Chapter 15 Section 6

Jinping is an old district of the ancient city, it takes 20 minutes to drive from the city. Qin Yizhen drove, and Li Shiqi sat in the co-pilot's seat all the way to Jinping.Afraid of attracting the attention of the branch people, they parked the car on the edge of the city and called the branch chief Han Hu from the public phone booth.  Han Hu is 1.80 meters tall, with broad shoulders and round waist. When Qin Yizhen was eating wontons on the street stall, Han Hu punched him hard on the shoulder.  "Let's talk, how can I cooperate!" Han Hu is a straightforward and unprocrastinating person. He likes to work and solve problems in threes and fives. 

"How is Cheng Hai?" Qin Yizhen put down the bowl, stood up with a wipe of his mouth and dragged Han Hu to the car.  "Cheng Hai? He was assigned last year. The young man did a good job. What's the matter?" "That case of Lin Tiange. Cheng Hai chased Shang Qiuyun before he entered the police academy!"  "Really? But I just got married recently, so what do you think?" "We want to keep this matter quiet, first find a reliable person, steal one of his shoes, if you want the right foot, compare it with the footprints of the previous scenes, and in addition, we must use tricks on his family. It has already been approved by the top!" 

Han Hu returned to the sub-station and called the captain of the criminal police, Ru Guo, to give some instructions. Ru Guo said it was a trivial matter. There were several pairs of shoes under the bed in the kid’s dormitory. Go in, he won't notice at all!"  In the afternoon, when the sub-bureau held a meeting, Ruguo stole a shoe from Chenghai's dormitory in his work unit and put it in his suit while no one was there, and handed it to Qin Yizhen.Qin Yizhen and Li Shiqi put the shoes on a piece of blue carbon paper, then put a piece of white paper under the carbon paper and rubbed them with their hands, and the shoe prints were clearly printed on the white paper. 

 The small county town of Fengshui is as quiet as a picture hanging in the mountains at night, with a few figures dormant in the night, Chu Xiong said to do it.Big Lao Guo said to wait and do it at 4 o'clock in the morning. At 4 o'clock in the morning, even the dog's alert point is the lowest.  Qi Ke was stopped under the blanket by Da Lao Guo, Chen Mo and Chu Xiong at 4 o'clock in the morning.Qi Ke suddenly woke up from his sleep, he saw three guns holding him together.  "What do you mean!" Qi Ke's voice trembled.  "What do you mean you don't know, what did you do the night Lin Tiange was killed?" Big Lao Guo searched Qi Ke's quilt and clothes before putting the gun back into the holster. 

Qi Ke looked at the big old Guo with contempt and said: "You all suspect me to kill Lin Tiange, and I still suspect me, but I don't have time to commit crimes. I have been 'down' in this ghost county. I have been attending classes in a cram school in a small county town for a week, go ask, and a classmate will testify to me!"  "Have you not been back to the city?" "Come back if you have something to do, and don't come back if you have nothing to do!"  "Before Lin Tiange was killed, did you go to Shang Qiuyun?"  "So what, several of us went together that day. By the way, let's take a look at our old classmates. Why, based on this, you convicted me of murder, and you are so capable!" He remembered the day when Shang Qiuyun and When he walked out of the gate of the detention center, he ran into Li Shiqi and Da Lao Guo head-on. That day, he returned the book to Shang Qiuyun, and there was a photo of Shang Qiuyun's girlhood in it. The reason why he never returned it was because he I thought he would finally have it, but the matter of the cat baby made him unable to give any explanation. In his heart, Shang Qiuyun is very holy, but he is unclean. His uncleanness is not because he was born dirty. , but what force brought him into the dirty world, he never wanted to face the past...

Thinking about the past, he felt that he had no right to have that clean woman. He knew that Lin Tiange and Shang Qiuyun were going to get married. He was a man with strong self-esteem, and he couldn't continue to live in the same city with them. See you without looking up.That day he went to see Qiuyun and told her: "I don't want to bless you, if I say bless, I think I'm hypocritical, after you get married, I will leave this city, I want to go to Beijing for postgraduate entrance examination, and then I Going to America, you make me feel the pain of being a failed man!"

Qiuyun cried, and Qiuyun said, "Are you never going to explain the "cat baby" thing to me? I...!"  Qi Ke pondered for a while and said, "Many people make mistakes when they don't know what is good and what is bad. That kind of mistake cannot be corrected or described by words, just like you, The fate of me and Lin Tiange, can we change it with words? No one can change the fate of God..." He ended up giving her no explanation.   Xia Xiaoqi and Lu Weidong wandered around the various shops in the ancient city. They asked around with the soles of the plum blossom pattern, and finally found out in a tourist shoe store. The owner of the store said that it was wholesale from a wholesale market in Yiwu, Zhejiang. According to the situation provided by the shop owner, they took a special trip to Yiwu by train and inquired carefully. The ancient city once wholesaled 54 boxes, but not all of the 54 boxes were plum blossom bottoms. There was only one pair of plum blossom bottoms in each box. All rubber.There is a stroke on the petals of the plum blossom. It should be a stroke on the steel mold. The technicians who cast steel molds told Xia Xiaoqi and Lu Weidong that the sales of these shoes were very good, and they were sold out in a week. They didn't expect to sell so well.But the factory has switched to producing other shoes. 

