Chapter 10 Chapter 8 Definition of Death

The cafeteria has already closed, and the little hamster has already enjoyed supper, but Nalan still doesn't feel hungry at all.Even with the windows wide open, the tiny dormitory gave her symptoms that bordered on claustrophobic: shivering and wanting to rush out the door at any moment.She walked to the window unconsciously, only to realize that she was wrong, wrong, wrong—her eyes unconsciously turned to the shadow of the tree downstairs, which used to be the place where Ning Yuxin followed and watched her like a ghost. Now, Ning Yu Xin should really become a ghost.What do you want to tell me?Who took your life, your right to exist?

This was the first time since her father was killed five years ago that she felt that death was so close to her. Moreover, this was the first time she felt that death was coming towards her. What did Ning Yuxin say? "I am you three months ago." Three months later, will I become Ning Yuxin, with a lingering fragrance, drifting into the dark. After spending three hours lingering in the Wenyuan District Public Security Bureau, taking statements and notes, Nalan was physically and mentally exhausted.It can be seen that the branch office attaches great importance to this case, but at present, there is no conclusion on suicide or homicide.She even had the feeling that the police were more inclined to believe that this was a suicide.The lace news that Ning Yuxin was "abandoned" by Qin Huai was expensive in Luoyang; investigators even found antidepressant drugs in her home; the neighbors across the door "seemed" to have heard Ning Yuxin crying; , life is extremely unkind to her, and she doesn't seem to have much happiness and expectations.

But Na Lan did not believe that Ning Yuxin committed suicide anyway.Ning Yuxin opened the door for herself, and within a few minutes of going upstairs, she hanged herself?If it was a homicide, it would make more sense that the murderer opened the door for himself and then took the elevator downstairs-the police also confirmed that the elevator was not broken at all.Maybe it's time to call Bayu Sheng from the Municipal Bureau. But the case is managed by the sub-bureau, and Bayusheng is in the serious crime team of the city bureau. If I am like this, does it count as meddling in the handling of the case?

She stared at the phone for a while, until the phone rang and woke her up. Bayusheng, a member of the serious crime team of the City Bureau's Criminal Police Brigade, seemed to have sensed Nalan's hesitation, and sent her a text message. "There is a lot of right and wrong on the Qinhuai River? If you want to talk about the details, I'm glad to see you at Dumpling." Nalan glanced at the time display on the phone, it was 10:28. "Happy Dumplings" is a star in the Nanmen night market stalls of Jiang University. It is said that the owner's great-grandfather was a pastry chef in the imperial dining room. Although the bragging is bigger, the dumplings are really incomparable from the skin to the filling. .

Nalan walked out of the dormitory building, looked around, but there was no one there.It was only five minutes away from Jiangda South Gate, so she was going to walk quickly.But I knew right away that this was a wrong decision. The street lights elongated her shadow infinitely on the asphalt road, and at the same time elongated another figure, not far behind her. Her hand squeezed the pepper water in the small satchel. "Na Lan?" An unfamiliar voice came from a tall boy. "You are……" "Captain Ba sent me to pick you up, get in the car." A Jetta was parked under the shadow of the tree.

Nalan hesitated for a moment: "Please show me..." The visitor clapped his hands hard and said, "I lost! Bad luck!" Na Lan even stood still, ready to call for help at any time. "Don't be afraid, Captain Ba bet me that you will force me to show my ID. I don't believe it. How many times I have taken people in the past, as long as I say it's the police, I usually obey. So I bet with him, I lost I'll pay for the dumplings." He said while taking out his ID card and cell phone, which contained Bayusheng's cell phone number. "Captain Ba said...you are very cautious, and you also said a lot of things about how wonderful you are, I am embarrassed to say them one by one, lest you will be ashamed."

