Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 361: Does committing a crime have to be outsourced at every level?
Fengshui County, county bureau office building.

The conference room was filled with smoke. The old smokers each had a cigarette in their hands, their eyes slightly narrowed, and they puffed out clouds of smoke.

The female police officer and technical police officer present hid at the end of the conference table and opened the window next to it to let the wind in and blow away the pungent smell of smoke.

The male comrades who really couldn't bear it had to have one too, light it with a lighter, and fight poison with poison.

When Xu Chengzhi saw Shen Huaimin coming in, he quickly stood up and greeted him, "Director Shen."

Shen Huaimin pressed his hand towards him, frowning: "Are you cultivating here? Or are you trying to overcome a tribulation? The ceiling has been smoked yellow by you bastards, hurry up and put out the cigarette butts!"

Everyone quickly put their cigarette butts into the glass ashtray, which was already full of cigarette butts of all brands.

"Go open the window. The city police will be here soon. If you let people smell your secondhand smoke, they might think you are trying to show off your power."

"Also, the people across the street came over and made room for others. Since there was no room here, they just sat against the wall. There's no manners at all."

Seeing that his leader was angry and looked unhappy, Xu Chengzhi did not dare to neglect him and quickly waved to his subordinates: "Put the chairs and tables in order. Hey, Xiao Miao, go find some perfume and spray it in this room."

Xiao Miao is a female police officer with a slender figure, short hair and a round face. She pouted and said, "Captain Xu, where can we find perfume? You know we are not allowed to wear perfume or jewelry at work."

"You're so stupid! Why don't you go find a bottle of toilet water? It will be fine if it can cover up the smell of cigarette smoke."

"Okay." Xiao Miao left in disappointment.

Seeing that the matter was settled, Shen Huaimin pulled out a chair and sat down.

Xu Chengzhi flattered him: "Director Shen, you don't want to sit on it?"

Shen Huaimin glanced at the chair at the top and whispered, "The secretary will be here soon."

"Secretary?" Xu Chengzhi was shocked. It turned out that Shen Huaimin was not trying to please the people from the Municipal Bureau, but he knew that the big boss who was in charge of his group was coming.

The secretary he was referring to was of course the political and development micro-secretary, and they are the only ones who call it that without the prefix.

"The last time Tao Zhi came, the secretary didn't show up. Why did he want to come this time?" Xu Chengzhi wondered.

Shen Huaimin was too lazy to explain to him. Did Luo want to cause trouble in heaven? He could only move a giant Buddha to suppress the Monkey King's momentum.

Shen Huaimin did not answer, but asked: "How did you deal with Bai Xianjin's group?"

"He's in prison. The fine has been paid. According to the rules, he has to be detained for ten days."

"It's better to keep it locked up, it's better to keep it locked up!" Shen Huaimin sighed.

Before he could finish his breath, Xiao Miao came running over: "Director Shen, Captain Xu, people from the Municipal Bureau are here."

"So fast?" Shen Huaimin stood up and looked towards the door, only to see Luo Rui and his group had already stepped inside.

"Director Shen." Luo Rui nodded slightly to him. The two had just met an hour ago, so there was no excessive greeting.

But Xu Chengzhi came running over, holding out his hands enthusiastically: "Hello, Captain Luo, hello, you've come all the way here, thank you for your hard work, we've met this morning, I'm..."

Seeing his enthusiasm, Luo Rui nodded and said, "Hello, Xu Chengzhi, Captain Xu."

"Hello, hello." Xu Chengzhi held his hands with both and lowered his head slightly.

Shen Huaimin rolled his eyes and complained in his heart, it seems that my subordinate wants to make progress.

"Everyone, please sit down." Luo Rui said, and then led everyone to sit across the table.

After Cai Xiaojing, Lin Chen and Chu Yang sat down, they picked up their computer bags, took out their laptops and placed them on the table.

Fang Yonghui, Yang Bo and Su Mingyuan also took out their briefcases and pulled out documents and sketchbooks.

Seeing that this group of people were meticulous and serious, the police officers from the county bureau immediately sat up straight and prepared for the case at hand.

