Original Sin (I)
Shen Xingyan had never felt so happy before. When she was having dinner, Shen Lan and Chen Hua had not returned yet. In order not to disturb the two of them from their own world, I slipped back after dinner. Her mind was filled with the lovey-dovey scenes between the two, and her eyes were no longer smiling.
I slept very well at night and woke up bright and clear. Around noon, I called Shen Lin and asked her indirectly about their progress.
Shen Lin said: "They didn't come back last night."
Shen Xingyan was stunned. It turned out that when middle-aged people get crazy, they are just as capable as young people.
An Xin saw her smiling for the whole morning and couldn't help wondering, "Xiao Shen, what are you so happy about? Tell us."
Shen Xingyan rolled his eyes at him, "Buddha said it cannot be explained, it cannot be explained."
An Xin: ...
Bao Wu laughed, "Xiao An, don't ask about girls' affairs. I see that Xiao Shen's Red Luan star has moved."
Just as Shen Xingyan was about to deny it, the door was pushed open and Gu Fang strode in. He threw the key on Shen Xingyan's desk and said, "I've made a key for you. Please help me walk the ball. I have to go on a business trip and will bring you a gift when I come back." After that, he left.
Shen Xingyan threw the key into the drawer. An Xin stared at her movements, feeling bitter.
Bao Wu smiled and said something ambiguous, Shen Xingyan explained: "We are just ordinary colleagues and neighbors!"
Bao Wu let out a long sigh and went to read the newspaper.
Shen Xingyan sighed, why not believe it.
The phone on the table rang. Bao Wu picked up the receiver, said a few words, looked at An Xin, and hummed.
An Xin looked at him anxiously, having a bad feeling in his heart.
Bao Wu: "I received a notice that Anxin will end his study on September 20 and return to his original position."
"So fast?!" An Xin was not happy, "I haven't finished learning yet."
"There is no end to forensic knowledge. If you have any questions, feel free to call me and I will tell you everything I know."
An Xin nodded dejectedly. He was reluctant to leave this place, especially her.
Shen Xingyan smiled and said, "This is a happy thing. Don't be sad. I will arrange a farewell banquet for you before you leave."
An Xin could only smile. She didn't understand what he was thinking. He thought, forget it, just keep it in your heart. The two of them were not suitable for each other.
There were still two days until September 20th. Shen Xingyan found a cost-effective restaurant near the Municipal Bureau and booked a table and dishes. However, the reservation was cancelled because An Xin received a temporary assignment and had to return to work early. Shen Xingyan sighed for several days about this.
Shen Xingyan and Bao Wu were the only ones left in the forensic room. Most of the time, the only sounds in the room were the flipping of books and newspapers.
The door was pushed open and Qi Jiabao ran in, "Sister Chen, a suicide has occurred and Director Zhang asked us to go to the scene." Gu Fang had not returned yet.
"With you?" Shen Xingyan was surprised that Zhang Changming actually asked Qi Jiabao to go to the scene.
Her tone hurt Qi Jiabao, and he said aggrievedly: "And Brother Jiang."
Shen Xingyan smiled, knowing that her tone was a bit hurtful, "I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter, I will grow up." Qi Jiabao vowed.
Shen Xingyan packed her things, went out with Qi Jiabao, and got into Jiang Shengyu's car.
After the child trafficking case, Jiang Shengyu gave his son a good beating and confiscated a bunch of messy books. Jiang Xuyao didn’t think he had done anything wrong. He read these books in order to become a criminal policeman in the future. If it weren't for these books, would he be able to help the Criminal Investigation Team so easily? Jiang Shengyu, who is usually eloquent, was speechless because of his son's silence.
The accident occurred in a rented house in the city, and the deceased was a man in his thirties. According to the landlord, the man owed rent for several months. She came to ask for payment several times, but each time he said that he was short of money and would pay in a few days. This time the landlord was determined that no matter what he said, we had to move out.
But what she didn't expect was that the man was dead. The landlord felt unlucky. Not only could he not collect rent, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to rent out the house. Therefore, the landlord's face looked very ugly.
The police officer in charge of the scene said that they came after receiving the report, and no one except the landlord had entered the scene. The landlord said his name was Chang Tian and he worked as a welder in a foundry.
Shen Xingyan nodded at them, raised the alert and led them in. As soon as he entered, he smelled a odor and Shen Xingyan frowned. Fortunately, he was wearing a mask.
The rental house is about 20 square meters, with one bedroom, one bathroom and a small balcony. The room faces north and is a bit shady because it never sees sunlight all year round.
There is a wardrobe against the south wall, with clothes for four seasons stuffed in a haphazard manner. Next to the wardrobe is a black suitcase that is missing a wheel.
The head of the bed is facing west, about ten centimeters away from the balcony. There were bowls and chopsticks on the bedside table, with a little vegetable soup in the bowl and two beer bottles next to it.
There were also beer bottles on the floor and under the bed, some upright and some lying down. There were still a lot of food residues on the ground. The floor was very dirty and hadn't been cleaned for a long time.
At this time, a corpse was kneeling on the bed with several clotheslines wrapped around its neck. The other end of the clothesline was tied to the clothesline on the top of the balcony through the window.
The corpse's upper body was leaning forward, with its heels against the wall and its hands stretched diagonally downward, as if trying to reach the edge of the bed. His eyes were wide open, almost bursting. The tip of his tongue was exposed and his saliva was all over the floor.
The deceased was incontinent and the stolen goods flowed onto the bed sheets, so the whole room was filled with the smell of urine.
