edge walking

Longyi Mountain is located behind Fengyi Mountain. It is slightly higher than Fengyi Mountain in altitude. The mountains are long and long. From a distance, it looks like holding Fengyi Mountain in your arms. Legend has it that it was transformed by a couple.Cuixi River originates in the northwest of Longyi Mountain, bypasses Fengyi Mountain and flows eastward, converging with the waterfall river. Viewed from a height, it looks like a ribbon entangles the two mountains.The stream is clear and the fish are so plump. People who are good at fishing often invite them to take tents and tools to fish here for leisure.

After parking the car outside the mountain, Gu Guoqiang looked at his watch. It was 5:45 p.m., and he estimated that it would take about an hour and a half to reach Lao Gao's fishing place. Fortunately, it was still dark.I called Lao Gao and told him that he had already started to enter the mountain.

Lao Gao’s fishing spot is Cuixi Huanzutai. Huanzutai is a deep pool. It is said that it is the place where husbands wash their wives’ feet. The pool is deep and the fish are fat. preferred place.

Gu Guoqiang has been to Huanzutai once or twice before, and he is familiar with the road. It will take some time for those who come here for the first time to find the road.

When I arrived at Huanzutai, I looked at my watch. It was 7:5, 10 minutes earlier than expected.From a distance, I saw Lao Gao sitting by the stream, driving three fishing rods in front of him, and a tent was set up in the open space behind. In front of the tent was a small table, reclining chairs, backpack, a kettle, cups and some food on the table, and beside the table was a small A stove with a kettle on it.Old Gao, things are well prepared, Gu Guoqiang thought.Raise your voice and call:

"Old Gao! Old Gao! The wine is here!"

Lao Gao kept his head down and didn't answer, fell asleep?Gu Guoqiang thought, walked over, patted Lao Gao on the shoulder, and said, "The fish is hooked!"

With this beat, Lao Gao fell down. At first glance, Lao Gao's chest was covered with blood, and even the grass in front of him was spattered with spray-like blood.He quickly checked Lao Gao's breathing and pulse, they were gone, his body was still hot, there was a very thin knife mark on the artery in his neck, and blood was still gushing out.

This just happened. Gu Guoqiang quickly looked around and chased after the grass that had been trampled on the right side.The forest was extremely quiet, and there were no traces of broken branches. I searched around in vain, and returned to the scene without any suspicious things.

Immediately called Su Mutian, and roughly talked about the situation and location.

I touched Lao Gao's neck temperature. Lao Gao was wearing a thin sweater and a waterproof jacket. The temperature at the scene was about 20 degrees. After Lao Gao died, his body temperature dropped by about 0.7 degrees per hour, which means that Lao Gao was attacked. The time of death was probably within an hour. He had talked with Lao Gao on the phone 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. The person who killed Lao Gao was already in the woods before he came.

Lao Gao's mobile phone, watch, and wallet are all there. It's not robbery. Who wants Lao Gao's life?

After careful inspection of the wound, the wound was about 3 cm long, thin and deep, and the location of the artery was fatal, clean and professional, and the murder weapon should be a sharp blade or a scalpel.

Who killed Lao Gao?Why did you kill Lao Gao?

Gu Guoqiang lit a cigarette and sat down on a rock by the river. Just when he was looking for Lao Gao, the purpose of looking for Lao Gao was to understand the suspected "White Requiem" case ten years ago. Could it be related to this case? related?

Besides him and Zhang Jian, no, Zhang Jian didn't know that he was looking for Lao Gao, so who would know that he would look for Lao Gao?

Gu Guoqiang carefully recalled all the journeys to Huanzutai after meeting Zhang Jian. It took about 40 minutes to get out of the "Buyu" coffee, go to the supermarket and fishing gear shop, and it took an hour and a half to drive outside the mountain. One hour two 10 minutes.

Lame Boss?Gu Guoqiang suddenly remembered that the phone call with Lao Gao was in a cafe.I looked at my watch, it was 7:25, if it was this person, if that person left immediately after he left the cafe, and took advantage of the time difference when he was shopping to get here first, then he should not be able to return to the store now.

Immediately called Xue Nan, Xue Nan's company was the closest to the "Buyu" coffee, and asked him to find someone to go and see if the lame boss was in the store.

