Seven Evil Slips:
Some things are harder to do than to say.
This is especially true for investigations. As Wan Fenghuo said, sometimes there must be an opportunity to inquire about news. If the opportunity does not come, it is common to wait three to five years.
The first opportunity was Li Tan, who followed him to lead to the Luo Mahu murder case.
The second opportunity was Cen Chunjiao. Through her, she learned about what happened in the small hotel in Jinan and the murder case in Erlianhaote, Inner Mongolia.
The third opportunity was actually Muyo. Ma Tuwen told him that he had talked to the girl who was "only eighteen" in mental age. She actually didn't understand anything. It was her aunt who asked her to come. .
Huo Zihong, Luo Mahu?
Luo Ren took this as the target to investigate again, and something intriguing happened: Huo Zihong was born in a poor family in the countryside, and her parents were vegetable farmers. She dropped out of school very early and worked as a helper. A few things.
One is that her parents encountered a car accident on their way back from selling vegetables, and the rescue failed, and both of them died.
Secondly, shortly after her parents died, Huo Zihong sold the belongings of her hometown, moved to Luoma Lake, and rented at No. 12 Chenqian Lane.
Third, shortly after Huo Zihong moved to Luoma Lake, the murder happened. A week later, Huo Zihong returned the rented house, left Luoma Lake, and never went back.
Afterwards, Huo Zihong's experience is difficult to trace. It seems that her whereabouts are quite uncertain, and there seems to be a blank that was deliberately erased. The last stability was eight years ago, when she settled in Lijiang and opened a bar, which has been there ever since.
Luo Ren once suspected that Huo Zihong was the murderer, until he found that the most suspects were all dead, and the death patterns were surprisingly consistent, like Liu Shuhai and his uncle Luo Wenmiao, who had their left feet cut off and gouged out. A piece of skin on the back.
Huo Zihong must know something, and these things are the key to all cases.
It's a pity that the visit to Huo Zihong didn't go well. When he asked "Are you actually Li Yaqing?" he was only 80% certain in his heart. Miraculously, he was born as a vegetable farmer with elementary school culture, and after so many years, it is possible to be proficient in all aspects of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Huo Zihong's overly violent reaction made him firm in his speculation.
If it was two years ago, when Uncle and Pin Ting had an accident, he would have been so passionate that he would not have cared about it. Even with extreme means, he would have asked for some clues. Suffering made him more able to hold his breath. On Huo Zihong's side, he would rather take it easy and turn his gaze to another person.
Kiyo.
For a person who gets along with Huo Zihong day and night, maybe just providing a casual detail is enough to help him open a door.
But Kiyo is a smart girl. If you want to have trustful cooperation, you must have enough confession to pave the way.
***
To a certain extent, he was on the right track at this step. He has been paying attention to Kiyo's expression. She went from being absent-minded at the beginning to gradually being absorbed and empathizing with her. At the end, she has already leaned towards him in terms of emotional standpoint. up.
She stared at the necklace he put on again, and suddenly asked him: "You actually like Pin Ting, right? But, isn't she your sister? Or..."
Luo Ren's eyes closed for a moment, but he didn't answer right away. He was thinking about how to answer. If despair and guilty love were added to this tragedy that had already happened, would it make her feel more sympathetic?
But Kiyo waved his hand immediately: "Forget it, forget it, you pretend I didn't ask."
Luo Ren just told her about a family tragedy, but she curiously asked something irrelevant, it was too rude.
Kiyo was a little embarrassed: "But, how can I help you?"
Luo Ren looked at her for a while, then took out a pen and post-it notes from his pocket, Kiyo somewhat guessed what he meant, and consciously helped move the bottle of chili vinegar on the table to the side.
***
He first wrote three sheets, and then pasted them on the desktop side by side, namely, 1 Luoma Lake, 2 Erenhot Grassland, and 3 Xiaoshanghe.
After posting, start a new line and write a piece of "site", which is staggered from the previous three pieces, as if to make a table, and then fill up the three pieces in turn, all of which are written: lines, people I.
He explained to Kiyo: "The scene is almost the same, and the people are fixed into a scene with thread. I think the thread used is based on local materials. Both Luoma Lake and Xiaoshang River are adjacent to water, and fishing lines are commonplace. And my uncle once visited Luoma Lake, so it is likely that he deliberately imitated it. But the case in the Erenhot Grassland used twisted cables."
Kiyo nodded: "But the case of Erenhot seems to have never been heard of."
"Of the three cases, only the Luomahu case alarmed the police, and there is a case to investigate. The Xiaoshang River was caused by the fire at the scene, which seemed to be just ordinary murder and arson. As for the Erenhot Grassland, I dare not make a judgment, but I have a guess."
Speculation? Can it count?
Luo Ren seemed to know what she was thinking: "No way, after all, no one has been to the scene. The Erenhot grassland is very remote, and it is said that there are often prairie wolves. According to Cen Chunjiao, it was near winter when Liu Shuhai committed the crime, and that In one year, the grasslands of Inner Mongolia suffered a large-scale snow disaster.”
