Chapter 3 Section 3

Song Changzhong's wife sat on the bed with dazed eyes, staring at a photo of Song Changzhong and her in the early years.She murmured that he only had 20 yuan on him, what is there for him to grab! He Li asked softly: "Aunt Song, please recall again, did Master Song say anything that night?" "That night, Old Song Jin was very happy at home. He also brought back an acrylic blanket, which he said was given to the old comrade by the "Double Ninth Festival" branch the day before... Alas, he has long wanted to eat fried noodles, why didn't I I made it for him... He just drank a bowl of porridge with sticky residue and left... He left without saying anything..."

He Li sat with her silently for a while, then walked out depressed.  He Li is in charge of the area where Song Changzhong's family lives.When he was assigned to Hongshan Road Police Station after graduating from the police academy, it was Song Changzhong who took him to the filming.So from this perspective, Song Changzhong is his master.Song Changzhong was honest and kind all his life, he thought, even if he attacked anyone, he shouldn't attack Lao Song.Since Song Changzhong was beaten, He Li has been checking the leader's investigation situation in the jurisdiction every day. 

A new concrete road was paved in front of the building area where Song Changzhong's house was located, and the road was still being paved from west to east.He Li sometimes stood on the concrete road and looked at the construction crowd from a distance, feeling at a loss as to what to think.At that time, he saw Yue Liang walking towards him from the construction crowd with a travel bag.  When Yue Liang came to him, he asked, "You're on a business trip!" Yue Liang's younger brother, Yue Zhi, told him that his brother had gone to Guangzhou.  "I went to Guangzhou to buy some goods!" What Yue Liang said matched what his younger brother said. 

"Song Changzhong was beaten!" He looked at Yue Liang and said.  With Yue Liang's bald forehead and wide mouth, he said angrily, "Who is so wicked!" Then Yue Liang looked at He Li carefully and said, "I said you don't look right, Uncle Song is a rare good man. .”  He Li said that Uncle Song told you nothing.  Yue Liang thought about it seriously and then shook his head vigorously, he said oops, I'm almost suffocated to death, you show me the bag, I'll go to the bathroom first.  There is a long public toilet between the road and the building area. The men's and women's toilets are back to back, and there is an entrance and exit at each end of the toilet.After draining the water, Yue Liang tightened his belt, and walked towards He Li as if he was lightly dressed.He said that when I peed just now, I suddenly remembered something. It wasn't what Uncle Song had told me, but what I had said to Uncle Song.When I came home one night before a business trip, I saw a kid standing by this toilet looking into the building.After dinner, I went to the canteen to buy cigarettes, and saw him wandering there, but I ignored him at the time.Two days later, my family ate dumplings at night, and I went out to buy vinegar, and saw him staying in the public toilet, and I murmured in my heart, I was afraid that he was not a good person, so I pretended to go to the toilet and get closer to him to see what he looks like .When I was about to get close to him, he went into the toilet, and when I entered the toilet, he went out through another door. I thought there must be something wrong with this kid.Afterwards, I met Uncle Song coming back from get off work, and I told Uncle Song about it.Uncle Song said at the time to tell everyone to lock the car, it may be a car thief, and there are many cases of new bicycles being lost in the city recently... 

"What does that young man look like?" He Li was a little alert to what Yue Liang told him. "Hey, I didn't see it clearly. I just remembered that I seemed to be wearing a peaked cap!" Yue Liang fell into deep thought, as if he was remembering seriously, and finally shook his head at He Li.  "Do you remember what day it was?" Yue Liang pinched his fingers and calculated: "The train ticket on the 26th, go further... By the way, it will be around October 23rd!" Then he said with certainty: "It's not a day or two away!"  He Li: "Go back first, and carefully recall what else happened. I will come back to you in a few days!"

