Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 370 Case Facts
It's a small world, isn't it?!
For the first time, Zhao Yanan felt that Beijing, which looked so big, was actually so small.

"Yongyang, the Li Yancheng you are talking about could be the doctor who guards the third health center?"

She did not answer Zhu Yongyang's question, but continued to ask with some hopelessness. She could hardly believe that it was such a coincidence.

"Doctor?" Old Zhu was stunned for a moment before he reacted. He nodded and replied, "Yes, he used to be a doctor in the health center, and now he is the head of the pre-trial department of the third department."

"Section Chief?" Zhao Yanan looked surprised.

"Yes, I remember he was promoted to section chief last year. Yanan, do you know Yan Cheng?"

"Uh... know... know."

After thinking about it, Zhao Yanan decided to tell the truth.

Since the two are classmates and seem to have a good relationship, they will meet sooner or later.

Rather than being embarrassed in the future, it is better to make it clear now. Anyway, I have let it go a long time ago.

"It's like this, Yongyang. You know Ding Liying, the deputy director of our school's logistics department, right?"

"Yes, she asked me to get two carts of red bricks for your school a few days ago."

"Oh yes, I forgot about this." Zhao Yanan raised his hand and slapped his forehead.

"What happened to Ding Liying?"

"Her mother is the director of the neighborhood committee where Li Yancheng lives. I was transferred to Meishan Middle School last year, and she introduced Li Yancheng to me."

???

The three Zhu siblings were all stunned. After a long while, they asked in unison: "Yanan (sister), have you and Yancheng (brother) ever been in a relationship?"

"No, no, don't misunderstand." Zhao Yanan waved his hands quickly.

"He and I only met once and nothing happened. I guess we didn't like each other.

Yongyang, I told you this just because I didn't want you to have any misunderstandings after knowing this. I didn't know that you and Li Yancheng were classmates, so I told you now. I really didn't want to hide it..."

"No, no, no," Zhu Yongyang interrupted Zhao Yanan before she finished speaking.

"What's there to explain? That was something that happened in the past. It didn't happen after we got together."

Classmate Lao Zhu really didn't care about this. It was not an unforgivable crime. He didn't even care that Zhao Yanan had been engaged before, let alone whether she had had a blind date with someone else, even though that person was his classmate.

"Yongyang, isn't Li Yancheng a doctor? How can you say he is now the head of the pre-trial department? What does this department do?"

"He is responsible for interrogating criminals. As for why he went from being a doctor to being the head of this department, I have no idea."

Interrogate criminals?

Zhao Yanan grinned after hearing this. It sounded quite scary.

"What do you mean by saying he got into trouble? Was it because of him that the police conducted such a big inspection last night?"

"That's right, Yan Cheng was shot at the gate of the Public Security Hospital last night, but fortunately he is fine.

Alas, I don’t know what’s wrong with this guy. He has only been in this unit for a year and a half, but he has offended many people. As far as I know, this has happened more than once or twice.”

"Isn't he a police officer? Why would anyone want to kill him?"

"You do not know?"

"Uh...know what?"

"The sign hanging on their unit is just an external name. In fact, their unit is..."

While eating, Lao Zhu explained to Zhao Yanan the job responsibilities of Li Yancheng's unit, which surprised Zhao Yanan.

Because he had other things to do, he ate very quickly and finished in no time.

"Xiaomin and Xiaoting, I have to go out for something. Please help me send your sister Yanan back to school later."

"Yongyang, go and do your thing. I'll go back by myself. It's freezing outside. Don't let them go out."

"No, that won't work. It's quite chaotic outside these days. I'm worried if you go back alone. Otherwise, don't go back and squeeze in with Xiaoting's room."

"I'd better go back. We'll have a holiday tomorrow. My mom will come over to help me pack my things tomorrow. I need to take my bedding back to be washed. If I'm not back yet and she finds out, she'll scold me to death."

"Okay, let them take you back."

"Sister, let us take you there. It's okay. Tingting and I just need to dress warmly. It won't be that cold."

……

"Sister, why are you here? I heard from Xiaomin that you were on a mission."

At the Public Security Hospital, Li Yancheng had just returned to the front from Mr. Bai's visit in the inpatient area when the sentry came in to report that someone named Sun Yijuan was outside looking for him.

He hurried out and invited the person in.

"I just came back this afternoon and heard about your situation. What happened? How come so many things happened to you in less than two months since I left? There were even assassination attempts on you. Who did you offend?

