The place where Li Xiaonuan was found was a garbage dump. Unlike the messy scene in the photo, this place is completely different from what it used to be.

Now it is a large shopping mall, about three blocks away from the training center, less than five minutes by car, and ten minutes by electric tricycle.

Go south along this street and turn a corner, and you will arrive at the agency where Wu Honglin took the car before. The tricycle also takes about ten minutes, and the time of 8:50 is very consistent with the murder route.

Back to the training center, the boss is back.

The middle-aged man with a big belly never thought that someone would come to ask about something that happened more than ten years ago.

However, the visitor is a beauty and a celebrity, and the boss warmly received her.

"Teacher Jian, I've read your book. Is this where you got the material from?" He thought he had grasped the truth and said in surprise, "I didn't expect that all your cases have prototypes."

This is true.

Jian Jing smiled: "Do you still remember what happened back then?"

"I remember. After all, she was someone I knew, how could I forget." The boss was indeed very impressed with Li Xiaonuan, "The girl who died was called... Li Xiaonuan, right? She was thin and pretty, with two dimples on her face when she smiled."

He fell into memories: "In 2007, I had just saved up some money and decided to open a cram school. I recruited elementary school students, and I wanted to make the classroom prettier, so I specially hired someone to paint the background wall of the classroom. The girl was from the Academy of Fine Arts. She showed me her practice drafts. She painted well and charged cheaply, so I hired her.

"I was busy with the decoration those days, so I gave her the key directly and I would come over occasionally to take a look. Don't mention it, the little girl worked very hard. She just ate two bites of biscuits at noon and didn't eat any rice. I felt bad for her, so I put some snacks in the store and told her not to be polite. She was quite embarrassed, saying that she often did this, so her stomach was not good and she was used to it... You think her parents would be so distressed to know that their child didn't take care of her body... Alas...

"To be honest, I still regret it when I think about it. I didn't expect that she would be harmed by others like this. If I had known earlier, I would definitely let her go back to school earlier. She is only 20 years old."

The boss was full of emotions and started to sigh after just a few words.

Jian Jing interrupted her: "Can you tell me about what the surrounding area was like before?"

"This area was just built in 2007, and the shops on our street were the first to come out. They were very cheap, and I bought three at once for only a few hundred thousand. Now a storefront costs more than a million, and the location is not good."

All men have a bad habit: they love to show off in front of pretty girls.

The boss was no exception and kept emphasizing his foresight: "I started early. There were not many shops on the street at that time. I remember that the most popular one was an Internet cafe for playing games, followed by a movie theater and a burger shop. There was a wholesale clothing store on the corner. Girls loved to come here to buy clothes on weekends. The others were for rent."

He showed a proud look: "These people have poor vision. How many years will it take to make back the money if they buy a shop and wait to rent it out? For me, I made back the money in three years."

Jian Jing asked: "Then at night, is the street full of people? There are not many people here?"

The boss nodded slowly, and said, "It gets dark early in winter. At seven or eight o'clock, there are only a few lights on in this street. Other places are dark. There are not many buses, and the subway is not running."

She nodded and asked, "What was Li Xiaonuan wearing the last time you saw her?"

The boss said without hesitation, "A red coat, very pretty." He paused and sighed, "I heard it was burned? All the clothes were burned? What a sin, I don't know which inhuman beast did it."

She knew what was going on in her heart.

"Thank you, sorry to bother you."

After leaving the training center, Jian Jing was full of doubts.

Li Xiaonuan's behavior was too strange.

Just imagine, in a deserted new district, there were only a few lights on the road, how could a girl get on a black car without any precautions?

The roommate's testimony was very clear. During the days when she was painting, Li Xiaonuan went out at 8 or 9 o'clock and came back at 6 or 7 o'clock. It can be seen that she deliberately caught the last bus back.

Assuming that Li Xiaonuan really forgot the time, the first thing she should not do was to go to the burger shop to buy things.

Besides, the time to buy burgers is 17:30.

There is a bus schedule copied by Ji Liming in the file bag. The last bus in the west of the city is 17:50. Although it does not go to the Academy of Fine Arts, it will pass through the city center. If

Jian Jing puts herself in her shoes, she will definitely choose to take the bus first, transfer to the city center, and then buy things to fill her stomach.

Especially the price of the burger shop is not cheap. The copied receipt shows that a burger, a fried fish, and a Coke cost 28 yuan.

28 yuan in 2007.

Li Xiaonuan's family is not well-off, otherwise she wouldn't have taken a part-time job to take orders.

How much does it cost to buy a burger and then take a black car? Therefore, when Li Xiaonuan was about to catch the last bus, she did not rush to catch the bus, but bought a burger instead. There is only one other explanation.

She doesn't have to worry about going back to school.

Someone will take her.

Who? The biggest suspect is the boss.

When she was killed, Li Xiaonuan had been painting for a week and was familiar with the boss. The boss also said that he would give her snacks, which shows that there was a foundation of trust between the two parties.

If he said it was going well, Li Xiaonuan would most likely get in his car.

However, the police did not miss this possibility.

To be precise, he was the first person to be investigated after Li Xiaonuan was killed.

But the boss had an alibi, he went to have dinner with people from the educational institution. The party started at 18:00 and ended after 21:00. The restaurant owner and waiter, as well as other people at the dinner party, can testify.

Ji Liming's notes read:

remote place, alone, willing to get on the car, acquaintance (?)

owner (XX restaurant, alibi)

classmate (? I didn't hear about it)

other acquaintances (?)