 The meeting room on the third floor of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.Director Wei Cheng presided over a middle-level cadre meeting involving the directors and political commissars of each branch.  Wei Cheng is not tall and has gray hair. He took a sip of tea and said: "Comrades, it has been a few days since the closing of the 13th National Congress. , All Party members in each unit must participate in the study and discussion in an organized way. The general public must also be prepared and organized to preach. Each unit must carefully arrange the study time, and it cannot be sloppy.

"In another week, the National Textile Supply Exchange Conference will be held in the ancient city. According to statistics, more than 10,000 foreign merchants will come to our city at that time, and there will be more than 15,000 pieces of various commodities. To hold such a large-scale The commodity exchange meeting is the first time in the history of our city. The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government require the Public Security Bureau to do a good job in security during the meeting. All branches and police stations cooperate with the Municipal Bureau to do a good job in security prevention. Hotels, restaurants and The main venue and sub-venues were carefully inspected, focusing on fire prevention and theft prevention; the traffic police department concentrated on improving traffic order in the past few days.

"Tomorrow, the municipal government will organize the departments of industry and commerce, taxation, price, measurement, health and epidemic prevention and our bureau to jointly conduct a surprise inspection of the market to maintain market order and prevent some unscrupulous traders from driving up prices during the meeting. The specific arrangements will be given by Deputy Director Hu later." Explain to everyone. "Comrades, the work will be very heavy in the future. All units will arrange police deployment after returning home, and report the work arrangement to the City Bureau Office before work tomorrow."

Director Wei Cheng turned his head to Gu Wufu and Shi Yongzheng of the Criminal Investigation Division: "Old Gu, Yongzheng, follow me." Entering the director's office, Wei Chengcheng asked, "Is there any progress in the case of Song Changzhong's beating at the Hongshan Police Station?" Gu Wufu: "There are no clues at the moment, but I have already arranged the investigation work. Director, the department is short of manpower." Shi Yongzheng continued: "Assign Ye Qianshan to take charge of this case." Wei Cheng: "Okay. How is Lao Song's situation?" 

Shi Yongzheng: "After several days of continuous rescue, Lao Song has not recovered. The doctor said that the injury is very serious, and it is still unknown whether he will wake up." Wei Cheng: "Let the hospital use the best medicine. Find your acquaintances and ask experts in the city to take a look. They have been comrades for decades. Tell Hong Shandao to take good care of Lao Song's wife. .”  ...  Song Changzhong was still unconscious in the emergency room of the hospital.  The door of the emergency room was guarded by armed police.When it is not clear what the criminals are going to do, they must be cautious and cautious.In addition, of course, it is also hoped that Song Changzhong will have a miracle like that gun, wake up unexpectedly and help identify criminals. 

