When a coincidental thing meets another coincidental thing, it is no longer a coincidence. - Xu Lang.
After investigating many people around Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan and finding nothing suspicious, they discovered Dai Zhiyuan alone. This was undoubtedly a big breakthrough, so the police conducted a detailed investigation into Dai Zhiyuan.
Dai Zhiyuan, male, formerly from S City, now from H City, is 65 years old. He used to be old friends with Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen. He served in the military and after retiring from the army, he worked in Wang Hongzhen’s unit. Twenty-three years ago, his place
A fire broke out in the residential building where he lived, and a family of five was killed in the flames. Since then, Dai Zhiyuan's whereabouts are unknown.
According to the information that Dai Zhiyuan returned to H City to apply for an ID card three months ago, the police conducted a screening in the fingerprint database based on his appearance and fingerprints. They found that there was another person's fingerprints in the household registration database that were the same as Dai Zhiyuan's.
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Chang Hongxuan!
Twenty-two years ago, there was a beggar in Nanzhuang County. He was accompanied by a child who was just over one year old. He had no identification, slurred speech, and suffered from mental illness. After a detailed investigation, the local police only
We knew that the man's name was Chang Hongxuan, but we had no idea where he was originally from. In the end, Chang Hongxuan settled in Nanzhuang County.
Chang Hongxuan is very poor. He lives in a remote village in Nanzhuang County. His house is an old mud house. He mainly relies on scavenging and farming for a living. Because Chang Hongxuan has a unclear speech and suffers from mental illness,
The surrounding villagers rarely have contact with Chang Hongxuan, and not many people nearby know the situation at Chang Hongxuan's home.
Chang Hongxuan rarely had contact with outsiders, but raised the one-year-old boy by himself. The boy's name was Chang Zhiyuan.
Because his family was poor, Chang Zhiyuan had never read any books since he was a child, and often worked with Chang Hongxuan. With the economic development in recent years, most people in the village have left the village, leaving only some lonely elderly people and left-behind children.
, Chang Hongxuan’s family has fewer opportunities to interact with outsiders, and he seems to have been forgotten.
At the end of last year, Chang Hongxuan fell ill with a serious illness. It was said to be cancer. It was in the advanced stage and there was no way to treat it. Therefore, the father and son left the village more than three months ago. As for where they went, no one knows.
The household registration department in H City saw Dai Zhiyuan, who had been missing for more than 20 years, in more than three months, so the time was right.
Hong Bin immediately sent people to Nanzhuang County for investigation and found that Chang Hongxuan had died of illness more than a month ago and was buried on the mountain behind the village, while Chang Zhiyuan was missing.
Based on Dai Zhiyuan's photo, nearby villagers and the police in Nanzhuang County all identified this person as Chang Hongxuan, which means that Chang Hongxuan is Dai Zhiyuan and Dai Zhiyuan is Chang Hongxuan.
After Chang Hongxuan's identity was revealed, new problems arose.
Twenty-three years ago, Dai Zhiyuan's family was buried in the flames, but Dai Zhiyuan was the only one alive. So, who was the one-year-old child? Was it stolen? Or snatched? Or was it abducted? Or maybe it was
Chang Zhiyuan was one of the two children who was supposed to be buried in the fire?
Regarding this issue, the police conducted a detailed search and evidence collection at the place where Chang Hongxuan originally lived, obtained some human tissues, and sent them to City S for DNA comparison.
The comparison results show that Chang Hongxuan, or Dai Zhiyuan, and Chang Zhiyuan are father and son, and Chang Zhiyuan's age is about the same as that of Dai Zhiyuan's youngest son.
When the fire broke out, Dai Zhiyuan's wife had just given birth to her youngest son, and she had not yet registered for registration or even given her name. She died in the fire because the fire was huge at the time and the scene was severely damaged. The body could not be recovered at all.
Identification, after all, the technical means at that time were not as advanced as they are now.
The household registration police in H City responded that the person who accompanied Dai Zhiyuan was a boy in his twenties. However, the young man was wearing a hat and a mask and could not see his appearance clearly. However, they found that the boy had thinning hair.
, there seemed to be scars on his face, which looked like scars that had been burned by a fire. As for other details, the household registration police did not pay much attention to them.
After Xu Lang learned the results of the investigation, he suddenly thought of many things.
Chang Hongxuan is Dai Zhiyuan, and Chang Zhiyuan is Dai Zhiyuan's youngest son. Dai Zhiyuan died of illness more than a month ago, and Chang Zhiyuan's whereabouts are unknown. After that, the case of Cao Sizhe happened, and the cases of Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan also happened.
This is probably related to Chang Zhiyuan.
It is very likely that the person who killed Wang Hongzhen and forced Liu Mingxuan to death was Chang Zhiyuan. He may have done it for revenge.
According to the investigation, Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan went to H City to give gifts to Dai Zhiyuan's son. In addition to Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan, the people who went there at that time also included their sons, Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong.
