Chapter 29: Coat and loneliness again

Chapter 29: Coat and loneliness again

Chapter 29: Coat and loneliness again

The brown wool coat became evidence and Xu Yiqing could not take it away.

Du Yu said that there might be traces and clues such as fingerprints left by the [accomplice]... although he himself did not believe it when he said this.

Such a careful murderer would not make such a stupid mistake.

But no matter what, the clothes will have to go through the hands of the criminal police of the serious crime investigation department several times before they can be returned to the family of the deceased as the deceased's personal belongings.

It was completely dark outside, and Xu Yiqing and Zhou Shi said goodbye and left.

Du Yu had to stay in the serious crime squad and work overtime. A whole day of traveling and constant contact with information from all sides made him very tired, and he could only force himself to stay awake.

Now that Xu Yiqing is gone, he can rely on cigarettes to prolong his life.

He is the one who mediates between the fire brigade, police station leaders and even the city leaders.

Now it's finally late at night and everyone is asleep, and I still have to organize clues and write a report with my colleagues from the serious crime squad. You can imagine how terrible the work pressure is.

Du Yu is a good and responsible policeman, but he is not a competent husband and father.

If it weren't for the master and apprentice from the Forensic Department helping to share the pressure, he was afraid that he would hardly have the chance to spend time with his family once a week.

Fortunately, there is now another expert in criminal psychology, Zhou Shi, so at least Du Yu is optimistic about the future.

After leaving the Criminal Police Brigade building, the chilly wind of the first month of the lunar year made people unable to help but wrap their collars tightly and breathe in a breath of fresh air.

Zhou Shi went to drive her Panamera back to Jiangcheng in the afternoon. She parked her car in the compound of the Criminal Police Brigade, and the two of them drove around in Du Yu's Santana.

Xu Yiqing walked out of the gate alone, and a clear horn sounded behind him.

"Get in the car, I'll take you home." The car stopped beside Xu Yiqing, and the window was half lowered, revealing Zhou Shi's handsome face and hair: "It's on the way, so you don't have to take the subway... Aren't you always very frugal?"

Xu Yiqing shook his head: "I'm not going home, I'm going to the forensic department."

The Forensic Department is in the opposite direction from where Zhou Shi lives now.

Overtime is the norm for Du Yu, and isn't it the same for Xu Yiqing?
Zhou Shi's beautiful eyes quietly moved away from him for a moment, blinked, then moved back to stare at Xu Yiqing, and said casually: "It's on the way too."

Xu Yiqing realized belatedly that Zhou Shi wanted to send him off, and it actually had nothing to do with the distance of the journey.

This was the case when they were studying for their master's degree. The two campuses were several miles apart, and with Xu Yiqing's straightforward personality, he would not take the initiative to pursue girls.

So he said nothing more, opened the passenger door and sat in.

Along the way, Xu Yiqing leaned against the car window and looked out without saying a word.

While waiting for the red light, Zhou Shi looked out of the corner of his eye. The car window framed Xu Yiqing's profile, separating him from the hustle and bustle of traffic outside.

She saw loneliness in him.

Edward Hopper's 1942 oil painting "Nighthawks" uses windows and rooms to separate people from the environment to reflect loneliness, allowing people to understand that the essence of loneliness is actually alienation.

Zhou Shi, who studies psychology, put herself in Xu Yiqing's shoes at this moment. She was very glad that she could profile.

"It seems that your brother's death has dealt a heavy blow to you." Zhou Shi smiled and stretched out his fingers, comparing his thumb and index finger: "Although you used to be as quiet as a piece of wood, you were a little better than now."

Xu Yiqing was not the type of person who would keep a cold face when someone spoke to him, so he chuckled, retracted his gaze from the window, and turned to look at Zhou Shi.

"In fact, I've almost gotten over it in recent years, but when I saw that dress today, I felt a little bit..."

Xu Yiqing couldn't describe the feeling.

In simple terms, it means being very sad, but not to the point of being miserable.

Zhou Shi knew that he went to the Forensic Department tonight to work overtime to find out the truth about Liu Zhuhua's death, so he comforted him, "You don't need to push yourself too hard because of your brother's matter."

Xu Yiqing shook his head and said seriously: "It's not just because of my brother. I am a forensic doctor and I am responsible for all the dead. The morgue of the forensic department is too cold. They should not lie there. Instead, they should be taken back by their families as soon as possible and buried in peace."