"Under normal circumstances, when a snowstorm comes, the herdsmen will move their cattle and sheep as soon as possible, but if that family has been killed, they and their cattle and herds can only stay where they are, and they will inevitably freeze to death During the snowstorm, the prairie wolves are even more vicious, looking for all edible food."
He paused for a moment, and drew a circle on the table with his finger: "Let them smell a little blood, it's a slaughterhouse."
Understood, in the spring of the next year, there will only be a lot of bones left in the place where the crime occurred. Others will only think it is a natural disaster. Even if they investigate carefully, they will only be murderers.
Like the Xiaoshanghe case, it was destroyed and obliterated by unexpected external factors.
Kiyo's heart was pounding, these were three known crimes with exactly the same method.
Luo Ren wrote another one, which is "Time of Crime".
Kiyo pointed to the bottom of the column of Luoma Lake: "I know this, it was twenty years ago."
Luo Ren posted one, saying ">20 years ago", followed by Xiaoshanghe's, "2 years ago", the last post on the Erenhot Grassland, and took a look at Kiyo before writing.
As if being asked by a teacher, Kiyo was a little nervous: "Liu Shuhai passed away in 2010. If he was responsible for the Grassland case, it must have been at least five years ago..."
Recalling the biographical information about Liu Shuhai that she had read in Bashu Bieyuan, she quickly added another sentence: "He left home in 2008 and passed away in 2010. The time of committing the crime may have been between this time and you wrote 6 to 7 years ago Let's go."
This serious sample must have been a good student when she was in school, Luo Ren wrote and pasted it as she said.
Now, there are three lines on the desktop, Luo Ren asked her: "What do you see?"
Muyo rested his chin and watched: "It has been many years between the Luomahu case and the Erenhot Grassland case."
Yes, between Erenhot and Xiaoshanghe, there is a gap of at most 2-3 years, but between Luomahu and Erenhot, the gap is nearly 15 years.
During this period, there may have been cases that they have not heard of before, and it is also possible that there were indeed no homicide cases. But what's the reason it didn't happen?
Luo Ren posted the fourth line, "criminal suspect".
Liu Shuhai, Luo Wenmiao, under the Luomahu case, there is a big question mark.
The fifth line, the place where the suspect died, in order: question mark, Jinan, Xiaoshanghe.
The sixth line, the suspect's death form, cut off the foot, gouged out the skin, missing the skin in a rectangular shape, under the Luomahu case, a question mark was put as usual.
The seventh line, others.
Luo Ren only posted a picture under Liu Shuhai's column, saying the car accident in Datong, Shanxi Province in 2007.
Kiyo's heart moved, she remembered that it was written in the materials at that time that Liu Shuhai was honest and honest, and he had never blushed with anyone in his life. The only big twist in his life was the car accident and falling into the water. He was in a coma for 48 hours. He left home suddenly in 2008 and passed away in 2010.
Could it be that car accident that changed something?
Luo Ren wrote another one, but this time, he just held it in his hand and didn't post it for a long time.
Kiyo is very curious, if he is not very familiar with Luo Ren, I really want to break his hand and take a look.
That look of eagerness and pretending to be nonchalant, Luo Ren is really embarrassed to tease her anymore.
There are two words written on the post-it note.
Jinan.
"That time, Pin Ting came looking for me, and I rushed to Xiaoshanghe. At that time, there was no news of my uncle's disappearance. I asked Pin Ting, she felt that something was wrong with my uncle, what happened."
Ping Ting can't explain it very clearly. Sometimes, only the closest people can notice the strangeness that is not exposed. She said, it seems to be a different person, sometimes muttering to herself, sometimes laughing weirdly , Sometimes, he suddenly lost his temper in the study and tore a lot of books when he was furious.
Luo Wenmiao is definitely not like this in normal times. He is a refined image of a middle-aged intellectual, and his manners are graceful.
Luo Ren asked, when did this change start?
Pin Ting thought about it for a long time, waiting for Ai Ai, and finally said, it seems that once, she was invited by a professor of the same major to Jinan to give a speech on the history of the confrontation between Xixia and Song Dynasty.
There was something wrong that time, because it was from a nearby city, passenger transportation is more convenient than train and plane, so we made an appointment to send a car to pick it up at the passenger terminal, but Luo Wenmiao bought the wrong ticket, and the car broke down once again, approaching In the middle of the night, I got off the bus at Xijiao Passenger Station.
Middle of the night? Xijiao Passenger Station? Didn't Cen Chunjiao at that time work as a waiter in a small hotel at the West Suburb Passenger Station? And wasn't Liu Shuhai just the small hotel where he died in the middle of the night?
I don't know if he was too startled, but Kiyo pointed to Liu Shuhai's name and was speechless for a long time.
Luo Ren used a pen to connect Luo Wenmiao's "Jinan" with "Jinan" in "Place of Suspect's Death", and then gave Muyo an affirmative answer.
"It's the same day."