Chapter 21 Guan Gong's robe
Chapter 21 Guan Gong's robe
Xu Yiqing was certain that his brother was dead.
If he cannot confirm the identity of the body under his scalpel, then Xu Yiqing has been a forensic doctor for so many years in vain.
What's more, he is one of the best forensic doctors.
But he would never think that this was just a coincidence. The person who looked exactly like his brother in terms of figure and clothing must be hiding the truth!
Therefore, Du Yu was more certain about the serial crime and treated the Li Yueyue case together with the October 10.25 major dismemberment case.
However, the clues eventually stopped here. The ghost who assisted the murderer in the two cases disappeared in the crowd just like the images in the surveillance video.
For a long time after that, no clues about the other party were found.
After a meeting, the serious crime team of the Jiangcheng Criminal Police Brigade decided to make this suspect, who was involved in a murder case again across several years, a key target for arrest.
Code name: [Accomplice]!
The superiors decided to set up a special task force to arrest the [accomplices], and transferred experts from other places to assist, with Du Yu as the team leader.
Xu Yiqing was naturally also among the members of the task force.
He firmly believed that as long as the "accomplice" was caught, he would be able to reveal the truth about the major dismemberment case on October 10.25 and the truth about his brother.
The dawn of overturning the verdict seems to be just around the corner...
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It was the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the first snow had not yet fallen in Jiangcheng.
People say that it snows later and later in recent years. In the past few years, some elderly people might lament that the late snow would mean poor growth of millet the following year, and say that low millet prices would hurt farmers.
It is rarely heard nowadays.
High-rise buildings and cars cannot be dug out from the land, so farming has been relegated to a corner in Jiangcheng.
As the saying goes, the New Year comes after Laba Festival. This day is the last temple fair in Jiangcheng this year and will also be the grandest one.
The tradition of this city is that the temple fair at the end of the year is larger and more grand than the one at the beginning of the year, implying that the money earned this year has not been wasted.
Therefore, even if the big bosses who organize temple fairs have been talking about bad market conditions and economic downturn all year long, at this time they will pull their belts and spend their money without any hesitation.
As usual, there is a parade at the temple fair.
From the east to the west of the city, from early morning to noon, the huge team gathered along the way, and from the initial makeshift team, it gradually developed into a massive city-wide carnival.
Parades to invite gods, lion and dragon dances, hundreds of people singing and dancing, attracting more people to join.
In the parade, there was a tall and majestic figure that was the most dazzling - the Drunken Guan Gong.
The actor gets up before dawn to bathe, burn incense, clean his clothes and dress neatly, have breakfast with his family, and make arrangements. After putting on makeup, he stops talking, wears a costume, walks on two-meter-high stilts, and wields a nine-jin-weight sword.
He drank a pound of white wine before the parade, and walked unsteadily yet steadily, overlooking the world.
Crowds surrounded the parade, the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums continued, and the cold air was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Someone with good intentions shouted.
"Pass the level, pass the level!"
"The God of Wealth has arrived, and people from all over the world are coming to pay their respects!"
"Bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, worship the gods and burn incense!"
Soon the parade reached the vicinity of Jiangcheng People's Hospital.
The entire city of Jiangcheng is traversed by an east-west avenue, and the parade team has a fixed route, which is to walk along this street to the end. The People's Hospital is near the east-west avenue, connected by a T-junction.
Aside from the lively atmosphere, everyone suddenly noticed a woman kneeling at the entrance of the hospital, only a few dozen meters away from the parade. She was out of tune with the festive atmosphere and naturally very conspicuous.
She just knelt there and kowtowed to the majestic Guan Gong... Everyone knew what she was asking for.
It is difficult to find an atheist beside a long-term patient.
Although people didn't know what she was carrying or what she was going through, they knew that this woman had reached the end of her rope.
After hesitating for just a moment, the Drunken Guan Gong deviated from the route set by his ancestors and walked towards the woman.
No one would blame him for breaking the rules because he is now the real Guan Gong.
An expression of compassion and emotion appeared on the face of the drunk Guan Gong. He then stepped over the woman with a staggering figure and gestured at her head with the Guan Dao in his hand, as if he wanted to cut off something.
The woman no longer kowtowed, but prostrated herself on the ground with extreme piety.
Under Guan Gong's robe, every difficulty can be overcome.
Just then, it suddenly started snowing.
Tiny snowflakes fell from the sky, trying to dye the world white and cover up the original filth.
People exclaimed that it was the appearance of Guan Gong and said auspicious words like "auspicious snow means a good harvest".
Soon, the huge team returned to the journey and continued to parade along the route set by their ancestors.
No one paid any attention to the woman kneeling on the ground without saying a word, letting the snowflakes fall on her head.
After the crowd dispersed, she staggered to her feet. Her knees ached and her legs were numb. Her thin clothes made her cheeks flush, but the expression on her face was extremely numb.
That is the numbness of losing hope.
She was very conscious and knew that kneeling would not change anything, and it was just to give herself psychological comfort. But after this psychological comfort was gone, she was faced with endless despair in reality.
It was as cold as the tide, soaking my whole body, and it was especially chilling in this auspicious snow.
Suddenly the cell phone rang, interrupting everything.
She was a little confused. She didn't expect that someone would call her when things had come to this point.
I took out my cell phone and saw a very suspicious number.
This is a foreign number that even the technical police officers of Lianjiang City Serious Crime Squad could not find.
A processed voice, unable to distinguish between male and female, old and young, came from the phone: "I can help you."
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On the seventh day of the first lunar month, at a very famous farmhouse restaurant in Jiangcheng, Du Yu invited Xu Yiqing and Lin Sheng to dinner, saying that he had something very important to say.
