night traveler

Feng visited the residents near the place where the street children appeared, and the residents had different opinions.

"It was about ten years ago, I can't remember clearly, there seemed to be several children, I don't know where they came from!"

"Probably, seven or eight years ago, eh... No, no, it should be nine years ago, yes! It was nine years ago!"

"Well... At that time, a child came to ask me for something to eat. Seeing that he was pitiful, I gave him an apple. Later, when he came to eat again, I asked him if he He was abducted by human traffickers. The child told me that he was with several children and ran away."

"I saw a group of vagrants robbing a little girl before. Alas, that's the case with children who have no one to raise them. Why do I remember... It seems that a man asked me about this before."

"A lot of things happened in the neighborhood in those few years! There was a car accident, and I heard that a girl died. After that, several children who were begging died... No, I didn't see it However, I heard what Auntie said."

"I was scared to death! I drove my daughter to and from school. Huh? A child? It seems that I gave food to a homeless child. I don't know his name."

"I've seen that kid two or three times. What did he say his name was...I can't remember exactly."

"I have a younger brother in my family, who was raised by me alone. I think that boy is quite similar to my younger brother, and I often give him some cakes. Then something happened, and the child never came to the store again. I am worried that he was killed. Dead... Oh, uncle, you don't have to praise me, I just need to lift a finger."

"Are you a policeman? Hey, let me tell you, those kids are not a good thing. At that time, we had a little girl who was chased by them and was killed by a truck! What I said was It's true, it's true!"

These are almost the end.Hu Yafeng wrote down the records in the recorder one by one and sorted them together.

The scene of the crime is now a no man's land waiting to be demolished.Except for a few shops and a few old residents who are unwilling to move out, not many people live there.Therefore, there is very little useful information that can be obtained.

Ten children with no names and unknown origins lay quietly in the ground, waiting for him to dig the truth out of the grave, but the dead can't speak.Hu Yafeng suddenly felt very confused.

"What are you doing?" Chang Hao slapped him on the shoulder, "What is this?"

"The case from eight years ago. I always feel wrong."

"You have a stubborn temper." Chang Hao grinned.The director of the bureau at that time was promoted not long after, and the old captain left Yucheng after another three or four years. [Take a good look at that kid Hu Yafeng, that kid is really amazing if he takes it seriously. ], the old captain patted Chang Hao on the shoulder before leaving.In fact, Chang Hao is also very unwilling, but time waits for no one, the case that has been doubtful in his heart has been buried in the dust, and now only some fragments of the case that have been taken out are mixed in the dust.It's hard to lose sight of the original appearance.

"Screen out the useful information. Go to the archives to find the file. I remember there are pictures of the scene. You can cut out the face image of the victim and print it out, and show it to the nearby residents. Maybe you can get a seat."

"Thank you, Brother Chang." Hu Yafeng felt motivated.

Look carefully, in the photos of the scene of the crime, there are still many old scars on the horribly destroyed corpses.Hu Yafeng suddenly had an idea: Maybe these children escaped from human traffickers after being abused?

"Don't easily turn yourself into a blind corner, it's easy to make mistakes." Chang Hao reminded him.

"Then if these children were together, where would they come from? A family dedicated to abusing? There can't be such a big family, unless..." The answer that was about to come out was a bit unconvincing, an orphanage? ?

"I don't rule out the possibility of an orphanage." Chang Hao said, "Last year I saw a scandal about an orphanage on the Internet."

"But there are three orphanages in Yucheng, how can I find them?"

"You are a policeman, you idiot. Hu Yafeng, if you don't know how to think this way, you will use your brain too much, right? Can't you hear other people telling the truth or lying?"

"oh oh."

The last Yude Orphanage I came to was a relatively large one, and the dean here had received an honorary certificate of outstanding citizen issued by the mayor himself.But Hu Yafeng felt that there seemed to be more suspicion here.First of all, this place gave him an uncomfortable feeling, and secondly, the shrewd 56-year-old dean always avoided the topic and never answered his questions directly.When he took out the picture of the victim's face at the scene of the crime eight years ago, the dean's expression was abnormal for a moment.