They returned to the ancient city and reported to Ye Qianshan. Ye Qianshan said: "The 54 pairs of shoes are definitely not all 41 shoes. How much of the 41 shoes can be accounted for? At most half, check according to 27 pairs. If you don't believe me, check it out." Come out who bought the shoes!"  Xia Xiaoqi stuck out her tongue and said, "Ye Ke, who can remember so clearly who bought the shoes of that size? What if the criminals didn't come forward to buy the shoes in person but asked their relatives and friends to bring them to you? I can't find out... 

"As long as someone buys that pair of shoes, we will be able to follow that person to find that pair of shoes. This clue is very important to us under the current situation. It is the only evidence that can directly lead to criminals!" Ye Qianshan Handing Xia Xiaoqi a cigarette, Xia Xiaoqi took out a match and lit it for Ye Qianshan first, and then lit his own with the remaining fire, he said, "Ye Ke, I understand this truth, and Lu Weidong and I will do our best to find a cigarette." Go to the person who bought the shoes!" Since then, Xia Xiaoqi and Lu Weidong have been walking through shopping malls, shoe stalls in bazaars, and small shops with shoe cabinets every day, looking for all clues related to the plum-blossom-soled shoe prints.

The New Year of 1988 came quietly amidst their helpless busyness.  On the first day of the new year, a major personnel change took place in the Public Security Bureau of the ancient city.The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government dismissed Wei Cheng as the Director of the Public Security Bureau on the grounds that the violent attacks on the police and guns that occurred continuously in the ancient city, the leadership of the Public Security Bureau was unfavorable, and the measures were not timely.  Wei Cheng caressed the books in the bookcase, the phone and the approval folder on the desk, his eyes were a little blurred, a little blurred, old tears rolled in the eye sockets, and finally fell one by one out of the frames, one by one. One by one, it was broken beyond control...

When he exercised the authority of the director for the last time, he proposed to let Shi Yongzheng replace Gu Wufu as the director of the criminal investigation department, and Ye Qianshan was promoted from the chief of the second department to the deputy director of the criminal investigation department.  Wei Cheng never thought that his police career would end in this way.Recalling my life, the glory of my life is all dejected in this period.  At this moment, Shi Yongzheng and Ye Qianshan rushed in without even knocking on the door.  Ye Qianshan held the old director's hand and said emotionally: "Why do you blame this? It's the same for anyone who is the director. How could criminals use our will as a diversion? It's not that we don't want him to commit crimes." He won’t file a case, and if the secretary of the municipal party committee comes, the case should be filed as the case should be, the killing of a policeman is no different from the killing of ordinary people, it is also a murder case, and it must be solved as a murder case!” Ye Qianshan said. more angry.  Shi Yongzheng only felt that at this time, the municipal party committee's replacement of the public security chief would only add to the chaos, and would do a lot of harm to solving the case but not any benefit.  "I hope to solve this case in my own hands, but I don't have this chance. You have been with me for so many years. Before I leave, I only have one request, to solve the case and find that person, or, I won't die!" Wei Cheng said with sorrow, Ye Qianshan's nose was sour, and he couldn't bear to look at the tearful eyes of the old chief.   The old bureau chief Wei Cheng resigned quietly, and the new bureau chief Xie Zhifan took office quietly.  Lin Tiange's memorial service was also held in this kind of silence and quietness.Although there was no publicity beforehand, the first and second classes of the police academy, Lin Tiange and Shang Qiuyun's classmates in the ancient city, all went.  After Shang Qiuyun had a miscarriage, she was bleeding profusely and was lying in the hospital. The doctor told her to rest, but no matter how weak she was, she wanted to see Lin Tiange for the last time.The new director Xie Zhifan approved Shang Qiuyun's request.Shang Qiuyun rushed from the hospital to the funeral home with the support of Fang Li and Sang Nan.  Xia Xiaoqi, Lu Weidong, Chen Mo, Qin Yizhen, and He Li walked past Lin Tiange's body.  Qi Ke, Cheng Hai, Jiang Zhou, and Deng Mei also silently walked past Lin Tiange and Shang Qiuyun... Shi Yongzheng and Ye Qianshan stood outside the crowd silently looking at everyone who passed by Lin Tiange's body... The sky is thick leaden gray, giving people a cold and oppressive feeling. I don’t know when the fine snow particles floated down, and gradually mixed with rain, they fell on the ground in a mess... The rain seemed to come to pay homage to the soul of Lin Tiange.  Suddenly, there was a commotion at the place where the body was farewell. Shi Yongzheng and Ye Qianshan rushed over and saw Lin Tiange's mother knelt down to the new chief Xie Zhifan: "Tiange was beaten to death by criminals on the way to work." , Even if you can’t be rated as a martyr, you have to die in the line of duty, you just let him go without saying anything, how can you let me, a white-haired man, send him away!” There was crying all around.  Xie Zhifan helped Lin Tiange's mother up, and he said in a low voice: "You must allow us time to solve the case. When the case is revealed, those who should have done meritorious service and those who should be ratified, don't worry. !" "I have one more thing to ask you!" The old man stood up and pulled Shang Qiuyun over and said, "Promise me, don't make things difficult for this child anymore, she won't harm Lin Tiange, my son is gone, Qiuyun is me daughter, I only have this daughter..." Shang Qiuyun called out "Mom" and then fainted again weakly.