The two people from the forensic team arrived first, and they came together.
Xu Yiqing didn't have a car and didn't like driving, so most of the time Lin Sheng was his part-time driver.
Fortunately, apart from official business, Xu Yiqing seldom goes out. If there is nothing necessary, he can lock himself in the room for days and nights.
When he was young, some of his friends teased Xu Yiqing, saying that he was not suitable to be a forensic doctor, but would be more suitable to guard a lighthouse on an island or be a firewatcher in the mountains.
Li Dusheng said that Xu Yiqing was a pure person, and everyone who knew him felt the same way, especially if they had been to his home.
His home was very clean and the decoration was so simple that it could be said to be shabby. There was nothing in it except the necessities of life.
The bedroom only has a bed and a table, there is no wardrobe, and there are only a few coats for all seasons, which are hung on the coat rack in the living room or stored under the bed.
It is hard to imagine that a person’s material needs can be so low, which makes people curious about the heights of his spiritual pursuits.
While waiting for Du Yu, Lin Sheng looked at the snow outside the window and said, "Before the New Year, people were saying that last year's lack of snow was a historical record. But it snowed so heavily again after the first month of the lunar year."
Xu Yiqing said: "In fact, it snowed a little on the day of the temple fair parade before the New Year, but it was very short-lived and the weather was sunny for a few days afterwards, so no one remembered it."
Mr. Lin was surprised: "Brother Xu, you actually went to the temple fair? I thought you wouldn't be interested."
Xu Yiqing said: "I didn't go. I stood by the window and watched the parade when it passed by. Guan Gong was very majestic and the parade was very lively. This should be the most lively one in recent years."
I don’t know when it started, but the Chinese New Year has become less and less festive.
It seems like everything has become boring.
Therefore, the Jiangcheng Municipal Government decided to lift the restrictions on the use of fireworks this year. Smoke and confetti appeared in Jiangcheng again, making many people happy.
Even the sanitation workers are happy because of the extra 50 yuan subsidy per day.
Lin Sheng yawned. He felt a little sleepy due to lack of sleep, and the heating in the room made him feel comfortable.
Du Yu was a few minutes late and came in a hurry.
"Sorry, there's a traffic jam on the road... I'll drink three glasses of wine as punishment!"
Lin Sheng waved his hands repeatedly: "Captain Du, we don't care about these things. We don't have bad drinking habits among acquaintances."
Xu Yiqing smiled and said, "He just loves to drink, and he's just making excuses for himself."
Du Yu laughed out loud: "Old Xu still understands me!"
They called the waiter to order food. Xu Yiqing didn't have much appetite, and Lin Sheng was embarrassed to be polite, so after all the questioning, Du Yu made the final decision himself.
After ordering the dishes, he said to them mysteriously, "There's actually another person coming in a little while, and we'll be colleagues from now on."
Lin Sheng was stunned: "Forensic doctor?"
Du Yu waved his hand: "Of course not. If it was really a forensic doctor, would I know it earlier than you two?"
Xu Yiqing said: "That's someone from the serious crime squad."
Unexpectedly, Du Yu still shook his head: "Not really, anyway, I can't control her in normal cases... She is a colleague of the [Accomplice] case team."
After a pause, he took out a document in a brown paper bag from his briefcase and said, "This is what she wrote."
Xu Yiqing took the brown paper bag, untied the string, and took out the document from it.
Lin Sheng also leaned over and read the words above: "Psychological profile of the [accomplice]?"
The two of them flipped through the book, and the more they read, the more Lin Sheng admired it.
After reading it, he couldn't help but say, "This... This is exactly like my own mental activity when I described the incident! I can't help but think this is true!"
Du Yu said: "Based on the other party's professional level, this is probably true. This is what the [accomplice] thought at the time."
Lin Sheng smiled and said, "With colleagues like this, solving cases will be much easier in the future... I'm going to the bathroom."
Lin Sheng got up and left, but he didn't notice that Xu Yiqing had been silent since just now.
Du Yu knew that he had seen something, and touched his chin: "Please give me some comments."
Xu Yiqing closed the document and put it back into the bag: "Very professional, so professional that it makes me feel familiar."
Du Yu sighed softly, "Sure enough, I can't hide it from you."
Before Xu Yiqing could say anything, a somewhat lazy woman's voice came: "Sorry for being late. I didn't want to get up in the winter, so I slept a little longer."
Then a tall woman in a windbreaker walked to the table and sat directly opposite Xu Yiqing.
She was covered in jewels and had long curly hair like a waterfall. When she took off her sunglasses, her lively eyes were revealed. Her pretty face made people guess that she was the star.
The woman's unconcealed elegance was a carbon copy of the simple-looking Xu Yiqing sitting opposite her.
Not only in temperament, but also in personality, the woman and Xu Yiqing are one lazy and casual, while the other is serious and rigid.
What is the same is that they all have absolute confidence in themselves, which is the confidence that only comes from being mentally strong and reaching the pinnacle in a certain field.
The woman looked at Xu Yiqing and smiled: "You don't seem surprised to see me at all."
Xu Yiqing picked up the brown paper bag and said, "I've read the report you wrote. Only the best criminal psychology experts can write such a test. I only know one person like him, and there is only one in the whole country."
The woman shrugged. "It's not really a report. It's just an essay. It's not written for anyone to read."
Xu Yiqing praised: "But the format is formal, the wording is accurate, it's perfect."
The woman felt a little bored with his answer, so she wanted to find some fun, so she joked, "Xu Yiqing, you've been divorced for ten years, and you haven't changed at all."
Xu Yiqing replied: "Same to you, Zhou Shi."
(End of this chapter)