Where did Jin Jiaxuan go?

As the evening approached, the sky was gloomy, the wind was chilly, and soon there was a light rain, and then there were snow particles in the rain.

The police cordoned off the place where the male body was found in the suburbs. Several police cars were parked around, illuminated by headlights and flashlights. The criminal police and the forensic doctor had already arrived at the scene.

Ten meters away from the place where the body was found was a township-level road. On both sides of the road were weeds as tall as a person, stretching for nearly a hundred meters, and no one would easily break through the weeds.

The report was made by several donkey friends who were cycling, both men and women. One of the boys was anxious and went into the grass to relieve himself in order to avoid the girls. He accidentally found the body.

After the on-site investigation, it can be preliminarily determined that the deceased died in two to three days, and there were no documents to prove his identity.This should not be the scene of the crime. The murderer brought the body here and threw it away.

The place where the body was dumped was beyond the jurisdiction of the Songshan Police Station, but it happened to be still within the jurisdiction of the former North Branch.

The police handling the case at the scene were not too surprised to see Jin Xu, the deputy bureau chief, coming.

"Xiaojin is here." Li Jie, the captain of the criminal investigation team, came over to say hello.

"Master." Jin Xu hurriedly called out.

He had been in the Criminal Investigation Brigade for more than four years, but later he was in poor health and was transferred to the police station. Almost everyone in the Criminal Investigation Brigade was familiar with him. Captain Li Jie was his former boss and master.

Li Jie quickly introduced the current situation and said, "The Municipal Bureau has also sent people here, and they are on their way."

Involving human life, it is a major case anywhere.

Jin Xu nodded, walked towards the forensic doctor who was conducting a preliminary examination around the corpse, and asked, "Are there any other discoveries at the scene?"

Li Jie said: "Some groups of footprints have been found, and it will take some time to eliminate the informants first."

"Is there any problem with the reporter?" Jin Xu asked.In many homicides, the biggest suspect is often the informant.

"I don't see any at the moment. A few children, who often make appointments to ride together, are terrified." Li Jie said.

When the two arrived near the corpse, the forensic doctor was working. Jin Xu lightly shone the flashlight on the face of the deceased, and his expression changed slightly.

Li Jie noticed it keenly and asked, "What's the matter? We know each other?"

Jin Xu said: "I don't know. I thought I did."

This sleet has increased the difficulty of forensic and criminal police investigations, and inevitably caused some damage to the evidence at the scene, so we can only speed up as much as possible.

The police, who were searching for evidence in the grass, made a new discovery. They called Li Jie on the walkie-talkie, and Li Jie rushed over immediately.

Jin Xu stepped back to the empty space, while not hindering other people's work, he also took a rough look at the surrounding environment.

The nearest village is about one kilometer away from the corpse dumping site. The deceased was an adult male. It was impossible to carry or carry the corpse with bare hands. We had to use transportation...

"Deputy Director Jin," a policeman hurried over and interrupted his train of thought, "There are two people who claim to be colleagues from other places and want to find you."

Two out-of-town colleagues?Jin Xu's expression was startled, and he asked, "Where is the man?"

On the highway, outside the cordon.

Shang Yang stood with his hands behind his back in the night and snowstorm, frowning, looking towards the flashing flashlight in the grass.

At night on this road, there are not many pedestrians and vehicles, and there are no street lights. The roadside monitoring is equipped with ordinary non-industrial cameras, which have no infrared function and cannot be used for night vision.

The perfect place to throw a body.

"The deceased couldn't really be Liu Weidong, could he?" Yuan Ding said, his neck shrank from the cold, "If it was him, Senior Brother Jin would be in serious trouble.

Shang Yang pursed his lips and remained silent.

Liu Weidong's mother, Wu Fenglan, had reported to the Songshan police station three days ago, and the police station's handling method had no procedural problems.

But if the male corpse found is Liu Weidong, and the time of death is exactly two to three days ago.

The police handling the case and Jin Xu, the director of the case, will inevitably bear certain public opinion responsibilities, and may even be held accountable by the administration.

Yuan Ding saw Shang Yang's worry, and changed the subject, "What the hell is the weather here? It's snowing in October. Director, aren't you cold?"

Shang Yang said: "I reminded you earlier to let you wear long johns."

Yuan Ding was extremely resistant to long johns as a health-preserving equipment, saying: "I'm only 21 years old, isn't it a bit early to wear long johns?"

Shang Yang sarcastically said: "Are you afraid of the cold at the age of 21? I wear short sleeves in winter at the age of 21."

There was a swishing sound next to them, and the two turned their heads, only to see Jin Xu emerge neatly from the grass taller than him.

