Madness of the Heart

The "Baby Shrimp" food stalls are open all night, and the business is best from 10pm to 3am. August is the season to eat crayfish, and various crayfish shops bloom everywhere, but the business is so good that it is "baby shrimp", but it is quite rare.

When leaving the Jiangnan Theater on Saturday, Ming Shu saw the three characters "Baby Shrimp" across the road. The store was crowded with people. There was a long row of plastic benches outside the store, all sitting on it. Temporary parking spaces on the roadside were also full of cars long ago. Those who couldn't stop could only wander around and "leak up". Some people were arguing loudly because of the parking problem.

"It's so lively there?" Ming Shu asked Yi Fei aside.

"You don't know about'Baby Shrimp'?" Yi Fei said, "The most famous crayfish shop in Yew in the whole winter, hey, don't you usually drive and listen to the local food radio? It is recommended every day."

Ming Shu never listens to food broadcasts. He either listens to the news or listens to the road conditions. "Recommendation every day is good? Don't money marketing be recommended every day?"

"This one is a time-honored brand. It is made by taste! Others spend money to buy advertisements. This one is actively recommended by food shows, and the style is different." Yi Fei said, actually swallowing, "I have eaten. Lined up for more than two hours."

After listening for two hours, Ming Shu immediately smiled and said, "How about it, isn't it worth two hours?"

In his eyes, no matter how delicious it is, it is not worth waiting for two hours.

Except queuing with Xiao Yuan.

Except for Xiao Yuan's cooking.

Yi Fei said, "Wrong! A big mistake! That tastes so terrific, not to mention waiting for two hours, I'm willing to wait for another two hours."

Ming Shu was skeptical, "You are the deputy captain of the serious crime team, why do you have so much time to queue for crayfish?"

Yi Fei pretended not to hear, "Look, so many people line up to prove it. If it doesn't taste good and it's not worth it, how can there be such a long line?"

After thinking about it, Ming Shu decided to wait for some day to be free, and taste it with Xiao Yuan.

At that time, he didn't expect that he would be dealing with "Baby Shrimp" so soon.

No business wants to deal with criminal police. The owner of "Baby Shrimp" is a native of Dongye, who has been in the catering business for decades. Every year he earns money from the blood of hot crayfish. It's a bit of a rogue. The serious crime team wants to adjust the surveillance in the early hours of Saturday night and Sunday, and ask the shop assistants to understand the situation at the time. The boss assumes the posture of the black boss, stupefied and uncooperative.

As a result, he received a call from a small leader of the branch and was warned. The boss immediately turned his black face into a smiling face. Not only did he call out all the monitoring, he also actively asked to be investigated in the bureau.

Monitoring showed that the folk music club came to the "Baby Shrimp" at 10:49. Because there was no place, they sat outside and chatted with melon seeds until 1:32 in the morning.

"This time is normal." The boss's tone was quite proud. "It was Saturday. Saturday and Friday nights were the most crowded. You can't eat if you don't wait two or three hours."

In the store, nearly an hour passed after ordering, that is, at 2:27, plates of crayfish were served.

Later, everyone added dishes twice and left the table until 4 o'clock.

"All the people in the folk music club who are in'Baby Shrimp' have an alibi." Zhou Yuan reported to Ming Shu, "I have checked. There are eight people who did not participate in the dinner-Yang Yan and Qu Xing who played the pipa. Sun Jing playing the Guzheng, Lu Hui and Ran He playing the Guqin, and logistics Li Meng, Xu Gui, and Feng Guotao. They went to me that night and waited for a while to continue the investigation."

Mingshu asked, "What did you find in Jiachuang Community?"

Zhou Yuan shook her head, "What is certain is that Sha Chun did not return to the Jiachuang community before she was killed. She disappeared directly after leaving the Jiangnan Theater and did not appear in any surveillance."

Ming Shu pushed open the door of the interrogation room, and Ran He who was sitting inside raised his head nervously.

This is a man with half-length hair, in his early thirties. In terms of looks, he is at least not ugly in the aesthetics of ordinary people. Wear ancient costumes and appropriate makeup. Put a guqin in front of him, let alone, give it back. Can really fool people.

But the cramps and dodge in his eyes at this time had already smashed his passable skin to pieces.

Mingshu sat down.

