Where did Jin Jiaxuan go?

It was past one o'clock in the morning, the temperature was very low at night, and the sleet was falling non-stop, which meant that it would directly evolve into snow.

When the three came downstairs, Yuan Ding made a trembling voice.

Shang Yang couldn't help but tuck his chin into the collar of the windbreaker that concealed his height. It was still not enough to rely on long johns to resist the cold in the northwest.

Obviously Jin Xu was only wearing an autumn sports jacket, as if he wasn't cold at all, and he still laughed at his old classmates: "Are you still bragging that you need to wear short sleeves in winter?"

Shang Yang: "...hehe."

Before he came down, he was still thinking, why not go to the Criminal Investigation Brigade with Jin Xu to see the progress of the corpse throwing case in the suburbs, but he is not a member of the local police after all, so it may be a bit inconvenient to intervene hastily.

Now he decided not to go.It's too cold!Cold and sleepy, I just want to get into bed quickly.

"If you're busy, go, we can sleep anywhere," he said.

But Jin Xu said: "I live in the family courtyard of the sub-bureau, right next to it, and I will send you there to take care of your business."

The family courtyard is only a few hundred meters away from the branch office. The police car drove past the branch office and saw the gate within 2 minutes.

"Give me the house key, tell me the house number, leave us at the door, and you can find it yourself." Shang Yang said.

"Okay. I'll say hello to the guard, and outsiders are not allowed to enter casually." While Jin Xu was speaking, he arrived outside the gate of the family courtyard.

He stepped on the brake and stopped directly in front of the electronic crossbar, not afraid of blocking other people's roads in the middle of the night.

The doorman's small window opened, and an old man glanced at the passenger seat through the window, and said to Jin Xu, "Xiao Jin, did you bring your girlfriend back?"

Shang Yang: "?"

Because the light was relatively dark and the uncle's eyes were not very good, he mistook the fair-skinned Director Shang for a girl.

Jin Xu and Yuan Ding in the back row chuckled at the same time.

Shang Yang: "..."

Jin Xu briefly explained the situation to the uncle, pointed out to Shang Yang which building he lived in, and then drove away to the Criminal Investigation Brigade.

Shang Yang and Yuan Ding successfully found his residence according to the unit number he said, and opened the door with the key he gave. Shang Yang touched the switch in the entrance and turned on the light.

Yuan Ding exclaimed on the spot: "So clean?!"

This house is not quite like a bachelor's residence. The windows are bright and clean, and everything is neatly placed as far as the eye can see.

Yuan Ding really thought that he was going to the "kennel" for one night, and seeing this situation, he couldn't help but think that among the three of them, only his place was the real doghouse.What about the promised males who are all rough?Involved so much?

He slandered Senior Brother Jin indiscriminately: "Good guy, the room is clean and odorless..."

Shang Yang said: "Don't talk nonsense. He has always been like this."

The dormitories were also militarized in the public university. A group of freshmen from the police academy were more or less uncomfortable. The only person in the dormitory who was not picked on for internal affairs was Jin Xu. Even on weekends and holidays, he Never have the slightest slack in the minutiae of life.

He is like a bow that is always stretched, and his self-discipline is quite strong.

But this was also disliked by Shang Yang at the time.

The young Shang Yang prefers to make friends with flamboyant friends, and has an instinctive resistance to all people or things that show restraint.

Jin Xu's restraint is also reflected in his dealings with others. Nine out of ten people of that age have had the experience of making shallow conversations. Several boys in the dormitory chatted about various family and private matters, but Jin Xu I rarely participate in it, and there is always an indifferent sense of distance.

At that time, in Shang Yang's eyes, the big Northwest brother sleeping on his upper bunk was cold and pretending.

More than ten years later, Shang Yang is no longer a sophomore in middle school. He has met all kinds of people in his work and life, and gradually realized that Jin Xu is good at self-discipline and maintains a sense of proportion when interacting with others. Friends are also very rare.

Yuan Ding offered to sleep in the second bedroom, but it was too late, and Shang Yang was so sleepy that his mind was muddled, so the two went to sleep separately.

