Live with the forensic chief

"You said your husband was innocent." Lin Pu looked at him, "What's the reason? It's okay, we have a lot of time, so you can be more specific with me and add more details."

Li Lingling nodded, she seemed to be impatient, she blurted out the first sentence, and started stammeringly: "He didn't have a violent ex-wife before... ah...he went out that day...that..."

"Slow down, one by one." Lin Pu interrupted her clueless narration.

Lin Pu took the notebook and opened it, first wrote "1" and circled it: "Let's first say that the deceased in the incident was Wang Zhibo's ex-wife Zhang Fangping, 38 years old, and had a daughter who was in junior high school. The two of them died because of Zhang Fangping two years ago. Suing Wang Zhibo for domestic violence and divorce, Wang Zhibo left the house in the end, and Zhang Fangping took care of their daughter, right?"

"Yes." Li Lingling nodded.

"Okay." Lin Pu continued, "Later, Wang Zhibo's statement said that on the night of Zhang Fangping's death, he happened to go out to drink with his friends, and returned home in a daze after being drunk, right?"

"Yes, yes." Li Lingling nodded.

"Who is this friend?" Shu Meng asked suddenly.

"It's his former colleagues." Li Lingling said, "There are three people in total. They all met when they were working at the construction site."

"What time did you drink?" Shumen said.

"...Six o'clock, seven o'clock..." Li Lingling said, "They finish drinking pretty early."

"Was it sent back by someone? Or did you go back by yourself?" Lin Pu asked.

Li Lingling affirmed: "I went back by myself and called me all the way on the way. He didn't drink until he became unconscious, so he was able to go home by himself. It was only after returning home that he fell asleep directly."

"The call records are all there." Lin Pu asked.

"Here." Li Lingling said.

Lin Pu recorded it, and then said: "You just said that he never had a domestic violence against his ex-wife before?"

"Yes, I'm the only one who knows about this." Li Lingling said, "Although it is said that the dead are the most important, but nothing is nothing! He used to be honest, but now he uses this as his motive for killing, saying that he has violent tendencies. I don't think it's fair!"

Lin Pu said: "How do you know?"

"My husband looks fierce, but he is very honest." Li Lingling said, "Otherwise I wouldn't wait for him to be divorced and stay with him. Then I must be sick!"

Shu Meng couldn't help laughing.

Lin Pu glared at him, and continued: "So, what you mean is that someone used this as a murderous opportunity to frame him."

Before Li Lingling could speak, Shu Meng took Lin Pu's notebook and drew two circles on the date: "The corpse was dismembered, so it was not put together, but it can be basically confirmed that the time of death was on the 20th, but... Schumeng paused, and drew a very long arrow, "Let's stretch this time to 7 to 10 days ago."

Shu Meng wrote "9.7-9.10" on it. He clicked with a pen, then raised his eyes, and looked at Li Lingling with his narrow eyes behind his bangs: "What is your husband doing and where has he been during this time? I need A thorough record."

Lin Pu didn't understand why, but now Shu Meng might be the only one who knew the complete secret of this corpse.He didn't interrupt, his eyes skipped over Shu Meng's body, and returned to Li Lingling's body.

"Seven days ago..." Li Lingling thought back, "He should be working..."

"No rush." ​​Shu Meng said, "If you want a detailed schedule, you can think about it slowly and give us an answer later."

"Okay..." Li Lingling nodded.

Shu Meng glanced at Lin Pu: "You continue."

Lin Pu took the notebook back and wrote: "The set of crime tools seized by the police, including hammers, hacksaws, chisels, blades of various sizes and pliers, are his things?"

"...It's his stuff." Li Lingling sighed, "everything he used frequently."

"Everything?" Lin Pu asked repeatedly, "Is there nothing else in it? Make sure."