No, there is something wrong with what I said. This is not about offending anyone. The mastermind behind this is not just targeting you, but provoking the entire law enforcement agency. If we don't catch him, who knows what he will do next."

There is nothing wrong with what Sun Yijuan said.

This shooting incident seemed to be targeted at Li Yancheng, or it could be said that he simply did not take the Social Affairs Bureau and the Public Security Bureau seriously.

Come to think of it, if anyone has a little bit of awe in their heart, who would dare to do something so brazenly in front of the gate of the Public Security Hospital?

This is also the reason why the leaders were even more angry about last night’s shooting than the incident the day before.

"Who I offended is also a question that I am more concerned about. Sister, you should also know that many people are very afraid of my interrogation method.

Therefore, anyone who wants to commit a crime, or is currently committing a crime, and thinks that no one can find out what he has done, will definitely try to get rid of me as long as he knows my ability. "

Li Yancheng's smile was full of bitterness.

He would also be afraid when facing assassination. As long as he is a human being, no matter how fearless he is, he will be afraid when he needs to.

He placed the teacup filled with water on the table in front of Sun Yijuan, then sat on the chair opposite her, took out a cigarette and lit it for himself.

"Thank you, big sister. I just came back from a business trip today and I couldn't rest because of my things."

"We are one family, so let's not talk about these two families." Sun Yijuan waved her hand and continued, "I heard from our director that the shooting last night might have been aimed at the cancer research project you and the General Hospital were working on.

Xiaomin has other things to do, so I have already accepted this case. I am here for both personal and official matters."

Li Yancheng expected that the Third Bureau would also intervene in this case.

He thought about it when he called Director Liu today to tell him about this matter, but he didn't expect Sun Yijuan to take over the case as soon as she returned from a business trip.

Sun Yijuan's mission on this business trip was very heavy and lasted for two months. It was mainly to make advance preparations for the ground security for the launch of the first star.

Li Yancheng could tell at a glance that she hadn't had a good rest for some time and was extremely tired, but she still took over his case.

This made him feel a little guilty.

"Don't keep saying thank you or not to me." Seeing Li Yancheng's eyes, Sun Yijuan knew what he was thinking and raised her hand and waved.

"I took this case for official business, in order to bring the criminal to justice as soon as possible. Only by solving this case as quickly as possible can we effectively deter other scoundrels.

These people are so outrageous, they are truly lawless.

Secondly, I don’t want to see Xiao Min become a widow at such a young age and with a big belly, so I have to find a way to solve the case for both public and private reasons.”

Li Yancheng didn't know how to respond to this and could only smile bitterly.

"Where's Xiao Min?"

"I asked her to live back at her parents' house starting today. There are people taking care of her there. If something bad happens to me... at least there is someone by her side."

Sun Yijuan narrowed her eyes, and she heard something different from Li Yancheng's words.

"Yancheng, do you want to put yourself in danger?"

"That's right. According to my boss' instructions, I should try not to go out before the case is solved. But I thought about it carefully this afternoon and I feel that I can't delay it any longer.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and we can’t let our comrades worry about the case during the Chinese New Year. More importantly, we can’t let that guy spend the Chinese New Year comfortably.”

"Then have you ever thought that with the big commotion last night, the gunman is likely to have sunk. He doesn't dare to strike again easily."

"That's why we have to find him out."

"What you mean is..." Sun Yijuan suddenly realized that she seemed to have misunderstood.

"You just want to personally participate in the process of solving this case?"

"What else?" Li Yancheng was stunned, then he reacted.

"Sister, you don't think I want to use myself as bait, do you?"

"Uh...I did think so just now."

"Then I definitely can't. Like you just said, unless the gunman wants to die with me, he will definitely stay quiet for a while.

Even if I were to walk around the streets openly, he might not know it. At this moment, I would be flirting with a blind man by using myself as bait."

Sun Yijuan smiled a little embarrassedly. She had indeed thought wrong just now. She thought that she had never noticed before why her brother-in-law was so impulsive when something happened. It turned out that he just wanted to get involved in the case.

"If you want to participate in the case..." She thought for a moment and said, "The leader may not approve it."

“I know that the leaders are worried that I will act on impulse, and they are also worried that some people with ulterior motives will find something to attack me.

I was just thinking about it, but your coming here today has given me another idea."

"any solution?"

"I'll get Xiaotong and my brother over here. Tell us everything you know so far. We'll sit here and analyze all the evidence and clues we have."

The three units are actually operating independently now. Although they will certainly exchange information, they can definitely not do real-time communication. It would be good to bring the main case handlers together for a meeting.