"Captain Gu? Is there something wrong?" Xue Nan was obviously surprised by Gu Guoqiang's call.

"Boss Xue, something is wrong..."

"Hey, brother Qiang! Tell me something, don't call Xue Nan casually." The caller changed, and there was an argument:

"Why did you steal my phone..."

"I'll answer these calls for you."

"Why do you pick it up for me and return it to me?"

"I'm responsible for you."

"It's Captain Gu, not an outsider."

"I want to pick up his ones even more. He must be up to no good. I'm afraid he will seduce you."

"Yuan Shan! You bastard!"

Gu Guoqiang: "...Hey! Hey! Yuan Shan, business!"

"Brother Qiang, what's the matter?"

"Go to the Silent Café right now to see if the boss is there. Check the whereabouts of the boss from 3:[-] p.m. to now, right away!"

"Yes, Brother Qiang, what's the matter?"

"Come back and talk about it."

Su Mutian finally arrived with the criminal investigators, Zhang Jian half supported Shen Bai, and lifted the branches blocking the way in front of him, Huang Jing and a few brothers, and finally Chu Yue.

Gu Guoqiang nodded to Chu Yue, and began to talk to Su Mutian and the others about the situation at the scene.Chu Yue stood far away, staring blankly at Gu Guoqiang, feeling like he hadn't seen him for a long time, how is he?how is he?There is no expression on his face, is he still blaming me?Chu Yue didn't dare to say that he went to Gu Guoqiang's house to watch secretly almost every night, but he didn't see Gu Guoqiang either.Stupid and stupid, I forgot what I was doing here.

Zhang Jian couldn't stand it anymore, so he came over to cheer him up: "The scene is being investigated."

After Gu Guoqiang introduced the situation, he led everyone along the trampled grass to the woods.

Hearing Shen Bai's exclamation, looking back, the pool under the Huanzu stage suddenly started to form a vortex in the middle, and the vortex became bigger and faster, and within a few minutes, it was already about a foot above the water surface , spinning rapidly, the waves thrown out have already hit everyone.

At the same time, the sky became darker and darker, and the wind picked up. Zhang Jian ran to the shore in a few steps, put his arms around Shen Bai's shoulders, and backed away. After a thunderstorm, heavy rain poured down.The vortex in the pool was getting higher and higher, spinning and rushing towards the shore, everyone panicked and hid back.Chu Yue stared blankly at this wonderful scene, not knowing where he was for a moment.

In a daze, Chu Yue felt an arm tightly grasping him, and when he pulled it, he felt that he was in a firm embrace, and there was a familiar voice beside his ear:

"Why are you in a daze! Hide!"

There was a big rock on the left side of the woods. Everyone pulled and tugged and finally got behind the rock. They saw the vortex rushing towards the woods under the strong wind, knocking down several big trees alive, and the small stones rolled up by the vortex were sharp. After a few minutes, the wind gradually subsided, the vortex fell, the water was everywhere, and the rain stopped, only the sky was still cloudy.

Everyone stared at this scene dumbfounded, with lingering fears in their hearts. If they hadn't escaped quickly just now, they would be like those trees, and they didn't know if they were alive or not.

"Are you okay?" The deep voice in his ear made Chu Yue wake up all of a sudden, only to realize that Gu Guoqiang was tightly protecting him in his arms.

Just as he was about to say something, Gu Guoqiang pushed him away, shook his clothes and stood up.Chu Yue also stood up blankly, trying his best to think about the temperature, looking at the gravel around him, wondering if that person was injured or not.

Zhang Jian checked Shen Bai over and over again, Shen Bai was in a daze with Chu Yue with his pale face.

The scene was completely destroyed. Fortunately, Gu Guoqiang had inspected it before, and he and Su Mutian were arranging for everyone to clean up the scene.

Back in the team, Gu Guoqiang went straight to take notes. Chu Yue kept standing in the corridor, waiting for him to say something. Shang Jing visited him several times, but didn’t know what to say, so she just patted him and sighed. tone.

After an unknown amount of time, Gu Guoqiang, Su Mutian, Zhang Jian, and Huang Jing came out. They were a little surprised to see him standing at the door, and everyone who was sensible left one after another. Chu Yue just looked at him like that.Gu Guoqiang came over, frowned, and said softly:

"Go and change quickly, you'll catch a cold later."

"Uh......"