"Yes, but...how should I put it?" Li Lingling said, "It's strange that the pile of things was put together, in a bag he usually uses. When he went out to repair things, the tools he got would be Put it out, this time it's just...they're put together. You think, a set of blades is not the same size as he usually takes out, he will only bring what is needed."

"Okay." Lin Pu wrote "unreasonable" in his notebook.

Shu Meng snatched the notebook again.

Lin Pu couldn't help but "tsk", and looked up at him with some reproach.

Shu Meng didn't notice it at all, looked at the notebook and said: "The metal composition test of these tools has proved that they are murder weapons for dismembering corpses. Chiseling, sawing, cutting... By the way, which hand does your husband usually use to work?"

"The right hand." Li Lingling said.

"Ah." Shu Meng paused, smiled and clapped his hands, "The murderer also uses his right hand!"

Lin Pu couldn't take it anymore, and stomped on him under the table.

"Cough." Shu Meng cleared his throat and said sternly, "From the current point of view, the real murderer is very good at using these tools. In other words, he can dismember the corpse with any local material. Since he knows how to use the relationship between husband and wife, Then the possibility of an acquaintance committing the crime is very high."

"He is familiar with your husband's arrangement of tools, the relationship between him and his ex-wife, and he may even know his work and rest, so he can 'put blame' on it."

"Ah... acquaintances." Li Lingling frowned in embarrassment, "But, my husband contacts too many people every day. My husband doesn't have any special close friends, and even those few can only be called...drinking friends, right? The neighbor relationship is actually good, everyone knows that he is a repairman, but my husband is very cheerful, it is very normal to go to other people's houses to repair, talk about our own family affairs, and chat."

Shu Meng shook his head: "This is not a good habit, after all, the listener has a heart."

After all, he wrote "Neighborhood Relations" in his notebook.

"Yes, I told him too." Li Lingling felt a little uncomfortable as she spoke, as if she was about to shed tears, "I think maybe it's really because of his problem... just persuade him earlier."

"This time span is too long." Lin Pu said, "He has been engaged in this job for a long time, including the surrounding communities within five kilometers, and he has contacted a lot of people, and the investigation base is too large."

Li Lingling was silent for a while, then said: "...I know there were similar cases in the surrounding area a few days ago, it must be the same murderer as those!"

"I don't know yet." Lin Pu said, "After all, the police have no evidence."

Li Lingling sighed: "I'm afraid that if he is caught alone, he will be blamed in the end."

Lin Pu said: "No, I will not let this happen."

He made two marks on the booklet: "I will meet with him later and have a detailed chat. Don't worry, this case is not unsolvable, and the possibility of overturning the case is very high."

"Thank you, Lawyer Lin." Li Lingling thanked her repeatedly.

After chatting for a while, Li Lingling was sent away.

Looking down at the book on the table of Linpu Cafe, trying to digest the things just recorded.

After a while, Shu Meng pushed a piece of cake to him.

"I won't eat." Lin Pu said without raising his head.

"Eat." Shu Meng knocked on the table.

"..." Lin Pu threw the booklet to him, put the cake in front of him in exchange, and nodded, "I ask you, why does the timeline have to be extended?"

Shu Meng didn't speak, his mouth was full.

"Didn't he die that day?"

"He died that day."

"Then why..."

Shu Meng took the last bite: "Let's go, go for a walk."

"Now?" Lin Pu asked.

Shu Meng walked out of the cafe with him, and Lin Pu didn't ask him where he was going. After walking for a while, Lin Pu confirmed that he just wanted to walk aimlessly and take a breath.

Sometimes Lin Pu also needs to let go and organize his thoughts at this time, not to mention that he feels that Shu Meng's state is too tense these days.

After a while, Shu Meng took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"Old Wei is going to blow up my phone." Shu Meng said.

"Then can you take it?" Lin Pu said.

"..." Shu Meng was silent for a while, and then answered helplessly.

"Are you willing to answer the phone? If you don't answer the phone, I'm going to use the police to arrest you." Wei Qiusui said on the other end of the phone.

