soldiers in front

Lunch is Xiao Jiangding's fried pork with sour bamboo shoots and boiled pork slices, plus miscellaneous fish soup.Opening the lunch box, the spicy aroma immediately filled the room.

Ji Zheng quickly put down his chopsticks and pushed open the floor-to-ceiling windows in the office.He wanted to resist eating a little bit, but he broke out in sweat as soon as the chili touched his tongue.It's not that he doesn't like spicy food, but he is allergic to chili. Any spicy food may cause him to have a high fever and sweat, and the more serious result is obstructed breathing.

However, Xiao Jiang cannot be blamed for this ordering accident. Ji Zheng almost never eats at the company. He usually only works for half a day, and often leaves the company before the meal time.The reason why he stayed at the company for dinner today was that there was no one at home, and he had to meet customers in the office, so he decided to have dinner at the company temporarily.

Ji Zheng drank two glasses of water, wiped off the sweat from his forehead with a paper towel, and propped his forehead until the discomfort in his stomach gradually disappeared, then walked out of the office with two boxes of dishes, and placed them on the tables of several nurses who had dinner together , smiled and said: "I didn't touch it, I will give you extra meals."

Sister Liu, the head nurse, saw the dishes and said displeasedly: "Who ordered this dish? I don't know that Dr. Ji can't eat spicy food? He didn't ask everyone's taste before ordering the meal, how did he do it!"

Xiao Jiang was stunned with a mouthful of rice in her mouth, staring blankly at Sister Liu, then at Ji Zheng.

Ji Zheng said: "I made it myself, the food delivery person may have made a mistake." After speaking, he turned back to the office, turned around in front of the office door, and waved to Xiao Jiang.

Xiao Jiang ran over and bowed to him again and again, her neck was red from embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you can't eat spicy food."

Ji Zheng smiled and said, "I don't blame you this time, it's because I didn't remind you in advance. Can you help me buy lighter dishes next time?"

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, Doctor Ji."

Ji Zheng waved his hand, and when he opened the office door to enter, he held the doorknob and paused for a while, then turned his head and smiled at Xiao Jiang: "Then give me some of your snacks, I'll eat whatever you want."

Xiao Jiang hurriedly contributed a bag of bread and a box of cream sandwich biscuits that she hid in the drawer.Ji Zheng took it, thanked him, and went back to the office.

The bread was too dry, and the biscuits were too sweet. Ji Zheng ate a small bread, a few biscuits, and drank two glasses of water, and he was almost full.

After he finished his lunch here, his cell phone rang on time.

Min Chengzhou asked: "Is it an office building in Block D?"

"Yes, I will ask the assistant to go down and pick you up."

He opened the office door and stood at the door, calling Xiao Jiang over, and asked her to go downstairs to pick up an 'Officer Min'.

Xiao Jiang quickly led Min Chengzhou up, knocked on the door and said, "Doctor Ji, Police Officer Min is here."

Min Chengzhou walked in and visited his office curiously.

"Your office is indeed more elegant than other people's offices."

Ji Zheng was very relaxed in front of him. He took off the white coat he had been wearing all morning and hung it on the coat rack. He straightened his shirt cuffs and said with a smile, "I don't think you can see Yangchun Baixue and arty."

Min Chengzhou raised his index finger and pointed at him twice: "You underestimate me, I will invite you to the antique market some other day, and you will know how much I have in stock."

Ji Zheng smiled, raised his hand to guide the guest sofa: "Sit."

The two sat down opposite each other, with a coffee table between them.

Min Chengzhou took out his cigarette case, took out two cigarettes, and asked him, "Have you learned?"

Ji Zheng held a glass of water, crossed his legs, leaned slightly leaning against the armrest of the sofa, and said with a smile: "No."

"Don't smoke or drink, I can't imagine how you can be so self-disciplined."

"It's just a habit."

Min Chengzhou lit a cigarette, leaned back on the back of the sofa, and said, "I sneaked out from the venue to meet you, tell me, what do you want from me?"

Ji Zheng didn't want to make too many detours with him, and asked directly about a traffic accident that happened on Provincial Highway 718 four months ago.

Min Chengzhou was a little surprised: "Why do you care about this matter?"

Ji Zheng told the lie he had prepared: "A lawyer friend of mine helped Gong Haiqiang's widow, Luan Yunfeng, in a lawsuit, and occasionally chatted with him about this case."

He didn't intend to lie to Min Chengzhou, but he didn't know how to explain the bizarre incident of him talking to Xia Bingyang six years later.If you tell Min Chengzhou the truth, Min Chengzhou will definitely ask many questions that he can't figure out, so in order to save trouble, lying has become the only choice.

Min Chengzhou believed him immediately, and said, "Indeed, Luan Yunfeng has been appealing."

"why?"

"She kept saying that there was another truck at the scene of the accident, which was one of the vehicles involved in the accident. Her husband Gong Haiqiang should not be mainly responsible for Lei Honggen's death."

"Does she have evidence?"

"It's because she has no evidence, so it's difficult."

