The Technical Investigation Section has reconstructed the skull according to the skull in the oak barrel, and has obtained a mock-up photo of the deceased before his death.

Hong Tao, male, 38 years old, a wine salesman, disappeared 11 months ago, and his wife reported the case.

"Wine salesman? Red wine again?! Li Meng was very surprised by the identity of the deceased.

Why is there red wine everywhere in this case? At the beginning of this case, it was because of a bottle of corpse water and red wine that a series of cases were involved.

Every time we investigate something, we discover more mysteries, endlessly, and more and more.

Li Meng and I immediately went to Hong Tao's house to investigate the situation with his wife.

In the car, I looked through the case filing report of the year, as well as the investigation clues for so long, from which I learned that Hong Tao suddenly disappeared on the way to work one day, according to the police investigation, Hong Tao had an argument with his wife on the night before his disappearance, and also had a big fight, and then according to the police investigation, Hong Tao's disappearance has nothing to do with his wife.

"Wine Salesman...... The salesman ...... "I habitually pinched my chin and kept muttering it in my mouth.

"What are you talking about?" Li Meng beside me asked me.

I looked at her and said what I thought: "How can a salesman suddenly disappear?" And how did they end up hiding in oak barrels? ”

The medical examiner said that the salesman was stoned to death by a red wine bottle, which means that he must have had an argument with someone during the sales pitch. But who would a salesman get into an argument with? The nature of the salesman's work is destined to be impatient, let alone have disputes with people in the process of sales. Li Meng said slowly.

The more she thought about it, the more wrong it became, and then she muttered: "After he was killed, he was hidden in an oak barrel, and his body was hidden for at least ten months. This shows that the murderer must have had oak barrels in his home. ”

"That's right, according to Yu Dazhuang's confession, this oak barrel was collected at a Western restaurant on the back street, but we don't have any evidence to accuse the owner of the Western restaurant of killing people and hiding the corpse oak barrel." I was reluctant to point out the crux of the problem.

Hong Tao's family lives in an old town in the west of the city and is a first-floor resident. When we arrived, Hong Tao's wife was assembling a simple drying rack under the building, and then she spread the quilt on the hanger.

Today's weather is good, it's a good day to dry the quilt.

"You're Hong Tao's wife, Yuan Min, right?" I stepped forward and asked.

The woman's body trembled violently, and the quilt in her hand almost fell to the ground. She turned around, looked at me in a daze, and asked lightly, "Who are you?" ”

"Police." I took out my police ID and showed it to her.

"Oh." The woman nodded, ignoring us in the slightest, and turned to continue drying the quilt.

"This ......" Li Meng let out a surprised cry and looked at me in confusion.

I also felt strange about Yuan Min's reaction, maybe she didn't know what we were here for.

Then I cleared my throat and stepped forward to her, "We are here to investigate Hong Tao's disappearance. ”

"Oh." Yuan Min still had his back to us, his attitude was very indifferent, and he reached out to smooth the folds on the quilt.

"What's the matter with you?! The police came to investigate your husband's disappearance, and you have such an attitude?! Li Meng couldn't bear it anymore and shouted at her back.

I stood aside and looked at Yuan Min's back, feeling even more strange. It's been almost a year since her husband disappeared, and she wasn't sad at all, and she ignored the police when they came to investigate the situation.

If it weren't for Hong Tao's body found in an oak barrel, I have reason to suspect that Hong Tao's disappearance was directly related to his wife, Yuan Min.

"I don't seem to care about your husband's life or death?" I took a few steps forward, stood beside Yuan Min, looked at her side face and said.

At this moment, I suddenly found that Yuan Min's eyes were shining with tears, and she was trying her best to restrain her emotions, slapping the quilt on the drying rack like a machine.

"What does his life or death have to do with me? It's good to die early, and when I die, I'll burn high incense! Yuan Min secretly wiped his tears and said very carelessly.

Looking at her expression, I thought about it for a moment and said slowly, "We found Hong Tao's body. ”

"What?!" Yuan Min immediately let out an exclamation and turned to look at me with wide eyes.

"Hong Tao is dead." I nodded in the affirmative.

Yuan Min suddenly opened her mouth wide, her eyes were a little distracted, she couldn't believe the news of her husband's death, her right hand grabbed the clothes pole hard, the tears in her eyes gathered more and more, and they couldn't stop flowing down the corners of her eyes.

He ...... How did he die? Yuan Min asked me in a trembling voice.

"He who was beaten to death has been dead for ten months." I said slowly.

"The ...... killed" Yuan Min's emotions were a little out of control, and he couldn't help crying: "I told him not to make trouble when he went out, but he didn't listen, he ......"

Li Meng and I looked at each other and nodded.

followed Yuan Min into the house, and she carefully told me about the events before Hong Tao's disappearance-

"My husband is a wine salesman, he works in a wine store, and his daily job is to go to various restaurants to sell wine, and if the sales are successful, there will be a lot of commission fees. But my husband has a very irritable personality, he quarrels with people when he doesn't agree with him, and he hasn't sold a bottle of red wine for most of the year, so I have repeatedly advised him to be a salesman to restrain his temper and not quarrel with people.

In order to keep his job, he secretly bought several cases of red wine in the name of the merchant and kept them at home. I know that there is no way to do it, after all, I can still earn a basic salary of thousands of dollars a month if I keep my job.

But as time went by, the red wine at home piled up more and more, and there was really no way.

He was very depressed, and sometimes he had a big fight with me without saying a few words, and he even beat me, I was really fed up.

After more than a year of living like this, I really couldn't bear it.

Maybe the sky has eyes, and at this time, a red wine collector came and took away all the wine we had stored.

Life has changed, our mood has improved, and since then, my husband is like a different person, very kind, although he often quarrels with the merchants, but he has relented a lot, and the red wine has sold several orders.

I thought everything was going in a good direction, but ...... He's gone missing all of a sudden......"