"You have a good idea. If the leader finds out, it will be the three of us who will be punished."

"I think the leaders would turn a blind eye even if they knew about it."

Sun Yijuan smiled indifferently: "I don't care what the leader thinks. What you need to see now is what Xiaotong and your brother think." "Leave it to me, but sister, did you bring the information your unit has?"

“Pa pa.” Sun Yijuan patted the yellow schoolbag she had carried when she came here just now: “They are all here. I just got them and haven’t looked at them carefully yet.”

"That's fine." Li Yancheng stood up, walked to the table, picked up the phone and dialed.

"Hello, Da Liu, I'm Li Yancheng, you're on duty today."

……

"Well, is Director Su there?"

……

"Please help me call him."

……

"Yancheng, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Less than two minutes later, Su Xiaotong's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Xiaotong, if you don't have anything particularly urgent to do right now, can you come to the hospital with all the information you currently have? My eldest sister is here too. She just came back from a business trip today and has taken over my case."

"The third innings also intervened?"

Su Xiaotong on the other end of the phone seemed a little surprised when he heard that the Third Bureau was also involved in the case.

"Well, I'm currently working on a project with the General Hospital. The person who wants to kill me might be targeting this project."

"Oh, no problem. I'll be there now." Su Xiaotong said without any hesitation.

"Xiaotong, please help me contact Zhihai and ask him to bring the information they have."

"Okay, I'll contact him now. If he can get away, I'll go pick him up."

"Thank you!"

"Stop talking nonsense. I'll call Chang You from Taifeng. He has first-hand information about the scene of Shen Wen's murder. Let him go over as well. Bye. I'll contact them now. See you later."

"Beep...beep...beep..."

Just hang up when you say so, without any delay.

"Sister, Xiaotong said to ask Shen Changyou from Taifeng to come over as well."

"Shen... Sure, the security officer who was killed was from their place, right?"

Sun Yijuan also knew Shen Changyou, but they were not very familiar with each other.

"Yes, he has first-hand information about the crime scene."

"That's perfect. They say three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. We need five, so how come we are still better than one and a half?"

"Big sister, do you need to tell your brother-in-law? We may end this conversation forever."

It's already eight o'clock in the evening, and this might take all night.

"It's okay. I told him before I came here." Sun Yijuan waved her hand indifferently.

Like Su Xiaotong, she is also a typical workaholic who doesn't care about home when she is working.

……

At nine o'clock in the evening on the 30th, Su Xiaotong drove over with Jin Zhihai, bringing with them the information they each had.

Not long after the two of them arrived, Shen Changyou, the deputy director of criminal investigation at Taifeng Branch, also rushed over with information.

Since then, the four main investigators of the December 9 murder, gun loss and attack series cases, plus Li Yancheng, the person involved in the shooting case, sat together for the first time and held the first private case analysis meeting.

Because there was no real leader, the group didn't have to worry too much about their wording when speaking, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

"Experts have analyzed and judged the footprints at the two crime scenes. They believe that although the two footprints are very similar in size and weight, it can be concluded that the murderer of Shen Wen and the gunman who shot Yan Cheng that night are two different people.

The height and weight of these two people are very similar, even..."

The person who was speaking was Jin Zhihai. He paused here, as if he was thinking about something. The other four people did not disturb him and waited quietly.

After a pause, Jin Zhihai continued, "An expert said that he suspected that the two murderers were deliberately imitating each other. The purpose of doing so should be to confuse the investigators."

"Zhi Hai, can it be understood that these two murderers have lived together for a long time?"

"That's understandable." Jin Zhihai nodded: "Let's put it bluntly, some experts believe that the two murderers are very likely brothers. Of course, it is not ruled out that they are like Dacheng and I who grew up together.

But if they are similar in size and weight, I think it is more reliable to have brothers.”

As he spoke, Jin Zhihai took out another photo from the materials he brought.

"Xiaotong and Director Shen may not have seen this photo. Big sister probably hasn't seen it either. This is a footprint we found near the garbage dump where the gunman discarded his clothes, hats and guns.

Compared with the shoe prints left at the crime scene, there are changes. The shoes have changed and are not a pair of shoes. The shoe prints left at the shooting scene and the murder scene in Taifeng are yellow rubber shoe prints.

The sole of this shoe print found near the garbage dump is nailed with a layer of rubber, which means the sole of the shoe is made of waste tires and is wear-resistant.

After careful comparison by experts, it was confirmed that although the shoe prints had changed, they could be identified as the same as the footprints left at the shooting scene.

