Madness of the Heart

The house Qin Xiong and Huang Hui bought for Qin Ke was 150 square meters, with four bedrooms and two halls. For a young single woman, it was already a very spacious residence.

The trace inspector has done an indoor survey, and the footprints in the house are relatively simple, with only the footprints of Huang Hui and Yu Xiaohai, and a set of unfamiliar footprints. The unfamiliar footprint came from the hourly worker Tao. Work records and monitoring in the building showed that she had just visited Qin Ke's house for a cleanup one day before the incident.

"I said it was the house I bought for my daughter, but this house shows Qin Xiong's desire to control Huanghui everywhere." Ming Shu was wearing gloves and shoe covers, carefully observing each room, "The property certificate of this house says Huanghui. It’s not Qin Ke. But the house was purchased five years ago. Five years ago, Qin Ke was only 16 years old. It’s understandable that he is too young. But such a decoration..."

Just looking at the decoration, it is absolutely impossible to tell that this is the residence of a girl in her twenties.

From the living room to the bedroom, to the study, to the kitchen and bathroom, the gorgeous atmosphere that some middle-aged and elderly people love, the colors are chaotic, not so popular, and it looks like a newly built wedding room in the urban-rural junction.

"Qin Ke is now 21 years old and is already an independent age, but he relies on his parents for everything he eats and wears. Even where he lives, he can't choose the style he likes." Xiao Yuan said: "Qin Ke has shown these years. There are also traces of the'bastard'."

The TV in the living room was covered with festive red decorative cloth, and the remote control was thrown into the innermost drawer of the coffee table. The arty wooden tea set on the coffee table was neatly arranged, with a thin layer of ash on it.

Ming Shu said: "It seems that Qin Ke rarely stays in the living room."

"Actually, she doesn't spend much time at home." Xiao Yuan picked up the family portrait buckled on the speaker in the living room. "From the monitoring provided by the property management, we can see her daily routine-returning home at two or three in the morning, ninety in the morning. Leave at one o'clock, this place is like the hotel she stayed in."

"For a person who doesn't have a job, Qin Ke's time at home is really too little." Ming Shu walked to Xiao Yuan's side, "This picture..."

"It was taken a long time ago, Qin Ke and Qin Xu are still children." Xiao Yuan turned the frame around, "Imitated the gold-plated carvings, crudely crafted, it is likely that Huang Hui bought it and put it here forcibly."

"That photo should have been put in by Huang Hui, to create the illusion of family happiness in the new house." Ming Shu said: "Qin Ke can't go against his strong mother, so he usually buckles the frame."

Xiao Yuan nodded, "Let’s look around. I just took a walk. The only living atmosphere in these four bedrooms and two halls is the master bedroom and the master bedroom’s own bathroom. Although the kitchen is equipped with daily utensils and cooking ingredients, there are almost no Used it."

"Then if Qin Ke hides something, it is likely to be in the master bedroom." Ming Shu sealed the laptop on the table in the master bedroom into a physical evidence bag and began to search in the cabinets and drawers.

Prior to this, Zhou Yuan had checked Qin Ke's mobile phone, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy about the traces of the Internet. Mobile phones are more convenient than computers. If there is no office demand, young people now use mobile phones and ignore computers. Generally speaking, it is easier to find valuable things by digging a person's mobile phone information than checking TA's computer.

But Ming Shu didn't intend to let Qin Ke's computer go.

"It's all big-brand cosmetics and brand-name clothing." Xiao Yuan said: "Qin Ke's money is all spent on finding the Cowherd and dressing up himself."

Ming Shu looked at the cupboard full of clothes and took out one of them, "Is Qin Ke too dissatisfied with the clothes that he bought? With Qin Ke's consumption level, how could she have it? A cloakroom. Even if this is Huanghui's house, Huanghui decides how to decorate it. It is impossible to get a separate cloakroom for her, but there are extra cabinets in other rooms. If she cherishes these clothes, she should divide them into different categories and neatly. Hang it up."

Xiao Yuan said: "Just like you."

Mingshu's own house is relatively small and doesn't have a separate cloakroom, but other people like to dress up, with a lot of clothes, but they are neatly packed, and they will never be stuffed into the closet. And Xiao Yuan's house was very large, and there was a room dedicated to expressing forgiveness. Mingshu sometimes rests, and can spend a day in the cloakroom alone with music on, fiddling with those clothes and all kinds of shoes.