Gu Guoqiang rubbed his wet hair, walked forward without speaking.

"You...you..." Chu Yue suddenly felt sore eyes, he had a lot to say, but he couldn't say a word, anxious and panicked, but the man walked away.

Back in the car, Gu Guoqiang let out a long breath, lit a cigarette and took two deep puffs. The foolish boy's look of worrying about gain and loss made him feel pain in his heart. Smelly, carefree look, has there ever been such a look?Why not make him feel bad, but what can he do?The matter of Lao Gao made him even more unable to bring this silly boy into it.

When the phone rang, Gu Guoqiang took a deep breath, adjusted his mood and picked up the phone.

"Brother Qiang, I understand. The owner of the coffee shop has been roasting coffee beans in the back hall of the shop this afternoon. There were no customers in the afternoon. When I went, there was a couple of young people sitting outside who didn't order. I asked, and they said it was probably The boss is frying coffee beans, just wait a moment, this happened before, the boss will come out as soon as he finishes frying, and if he can’t wait for them, he will leave by himself.”

"Roasting coffee beans? How long does that take?"

"It's hard to say. You know that the uniqueness of this cafe is that the old man frys and grinds the beans manually. This taste is different from the machine-fried beans. During the frying process, according to different tastes, you must master the heat and The degree of frying is different, and the taste is different according to the degree. After frying, there will be a series of cooling and cooling procedures. Allow people to watch."

"Then how can you be sure that he is really frying beans?"

"Every time he roasts coffee beans, he will put a sign on the bar counter, and the very familiar customers will make coffee by themselves before they can wait, and then put the money on the counter. When I went with Xue Nan, I still smelled the aroma Well, we waited until he came out and asked him, but he just nodded, not sure if he was dumb, and Xue Nan also said that he hadn't heard him speak. Brother Qiang, what's the matter?"

"Okay, it's fine for now."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Guoqiang couldn't help laughing, how could he think of that crippled old man?Not to mention his lameness, even if he could fly, the time from when he left the cafe to killing people at the Huanzutai, and then back to the shop was too late.

Later, there were some rumors secretly among the market. Some said that the sudden heavy wind and rain at Huanzutai was because people killed people there and offended the mountain gods. It is a climate phenomenon caused by the collision of air currents...... Anyway, for a long time, no one went fishing in Huanzutai anymore.

In the next few case analysis meetings, Chu Yue happened to be sent to the field, and the only clue to the Huanzutai case was Gu Guoqiang's statement.

Sometimes Chu Yue would see Zhang Jian come out of the conference room with a blushing face angrily and ask Shang Jing, but Shang Jing didn't know anything.

During these days, Chu Yue didn't know how he lived, all kinds of gossip seemed to subside gradually, and everything returned to calm, but he felt that his colleagues were more polite to him, and kept him at a respectful distance.

I went to the cafeteria that day, took a meal, and found a corner to eat quietly behind everyone's back. The scene of running around picking meat with chopsticks as soon as I entered the cafeteria seemed to be a long time ago.I heard someone behind me say:

"Has the rich man left yet?"

"Yeah, I'm really thick-skinned, I'm ashamed to hang on to him after causing Gu Dui to be like that."

"Gu Dui is too unlucky. How could he be gay? If he is also a rich man, look at his appearance. He has delicate skin and tender flesh. He also wears perfume. It's obvious at first glance."

"Haven't you heard? She often puts on facial masks in the office, tsk tsk tsk, she's even more feminine than a woman!"

"It's disgusting to hear that he himself insists on going to stay at Dui Gu's house."

"Over the years, there have been many people who have slandered Captain Gu. Everyone knows that those criminals have spilled dirty water. Now it's all right, it's in the hands of our own people."

"That's right, look at those photos, Gu Dui is all clear, but he is blurred, I thought no one would recognize him."

"Why would he do it? Is it any good for him?"

"I think it's because if you can't pursue Dui Gu, you should destroy him. We don't handle such cases very often!"

"Then is Team Gu coming back?"

"It's hard to say, in our line of work, the most fearful thing is the issue of personal reputation."

"Alas... Captain Gu also capsized in the gutter."

Chu Yue listened silently, without realizing it, his hands were shaking all the time, every word was like a needle piercing his heart, he just suffered like this, it seemed that the more pain, the less guilt he felt.