Chapter 24 Chapter 24

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, government agencies have a Spring Festival holiday, plus the weekends before and after the holiday, cadres can usually rest at home for more than ten consecutive days.As in previous years, Mei Jianmin went to the streets to buy some necessary New Year’s goods in the countryside, such as chicken, duck and fish, vegetables and dried fruits, incense and couplets, and prepared to go back to his hometown in the countryside to reunite with his wife and children.The household registration department is not like the criminal investigation team or 110, which is always facing the enemy every festival. Except for normal duty, everyone else can spend the new year in peace.

When Wang Gou found Mei Jianmin in the dormitory, Mei Jianmin's single room was full of colorful New Year's goods, and the windows of Xizhao gradually dimmed, showing that it was almost evening.Mei Jianmin's room is quite simple, and the simple style reflects the spirit of a generation of old Anan.Mei Jianmin invited Wang Gou to sit on the sofa of indistinguishable colors, and made a cup of strong tea with a tooth jar printed with "Learning from Dazhai in Agriculture".Wang Gou didn't drink his tea, he stroked "Xue Xue Xue Da Zhai" and said: "It's too miserable."

"Some people say that I have worked hard for decades, and my life is still before liberation." Mei Jianmin pointed to a large photo above Wang Gou's head and said, "Actually, it is not as noble as you say. I still have a country house in my hometown. , this is an illusion." "Damage to the public security image." "It can't be damaged. People usually come to me in the office, and I'm the only one sitting on this broken sofa. You shouldn't be here to investigate people's sentiments, right?" Wang Gou smiled, "I invite you to dinner." He said.

"That's good, let Xiao Zheng go to bed early. We have a small family in the household registration department, and we only have one car. Xiao Zheng has been running all day, and it's not the turn of the head of the department to go home. But there is nothing free in the world. Let me tell you about my dinner, I won't go to the Hongmen Banquet." "I think, I think about this, move my mother's household registration out." "This matter is easy to handle. On the grounds that the child needs someone to take care of him, I will make a report and send it to the civil affairs and neighborhood committees for signature." Mei Jianmin packed up the keys and mobile phones on the table, followed Wang Gou out, locked the door and said, "Guangdong early It’s fashionable to turn from non-agricultural to non-agricultural, and you still engage in non-agricultural to non-agricultural, what is this for?”

"Application for Hardship Grant." "Treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The most urgent thing is to quickly find a suitable person to marry. The child cannot be without a mother." The two chatted while walking, Wang Gou helped out the motorcycle from the carport in the backyard, and carried Mei Jianmin away. When they came to the "Hakka Farm" hotel, the gang leader was already waiting at the door.Although the gang leader was neatly dressed, he shaved his head after all. Mei Jianmin became vigilant: "Who is he?" "My cousin, Xie Xiaofei." Wang Gou locked the motorcycle, put the key into the helmet and handed it to the leader to carry.

Mei Jianmin said, "Alright, how about just the two of us drinking? We have to call an assistant to sieve the bar." "Hakka Farm" is actually a farmer in Xijiao Town, known for its quiet environment and affordable food and drinks.According to Wang Gou, the reason for choosing this hotel was, "It's close to the detention center, and you can pay on credit." Wang Gou ordered a catfish and a few small dishes. The catfish was so big that the dishes were too small. Only the tea tray could accommodate its huge body.Mei Jianmin let out an "oh" and couldn't help being surprised.

The gang leader opened three bottles of "Shimen Lake" in one breath, and explained, "The new wine from Liancheng is only 36 degrees, one bottle for each person first, and everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door." "No, no," Mei Jianmin tried to hide the wine glass, "How old am I? How old are you? What do you drink? What you drink is your age, what you drink is your physique." Wang Gou snatched Mei Jianmin's wine glass and walked around behind him, filled it up and said, "Quantitative management is required." The gang leader said, "That's right, lest you brag about drinking too much, as if we are bullying the old with the young."

Mei Jianmin and Wang Gou exchanged cups. At the same time, Director Min was having a drink with his classmates in another hotel.When a classmate marries a daughter, it is inevitable that classmates and friends gather together at a table to sigh with emotion. Time is not forgiving, and people can rest in middle age. Every sentence must be summed up in wine.Director Min doesn't think he's drunk because he really is.When you meet a bosom friend, there are as few as a thousand glasses of wine, as little as less. When you are still sober, you always say that you are drunk and can't drink anymore;

"I'm not drunk." Director Min shook off the hand that was trying to support him, rolled his tongue and emphasized again, "I'm not drunk." Director Min staggered to start his motorcycle, stopped at the door of the hotel, and threatened to deliver this and that.No one dared to ride in Director Min's car unless he was drunk himself.The master was worried that Ye Chang had too many dreams, so it took a long time to send Director Min away. Unfortunately, Director Min did not return to the dormitory of the detention center, and his life ended on the way. A suspect of embezzlement of public funds summoned by the procuratorate was originally "shuanggui" in a hotel. People in the procuratorate are also human beings. They also want to have a holiday after the Chinese New Year. The economic procuratorate simply obtained an arrest warrant from the arrest approval department and sent him to the detention center.

