Red Makeup Serial Murder Case (1)

In the car, Han Changlin listened to everyone's laughter and looked out the window silently, his eyes slowly becoming moist.

Because just at the beginning of last year, a heinous kidnapping case of Sun Beizhe occurred in Jinyang City, which is still vivid in his mind. He made a wrong judgment at that time, and he thought he would spend the rest of his life in regret.

He remembered clearly that it was Meng Siqi who found Sun Beizhe's body in the basement of Jin Yaming and Song Xinran's photo studio and solved the Sun Beizhe case.

He was in a state of extreme tension during the kidnapping of Xu Yizhou this time. He was afraid that he would make a wrong decision like he did a year ago, and the kidnappers would kill the hostages and their children. If that happened, he would not be qualified to continue doing criminal investigation work, so he was treading on thin ice with every step.

Xu Yizhou returned safely, no one was injured, the child kidnapping case five years ago was successfully solved, and the murderer Xu Wangtu who molested and murdered the child was brought to justice.

Jiang Sheng, the white-faced demon who cast Jinyang City into gloom, was also successfully arrested.

Meng Siqi played an important role here, and an extremely crucial role. For Team 2, Meng Siqi is the treasure of Team 2. Only with her can Team 2 be comparable to Team 1 and make the Municipal Bureau shine.

Han Changlin sighed at the many surprising changes that Meng Siqi had brought to the second team over the past year, and a gratified smile slowly formed on the corners of his mouth.

While Zhao Lei Ting was talking nonstop, Feng Shaomin also looked out the window, his eyes were sore, he couldn't imagine how he had spent this afternoon, he remembered that when he went to the airport waiting hall, he was completely unconscious, he seemed to have lost the feeling of his five senses, the sound of gunfire above Xiang Jie's head hit his mind again and again.

If Meng Siqi met with an accident, he didn't know how he could be a qualified policeman for the rest of his life. He was not worthy, and he was even less worthy of being their master. Xiang Jie was his pride, and Meng Siqi was even more his pride. How contented a person would be to have two such excellent apprentices in his life.

When he heard that Meng Siqi had returned safely and had fought back and killed the white-faced man, he burst into tears while standing in the crowded airport waiting hall.

He couldn't calm down for a long time. Han Changlin waited for him to calm down before saying, "Old Feng, let's go back and take Siqi home. She must need us now."

"Yes... Let's go back to see my apprentice." Feng Shaomin wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes with his fingers, "Let's go."

Zhao Lei Ting asked: "Team Korea, do you want to buy a bouquet? Siqi will be very happy to see the flowers when she comes out of the hospital."

"Sure, we'll pay for it from the department's funds," said Han Changlin.

"Don't spend that money. Xiao Meng certainly doesn't want us to have such a grand ceremony. I know this kid," Feng Shaomin said. "I'll treat everyone to a meal later."

"Brother Feng, this is not a joke." Zhao Lei Ting cheered.

"Yes, Brother Feng, I always thought I had to wait until your daughter got married before I could eat your food." Tang Xiaochuan also agreed.

"I'm telling you guys..." Feng Shaomin glared at them, "From now on, I'll treat everyone to a meal when my apprentices get married, have children, or have their children attend school."

"Good." Everyone laughed and applauded.

A few days later, Meng Siqi learned that Jiang Sheng was no longer in danger of death. Although he had lost too much blood, he was treated in time. His right hand was pierced by a bullet and had been amputated in half, and his lower body was completely disabled.

Meng Siqi didn't expect that she stabbed so accurately at that time. In fact, she knew she was going to die and was just thinking about fighting for her life.

The next step is to wait for Jiang Sheng to be discharged from the hospital for interrogation. In fact, Jiang Sheng’s guilt has already been established, and the interrogation is just to supplement some details of the evidence.

After some time, Meng Siqi heard that Jiang Sheng had returned to the police station for interrogation. He cried and shouted that he wanted to see Meng Siqi, otherwise he would refuse to confess. However, Lu He refused to allow it. The reason Lu He gave was, "The suspect has a urine bag hanging on him, how can you let a girl see him?"

Meng Siqi would not even meet him. She also knew that Lu He would soon find a way to interrogate Jiang Sheng, and Jiang Sheng would eventually receive the severe punishment he deserved under the law.

He has committed countless crimes, taking human lives lightly, and his crimes are too numerous to count. The only sentence waiting for him is the death penalty. Interrogating him is just to uncover more of his criminal accomplices.

One day after get off work, Lu He invited her to dinner. This was also the last time Lu He had time to cook a sumptuous dinner after finishing a case.