"That's right." Ming Shu shook the dress in his hand. "This dress costs 20,000 yuan less. Qin Ke not only didn't hang it up, but also stuffed it under the cabinet."

As he said, Ming Shu pulled out another skirt, "This one is exactly the same as the one just now, but the size is different."

"Qin Ke bought two identical dresses, the difference lies in the size." Xiao Yuan said: "If the size is wrong after buying it, the normal way is to exchange it with the merchant, but Qin Ke did not exchange it, but bought a new one. Maybe she bought a new one not because of the wrong size, just because she wanted to buy it. It gave me the feeling that she didn't buy it because she liked these clothes, but because she wanted to squander her parents' money."

Ming Shu nodded, "I feel that way too. Qin Ke has no plans for life. Qin Xu said she was stupid, full of things between men and women. She really started to take care of men and women who were familiar with her since high school. Companion fights for the'cowboy.' But she never cherishes changing men like changing clothes. Yu Xiaohai is just one of hers recently and is not special. If her various behaviors are attributed to a fundamental, then in fact Yes-she is revenge on her parents."

"Hate to the point of ruining myself." Xiao Yuan folded his arms. "In her eyes, her parents may be heinous villains."

After searching the entire master bedroom, nothing related to Qin Ying was found.

Ming Shu went to the study and another bedroom to check again, but Xiao Yuan returned to the living room and stood in front of the buttoned photo frame.

"Xiao Ju?" Ming Shu came out of the room, just in time to see Xiao Yuan unpacking the frame.

The photo frame was not well made. Once it was removed, the bracket would fall apart. The family portrait fell out of it, and there was a piece of paper floating down together.

Ming Shu picked it up, his eyes changed, "This is..."

It was an old yellowed photo with a baby's slap. In the photo was a boy who was smiling very happily. He was fifteen or sixteen years old, in a white shirt and black pants, and his dress was very characteristic of the times.

The photo is not complete and the edges are torn. This is the remaining piece, with a crack and many creases in the middle. Scotch tape is attached to the front and back of the photo. The tape is old and should be pasted a few years earlier.

Without these two pieces of tape, the photo would be scattered from the boy's face.

"This person is Qin Ying?" Ming Shu raised his eyes to look at Xiao Yuan.

There is no evidence to prove that this person is Qin Ying, but he has a strong feeling that this person cannot be someone else.

"Take it to Longcheng Road and ask those who have an impression of Qin Ying." Xiao Yuan put the two photos together with the photo frame in the evidence bag, "The photo frame was bought by Huang Hui, and the family portrait was also put by Huang Hui. But this is Qin Ke's residence, and Qin Ke can put another photo in at any time."

"Why did Huang Hui put this boy's picture in the frame?" Ming Shu said faster, "There is no reason at all. But Qin Ke has it. She knows that this person is Qin Ying, her younger uncle, and she will Qin Ying's The photo is placed in the Qin family's family portrait, which secretly shows her own attitude."

Xiao Yuan patted Ming Shu's waist, "The truth is probably what you infer. But Ming team, are you too excited?"

Ming Shu was taken aback, only then realized that he was indeed not rigorous just now.

If it was not Xiao Yuan who was staying here with him at this time, but Fang Yuanhang, Yi Fei, Xu Chun, or anyone from the crime team, he would not have said something like that just now.

He is the backbone of the crime team, anyone can be excited, but he can't. He has to stay in a calm state at all times, pull back overly excited players, such as Fang Yuanhang, and analyze all possibilities with a clear mind, and stand at a high level to command his players.

This is actually a very tiring job.

Because no matter how calm he is, he is also a man of flesh and blood. People must have emotions.

Knowing that Xiao Yuan was by his side, he rarely slackened, and he understood from his subconscious that he was dependent now, even if he was impulsive and made some minor mistakes, Xiao Yuan would pull himself back in time.

Xiao Yuan really pulled it.

Ming Shu took a long breath and said with a smile: "I know my Xiao Ju, I will verify it!"

The third section of Longcheng Road.

In the evening, the restaurants on the streets and alleys came to open again to welcome customers.