Luo Rui looked at Shen Huaimin and Xu Chengzhi and said, "Let's get started. Who will introduce the case first?"

Shen Huaiming replied, "Captain Luo, I'm sorry, we have to wait a moment."

"Oh?"

"It's like this. Our Secretary Sun will be here soon. He is also going to attend this meeting."

Luo Rui looked at the time. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon. He frowned and said, "It's getting late. Let's not wait for him. Let's start now."

what?
Shen Huaimin rubbed his eyes. He suspected that he had heard wrongly. Luo Rui was the deputy detachment of Linjiang City. His jurisdiction was not here at all. He was just temporarily taking over the position of Qinggui Chen Hao. Shen Huaimin had already investigated it clearly.

No matter how awesome you are, you can't leave the secretary aside, right?

Xu Chengzhi was equally surprised and blinked: "Captain Luo, this is not good, right?"

Lao Xu thought more than Lao Shen. You, Luo Rui, can ignore Lao Sun, but we are under his control. If we offend him, how can we carry out our work in the future? Do you still want to make progress?
Luo Rui shrugged: "If you're late, then you're late. It doesn't make sense to make a room full of people wait for one person, right? Is the case more important, or is he more important?"

Luo Rui had a cold face. Seeing that the two dared not say a word, he said to Cai Xiaojing: "Let's start."

Cai Xiaojing nodded and looked across the table: "Captain Xu, the case happened on January 1, five years ago. Please send me the identity information of the five children."

Xu Chengzhi touched his nose and glanced at Shen Huaiming. Seeing the latter nod, he picked up a pile of information on the table and pushed it to Cai Xiaojing: "It's all here."

After Cai Xiaojing took it, Lin Chen continued, "Captain Xu, please give me a copy of the transcripts of the five children's parents as well."

Xu Chengzhi stood up and pushed another pile of information over.

Chu Yang also spoke up: "Captain Xu, the kid named Xiang Ke was killed at a construction site in the southern suburbs. Do you have any photos of the scene and any evidence collection information?"

"Yes!" Xu Chengzhi picked up another stack of information and handed it out.

Tian Guanghan: "Captain Xu, please give me a detailed map of the movements of these five children five years ago, as well as the eyewitness accounts and the area that was searched at the time."

Xu Chengzhi sighed, he couldn't help it, this made him seem very passive and incompetent.

If I don't cooperate, and Luo Rui and his team plan to investigate the case on their own and ignore the county bureau, then I will be held responsible regardless of whether the case can be solved or not.

He sighed and compromised, "Let me talk about the case."

Xu Chengzhi stood up and walked to the screen at the end of the conference table. He nodded to Xiaomiao, and then Xiaomiao operated the computer and turned on the projector.

"The situation is like this. On January 1 five years ago, the weather on the Spring Festival was heavy snow and the temperature was minus one degree.

These five children all live in Huainan Street and are neighbors, ranging in age from eight to five years old.

The oldest child was eight years old. He was the one whose body we found in March this year. His name was Xiang Ke. He was the leader of the four children. They had breakfast at eight in the morning and left home to play.

Because it was the Spring Festival, the county was very lively with people everywhere, and there were also opera troupes from other places setting up stages to perform in the suburbs.

The parents of these five children thought that their children were playing downstairs, and they specifically told them not to run around and only to play with firecrackers downstairs.

So the parents didn't pay much attention to it until ten o'clock in the morning, when the mother of the youngest child went downstairs to look for her child and discovered that the child was not downstairs.

The child's name is Xiang Tao, a five-year-old girl. She has an older brother named Xiang Ming, and the two siblings disappeared together.

In addition, there are two missing boys, one named Wu Yue and the other named Ren Xiaoyong. "

At this point, photos of the five children appeared on the screen. Because the sun was facing west, the sunlight outside was too glaring, so Lin Chen walked to the window behind him and closed the curtains.

Luo Rui held a pen in his hand, squinted his eyes slightly, pointed at the screen and said, "Captain Xu, what are the occupations of the parents of these five children?"

