Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

"So, are you sure you didn't read the name on the report wrongly?" Xie Qingfei knew she shouldn't laugh at this time, but she really couldn't help it.

Wei Cheng's face was full of colors. The last time Xie Qingfei saw this expression on his face was when he was found out to have concealed the fact that he was three months younger than her.

"Just pretend what happened just now never happened. Can you lose your memory?" He had lost so much shame that it was impossible to recover it in a short time.
Xie Qingfei felt a little reluctant and comforted her, "Don't be sad, at least you got to experience the feeling of childbirth, which is also a gain."
Wei Cheng was not comforted at all and he wanted to cry.

In fact, he was secretly happy about this. If Xie Qingfei really didn't love him anymore, then this child would probably be the only bond between them. He could at least be honored as a father and would not have to cut off contact with her until death. But later, after truly experiencing the hardships of childbirth, he only had contempt for his selfish thoughts. He couldn't accept that Xie Qingfei would also have to go through a more painful and dangerous childbirth process than this.
Besides, this was not what she wanted.
Not getting pregnant was actually a good thing, but it also meant that the bond between them was broken again.

"Hurry up and arrest Zhang Yuheng," Wei Cheng said jokingly, hiding his inner gloom. "No matter if he dislikes me or not, I hate him now."
"Don't be angry, you're just overthinking it." Xie Qingfei thought it was too interesting and blurted out, "If I'm really pregnant, I'll definitely tell you the first time."
Wei Cheng suddenly calmed down and stared into her eyes: "Okay."
Xie Qingfei paused, leaned back in his chair, and used some strength to pull his hand back from his grasp.
"That's good, it won't happen again."
I was almost led astray by him again.

Just when she didn't know how to smooth things over, there was a knock on the office door and both of them looked towards the door.
Wei Cheng stood up, and Xie Qingfei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"The results should be out from Cheng Buyu. I'll go over there first."
Wei Cheng nodded and made way for her.

"Xie Qingfei," he called her again, looking at her back and said, "Every word I said was from the heart, you should understand."

Xie Qingfei's back froze, and he had no intention of answering. But after what he had just said, it was impossible not to be moved, but even after being moved, he could no longer be happy.
"You thought I was pregnant, but you didn't come to me to confirm it directly." Xie Qingfei stood still, with the bottle of mineral water and instant coffee on the desk next to her. She smiled bitterly and asked softly, "If you didn't think there was something wrong with my diet and rest, would you have been pretending not to know?"
Wei Cheng was slightly startled: "I thought you didn't want to tell me..."
"Yeah, why do you think I won't tell you?" Xie Qingfei turned around and looked at him, speaking word by word, "Because you know I can be responsible for my own choices, and you know very well that I can do without you, so you decided that there was no need to discuss these things with me, and the answer I would give would only be a rejection."

"That's what you think, isn't it?"

Wei Cheng was so touched by what he said that he was speechless.
Seeing his acquiescent expression, Xie Qingfei felt even more distressed. He forced a smile and said to him, "Wei Cheng, you still don't understand why I want to break up with you? This is why we broke up."

Wei Cheng stared at her for a few seconds, and seemed to understand something, but he couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't say many words. So he smiled, raised his finger to his lips and made a zipper gesture.

The person who was looking for the person was Lu Shaohui. He and Dai Lin read the online discussions for a long time and found that some people who were present at the scene of the incident took a video after the accident and posted it on the short video platform.
Just as he was about to process it, Dai Lin discovered a detail in the corner of the picture.

"Captain Xie, look, this person suddenly avoided the crowd and walked away from the corner when everyone was paying attention to the falling accident. It's just that the resolution of the mobile phone video is not high enough to see his face clearly. I looked for surveillance footage from other angles on the street and saw that he got into a BMW with a license plate of Sheng A·E8201. This is Wang Shuang's car.

"And this sneaky person is Wang Shuang himself."

Xi Ming stroked his chin and said, "He said that he had just arrived at the ward when he received a call from the factory saying that they wanted him to go over for something. But this video was shot after the police arrived at the scene to deal with Zhang Yan's body, which means that he didn't leave the hospital immediately. So what was he doing during this time?"

"Probably dealing with criminal evidence. The surveillance is still being sorted out, and one of them will catch him eventually." Lu Shaohui said, "Why is it that none of this family members tell the truth? I even suspect that he and Zhang Yuheng worked together to kill Zhang Yan."
Xi Ming: "You know what, Xiao Zhao thought so at noon, but I still think Zhang Yuheng will not harm Zhang Yan."