Qi Jiabao looked at the body in shock, "He wanted to die so badly that he strangled himself to death."
Shen Xingyan touched the body and found it was very hard. He then pressed the corpse spots and found that they had faded a little. "He has been dead for about 15 hours. It is now 11 o'clock in the morning. The time of death should have been 8 o'clock last night."
Shen Xingyan cut the clothesline, and Qi Jiabao and Jiang Shengyu held the corpse and slowly laid it flat. Because rigor mortis is at its stiffest, the corpse still maintains the posture before death.
Shen Xingyan checked the marks on his neck and made a preliminary comparison with the clothesline, and the marks matched.
There was no mechanical damage to the body and the appearance of the body was consistent with death by suffocation.
Shen Xingyan tightened the clothesline around the evidence bag. "I think Jiabao is right. He must have wanted to die so badly that he strangled himself to death. When a person is dying, they will instinctively want to survive and will inevitably struggle. But his posture doesn't show any signs of struggle. If he really wants to survive, he can just shrink back, unless he has a strong will.
For a person who is so poor that he can't even pay the rent, if he has such a strong will, there is no need to worry about achieving anything. ”
Jiang Shengyu sneered, "You don't know this. Some people would rather give up their lives than work hard to change their lives. Maybe he is such a person."
Shen Xingyan shook his head. "He is a welder in a foundry. As far as I know, the salary for this position is not low. How did he end up living like this?"
Jiang Shengyu asked the landlord, "Does he have any bad hobbies?"
The landlord covered his nose, not daring to look at the body. "He liked gambling. He played cards all the time except when he was working. I guess he spent all his salary on gambling. I told him many times to pay the rent first after receiving his salary, but he just wouldn't listen. I was too soft-hearted. If I had kicked him out earlier, he wouldn't have died in my house. It's too unlucky..."
Jiang Shengyu interrupted her complaints, "Where is he betting?"
"I don't know. I just heard it from my other tenants."
"Where are the other tenants?"
"Next door." The landlord divided the house into several rooms for rent.
Jiang Shengyu was about to knock on the door, but the landlord said he had gone to work and would not be back until the evening.
After investigating the scene and collecting evidence, the body was transported back to the municipal bureau. The rest will have to wait until the family members arrive.
The family members arrived the next morning, a man and a woman. The woman was Chang Tian’s wife and the man was his cousin.
Chang Tian’s wife collapsed when she saw the corpse in the freezer, but her cousin was slightly calm, but his face was very pale. He supported Changtian's wife and cried silently.
Jiang Shengyu sighed and counseled them, "Please accept my condolences, things have come to this point and there is no way to save them. You still need to take care of Chang Tian's funeral."
Changtian's wife took a long breath before she burst into tears, "Changtian, Changtian! How could you die? If you die, it will be the end of everything. What about me and the children?"
Jiang Shengyu's heart moved, "How many children do you have?"
"A son and a daughter."
"Has Chang Tian contacted you recently?"
"He called me a few days ago and said that it was hard to make money outside and he wanted to come back. It's all my fault. I didn't let him come back. It's my fault. I shouldn't have pushed him. I pushed him to death!"
"Can you please clarify which day the call was made?"
"I remember it rained heavily that day, so heavily that it blew down a big willow tree in the village."
Cousin: “Five days ago.”
"That's September 23rd, why don't you let him go back?"
My cousin sighed, "Because our family is poor, the village fined us a lot of money when we had our second child. We borrowed the money from relatives and friends, and we have to pay it back."
Chang Tian’s wife started crying again. “I said I didn’t want to have a baby, but my mother-in-law insisted that I do so, saying that the villagers would laugh at our family for not having a boy. Now, no one is laughing at us, but Chang Tian is dead!”
Cousin: "Officer, did Chang Tian really commit suicide?"
"This is what the situation at the scene looks like."
"He has always cherished his life, how could he commit suicide? Are you kidding me?"
"If you have any objections, you can request an autopsy. Our police will go to the scene again to investigate Chang Tian's social connections."
Chang Tian's wife wiped her tears, her eyes wide open, "Didn't Chang Tian commit suicide?"
Cousin: "It's just a feeling. We still need the police to help us check it out."
Jiang Shengyu nodded, "Wait a moment, I'll go call the forensic doctor."
Shen Xingyan came with Jiang Shengyu, holding documents in her hands. She actually had some questions about Chang Tian's death, and she thought Jiang Shengyu had the same question. She said to Changtian’s wife, “If you want to dissect the body, you need to sign this.”
Chang Tian's wife stared at Shen Xingyan without blinking, "You are so young, can you do it?"
Jiang Shengyu smiled, "Don't worry, although forensic doctor Shen is young, she is very experienced and has dissected many corpses. She will not make a mistake in the cause of death."
My cousin was a little nervous, but he had been driven here, so he could only trust them. "We have to trust the police."
Chang Tian's wife nodded and signed. "Well, let me ask again, does the autopsy mean cutting Chang Tian open with a knife?"
"Yes, that's the only way to determine the cause of his death."
Chang Tian's wife hesitated, "Wouldn't it be too cruel to Chang Tian? If my mother-in-law knew, she would scold me to death."
Seeing how timid she was, Shen Xingyan was afraid that she would not have a good life in her husband's family. After her husband's death, her life would be even more difficult.
My cousin was more sober. "If Chang Tian didn't commit suicide, then he would have died an unjust death."
Chang Tian's wife was horrified. "No, no, if that happens, Chang Tian will come back to me! Autopsy, or autopsy!"
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