Evil and punishment [criminal investigation]

Jiang Zhun squinted his eyes, enjoyed a brief moment of silence, and then slowly relaxed his shoulders, a little dazed in his eyes.

He quickly adjusted his expression, regained his previous sternness, and said to Xu Jianjun who was curled up in pain:

"You, assault the police."

In silence, he stretched out his hand towards Nie Cheng.

Nie Cheng hesitated for a moment before holding his extended hand, staggered up from the ground, and couldn't help rubbing the other shoulder, the fall just now really hurt.

Headed by the boss Qian Tong, almost everyone had some opinions on Jiang Zhun's beating, but due to the current situation of heavy snow blocking the mountain, comparing the size of the two policemen with the other people present, the boss rarely expressed his opinion.

Nie Cheng asked Wang Xiaozhi to come and help Xu Jianjun up, and asked Feng Yongqing to look after Hu Wen who had turned off the fire. He put another chair on the side of the hall, and pulled Jiang Zhun to let him sit there.

"I'll go back and get the punishment myself." Jiang Zhun whispered in his ear.

Nie Cheng ignored him, pushed him on the chair, turned to Hu Wen and said, "Do you agree with what Xu Jianjun just said?"

"No!" Hu Wen bared her teeth and shouted angrily.

"Stop playing tricks." Nie Cheng said impatiently.

He realized his irritability, took a deep breath to calm himself down, walked back and forth in front of Hu Wen twice, and asked, "Is Ma's wife dead?"

Hu Wen stared and said, "How would I know!"

"You know." Nie Cheng said, "You may not realize that you stare when you lie."

When he asked Hu Wen alone, and asked if she knew the deceased, Hu Wen subconsciously stared slightly.This is just a small action, and there are many explanations, such as what Jiang Zhun said before, "Ordinary people don't want to be involved in a murder case."Regardless of the reason, the hidden meaning of small actions is "fear of responsibility and eager to deny".However, Xu Jianjun's accusation is different from Zhen Sizhe's case. Hu Wen was originally not in the scope of suspicion.

It would be a bit arbitrary to speculate just from a subtle expression, but this small movement appeared twice when she was asked a sensitive question, just like the intersection of two straight lines on a plane that appeared after infinitely extending, it was not accidental.

Nie Cheng guessed that this staring action was like a warning light to Hu Wen, and her brain was reminding her that the problem touched a dangerous area and she should pay attention to reining in the precipice.

Hu Wen frowned exaggeratedly, trying to hide the wavering in her eyes, "Officer, don't slander people casually. Our hometown is thousands of miles away from the place he mentioned, and we don't even know anyone with the surname Ma."

Her husband Feng Yongqing nodded aside.

"The hometown you are talking about is your husband's hometown, or your hometown?" Nie Cheng asked. Feng Yongqing was about to open his mouth, but he didn't give him a chance to refute immediately, and warned: "Think carefully before speaking. Adults have to speak for themselves. Responsible for the law, a person’s experience may be falsified, it’s okay to deceive ordinary people, but the police can’t pass it, cover up for others, and be careful to trap yourself. Did she grow up with you, or did she live with you? The nearby villages and cities, have you seen her fellow countrymen?"

Feng Yongqing hesitated, he shook his head, glanced at Hu Wen, and nodded again.

"Tell me."

"She and I are not from the same place, but her hometown is in the south, and I have seen her fellow villagers. That place is very close to the place where the daughter of the Ma family went to work in his story. I have only seen that one fellow villager, so I cannot Determine whether she is a fellow villager or a worker." Feng Yongqing said.

Hu Wen was so angry that she punched him hard on the back, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Feng Yongqing didn't dare to look at her, and muttered: "You are not right today, my mother-in-law is not like this, although her mouth is broken, she is a kind person. You look wrong today."

Hu Wen's eyes were red with anger, she pushed Feng Yongqing aside, and scolded: "I think you were scared stupid."

"I'm not stupid. If you're from the Ma family, get away from my mother-in-law quickly. I can tell you, my second uncle is very good."