Na Lanzan, a well-behaved young policeman, had better not say something, and got into the car. On the long bench in front of the "Happy Dumplings" stall, Bayusheng had already eaten a bowl of dumplings. He said, "I'm sorry, I haven't had a chance to eat since I was busy at noon. I was so hungry that I couldn't pick you up in person." .It's a bit late...it seems like you, like me, have been a night owl. After writing the thesis, haven't you changed your life habits?" The last time Nalan saw Bayu Sheng was more than a month ago, at the graduation project report meeting.Looking at him under the lights of the night market at this moment, he is still the same, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses that have been outdated for many years, and his hair is crooked. "There is a world of difference in appearance.

"I haven't changed much... I'm hesitating whether I should call you." Na Lan said, "How do you know that I met Qin Huai?" She didn't think she was worthy of the surveillance of the best police in Jiangjing day and night. Bayusheng said: "Don't be afraid, we didn't do any surveillance on you. On the one hand, it is reasonable to infer that you found Ning Yuxin's body, Ning Yuxin and Qin Huai, and I will save a lot of words... those about Qin Huai We are all very interested.” "You're spying on him?" "Not to mention, we don't have that kind of manpower and material resources. It's just that we are more concerned. Some kind-hearted people on the island will provide us with information." Bayusheng smiled bitterly, "Tell me about the trouble you encountered..."

Nalan smiled wryly in her heart, as if finding Ning Yuxin's body was not a big trouble. "How do you know I'm in trouble?" She pretended to be surprised, and then thought of the "trouble theory" that Ning Yuxin warned herself. Bayusheng glanced at the little policeman who picked up Nalan, and Nalan understood, he was saying, "Are you convinced that you lost?" He said, "You met Qin Huai, so you are in trouble, is it high-level summary?" Nalan nodded, and told a series of encounters in the past two days.The speed at which Bayu Sheng's dumplings entered his mouth became slower and slower, and he finally put down his chopsticks: "My first suggestion is to call Hai Mantian and resign. If you just need a short-term job, we have some paperwork in the bureau, just right Need help, salary may not be that high..."

"Where is Qin Huai's trouble?" Nalan was bitten by exhaustion, hoping to get a straightforward answer, although she knew that Qin Huai's trouble might be a difficult question to answer directly. "How much do you know?" "Counting all the hearsay, there is only a little bit, for example, everyone around him died..." "His wife is just missing." Bayusheng corrected. "But, but, she has disappeared for three years, and the court has declared her dead..." "But before the body is found, from the point of view of criminal investigation, it can only be considered as missing!" Since the acquaintance, Bayusheng has always given Nalan the impression of being calm, and he has never put on airs as a teacher.This was the first time I had heard or seen him, and his tone of voice and demeanor brought out excitement.