At this time in the past, the plastic bench outside "Cheng Jianghu" was already full of guests with equal signs. But today, although the store is still full, the number of customers waiting outside has decreased significantly. Some customers looked outside the store and learned that they would have to wait at least half an hour. After hesitating for a while, almost all of them chose to leave.

The owner of the "Baby Shrimp" family was brutally murdered, leaving only a young son. This incident spread on Longcheng Road and even the business of "Cheng Jianghu" was affected.

This seems to be a very unreasonable matter. It was "Baby Shrimp", not "Cheng Jianghu". "Cheng Jianghu" is still open. Why are guests not willing to go?

"Forget it, change one, this one is right next to'Baby Shrimp', it's unlucky." A group of guests stood at the door of "Cheng Jianghu", and the woman headed said: "It's okay to wait, just forget it today, next door. If such a serious matter has happened, I will not do it if you ask me to sit at this door."

Another person agreed: "When you said that you came here for dinner today, I wanted to oppose it. You don't want to sit at the door and wait. I don't even feel comfortable going in for dinner."

"Then change one. I heard that there is a beautiful frog fish head that tastes good." The third person said: "We have eaten this restaurant several times. Why don't we change the taste?"

"Okay, then go eat Mei Frog Fish Head."

Customers continue to choose other restaurants because of "unlucky". Mingshu sat in the police car and observed this very interesting scene.

At the beginning, "Cheng Jianghu" became popular because of Qiu Min's heavy recommendation. This had nothing to do with the "Baby Shrimp" on the side, but "Baby Shrimp" suffered a disaster.

The tragic death of the owner of "Baby Shrimp" has nothing to do with "Cheng Jianghu" next door. The business of "Cheng Jianghu" has also been affected.

Things in society, piles of things, seem to have nothing to do with each other, but in fact they are all connected to each other.

Soon, the phone rang and Ming Shu picked it up. A team member said that there were three old residents of the gear factory who confirmed that the person in the photo was Qin Ying.

"I don't even remember what Qin Ying looked like, but as soon as I saw this photo, I immediately remembered." Old Xu was a worker in a gear factory, and Qin Xiong's father, Qin Anqiang, was a worker in the same section.

The old man held the photo with a little nostalgia in his eyes, "As far as Qin Ying and Qin Xiong are concerned, I still think Qin Ying is better, clever, lively, and talkative, unlike Qin Xiong, who has nothing to say to adults since he was a child."

Twenty or thirty years ago, it was difficult to find any surveillance, even paper-based information. The police now only know that there is Qin Ying, but they don't know how old Qin Ying was when he was picked up in Qin's house.

Even this "picking" requires a question mark.

Back then, the family was not wealthy, and one more child would have one more mouth. Why did the Qin family pick up a child? With so many orphans in society, why did Qin Anqiang pick up Qin Ying?

Ming Shu had to ask Old Xu for more details, "Do you still remember, how old was Qin Ying when he first met?"

Old Xu thought for a while, then raised his right hand, "Just so tall, five or six years old, Qin Anqiang said that the youngest son was raised in the countryside before, and now he just took over to live with him."

Five or six years old, if Qin Ying was indeed five or six years old when she came to Qin's house, it would be equivalent to living under the same roof with Qin Xiong for about ten years.

Ming Shu asked again: "How is the relationship between Qin Xiong and Qin Ying brothers?"

Old Xu shook his head, "Qin Anqiang and his wife like Qin Ying more, probably because they feel that they have been keeping their young son in the country and owe something in their hearts. But anyway, eccentricity means eccentricity. I am Qin Xiong , I don't feel like it in my heart either."

The Qin family said that Qin Ying was the youngest son who grew up in the countryside, but the field team members had gone to the Qin family's hometown to investigate. There has never been a boy named "Qin Ying" there. Qin Anqiang's relatives also said that after Qin Anqiang entered the city, he had hardly returned to his hometown, and where he would foster his youngest son.

Mingshu asked, "How are Qin Anqiang and his wife Bai Hong?"

"Qin Anqiang has always been in good health. I remember he was a granddaughter and left soon after he was born. Hey, it's a pity, he hasn't retired yet." Old Xu regretfully said, "But his wife is indeed not in good health. I was hospitalized and went to another city for treatment for a year."

