Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

After all, Xu Siruo was the only one among all the people present who had seen Captain Xie quarreling with others in the street. Although he was young and influenced by the language environment, he could not have a good understanding of some traditional Chinese cultural titles, but with his sensitivity to the context, he could still guess that "Gu Nainai" must be a person of high moral character and not easy to mess with. So he modified the term "Honest Lord" and felt very satisfied.

He said the same thing to Xie Qingfei after he called her, and asked her if she liked his gift.
Xie Qingfei took a deep breath and said tactfully: "You should find someone to study with."
Xu Siruo listened to the busy tone without knowing what was going on, wondering if Captain Xie was dissatisfied with his low education level. He really needed to study further.

But at least he brought happiness to the public servants who were working overtime late at night. Xie Qingfei looked at the ridiculous banner and asked Xi Ming to roll it up quickly to prevent outsiders from seeing it and thinking she was someone else.

As if he had sensed something, Wei Cheng asked beside her: "What were you like before?"
Xie Qingfei glanced at him strangely: "Is this the first day you met me?"
"That's different. I'm not with you every day, so I must be curious about what you were like when you first started working." Wei Cheng paused and realized that she had never mentioned these past events.
Xie Qingfei is a master of police work, but when she was an undergraduate intern, she was definitely not treated like a treasure by major units as she was later. It is unknown how she initially adapted to the survival mode within the system with her temper.

Xie Qingfei had no intention of continuing this topic. Just then the meal he ordered arrived, so he used the lunch box to shut Wei Cheng's mouth.

Everyone finished eating in a hurry, and before they had time to rest, Cheng Buyu came over with a freshly prepared report.
Lu Shaohui made room for him and helped adjust the projection.

"After an autopsy, Kang Wenxia's cause of death was consistent with mechanical asphyxiation caused by drowning. Traces of strangulation were also found on the back of her neck, and it is suspected that the murderer pressed her head into the water. Because the scene was cleaned up by later people, it is impossible to confirm whether a fight occurred, but after toxicology analysis, it was found that there was a certain amount of fluoride ions in the gastric juice and blood of the deceased.
"We also extracted the material from the sewer wall and found hydrofluoric acid solution in it. The poisoning mechanism of this substance is also to affect the respiratory center and cause suffocation and death. So I judged that someone poured hydrofluoric acid into the wine she drank, which first poisoned her and made her faint, and then increased the drowning reaction."

Xi Ming wondered, "Hydrofluoric acid must be really smelly, didn't she notice it when she drank it?"
Cheng Buyu said, "Kang Wenxia recently had the flu, and related drug residues were detected in her blood, so her sense of smell and taste may have been impaired a long time ago. In addition, the wine itself has a pungent smell, so it was too late for her to react after drinking it."
"That is to say, the murderer actually wanted to avoid a direct conflict with her, so he poisoned her first. When Kang Wenxia was about to take a bath, the poison took effect and she passed out. To prevent her from dying completely, the murderer manually added a layer of drowning damage to her." Lu Shaohui said excitedly, "Hydrofluoric acid is a controlled chemical that ordinary people can't buy. Since the murderer was able to get enough to kill her, then he-"
"They are either researchers from scientific research institutes or employees in the chemical, electronics, or glass manufacturing industries," said Xie Qingfei.

Lu Shaohui: "We have the work location. Lameness and suspected left-handedness are not common characteristics. Does Fang Yutong provide any clues?"
Another female police officer replied: "On the day of the incident, she said she heard strange footsteps at home. Judging from the time, it is very likely that it was the murderer."
Xie Qingfei: "What kind of footsteps?"
Policewoman: "It doesn't sound very stable, with a mixture of deep and shallow sounds. Blind people have more acute hearing, and she said it couldn't be wrong."
"So he really is a cripple?" Lu Shaohui clapped his hands in front of his chest. "Combined with the previous body shape information, we can basically draw a portrait."

Finally, the suspect's characteristics were confirmed. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and became more motivated.