As if to verify Lu Shaohui's words, the forensic doctor said that the DNA comparison results came out. The DNA on the cigarette butt found in the hospital did not belong to Wang Shuang, but to Zhang Yuheng.

Laboratory.
Cheng Buyu pulled up the data: "Did Zhang Yuheng say that he didn't take the cigarette butt away from the scene?"
"Zhang Yuheng... Even if he killed someone on impulse, he wouldn't have the brain to remember to deal with the scene. He didn't lie. I'm afraid the murderer wanted to frame him and deliberately did this." Xie Qingfei said, "Did you find out what the transparent substance extracted from the mirror is?"
Cheng Buyu's face was solemn: "Follow me."

In front of the dissection table, Zhang Yan's broken body lay quietly.
Having seen her vivid and lively appearance in the video, Xie Qingfei couldn't help but sigh when he saw her current appearance again.

"Test results showed that the substances there contained polyvinyl pyrrolidone and polydimethylsiloxane, which are common ingredients in hairspray and wax. Look here." Cheng Buyu pointed to the neck of the corpse, where five red marks appeared.
Xie Qingfei was surprised and said, "There wasn't one yesterday."
"Some subcutaneous injuries do not appear immediately after they are inflicted, and usually only show up within 24 hours. The deceased fell from a high place, and his body injuries were numerous to begin with. Bruises also appeared one after another in other parts of his body today, but this one was clearly not caused by a bump."
Xie Qingfei gestured and said, "Being strangled?"
"Yes. So I focused on her neck and extracted skin tissue from the fingerprints. I confirmed that the trace elements in it were the same substance as on the mirror, both of which were hairspray."

Xie Qingfei recalled the layout of the bathroom where the crime occurred. In such a semi-public place, it would be even more strange if there were no handprints or footprints left. A bunch of fingerprints of acquaintances could not be used as evidence to identify the suspect. In addition, the sink was so tidy that people had a preconceived idea that no fight had taken place.

"The deceased may have had a huge conflict with the murderer, which made her so angry that she pushed the murderer. The murderer was caught off guard and failed to stand firmly. When he crashed into the sink, his head hit the mirror, leaving traces of hairspray. Then of course he had to touch the painful area, and his fingers were stained with hairspray. When he fought back, he strangled the deceased's neck, leaving fingerprints and transferring the hairspray to the skin of the deceased's neck. Does that mean his fingerprints can also be found?"

Cheng Buyu said regretfully, "Because mechanical asphyxiation was not the final cause of death, the person who strangled her throat was probably just venting his anger and did not want to kill her. Afterwards, the deceased also touched her neck herself, so we cannot extract the murderer's complete fingerprints."
"It doesn't matter." This clue is already very valuable. "I saw Wang Shuang's daily necessities at his home, and there was hairspray among them. Since he had a conflict with the deceased, we can use this as an excuse to ask him to cooperate with the investigation."
Xie Qingfei was just about to ask Xi Ming to go with him to arrest the man, but he received a call from Zhao Chongyun.

He spoke in a panic, "Captain Xie, Wang Shuang...he's dead!"

……

Xie Qingfei rushed to the hospital in the dark and saw Zhao Chongyun looking at a loss.

"what happened!"

"I followed him the whole way. After he came out of the mall, he and that woman went into a bar. About an hour later, he was helped out drunk, and that woman drove him home. And then, and then..."
Zhao Chongyun spoke haltingly, with a red mark on the side of his face extending from the end of his eyebrow to his chin.
Xie Qingfei interrupted him suddenly, his tone was very stern: "I asked you to go back to the bureau and call someone to go with you, did you call?"
Zhao Chongyun's expression changed immediately: "I, I think I can do it alone..."
Xie Qingfei said coldly: "What can I do? I can take a nap during the mission, and no one will disturb your sleep?"
Zhao Chongyun couldn't utter a word. His panic turned into embarrassment. He stood there trembling with fear, his head almost buried in the ground.

This was an unexpected accident. They had sorted out the case clues within 24 hours and locked the suspect. They were waiting for evidence to come out so that they could arrest the suspect and calm down the online public opinion as soon as possible. But at this critical moment, the key suspect Wang Shuang got into trouble.

