sneak peek

Mo Wang asked in surprise, "A man?"

Meng Ning: "Could it be the deceased's own urine, the murderer made him pee out, and then splashed it on his face?"

Li Zi shook his head, "No, it's someone else's. The DNA is not in our database."

Mo Wang frowned, "Could it be that the murderer has accomplices? Will the deceased's roommate be suspected?"

Li Zi: "Judging from the death time of the deceased, when the roommate came home, he was already dead, not a roommate."

Everyone didn't understand what was going on, and they discussed it in a hurry. Mo Wang didn't speak, but just looked at the silent Gu Yexi.

Gu Yexi was wandering around in the room, and when he raised his hand suddenly, the whole room fell silent, as if he had cast some spell.

He said excitedly: "Oh, I see, this murderer is so smart! So smart!"

Mo Wang felt that he was in a ghostly state, and looked at the other two people in a daze. Meng Ning shrugged and said that this was a normal phenomenon. When Gu Yexi saw through the murderer, he would suddenly become extremely excited.

Gu Yexi said quickly: "The murderer has no accomplices, he is a person, and not a woman, but a man. He just pretended to be a woman to approach the deceased. Why? From the surveillance video, we can see that he is relatively small. It's impossible to take down the dead. But it's much easier if you pretend to be a woman. Men always look down on women and keep their vigilance to the lowest level. Besides, the dead are all strong men, so it's even more difficult. Will guard against a girl."

Mo Wang: "Aren't our previous guesses all wrong?"

Gu Yexi shook his head, "No, no, no, our guess is correct in a sense. The murderer must have been beaten by such a person, but he was not a partner. What could it be? School violence! School violence! Why is the place where the abuse is covered by clothes? Because the person who started the attack was worried that parents and teachers would see him and trouble him! And those stab wounds and scratches, I finally figured it out! It’s not a sewing needle at all, It's a compass! Urinating on the face is a common situation in school violence. The murderer must have suffered school violence when he was a student. The two previous victims were the scapegoats for those who hurt him back then. Wei must be one of the people who hurt him back then. Meng Ning, Dong Wei's school, check it out."

After Meng Ning heard this, he immediately called up Dong Wei's information, "His junior and senior high schools were all in No. [-] Middle School in the city. There is no record of his fighting or punishment. On the contrary, he has won a lot of three-good students and grade examination awards."

Gu Yexi: "School violence rarely goes to teachers. Even if teachers know about it, it's just a language adjustment, which is useless. And the better the grades, the easier it is for the perpetrator to not be punished. Mo Wang and I Go to school. Go through Dong Wei's social circle, find out the people who got along well with him in junior high school and high school, and ask them who they abused in the past. At the same time, they are likely to be the next target of the murderer. They're all brought back to the Bureau, just in case."

When the two arrived at No. [-] Middle School in the city, it was just after school in the morning, and the teaching building was like pouring water, and the children rushed out of the classroom and rushed to the cafeteria.

Looking at this group of carefree children, Mo Wang couldn't help thinking, are there hidden victims of school violence?

Coincidentally, the head teacher of Dong Wei's junior high school and high school is the same, named Li E.A woman about fifty years old, her figure is very thin, Mo Wang felt that she might fall down if blown by the wind.

When she heard the news of Dong Wei's death, she was very surprised, "That child, I remember him. He had always had good grades and was admitted to a key school. He came back to visit me at the school celebration last year. It is said that he plans to immigrate abroad. It is really too much." Pity."

Gu Yexi: "When Dong Wei was in school, did he have conflicts with any of his classmates?"

Li E frowned slightly, "Do you suspect that his classmates killed him?"

Gu Yexi: "We are checking for clues, and we need to know about the routine."

Li E shook his head, "Children, there are always fights and fights, but Dong Wei is a good boy, and other students like to play with him very much, it is not the students who did it."

Gu Yexi: "To what extent is it a small fight? Do you remember what kind of fights you had with your classmates?"

Li E realized that what Gu Yexi meant was that Dong Wei was involved in school violence back then, and his complexion became uneasy, and his words were obviously unhappy, "It's been too long, I don't remember, and it's all small things."

Gu Yexi's face turned dark suddenly, "Do you think Dong Wei is a good boy, is it because of his good conduct, or just because of his good grades?"

Sure enough, Li E immediately became angry, "What do you mean? As long as the grades are good, even if we beat someone, will we cover it? Our city No. [-] Middle School has strict school discipline, and we will never let such a thing happen!"

Gu Yexi raised an eyebrow, "Oh? I didn't say he hit people."

"The dead is the big one. He just passed away. If you police don't investigate well, you still slander him. How can you feel good about it?"