"Xiang Ke's parents both worked in a food factory. His father used to be the manager of the factory, but he resigned after his child disappeared."

"Food factory? Bai Kangyong's food factory?"

Xu Chengzhi nodded: "Yes."

"Where are the other children's parents?"

"Xiang Ming and Xiang Tao's parents run a private clinic. Wu Yue's parents are self-employed and run a small shop. Ren Xiaoyong's parents work in other provinces. At the time of the incident, his parents were at home."

“How are the relationships among these five families?”

"Very good." Xu Chengzhi said: "We have investigated their background information and found no contradictions."

Luo Rui nodded: "Take the map and unfold it to see where Huainan Street is in the county?"

Xiao Miao quickly projected the map onto the screen. Xu Chengzhi took a marker and pointed to the southwest of Fengshui County: "This is Huainan Street. It used to be a village. Later, the county expanded and incorporated the county seat, so it was renamed Huainan Street.

There are mountains behind this street and Fengshui River in front of it.

We organized a search at that time, mainly along the Huaishan Mountain and Fengshui River, but we searched the entire mountain and found nothing.

Moreover, it was snowing when the incident happened, and the Fengshui River was in its dry season. If the children had accidentally fallen into the river, we would have definitely found them, but we still found nothing. "

At this time, Tian Guanghan asked, "Five children, it is impossible for them to disappear for no reason. I just looked through the information given by Captain Xu, and there are no witnesses? People say that the wind leaves a sound and the wild geese leave a trace. This is a big doubt."

"That's right." Xu Chengzhi replied, "At the beginning, our investigation started with eyewitnesses, but the eyewitnesses only saw the children playing downstairs, and no one saw the direction they left. At that time, we could only confirm that after nine o'clock, the children were no longer on the street.

Look here..."

Several photos of Huainan Street appeared on the screen.

"The geographical location here is not in the form of a residential area. Outside, there are either roads or fields, and there are mountains behind. There is only one townhouse built here.

What's more, there was a stage for opera performances at the ancestral hall a mile away, and many people went to watch the show, so there were very few people on Huainan Street at that time.

this……"

Tian Guanghan immediately said, "My last name is Tian." "Yes, just like what Officer Tian suspected, we have also considered it, so we think that these five children are most likely to have gone up the mountain!

There is a mountain behind the house, and the road is not difficult to walk on, and there are newly built steps. The children were playing with firecrackers on the street at the time, and it is very likely that they went to play in the mountains. "

Cai Xiaojing asked: "Have you investigated the troupe? Is this troupe from outside or local?"

"From other places!" Xu Chengzhi said, "After the case was classified as a missing persons case, we conducted a detailed investigation of the troupe and sent people to other cities to conduct a detailed investigation of this group of people, but we did not find any suspicious points.

There were about twenty people in the troupe. In addition to the singers, there were also people who played the gong and the erhu. We have checked them all and found that they had complete alibis at the time of the crime.

It is impossible that the children were abducted by them. If they really did it, then it is my fault and I should not be the chief of the criminal police team anymore."

What Xu Chengzhi meant was that we have already investigated your doubts, so if you want to ask something practical, then don't you want to walk the same path I have walked, then that would be a slap in my face?
For Luo Rui and others, no doubts can be overlooked. What does it mean to re-sort them out? Re-sorting them out means pointing out that you are in the wrong direction of investigation.

Luo Rui saw that Xu Chengzhi was a little angry and Shen Huaimin's face looked ugly too.

"Captain Xu, Xiang Ke's body was dug out at a construction site in the southern suburbs. Could you please tell me the situation?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Chengzhi's anger subsided immediately. The implication was that you were helpless at the time and classified the case as missing. You have been investigating in this direction for five years, but five years have passed and not only have you found no clues, but in March of this year, the body of a child was suddenly dug up. This is already a dereliction of duty.

How dare you throw a tantrum in front of me and say you don’t want to be the captain of the criminal police team anymore?

Are you playing?
If you have the guts, take off your uniform now!
Luo Rui had a cold face and stared at him, the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

Xu Chengzhi avoided his gaze, swallowed his saliva, and nodded.