Not long after the lights in the emergency room went out, Xi Ming squeezed back from the crowd and shook his head at Xie Qingfei: "They said it was carbon monoxide poisoning. He couldn't be saved."
Zhao Chongyun fell to the ground and leaned against the wall in a daze.

"You..." Xie Qingfei felt dizzy when she spoke, and Xi Ming quickly helped her up. She used the force to stand up and said expressionlessly, "Go on, that woman sent him home, and then what happened?"
Zhao Chongyun knew that the problem was serious, so he explained what happened without hiding any details.

At around 2 p.m., Wang Shuang and his partner came out of the mall after lunch. Before 3 p.m., they entered a pub with independent booths. The volume of the indoor speakers was loud and mixed. Zhao Chongyun could not hear what the two said. He only knew that Wang Shuang was in a bad mood and drank a lot of wine. He was crying while drinking. His female companion tried to comfort him at first, but this man's strong emotions might have annoyed the other party. Zhao Chongyun found that the woman's attitude gradually became very cold. At around 5 p.m., the two drove home from the pub.

The security of Wang Shuang's residential area is strict, and no outside vehicles are allowed to enter. Zhao Chongyun watched the car enter the underground garage and wanted to follow it, but the security guard would not let him in. Even if he showed his identity, the other party refused him with the reason that "I have never seen a person responding to the police, you must be a liar." So Zhao Chongyun found a seat at a nearby convenience store. Less than ten minutes later, he saw the woman walking out of the community. He thought that since Wang Shuang had already arrived at home, nothing would happen.

"Then I dozed off and woke up at around seven. After seeing the message you sent me, I wanted to go to Wang Shuang's house to look for other clues. I was about to discuss with the security guards at the door when I saw them gathered together to discuss that there was something unusual in the underground garage."

Wang Shuang's car was parked in his own parking space, with the lights on, but he didn't get out. At around 6 o'clock, neighbors came back from get off work and saw him leaning over the steering wheel through the car window. They found it strange, and no one responded when they knocked on the car door. They knew something was wrong, so they notified the security department. Zhao Chongyun took the opportunity to follow him, and when the security guard pried open the car door, he found that Wang Shuang had already stopped breathing.

"As for his female companion, she covered her face with a scarf the entire time, even in the bar. I could only take some blurry pictures from this distance, and I don't know if I can find out her identity." Zhao Chongyun was completely out of confidence by the end, and he would steal a glance at Xie Qingfei from time to time.

Then Xie Qingfei received a phone call and walked away alone.
Xi Ming took this opportunity to blame Zhao Chongyun, saying, "You've only been on the job for a few days and you've already learned to pretend to obey but actually disobey? Do you think you're a lone wolf?"
Zhao Chongyun could not refute, and just repeated the same sentence: "I just think that I can handle this little thing alone..."
"You're good at what? Security guards know that two people are needed to respond to a call, otherwise they are scammers. How did you learn police common sense? You're good at what you do, Xiao Zhao. Do you know that your little bit of personal heroism has wasted all our hard work for the day?"
"I can take responsibility!"
"What are you responsible for?"
"I..." "What are you arguing about?" Xie Qingfei had already hung up the phone. He glanced coldly at the two people who were glaring at him and said, "Come back to the bureau with me."

Xi Ming was still driving on the road. Zhao Chongyun huddled in the corner of the back seat and looked at Xie Qingfei diagonally, without listening to a word she said.
After enduring it for a long time, he couldn't stand the low pressure in the car anymore and said, "Go ahead and scold me."
Xie Qingfei didn't even raise his eyelids.
"Captain Xie, you can scold me. I was wrong this time. I admit my mistake and am willing to take responsibility for my actions." Zhao Chongyun drooped his eyelids. "I was too arrogant and did not abide by the rules. I failed your trust in me. I'm sorry."
Xi Ming whispered, "It's hindsight."

Zhao Chongyun's face flushed, and he said unconvincedly, "But nothing unusual happened while I was following him. I didn't expect that something would happen to him after he entered his own community. I thought he had gone home. Besides, he is a suspect, and he is the only one who could kill someone. Who knew he would kill himself?"

After returning to the bureau, Xie Qingfei was called away by his superiors as expected.

Zhao Chongyun was too embarrassed to stay in the office, so he followed to the director's office with weak feet. He could hear the loud voices of the people inside through the door.