Gu Yexi said seriously: "Then what about the child who was abused and beaten? Are you sorry? If you had prevented Dong Wei from abusing him back then, this incident might not have happened today!"

Li E turned blue with anger, "Dong Wei is a good boy, and I have done my duty as a teacher. Please forgive me for not being able to answer what you want me to say. Please leave!"

Gu Yexi stood still, "I need to know who beat people together with Dong Wei?"

Li E couldn't control her temper anymore, "Please stop slandering the deceased, get out!"

Gu Yexi went out with a livid face, and gave Mo Wang a look before going out, but Mo Wang didn't understand, and followed out in a daze.

After turning around the door, Gu Yexi patted Mo Wang on the head: "You idiot, why did you come out with me?"

Mo Wang was confused: "Ah?"

Gu Yexi: "Do you understand the red face and white face? Hurry up and find out who had a good time with Dong Wei and who were bullied."

It was only then that Mo Wang came to his senses and hurried back.

Seeing that he came back, Li E didn't give him a good face, but Mo Wang didn't say anything just now, so she didn't want to get angry for no reason, "Is there anything else?"

Mo Wang said softly: "Mr. Li, I understand your feelings. I also believe that Dong Wei is a good student. Just now, Dui Gu was a little impulsive. He also wanted to catch the murderer as soon as possible. That's why he did this. I will help him. I apologize to you."

Li E's complexion improved a bit, and he forcefully forced a smile, "I understand."

"We have evidence that the murderer and Dong Wei should be classmates in middle school. I'm not saying that Dong Wei must have beaten the murderer. It may be just a small misunderstanding. The murderer has always remembered it, and now he finally made a move. We hope you can recall it, maybe If you can help Dong Wei, you hope he can rest in peace as soon as possible, right?"

Li E was still unwilling to say: "I know you don't believe me, but Dong Wei really didn't bully his classmates."

Mo Wang: "I believe in you. Then you can tell me, does he have any interesting classmates in junior high and high school? They may become the next target of the murderer, and you don't want any more students to have accidents, right?"

Li E looked at Mo Wang silently for a while, and wrote a few names to Mo Wang.

"The police officer said just now that it was my fault that Dong Wei died?" Li E suddenly asked as he sent Mo Wang away.

Mo Wang comforted him casually: "He's just acting on the spur of the moment, don't worry too much about it."

"Then what do you think?" Li E looked at Mo Wang very seriously, his eyes were different from before, not angry or sad, but a little annoyed.

Mo Wang: "The murderer is the murderer. No matter what he has experienced, it is not the reason for him to kill. It is not your fault."

Li E looked at Mo Wang gratefully, and watched him leave.

Mo Wang sent all the names to Meng Ning and asked her to bring them all back to the bureau.

Gu Yexi glanced at him approvingly, "Not bad, I can get a clue."

Mo Wang: "When I left, Li E looked quite guilty."

"Oh?"

"She asked me if it was her fault that Dong Wei died."

"You told her it had nothing to do with her?"

"Ah."

Gu Yexi turned a pale face, "Then she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at you gratefully."

Mo Wang was slightly surprised, "How do you know?"

"She's not guilty. She obviously knows that Dong Wei is bullying other classmates, but she doesn't want to admit that there is school violence. Self-hypnosis is nothing more than children playing around. The reason why she asks this is because she thinks that you are sure that she is not responsible. Go on with peace of mind."

"You think it's her fault?"

"It can't be said to be her fault. Dong Wei must have bullied more than one person, and he has never seen other people kill people. It is the murderer himself who has a problem."

"Then you sympathize with the murderer?"

"I have no sympathy for the murderer."

Mo Wang was a little confused about what Gu Yexi was thinking.

Gu Yexi drove the car silently, and only said when he got out of the car: "I hate this kind of situation. Adults said with a smile that it's okay for children to fight, just a few words of education, and they don't pay attention to school violence at all. And now The education in China only pays attention to grades, but the education of character is far from enough. The so-called teaching and educating people only teaches, not educating people.”

When the two returned to the bureau, the few people who played well with Dong Wei were all brought back, and they were all placed in an interrogation room at this moment.

Meng Ning waited for Gu Yexi outside the room, and said in a low voice, "I asked again, but I didn't admit that I beat someone, and I didn't know anything."

Gu Yexi took a few photos from the table and entered the room.

The three boys looked a little nervous. When they saw Gu Yexi coming in, Fan Zheng in the middle immediately asked, "When will you let us go? You have no right to bring us here and imprison us here!"

Gu Yexi didn't speak, just put the photo of Dong Wei's body on the table.Seeing the majesty of the corpse, several people looked at me and I looked at you, and stopped talking.

Gu Yexi sat down, crossed Erlang's legs, lit a cigarette, "It's okay to let you go. If you are not afraid of death, then go."