Before Shang Yang could speak, Jin Xu followed up with the two of them and said, "Why don't I remember you wearing short-sleeved sleeves in winter, I just remember that you didn't want to do morning exercises because you were afraid of the cold, and the captain punished you for half an hour in a squatting position together with the whole dormitory."

Shang Yang: "..."

Yuan Ding hurriedly said, "Brother Jin."

Jin Xu stood still across the cordon, looked straight at Shang Yang, and asked, "Why are you back? I thought you were going to the provincial capital soon."

Shang Yang said casually: "The train is late, it's boring to wait, just as you said something happened, come back and have a look."

Yuan Ding glanced at him, the train was about to leave and the ticket was checked, and the person who changed his mind and said he couldn't leave as soon as he received a call from Brother Jin, wasn't you, Director Shang?

Shang Yang said: "What's the situation? Do I have to overturn and rewrite all my reports?"

"Leader, I don't understand what was reported. But," Jin Xu understood what he meant, and said, "The deceased is not Liu Weidong."

Shang Yang's brows, which had been frowned for a long time, relaxed, and he asked again: "Who is that person? This place is not like the scene of the first crime, where the body was thrown away."

"The preliminary judgment is that the body was thrown away, and everything else is still uncertain." Jin Xu replied.

A colleague's flashlight in the grass behind him swept over inadvertently.

With that light, he saw a little crystal snow falling on Shang Yang's eyebrows and eyelashes.

"It's cold outside, go to my car to hide from the snow." Jin Xu took out the car keys.

Yuan Ding thought, that's great, that's great.

Shang Yang said, "No, it's not too cold."

Jin Xu stuffed the key into his hand, touched his cold fingers, and said inwardly, "Wait for someone from the Municipal Bureau to come, and I have to explain before I can leave. Wait for me in the car."

Shang Yang said: "Don't you need to help investigate? Such a big matter."

Jin Xu said: "I'm in charge of community policing, and someone else is in charge of criminal investigation. I live at my house at night, and the place is big enough. I'll go first."

After he finished speaking quickly, he turned around and went back into the grass.

Shang Yang was stunned for a moment before remembering to decline politely. Facing the barren grass in the dark night like a wall of iron and steel, he had no chance to say the words of refusal.

He and Yuan Ding waited in the police car driven by Jin Xu.

It was much warmer in the car, and Yuan Ding's tongue, which was tangled in the cold, slowly revived.

"Director," he asked, "so you and Brother Jin are not only classmates, but also roommates in the same dormitory?"

Looking through the windshield, Shang Yang looked at the busy scene not far away, and replied casually: "He sleeps on my upper bunk."

Yuan Ding called him a good guy, and said: "Did you two really have a bad relationship when you were in school? I think Brother Jin is quite a nice guy, and he treats people sincerely."

Shang Yang said: "He was not like this before, he was quite annoying before."

Yuan Ding looked in disbelief.

Shang Yang originally wanted to say, believe it or not.

But he recalled a little forward, did Jin Xu really do any annoying actions back then?It doesn't seem to be.

The reason why he and Jin Xu couldn't get along was really because of their discord from the very beginning.

When he first entered the OUHK, he was not yet full. During the rebellious period of the second year of middle school, his relationship with his family was in dire straits. It was only about 10 minutes by bus from school to go home. From the first semester of his freshman year until the winter vacation, he never once back home.

Jin Xu never went home because the northwest was too far away.

During the first long vacation at the beginning of school, only the two of them were left in the six-person dorm.

Having just finished the one-month military training for freshmen at OUHK, Shang Yang’s overall impression of Jin Xu is: this buddy from Northwest China is silent and restrained, but hard-working.

He himself has never experienced any hardships. He has been trained to cry and howl in this month, and he has been thinking about how to pretend to be sick and escape training all day long.

On the other hand, Jin Xu has never complained of suffering, and he will take the initiative to come out every time there is a difficult challenge. This really makes him a greenhouse flower.

In addition, there was no one else in the dormitory, so if he wanted to go out to play, he could only find Jin Xu as his companion.

Shang Yang is the only son and has no brothers or sisters. His mother loves daughters, and since he was a child, he loves to direct his son towards little girls. As a result, Shang Yang has many living habits that do not follow the usual boys' way, and he has been a delicate boy since he was a child.

But his father hoped to train his son to be a tough guy, and taught his son mixed martial arts from the age of four or five.This caused Shang Yang to be delicate and cute, but also a child version of Ip Man. The obvious example is that he beat up other little boys for grabbing toys, and the teacher would coax him first when he came.

As I grow older, both sides are gradually neutralized. The final development result is that Shang Yang is very popular among boys. He is clean, beautiful and can fight. Mu Qiang, a straight man, treats him as a buddy, and it is easy to bend mistook him for the same kind.

Therefore, according to Shang Yang's experience from childhood to adulthood, when he gets together with boys, he can quickly get along with each other with just a few words and never misses.