"Xie Qingfei, Captain Xie! Do you still want to return to the criminal investigation team?" Director Huang criticized bitterly, "Do you know how many eyes are staring at you? This case was originally an opportunity for you to return to the team, but what happened?"
Xie Qingfei said: "I will take full responsibility. If it really doesn't work, I won't come back."
Zhao Chongyun's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Just as he was about to push the door open, he heard Director Huang sigh, "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? That Xiao Zhao... is he worthy of your taking responsibility for him?"

Xie Qingfei: "I am not taking responsibility for him, but this responsibility was originally mine. I didn't make arrangements in advance. I shouldn't have agreed to let Zhao Chongyun participate in the operation even though I knew he was inexperienced. I didn't even go back to the bureau to confirm whether there was really someone to accompany him."

Director Huang said angrily, "Do you think I can't see what he's thinking?"
Xie Qingfei was very calm: "I know his thoughts better than you. Director Huang, Zhao Chongyun is not a person who is eager for quick success. In fact, I saw that something was wrong with him early on, but I didn't stop him in time, causing him to make mistakes. It was indeed my fault as a master."
Director Huang just sighed and said, "You are so confused! Aren't you tolerant of him because of his deceased elder brother? There is no comparison between him and his brother!"

Zhao Chongyun clenched his fists at the door, and a feeling of bitterness was about to burst out of his eyes.

But Xie Qingfei said, "If I really want to give him preferential treatment because of his elder brother, why not just give him some easy work to let him get by? Director Huang, I don't keep idle people under my command. Zhao Chongyun is just Zhao Chongyun. I don't think we should judge his value by comparing him with others, nor do I think he is inferior to anyone."

"You... forget it, just solve this matter as soon as possible and don't let anything go wrong again."

Director Huang then asked about the progress of the case, but Zhao Chongyun didn't listen anymore. He turned around silently and walked into the shadows, feeling lost inside.

After going out, Xie Qingfei suddenly saw a young man squatting in the corner and was startled: "Why, you haven't slept enough yet, and you plan to sleep on the floor here?"
Zhao Chongyun stood up suddenly and stammered, "No."
"If not, then come with me to the meeting." Xie Qingfei walked up to him, hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and patted his shoulder, "Let's go, it's okay."

In fact, she had never been too harsh to him from beginning to end, and even slowed down her tone to comfort him. Captain Xie usually did not have the airs of a leader. She would occasionally use official language, but she would tell jokes more often, and she would rarely use imperative sentences. If she really wanted to make jokes, Xi Ming would not be her match. Therefore, people often forget that she was a mature woman who could stand on her own, capable and confident. The four words "I take full responsibility" spoken from her mouth carried much more weight than those of others.

Zhao Chongyun's eyes were slightly red as he silently fell behind her.

The incandescent light in the corridor seemed to have poured a handful of broken silver on her hair. She turned her head in confusion, asking him why he hadn't caught up with her.
Thus, the silver ripples also coated her superior profile, blurring the small mole on the tip of her nose, from her deep brow bone to her slightly open full lips. She was obviously an aggressive beauty, but at this moment, she exuded a sense of tenderness.

Zhao Chongyun looked at her steadily and suddenly asked, "Why are you so nice to me?"
Xie Qingfei asked curiously: "Am I good to you?"
"You...are willing to be my master and treat me to breakfast."
"No way, are you moved by two fried dough sticks? You should eat something good." Xie Qingfei said with a smile, "Xi Ming ate so many meals from me but didn't even sing a line of 'Thank You'. I want to ask him if he has no heart."

Zhao Chongyun could not help but show weakness. He confessed all his worries to her in a wronged manner: "In fact, I knew that everyone treated me differently from the first day I reported in. You were not here at that time, and Big Mouth Brother rarely assigned things for me to do. Xi Ming was also very polite to me, as were other seniors. I know in my heart that my brother is a martyr, and I am the martyr's younger brother. I became a policeman to inherit his last wish, so everyone must take care of me and must take care of me. This is an explanation to the deceased.

"I don't want this kind of care. It will only make me feel that I am where I am today because of my brother."