Nie Cheng shook his head when he heard this, and said: "If the secrets in people's hearts are exposed, they will inevitably lose their composure. No matter how much the Ma family's daughter-in-law does plastic surgery, her face can change, but it is impossible for the overall physical and mental state to change from 50 to 30. You Not unaware."

Feng Yongqing nodded hesitantly, and Hu Wen stared at him, wondering what kind of medicine this police officer was selling in his gourd.

"You said before that you have been married to Hu Wen for ten years. Even if she can deceive you for a while, she can't deceive you for ten years. But the dead are different. You only need to hide it from the dead for three days and everything will be fine. If the funeral is in the first month, It's easier." Nie Cheng said without haste.

Hu Wen's expression changed instantly.

"Are you Ma Xiaoyu?"

Hu Wen was shaking all over.

"The cause of Ma's daughter-in-law's death is doubtful, but if you are Ma Xiaoyu, insurance fraud is a certainty. You don't need to make excuses now, and you will have a chance to explain it when the snow stops tomorrow at the police station," Nie Cheng said.

"I want to go upstairs and have a look. Boss, please help coordinate the order. Keep an eye on this place. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, you will suffer the most." Nie Cheng instructed, and then said to Jiang Zhun: "This place is left to you." At the same time, he warned Glancing at him resolutely, and getting Jiang Zhun's promise not to fight, he went up to the second floor.

If Hu Wen was Ma Xiaoyu in the past, and had a criminal record of murder in order to cheat, the psychological burden of doing it again would be much smaller than ordinary people.Both she and Feng Yongqing were not good at lying, and they covered up the question of whether they knew the deceased. Nie Cheng believed that they not only knew Zhen Sizhe, but were also deceived by him.But in the current case, he is not inclined to think that Hu Wen is the murderer. After all, Zhen Sizhe's size is such that he doesn't think she can strangle him silently.

The cold light of the flashlight cast a beam of light in the dark corridor on the second floor. Passing Room 204, he went back to Room 201 where he and Jiang Zhun lived, and found his briefcase.

Before Xu Jianjun testified against Hu Wen, when Jiang Zhun reminded him to search for evidence, he remembered that document.

He still hasn't finished reading the documents he got from Wei Yuan's house.

Untying the string of the kraft paper bag again, Nie Cheng pulled out the information inside. There were only three pages of A4 paper. It was Jiang Zhun's resume, which recorded the big and small events in his life in detail. Full of red letters.

In the resume section on the front, the word "fire" is circled and a red line is drawn, which says "fire"; in the line where the twin brother Jiang Huai passed away, "Jiang Huai" is circled, and there is no writing beside it but a big letter question mark.

Nie Cheng is very familiar with Jiang Zhun's affairs, and after scanning the positive personal information with a few glances, except for the details listed, and even the general situation of major cases he participated in, it is not particularly surprising, at least his name is only Appearing in the row of alumni and colleagues—seeing this, no matter how devastated he was, he couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth.

He turned over the page and began to look at the back, which was a large section of compact red letters.Nie Cheng turned it over with one hand and read three lines. Sweat dripped from the corner of his forehead. He changed his posture unconsciously. He put his elbows on his knees and held one side of the page with both hands as if he was facing an enemy. He focused on each line. read on.

These scarlet letters are the diagnosis and treatment memo written by Wei Yuan for himself, and the first line directly states:

"Jiang Zhun suffers from PTSD. The reason for his illness is that he witnessed his brother's death in a fire, and he developed a superhuman fear of fire. Originally, he only had a strong fear of fire that could cause huge damage, but recently he has a strong fear of any fire. conflict."

Nie Cheng judged that it would not be too long before he obtained these materials. Most of the previous diagnoses should come from Jiang Zhun's many consultations over the past year.Jiang Zhun initially found Wei Yuan to treat him, but he probably found his own problems during the consultation process.

He remembered that snowy day a month ago, when Jiang Zhun got drunk and made trouble in a bar, Deng Ting was called to deal with it. In Deng Ting's description, Jiang Zhun attacked a young girl at that time. She was holding a candle and making love with her boyfriend. The photo, the candle is probably the source.