Four dishes were placed on the table, three dishes and one soup, garlic pork ribs, beef stew with potatoes, scrambled eggs with black fungus, and tomato egg soup. These dishes were all Meng Siqi's favorites. She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Lu He, I remember I never told you what I like to eat. Why do you always cook according to my taste?"

"Want to know?" Lu He said.

"Hmm? You're not asking Zhao Lei Ting, are you?"

"No, it's very simple. I only need to watch you get your meals a few times in the cafeteria to know what you like. If there are several big meat dishes in the cafeteria at the same time, you will give priority to spareribs and beef. You like to eat the cold black fungus dish in the cafeteria. For vegetables, you like shredded potatoes. You also like to eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes. I remember that you like to add some garlic seasoning. You see, the elements I mentioned are recombined..."

Meng Siqi was somewhat touched. She had never thought that Lu He had paid attention to her in real life. She deliberately said, "No, other people also like to eat these. These are all old dishes in the cafeteria."

"You don't like bitter melon, pumpkin, or coriander. You eat less Chinese cabbage and leeks. You don't like mutton, and you eat less pork. You like fish and shrimp. By the way, I'll cook fish for you next time."

Meng Siqi was stunned. It turned out how terrifying it was to use criminal investigation techniques in real life. She didn't know what else Lu He was concerned about her, but for someone like Lu He, if he cared about something, he should just observe it a little.

No, why did she mention the word "care"? Didn't Lu He say that he would formally pursue her after solving the Hong Zhuang serial murder case? Was he doing an early internship?

"Thank you, Lu He." Meng Siqi didn't know how to express her feelings at this moment. This made her very moved, but she had no emotional experience. She didn't know what her current mood was. She had to ask her heart carefully.

"Okay, eat it quickly, it's getting cold."

"Okay." Meng Siqi couldn't hold back any longer. She picked up a piece of garlic-flavored spareribs and started eating. She didn't expect the taste to be so rich and authentic. She felt that Lu He's cooking skills were no worse than his criminal investigation ability.

Meng Siqi was really hungry today, and Lu He used a serving chopstick to pick up some food for her several times. Meng Siqi ate very well, and she smiled at Lu He while eating to show that the food was really delicious.

After finishing her meal, she touched her stomach quietly. It was bulging, and she realized that she had eaten more than half of it. Meng Siqi was not a foodie, but she would never act pretentiously when she was hungry.

Lu He always watched her chewing. Her pale red lips were bright red because of the greasiness of the food, highlighting her pure beauty. He rarely spoke, but just looked at her seriously and occasionally said "slow down".

After dinner, Lu He collected the dishes, wiped the table, and poured her a glass of warm water.

When he sat back down again, Meng Siqi asked, "Lu He, how's Jiang Sheng's interrogation going?" Recently, it was mainly Team One that was interrogating Jiang Sheng, with Team Han and Ogawa also participating in a small part of the interrogation. She did not participate, so she still wanted to know something about the evidence of Jiang Sheng's crimes in the Ruan Mengying case and the missing textile worker case.

"I was just about to talk to you." Lu He moved the stool to sit next to her, and he poured some water on the table with a cup.

With his fingers soaked in water, he began to mark Jiang Sheng's life trajectory on the table.

Jiang Sheng lived with his mother until he was seven years old. His mother was named He Man and she was a salesperson in a retail store at the time.

Meng Siqi remembered that Jiang Sheng had mentioned to her that Jiang Sheng's mother had to wear a uniform when working, and often brought female colleagues in uniform back home to live with her. That was the psychological inspiration for Jiang Sheng to develop a fetish for uniforms.

Lu He said that Jiang Sheng was studying at Hope Primary School in Jinyang City at the time, and his Chinese teacher was Xie Wenjuan, Xu Wangtu's wife.

Jiang Sheng once heard Xu Wangtu and his wife Xie Wenjuan arguing. At that time, Xie Wenjuan cursed Xu Wangtu for "touching the child" and said that "touching the child is illegal."

At that time, Xu Wangtu's indecent behavior might have been elementary, such as molesting his wife Xie Wenjuan's students, but it was well concealed, so it was not exposed at the time. At that time, Xu Wangtu's son Xu Jianfei was very young and still living with his ex-wife.

Jiang Sheng had a deep memory of Xu Wangtu because of this quarrel, especially the fact that a child heard the words "touch the child", which made him remember it for a lifetime. This is also the reason why he quickly associated Xu Wangtu with four cases of child molestation and kidnapping in Jinyang City five years ago. Of course, he also secretly investigated Xu Wangtu before confirming that it was him.