"Then there's no need..." Shu Meng found a secluded corner, stood in the corner with Lin Pu, and said in a low voice, "I'll return all the corpses."

"What's wrong with the corpse?" Wei Qiusui said, "You are not allowed to hide it, and report it truthfully."

"I didn't hide it." Shu Meng turned on the speakerphone so that Lin Pu could hear him, "I said, there are two corpses, aren't you stitching them up... the forensic doctor will find out about this soon, I don't know anything else."

"Shu Meng, let me tell you, if you play this game with me again, I will tell him that when you just separated from Lin Pu, you asked me to drink, get drunk and cry all night to find him. , let him laugh at you with me." Wei Qiusui said in one breath.

Lin Pu: "..."

Shu Meng: "...Congratulations, he already knows."

"Lawyer Lin." Wei Qiusui probably realized that the two of them were together, "Did you agree to contact me if there is news about him?"

"Can't you see that the two of us are together?" Shu Meng said proudly.

Lin Pu: "...I'm not with him."

"Shu Meng, when you joined the City Bureau as a consultant forensic doctor, I and the higher-ups guaranteed your ticket. Can you be more peaceful! Investigating and handling cases is the job of the police!" Wei Qiusui may be really angry. He didn't talk much but kept talking today, "Even if it's related to the previous case, you still don't have any evidence back then. You can ask Lawyer Lin, can the other party be punished by law if there is no evidence?"

"...Old Wei, I'm sorry." Shu Meng said softly, "Just this time, I really waited for a long time, and I didn't even think about punishing the other party with legal justice."

Wei Qiusui hung up the phone angrily.

"The only one who can make him angry like this is Yu Fei." Lin Pu commented.

"I know he cares about me." Shu Meng looked ahead, and the two walked out of the corner and walked to the fence by the river, "but his help is limited, and I don't want to embarrass him."

"I really don't understand. If you hand over the evidence you found to the police, isn't that just providing evidence? What reason do they have for not arresting people?" Lin Pu said, "Wei Qiusui is right, you just entered a dead end .”

"Then are you going to report me?" Shu Meng said.

"..." Lin Pu turned around and stopped talking, feeling that it was impossible to communicate with him now.

After a while, he looked ahead and asked, "You never told me."

"Huh?" Shu Meng responded.

"At that time...after I left you..." Lin Pu paused, "Are you very unhappy?"

"Of course I'm not happy." Shu Meng said, "I feel like I've been dumped and played with. Of course, it's naive to think about it now. Sure enough, it's something that people would only do when they were young."

Lin Pu always felt a faint sense of loss after listening to it.

"Especially when I knew that you, a bastard, didn't have me in your heart." Shu Meng gritted his teeth and said, "Why do so many of my suitors fall in love with you who are greedy for my papers?"

The two leaned on the railing to catch the wind, and Shu Meng looked down at his hands.

His fingers were slender and knuckles distinct, slightly curved.

Lin Pu turned to look at him and said, "You said it yourself, we are very similar."

"So." Shu Meng continued to admire his hand.

"Let me help you." Lin Pu said, "I need to defend my client's innocence, and you need to catch the murderer. Our result is a win-win...and."

Shu Meng leaned on his elbows, and looked at him in a blink of an eye. After he took off his hat, his unstyled soft forehead fell in front of his eyes, covering one side of his eyebrows.

"You can't find such an excellent partner like me." Lin Pu said.

Shu Meng laughed: "You really dare to say it."

"A deal?" Lin Pu said, "If you refuse..."

"How are you?" Shumon said.

"I'll move out tomorrow." Lin Pu looked at him.

Shu Meng: "..."

"Don't you like me and love me?" Lin Pu patted his chest and hooked his lips, "You're an adult, keep your word."