The detention center is located in Pingfeng Mountain in the western suburbs of the city. It is a remote and deserted place, where all the daunting units in Haiyuan City are concentrated: detention center, detention center, mental hospital, and funeral parlor.When it gets dark, no one wants to pass by Pingfeng Mountain. Even if you come out of Pingfeng Mountain in broad daylight, passers-by will look at you strangely and make you feel hairy.The detention center is built on a lonely hill, but the gate leading to it has to go down a lengthy slope. In this way, the road between National Highway 319 and the detention center presents an obvious U-shape.This U-shaped cement road is built straight, and the Tasongs on both sides of the road are as tall and straight as a guard of honor. At first glance, I thought it was built by foreigners.

When the police car of the procuratorate rushed to the bottom of the U-shaped valley, a person lying on the side of the road blocked their way.A few eager young prosecutors jumped out of the car and kicked this uninterested guy in dissatisfaction.The person lying down didn't move, but one of the prosecutors got impatient and pushed hard with his foot, so the person lying on his side turned his back to the sky.The prosecutors jumped from the scene like a bomb, and all buzzed back into the car, because the man couldn't even talk about turning his "face" up. He didn't even have his head. The driver turned on the high lights to search for the body, and the prosecutors reported the crime on their mobile phones in the car. The criminal investigation team rushed to the scene and immediately implemented a blockade.The serious crime team launched an orderly search: the photographer was in charge of fixing the scene, he used car lights to illuminate, and took pictures from different angles; the tracer and two engineers in charge of physical evidence identification put on latex gloves and turned on the battery light on the helmet , carry out the "fingertip search" work side by side.The tracers used tweezers to collect every item at the scene and packed them into plastic boxes one by one.Soon, the tracers found the head of the corpse in the grass on the side of the road. This time it was their turn to jump away from the scene, because it was the head of their old colleague, Director Min. Team Leader Tong of the Serious Crime Division also put on latex gloves. He held the back of Director Min's head on his hand and said, "This head is the most noble, but once it leaves the body, it becomes the most abominable." Team leader Tong carefully observed the incision on the neck with a flashlight, as if it was a rare art treasure, and praised, "What a neat job, I have never seen such a beautiful incision." The photographer pointed the camera at the head, and Team Leader Tong introduced while turning his head, "Look at the incision, it is smooth and clean; look at Director Min's expression, it is as calm as usual, what does this mean? Let me tell you, this It shows that the murder weapon was extremely sharp, and the murderer used the knife so fast that the head fell to the ground before Director Min felt the pain. I have seen many heads, and I can tell whether they were chopped or chopped when I saw the flesh and blood of the incision. hacked, cut, wiped, sawed, whether the murderer is an expert murderer or not, even an expert can tell the difference..." A physical evidence appraisal engineer interrupted the team leader's bragging, "I found it, I found it," he speculated excitedly, "I found a jagged steel wire under the tree, it may be the murder weapon." The steel wire under the tree is coiled into a disc shape, it is as thin as an embroidery needle, and there are faint sawtooth on one side, you have to twist it with your finger to feel the existence of the sawtooth.This kind of sawtooth steel wire is not only extremely tough, but also extremely sharp. You can only buy it in large hardware stores. Its purpose is very specific. Carpenters in antique furniture factories use it to hollow out mahogany in order to carve all kinds of flowers, birds and insects. fish. Team leader Tong used a pair of magnifying glasses, and there was residual blood on the end of the steel wire.Team leader Tong thought deeply, "The steel wire should be tied to the tree pole." The engineer's battery light followed the steel wire to search, and the other end was indeed tied to the tree pole.Team leader Tong knew it well, and he spoke confidently: "There must be a piece of steel wire on the tree pole across the road." Director Min's motorcycle was thrown far behind a Tasong tree, and the inspection results showed that all the performance of the motorcycle was intact.Before the location of the steel wire, the tire marks of the rear wheels of the motorcycle were completely pressed against the tire marks of the front wheels, causing the tire marks to be blurred.This means that the motorcycle travels in a straight line.Team leader Tong deduced from this that Director Min, who was riding on the bike, did not find the sawtooth steel wire at all.Measured from the position where the steel wire is tied to the tree pole, it is exactly the height of Director Min's neck on a motorcycle.So far, Team Leader Tong has come to a basic conclusion: "The murderer is someone who is familiar with Director Min. He not only knows the exact height of Director Min, but also knows the model of his motorcycle, and even knows Director Min's riding posture. Because the riding posture is different, the height of the neck is different There is a difference. The process of death is that Director Min rode his bicycle over the taut sawtooth steel