Lu He said that Jiang Sheng kidnapped Xu Wangtu's granddaughter for two reasons. One reason was that the kidnapping case could overshadow the Seattle club case and distract the police. This was because the child kidnapping case occurred not long after the Xiang Jie case five years ago. Jiang Sheng believed that it was those four kidnapping cases five years ago that distracted the social impact of the Xiang Jie case, allowing him to completely escape the police's pursuit. So this time he used the same trick again.

Another reason is that Jiang Sheng really wanted to take Meng Siqi away, so he used Xu Wangtu as a "gift" and Xu Yizhou as a bargaining chip to force Meng Siqi to commit the crime.

Jiang Sheng told her this reason in the underground garage.

Lu He said: "In fact, Jiang Sheng likes you for a special reason."

"Huh?" Meng Siqi only remembered Jiang Sheng saying that she didn't like money, wasn't greedy for wealth, and wasn't afraid of power.

Lu He said that Jiang Sheng was the illegitimate son of Jiang Tian, ​​chairman of Longcheng Enterprise. Jiang Tian's original wife Tao Mingzhu was infertile. When Jiang Sheng was seven years old, Jiang Tian decided to take Jiang Sheng back to the Jiang family to train him as an heir.

Also that year, Jiang Sheng's biological mother He Man suddenly fell ill and died. Afterwards, Jiang Sheng was successfully taken back to the Jiang family. He was initially placed under the care of Tao Mingzhu, but Tao Mingzhu was very harsh and even abused Jiang Sheng.

Lu He once profiled Jiang Sheng, which may have been the beginning of Jiang Sheng's distorted character. He suffered from bullying and abuse by women, which became the cause of his indifference and hatred towards women, which laid the seeds for his later creation of the Seattle Club.

Tao Mingzhu abused Jiang Sheng and hid her evil deeds very well from Jiang Tian, ​​which made Jiang Sheng hate Tao Mingzhu to the core and also trained his cruel and vigilant character.

Later, as Jiang Sheng grew up, he gradually realized that his biological mother's sudden death might be related to Tao Mingzhu.

That was also the fundamental reason why he decided to kill Tao Mingzhu. Tao Mingzhu died in a car accident. Her death was very tragic. It was said that she was run over by a dump truck and her face was disfigured beyond recognition.

Jiang Sheng overcame the most difficult obstacle in his life when he was a teenager. Since then, he has used his status as the prince of Dragon City Enterprise to build his own entertainment empire, including the Hong Kong Hotel and the Seattle Club.

Lu He said that during the miserable days when Jiang Sheng was bullied and abused by Tao Mingzhu, he always hoped that someone would come to save him.

Naturally, he placed his hopes on the police, as his mother had taught him since he was a child. However, Jiang Sheng's twisted fetish for uniforms made him believe that a beautiful female police officer was the "rainbow" of his life.

Meng Siqi finally remembered what he said when she visited Jiang Sheng at Longcheng Enterprise to investigate the tragic case.

"You guys are fighting against criminals, aren't you jealous? When I was a kid, I had a dream, which was to marry a police officer when I grew up."

"At that time, I was young, weak and worried about being bullied. I just wanted someone to protect me..."

Meng Siqi originally thought that this was a joke Jiang Sheng said to compliment her, but in fact this was his true thought.

Lu He said that Jiang Sheng first saw you when you were playing cards at Meng's house, and he fell in love with you at that time.

Later, you visited him at Longcheng Enterprise in your police uniform, and he fell madly in love with you.

Meng Siqi felt particularly disgusted because she remembered what Jiang Sheng had said to her.

"When I play with women, I can only ejaculate when I see your photo!"

Therefore, all of this explains Jiang Sheng's special feelings for Meng Siqi. Generally speaking, his love for Meng Siqi is extremely obsessive and extreme. He wants her to submit to him and imprison her forever by his side, depriving her of personality and dignity.

Meng Siqi also asked about Ruan Mengying's situation, because Ruan Mengying was the cause of the closure of the Seattle club. Jiang Sheng and Jia Longhui killed so many people, they would never be soft-hearted towards Ruan Mengying.

She remembered Jiang Sheng once said that Ruan Mengying's eyes were like his mother's eyes.

Lu He said that Jiang Sheng didn't really abuse Ruan Mengying, but took special care of her because he liked her eyes.

However, Meng Siqi thought of what Jiang Sheng said, the way he tamed Ruan Mengying every day was very disgusting and cruel. The so-called special care was simply his lie.