After the fire, when the police intervened in the investigation, someone reported that they had seen three little boys entering and leaving the residential building and burning something in the corridor. However, the place where the three children appeared was several floors away from the fire point.
Lou didn't pay attention, and afterwards the three children disappeared, and no one knew who they were.
After the cause of the fire was discovered, the incident was forgotten.
CSY, conference room.
After Xu Lang listened to everyone's investigation report, he was silent for a moment and said: "The fire 23 years ago may not be as simple as we saw."
Hong Bin and others nodded after hearing this.
Twenty-three years ago, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen appeared near the fire scene with their children.
Recently, before the fire, someone saw three boys entering a residential building. Twenty-three years later, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen died one after another. Is this a coincidence?
"Have you figured out the identities of those three boys?" Xu Lang asked.
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads. More than twenty years had passed since the incident. The original residential building had been demolished, and the residents who lived nearby had already dispersed. Who still remembers the three children? Even if they remember
, more than twenty years have passed, and I have already grown up. It may be difficult to investigate from this aspect.
Seeing everyone's silence, Ding Haoqiong thought for a while and said: "The three children that people saw at the beginning may include Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong. According to the original investigation files, the three children that people saw
, they are not very old, the oldest is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest is only eight or nine years old, which is just about the same age as Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong."
Xu Lang nodded. There was some truth to this guess. However, a new question arose. If two of the three boys were Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong, then who was the third one?
According to the files from that year, Dai Zhiyuan's eldest son was suffering from a fever and was ill at the time. The family members were all responsible for taking care of him at home and could not go out to play. The younger son was born not long ago, so it was naturally impossible for him to go out. So, the third
Who is the child?
Hong Bin said at this time: "Bring Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong here for interrogation, and we will find out."
Others nodded, thinking this method was feasible.
However, this is just a guess without any evidence. The fire happened twenty-three years ago. It has been so long and it is very difficult to re-investigate. More importantly, even if the boy who appeared at the fire scene was
Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong were unable to prove that the fire was directly related to them, so they were brought to the Public Security Bureau for interrogation. They admitted that it was okay. If they denied the incident, the police would have no choice but to be very passive.
"There is no problem in bringing them here, but the key issue is that we have no evidence. How can we interrogate them without evidence?" Ding Haoqiong said.
After Ding Haoqiong raised this issue, everyone started a discussion, but they couldn't come up with a new plan for a while.
"Find a way to find Chang Zhiyuan. Now that his identity has been confirmed, it is only a matter of time before we find him." Xu Lang said.
Indeed, since Chang Zhiyuan is Dai Zhiyuan's youngest son, and now that Wang Hongzhen is dead and Liu Mingxuan is also dead, he is the most suspicious. If he is found, the case may be solved. However, new problems have arisen.
Chang Zhiyuan rarely shows up. When he withdraws money from the bank, he disguises himself very well. When he applies for an ID card in H City, he also disguises himself very well. The only people who have seen Chang Zhiyuan are the villagers of Nanzhuang County. However,
When the police investigated, they found that many of them had never seen Chang Zhiyuan. The only thing they remembered was that Chang Zhiyuan had scars burned by the fire on his face and body.
The scar may have become a key clue to find Chang Zhiyuan. However, S City is so big that it is not easy to find such a person. The most critical question is whether Chang Zhiyuan is still in S City. This is a big question.
The problem is, if he is here, it is only a matter of time before we find him. If he is no longer in S city, then everything we do now will be in vain.
However, even if it is futile, the police must do it.
After confirming this matter, Xu Lang continued: "Monitor Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong's family to see if they have any unusual behavior recently."
For the time being, it is not certain that Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong are related to the fire twenty-three years ago, but monitoring them is still necessary. If they find that something is wrong, the police will be able to discover it as soon as possible and arrest them.
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After making these two decisions, everyone discussed the three cases again, and then adjourned the meeting.
In Xu Lang's office, Ding Haoqiong and Hong Bin were both there.
"Is this another case of revenge?" Ding Haoqiong asked with a frown.
Hong Bin nodded and said: "Based on what we have investigated so far, it should be like this."
Ding Haoqiong thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If this is really the case, why didn't Chang Zhiyuan just kill Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong? After all, they are the real murderers."
Hong Bin shook his head. He couldn't figure out this problem either.
Xu Lang said at this time: "Check where the money that Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen have deposited in the bank for more than 20 years has gone. This may be a breakthrough."
Hong Bin nodded.
"In addition, we need to investigate where Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen went on the night of the 14th and who they met. They definitely didn't show up at the beach for no reason. If they went to the beach in the middle of the night, something must have happened.
." Xu Lang continued.
"If the person who killed Wang Hongzhen is really Chang Zhiyuan, then the person Liu Mingxuan and the others went to the beach to meet should be Chang Zhiyuan." Ding Haoqiong said.
"So, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen know where Dai Zhiyuan is and also know Chang Zhiyuan?" Hong Bin asked.