Upon waking up, Shang Yang suddenly sat up, saw the bright sky through the curtains, looked at his phone, but it was not yet 07:30.

He got out of bed, and as soon as he left the room, he heard Yuan Ding's snoring in the second bedroom, and immediately realized that there were other people in the living room.

I don’t know when Jin Xu came back and slept on the sofa in the living room without taking off his clothes. He was only covered with a police coat. Because he was too tall, his calves were hanging outside the sofa, and the soles of his black socks were worn out. a hole.

Seeing that he was in a deep sleep, Shang Yang didn't want to wake him up, went to the bathroom lightly, then went back to the bedroom, packed the quilt, and opened the curtains.

In the second half of the night, the sleet turned into snow, and a thin layer was deposited on the ground, making the sky look extraordinarily bright.The snow has stopped, and it looks like today is a sunny and cold day.

He suddenly remembered that he was so sleepy that he fell asleep last night, as if he hadn't closed the curtains?

At a quarter past eight in the morning, the three of them had breakfast in the breakfast shop outside the family courtyard, and by the way, they heard Jin Xu talk about the progress of last night:

"The deceased was a villager who lived nearby. His home was less than two kilometers away from the place where the body was dumped. The people in the village committee did not know when he left home. His wife returned to her natal home last month. Today his wife will come. Identify the corpse."

Shang Yang said: "The lost Liu Weidong went to the place where the body was dumped. I don't think it's a coincidence. Did the deceased know him?"

"It's still not clear. People from the village committee said that the deceased usually went to the urban area to do odd jobs every three days. He often had no one at home. They didn't know who he would hang out with in the city, or whether he had any grudges with others. "Jin Xu said, then changed the subject, "Is it still cold?"

Shang Yang put down his hands rubbing his ears, lightly pulled the sweater from the collar of the windbreaker to show him, and said, "I got it from your closet."

Jin Xu smiled and said, "Very good, I still have two sweaters that have shrunk, so you can wear them."

Are you insinuating that he is a dwarf?Shang Yang had a cold face.

Yuan Ding weakly raised his hand: "I'm cold too, and I'm short, so I can wear it."

Brother Jin said with a kind face, "I'll go to the bureau in a while, and I'll find you a cotton coat."

Yuan Ding: "...Oh."

Last night, Jin Xu assigned someone to go to the traffic control office to check the license plate of the white van that took Liu Weidong away.

The policeman went there early in the morning, and as soon as Jin Xu and the other three arrived at the station, he called to report the situation.

As Jin Xu expected, this van is a license plate, but this model is designated by the car subsidy for going to the countryside. There are more than 20 vans of the same model registered in several towns in the suburbs.

Does not include unlicensed and stolen cars.

Jin Xu asked the other party to send back a copy of the information of more than 20 car owners.

Then he called Deputy Director Zhang Zhiming and asked if Liu Weidong's call records were found.

"Old Zhang has just arrived at the mobile company, so he has to wait for the person in charge to go before he has permission." Jin Xu said, "Go to meet with the bureau leader? It will be convenient for you to do things later."

Shang Yang nodded happily, he thought so too, otherwise he would have a public security work permit, and he would have to avoid some taboos if he wanted to help, and he would inevitably be unable to do so.

After meeting with the director, the reply from the Traffic Management Office and Zhang Zhiming arrived almost at the same time.

Sitting at Jin Xu's desk, Shang Yang used his computer to open the document sent by the Traffic Management Office. In the form were the names, home addresses, and contact information of several van owners.

And Jin Xu stood aside, supporting the back of the chair behind Shang Yang with his hands, while listening to Zhang Zhiming's feedback on the phone, he leaned slightly and looked at the computer screen.

Shang Yang dragged the mouse to browse the relevant information of the car owner.

Jin Xu suddenly pressed the hand on the back of the chair on his shoulder, and he immediately stopped the mouse and looked at Jin Xu questioningly.

The distance between the two was relatively close, and Shang Yang could clearly hear Zhang Zhiming's voice in the earpiece.