"Can you confirm that Gong Haiqiang was the one who killed Lei Honggen?"

Min Chengzhou said sternly: "I'm sure. When the car accident happened, the auxiliary police patrolling the 718 section happened to pass by and witnessed the whole process of the car accident. Gong Haiqiang tried to escape after hitting someone dead, and the auxiliary police chased after him. As a result, Gong Haiqiang had a second accident. In a car accident, the car ran off the road and Gong Haiqiang died on the spot. The assistant policeman has been held accountable and has been fired."

"Didn't you find the second truck that Luan Yunfeng was talking about?"

"No, the scene of the car accident was washed away by the heavy rain that day, and there was almost nothing left."

Ji Zheng lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said: "Can I see the file?"

Min Chengzhou asked doubtfully, "Why are you so caring?"

Ji Zheng smiled and said: "It was entrusted by others."

This is the truth.But according to Min Chengzhou, he was entrusted by a lawyer friend.

Min Chengzhou hesitated for a moment, considering that the car accident was almost transparent, there was nothing to hide, and he was unwilling to save Ji Zheng's face.He still felt a little guilty about Ji Zheng.

"Okay, I'll look for it."

He took out his mobile phone to log in to the mailbox, found the electronic version of the case file scanned by the technical team members and sent it to his mailbox, and then handed the mobile phone to Ji Zheng: "This is it."

Ji Zheng put down his teacup, took his mobile phone, and looked down from the first page.

The time of the incident was 4:15 pm on April 6th, and the process of the incident was as he had heard.He hastily flipped through the details of the incident and found two photos of the scene.

There was only one camera on Section 718, and the crime scene happened to be stuck in the edge of the camera's field of view, so only the scene of the old man who was killed was shot on the street.

It was raining heavily on April 4th. The old man in the photo had his arm broken, half of his face was bloody, and he was lying on the road. The blood under his body flowed to the low-lying roadside with the rain.

The rain was too heavy that day. Apart from the corpse, all the ruts and bloodstains on the scene were washed away by the rain, and the camera pixels were very poor. In addition, the visibility was not high during the rainstorm, which made the only scene photo appear blurry. It's like playing a thin layer of mosaic.

From the corner of his eyes, Ji Zheng saw Min Chengzhou get up and go to the window to smoke. When Min Chengzhou was not paying attention, he took a photo of the scene with his mobile phone.

Scrolling down is the confession of police assistant Xu Hui who witnessed the car accident.

Xu Hui's statement detailed the whole process of witnessing the car accident and killing Gong Haiqiang.

To put it simply, when Xu Hui was patrolling the 718 highway along the established track, he witnessed Gong Haiqiang driving a van speeding. After overtaking the police car he was driving, it collided with an old man walking on the sidewalk on the right.

At that time, the patrol car driven by Xu Hui was driving from due east to due west, and the van driven by the old man and Gong Haiqiang was also traveling from east to west. The two vehicles and one person were traveling in the same direction.

There is a barrier in the middle of the road, which is used to divide the road into two one-way streets, and also to prevent traffic accidents caused by vehicles turning around without authorization.And the isolation guardrail has a gap every [-] meters that is only for pedestrians to walk through and turn around.

The old man wanted to turn around from the gap in the isolation fence, but was hit to death by Gong Haiqiang who was speeding. Xu Hui did not give up tracking the escaped vehicle, but he did not expect that Gong Haiqiang was too fast and the road was slippery in rainy weather. The minivan driven by Gong Haiqiang rushed down the road and another car accident occurred. Gong Haiqiang died on the spot.

After taking the photo, Ji Zheng put Min Chengzhou's mobile phone on the coffee table, picked up the cup and asked casually, "Is the female corpse under the bridge hole related to this case?"

Min Chengzhou leaned against the window and smoked a cigarette: "Female corpse?"

Ji Zheng said: "Two days after the car accident, a girl's body appeared under the bridge hole. Is this a coincidence?"

Min Chengzhou forced a smile and said, "You can do it, you can't hide anything from you." He waved his hand and said, "It's two different things. The girl under the bridge died of rape|killing, and then she was dumped. But the case hasn't been resolved yet. Broken, hanging."

"Didn't the murderer be caught?"

Min Chengzhou frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "It was caught, but I didn't catch it."

Ji Zheng didn't answer, waiting for him to continue.

Min Chengzhou returned to the sofa and sat down, knocked the ashtray into the ashtray, and said: "The girl who died was called Hong Xin. The cause of death was that a military stab-shaped knife was inserted into the neck, causing blood loss and shock. She was raped before she died. After death, the body was abandoned in the old bridge hole of Provincial Highway 718, so this case is also called the "Case of Hiding Corpse in Bridge Cave 718". Hong Xin was a female worker in a garment factory, which is on the side of Provincial Highway 718. We It was found that at around 4:15 noon on April 3th, Hong Xin left the garment factory in the car of Peng Mao, the owner of the garment factory. According to Hong Xin's roommate, Hong Xin was going to work in the city that day. The owner of the garment factory, Peng Mao, was suspected of murder. , because he was the last person Hong Xin had contact with before his death. And other employees in the factory saw Hong Xin entering Peng Mao’s single dormitory at night. The relationship between the two people is not normal. The time was between 4:15pm and 5:8pm on April [-]th. And a piece of tissue was found in Hong Xin's fingernail, which was identified as belonging to Peng Mao. And we found Hong Xin's hair on the back seat of Peng Mao's car and blood."