We didn’t find the pair of yellow rubber shoes that we took off at the garbage dump, so it’s possible that the gunman took them away.”

Sun Yijuan took the photo of the shoe print and looked at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, she pointed at the photo and asked.

"Zhi Hai, what is this horizontal bar in the middle of the shoe print near the heel?"

"Experts believe that the marks on the soles of the shoes were probably left by the gunman who had been doing a certain job for a long time. In other words, his feet often needed to do a certain action, which happened to be used at that place, leaving a special mark on the soles over time.

Experts are also conducting experiments to find out what it does specifically, but the results are not out yet.”

As he spoke, Jin Zhihai stood up and made a stepping motion with his right foot.

Following his words, the other four lowered their heads to look at their right feet and imitated them with their feet.

Shen Changyou was sitting at one end of the table, with his feet on a fixed crossbar between the two legs of the table. His feet were resting on it and moving back and forth.

Suddenly he seemed to remember something, stood up and made a few movements.

"Is this... the ridge on top of the shovel where your right foot is?"

After he said this, everyone looked thoughtful. Li Yancheng simply opened the door and walked out. When he came back, he had a shovel in his hand.

Several people took turns trying it and then compared it with the photo. It turned out to be quite similar.

"Farmer?" Su Xiaotong said with a frown.

"Not necessarily. Workers loading sand on construction sites also often do this. I think people who often use shovels will do this. There are many professions that use shovels. Farmers probably use hoes more often."

Sun Yijuan shook her head and leaned the shovel against the wall.

"No fingerprints were found at two, no, three scenes?"

"No, there are only a few black particles in the middle of the last footprint. They should have fallen from the gaps in the soles. The laboratory is still testing its composition to determine what it is.

This is basically the situation here.”

"Ahem, let me tell you about the security officer Shen Wen and the scene where he was killed." After Jin Zhihai finished speaking, Shen Changyou coughed twice and took over the conversation.

He opened his notebook and took out a piece of paper. It was a sketch of the crime scene. He pointed at the picture and began to explain it in detail.

The scene where Shen Wen was murdered was particularly clean. Apart from the footprints brought in from the yard just after entering the door, and the incomplete footprints of no comparison value left by the bed by the murderer when he entered the bedroom to look for the gun after killing Shen Wen, there were no other useful traces.

You can tell at first glance that he is a veteran, with strong mobility and quick and efficient actions.

"Is this the only set of footprints?"

Looking at the sketch, Su Xiaotong raised his hand and pointed and asked.

"Yes, after killing Shen Wen in the outer room, the murderer went straight into the inner room. Judging from the footprints, he walked directly to the bed without any hesitation.

Judging from the pillow thrown aside on the bed, the gun should be under the pillow. The murderer may have known this, because there were no extra footprints on the ground after he walked over.

He took it from under the pillow and walked out again.

Shen Wen's clothes and pants were hanging behind the door of the inner room, and there was a holster on the belt of his pants, but the murderer didn't even stop there. We judged that the murderer must be very familiar with the victim's habits.

Considering that the murderer was able to easily knock on the door and enter, the two people must be very familiar with each other.

Our current focus of investigation is on the people around Shen Wen."

"I don't think the murderer would be so stupid."

As soon as Shen Changyou finished speaking, Su Xiaotong retorted: "This murderer is obviously a veteran. How could he make such an obvious mistake? This person should not be found among Shen Wen's contacts.

I think his behavior of going to the ghost market is a bit abnormal. According to his wife, she has never seen or heard Shen Wen say anything about buying or selling anything in the ghost market in the past six months.

But why does he go to the ghost market once or twice almost every week?
I suspect he did something shameful in the ghost market, possibly with someone else, which is why he often took the gun home after get off work, and the murderer was most likely someone he met in the ghost market. "

"I'll ask someone to check it out."

Hearing this, Jin Zhihai immediately said.

"No need." Su Xiaotong waved his hand: "I have asked someone to use Yan Cheng's name to greet Zhu Yongyang. He said he would give me a reply by noon tomorrow at the latest. He has people in that ghost market."

Sun Yijuan then reached out and picked up the sketch.

"Deputy Director Shen"

"Director Sun, please speak."

"You just said that Shen Wen was strangled to death by the murderer from behind with something like an electric wire."

"That's right"

"Can you tell that when the victim was strangled, the rope or wire used by the murderer was crossed and knotted?"

Sun Yijuan raised her hand and gestured at her neck.

(End of this chapter)