Strange Case (I)
In order to avoid cooking and meeting Gu Fang and Ming Xuan while eating out, Shen Xingyan packed up and went to Shen Lan's place. Hearing her voice, Shen Lan didn't show any reaction, but Shen Lin felt so distressed that she tried different ways to make different soups and waters for her.
Shen Xingyan ate with peace of mind, and what's more, a week later, she could speak normally again.
To express her gratitude, Shen Xingyan went to Shen Lan and tricked her into buying a set of cosmetics, which she gave to Shen Lin. After Chen Lan found out, she laughed and scolded her for being a traitor. Shen Xingyan argued that Shen Lin had taken care of her for a week, and as a mother, she should show some appreciation, and she was just fulfilling her duties as a surrogate mother.
Chen Lan was speechless and sighed that Shen Xingyan was getting better and better at speaking and would definitely be a good material for doing business in the future.
Shen Xingyan didn't respond. She didn't know how to do business.
When you are well again, you can go back to work.
There have been no murders recently, so the forensic room is rarely busy.
Shen Xingyan made a cup of hot tea and read the newspaper while drinking it. The newspaper was also full of singing and dancing.
Recently, the Second Detachment encountered a strange incident. A man called the police and said that more than 100,000 yuan in cash and a lot of gold and silver jewelry suddenly appeared in his home. He didn't know where they came from and was very scared, so he called the police.
Gu Fang was bored, so he personally took people to investigate the scene.
The man's name is Meng Xiliang, he is about 27 or 28 years old, married, and has a son who is just one year old. He looked haggard, sitting on the sofa, with his wife sitting beside him, holding their child.
The children watched the police busying around with curiosity, their big eyes blinking.
Jiang Shengyu asked Meng Xiliang when he discovered that his family had money.
Meng Xiliang said: "A few days ago."
"What day was it the other day?"
"Three days ago."
"Why did you call the police now?"
Meng Xiliang glanced at his wife and said, "Because of fear, there is too much money."
Meng Xiliang's wife had been frowning and said, "It's not our money, so we can't take it. We make money with our own abilities. Who knows whether the money that falls from the sky is good or bad?"
Jiang Shengyu nodded and said to Meng Xiliang, "You have a good wife. If you didn't call the police, we would have come to your house. The victim of the theft has already reported the case. We have found some clues and are planning to summon you."
Meng Xiliang took a deep breath and secretly felt lucky that he had called the police. He looked at his wife gratefully and fortunately listened to her.
Jiang Shengyu: "Where did you go the day before you found the money?"
"I went to get off work and home normally, didn't go anywhere else, and went to bed after dinner. My wife didn't go to work and has been at home taking care of the children."
Meng Xiliang’s wife also said that he did not go anywhere else and stayed at home the whole day.
Jiang Shengyu found it strange. Money couldn't just appear for no reason.
The results of the on-site investigation showed that there were no signs of outsiders entering the Meng family, and the bag containing money and jewelry had the fingerprints of Meng Xiliang and his wife.
Gu Fang took the bag and took it back to the Municipal Bureau as evidence. He also told Meng Xiliang not to leave Nanfu City and to contact the police immediately if he remembered anything.
Meng Xiliang quickly agreed, and when he sent them to the door, he said, "I couldn't help but spend a few hundred yuan. I had never seen so much money before, and I was itching to spend it. But I made up for it later."
Meng Xiliang smiled awkwardly. After all, he was an honest man and would not dare to spend money of unknown origin.
Gu Fang patted his shoulder to show his understanding.
The victim was called Jia San. He and his wife were waiting at the Municipal Bureau. They were notified that the money had been found, and they rushed over without stopping.
I first checked the amount of cash, then checked the jewelry one by one, and made sure they were theirs. I then signed for them before returning them to them.
Jia Sanqian thanked him profusely, praised Gu Fang as a great detective, and said he would send him a banner.
Gu Fang waved his hand, "Forget about these empty words. Don't keep so much cash at home. Put it in the bank and lock the jewelry in the safe."
"Yes, yes, we'll be careful next time." Jia Lan and his wife were about to leave, but Gu Fang stopped them, "We need to go to the scene again to take a look."
"Okay, we'll be staying in the hotel these days and won't destroy the scene." Jia San made his fortune by trading seafood and has the temperament of a nouveau riche. He obeyed the police's orders. His wife was a country girl, honest and decent, and she didn't dare to raise any objections.
The Jia family lived in a small Western-style building in the suburbs. They had a large garden with large roses planted in it, and next to the roses there were small strips of lettuce and green onions.
Gu Fang stepped in, and Shen Xingyan followed behind him, holding inspection tools in his hands.
"Why are there only two of us here? Haven't our colleagues from the Trace Inspection Department already conducted the investigation?"
"I think it's a little strange. Let me check it again."
"What's strange about that?" Despite what he said, Shen Xingyan still put on shoe covers and gloves and took out tools to do a re-inspection.
"We received a report from Jia San and found that his home had been robbed. There were signs that the door had been pried open and the room had been searched. The thief stayed in his home for quite a while and stole a large amount of cash and jewelry.
When checking the surveillance video, the thief ran away with the bag in broad daylight. According to normal thinking, he should have avoided the surveillance video. We quickly targeted Meng Xiliang and were planning to arrest him, but he actually took the initiative to report the case, saying that a large amount of cash and jewelry appeared in his home. When we asked him where he had gone, he said he was going to and from get off work as usual.
He made no mention of the theft, as if it had never happened. ”
“Maybe he knew the police had found him and pretended.
"I suspected the same thing, but his expression didn't seem like he was lying. I felt something was wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on it. So I wanted to re-investigate the scene to see if there were any clues."