Although Ji Zheng didn't understand the procedures of investigation, he found the hair and blood of the deceased in the car of a suspected perpetrator, which was already conclusive objective evidence.That being the case, why not arrest Peng Mao?Instead, suspend the case?

He has his own ideas, but he knows that he is not professional, at least far inferior to Min Chengzhou. Since Min Chengzhou said that the case is suspended, there must be a reason for the suspension.

Min Chengzhou saw his doubts and said with a wry smile: "That's right, the objective evidence and witnesses we collected point to Hong Xin's boss, Peng Mao, as the murderer. Peng Mao is very suspected of committing the crime. But we failed to arrest him." , and failed to solve the case.”

Ji Zheng smiled at him very measuredly: "Can I ask why?"

Min Chengzhou sighed, put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and said, "Peng Mao is dead."

Ji Zheng paused slightly: "Dead?"

"While we were filing a case for investigation, Peng Mao's clothing factory warehouse caught fire. Now we can't find out who did it. It is probably Hong Xin's family who deliberately retaliated."

"They know that Peng Mao is suspected of committing the crime?"

"The workers of the garment factory testified that Peng Mao had mischievous thoughts on Hong Xin. The police found Hong Xin's hair and blood in Peng Mao's car. Although our police did not formally arrest Peng Mao, we also searched for him. This time, his suspicion can no longer be hidden."

"Then how did Peng Mao die?"

"Swallowed a few tablets of cephalosporin, plus a bottle of white wine, and died on the way to the hospital."

Ji Zheng frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Is it... committed suicide in fear of crime?"

Min Chengzhou nodded and said, "It can only be like this."

Peng Mao, the murderer who killed Hong Xin, chose to commit suicide to end his own life in order to evade legal sanction when the evidence was complete and he could not quibble. injury.

Therefore, Peng Mao does not deserve sympathy.On the contrary, his death was too light and meaningless.

Ji Zheng asked again: "Are you responsible for this murder case?"

"Yes, but once Peng Mao died, the case was considered solved. Although the normal detention procedures were not followed, the suspect was handed over to the procuratorate, and then the procuratorate prosecuted and sent Peng Mao to court for sentencing. But the murderer is dead, so we can only It's over."

Min Chengzhou's cell phone rang, he got up and went to the window sill to answer the call, then walked back and said to Ji Zheng: "I have something to do with the unit, I'm leaving first."

Ji Zheng sent him to the door, asked Xiao Jiang to take him downstairs, and then closed the office door.

He returned to his desk and sat down, importing the two photos of the scene of the accident that he took the second time into the computer.

From the moment he saw the case files, he had a doubt in his heart; the witness Xu Hui said in his statement that the old man Lei Honggen was hit to death by Gong Haiqiang on the one-way street in the north from east to west when he was trying to cross the road, but the scene In the picture, Lei Honggen's body was lying on the one-way street in the south from west to east.

During the explanation given in the confession, Lei Honggen's body was hit violently and thrown to the one-way street from west to east.

Such an explanation is both reasonable and far-fetched.

Ji Zheng remembered that he had used his feet to measure the width of the road before leaving Provincial Highway 718. At this time, he calculated in his mind that there was a possibility that the corpse would indeed fly from the one-way street in the north to the one-way street in the south after being hit.

According to the photos at the scene, Lei Honggen's body was less than ten meters away from the T-junction, which is a narrow road extending southward from Highway 718, forming a "T" intersection with Highway 718.

Rather than saying that Lei Honggen was hit by a car on the opposite side of the road and his body flew to the other side, it was more like a car accident at a "T" intersection, and his body was hit back by the car and flew more than ten meters away.

Ji Zheng looked at a road extending to the south. The road led to the residential area on the south side of the road. There were no lights on the side of the road. The road surface was dark, and there seemed to be lights flickering in the depths.It seemed as if at any moment it would burst out of a van with its lights flashing.

Luan Yunfeng kept saying that there was a truck at the scene of the accident, and she heard the truck's horn.This point, it seems, is not completely fabricated by Luan Yunfeng or whimsical.

Zooming in on the photo, through the rain curtain in the photo, he could vaguely see the shadow of a green light truck at the T-junction, but he couldn’t tell from the frozen photo whether the truck was in motion or moving.

The license plate of the truck was also severely blocked by the rain curtain.

Ji Zheng processed the photos again and again, and after accumulating more than ten times of sharpening, he finally roughly outlined the complete license plate number based on the blurred outline of the black numbers on the license plate.

The license plate number of that car is Wei J4380.