Ye Qianshan would come to the hospital every day to have a look. The second department included a piece of Qiaobei, and the case on the border of Qiaobei finally fell on him.He thought it would be best if Song Changzhong woke up and he was right next to him. In the past few days, he had traveled all over the factories and mines in the ancient city, but he still didn't find the weapon that could cause Song Changzhong's head trauma.  Ye Qianshan has been in a turbulent mood during this time, Song Changzhong has been beaten for more than half a month, and the case has no clue.The investigators who dealt with them basically dealt with other unsolved cases, some in the city, and some in the county. There was no more manpower for this case, so he had to run around alone for many tasks. .Seeing the crowds all over the street and the overwhelming variety of advertisements, Ye Qianshan only felt anxious and helpless in his heart.  That afternoon, on his way to the hospital, he passed by the gate of the railway rolling stock factory, and saw all kinds of waste chairs piled up at the gate, and some workers were carrying them on the train. He accidentally glanced at the workers and drove the car over Now, the back of the chair that one of the workers was holding made him associate with the traces of the murder weapon left on Song Changzhong's big-brimmed hat.He quickly reversed the car and stopped abruptly in front of those workers.  He said: "Master, what are these chairs made of, and where are they shipped?" He jumped out of the car and walked to a worker, and took out a familiar chair that was thrown in the pile of chairs and looked at it carefully. It was an old-fashioned train. The hard seat back, the channel steel used to fix the leather covering the wooden backrest, after removing the leather and wood, it becomes an iron object with a narrow top and a wide bottom.  "Master, I want to build a flower stand, can I buy this chair back?" The worker waved his hand generously and said: Take it, it's not worth much.Anyway, it is sent to the waste station, it doesn't matter if there is one more or one less.  He was glad it was so easy to hide his police status and get it done.He knew that many times, once his identity was revealed, he had to deal with business.For example, if the worker knew that he was a policeman, he would not have given him the back of the chair so innocently. It is possible that the worker would report to the factory, and the security department would come forward to verify the identity of the "policeman". You also need to file a record and go through the formalities.Although he is a person who is not afraid of cumbersomeness, sometimes he prefers simple, convenient and clear ways of doing things.  He drove back to the criminal investigation department and went straight to the technical department.He held up the back of the chair to Forensic Doctor Ma, and Doctor Ma's eyes lit up and said in surprise: "You really have it, Qian Shan, why did you think of going to it?" Ye Qianshan said: "It's a blind touch. This thing may not be useful, or it may be useful. Let me use it as a reference!"  He Li didn't know that what Yue Liang said had nothing to do with Song Changzhong's case, so he didn't report it hastily to Ye Qianshan.  Near the end of November, while riding his bicycle, he was thinking about the case that had no clue or progress, and he arrived at the gate of the Municipal Bureau without knowing it. There is no clue, the technician Lou Xiaohe is his classmate in the first class of the police academy, maybe he can get something out of there.He locked the car and went straight to the technical department.  Forensic doctor Ma and Lou Xiaohe are looking at some photos and a picture. There are some tooth specimens of dead people under his feet. Forensic doctor Ma gave lectures to them when he was studying in the police academy. For the forensic doctor, do you cook at home, do your family eat the food you cooked after touching the dead body? He kept asking questions like this.As a result, forensic doctor Ma not only didn't bother him, but got along very well with him afterwards.  Forensic doctor Ma and Lou Xiaohe both nodded at him, and continued their conversation: "From the marks left on the wound and the hat, the tool looks like an 'H'-shaped iron object. There is also a kind of triangular burr left after gas cutting. The top of the iron is narrow and the bottom is wide. The distance between the upper side and the lower side is 4.5CM. The thickness of the side is 2MM... The chair back that Qianshan found for us is the closest ..." While listening, He Li flipped through some other on-site photos. He saw the shoe sole pattern extracted at the scene. This was a shoe print with a plum petal pattern. After bidding farewell to Lou Xiaohe, he rode his bicycle back to the institute. He fell asleep indiscriminately and woke up at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.  He thought that if there was such a young man wandering around there, Yue Liang would definitely not be the only one who saw it, so he decided to go back to the community where Song Changzhong lived and ask more carefully.This time, he pushed the cart and walked slowly down the secluded path that Song Changzhong used to walk. He crossed the railway and there was a section of dirt road.The paving workers are packing up their tools and ready to call it a day.The bumpy mounds on both sides of the road are difficult to walk on. Just as he was about to step on the newly paved road, a worker hurriedly called him: "Don't step on it!" It was paved in a small section, and it was impossible to see it unless you looked carefully. Fortunately, there were few people coming and going here, and he walked from the side of the road for a while before he dared to step on the paved concrete road... He looked down at his feet moving forward alternately, as if he was watching another person walking, and he even wondered absently whether Song Changzhong had walked this distance like him. It was so rushed that nothing was left.He wanted to look up at the evening sky, or think of something useful, but he was attracted by a spot on the concrete floor, and he stood there in a daze. Then he put the car aside, squatted down and carefully Watching, rubbing hands on it over and over again.The pattern of plum blossom petals that he had seen in the technical department immediately flashed in his mind: God, what did I see? There was a footprint on the concrete floor that someone stepped on. This is exactly the same plum blossom petal footprint. Seven of them have been permanently engraved on the concrete floor like steles...