Nalan said lightly: "Do you really want to pick words with me?" Bayusheng obviously realized that he was slightly out of order, and said with some apology: "The court declares death, at least four years after his whereabouts are unknown." Nalan nodded dejectedly: "I'm really a rookie. It seems that hearsay, no matter how realistic it is, is just hearsay after all. From this point of view, it is impossible for Qinhuai to make a fortune by relying on the legendary insurance claims." Bayusheng said: "Not only you, but our investigators have also heard this legend. Kuang Yihui did buy life insurance, but of course the insurance company will not pay claims for people who have not defined death. However, defining death is indeed a difficult problem. Especially, Kuang Yihui...is Qin Huai's wife...she is a problem in her own right." Qin Huai and Kuang Yihui encountered difficulties.Bayusheng is not the greatest storyteller, but Nalan is already fascinated. "Kuang Yihui's father, Kuang Jinghui, is the first person in Lingnan who came out of Meixian, Guangdong. The first person does not only mean that he is very rich—it is said that half of the toy factories in Guangdong were invested by him before the introduction of the labor law, and that he was in the Five years ago, he began to transfer funds and wield real estate. He is indeed very rich, even if he is not the richest man, he is at least the top three in Guangdong. A collector of Hakka folk songs and a major shareholder of a certain Chinese Super League team. The only fly in the ointment for Kwong Jinghui is that he is not very popular. He only got such a daughter at the age of forty-five. , to describe it as love and love is not too much, but too understatement." Of course Nalan can imagine this kind of feeling, her father is not any "first person", and he loves her deeply. "So you can further imagine how much the Kwong couple will attach importance to Kwong Yihui's lifelong event. At first, Kwong Yihui didn't have many worries. Kwong Yihui has always been in love with a boy named Deng Xiao. This Deng Xiao is also from a famous family. The Deng family He has been dealing in building materials for many years. Since the end of the 1990s, he has had the scale of the "Kingdom" of building materials, so he can be regarded as a family match with the Kwong family. The heads of the two families, Kwong Jinghui and Deng Xiao's father, Deng Qichang, are both old CPPCC members. Big businessmen keep in touch, so Kwong Yihui and Deng Xiao are classic childhood sweethearts, talented and beautiful, and the matter of marriage is already on the agenda of both parents. They just wait for the two to get married after graduating from university. It happened that it was Kwong Yihui's last day in university. In that year, she met Qin Huai." Seeing Qin Huai missed his life. "When I see Qin Huai, I miss my life." Na Lan murmured. "Oh? You've also heard the catchphrase of the 'Love Silk'. It seems to be copied from Jin Yong, right?" Nalan nodded. "Qin Huai was just a penniless 'Jiang Piao' at the time, selling literature for a living, but I don't know what attracted Kwong Yihui deeply, maybe it was her talent, maybe it was her appearance, anyway Miss Kwong resolutely burned her childhood sweetheart with Deng Xiao, Announced to his parents that he would not marry unless it was Qin Huai. Kuang Jinghui had been in business for 30 years and had never seen any storms, but he encountered a dangerous shoal in this matter. Publicly severing the relationship between father and daughter has not been able to break up this pair of mandarin ducks who are so in love." Na Lan suddenly thought of the prodigal son Feng Zhonglong elope with Wen Ying, a lady from Taishi's mansion, in Qinhuai's novel manuscript, and suddenly realized that the writer really cannot escape from life, even if he writes a story that happened five hundred years ago, it will insinuate own experience. Bayusheng stopped talking and reminded Nalan to eat some dumplings.Nalan smiled and declined, saying that eating dumplings late at night was not easy to digest, ordered a bowl of porridge, and asked, "What happened next?" I felt like I was back in my childhood, pestering my father to finish the story. "Later you knew all about it. Not all of your hearsay was outrageously wrong." Bayusheng smiled.It was only then that Na Lan remembered that Bayusheng was actually a guy who cherished words like gold, and he seldom talked nonsense, and this was the first long speech just now. In this way, the boss of Zhangdu is not exaggerating too much. Qin Huai and Kuang Yihui lived in poverty after marriage, until after Kuang Yihui disappeared, Qin Huai became rich, bought a villa on Huxin Island, and his writing career began to flourish.Since insurance claims are not a shortcut for Qin Huai to get rich, is his Tengda still related to Kuang Yihui's disappearance? "Kuang Yihui's disappearance, is Qin Huai really the main suspect?" "Actually, he is not even a suspect. As the husband of the missing person, he was the first to be suspected. However, there is no even indirect clue to make him a suspect. There is no physical evidence, no trace of violence, no trace of violence. Criminal history; the night before he reported his loss, he claimed to be drunk, so he didn't know where his wife was. He only remembered drinking with his wife before he got drunk. At that time, his sadness and anxiety were very real...at least I think so, you Maybe the future