Zhang Zhiming on the other end of the phone: "...In the past two months before he lost contact, Liu Weidong had been in contact with this number very frequently. At most, he had contacted dozens of times a day, sometimes in the middle of the night. Before he got off the long-distance bus that day , answered a call, and it was also from this number."

Shang Yang looked at Jin Xu suspiciously.

Jin Xu said to the phone: "You just said, what's the name of the owner?"

Zhang Zhiming: "Jia Pengfei."

Jin Xu and Zhang Zhiming briefly bid farewell and hung up the phone, then motioned Shang Yang to look at the computer screen, and put their hands directly on the back of Shang Yang's hand to move the mouse.

Shang Yang: "?"

"Look." Jin Xu didn't seem to notice anything wrong, and only focused on his work.

Shang Yang followed the cursor and saw that it pointed to a row in the table, one of the owners of the van also had that name, Jia Pengfei.

Jin Xu said, "It's the same person with the same phone number."

Immediately afterwards, he said, "This person is the dead man who was found in the suburbs yesterday."

Shang Yang: "!!!"

His attention was entirely on this series of amazing coincidences.

Jin Xu took his hand back and carefully put it in his trouser pocket.

Shang Yang quickly sorted out the context of the current information in his mind.

The deceased, Jia Pengfei and Liu Weidong, were two people who had never met before.

But they have been in close contact in the past two months. The last call before Liu Weidong lost contact was made by Jia Pengfei. Jia Pengfei happened to own the van that Liu Weidong got into before he lost contact.

Eight days ago, when Liu Weidong got into the car, the driver of the van was most likely Jia Pengfei himself.

Jia Pengfei is dead now, three days ago.

If the driver who drove Liu Weidong away was Jia Pengfei, then eight days ago, Liu Weidong and Jia Pengfei passed by the place where Jia Pengfei's body was dumped after his death, the barren grassland.

What happened in the next five days?

Will the murderer be Liu Weidong?Losing contact is false, and hiding in fear of crime after murder is true?

"Don't think about it. When Junior Brother Yuan Ding comes back, let's go to the Criminal Investigation Brigade to have a look. Jia Pengfei's wife should have arrived." Jin Xu said calmly.

He just wrote a note to Yuan Ding, asking Yuan Ding to go to the logistics department to borrow cotton clothes.

"Why are you so calm?" Shang Yang said speechlessly, "There have been zero criminal cases in your jurisdiction for a few years, and a big one came as soon as you came here. Are you not at all good?"

Jin Xu said, "Why not? I was screaming in my heart, louder than you when you saw a big mouse."

Shang Yang: "..."

"Are you still afraid of mice?" Jin Xu asked.

Shang Yang lashed out at him angrily: "I'm afraid it's none of your business! Is now the time to talk about that?"

Jin Xu sat leaning at the table with his trouser pockets in his pockets, and said, "The incident has already happened, and being nervous is useless to solve the case. As a leader, how can you pretend that your skills are not as good as mine? If you panic, you will lose your promotion, understand?" ?”

Shang Yang: "..."

Jin Xu said seriously: "Otherwise, why do you think I was promoted so quickly? It's not because I'm pretending to be good."

Shang Yang: "..."

Yuan Ding, who was wearing a police padded jacket, knocked on the door of Deputy Bureau Jin and said, "I'm done! How are you brothers?"

Shang Yang and Jin Xu came out one after the other.

Shang Yang said: "It's not very good."

Jin Xu said, "I'm fine."

Yuan Ding: "..."

Former North Branch Criminal Investigation Brigade.

The wife of the deceased, Jia Pengfei, came to identify the body and reconfirmed the identity of the deceased. The criminal police made a family statement for her.

According to her, because Jia Pengfei abused her for a long time, the relationship between the couple was not good. After she was beaten last month, she took her six-year-old child back to her natal home. Earlier this month, during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, Jia Pengfei went to her natal home to see Once, the child gave some snacks and toys for the child to play with, but he never saw or called again.