As a result, Jin Xu hit a nail more than once.

He said to go to the supermarket outside the door to buy something, but Jin Xu refused to go, and asked them to go out for dinner, but Jin Xu also refused, and said to go to the Internet cafe for a night out, but Jin Xu still refused to go.

He changed his strategy and proposed to take Jin Xu to visit the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, climb the Great Wall and watch the flag raising. He has come to Beijing to study, and he still has no intention of seeing the big capital?

Jin Xu said: No, I want to study.

Shang Yang: Wo Ri.

The two young boys stayed alone in the dormitory for seven days, and they didn’t have any joint activities. Shang Yang found the boy in the next dormitory who hadn’t come home to play with. Jin Xu really had seven days of self-study in the dormitory. In a word.

After the long vacation, Shang Yang's evaluation of the big brother on the upper bunk as "silent and introverted but hard-working" has changed to "look like someone owes him money all day long with a stern face."

At that time, I was young and ignorant, my understanding of the world was shallow, and I had no empathy ability.

As Shang Yang himself knows, when he was 17 years old, the flower that grew up in the greenhouse knew that there were poor people in the world, and thought that they were all living in public welfare reports. Classmates, the money that can be used for pocket money throughout the semester is only 100 yuan.

I never thought that someone would study hard just to get a scholarship, because without a scholarship, they would not be able to buy a bus ticket or go home during the winter vacation.

It wasn't even my own home that went back. How can a person with both parents and sons have a home?

The door of the driver's seat was opened, and Jin Xu entered the car with a chill all over, and said, "What are you in a daze for? You can go."

"What's new?" Shang Yang asked when he was falling asleep, pulling himself together.

"Nothing was found at the scene. It depends on the forensic doctor. It's the work of the criminal investigation team. I can't control it." Jin Xu turned the steering wheel and said, "Hungry or sleepy? Eat something first."

Shang Yang said: "Everything is fine. What about Liu Weidong? Where did he go after he got off the bus? Have you checked the surveillance on the bus seven days ago?"

Jin Xu smiled wryly, and said, "Leader, can you let me rest for a while? I'm running all over the plain like I'm catching up."

Shang Yang shut up.

Indeed, since the meeting in the morning till now, Jin Xu has hardly stopped for a moment, and was talking on the phone with the deputy director during lunch time to find someone.Even before meeting him in the morning, Jin Xu went to the bureau to do business.

But Jin Xu quickly answered him: "I checked the surveillance on the bus. Liu Weidong answered the phone before getting off the bus. I asked my colleagues to check his call records. There is no one in the mobile company at night, so it may not be smooth. If there is any progress, I will be notified in time. The monitoring on the car cannot take pictures outside, and the driver and the conductor can't remember the exact location where he got off the car. In the afternoon, Deputy Director Zhang has transferred back all the surveillance videos along the [-] km along the way. The two colleagues are working overtime to watch the video. After sending you back, I have to go back to the branch office to watch it together. If the surveillance doesn’t find it, I will visit the residents and passers-by along the way tomorrow during the day to see if anyone has seen Liu Weidong.”

There is no good way, and now it can only be like this.

Shang Yang knew it was wrong, but he still couldn't hold back his words, and said, "It's better to hurry up, I hope Liu Weidong doesn't have any accidents."

"Don't worry about it, just eat something warm and go back to sleep." Jin Xu said regretfully, "It's rare for you to come here, and I wanted to cook for you...you can try my cooking."

He glanced at Yuan Ding from the rearview mirror, Yuan Ding smiled at him, very self-aware, the word "men" is the same as himself, and shouldn't have any sense of existence.

"You know how to cook?" Shang Yang was surprised, and asked again, "Have you bought a house? Don't live in a kennel anymore."

The last time he came with the squad leader, Jin Xu didn't mention buying a house. At that time, he lived in a single-employee dormitory in the bureau. Behind the dormitory was the police dog training camp. Jin Xu laughed at himself and said that he lived in a kennel.

Jin Xu said: "No, I'm still living in the dormitory. Didn't I get promoted? I got a big kennel instead."

The big kennel is a two-bedroom apartment.Collective property rights do not belong to individuals.

"That's also very good. Our unit says it will divide the house in name. There are too many monks and too few food, so it's not my turn." Shang Yang said, "I'm still renting a house."

Jin Xu said: "Where are your parents? Why don't you live with them?"

Shang Yang paused, and said, "It's still the same."

Jin Xu understood, and said, "It's been so many years, and you still haven't reconciled?"

"Let's go with the flow." Shang Yang didn't want to talk about this, firstly because there was Yuan Ding in the back row, and secondly because he felt that talking about this topic with Jin Xu seemed a bit too close.

Director Shang is the second-generation police officer, and his father has olive branches on his shoulders.