Xie Qingfei had just finished standing and being scolded, and now his waist was uncomfortable again, so he simply leaned against the window frame and asked lazily: "You took the civil service exam by yourself, right?"
Zhao Chongyun: "Of course!"
"You got in on your own merit. Your brother couldn't have told you that you missed a question in your dream, right? What's so confusing about that? As for them, they either worked with your brother or were classmates. Knowing that you are his younger brother, it's normal for them to care about you. No one is a cold-blooded animal. You can't deprive people of their right to be nostalgic, right? How did Shaohui arrange your work? You can see how busy the criminal investigation team is. It's common for many cases to take several months to investigate. The staff is fixed, and it's impossible for you to be inserted in the middle. You have a lot to learn as a newcomer. Do you understand the procedures? Do you have all the facial recognition? Do you think these 'little things' are not important and not worth your trouble to learn? If nothing happened today, do you still think it's okay to act alone?"

Zhao Chongyun was speechless. He moved his lips and whispered, "I'm sorry."
Xie Qingfei covered his ears: "Alright, I don't want to hear these three words again today."
"I will study hard!" the young man, whose face was still young, blushed and quickly assured, "I...will not let you down again."
Xie Qingfei did not give him any reward as he expected, but just said: "It has nothing to do with me, just be true to yourself."

The meeting ended in half an hour, and the forensic doctor provided a preliminary autopsy report.

"The deceased was a 40-year-old male with cyanotic lips and cherry-red livid. There were no contusions on the body surface and no signs of mechanical asphyxiation. The doors and windows of the vehicle at the crime scene were closed and the heater was on. We detected an ethanol concentration of 2.25 mg/ml and a carboxyhemoglobin saturation of 28% in the deceased's heart blood, indicating mild carbon monoxide poisoning."

Xi Ming asked suspiciously, "Why would someone die from a mild poisoning?"
Xie Qingfei said: "Wang Shuang said that he has chronic bronchitis, which is most severe in winter."
"That makes sense," Cheng Buyu said. "Generally speaking, carboxyhemoglobin saturation must reach 50% or above to be fatal. But if Wang Shuang has a chronic respiratory disease, a concentration of 20% or above will also have a certain probability of causing his death. You know, in a confined space, as long as the carbon monoxide concentration in the air reaches 1%, it can be fatal in 10 minutes. In addition, he drank a lot of alcohol, and his respiratory center was paralyzed by ethanol. The two toxicities work together, so of course he can't be saved."

Xi Ming glanced at Zhao Chongyun and said, "Then his death was just an accident, wasn't it?"

"It's possible." Lv Shaohui came back from the scene. "The surveillance camera near his parking space has been broken for several days, and the property management didn't replace it in time. We only checked the dashcam. From the conversation, we know that Wang Shuang was still sober when he was sent to the parking lot. After all, the person in the car was a woman, and she didn't have the strength to carry him upstairs. He told the woman not to worry about him and that he would be back after a rest. Then the person seemed to leave, leaving him alone in the car. Who knew that he fell asleep after being drunk."

Xi Ming scratched the back of his head: "What a coincidence that he died just when we found the evidence."
Zhao Chongyun was startled and said hurriedly: "No, no! I saw these two people get in the car with my own eyes. Wang Shuang was drunk and couldn't drive. The person sitting in the driver's seat was clearly that woman!"

"That woman——" Xie Qingfei also said at the same time, "Find out who she is."

"I've already looked for her. I found her contact information from Wang Shuang's phone." Speaking of this, Lu Shaohui sneered, "It really is his mistress. The WeChat note is actually called Yongyong Noodle Shop. The chat history was deleted very cleanly. I didn't pay attention when I first saw it. I really thought it was a noodle shop. But the dialog box appeared at the top again. I asked Dai Lin to restore the data and realized that it was not that simple at all."

At this time, Dai Lin came in with a notebook and said, "We found out that the owner of the account is a woman named Qin Yonghui, 24 years old, who was an accountant in the factory of the deceased Wang Shuang."

Xie Qingfei stared at the photo for a while, and felt that she looked familiar. He stretched out his hand to cover half of her face so that he could only see her eyes, and a memory in the corner suddenly emerged.
She immediately opened her Weibo account and found the post about the hospital falling accident. The discussion below had not been blocked by the website, so she easily found a highly praised comment:

[Stupid, go get out of here and bark like a dog in your father's dermatitis. ]

I didn't pay attention at the time and thought it was just the indignant words of netizens. Now I see that the IP of this netizen is also in Shengzhou, and the half-face covered in the avatar is exactly the same as Qin Yonghui.
Her online name is: Si Yanyan 2014.

(End of this chapter)