"I've already said what I understand." The sweat on Ran He's forehead was illuminated by lights, and a few strands of hair were wet with sweat, clinging to his forehead funny, "Why don't you let me go? Who are you? Leader right?"

"I didn't let you go because you lied." Ming Shu folded his fingers and looked at Ran He in deterrence.

The policeman who was talking to him just now didn't feel this kind of oppression from beginning to end, and Ran He became even more panicked, "I didn't lie. What do you mean?"

"First of all, I want to tell you that I don't think you are a murderer." Ming Shu said slowly: "Kill Sha Chun and bury Sha Chun in the place where you work every day. I don't see you have such courage. "

Ran He looked even more frightened, his eyes drifted fiercely, and he whispered: "I was not a murderer..."

"But you are already sitting here, but you still don't want to tell the truth, fooling my teammates, and the whereabouts of Sha Chun was unknown when Sha Chun was killed. I have to pay attention to you, and focus on you." Ming Shu half-squinted his eyes , The line of sight is dangerous, "After all, some murderers are very good at disguising. What if my judgment is wrong?"

"No, it's not! The killing of Sha Chun really has nothing to do with me!" Ran He said that it was uncomfortable, "Saturday night I, I..."

Ming Shu asked unhurriedly: "How are you?"

Ran He's expression was painful, "What I'm saying here, will anyone know except you?"

Ming Shu pointed to the small camera at work on the side. "People from higher-level units occasionally check the surveillance to see if we have tortured to extract a confession."

Ran He's face became extremely ugly.

Ming Shu said, "Is there something unspeakable? Does it embarrass you more than being classified as a suspect?"

Ran He buried his head and said nothing for a long time.

Ming Shu's tone was stern, "Don't waste my time."

Ran He was frightened by the sound, "Please don't tell me the old man, and don't tell my wife-me. After the performance that day, I lied to my wife and said that the unit had dinner. Actually, Yang Yan and I went to the hotel. "

Ming Shu remembered that Yang Yan did not go to "Baby Shrimp" either.

"Which hotel?" Ming Shu asked.

Ran He has already covered his face, "Di'an."

"Okay, did you go to Di'an, when you go, and when you leave? I can find out immediately." Ming Shu leaned forward, "Ran He, does it make sense for you to lie? In addition to delaying our time, there is Any benefit? You say you treat Sha Chun kindly, your colleagues will lie to you?"

Ran He actually cried, "I was confused for a while. Before you were sure that Sha Chun was dead, I discussed with Yang Yan..."

"Then reach an agreement, saying that you have never targeted Sha Chun, and that everyone else is bullying Sha Chun?" Ming Shu said.

Ran He nodded while wiping tears.

At this time, he was already different from when he sat on the bus arrogantly mocking Sha Chun.

Some weak people can only put on the skin of the strong when they bully others. Now that the skin of the strong is gone, what is hidden underneath is just a contemptible, cowardly, and ugly soul.

"Then you probably didn't expect it." Ming Shu said, "Yang Yan, who was inquiring next door, told my team members early in the morning-people in your department have more or less targeted and isolated Sha Chun. You Ranhe took the lead."

Ran He's eyes widened in shock, with an unbelievable appearance, "She said that?"

Ming Shu stood up and said coldly: "It seems that my judgment is indeed correct. You are not a murderer, but you are a person with a serious lack of morality."

Di'an Hotel quickly confirmed that Ran He and Yang Yan checked in at 11:04 on Saturday night, and did not leave after entering the guest room until 5:32 the next morning, Ran He left first.

And why Ran He was so afraid to tell her whereabouts that day also had an answer.

Ran He was born in a relatively backward rural area under the jurisdiction of Dongye City. There are four older sisters in his family. The more they are born, the poorer they are. All the older sisters only have elementary school education. They went out to work in their teens. Only Ran Hean went to high school safely and passed the exam. Dongye Conservatory of Music.

The folks often say, ‘Don’t learn art if you are poor, you need to learn work if you are poor’ But Ran He was used to growing up and must learn music. Ran's father and Ran's mother forced his four daughters to take money for him to finish university.

Because he looks good, is good at national musical instruments, and is simple and sincere—at least his appearance, Ran He is very popular on campus, and he met his current wife Chen Qian when he was still studying.