The yellow-haired boy on the far left, Chen Bo said: "Are you sure, it was done by the person Dong Wei beat up before?"

Gu Yexi spread her hands, "Believe it or not, I am not the one who has any grudge against him."

Lin Zhixue on the far right looked at the other two people inquiringly, making eye contact.

After a while, Fan Zheng said: "We did have fights with other students when we were in high school, but they were all just jokes. We shouldn't be held accountable for this, right?"

Gu Yexi scorned the few people in front of him in his heart, but he didn't show it on the surface, and replied casually: "Now the murderer is the other party, what can you hold?"

Fan Zheng: "Alright then, what do you want to know?"

"Who is this person you bullied?"

Fan Zheng: "We had trouble with more than one classmate, it's too much."

Gu Yexi put out the cigarette, and said seriously: "He was stabbed, scratched, whipped and kicked by you with compasses, and you peed on his face. Think carefully about who it is?"

Chen Bo blurted out: "We all fight like this..."

Fan Zheng elbowed him and didn't let him continue.

Mo Wang, who was looking through the glass in the interrogation monitoring room, suddenly felt sick.

Gu Yexi: "His right toenail once fell off."

The three of them froze for a moment, as if they remembered something, Fan Zheng said: "A toenail fell off, but we didn't do it. He ran too fast and fell off the fence and hit a stone."

Gu Yexi sighed inwardly, "What's your name?"

"I don't know, he's not our age, we all call him Shorty Winter Melon." Chen Bo shook his head.

Gu Yexi raised his voice, "How long have you been beating him? Still peeing on his face? Don't even remember the name?!"

Fan Zheng was helpless: "Who hasn't hit anyone in school? It's not that we don't remember, it's because we didn't know his name in the first place, and we always called him Shorty Winter Melon."

"When did it happen? Do you remember this?!"

"It seems to be, when we were sophomores in high school."

"What does it look like, remember?"

"Uh... quite short, with a round head and a small head, I don't remember the rest."

"Why bully him?"

Chen Bo muttered, "There are so many reasons, just beat him up if you don't like it."

Gu Yexi tried hard to persuade herself not to beat up these three little bastards, and asked with the remaining patience: "What about the others? Do you remember the names of other people you have bullied?"

Lin Zhixue thought for a while: "There is one, the one in the next class is called Liang Jie?"

Chen Bo agreed, "That's right, that's the name, that's all we remember."

"You stay here, you can't leave until the murderer is caught. Also, not everyone beat someone in school, it's just you." Gu Yexi left the interrogation room without saying a word.

Lin Zhixue chased him out, and Gu Yexi said angrily, "Why, do you remember the names of more people you beat up?"

Lin Xuezhi: "I know we went too far back then. At that time, we just thought it was fun. In fact, I didn't participate in beating people very much. I basically watched from the sidelines."

Gu Yexi raised her eyebrows, "What do you want me to say when you tell me that? Do you think it's much nobler than others to watch from the sidelines?"

Lin Zhixue shook his head, seeming really guilty, "No, I... Forget it, I just want to tell you that we have never whipped anyone, but I am not with Dong Wei every time, so he has If I hadn’t done it, I wouldn’t know.”

Gu Yexi nodded and walked away.

"Meng Ning, get Liang Jie's information first." Gu Yexi said as soon as he returned to the office.

Meng Ning nodded, "Boss, isn't the murderer that short wax gourd? How did it become Liangjie Cha?"

Gu Yexi took a sip of water, "I don't know the name, I don't know the class, there is only one pet name, short wax gourd, how can I find it? And do you know how common this pet name is? Maybe every class has it. The one who beats someone It’s normal to remember the name of the beating, but the victims will pay attention to each other because of the same experience, this Liangjie may know the real name of Dwarf Winter Melon.”

Meng Ning sent Liang Jie's address to Gu Yexi's WeChat, "The address has been sent to you, what should I do now?"

Gu Yexi: "Just in case this Liangjie doesn't know who the short winter melon is, you can find out the contact information of all the class monitors in other grades during their sophomore year, and call them one by one to see if they can find our short winter melon In any case, the identity of the murderer must be determined as soon as possible."

Gu Yexi looked up at Mo Wang, "Let's go."

Mo Wang immediately followed out.

Meng Ning stared at the backs of the two and kicked Huang Jiade, "Hey, little Dezi, you have fallen out of favor!"

Huang Jiade was drinking water and spit it out in one gulp, "What are you talking about?"

Meng Ning smirked, "Didn't the boss always like to take you out before? Since Xiao Mozi came, he won't take you out to play."

"Mo Wang is a newcomer, isn't it normal for the boss to take care of him himself?"

"If you are jealous and sad, don't hide it, tell your sister, my arms are open for you."