He didn't wait for Shumeng to say, and continued: "From now on, all our data will be shared. Before you find the murderer, I won't ask about your business. The most important thing! Don't put yourself in danger, although I don't I know who the other party is, but he is undoubtedly a dangerous murderer. Killing people, dismembering corpses, such cruel methods, don’t think that you can deal with them alone.”

When Lin Pu said these words, his eyebrows were tightly twitched, and he gritted his teeth and looked at Shu Meng every word.

Shu Meng didn't listen to a word in the second half, just looked at his mouth as he opened and closed, and could still see a little bit of cute front teeth slightly protruding from his upper lip.

His eyes are round, with deep eyelids, and he doesn't stare fiercely at all.

"Why are you looking at me!" Lin Pu raised his voice and shouted.

"No." Shu Meng bent his eyes and smiled, then turned to look at Jiang Dao, "Okay, deal."

It's not as good as these seven years.

It would be nice not to have all these twists and turns.

Will they be standing by the river at this moment, blowing the wind in the river, holding hands and saying something else.

Shu Meng shook his head while thinking.

"Back to the office." Lin Pu said, "I haven't left work yet."

"Can't you get off work?" Schumeng said.

"Of course not." Lin Pu turned around and was about to leave, "I still want to..."

Before he finished speaking, Shu Meng grabbed his wrist and pulled him in the opposite direction.

"Hello." Lin Pu looked down at him pulling his wrist, and then looked up at his back, "Where are you going?!"

"Didn't you want to see the corpse? Let me show you the corpse." Shumeng said, pulling him to his side.

The two suddenly turned into each other, rubbing shoulders and starting to walk.

Shu Meng's hand still didn't let go, he squeezed his wrist with two fingers, and rubbed it on his slender bones.

Lin Pu always felt that his small movements were provocative, whether it was intentional or not, as light and gentle as a feather tickling.

"..." Lin Pu followed him for a few steps, feeling his ears burning, and said in a low voice, "Let go, everyone is welcome."

"What are you afraid of?" Shu Meng said, "I saw that bag of broken corpses the other day, and you were so frightened that you almost lost your wits. I will hold you so that you don't slip away."

"...I haven't." Lin Pu said.

"Yes, I didn't realize you were so timid." Shu Meng said.

"..." Lin Pu twitched his hands twice before Shu Meng let go, and put his hands into the pockets of his jacket.

After a while, Lin Pu said softly, "I was frightened by you."

"I'm sorry." Shu Meng squeezed between his eyebrows, "I couldn't control my emotions at that time, and I won't next time."

"En." Lin Pu responded, "You don't need to tell me specifically."

The two walked back to the parking lot from the river, and got into Shu Meng's car together in silence.

Lin Pu flipped through the notebook and saw the long arrow drawn by Shu Meng. He glanced at that elongated time several times, and vaguely thought of some of Shu Meng's previous reactions.Suddenly realized something: "...he was poisoned again?"

"How did you find out." Shu Meng said.

Lin Pu turned to look at him: "Really?!"

Shu Meng reached out and pressed open the storage box on the front side of the co-pilot, the front cover popped out, and Lin Pu saw a piece of printing paper inside.

"..." He took it out, and the first photo he saw was the photo of the broken arm.

"Why do I know it's 'him' doing it, because the most intuitive symptom of this toxin is that you can see tiny reddish-brown dot-like spots and bruises under the nails of the corpse." Shu Meng drove, "It's like a mark, I'll definitely be judging when I see you again."

"What kind of poison is this?" Lin Pu turned it over, and he could indeed see clearly where the fingernails zoomed in on the details.

"I don't know," Shumon said.

Lin Pu was stunned for a moment, and stopped shaking his hands.

"I still don't know what it is," Schumeng said. "I just know it's a synthetic toxin with no solution."

"No solution means... what does it mean?" Lin Pu said.

"There is no explanation for the symptoms and no antidote." Shu Meng patted the steering wheel irritably, "This is what makes me uncomfortable. You think you have found an opening, but in the end you can only be controlled by him."