Xie Qingfei glanced at the time and said, "I still have to go to school. Call me if you have any news."
Wei Cheng followed her out, and when she glanced at him, he said slowly, "I'm going to school too, it's on my way."
Xie Qingfei laughed: "You know that Shengyi University and Shengjing University are the starting and ending stations of Metro Line 3, right? How come it goes?"
Wei Cheng remained calm: "Hard and smooth."
He actually sent her to her destination first, and seeing that the sky was getting gloomy, he took out a long-handled umbrella from the trunk and gave it to her: "I'll pick you up after this."
Xie Qingfei looked at his unwillingness to give in and nodded, "Okay."
However, when she was about to send him a message after class, she received a call from him first: "I'm at the police station on Tianning Middle Road."
Xie Qingfei: “?”
Wei Cheng: "Come and help me."

half an hour ago.

Wei Cheng passed by Tianning Primary School on his way to pick up Xie Qingfei from the police academy, and was about to bring the gift he had bought to Jiangjiang. It happened that the primary school students were also leaving school at this time, so he ran into Jiangjiang's grandfather and went up to say hello. When he was about to leave, he saw Du Manhe standing absent-mindedly across the street.

Du Manhe was particularly impressed by him and couldn't help but chat with him when they met.

"Last time I suggested that you put less pressure on yourself and relax appropriately. Have you been in a better mood these past two days?" Wei Cheng ordered a cup of taro milk tea for her at the milk tea shop nearby.
Du Manhe thanked him quietly and said with emotion: "You are right. I have always set too high standards for myself, but my ability is not up to the goal, which results in constant internal friction. I can't balance work and family, so in many cases I can't find a way out no matter how hard I try. I think... I am still not used to my current life."
Wei Cheng affirmed her: "You have discovered where the problem lies."
Du Manhe lowered her eyelashes, and her fingertips turned slightly red from the heat from the wall of the milk tea cup.

"Being a teacher has been my dream since I was a child. For this reason, I was admitted to a normal university, and worked hard for another year before I got a job at Tianning Primary School. This was actually not easy for someone like me with ordinary talents. When I was doing the physical examination before I got employed, I found out that I was pregnant. My first feeling was not happiness, but I felt like the sky had fallen. I didn't understand how such an accident could happen. I had clearly agreed with him that everything would be considered at least after my career was stable. Otherwise, it would be a burden for both of us, but..." Du Manhe said self-deprecatingly, "Then I got married, had a child, and suddenly became an adult. It happened too fast, I really couldn't adapt, but at this point what else can I do except push myself?"

Wei Cheng glanced at her sideways. The color of her hair at the tail was lighter, and there was a distinct difference from the color of the upper part. It was obvious that she loved beauty in the past, but she hadn't had the time to take care of it for a long time.
“If the current situation is different from your ideal, don’t force yourself to adapt. Try to recall your original pace of life. When you encounter a situation where you need to make a choice, think about whether this thing can make you happy. If compromise and satisfaction only make you feel lost, it means that the cost-effectiveness of this change is not high. The premise of ‘sacrifice’ is willingness, not necessity.”
Du Manhe raised the corners of his lips and said in a cheerful tone: "Well, so I accepted your suggestion. I have also been having a party with colleagues and friends recently. In the past, I only focused on my family and haven't participated in normal social activities for a long time. I feel... I feel a lot younger. Taro milk tea is really delicious. Why can't I drink it whenever I want? This is my right."

Wei Cheng felt that she was stronger than he thought. Even if such a person was confused for a short time, they would quickly figure out what they wanted, just like Xie Qingfei... Xie Qingfei didn't need him, as if there was someone else who was truly confused between them. Wei Cheng was distracted for a moment.

An elementary school student ran past the two of them and accidentally bumped into Du Manhe. Wei Cheng came to his senses and quickly reached out to support her on the shoulder.

"Du Manhe!"

The next moment, a roar came from not far away, and a fierce man rushed in front of the two of them like the wind. Wei Cheng's hand, which was still on Du Manhe's shoulder, was hit hard.

"Du Manhe, you bitch! You really have been flirting with other girls behind my back. I caught you in the act this time. What else do you have to say?"
Du Manhe's wrist was firmly held in the man's hand, and the milk tea fell to the ground, and she screamed in fear. Wei Cheng frowned and directly pinched the man's shoulder to relieve half of his strength: "Can't you speak properly?"

Du Manhe stared blankly at the milk tea spilled on the ground at her feet. Embarrassment and despair suddenly appeared on her originally rosy face. She blinked and tears rolled down.