But nothing came out of the shrewd old woman's mouth.After that, Hu Yafeng gave up the questioning and went to the closed backyard.There is a dry well, surrounded by overgrown weeds, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling of coldness.The other corners of the courtyard are also dilapidated and lifeless.

He left quietly, taking three files from the reference room of the orphanage.

The author has something to say: This chapter took a long time to write.

Ok, I admit I'm lazy.

Sixth night

"You brat is too courageous." Chang Hao was dumbfounded. "You're a policeman, hello, what's going on?"

"Of course it came out along the way." Hu Yafeng smiled ruffiantly, shaking the three files triumphantly. "That woman is an old vixen, how can I pry her mouth open without finding evidence?"

"Shun's other name is Stealing." Chang Hao was serious, he didn't want Hu Yafeng to be found out about the secret investigation.

"She won't find out, and she won't call the police if she finds out. Because she has ghosts in her heart, she is hiding something, and she is very worried about being found out. I think she will keep silent for the sake of her personal reputation."

"What clues does the file provide?"

"Residents near the scene of the crime eight years ago provided different dates. In the end, I determined that it was [-] to [-] years ago, which means that the murdered child appeared in the old city about a year before the murder. Yude The head of the orphanage, Yin Hongyu, has a good social reputation and has no mental or physical diseases. I think she is unlikely to be a child abuser. She is cautious, but not to protect her own safety, more like to maintain vanity. "

"So she's not a suspect?

"Then do you think she has no chance of committing the crime at all?"

"Well, she doesn't look like that."

"Hu Yafeng, I know your intuition is very accurate, but you can't rely on speculation. Now you have deviated from the original direction of the investigation. In the murder case, who is on your suspect list?"

"The nurse in the orphanage, Yin Hongyu, is a dead homeless man, or a pervert hidden among ordinary people. From [-] to [-] years ago, there were [-] nurses in the Yude Welfare Institute, and ten of them were female nurses who took care of Children, a female care worker took care of [-] children, and the children basically only had contact with them. Of those who were working at the time, six are still in the orphanage. The rest have left. At the same time that street children appeared on the street No nurse left the orphanage during the period."

"If the children in this orphanage escaped, and then Yin Hongyu kept silent in order to conceal the fact that the children were abused by the nurses, it would make sense. So is the nurse who abused the children one person, or several? Are they still alive? Are you in an orphanage?"

"I think there should be only one. Three of the four people who left the orphanage are still in Yucheng, working in different units. One has been missing since seven years ago and has been confirmed dead. It just so happened Yes, this female nurse is a foreigner, single, and has not yet settled down in the local area. She came to Yude Welfare Institute three years before the murder.

If this previous assumption holds, why did it take the children more than a year to escape after being abused?This question seems unimportant.But he got stuck in the case like a fishbone in his throat.

Hu Yafeng felt that he had really turned into a dead end this time, but something in his mind told him to understand the matter thoroughly.It doesn't matter if the murderer is the missing female nurse, the pious director of the orphanage, a dead homeless man, or even an ordinary person they never thought of.He just wanted to know the ins and outs of the case.

"Perhaps you can go to the Yude Welfare Institute again and test Yin Hongyu with the results you have deduced so far. Maybe you can pry her open." Chang Hao suggested. "You'd better take a break now. If you really get into a dead corner, the real murderer will be freed even more."

That's right, Hu Yafeng stacked the files together and sorted them out.He was going to the orphanage again, there must be some secrets in that cold place.

Aqi was lying motionless on the ground, and nurse Feng had a hideous expression on his face, and his thick arms were waving wildly in the air, as if he was going crazy.Everyone didn't dare to approach her, afraid that they would be the next one, so they hugged each other tightly and shivered in the corner.

Qi Chu who was lying on the bed slowly lifted the quilt and stood up, hugging the heavy vase on the table. ． ． ． ． ．

"Huh, huh—" Qi Chu stared blankly at the roof, gasping for breath.This time it wasn't the cold and damp well in the backyard of the orphanage, but it reminded him of things from a long time ago.

Everyone hated nurse Feng and the dean.Only Guard Feng would let them fetch water from the abandoned well in the backyard, whip them at night, and beat them severely for a small mistake.And the dean told them that if they talked about being beaten, they would no longer be able to communicate with other people.