Shen Xingyan nodded. The room was a normal theft scene. Meng Xiliang did not wear gloves when committing the crime, and his fingerprints could be seen everywhere. Because the floor was paved with tiles, the carrier for preserving the shoe print was poor and only half of the shoe print was extracted.
Shen Xingyan: "If he was deliberate, why didn't he wear gloves? If not, how did he know that Jia San and his wife were not at home, and how did he know that there was a large amount of cash in his house?"
"They should have checked the area in advance. This is a villa area. No one knows each other behind locked doors. It would not be easy for someone to be discovered if they came here on purpose to check the area. We interviewed Meng Xiliang's colleagues, and they said that Meng Xiliang is an honest person who works diligently and never asks for leave. On the day the Jia family was robbed, he also went to get off work as usual, and the time we saw on the surveillance camera was 11:04 pm."
"He came out while his wife and children were asleep."
"Yes, so Meng Xiliang's wife thought he was at home all night."
"Meng Xiliang is lying?"
"He doesn't look like he's lying."
"Is he sleepwalking?"
Gu Fang laughed twice, "Who sleepwalks and steals?"
"Too."
After packing up her things, Shen Xingyan followed Gu Fang back to the Municipal Bureau. Because it was just a burglary and the stolen property was recovered, the police closed the case. Apart from the fact that Shen Xingyan left Meng Xiliang's fingerprints and shoe prints, there was no other stir.
It so happened that another murder occurred and everyone was busy solving the case, so this burglary was gradually forgotten.
After some time, Mingxuan came to the Municipal Bureau, hoping that the Nanfu City Police would help investigate an old case. The victim in this case had been dead for almost ten years and his identity had just been confirmed. He was Qiao Laoliu, a migrant worker from Nanfu to Jingshi. She and the detachment leader Ling Qi went to Nanfu City to investigate Qiao Laoliu's social relations.
Gu Fang was unable to leave, so he asked Wen Ke to bring people to accompany them on the visit.
Ling Qi is a typical northern man, who is big and strong, speaks like a loud bell and is generous. He heard that Gu Fang was also investigating the murder case, so he refused to let Wen Ke help and took the map, determined to look for the case himself.
Ming Xuan said from the side: "The criminal police are busy, but the forensic doctor is not busy. I heard that Shen Xingyan, the forensic doctor of the Municipal Bureau, is very good."
"I know her. She graduated from the same school as you."
"Yes, we are still classmates."
"That's great, we can let her walk with us."
Shen Xingyan didn't expect to see Mingxuan again. She thought she had returned to Beijing.
Ming Xuan introduced Ling Qi, "Team Ling is our top detective, no worse than Gu Fang."
Shen Xingyan smiled and said, "Hello, Captain Ling. I'm just a forensic doctor. I don't know much about solving cases. If I say anything wrong during the visit, please don't laugh at me."
"No, no, everyone has their specialties, and your specialty is forensics." Ling Qi secretly looked at Shen Xingyan. He always thought that she would be like Ming Xuan, a person with a strong appearance, but who knew that she was actually a soft little girl. He didn't dare to say anything harsh for fear of scaring her.
Mingxuan said: "Xingyan, you are too modest. I heard a lot about your deeds when I came here last time."
Ling Qi instantly became interested, and Shen Xingyan waved her hands hurriedly, "My colleagues love me and deliberately gave the credit to me. I am still far behind Captain Gu. By the way, when are we going to visit?" In order not to continue to dwell on herself, she changed the subject.
"Let's go now. I borrowed a car from Wen Ke."
Ling Qi drove them. Shen Xingyan took a look at where they were going and found out that it was the shanty town where bodies were buried on the highway. The road there had not been repaired yet, so the car couldn't go in halfway, so they had to get off the car and walk.
Fortunately, the three of them were in good physical condition and they walked for several miles without even getting out of breath.
Most of the people living in the shantytowns are the original inhabitants of Nanfu. Those who can afford it have moved to the urban area, while those who cannot can only stay here.
Every family has a small courtyard wall, some are made of bricks and are higher, while others are made of adobe and reach the height of a person's shoulders.
The deceased, Qiao Laoliu, was the youngest in the family, with two older brothers and three older sisters.
Now, only my parents are left at home. My father is in poor health and takes medicine all year round, and my mother runs the family alone.
When Qiao's mother heard that it was the police and that they brought news about Lao Liu, she was very excited and asked, "Where is my Xiao Liu?"
Mingxuan said, "I'm sorry, Auntie, Qiao Laoliu is gone."
Mother Qiao sighed and said, "I guessed it after all these years of no news, but I just didn't want to admit it. The old man and I kept this breath, waiting for news from him, but I didn't expect him to leave before us."
Father Qiao coughed violently for a while, gasping for breath and said, "How did Xiaoliu die?"
"Because when he was found, only bones were left, and the cause of death cannot be determined at this time."
Just when Shen Xingyan was about to stop Mingxuan, she told Qiao's parents the truth. When Qiao's mother heard that only bones were left, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
Shen Xingyan hurried over, supported her, pinched her Ren Zhong, rubbed her chest, and gave her a sip of hot water, and she woke up.
Father Qiao was anxious and struggled to get out of bed, accidentally falling to the ground. Fortunately, Ling Qi cushioned him and he was not seriously injured.
Ling Qi looked at Ming Xuan reproachfully, "Don't be so blunt when communicating with the deceased's family."
Mingxuan's face turned pale. "I know."
After Qiao's mother recovered, she beat her chest and cried, "My poor Liu'er, how could you die outside? Who was the culprit? I will avenge you!"
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