Chen Qian's father worked in the city's procuratorate and had a good way of doing things. The Chen family is in Dongye City, and it can be regarded as a good family. Chen Qian loves Ran He to death, but Ran He does not marry. Chen's father and Chen's mother had only one daughter. Although she didn't look down on Ran He, she had to compromise.

It was because of Chen's father that Ran He joined the performing arts group after graduation. Over the years, the Chen family paid for the purchase of a car, a house, a promotion, and a support for the hometown.

Now that Chen Qian is pregnant, Ran He has derailed.

"This person is a typical'Phoenix man'." Fang Yuanhang was very disdainful, and burst out a few rough words one after another. Fuck me, if I were his wife, I would **** kill him!"

It was already dawn. After Chen Qian learned that Ran He had been taken away by the police for questioning, she had already spent the night at the Criminal Investigation Bureau, using her relationship with her parents, and wanted to get Ran He out as soon as possible.

"My husband is very honest, he is a music fanatic, and will definitely not be related to the case you are investigating." She said: "He hasn't been in good health lately. He will definitely not be able to stay in your inquiry room for a long time. Please let me. Take him back. I promise, he is definitely a good person."

The reality is bloody.

Father Chen worked up and down to meet his daughter's request, but found out that when the murder happened, the humble son-in-law and colleague opened a room in the hotel.

Ran He walked out of the interrogation room, and was slapped to the ground by Chen's father. His front teeth immediately collapsed, spitting out blood.

Standing between the two men, Chen Qian was silent at first, and then burst into tears.

Such a farce will be staged every once in a while in the corridor of the crime squad.

The cafeteria started serving breakfast, and Mingshu ate two mouthfuls casually. "When will Sha Chun's family arrive?"

"I have already contacted last night." Yi Fei said: "Sha Chun's parents divorced when he was in high school, his father emigrated, and his mother remarried. He is not in Dongye City at the moment, and can only arrive this afternoon."

Ming Shu put down the porridge spoon, "A place like the Performing Arts Group is different from ordinary companies. Most people who enter it have access, such as Ran He. Sha Chun applied for the job himself or entered through the relationship between his parents. This has to be checked. ."

"I estimate that the high probability is to apply for the job by myself." Yi Fei said, "at least not to leave her mother's relationship."

Ming Shu asked: "What have you found?"

"That's not the case." Yi Fei shook his head, "but the attitude of Sha Chun's mother, Yong Huan...hey, you will know when you see it this afternoon."

Ming Shu twisted his eyebrows, "I learned that her biological daughter was killed, she was calm?"

Yifei flew into the Hanamaki with bacon and mustard greens, and he ate not so much. "Well, it's as calm as just a common person who was killed."

Ming Shu was silent for a few seconds, "Let's split up for a while, now the clues are too scattered, and the ones that should be integrated must be integrated. You stay in the bureau and I will go to the performing arts group again."

After the heavy rain, the Performing Arts Group was extremely deserted. Two trees that had just been transplanted this year were uprooted by strong winds, and one of them destroyed a car parked under the tree.

But everyone knows that this desertedness is not caused by wind and rain.

The cordon by the pond was not removed, and the employees went to work as usual, but almost no one's mind was still working.

The more leisurely the unit, the faster the gossip spreads. In just one night, the folk music club collectively isolated Sha Chun and Ran He derailed Yang Yan during his wife's pregnancy, and it became a blockbuster in the group.

"As far as I know, Sha Chun entered the job through the normal recruitment process." Jiyue, the vice president of the Performing Arts Group in charge of administration, is the only woman among the executives. "I was the director of the human resources department back then. The situation was quite special. So I was very impressed."

"Why the situation is special?" Ming Shu sat in the bright and spacious office of Jiyue with a somewhat subtle sense of literature and art, and said frankly: "Performance groups seem to rarely introduce talents through normal recruitment. Even if the recruitment information is posted. In the end, most of the people who entered the job were people with connections and backgrounds."

Jiyue does not shy away from this point, "Yes, a unit like ours is almost saturated just by absorbing relevant young people. Among the new employees that are hired each year, except for the introduction of special talents, the rest are basically you. Known'relationship households'."

Ming forgive, "Sha Chun shouldn't be a'special talent', right?"