She thought Ruan Mengying was a stubborn and rebellious woman, and she was amazing. It was her inner stubbornness and unwillingness to accept her fate that allowed her to escape from the devil's den. Of course, Jiang Sheng also had a hunting mentality when he let her go.

Lu He said that Jia Longhui and several key people in charge of the Seattle club all committed suicide that day. Jiang Sheng threatened them to commit suicide because Jiang Sheng had long controlled their families and threatened them to end their lives. For example, Jia Longhui still had a wife and a pair of children. Jiang Sheng promised to support them after his death and give them a large amount of property.

This is also the reason why no one knew Jiang Sheng’s true identity after the Seattle club roundup, and those who knew his identity were forced to commit suicide.

Meng Siqi also had another question, which was why Jiang Sheng wore a white mask.

Lu He said that Jiang Sheng's white mask originated from a mask game he played when he was a child. At that time, the game was just to stick a piece of white paper on the face, and the child who admitted defeat first would take off the paper to indicate "death".

In that game, the person who leaves the mask on at the end will "survive", so the main idea is "whoever takes off the mask first will die."

When Jiang Sheng first formulated a murder plan, he made his first mask for himself. The inspiration for the white mask came from the white paper game he played as a child. There were two black holes the size of eyes cut out on the white paper.

His first attempt to kill Tao Mingzhu was successful, so he became obsessed with the white mask and would wear it whenever he was not revealing his true identity as the prince of Dragon City Enterprise.

When Lu He said this, his mouth was dry. After drinking some water, his thin lips showed a slightly moist luster. He asked Meng Siqi if he had any other questions.

Meng Siqi actually wanted to ask a question, but she just didn't know how to discuss it. She said, "Lu He, you said before that the White-Faced Man, Jiang Sheng, might be the murderer of the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case because he also used lipstick on Ruan Mengying's body, but Jiang Sheng denied it to me last time."

"Yes." Lu He nodded, "We also interrogated this matter. Jiang Sheng denied it flatly. Jiang Sheng should have told the truth. He did have an alibi for the Hongzhuang serial murder case. The graffiti on Ruan Mengying might be an insult, but it doesn't look like an insult on the victims of the Hongzhuang serial murder case."

Yes. Meng Siqi knew that the makeup on the victims of the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case was very delicate, and the murderer had put a lot of thought into it, and it could even be described as a work of art, so it shouldn't be Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng didn't look like such a meticulous person.

Talking about the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case, both of them seemed to be in a bad mood. Meng Siqi had her reasons, because she was probably brought into this world because of the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case. As for Lu He, he had been brooding over this case from last year to this year. He was unwilling to give up and even used this as a time limit to pursue her.

Maybe he thought that this case must be unusual and hidden great danger. He could take the risk, but he couldn't let her share the risk. This might be the reason why he decided to pursue her after solving the case.

Meng Siqi wanted to lighten the mood and changed the subject, "Lu He, there is one thing I don't understand. How could someone as arrogant as Jiang Sheng really tell you everything, especially his mother's past?"

"Do you know what it is?"

"Hmm? I really want to listen." Meng Siqi pretended to listen attentively.

"Jiang Sheng was very manic after being arrested. He always had only one request, which was to see you."

Meng Siqi simply didn't understand why Jiang Sheng would make such a request.

"Maybe he hates you very much." Lu He explained, "But he may also regard you as the 'rainbow' in his life. He must have needed an image like you to save him when he was a child. After he grew up, he saw you, as if he saw the savior he fantasized about when he was a child."

Meng Siqi had some understanding, but she would never go to see him. She asked: "So, Jiang Sheng asked to see me, and you agreed."

"No. But Director Liu agreed."

"Ah?" Meng Siqi was very curious.

"Old Liu promised Jiang Sheng that he could let him meet you. But he needed to explain the mistakes he made. That's why Jiang Sheng explained everything. Old Liu still has his ways."

Meng Siqi asked hurriedly: "What about now? Director Liu has broken his promise."

Lu He smiled and said, "Old Liu is a man who has seen all kinds of situations. He brought your ID photo to the interrogation room and showed it to Jiang Sheng."

Meng Siqi: “…”

She was impressed by Director Liu's approach. But she had a new worry, "What if Jiang Sheng still needs to provide additional testimony? Will Jiang Sheng still cooperate?"

"Then show him your picture again."

Meng Siqi: “…”

Lu He said: "People's needs change with circumstances. Jiang Sheng cursed at Lao Liu that day, but later he begged us to show him your photo."

Meng Siqi: “…”