Chapter 77 Fruits in the Refrigerator
Chapter 77 Fruits in the Refrigerator
Xiao Yong obviously didn't expect Xu Yiqing to ask this. He was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head: "Now that you put it, it seems to be true. I haven't paid much attention to it, so I guess it's not true."
He took off another glove to confirm, then nodded: "No."
"Boss, your focus is quite unique." Xiao Yong said, "No one has ever asked me this before."
The train arrived at the station. Xu Yiqing explained while taking out his phone to pay: "Oh, sorry, it might be an occupational disease... How much?"
"Boss, what do you do? A total of twenty..."
Xiao Yong asked.
"I'm a medical examiner."
As soon as Xu Yiqing finished speaking, Xiao Yong, who was about to quote him a price, stopped talking, "Boss, are you a forensic doctor? Then you don't have to pay, just consider it as a free gift."
Xu Yiqing was slightly startled: "How can this be possible?"
"Growing up, the people I admire the most are you police officers." Xiao Yong waved his hand, covering the WeChat payment code posted on his screen: "When I meet a police officer, none of them ask for money. Forensic doctors... should also be part of the public security department, right? They all serve the people, and they don't ask for money either."
Xu Yiqing felt embarrassed and insisted on giving it to him, so Xiao Yong drove him out of the car and drove away.
"What's wrong, Director Xu?" The security guard poked his head out of the reception room and asked Xu Yiqing, "Did he get ripped off by a taxi? It's okay, I have surveillance cameras here, he can't get away."
Xu Yiqing came back to his senses and quickly shook his head: "No...it's okay."
I went upstairs to the office and opened the door, and Zhou Shi and Du Yu were both there.
"Why are you here?" Xu Yiqing asked as he took off his coat, "Where's Ah Sheng? He called me and told me there was a body."
Du Yu said, "Mr. Lin is signing the paperwork in the morgue."
Xu Yiqing sighed softly in his heart.
The body of No. 209.
In addition to bodies from car accidents and bodies sent by hospitals for autopsies due to illness, the frequency of receiving bodies in criminal cases has been too high in recent times.
Zhou Shi shrugged: "I just arrived too. Boss Du called me over."
Xu Yiqing knew it was another murder when he heard it, so he asked, "Is it related to the mentally ill suspect?"
Du Yu folded his arms across his chest and nodded.
But there was no particularly angry expression on his face, instead it looked a little strange, which surprised Xu Yiqing.
So he asked tentatively, "It has nothing to do with the [cleaner]?"
Du Yu said: "Last night when we were checking fingerprints, the suspect suddenly had a seizure and banged his head against the wall. When we stopped him, his head was covered in blood and he kept yelling that he wanted to see you."
Xu Yiqing said: "But I didn't receive any calls."
"Your safety is our top priority now. We won't let you run around before we know what's going on." Du Yu explained, "So we first asked him what was wrong with him. He said he had killed someone."
Xu Yiqing had a bad feeling.
Du Yu saw Xu Yiqing's worry and waved his hand: "This time it's not a murder notice. He told us a location and we sent police there. It was a field. He said he buried the dead in it."
Xu Yiqing asked: "Body No. 209?"
“Yes.” Du Yu nodded: “It’s just that the body was dug out with a coffin, and it was already a skeleton… Although I know nothing about autopsies, based on my many years of experience in handling cases, I know that the person has been dead for at least several years.” No one would think that a murder victim would be buried in a coffin, so Du Yu’s first reaction was to find out whose grave he had dug up, and he asked around in the village.
But the villagers said they didn't know, so he had no choice but to send the body to the Forensic Department.
"Also, I found out that the psychopath wanted you to do an autopsy on the body we dug up."
Du Yu paused, and said seriously: "He said that as long as we can tell the real cause of death, he will tell us everything we want to know."
For some reason, the moment Xu Yiqing heard these words, he felt relieved.
He nodded: "I understand. In that case, leave it to me."
Reasoning was not his forte. As the causes of death of the first two bodies were too singular, not much useful information could be obtained through the autopsy. As a result, Xu Yiqing had been reflecting on the fact that he had played a small role in the case these days.
Now that such an opportunity is in front of him, he must seize it.
"Then I'll go get ready and do the autopsy as soon as possible." Xu Yiqing said, "By the way, Lao Du, do you have any impression of Xiao Yong?"
"Xiao Yong?" Du Yu frowned slightly, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then remembered: "Oh, are you talking about the taxi driver who bravely did something righteous?"
"Yes, that's him. Do you know much about him?"
"Not much. We only met once when the police department was doing an interview with him and invited him to visit the Criminal Investigation Team. Apart from that, we never spoke to each other... But I remember very clearly that the young man was as happy as if he had returned home when he entered the police station. Why did you ask him?"
"I took his taxi when I came here. I think he... never mind. It's nothing."
Xu Yiqing always felt that Xiao Yong gave her a strange feeling, and she couldn't tell whether it was good or bad.
So he once boldly assumed in his mind whether Xiao Yong was also the person in the photo, but then he thought that Xiao Yong was too young, even younger than Lin Sheng.
That photo was taken at least ten years ago. How old is Xiao Yong?
Although some of the portraits in Photo 1 and Photo 2 have been erased and their faces cannot be seen clearly, at least judging from their body shapes, there are no teenagers and all the people are adults.
That's why Xu Yiqing didn't express his ridiculous idea.
He felt that he might have been under too much pressure recently, which made him a little sensitive.
Although Du Yu didn't know what Xu Yiqing was thinking, he still patted him on the shoulder: "Old Xu, don't put too much pressure on yourself... I have seen you in this state many times. It was always when the case was urgent and the superiors gave a deadline to solve the case. You always stay up all night thinking about the problem, and then show this expression alone."
He smiled at Xu Yiqing and said, "I'm here, you just need to focus on doing your job well."
After saying that, Du Yu glanced at Zhou Shi, knowing that Zhou Shi must have something to say to Xu Yiqing, so he left under the pretext of going out to smoke.
Zhou Shi looked at Xu Yiqing, and Xu Yiqing also looked at Zhou Shi, and neither of them spoke.
After a long while, Zhou Shi spoke first: "You know what I'm going to say, right?"
Xu Yiqing nodded: "I can guess that it must be because I put too much pressure on myself."
"That's good to know." Zhou Shizhan smiled and flicked his forehead with his finger: "You are quite self-aware. Appropriate pressure is good for you, but don't keep everything in your heart. Even if you want to talk to me, I have a certificate in psychological counseling."
Xu Yiqing also laughed: "You have done enough. I am so happy when I see the fruits in the refrigerator."
"What fruit is in the fridge?"
(End of this chapter)