Chu Wuzheng was stunned for a moment while holding a cigarette in his mouth. "How do you know I smoke?"
"I just heard the sound of a lighter."
"Hey, this guy gave you some money."
Shen Shiyu urged him to go to dinner quickly, but Chu Wuzheng pretended to insist on kissing her. The two of them argued for a long time before hanging up the phone.
Putting the phone back in his pocket, Chu Wuzheng threw away the half-smoked cigarette. When he turned around, he saw He Mengmeng standing alone at the door of the hotel, seemingly looking at him.
"I said you don't mind the cold?" He walked over and looked at the single clothes she was wearing and frowned.
He Mengmeng's eyes and nose were red. Chu Wuzheng thought she was freezing, so he opened the door and asked her to follow him in quickly.
But she hugged his arm from behind. "Who were you calling just now?"
She bit her lip lightly, a line of tears stained her young face, looking a bit pitiful.
At this time, a few more guests happened to come. Chu Wuzheng didn't want to be blocked at the door of the restaurant, so he had to take her to a secluded place nearby.
"Come on, come on." He took out a tissue and gave it to her. "What kind of golden beans are you dropping? Who recruited you?"
He Mengmeng sniffed and seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage. "They said you have a girlfriend, is it true?"
"I'm about to get married." Chu Wuzheng said.
He Mengmeng ran away after hearing what he said, and Chu Wuzheng didn't even stop her.
He was afraid that something would happen, so he quickly called out the big face from the hotel, asking him to follow her and keep an eye on her, and take her back to the hotel, and contact him if anything happened.
He really doesn't understand this young man now.
The car stopped on the side of the road, and the driver opened the door and ran into the fields beside the road.
The two people behind him also walked down, laughing and scolding him as "a lazy ass."
Leaving the road where cars were speeding behind them, they looked at the farmland under their feet and unconsciously wanted to walk inside.
It would be great if it was autumn. The fruits and crops were all ripe. I recalled that when I was a child, they often walked all the way and harvested a lot.
"You're done!" A man cursed inside.
A cry came from the ground. "It's early, my mother has a stomachache!"
The two people next to him burst into laughter.
The sky was very blue today, and it was a beautiful scenery here. The man got bored waiting, so he picked up his phone and took a photo, and then showed it to his friend.
"This piece of land is quite fat. If I were to lay it on the ground, I would have to work all morning."
The man stood up straight and glanced at the original place. "This area must be planted with crops. Look, there is a scarecrow there, to scare the birds."
The friend next to him raised his head silently, and then stared at the phone screen again.
"It looks so good. It turns out that my mother knows how to do it. She can sell it for money. After selling the money, she buys me candies." The man sighed with emotion.
The friend continued to stare at the picture on the screen.
The man didn't hear the response and was very surprised. He slapped him with his arm. The friend didn't move and just kept enlarging the picture with his fingers.
"Does the scarecrow have hair?" he asked suddenly.
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Suddenly, Chu Wuzheng took Xiang Hang to Chen Li's home, a rural area near the town.
Her parents are both from rural areas, her father is a village cadre and her mother is a tailor.
Hearing that there were police at the door, they quickly let me in and brought me two cups of coffee.
Although this place is not a remote place, it is not developed either, and the way the coffee is served in the glass makes Chen Li's parents look like they don't like foreign gadgets.
After Xiang Hang asked, his mother smiled and said that Chen Li brought it back. "She said it was good stuff and brought it back specially for us to drink, but we really can't get used to it."
Chu Wuhuan picked up the cup and took a sip, rolled his eyes, and then smiled at the two elders in front of him.
Her parents said that Chen Li had gone out early in the morning and asked them to wait.
It was noon, and Chen Li's parents were ready to keep them down for dinner. At this time, Chu Wuzheng received a call from Gu Yang.
The crime occurred in a crop field in the village.
The body was discovered by a few passers-by. They came here from the city to visit relatives. The driver was anxious, so he stopped here.
Walking into the depths, the legs and feet of the corpse in front of him were tied to wooden poles that were deeply embedded in the soil behind him. His head was lowered, pointing straight to the ground in a standard manner.
Perhaps the interlaced wooden poles look too much like a huge cross, so the corpse on it looks like it is expressing repentance from a distance.
The police station of Jin Province quickly sent people over. After examination, the forensic doctor initially determined that the cause of death was a single stabbing.
Chen Li's parents cried so hard next to the body that the police officers responsible for guarding the scene had to add extra manpower to stop them.
After the body was carried away, the technical department came to Chu Wuzheng and the local police superintendent to report the situation.
"According to the traces of damage on the land, it can be determined that someone once walked through the crop fields and village roads, but no footprints were found, so it must have been destroyed."
"Which village road?" Chu Wu argued.
The technician pointed to the south location.
The police checked the camera at the entrance of the village and found that Chen Li left the village at three o'clock in the morning and then walked west, which was the only road at the entrance of the village.
Chu Wuzheng asked someone to pause the video. "The village entrance is to the north and the village road is to the south. Why is the suspect waiting for Chen Li so far away?"
The Jin Provincial Police drew a rough map showing the location of village entrances, village roads and crop fields.
"Avoid the camera?" Xiang Hang said, looking at the map.
Chu Wuzheng circled a location with a pen. "There are no cameras at the west and south intersections, and they are closer to the crime scene."
"She must be unfamiliar with the roads here, so she chose the safest one," Gu Yang said.
"Smart." Chu Wuzheng gave her a thumbs up.
Gu Yang smiled and then lowered his head.
"I'm not familiar with the situation here, but I still come here to kill people, and the techniques are..." Xiang Hang thought for a moment. "Could he be here for revenge? Is he related to Bi Lulu?"
Chu Wuzheng contacted the bureau and asked the police in Bei City to check the recent movements of Bi Lulu's husband and his family members, and found that there was no record of leaving the market.
Then they interrogated Chen Li's parents. The two elders had cried until they almost fainted. They did not provide any useful information. They only said that Chen Li should not have been allowed to go out to study or go to work in the first place.
"... After working hard outside for so many years, she brought nothing back except a bucket of coffee, and her life was on the line. What did I ask her to do!" Chen Li's mother slammed the table in regret.
After working outside all day, the police officers returned to the hotel to rest at night.
While his roommate was taking a shower, Chu Wuzheng returned Shen Shiyu's call.
Chu Wuzheng described the case in detail, and Shen Shiyu listened calmly.
It sounds like there are similarities and differences between this case and previous cases.
With the same strong sense of ceremony, there are also music disc players placed on site.
The obvious difference is killing with one knife.
The emphasis on ritual reflects his ambition, and the method of disposing of the corpse shows his cruelty. The clean and neat technique shows that he does not enjoy the pleasure of killing.
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This book will never be abandoned. I know a few people are following it, so I will tell you about it here. But the slow update is mainly because I didn’t know that I didn’t have perfect attendance when I signed the contract. I will only get paid after the number of views increases.
The contract really makes me a little tired, so I can only focus on getting money first. But I really put a lot of effort into this book, so I won’t give up! It will be updated in about a week or so, I think.