Chapter 16 Chapter Four

"After the forensic examination, the identity of the deceased has been confirmed. It is the Chinese New Year that has been missing for two years." The person who spoke was a middle-aged police officer with a hoarse and dull voice. He was sitting in the general manager's office of Erya Education Group, his eyes scanning everything in the room like a torch. Gu Qiusha has not forgotten this face. In 1995, within a few days of Shen Ming being suspected of being a murderer and taken to the detention center, the police officer in front of her came to her twice. "Yeah, when I saw that broken jeep by the Suzhou River, I naturally thought of New Year's greetings. There are very few people who drive this kind of car, and it has a foreign license plate, and there is a pattern of roses inserted into the skull on the trunk. —I was impressed at the time, and it was definitely his car.”

"Can you tell me about the scene at that time? Why didn't you take a car, but walked with a primary school student home?" Police officer Huang Hai is in his forties, and many things have happened in the past nine years. His complexion has become darker, and his figure is still tall and straight. "I'm so sorry for that child. Because of my curiosity, I let him see a terrible corpse. I'm worried that it will leave him with a psychological shadow." Gu Qiusha sighed, as if crow's feet appeared, "Si Wang is a rare genius in decades, and such a child is priceless."

"I see, can we talk about the victim again?" "He Nian is the former deputy general manager of our group. He used to be the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Municipal Education Bureau. He is very capable and has a weird temper, but he has never had any enmity with anyone." "According to the autopsy report, it was preliminarily determined that the time of death was December 2002, which was almost the time of disappearance. The body was decomposed, and the forensic doctor could not give the exact cause of death, but judging from the incision on the deceased's clothes, he was stabbed to death with a sharp knife from behind. The murderer wrapped the corpse in a carpet, tightly sealed it in the trunk, and discarded it in the most desolate corner by the Suzhou River. There are few passers-by there, and the corpse is not easy to rot in the cold winter. By the next summer, the side of the road was piled up A lot of garbage, the smell is mixed together, and no one will notice."

"Yeah, when he disappeared for no reason, the group thought he was poached by a competitor, and posted a missing person notice on newspapers and the Internet. Later, he thought of reporting the disappearance to the Public Security Bureau. Unexpectedly, he had already encountered misfortune. .” Gu Qiusha still has lingering fears about last week's adventure by the Suzhou River.It was a coincidence that she actually found the jeep of Lunar New Year, and with the help of an elementary school student, she boldly pried open the back cover of the car and finally found the body of the missing executive.

"One more thing I want to ask. I checked He Nian's files and found that he graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1992. He has a classmate who is also from this city. I think you must know that person?" Facing Police Officer Huang Hai's sharp gaze, Gu Qiusha had already expected it, and replied calmly: "Shen Ming." "Coincidentally, in 1995, when I interrogated Shen Ming, he said that he was about to be transferred to the Municipal Education Bureau, and he was appointed as the secretary of the Youth League Committee by default. He was killed within a few days, and the person who got the position two years later was Happy New Year, and he tuned

The time to join the Education Bureau was only one month before Shen Ming's death. " "What are you suspecting? Is He Nian's death related to Shenming? Or is it the other way around?" "Everything is possible." Gu Qiusha's heart was beating wildly, and she naturally thought of the letter, Shen Ming's personal letter provided by He Nian to her father - because he betrayed his most trusted college classmates, He Nian got the post of secretary of the Youth League Committee. She avoided Huang Hai's gaze and replied, "I don't know." "Okay, thank you very much for your cooperation, if you still think of anything, please feel free to contact me."

Officer Huang Hai dropped a business card and left, but her palms were covered with sweat, but she still didn't tell the secret. The letter from nine years ago has always been hidden in the hands of my father. If he is unwilling to take it out, what is the use of her words? Gu Qiusha was restless for a long time, then suddenly called the driver and took her to Changshou Road No. 1 Elementary School. It was crowded school time again, and she saw the boy named Si Wang walking out of the school gate wearing a blue school uniform and a red scarf. His eyesight was not bad, and he saw Gu Qiusha among many cars, walked to the window of the BMW 760 and said, "Miss Gu, what else do you need from me?"

"I'm here to apologize to you about what happened last time." "Is it the body of the broken jeep by the Suzhou River?" "You're still a nine-year-old child, how can you see that kind of dirty thing? It's all my fault." Gu Qiusha opened the car door for him, "Please come in and talk." Si Wang looked inside the car timidly, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I'll get your car dirty." It seems that he has never been in such a good car, and the little boy now knows all kinds of car brands, Gu Qiusha smiled and said: "It's okay! Come in quickly."

Frowning, the boy carefully sat in, looked up and down the interior of the car, and said, "Miss Gu, about that corpse, please rest assured, I won't have a nightmare because of it." "Are you really not afraid?" "I've seen corpses. Grandpa passed away last year, and grandma passed away this year. I watched them go into the cremation furnace." As he spoke lightly, Gu Qiusha hugged his shoulders: "Poor child." The boy whispered in her ear, "Everyone will die one day, and life is just an eternal ring, repeating between life and death."

"Student Si Wang, it seems that besides Chinese and English, you also like to read philosophy books." "Do you know the Six Realms of Reincarnation?" "tell me the story." "Heavenly, Human, Asura, Animal, Hungry Ghost, Hell—human beings are always reincarnated in the six realms. Those who get bad rewards will become animals, evil ghosts or even go to hell in the next life, and those who get good rewards will return to the human world and the heavenly realm. Only Arhats, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas can jump out of the six realms of reincarnation." "Well, this is a Buddhist saying, but I believe in Christianity."

She took out the crucifix hanging on her chest. This third-grade elementary school student looked at her strangely, as if something had stabbed her in the eye, retreated to the car door and said, "Do you really believe in Christ?" "Why did you lie to you?" "Then do you believe that the soul exists after death, we are all waiting for God's final judgment, and if we believe in Jesus, we can be saved and go to heaven, otherwise we can only go to hell?" "I—" Gu Qiusha was troubled by this question, she only entered the church after affirming her death, "Believe it!" "There are some classics that say that death is only a stage from this life to the next life. When the final judgment comes, every dead person will be resurrected and be judged before the Lord. If your beliefs are correct and you do good deeds, you will ascend to paradise Eternal life, otherwise, you will accept the punishment of Hell." "Little genius, have you read all the religious classics?" Si Wang continued on his own: "Maybe, only Taoism is an exception. Taoism values ​​life and pursues immortality, and the world of ghosts is a world parallel to the human world—have you ever seen ghosts?" Lowering his head in silence, unable to answer, the boy added mysteriously: "I've seen it before." "Okay, you beat me to death, don't talk about this anymore, okay? I'll take you home." He hesitated for a moment, reported an address, and the driver who had been waiting for a long time stepped on the accelerator. Ten minutes later, the BMW drove into a narrow alley and had to keep honking the horn to get out of the way of the old men and women sunbathing, and had to compete with bicycles and mopeds. If the boss was not sitting in the car, The driver had already rolled down the window and swore. "Just stop here." Si Wang pointed to a big locust tree that was losing its leaves. He jumped out of the car and said "thank you" before he got into the three-story old house. Inside the greasy and peeling outer walls, what kind of people lived there?