Jiyue said: "So I just said that her time was very special. The year she joined the group coincided with the expansion of various departments of the group, and a large number of grassroots employees were needed in a short period of time. Our requirements for these new employees are-yes A certain degree of professional ability must be 100% hardworking. It was when I interviewed Sha Chun, she was determined to show her attitude as soon as she came. I had a good impression of her. Later, after evaluation, her main guzheng did not actually meet our assessment standards, but She knows several other national musical instruments, so we accepted her. During the half-year probation period, the ones with professional grades ahead of her were not as diligent as her, and some even retreated in the middle. So she stayed."

As soon as Ming Shu left Jiyue’s office, he received a call from Xu Chun, “Team Ming, surveillance has discovered!”

The security and monitoring system of the Performing Arts Group is very imperfect. The new building is located on the east side of the park. There are two doors on the east side, which will be closed at night. There are security guards on duty, which seems to be very safe. However, the large area of ​​wasteland on the west side is directly Anyone who is open to the outside world can enter the park. There is no obstruction between the west side and the east side.

"Neither the surveillance on the two gates on the east side captured Sha Chun nor the suspicious person, but the public surveillance on the road near the west side captured Sha Chun!" Xu Chun pointed to the computer screen, "right here."

At 11:24 on Saturday night, Sha Chun, dressed in a linen shirt and wide-leg pants, got out of a taxi, then crossed the road and entered the Performing Arts Group Park from the west.

Ming Shu supported his chin with one hand and let the technical detective zoom in and clear the picture and watch it repeatedly.

"It's so **** weird, she actually came here by herself." Xu Chun walked around, "All the surveillance in the park has been checked, only a camera on the east side near the wasteland on the west side caught her."

However, only Sha Chun was captured by that camera.

At 11:37, Sha Chun ran around with his bag on his back as if crossing the road, as if eagerly to do something or meet someone.

"The murderer is hiding in a blind spot of surveillance, and the burial site is probably the first scene." Ming Shu closed his eyes and thought-Sha Chun was lured to the performing arts group. How did that person lure? There is nothing suspicious about Sha Chun's communication records, and there is no apparent abnormality in his mental state, as if he has been manipulated.

The Performing Arts Group is far from the edge of Nancheng District. To see Sha Chun's dress, it is very likely that he will take a taxi after leaving the Jiangnan Theater.

Ming Shu said, "Find this taxi driver."

The taxi driver's surname is Li, in his fifties, with a simple face, because he just ran the night shift and looked rather sluggish.

"I remember her." Master Li said: "She got my car on Huacai Zhong Road, at 10:40. She said she was going to the new building of the Performing Arts Group. I didn't want to go because it was too remote. , I couldn't get a customer on the return trip. She said that after paying double the car price, I agreed to take her."

"Did she do anything special on the road that made you feel special?" Ming Shu asked.

Master Li thought for a while, "No. She sits in the back and doesn't speak much. Every time I look in the rearview mirror, I see her looking out the window. I have been running a car for more than ten years, and I see passengers like her too much. Lots, nothing special. But she is very generous. From Huacai Middle Road to the Performing Arts Group, she ran close to 90 yuan one way and close to one hundred and eighteen back and forth. She gave me two hundred, and I was looking for a supplement, she said Keep the change, please."

After Master Li left, Ming Shu opened the map, "Huacai Middle Road is only a ten-minute walk from the north gate of the Jiangnan Theater, but Sha Chun left the west gate at 9:52 and only got in a taxi at around 10:40. The middle vacant For nearly an hour, where is she and what is she doing?"

Xu Chun said: "There are a lot of surveillance around the Jiangnan Theater, but none of them caught her. Is she deliberately avoiding surveillance?"

"Hua Cai Middle Road is currently undergoing demolition and relocation. It is the only place near Jiangnan Theater that lacks cameras. Sha Chun wants to go to Hua Cai Middle Road, but instead of leaving from the closer North Gate, he walks to the West Gate. He wants to make a circle? When getting off the bus She did not go through the main entrance on the east side of the Performing Arts Group, but went through the wasteland on the west side. Also, she paid in cash—seeing her previous consumption records, she was accustomed to using WeChat to pay."

Xu Chun raised her head, "It's too weird."

Ming Shu's expression sank, "Everything she did was like covering the murderer."