master of psychology has a different opinion?" Bayusheng saw Nalan raise his eyes suddenly. "Maybe he was really sad and anxious at the time, but within three years of the incident, he seemed to have completely forgotten it. In his life, there was no trace of sadness, anxiety, or longing, no old photos, no eulogy. , there is no remembrance in words, and they are not even mentioned at all; on the contrary, there are more romantic debts and word-of-mouth chasing beautiful women..." Na Lan thought, except for the pretendingly melancholy eyes. Or, is that melancholy real? Bayusheng said: "Probably some people are better at getting out of pain quickly." Nalan thought, maybe this is the difference between me and Qin Huai.Five years later, I would do anything just to see my dad. "Speaking of romantic debts," Na Lan calmed down and said, "Ning Yuxin's death..." "It's still the same. Qin Huai was the first to be suspected, but he is not a suspect. During the time when Ning Yuxin's accident happened, he had been swimming by the island in the middle of the lake. There are many people who can prove it." "It must be girls and young women." Nalan said to himself. Bayusheng said: "I think you are 'gossip when you see Qinhuai.'" "Did you never expect that your students have this potential?" "This is an occupational disease for Qin Huai's assistant, another reason to resign." "Where's Fang Wendong? He's Qin Huai's confidant... closer than a confidant." "Suspect ruled out. He has been at home." "There are also witnesses?" "The captain of the ferry confirmed that Fang Wendong did not cross the lake all day, and his wife also said that he was writing at home." Bayusheng saw the slight expectation on Nalan's face, "You must have heard of Fang Wendong's wife? " Na Lan nodded and said: "It's a pity that we didn't meet each other, but I borrowed her dress to wear it. I was deceived that day and followed Qin Huai to a charity auction held by Sikong Zhu, and I saw your chief. " "I really didn't expect you to live such a brilliant life." Bayu Sheng smiled and said, "Although Fang Wendong and Qin Huai are inseparable in public, his reputation is better than Qin Huai's. He has been married for many years, a good husband, has no scandals, and concentrates on writing. You can see from his works that they lack aura, but are solid and practical, and it feels like writing every word takes a lot of brains." "Will you read their suspense novels?" The surprise on Na Lan's face was more obvious. "Looking at how bad their understanding of the entire criminal investigation process and the public security system is, it's a pastime in itself." Bayusheng and the little policeman looked at each other and smiled. "I have another suspect here, but say it, and you mustn't laugh. Because it's all soap opera." "How dare we laugh in front of you." "Have you heard of Sikong Qing?" Bayusheng was stunned for a moment: "Sikongzhu's daughter?" "She also loves Qin Huai, so she is naturally Ning Yuxin's rival in love. Ning Yuxin said that she seems to be very strong, and she will use any means to achieve her goal." The words were repeated. Bayusheng really didn't smile, nodded and said: "This is a good clue, thank you. We know about Sikong Qing and Qin Huai's relationship, but Ning Yuxin's words are very helpful. Since Sikong Qing told you You mistakenly think of Qin Huai's girlfriend, shouldn't you also be more careful?" Na Lan nodded, and asked again: "I always thought that except for far-reaching vicious cases, you generally don't interfere with the branch's handling of cases. Why are you so interested in Ning Yuxin's death... It seems that even suicide has not been confirmed yet." "We have some flexibility, not to mention, you, the client, are my students." "It doesn't make sense. I, the client, are your students, so you should avoid it." "You are a party, but not a suspect. I don't want you to be a victim, so I advise you to resign." "According to what you said, Qin Huai is not that scary, why do I need to resign?" In fact, Bayu Sheng didn't need to persuade her, Na Lan had made up her mind not to see Qin Huai anymore. "You just said that Miss Sikong might see you as a thorn in the side. In addition, after Kuang Yihui disappeared, many people were sad, especially when Qin Huai became rich after that, some people would naturally think that Qin Huai had something to do with the disappearance. So any girl who associates with Qin Huai will be paranoidly regarded as a blasphemy against Kuang Yihui..." "Are you talking about Kuang Jinghui?" Bayusheng was noncommittal and said, "Is it convincing enough?" Nalan suddenly said: "If you continue to entangle like this, either you or I will have to pay the price in blood sooner or later!" "What?" The expressions of the two police officers changed drastically. "A word Qin Huai said into the phone." After bidding farewell to Bayusheng and returning to the dormitory, Nalan felt that she had more questions than answers.She said nothing until the young police officer reminded her that the dormitory had arrived. Nalan got out of the car, and was about to say thank you, when the little policeman suddenly said, "The matter of Captain Ba... your dispute over disappearance and death... there are some things in it, and I thought you already knew about it." "what do you know?" "Captain Ba...Captain Ba has a girlfriend who loves deeply and has been missing for ten years. Moreover, I can be sure that he...he is still looking for her."