Although Liu Zhuhua has no father or mother, she should not die as a lonely ghost.

When the matter is over, if no one claims Liu Zhuhua's body, he will pay for cremation and send it to Baxia Village. Panamera stopped in front of the forensic department, Xu Yiqing got out of the car, and Zhou Shi asked, "I'll pick you up here tomorrow morning?"

Du Yu said that they would gather directly at Baxia Village tomorrow, but he did not say what time. However, in order to solve the case as quickly as possible, they would definitely start the investigation at dawn.

Xu Yiqing nodded and waved at her: "See you tomorrow morning."

Zhou Shi seemed to want to say something but stopped.

She originally wanted to ask Xu Yiqing to learn how to drive. In today's society, it is actually quite inconvenient to not have a means of transportation, not to mention that the winter in Jiangcheng is very cold.

But then he changed his mind, not knowing what he was thinking of, so he didn't say anything, closed the car window and left.

Mr. Lin had just returned from Switzerland and was exhausted from the long journey, so he went home to sleep after performing the autopsy on Liu Zhuhua.

The only person left in the Forensic Department now is the gatekeeper.

Xu Yiqing turned on the light and came to the morgue where the bodies were stored - it shared a room with the autopsy room, separated by a sliding door to facilitate the forensic doctor to perform the autopsy.

He pulled Liu Zhuhua's body out of the morgue and checked the sutures.

"Even though he was so tired, he didn't sew the stitches carefully." Xu Yiqing smiled, which was rare today, and said to himself, "It seems that I have trained a qualified forensic doctor for Jiangcheng."

Liu Zhuhua's body was unrecognizable, and some parts had turned to charcoal, which was actually quite horrifying.

But Xu Yiqing did not feel afraid. All he had in his heart was his responsibility to the deceased and the purity of his role as a forensic doctor.

After closing the body bag and returning the body to the morgue, Xu Yiqing washed his hands and studied the autopsy report by light in the lounge next door, trying to find some clues that might be useful to the case.

Sleeping alone next to seven corpses is an extraordinary courage and a prerequisite for Xu Yiqing to become the best forensic doctor in the country.

There are no ghosts in the world.

If that were true, Liu Zhuhua would not have harmed Xu Yiqing who was wholeheartedly trying to seek justice for her, and she might even have been grateful.

"When Liu Zhuhua was first found frozen to death in the fire, Lao Du thought that the body was hidden. I also think this is a possibility."

If the body was really hidden, then the victims No. 1 to 6 should have no knowledge of Liu Zhuhua's existence. The murderer threw Liu Zhuhua's body into the fire after setting the fire, creating the illusion that a fire killed 7 people.

Xu Yiqing read every word of the autopsy report repeatedly under the dim light: "But after a field investigation, this possibility was ruled out."

At the fire scene, Zhou Shi made a profile of the white lines on the bodies and restored the most likely psychological state of the victims before the fire.

They did not take shelter in the bedroom farthest from the fire.

Because they knew Liu Zhuhua's body was inside.

They didn't want to be in the same room with a dead body.

"Before Liu Zhuhua died, she purchased a large amount of personal accident insurance, and the [accomplice] lived in Liu Zhuhua's residence to conceal her whereabouts..."

He tapped his forehead.

This shows that Liu Zhuhua and the [accomplice] knew each other.

Xu Yiqing guessed that the reason why the [accomplice] lived in the prostitutes' dormitory and Xiaolang was unaware of it was probably because, as Zhou Shi had deduced, the other party was a woman. The dormitory building was a mixed crowd, and the prostitutes were not familiar with each other, so no one thought it was inappropriate for the [accomplice] to come and go.

So she conspired with Liu Zhuhua in that old residential building with no surveillance.

But no matter what they conspired, Xu Yiqing felt that this result was not what they wanted.

"If Liu Zhuhua wanted to defraud insurance, she could have died in the fire like the others instead of freezing to death."

Xu Yiqing fell asleep in a daze. He made up his mind that he would have a good talk with Du Yu tomorrow about the possibility of insurance fraud...

He felt that not only was it not that Liu Zhuhua killed people for insurance fraud, but it was very likely that Liu Zhuhua was killed by those deceased people.

Dead people, killed people.

(End of this chapter)