"You adulterer, you still have the nerve to talk? I haven't settled the score with you yet!" Guo Weiqiang's arms were powerless, his face and neck were red with anger, he looked up at Wei Cheng in anger, stunned for a few seconds, grinned, "Oh, so you're a gigolo, no wonder she was so obsessed with you."
Du Manhe squatted down tremblingly to pick up the broken paper cup, but her back could no longer be straightened. After hearing this, she was so embarrassed that her voice broke: "Don't talk nonsense! This is..."
Without giving her a chance to explain, Guo Weiqiang interrupted her: "I'm talking nonsense? I'm telling you, Du Manhe, I've noticed something's wrong with you. I've seen you chatting with other men on your phone several times. Do you still have me as your husband in your eyes?"
Du Manhe said in disbelief: "What other man? He's just an ordinary netizen!"

"Netizen? You can have so much fun chatting online that you even want to tell him your home address. Is it time to hook up with him while I'm not around?" Guo Weiqiang glanced at Wei Cheng with disdain. "Did I get it right? If I hadn't come today, where would you two have gone to get a room? I was wondering why you've been messing around lately. You don't go home for dinner at night and you say you're having dinner with your colleagues. Which of your colleagues is so close to you? I've never seen you so wild before!" It was the first time that Wei Cheng was scolded like this. When he saw Du Manhe's extremely humiliated look, he became angry. After letting go, he shook his finger in disgust: "I told you to speak properly, but you didn't understand, did you?"
His height was oppressive in nature. Guo Weiqiang staggered a few steps before he stood firm. He hugged his arms and rubbed them, then shrank his neck like a quail.

More and more parents were picking up their children nearby, and some had already looked over. Du Manhe was a teacher at Tianning Primary School, and there must be parents of students here who knew her. When she thought of this, she felt even more ashamed and angry, and almost begged Guo Weiqiang, "Stop talking, and save some face for me, please?"
Guo Weiqiang wanted to refute, but he didn't dare to shout because Wei Cheng was beside him.
But he lowered his voice again and said sarcastically, "You jumped out to defend her now, do you really think she treats you as a dish? Let me tell you, pretty boy, she had an affair with the family upstairs long before she hooked up with you. But you are indeed more decent than that guy, no wonder she couldn't help but flirt with you at the school gate."

Wei Cheng noticed the key point in his words and suddenly became alert: "Have you seen the man upstairs?"
Du Manhe was numb and kept saying, "It's all nonsense. There is no such thing as a man!"
Guo Weiqiang sneered: "Why, you don't believe it? I guessed there was something wrong. I went upstairs that night and saw him with my own eyes."
Wei Cheng nodded and reached into his clothes to make a call.
Guo Weiqiang opened his eyes wide: "Why, do you still want to hit me?"
Wei Cheng: "Don't worry, I just want to call the police."
Guo Weiqiang instantly became intimidated and cried out: "Why did you call the police?!"
Wei Cheng showed him the back of his still red hand and pointed at the surveillance camera on the electric pole not far away: "You're just looking for trouble, and you still want to let it go?"

When Xie Qingfei arrived, he saw Wei Cheng sitting alone in the lobby of the police office, with his head down for some reason, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

The police officer on duty explained the situation to her, and the transcript basically restored the conversation between the three people on the street. Xie Qingfei saw that something was wrong at a glance and walked quickly into the interrogation room.

Guo Weiqiang is a bully at home and is only good at bullying his wife. When he saw the police, he immediately became guilty like a mouse seeing a cat, and after asking him a few questions, he revealed everything.

It turns out that for such a long time, Guo Weiqiang always thought that his wife Du Manhe was making a fuss about the noise in 403. Especially after being scolded by 403, he felt that it was Du Manhe who made their family lose face. Then he found that his wife began to chat online frequently. One time, when she was not paying attention, he glanced at the screen and saw relevant words such as "I am in pain", "I am downstairs", and "Only you can understand me". After taking them out of context and rounding them off, he firmly believed that his wife had cheated on him, and the adulterer was the resident of 403 upstairs who she had been complaining about for some time. As for the noises that were always made at night and in the morning, they were the dating code between the two of them.
Finally one day, he returned home early and found that his wife, who should have been home, was not there. She came a few minutes later. After asking, he learned that she had gone upstairs.

It turned out that she was going to meet her lover secretly and used the excuse of negotiating the noise issue.