wire, which cut off his neck, and his head fell to the ground; The car was thrown off the road due to loss of control." Obvious shoe prints were found under the wire-tied trees. Photographers took pictures of the shoe prints, engineers made impressions, and collected soil samples.Among all the items collected, the most valuable was a pen case, which Team Leader Tong couldn't wait to observe with a magnifying glass.The pen cover is black body, thick and short, and the aluminum buckle has lost its elasticity. Judging from the shape and spiral type, it is a unique product in the 1970s.I don’t know if I don’t see it, and I was shocked when I saw it. Leader Tong was almost overwhelmed by horror. He never dreamed that there was such a line of small italic characters engraved on the pen cap: "Awarded to Mei Jianmin, an outstanding basic militiaman." Team leader Tong's face changed color, and his breathing became heavy. "Quick, hurry up." Leader Tong ordered everyone. Tracers label each plastic box containing the item, noting the time, place, and the precise location where the item was found.Finally, the engineer put plastic bags on Director Min's head and limbs, and moved them into the police car. Team leader Tong hung up on Mei Jianmin's cell phone, but no one answered.Lao Hua in the duty room testified, "Chairman Mei went to the streets to buy New Year's goods in the afternoon, and left the police compound on Wang Gou's motorcycle in the evening." Team Leader Tong hung up Wang Gou’s cell phone again, and after a while, a girl’s voice answered, “Hi, I’m Hakka Farm. You can find Director Wang, he’s drunk and fell asleep. Okay, I'll wake him up. Hey, he's like a dead pig. He can't be shaken. Is there something urgent? You can find him yourself. Good-bye." Team leader Tong changed the police car and led the team to the Hakka farm immediately.The first thing Team Leader Tong saw was that Wang Gouwai was snoring loudly on the wooden sofa at the main station, and a young man with a bald head was also sleeping soundly on the other wooden sofa.Team Leader Tong cried out inwardly: "Where's Mei Jianmin? Mei Jianmin ran away?" The lady didn't know who Mei Jianmin was, she only knew that "there is another one in the box upstairs." Pushing open the box door, Team Leader Tong breathed a sigh of relief, because Mei Jianmin was still there and fell asleep. "Let me tell you, how could Old Ann kill people?" However, Team Leader Tong reassured too early.The tracer asked the team leader to look at Mei Jianmin's breast pocket. There was a piece of ink stained there. The pen was still there, but the pen case was gone.The engineer then reported: "Mei Jianmin has mud on the sole of his shoe." The drunken Mei Jianmin, Wang Gou, the gang leader and the girl who answered the phone were all taken back to the Criminal Investigation Squad's Serious Crime Squad. They were given the King of the Sea King Zun. Coupled with the sudden shock, the three drunks were mostly sober.The four were interrogated separately, and the result was: Mei Jianmin said, "After one bottle of 'Shimen Lake' was done for each person, I passed out drunk." Wang Gou said, "I went downstairs to check out and fell asleep on the sofa." The leader said, "After drinking three bottles of 'Shimen Lake', Chief Mei fell asleep on the sofa. Director Wang went downstairs to check out and fell asleep on the sofa. I want to see Director Wang when he wakes up. Go back to the detention center and wait until you fall asleep." The girl said, "I added the bill to sign for Director Wang, but he fell asleep before signing. Director Wang is our regular customer, and it doesn't matter whether he signs or not. After I put down the bill, I went upstairs to the box Put away the bowl, and saw Director Wang’s guest lying on the sofa snoring, I took a blanket and covered him a little.” Team leader Tong asked the girl, "Did you see the guests sleeping in the box go out?" "No." "Apart from the main entrance of the main station, are there other gates that Hakka farms can enter and exit?" "Of course there is. The back door leads to the parking lot." The laboratory drew blood from everyone, and the team leader released Wang Gou, the leader and the girl to leave. Liumei Jianmin slept in the criminal investigation team's duty room, saying, "There are a few things that need to be checked." Team leader Tong sent tracers and an engineer to go again, "See if we can find anything more valuable on the spot." Two or three hours later, the two came back, and they found two latex gloves on the wall of the gutter at the bend.Using tweezers to slowly open the glove, they obtained clear fingerprints from the inside of the glove. The young men in the laboratory easily came to the following conclusions: Mei Jianmin, Wang Gou, and Xie Xiaofei had the same alcohol content in their blood; Mei Jianmin's shoe sole was consistent with the impression made; The soil was the same; the fingerprints on the inside of the latex glove were the same as that of Mei Jianmin; needless to say, the pen case was undoubtedly Mei Jianmin's. Five hours before and after, the murder case of this peer-to-peer murder was announced to be solved.Those New Year's goods can no longer go home with Mei Jianmin, they will spoil in the room, just like Mei Jianmin will end his life in the detention center. When the news came out, the whole Haiyuan City was in a state of flux, and all kinds of unfavorable speculations about Mei Jianmin came one after another.The most important thing is that Mei Jianmin and Director Min are both candidates for the promotion of the deputy director. The motive for the killing is obviously to eliminate competitors.