According to Huang Qing, Bai Hong could not afford to be ill because of Qin Ying's disappearance, and died soon after.

If Bai Hong's body has been very bad, it is indeed possible that the loss of his beloved son will worsen his condition and eventually become depressed. But Qin Anqiang was physically strong and had survived the saddest period of time. How could he pass away so quickly?

"Team Ming!" Xiao Man said on the phone: "I have checked the photo you brought back, and the fingerprints on it are the same as those of Qin Ke. Qin Ying's photo was put in by Qin Ke!"

Ming Shu had already anticipated this possibility earlier, so naturally he was not surprised.

Qin Ke's hatred for her parents is in sharp contrast to her feelings for Qin Ying. What exactly does she know?

Xiao Man again said: "Zhou Yuan also found some things over there. I wanted to report it together. He said no, he had to report it to you."

Ming Shu understood as soon as he heard it, Zhou Yuan was thinking about what he said last time, and laughed, "I'll go back soon."

"This is Qin Ke's search and browsing records." Zhou Yuan gave up the seat in front of the display screen. "She checked on the encrypted notebook at her home. Almost all unsolved murders and horror legends from all over the country. It’s worth noting that she uses both her mobile phone and computer alone, but she never reads these content on her mobile phone."

"Because the mobile phone will be taken out of the house, there is a possibility of loss." Ming Shu said while watching: "She reads these things on her mobile phone, there is a risk of being known."

Zhou Yuan said: "The notebook is very clean, there are no games installed, and there is no record of online shopping. Qin Ke seems to only use it to see unsettled cases and communicate with suspense enthusiasts."

Ming Shu noticed that Qin Ke once posted his own story on the largest suspense fan forum in China four years ago-of course, the names of people and places were all aliases.

She said that she never knew that her father had a younger brother, and her parents would never mention it. There were no other people besides her grandparents, parents, herself and the younger brother in the photo album at home. But when she was more than ten years old, she accidentally turned to a photo in an old dictionary. There are a total of four people in the photo. She knows three of them, namely her father and grandparents, but there is another person she has never seen.

Look at everyone's poses and expressions in the photo. This should be a family photo.

Since it is a family photo, why hasn't she not only never seen the other person, but hasn't even heard of it?

She found her mother with the photo. Her mother was shocked when she saw the photo. Not only did she tore the photo to pieces, she also asked where she found the photo.

She was surprised and scared, and pointed to the bookcase between her fingers.

Mother hurried to pull out all the books in the bookcase.

The books fell to the ground, and my mother looked through the books one after another like crazy.

She stood beside her mother, feeling that her mother suddenly became very strange.

As her mother continued to flip through the book, she quietly walked to the trash can, carefully found two photo fragments, and hid them in the pockets of her clothes.

Soon, my father went home.

The mother and father had spoken for a long time, and when they were about to sell some old books to the collectors of scrap books and newspapers.

In the evening, her father asked her if she had seen similar photos anywhere.

She shook her head.

At that time she thought--even if I saw it, I wouldn't say it.

"Is that one of our relatives?" she asked.

Mother's expression became weird again. The father said, "No, just someone he knows. Remember, he is not our family. There is no such person in our family."

After the incident was turned over, she pasted the two pieces of photos she picked up together. For many days and nights, when she thought of the person in the photo, she felt that the other person had something to say to her.

She has an aunt. It stands to reason that the aunt is very close relatives, but her mother dislikes the aunt very much. She was hiding something in her heart, knowing that asking her parents would not produce results, so she thought of her aunt.

What if the auntie knows!

Taking advantage of the holiday, she went to her aunt's house and took out the photo after giving the gift.

The aunt said, isn't this Qin Ying?

Qin Ying, she knew for the first time that she still had a younger uncle, and this younger uncle had disappeared before she was born, and her grandparents passed away one after another because she could not accept her uncle's disappearance.

She has reached the age where she likes to think, and can't help but wonder, is my uncle really missing? If he is really missing, why don't the parents dare to mention him? Why can't I find anything related to my uncle except this photo at home?

Gradually, she had a terrible guess in her mind.

She tried to refute herself, but couldn't find a basis for the refutation.

The suspense enthusiasts forum gathered a group of people with big brains. There were many replies to this post, and many people came to the same conclusion-your brother was not missing, but was killed by your parents.