Xu Lang and Ding Haoqiong looked at each other, then nodded and said, "Judging from what Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen have done over the years, they should know it. Don't forget, Nanzhuang County is Liu Mingxuan's hometown."
"If this is the case, then Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen should have
I have seen Chang Zhiyuan or Dai Zhiyuan." Ding Haoqiong said.
Xu Lang nodded, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen are not the only ones who know where Dai Zhiyuan is."
"And their families." Hong Bin said.
Xu Lang nodded and said nothing.
If this speculation is true, then Wang Hongzhen is dead and Liu Mingxuan is also dead, but their family members have been silent. This can be explained.
You know, the fire 23 years ago burned down a residential building. Although most residents ran out, a small number of residents were still injured or died in the fire, and they were not punished by law.
I must have been very frightened by the punishment over the years.
Maybe, when Wang Hongzhen died, they guessed something and chose to remain silent. After Liu Mingxuan died, they determined who killed Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan. When their family members died, they would naturally be very sad, but they couldn't.
Tell the secret that you hold on to, because once you tell it, your two sons will be affected.
Wang Hongzhen died. The murderer may be Chang Zhiyuan or Liu Mingxuan himself. The real reason for Liu Mingxuan's suicide may not be his wife's cheating, but because he wanted to keep this secret and protect his family and children. He wanted to commit suicide.
, to bear the consequences of Wang Hongzhen's murder, he wanted to stop all clues with him, so that the police could not continue the investigation. Even if the police saw many doubts, as long as his family chose to remain silent, then the police would not be able to continue the investigation.
Until new clues are found, Liu Mingxuan can only be temporarily stranded on the assumption that Liu Mingxuan committed murder and then committed suicide out of fear of guilt.
However, Xu Lang has always been unable to figure out a question, that is, since Liu Mingxuan chose to commit suicide and wrote a confession, why did he choose to commit suicide with the rope that killed Cao Sizhe?
If Liu Mingxuan committed suicide without the rope, the police would not be able to consolidate the case. However, if Liu Mingxuan's death is related to Cao Sizhe, the police will not close the case and continue to investigate. In this way, Liu Mingxuan's death will be related to Cao Sizhe.
, what is the purpose of Liu Mingxuan’s suicide?
There is another question, in the case of Cao Sizhe, what is the connection between Liu Mingxuan and the others?
In addition, at the scene of Wang Hongzhen's crime, who are the men and women whose identities have never been revealed?
If the man is Chang Zhiyuan, then who is the woman?
When the police went to Nanzhuang County to investigate, according to the villagers' reports, Chang Zhiyuan had no partner and he was not married. Could it be that this woman was the girlfriend he found when he came to S City after Dai Zhiyuan's death?
If this is the case, then what is the identity of this woman? And why is she involved in a murder case?
Ultimately, the key to the case of Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan is the secret hidden between the two families, and this secret may be related to the fire twenty-three years ago.
The key figures are mainly Wang Jingyao, Liu Ruilong and, of course, Chang Zhiyuan.
It seems that the cases of Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan are very clear, but they are also very complicated. Now, Xu Lang and the others are investigating these two cases based on guesses. If the guesses are wrong, then the current investigation and efforts will be
It has become a complete joke, but no matter what, the police will continue to investigate in this established direction.
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Liu Mingxuan's home.
Since Wang Hongzhen was killed and Liu Mingxuan committed suicide, they have been questioned by the police every day, which makes them very helpless.
At this time, four people were sitting in the living room.
Gong Xiaomei, Xi Junli, Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong.
"We can't continue like this. We should confess as soon as possible and let the police protect us." Wang Jingyao said.
"No, we can't confess. Uncle Wang is dead, and my father is also dead. They did this to keep this secret. At this time, if we confess, everything they have done will be in vain," Liu Ruilong said.
"Even if we don't tell, the police will find out sooner or later. By then, we won't have a chance to confess."
"No, we can't say it. If we do, we will go to jail and we may be shot." Liu Ruilong retorted again.
"Then what should we do? We can only stay in S City now. If that guy really comes for revenge, we will all die." Wang Jingyao said.
"Come just come, whoever is afraid of whom." Liu Ruilong said, but his tone was a little lacking in confidence.
Gong Xiaomei and Xi Junli never spoke.
At this time, Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong stopped arguing, and they spoke.
"The matter has reached this point, we can only remain silent." Gong Xiaomei said.
Xi Junli nodded and said, "The sins you committed in the beginning will have to be repaid in the end."
"Will that person let us go?" Wang Jingyao asked.
"I do not know."
"Uncle Wang and my father are both dead, so he still refuses to let us go?" Liu Ruilong said.
Gong Xiaomei and Xi Junli looked at each other and saw the despair in each other's eyes.
They knew who the murderer was, and they also guessed what he was going to do next, but what could they do? What could they do? They could do nothing but wait, and wait closely. As for what they were waiting for