, her eyes full of fear.

Looking at her appearance, I really couldn't bear to continue asking, in her eyes, Zheng Ping was not only his ex-husband, but also a demon. But as a police officer, I have to ask.

"When was the last time he came to you?"

"Last time I ......," the woman wiped her tears and pondered for a moment: "It's been three or two months, and he came to me not long after I moved here. Surprisingly, although he drank a lot that time, he was in a very good mood, and bought a lot of things and gave us a lot of money. He kept saying that he was about to make a comeback, set up another company, and would be able to make a lot of money or something right away. He hasn't been here since. ”

It seems that Zheng Ping was preparing to re-establish the company during that time, and the preparations were not bad, and it is said that he also hired a large number of former employees, which was a good thing, but what caused him to kill himself?

While I was thinking about it, the woman looked up at me and asked, "Officer, did he do something again?" ”

Looking at her eager eyes, I was stunned for a moment, and then slowly spoke: "Zheng Ping is dead." ”

"What?!"

The woman's body trembled suddenly, her face instantly turned bloodless, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.

At this moment, I read too many emotions from her eyes, some relief, some reluctance, some pain, and some confusion.

The bedroom door opened, and Li Meng and the little girl walked out hand in hand, and the girl's originally messy hair was combed and turned into a beautiful scorpion braid.

"Yaoyao has to study hard, and my sister will come back to braid your hair in a few days."

Liu Danyun sent me and Li Meng away, and as the door behind him closed, a heart-rending cry came from inside. As a criminal policeman, I need to judge some things objectively, and only the two of them will understand the relationship between Liu Danyun and Zheng Pingping.

"If my boyfriend dares to beat me, I will definitely beat him first until he can't take care of himself."

Li Meng and I were eating noodles at a noodle restaurant downstairs, when we suddenly heard her come to such a sentence, and we choked directly, and a noodle almost squirted out of our nostrils.

"Ziyo-"

"You're disgusting." Li Meng put down his chopsticks and looked at me with a frown on his face full of disgust.

"Why do you always dislike me when you talk to me, look at how gentle you are when you talk to children, it's like a different person." I gulped down the noodles in the bowl.

Li Meng laughed and said in a provocative tone: "You don't deserve to see my gentle side. ”

No way!

This sentence is not very hurtful, but it is extremely insulting.

In order to avoid continuing to inflict humiliation, I took the initiative to change the subject: "What did you just talk to the children about in the house?" ”

Li Meng held his chin with his hand and glanced at me: "This is a secret between girls." ”

Just when I was extremely embarrassed, Lin Zifan helped me out in time.

A video came from the mobile phone, on which was a surveillance video footage taken with a mobile phone, the light was dim, and the picture looked blurry.

In the park at night, the street lights are dim, and a man in a raincoat is hunched over, carrying a black bag in his hand, and staggering to the garbage can.

But that night, it didn't rain at all.