Domestic violence and bad relationship between husband and wife, the cadres of the village committee also revealed this situation yesterday, it is true.

The woman didn't feel sad about Jia Pengfei's death, she looked relieved at last.

"I wanted to get a divorce a long time ago, but he refused. As soon as he said divorce, he beat me to death. Then he would pretend to kneel at the head of the village not to let me go, and promised that there would be no next time. My parents were still facing me at first. I scolded him, and then I stopped talking to me. I didn’t have a good time when I went back to my mother’s house. My sister-in-law and my younger brother and sister were served by me. It’s better than waiting to be beaten to death at Jia Pengfei’s house. , I said he was going to beat me to death, and my dad said that I did it myself. If I don’t take good care of the man, I will go home and torment the two old men. It’s good that Jia Pengfei is dead. If he doesn’t die, then I will die. "

The whole room of policemen fell silent.

Jin Xu took out Liu Weidong's photo and asked, "Have you seen this man?"

Jia's wife looked at it and said, "Yes, Jia Pengfei called him Brother Dong. I don't know what his full name is."

Jin Xu and Li Jie exchanged glances, and Li Jie continued to ask, "What's the relationship between Jia Pengfei and him? How many times have you met him? Where are they?"

Jia's Wife: "I don't know, I seem to know each other by playing mahjong. I met him twice. Once at home, Jia Pengfei took him home for a drink and dinner in the middle of the night, and woke me up in the middle of the night to cook for them. Another time in the town, Jia Pengfei played cards. , asked me to send him money, this brother Dong is also at the poker table."

Li Jie said, "I've only seen it twice, how can you recognize it just by looking at the photo?"

Jia's Wife: "It all happened in the last one or two months. My memory is not that bad."

She thought about it again and said: "The second time was last month. When we met in the chess and card room, Jia Pengfei thought I was going slowly and slapped me twice. Brother Dong's wife is a good person. She came out to protect me and ruthlessly He scolded Jia Pengfei hard. Jia Pengfei was a little afraid of others. The sister-in-law scolded him like a dog. Mother's house."

Shang Yang thought, where did Liu Weidong get his "wife"?Is it his ex-wife, female doctor Chen Jing?Or the female flower shop owner who lent him 7 yuan?

Jin Xu, who was listening, obviously thought of this question too. He flipped through someone's circle of friends on his mobile phone, and finally clicked on a photo to show Jia Pengfei's wife.

"Are you talking about this woman?" Jin Xu asked.

"No." Mrs. Jia said.

After asking the necessary questions, Li Jie took her out and had to go through the relevant procedures.

Shang Yang asked Jin Xu: "Did you show her the picture of Chen Jing?"

Jin Xu said while sending a message: "I don't know the girl in the flower shop."

Shang Yang said: "You and Liu Weidong, the ex-wife, have a good relationship with the police and the public, and you even added WeChat friends."

Jin Xu glanced at him out of the corner of his eyes and said, "Boss, adding a girl's WeChat account can't be regarded as a matter of style, right? Unless you haven't added any of them."

Shang Yang said: "I have never added the WeChat of the female crowd."

"Does it mean that female police officers have added a lot?" Jin Xu narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I prefer police women?"

Shang Yang felt the malice in his words, so he replied not too peacefully: "Who wouldn't like police flowers?"

Jin Xu suddenly smiled and said, "That's true."

Shang Yang didn't understand the meaning of his smile.

His cell phone vibrated, and when he saw it, he immediately got up and walked outside again.Shang Yang didn't know why, so he had no choice but to follow.

After coming out, Jin Xu stopped Li Jie who was with the family members of the deceased from a distance, strode over, and showed Jia Pengfei's wife a photo to identify him.

It was a photo of the female owner of the flower shop that he had just asked a colleague to send over.

Jia's wife nodded and said, "Yes, that's her."

Jin Xu asked: "How do you know she is Brother Dong's wife? They introduced it themselves?"

Jia's wife said: "There is no introduction. I saw that they both wore the same ring with diamonds on it. Isn't that a wedding ring?"

In the courtyard of the Criminal Investigation Brigade.