Guo Weiqiang was filled with hatred and planned to go see what the adulterer looked like, so he sneaked upstairs while his wife was asleep. So on the night of Kang Wenxia's accident, or even at the time of the incident, when the murderer had not yet left 403, Guo Weiqiang knocked on the door of this household and saw the murderer who came to open the door.

"Taller than me, about 1.80 meters. The lights were off in the living room, so I couldn't see clearly what he looked like, but I felt he wasn't as good-looking as the pretty boy outside. He was wearing a baseball cap. There was a sound of water, and he said it was his wife taking a shower. How dare he flirt with my wife when he has one? I scolded him and said I would tell his wife about it."

Before the incident, the neighbors were not familiar with each other, so Guo Weiqiang did not know whether the person living upstairs was a man or a woman, and he did not know that Kang Wenxia's husband was on a business trip in Africa and could not suddenly appear. His action of coming to the door to question the murderer interrupted the murder process, because his loud voice might alarm the neighbors, so the murderer could only finish the crime hastily and leave without leaving his mark on Kang Wenxia's body.

"Why didn't you tell the police when they asked you before?"
"Am I crazy? His wife just died and I jumped out to say that I went to visit him. Isn't that asking for bad luck?" Guo Weiqiang rolled his eyes. "But if you ask Du Manhe, maybe you can find out something. After all, that man is her adulterer. His wife is dead, wouldn't it be more convenient for them to date?"

Du Manhe looked exhausted and said, "I didn't know he was harassing her. How could he think that I... I have never done anything to let him down."
Xie Qingfei: "How is your relationship usually like?"
"He treated me very well when we were dating, but after we got married, we were both busy with work and didn't have much time to communicate every day." Du Manhe said with a wry smile, "That's why he was so suspicious of me. I think I see through him."
"There's something I think you have the right to know." Xie Qingfei's face showed no emotion, but he reached out to turn off the recording. "You said your husband only comes home between 6:30 and 7:00 every day, and often works overtime until 8 or 9:00."
Du Manhe looked at her questioningly.
"He has a faint smell of air freshener, which is unique to the brand and can be smelled in the lobby of any Xingyue Hotel."
Du Manhe's face turned pale instantly.
Xie Qingfei: "However, based on his commuting route and other details, I can provide you with the specific store location. You can plan whatever you want, but if you are sure you want to go and collect evidence, I suggest you find two friends to accompany you, because Guo Weiqiang seems to be a person who is likely to jump off the wall easily."

Because of his impulsive and irritable character, he is the only person who may have seen the murderer. If the murderer turns around and wants to silence him -

"But why did the murderer open the door to see him in the first place?" Xie Qingfei felt that the other party's style of doing things was a bit illogical. He bumped into Wei Cheng's arm, wanting his advice.

Unexpectedly, I heard this man scream "Ah".

"What's wrong?" She paused, realizing something. "Guo Weiqiang wouldn't hit you, would he? You didn't fight back?"

Fighting is the behavior of barbarians. It is a bad idea for adults to solve problems by violence. The young master is too proud to humiliate this person in public. He can only complain pitifully afterwards: "Well, it hurts so much."

Xie Qingfei's heart tightened, he lifted his face and looked around: "Where are you injured? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Wei Cheng blinked and met her anxious eyes. He suddenly felt that he was not a human being.
He was indeed acting pitiful on purpose. He was very happy that Xie Qingfei cared about him and felt sorry for him, but he didn't mean to scare her. He regretted it when her expression looked strange.
"Speak up, have you hurt your brain?" Xie Qingfei asked anxiously.
This was going to be a difficult situation, so Wei Cheng could only silently stretch out the back of his hand.
The knuckles are slender, the skin is fair, and light blue veins can be vaguely seen. It is a very noble and beautiful hand.

Xie Qingfei stared at it for a long time, but couldn't figure out what it was. "Master, can you give me a clear explanation?"
Wei Cheng was silent for a while: "You are too late, the wound has healed."
Xie Qingfei: "..."
She looked like "Do you think I believe it?"
Wei Cheng added: "It could also be internal injuries."
Xie Qingfei snorted and laughed, nodding in admiration. She had been so nervous all the way just to come and take charge of the situation for him. She should have known that he would not get into trouble easily.
Xie Qingfei pretended to roll up his sleeves: "I'll injure you more."
Wei Cheng hurriedly held her hand: "I don't think this is necessary."

(End of this chapter)