Zhang Peiru's confession, chartered car?

Yes, the police thought at the time that although the possibility of Li Xiaonuan taking a black car in that environment was not high, assuming that the driver was familiar, she might relax her vigilance.

The training center is about a 20-minute drive (tricycle) to the subway station.

It is entirely possible that Li Xiaonuan wanted to take a black car to the subway station, and happened to have taken Wu Honglin's car before and recognized him, so she got on the car.

This conjecture is reasonable and well-founded, and Jian Jing can't find any loopholes.

But she does not have the professional standards of the Ji family father and son, and she must have evidence to prove that Wu Honglin is not the murderer.

Her current investigation is based on a principle: What will happen if Wu Honglin is not the murderer?

First of all, it can be determined that the real murderer deliberately framed him. After all, no matter how unlucky a person is, it is impossible to be so unlucky that the characteristics of several cases are encountered.

Why did he do this? He had obviously escaped the law in 2003, so why did he commit a crime in 2007? Because he couldn't help it? In order not to be caught by the police, he planned to find someone to take the blame when he committed the crime?

But once Wu Honglin was caught as the murderer, the murderer must not commit crimes again, otherwise the blame will be broken.

The scapegoat is a disposable consumable, why are you in such a hurry?

In 2002-2003, the murderer killed four people in one go before stopping. In 2007, he couldn't hold back and thought killing one was enough?

Jian Jing had dealt with many serial killers. Wang Shi was born antisocial, and ordinary people like Zhu Guoliang (the murderer of the Snow Girl Corpse Case) got satisfaction from killing and became addicted. They all have one characteristic.

The more they kill, the more addicted they become.

The pleasure of taking the lives of others may exceed power and aphrodisiacs.

Is it a copycat crime?

No. The size 40 shoe prints have never been made public. All news reports are consistent, saying that only footprints were found.

Then why did Li Xiaonuan appear like a flash in the pan?

Was she silenced because she discovered the identity of the murderer? But she was only 20 years old when she was killed, and only 15 years old in 2002. She was not a native of Heping City, and there was no one around who was suspected of being the murderer.

At this moment, Jian Jing truly realized the difficulty of this case.

-

As soon as the business hall opened, Ji Feng immediately replenished his phone card and bought a new mobile phone.

After inserting the card, the text messages of missed calls blocked the information channel, and there were dozens of them. Most were from Ji Yunyun, then Lao Gao, and Liang Yi and Zhu Yanan.

He took a breath.

Teacher Jian is going to ask his old classmates.

He hesitated and called his sister first.

Ji Yunyun was about to cry: "Brother!"

"What the hell, I'm on a business trip and my phone fell." Ji Feng said, "You made so many calls, the phone bills are free, right?"

Ji Yunyun said with a heavy nasal voice: "Who told you that you couldn't make calls."

"What are you thinking about?" He said in his usual mocking tone, "I'm going to take care of some personal matters. Don't worry, if anything happens to me, it's also work. If anything happens, your uncle Gao will definitely notify you."

After a pause, he said, "You are already nineteen years old, a college student, don't think you are still a child, come to me whenever you have something to do."

Ji Yunyun was angry: "You are my brother, can't I come to you?"

"Don't worry." Ji Feng said, "Just call me once a month in the future. I'm too lazy to ask you about the final exams. You can do it yourself. If you don't have money, just work part-time. Don't ask me for money."

Ji Yunyun almost cried: "If you don't want to call me, then don't call me. Do you think I care about you?"

Ji Feng: "Hang up."

He hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.

The next one was Lao Gao. He didn't call, but sent a WeChat message: [My phone is broken].

Lao Gao replied: [Teacher Jian was here]

He: [OK]

Teacher Jian's phone number must be called no matter what.

The first one was connected, but was hung up.

As expected, Ji Feng immediately called the second one.

It was hung up again.

Ji Feng changed the text message: [Busy? I'll call you back]

Still no response.

This is certain, Teacher Jian is not the kind of person who will call you back if you say no.

So he immediately made a third call. He

answered. She said

in a weird tone: "Aren't you going to call back later?"

"If I don't say so, will it work this time?" He laughed.

Then... "Beep——", she hung up.

Ji Feng: Such a temper.

He called for the fourth time.

"No more playing around, let's talk about serious matters..."

Before he finished speaking, the call was disconnected again.

Ji Feng sighed and resigned himself to his fate and hit him for the fifth time: "Don't you want to know the identity of the third victim?"

"No." She said coldly, "What third victim? I don't understand."

Ji Feng didn't believe it: "The third victim is Liu Meng. Some time ago, one of her cousins ​​was arrested. His DNA was sent to the library and matched with her sample. I am on a business trip this time to check her identity."

She continued to pretend: "Don't report your work to me. I'm not your boss."

"Liu Meng is a magazine model. She is not beautiful, but she has a good figure. I have her magazine photos here. I will send them to you later. She is not a local of Heping City. Although she is a model, she is not famous and her economic conditions are average."

"Hmm?"

"Two days ago, I found out that she had an ex-boyfriend, so I wanted to ask him about it. This is the result." He said helplessly, "This guy is now doing telecom fraud. When I arrived, my accomplice recognized me. When they were in trouble, they directly attacked me. My phone was destroyed. When the guy got wind of it, he jumped out of the window and ran away. I was anxious to keep an eye on him and didn't have time to buy a new phone, so I delayed it for a few days."

"Are you done?" She asked softly, "I'm hanging up now."

Ji Feng: "Okay."