A photo of the burial scene appeared on the screen. The previous statement about the crime scene was actually not quite accurate. It was still unclear whether Xiang Ke was killed here.

"On March 4, on the north side of the construction site, an excavator was working on a foundation when it suddenly unearthed human remains.

Because the skeleton was not wrapped and had no obvious features, the excavator operator did not notice it at the time. Later, when he was transporting soil, a worker nearby found a head and discovered that it was a human skeleton.

They called the police immediately. When we arrived, the scene had been completely destroyed and the skeletons were damaged and incomplete.

After we collected the remains, we immediately determined that they were the remains of a child.

After Director Shen learned about this, he immediately arranged for us to collect biological samples from the five children's parents and send them to the Municipal Bureau's Physical Evidence Center together with the biological samples of the corpse. The final result was that the corpse was successfully compared with Xiang Ke's mother! "

Hearing this, Shen Huaimin, who had been silent the whole time, sighed deeply: "At that time, when we called the children's parents, everyone was confused and not sure who the corpse belonged to.

When the biological samples were delivered, the children's parents went with them to the city and waited in the lobby of the Evidence Center.

We waited for several days with a trepidation, but when the results came out, the parents were devastated. Who could have imagined that for five years, five whole years, in our imaginations, we still thought that the children were still alive, even if they were abducted by human traffickers. "

The police officers in Fengshui County have deep feelings about this. The front-line criminal police have all met the children's parents, and they all feel somewhat guilty that the case has not been solved.

But Luo Rui's leisurely words at this time suddenly shocked them, and even Shen Huaimin could not sit still.

"You said that the body belonged to Xiang Ke. Are you sure?"

"What do you mean?" The first one to react was Xu Chengzhi.

Luo Rui waved his hand nonchalantly: "Don't get excited. I'm not doubting the results of the identification, nor am I looking for trouble. I just want to ask if the DNA of the body that was dug up was only compared with that of Xiang Ke's mother?"

As soon as these words came out, Shen Huaimin couldn't help swallowing his saliva and immediately replied: "After a detailed identification by our forensic doctor, Xiang Ke... this corpse is a boy, and his bone age is between seven and eight years old. We also did a DNA comparison with Xiang Ke's mother, so it can't be wrong! It must be right!"

"Were there any specific characteristics when the corpse was dug out? Did the clothes and shoes worn by the corpse match what Xiang Ke was wearing when he disappeared? Were there any items that the victim carried with him before his death? For example, keys, bracelets, etc...."

Shen Huaiming and Xu Chengzhi looked at each other, both of them were stunned, feeling very upset and panicked.

Xu Chengzhi hesitated and said, "No clothes were found at the burial site, nor were there any items or shoes left behind. I suspect that the child was taken away by the murderer when he was buried."

Luo Rui shook his head: "It's better to do a DNA test with his father. We must have detailed physical evidence to confirm that the corpse is really Xiang Ke. Only then can we use this as a benchmark to investigate the case. If we make a mistake, it will be troublesome."

Luo Rui said it very subtly, but everyone understood what he meant. Just doing a DNA comparison with the mother proved the mother-son relationship, but what about the father-son relationship?
What if Xiang Ke was born to his mother and an outsider?

Although the probability of this happening is low, it does happen. Some of the three children are not their own. Isn't it ridiculous?

Even if it is proved that Xiang Ke's mother made a mistake, then this skeleton is no longer Xiang Ke's?

It's hard to say. If this bloody thing really happened, the truth can only be pried out from Xiang Ke's mother.

Seeing that the people in the county bureau were restless and absent-minded, Luo Rui sighed. This is how small places are. They are indeed not very rigorous in doing things.

"One last question, has the cause of death of this corpse been found?"

Xu Chengzhi shook his head: "Not sure yet."

Luo Rui looked at Cai Xiaojing and said, "Call the Zhao father and son and ask them to come over."

"Ok."

"In that case, let's do this for now. Once we determine the identity of the corpse, we will continue the investigation."

Luo Rui stood up, and Shen Huaimin also stood up quickly: "Captain Luo, I'm sorry, we didn't do our job well and wasted your time."