Some people even say that your grandparents might not die naturally.

As for motives, opinions differ.

"Qin Ke registered for this forum five years ago, and posted this post four years ago, when she was only 17 years old." Ming Shu said, "Can you find out where she went online?"

Zhou Yuan nodded, "It's an Internet cafe on Longcheng Road."

"Qin Ke started to indulge herself at the age of 17." Ming Shu walked a few steps in front of the screen, "It seems that this incident has indeed affected her entire outlook on life."

Zhou Yuan said: "It's a pity that she has been killed, otherwise she must be able to provide us with more information."

Mingshu assigned the task: "Continue to screen Qin Ke's interpersonal relationship, and one more thing, you will have to work harder in technical investigation."

Zhou Yuan immediately stood up straight, "Team Ming, just give your orders."

"I suspect that the murderer spotted Qin Ke on the Internet a long time ago." Ming Shu said: "I want to find a way to find people who observe Qin Ke secretly."

Qin Ying was an unexpected line. While touching this line, the routine investigation was not interrupted.

Qin Xiong Huanghui is a businessman. Before the end of this summer, he was still a hegemon in the catering industry on Longcheng Road. Xu Chunfeng rushed back, with a clue that cannot be ignored——

The predecessor of "Cheng Jianghu", "Xinyang Kitchen", also made Jianghu dishes, because there was a popular "baby shrimp" next to it, and "Xinyang Kitchen" had been in poor business.

The word "Xinyang" comes from Qu Xinyang, the son of the boss Qu Yongfei. The child suffered from heart disease and was in dire need of a sum of money for treatment last year. Qu Yongfei and his wife were greedy for the dark. In order to boost business, they specially developed a double-joint dish. But it didn't take long for this dish to be copied by "Baby Shrimp".

Shuangpin is not really innovative, but in the third section of Longcheng Road, only "Xinyang Kitchen" does this. "Baby Shrimp" obviously borrowed from Qu Yongfei's creativity.

For this reason, Qu Yongfei consulted and asked Qin Xiong. But Qin Xiong said in front of many people: "We are doing our own business. Your business is not good. You can't make it by yourself. Whose family has no problem? I will take care of your family today, and tomorrow will be the road ahead. All of my bosses came to sell me and beg me to take care of me. Can I still do this business?"

In the first half of this year, Qu Xinyang failed to make it through and left, and "Xinyang Kitchen" stopped welcoming guests after lingering for a period of time. After that, he welcomed a new boss and became "Cheng Jianghu".

At present, Qu Yongfei's family has left Dongye City and is missing. Qu Yongfei is not without the motive of committing the crime.

When Xu Chun discussed the case with Ming Shu, Lan Qiao came to the crime team.

"Yo, Qiao'er is here!" Xu Chun greeted, "We just ordered dinner, and we will eat together later."

Lan Qiao looked serious, with a little apologize between her eyebrows, "I know that the serious crime team is now being crushed by two cases, and there is no room left to manage other cases. But I must report to you the case of Qiu Min's disappearance."

Mingshu opened the table and chairs, "Don't be so polite, let's talk about it, let's solve it together."

Lan Qiao took Hong Chuanfei away from Qiu Min, and Qiu Min was taken away by another person to Ming Shu completely, saying: "The clue was broken at Yatou Mountain. If you continue to investigate, it will inevitably involve Shouquan Town—— Because Qiu Min's mobile phone was last used in Shouquan Town. The case you are following is also in Shouquan Town."

"This person who took Qiu Min away is not easy." Xiao Yuan appeared in the crime team, "He is borrowing Hong Chuanfei's hands to do something."

"Xiao Ju!" Lan Qiao stood up quickly without having dealt with Xiao Yu'an.

Xiao Yuan smiled gently at her, "Blue team, you have worked hard."

After hearing the ins and outs, Ming Shu was walking through clues in his mind, and suddenly he heard whose cellphone was ringing.

Xu Chun looked left and right, "Team Ming, your phone."

Ming Shu picked it up and saw that it was the little apprentice Fang Yuanhang.

Connected, the noise came along with Fang Yuanhang's voice: "Master! Your inference is correct! There is indeed a corpse on Qiyue Mountain!"