Also just now, when Hu Wen pushed him to the fireplace while pushing him, Nie Cheng glanced over, trying to remind him to be careful of the fire behind him, luckily Jiang Zhun stood still in time, but his distraction was He was thrown by Xu Jianjun, and then Jiang Zhun picked up a chair and threw it at him. He thought he was just angry.

These few lines of Wei Yuan connected these things together, and he finally discovered the part behind the things.

But why was he so irritable when he was in the digital building and the police station?He thought about it carefully, at least in these two scenes, there was indeed no fire.

Nie Cheng thought about the question and the word "recently" written by Wei Yuan, and continued to read.

"He is a very defensive person. It took about a year after I consulted here to tell that his brother and he are twins. I immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and understood that his disease did not lie in the fire, but in his heart. Brother. On the day of the fire, he seemed to see himself burning in the flames, laughing, and crying, and he said he remembered the fire closing the curtains, the beams collapsing, and the panicked passers-by outside the door and the fire trucks rushing. It should be the perspective of the people in the house. He said that sometimes he was not sure who the dead person was.

"When I heard this, I also had such doubts—could he be Jiang Huai? If they were twins who looked very similar, they would switch between themselves quietly, and people close to them might notice. But the patient's parents are busy with work all year round. , I don’t know the two brothers well, and the change in personality after the accident will not arouse others’ suspicion. If it is not an intentional exchange, it is emotionally unacceptable after seeing 'myself' being burned to death, but intellectually similar "Survivor Syndrome" tends to cause identity cognitive impairment, so it is very likely that he is really Jiang Huai."

Seeing this, Nie Cheng stood up suddenly, threw the documents on the bed, and walked around the room with one fist clenched in the other.

It's impossible, absolutely impossible.

He is very familiar with Jiang Zhun and understands his personality. He is definitely not the same as the bird-killing boy Pan Hongyue was talking about.

But logic and reason kept ringing in his ears: You have never seen Jiang Huai.

What if Jiang Huai has an identity disorder and always thinks that he is Jiang Zhun, so he lives in Jiang Zhun's way, and now he just starts to recall his real self?

The young Jiang Huai would kill animals because of his agitation, so the current him may also kill because of a word.If he is Jiang Huai, he is likely to be the murderer.

No, it's more than that.If he is Jiang Huai, then Jiang Zhun died at the age of 15, and he lived on Jiang Huai for more than ten years in the form of a "character ghost". Now that Jiang Huai is about to wake up, it means that Jiang Zhun will completely die.

No, no, he has always loved Jiang Zhun.

Even with an identity disorder, one's true nature cannot be completely hidden.Just like Hu Wen couldn't be Ma's daughter-in-law, otherwise no matter how well she hides, Feng Yongqing, who has been married to her for ten years, will also find the flaw.

He and Jiang Zhun have known each other for nearly 15 years. They have been together day and night and have done the most intimate things. He doesn't believe that Jiang Huai, who is like a devil boy, can fool his criminal police.

His shirt was soaked in cold sweat, and someone in the corridor outside the door called him: "Officer Nie, Officer Nie".

He ignored it, and there was a knock on the door after a while, and the door opened a gap. Qian Tong and Feng Yongqing, who were going to the toilet together, poked their heads in and said, "You are here. Officer Jiang told you to go down there when you have time."

Nie Cheng sat on the edge of the bed with his back to them, absent-mindedly replied: "Understood, you guys go back quickly."

His voice was a little low, as if he was talking to himself, Qian Tong was a little deaf, and couldn't hear what he said clearly, so he asked "What, what did you say" twice.

Nie Cheng suddenly turned around and shouted: "I said I got it, get out!"

The two of them didn't expect that they would suddenly step on the thunder at Nie Cheng's place, and they were yelled at by him so that they took two steps back and crawled downstairs.

Nie Cheng couldn't care about his work attitude anymore, he just wanted to see what Wei Yuan wrote next.