After saying that, he glared at Xu Chengzhi and said, "Why are you still standing here? Why don't you go and get this done!"

"Okay... okay, I'll go right away." Xu Chengzhi was a little at a loss. If this thing was really wrong, it would not be a joke, but he would be really doomed.

I had vowed before that if I failed in my duty and took off this police uniform, wouldn't that be a slap in the face?
Xu Chengzhi wanted to slap himself twice for such a bad mouth of mine.

"Captain Xu, we'll go with you. I'm also going to Huainan Street to take a look at the geographical environment. Maybe I'll find something that can help with the case."

Shen Huaimin bit his tongue and said, "Captain Luo, the case is still unclear and it's getting dark. There's no need to rush. Let me be the host. Let's eat first. Secretary Sun will be here soon. Can we have a chat?"

Luo Rui waved his hand: "Let's wait until the case is solved. We can just eat somewhere later."

Seeing that he refused, Shen Huaimin didn't dare to invite him again.

The meeting has ended, but Secretary Sun hasn't arrived yet. This is too much of a trust.

It was a good thing that he did not attend the meeting, otherwise his mistake would have been caught by this old fox.

After Luo Rui and his group left, Shen Huaimin stayed in the conference room, holding an ashtray and smoking one cigarette after another.

Finally, Sun Yang arrived late with his secretary.

He walked into the meeting room and saw Shen Huaimin sitting alone. He immediately frowned: "Where is he? Isn't he in a meeting?"

Shen Huaimin smelled the alcohol on him and wanted to curse him in his heart, but he could only say respectfully: "Secretary Sun, the meeting is over. That Luo team has gone to visit."

"Oh?"

Shen Huaimin saw that he had a serious expression on his face and said, "They just left. Xu Chengzhi led them."

"No rules!" Sun Yang muttered, "What does he say about beating the tiger?"

"No, we just talked about the case."

"That's good! Old Shen, keep an eye on him and handle the case well. Don't mess around with other things. If there is any movement, you must notify me immediately."

Shen Huaimin nodded: "I understand. What if the case is linked to the Taihe Group?"

"What should I do? Just leave it alone!" Sun Yang rolled his eyes and turned away.

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At night, the breeze is cool.

Luo Rui and his group walked out of the county bureau building, got in the car, and drove towards Huainan Street.

At this time, a black car drove out from the alley.

Fengshui County is not big, with two main roads intersecting each other, dim street lights and a constant stream of people on the road.

In the car, Pan Hai held the steering wheel and said to a burly man wearing a big gold chain in the passenger seat, "Did you see clearly?"

The sturdy man fiddled with the camera in his hand and nodded, "It's the leader. He's very tall and looks like a celebrity. I've taken the photo."

"Yes, it's him." Pan Hai changed his hand to hold the steering wheel, took out a black plastic bag from the side and handed it to the strong man. "Here is 100,000 yuan. After the deal is done, I'll give you another 200,000 yuan, a total of 300,000 yuan, to buy the leg of this Luo."

The sturdy man opened the bag, took out ten stacks of cash, weighed them, and said with a smile: "Do you want the left leg, or the right leg? Or the third leg?"

"Be serious. I'm telling you, this Luo guy is not an easy person to deal with. Tell your men to be on the lookout. It's best to wait until he's alone before you strike. Don't end up losing more than you gain."

"OK! Don't worry, I'll do the work. This isn't the first time we've done business together."

"Okay, I'll give you two days. I want to see his legs!" Pan Hai stopped the car on the side of the road: "Get out first and arrange some smart people."

The burly man nodded, opened the car door, waved into the car, and walked towards the most luxurious nightclub in the county while taking out his phone and dialing a number.

"Hey, Lao Niu, there's a job for you. I'll pay you 100,000 yuan to remove a leg. Do you want to take it?"

……

"What? You think it's too little? Then I'll go find someone else."

……

"No, I can only give you an extra 20,000 at most. 120,000 is not a small amount. Think about it. I found you because I think you are good at using a knife. Besides, this matter is not risky and does not involve a murder case..."

(End of this chapter)