traces of all things

"I'm so stupid, really." Lu Zheng seemed to be infected by Wei Xiongfeng, and hurried back: "Oh, really, why didn't I think of it!"

Wei Xiongfeng followed closely behind Lu Zheng, his two short legs chasing him to the back of his head: "Oh, team leader, wait for me—"

"Leader Lu, what's going on?" Xue Yiwei also followed, asking in a daze.

Lu Zheng nodded, motioned for a few younger brothers to come with him, and then pushed open a door that said "Professional Office for Document Inspection".

"Here, look at these two handwritings."

As Lu Zheng said, he opened the inspirational chicken soup book that he took out from Jiang Yixiang's handbag earlier, and then put together the group photo of the two that he got from Han Lei.

"Look at the character '祝'. The starting point of this point is relatively strong. The stroke next to the sign on the left is in the shape of an upward hook, and the word on the right is written in an inverted triangle—although the size is different, but the characteristics are exactly the same. The two characters 'Zhu' came from one person!"

Speaking of this, Lu Zheng was a little excited, and paced around the office: "At that time, I saw that this book was relatively old, and Han Lei said that it was given to her by Jiang Yixiang's former teacher. I didn’t think about it because it was a very important book, thinking that she just carried it with her and read it from time to time.”

"But in fact, the words 'I wish you a bright future' on the title page of this book were not words given to Jiang Yixiang by her teacher back then, so the question arises, why did she write such a sentence on the title page of her cherished book?" ?”

Speaking of this, Xue Yiwei's eyes lit up, he understood immediately, and hurriedly replied: "I want to give it away!"

"Yes!" Lu Zheng patted him on the shoulder: "She brought this book with her to give it to others. This book means a lot to her, so what kind of person will receive Jiang Yixiang's book?" What about the ones blessed with 'Bright Future'?"

Wei Xiongfeng was blessed at this moment.

"student……"

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With this clue, many suspicious details that seemed inconspicuous before resurfaced before Lu Zheng's eyes.

Why is Jia Kaijie always wandering around while the police are handling cases with so much preoccupation?Why did he care to ask Mr. Jiang how he died?Why did the four of them act so strangely when identifying the so-called "man in white and black pants"?

Lu Zheng intuitively felt that there must be something else behind this.

After listening to Lu Zheng's report, Geng Zhizhong pondered for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly: "Let's talk to that kid Jia Kaijie again."

Among the four children with weird behaviors, Jia Kaijie seems to be the simplest at present, and according to Lu Zheng and Geng Zhizhong's speculation, Jia Kaijie is very likely to be the recipient of the book, and Geng Zhizhong, as an old fritter, is quite accurate Hardly found a breakthrough point.

Seeing Lu Zheng and the others again, Jia Kaijie seemed a little at a loss. He seemed to be having a hard time these days, and his chubby little face was a little thinner. At first glance, he felt that the child was suffering some kind of inner torment.

"Kaijie, we meet again." Geng Zhizhong also has a daughter at home. Although he is younger than Jia Kaijie, it is difficult to deal with children. He kindly invited Jia Kaijie to sit down and chatted with him about daily chores. Under his conscious guidance, Jia Kaijie became more relaxed.

"By the way, Kaijie, uncle heard a very interesting story a while ago, would you like to listen to it?" Geng Zhizhong asked lovingly with a smile on his face.

Jia Kaijie seemed to realize something, but his eyes were still a little confused. After hesitating for a while, he nodded obediently.

"Once upon a time, there was a small mountain village. There was a little girl in the village. She had never seen the outside world. There was a younger brother in her family. Dad liked her younger brother and didn't like her. She had to do a lot of housework since she was a child. Hard days." Geng Zhizhong really began to tell a seemingly irrelevant story: "She doesn't like to stay at home, but she likes to go to school, because in school, she is the best in the class. She is a smart student who learns everything very quickly. Teachers and classmates like her very much. Soon, she graduated from junior high school. At this time, as the student with the best grades in the whole grade, she is very hopeful to be admitted to the high school in the town It's just that her father thought it was useless for a girl to study, so he asked her to drop out of school and go home to work to support her younger brother."

"This little girl didn't want to. She still wanted to get out of this small mountain village to see the outside world and live a better life, so she didn't listen to her father. With the support of a kind teacher, she finished high school. She was even admitted to university, and the day before she went to university, the good teacher who has always supported her gave her a book, wishing her a new and better life from now on.”

"The little girl is very grateful to her teacher, so she chose to become a teacher after finishing college. It's just that she didn't expect her students to have no interest in studying hard. Other colleagues also persuaded her, These children read books just to avoid blindness, so they can teach them as they please. But the little girl doesn’t believe it, she thinks that reading has changed her, so she should help these children and let them master their own in this way destiny."