Yuan Ding now has cotton clothes to wear, and it's not cold anymore. He was standing and chatting with an old criminal policeman in the corridor, nodding like a chicken pecking rice while chatting, with a look of knowledge on his face.

Seeing the brothers coming out from inside, they greeted them and asked, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

He whispered again: "Did that woman and Liu Weidong join forces to kill her husband?"

Shang Yang: "...what are you talking about?"

Yuan Ding said: "She has been subjected to domestic violence for a long time, she couldn't bear it, and killed her husband in anger. There are many such cases. The senior just told me a lot."

He turned around and wanted to point out the old criminal policeman, but when he saw the deputy director coming, he knew it was not advisable to go to work and ran away.

Shang Yang said in embarrassment: "I brought you to the criminal investigation team to let you listen to the story meeting?"

"Then I don't look like the director. Your level is enough. I can handle cases with Brother Jin. I'm a low-level intern. What's the difference between handling cases and listening to stories?" Yuan Ding had no official position during the internship period. Naturally, he does not have the qualifications for administrative law enforcement, so he can only follow the show.

"Go back by yourself." Shang Yang said, "I let you go yesterday, but you insist on staying to see if you've seen enough and don't leave? Do you still want to become a regular?"

He was also doing it for Yuan Ding's benefit. He had holidays, but Yuan Ding didn't. The internship in their unit was not a formality, and many intern files were returned every year.

But what he said was really not gentle.

Jin Xu interjected: "Director Shang, you are too heartless."

Yuan Ding immediately agreed with his eyes.

Jin Xu said: "You should book a ticket for Junior Brother and let him go."

Yuan Ding clasped his fists angrily: "The two senior brothers are really a perfect match, they should be together for a hundred years."

Shang Yang heard it funny, and said sarcastically, "Isn't it better that you wish the two of us to have a son soon?"

Jin Xu turned his back and walked away.Go talk to Li Jie.

"At the earliest, there is only a flight ticket from the provincial capital to Beijing tomorrow night." Shang Yang opened the ticket booking app and looked at it, "I bought it for you? Go back and behave well, don't embarrass me."

Yuan Ding said, "Okay."

Shang Yang booked the ticket, Yuan Ding said: "Director, do you feel that Brother Jin is a little...that?"

Shang Yang said, "Which one?"

"It's just..." Yuan Ding was not sure, and he didn't dare to say it clearly, for fear of being beaten, he said, "I think he likes to tease you very much."

Shang Yang didn't take it seriously, and said: "You don't have much contact with the grassroots. It's a common problem for police officers. After staying at the grassroots for a long time, you spend all day trivial matters. If you don't pass the time with a few dirty words, you will feel uncomfortable all over."

Yuan Ding thought that if you say yes, don't blame me for not reminding you in the future.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, don't think about it, your brother Jin had a girlfriend in college." Shang Yang sent the screenshot of the flight to Yuan Ding.

"Thank you, Director." Yuan Ding asked again, "Is his girlfriend also from the OUHK?"

Shang Yang said: "For things that have nothing to do with you, ask less and inquire less, and you will suffer less, remember?"

After chatting with Li Jie, Jin Xu came over and called them both: "Let's go."

"Where are you going?" Shang Yang asked.

He casually looked in the direction where Jin Xu came out, and Li Jie was inside, smiling and waving goodbye to him from a distance, his attitude towards him was very friendly, obviously much more enthusiastic than when we met just now.Maybe it was Jin Xu who told him that he was "from above"?

He also waved to Li Jie with a smile, and followed Jin Xu, Yuan Ding and the others into the police car.

Jin Xu started the car and explained to Shang Yang: "Jia Pengfei's body throwing case and Liu Weidong's disappearance case, the two cases are merged and investigated together."

Shang Yang said: "It should. You discuss with your master for a long time, how are you going to investigate?"

"Investigate step by step. First, go meet Liu Weidong's mistress, the female owner of the flower shop." Jin Xu said, "When Zhang Zhiming approached her, she didn't tell the truth, which is a bit interesting."