Huang Jiade was dumbfounded by Meng Ning's words, "Let's leave your arms to your paper man, I'll save it."

Meng Ning made a grimace, "Tch, good intentions are not rewarded."

"Liang Jie?" Gu Yexi showed his police ID.

Inside the security door, a gentle young man wearing rimless glasses looked at them suspiciously, "Police?"

Gu Yexi took out Dong Wei's photo, "Do you know him?"

When Liang Jie saw the photo, he showed disgusted eyes, "I know you, what's the matter?"

Gu Yexi: "He bullied a man named Dwarf Winter Melon when he was a sophomore in high school, do you remember? Do you know what his real name is?"

Liang Jie thought about it, "I remember this person, whose name is... I'm on my lips but I just can't remember it. It seems that his surname is Zeng, Zeng or something."

Mo Wang: "Think carefully, this is very important."

Liang Jie opened the anti-theft door and let them in first.The interior decoration of the house is relatively simple, but there is an expensive blanket in one corner, and it is full of toys.One wall is covered with photo frames, the most colorful ones are the happy photos of a family of three, followed by wedding photos and various baby photos, with the word happiness written brightly.

There was a baby crying in the room, Liang Jie smiled apologetically, ran in, and then came out with the baby in his arms, "I'm sorry, my baby insists on holding it, and it will cry after a while."

Mo Wang poked his head over to look at the baby, his round, fat face was rosy, his little fingers were dangling in the air, like a kitten stretching its waist, very cute.Mo Wang couldn't help reaching out and gently touching the baby's face, and the baby smiled at him.

"He's so cute." Mo Wang said to Liang Jie with a smile.

While coaxing the child, Liang Jie said with a little pride: "Yes, he is like his mother, so cute."

Gu Yexi looked around, but saw no one else there, and asked, "Where's his mother?"

"My mother's family is in a hurry, so I'm going back. The child is too young to go with me. I will ask for leave to take care of the child at home."

Gu Yexi: "Mr. Liang, can you tell us something about the short winter melon?"

Liang Jie asked with some concern: "Why did you ask him, did something happen to him?"

Gu Yexi: "We can't disclose the details of the specific case for the time being. We can only say that we must find him now."

Liang Jie sighed: "Dong Wei has been graduating for so long, why don't you let him go?"

Mo Wang: "Do you know what happened between them? Why did Dong Wei bully him?"

Liang Jie shook his head, "I'm not sure why, some people say it's because Ai Donggua has a crush on Dong Wei's girlfriend; some say Ai Donggua speaks ill of Dong Wei behind his back; I asked him, but he didn't say, he It seems that he doesn’t like talking to others. He is the one beaten by Dong Wei and the others. I often see them beating him in the corner. I still remember how he shrank in the corner. He is one level lower than us. I will leave school early, but I can only go home after cleaning. I will deliberately stay in the classroom a little later before leaving, so that Dong Wei and the others may encounter the short winter melon first, and they will not attack me. Thinking about it now, I still feel that I'm so sorry for him."

Gu Yexi: "Think about it, what is his name? Or which class he is in, do you remember?"

Liang Jie frowned and thought for a while, as if he had thought of something, he stuffed the child into Mo Wang's arms and ran into the room.Mo Wang held the child in a daze, a little nervous, for fear that he would accidentally drop him.

Gu Yexi imitated what Mo Wang did just now, and stretched out her finger to poke the baby's face, but was bitten hard by the baby.

Gu Yexi stretched his hand back in embarrassment, "Why do you laugh at you and gnaw at me?"

Mo Wang smiled helplessly, expressing that I don't know.

Gu Yexi made a bold conclusion, "It must be because I look more delicious, so I ate it."

Mo Wang: ...

After a while, Liang Jie came back, holding a comic book whose cover had been torn and glued again, and the inside pages had turned yellow, "Once I saw Dong Wei and his group typing He tore up his comics and threw them in the trash can. I also like reading comics, and I know this book must be very important to him. I secretly picked it up and glued it back to him, but he said he didn’t want it Yes. On the last page he wrote his name, Zeng Tingyu."

Gu Yexi: "Thank you, can we take this book away?"

Liang Jie nodded, "Take it away, if it can help you. I don't know why I keep it. I may think that one day, he will come to me and ask for the book back."

Mo Wang carefully returned the child to Liang Jie, and the two left.While going downstairs, Gu Yexi called Meng Ning, "I'm about to get a name, it's called Zeng Tingyu, look it up quickly."

Meng Ning's keyboard crackled for a while, "He lives in an urban village building in the west of the city, which is within the range we have drawn before. I sent you the address. He used to be a programmer in a software company. He was laid off a month ago and is still waiting for work.”