When it came to this, Jia Kaijie seemed a little restless.

"But her students didn't like her being so strict, and she also felt very discouraged, until one day, a student came to her and said that she wanted to talk to her about the middle school, high school, and university entrance exams. She felt that I am very happy and proud of this student with such ambition,”

Jia Kaijie's face had turned pale, his lips were trembling, and his mood fluctuated violently.

"Then, in order to encourage this student, this little girl took out the book that she had always cherished, which was given to her by a kind teacher back then, and wrote down the best wishes for that student on the title page, took it with her, and went to the appointment with the student. place……"

"Stop it!" Jia Kaijie stood up suddenly, covered his ears tightly with both hands, and shook his head vigorously, tears splashing: "Stop it!"

He stood up and ran two steps before squatting down, wailing heart-piercingly.

"I was wrong! I'm sorry Mr. Jiang! Uncle policeman, I was wrong! Take me away..."

With a look of pity on his face, Geng Zhizhong stepped forward to help Jia Kaijie, and handed him a book: "Kaijie, do you want to read it? This is a gift prepared by Mr. Jiang for you."

With tears in his eyes, Jia Kaijie took the yellowed book in Geng Zhizhong's hand with sobs, and opened the first page.

It reads in delicate handwriting: "I wish you a bright future!"

The little boy's tears suddenly fell on the title page of the book.

Jia Kaijie said everything he knew.

It turned out that the origin of all this turned out to be a prank by several children.

"Jiang Pengyun and the others hate Teacher Jiang very much. Usually they skip classes and other teachers don't care. Only Teacher Jiang must make up for them. He also asks them to do their homework and make up for their homework. They always ask them to go to the office to talk, especially Jiang Pengyun. I've always wanted to play tricks on Teacher Jiang." Jia Kaijie moaned and wiped his tears: "Then Luan Kang and Shan Jianming in our dormitory only listened to Jiang Pengyun, and they asked me to call Teacher Jiang out. Halo stays on Xiaocang Mountain for one night, because Xiaocang Mountain is haunted by ghosts, they want to scare Teacher Jiang. If I don’t go, it will be me instead, and I will be tied up on the mountain for one night.”

"I was afraid of them. In the end, I had no choice. I went to Teacher Jiang and said that I wanted to ask the teacher about his studies. The teacher happily agreed. I said that I was afraid that my classmates would see the joke and I would flatter the teacher. I asked the teacher if he could go to Xiaocang Mountain during the meal, and Teacher Jiang agreed." Jia Kaijie started crying again when he said this, his round face like a meat bun wrinkled into a ball: "Then Jiang Pengyun asked me to give them a meal on the mountainside." Let the wind go, after Mr. Jiang went up for a while, Jiang Pengyun and the others came down. I asked Mr. Jiang how he was, and Jiang Pengyun said that he passed out, so we walked down the mountain. Halfway through, we saw that strange person in the woods , very guilty and scared, so I ran down the mountain and went back to school."

"Later, Teacher Jiang didn't go back to school the next day. I was panicked and didn't dare to go back to see it. After two days of fear, they told me that Teacher Jiang had died on the mountain..." Jia Kaijie turned pale when he said this: "We We discussed with each other, not to tell others about our visit to Xiaocang Mountain and our appointment with Mr. Jiang, because Jiang Pengyun said that if people found out, they would think that Mr. Jiang was killed by us..."

"So the man in the white clothes and black pants is true?" Lu Zheng asked, "Did you ride Teacher Jiang's bicycle away when you left?"

Jia Kaijie shook his head like a rattle: "No."

"After you go back, have you all gone back to the dormitory?"

"No." Jia Kaijie said: "I was scared, so I went back to the dormitory. Jiang Pengyun and the others went back to the dormitory and left again, but they usually don't take me to play, so I don't know where they went."

After listening to Jia Kaijie's description, Lu Zheng frowned thoughtfully.

Jia Kaijie was a child, so he didn't think there was anything unusual about their classmates during this process, but Lu Zheng himself was a criminal policeman, so it was easy for him to discover some suspicious points in the detection process.

For example, when identifying whether Mag was the suspicious person in white clothes and black trousers, Lu Zheng faintly felt that there was something wrong with the performance of those children.

Jia Kaijie described that they stared at the suspicious person for several seconds, so they should have a deep impression of the person's physical characteristics, which can be seen from the fact that he shook his head and said no when he saw Mag.But after Jiang Pengyun and the others came over, Jiang Pengyun, who was dominant among the three children, seemed to be vaguely trying to imply that Jia Kaijie had mistaken him.

Like...he really wanted Mag to be the murderer.

Is there any hidden secret in this?