This is well known in the research institute. Yuan Ding heard about it on the first day of his internship, and now he hears the two senior brothers talking about Director Shang's house, and he is as quiet as a chicken.

Shang Yang asked Jin Xu: "Why didn't you fall in love? I remember you are one year older than me."

Jin Xu smiled and said, "I'm 18 months older than you. I'm the oldest in our dormitory. Everyone calls me brother, but you don't."

Shang Yang: "..."

Jin Xu responded, "Hey."

Shang Yang: "No one called you."

Jin Xu said solemnly: "I heard you screaming in my heart."

Shang Yang: "..."

Both sides of the road gradually became bustling, and the police car drove back to the urban area.

"You want to go back to the sub-bureau and watch the surveillance with your colleagues?" Shang Yang said, "I'll go with you too. Multiple people can watch it faster."

Yuan Ding hurriedly said: "Add me, I want to help too.

Jin Xu pretended to be polite: "This is so embarrassing."

Shang Yang said: "Then I won't go."

Jin Xu: "..."

I bought takeaways on the way and took them to the branch office, saving time for meals.

The memory of the bus driver is pretty good. Although he can't remember where Liu Weidong got off the bus, he has a general impression of the time when he got off the bus, which reduces a lot of workload.

The three of them, together with the other two police officers from the sub-bureau, saw the early morning of the surveillance video.

Found traces of Liu Weidong's activities after he got off the bus midway.

After Liu Weidong got off the car, he walked for a while and entered a snack bar next to the national road, where he stayed for about half an hour.

Half an hour later, a white van drove over and parked on the side of the road outside the door. Liu Weidong came out of the store, stood under the car and talked with the driver for more than ten seconds, then got into the car, and the van drove away.

The van traveled two kilometers along the national road, left the national road at a fork, and drove into a country road.

Shang Yang: "..."

He and Jin Xu looked at each other, knowing that the other party also recognized the intersection. They passed by there tonight and drove along the intersection. They would see a narrow road with nearly two-meter-high grass growing on both sides of the road. There are few people and there are not many cars. If someone wants to throw a corpse, it is a good place.

Liu Weidong passed by the place where the body was dumped a week ago. Could it be a pure coincidence?

It's already two in the morning.

"Let's go back and rest first, get up in the morning and work again." Jin Xu said to a policeman, "Go to the traffic control department early tomorrow morning to check the license plate number of the van, and if it's a set plate, check the nearby villages Anyone with the same white van."

Then he said to another policeman: "When you wake up, go to Deputy Director Zhang, go to the mobile company with him, and check all Liu Weidong's recent call records."

The two policemen agreed and went back to sleep first.

Yuan Ding yawned and went to the bathroom, leaving a message saying he needed a big one.

Shang Yang took a sip of water from his thermos cup, and after the most sleepy moment when his eyelids were fighting, his face was only tired.

"I'll take you back to sleep later." Jin Xu said.

Shang Yang heard what he meant, and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to the criminal investigation brigade and see if there is any progress in the forensic medicine and if there is any victim to identify the corpse." Jin Xu breathed a sigh of relief, forced a smile, and said, "I probably don't have time to take you to the train station tomorrow... Anyway, I have already bid farewell in the afternoon , See you in Beijing at the end of the year."

Shang Yang thought for a while, and said: "There is a murder case in the jurisdiction, and you will be sent to further study? I guess it will be ruined."

Jin Xu's smile faded: "That's right. Leader, you still understand."

Shang Yang: "...It really doesn't mean that I can't speak anymore, can I?"

Jin Xu sat down next to him, turned his back to him, and said, "I'm not in a good mood right now. Don't be as knowledgeable as me. It's not easy to be sympathetic to grassroots police officers."

Shang Yang frowned: "Are you trying to kidnap me morally?"

Jin Xu stopped talking, took the takeaway that had gone cold before he finished eating, and took a few mouthfuls.

"Don't wait for Beijing to see you again," Shang Yang said, "I won't leave tomorrow."

Jin Xu paused while he was eating, and said, "Would you like to investigate further for two more days?"

Shang Yang said: "No, my business trip is over, I told the research institute in the afternoon, and I will start my vacation tomorrow."

Jin Xu suddenly turned his head and said blankly: "So"

Shang Yang said with disgust: "Can you stop talking if you have food in your mouth?"

Jin Xu: "..."

Shang Yang said in his heart, just now he was acting vigorously and resolutely in the iron-blooded deputy bureau, but now this is just a silly criticism.

"During the vacation, I have no authority. I'm just an ordinary policeman." He said mockingly, "I'll be your servant here and help you find missing persons, okay?"

Jin Xu: "...!"

Yuan Ding came out of the bathroom, and in the corridor, he heard Brother Jin's earth-shattering cough as he choked on food or water.