Hu Pingtao couldn't laugh or cry: "Director, what are you talking about? We have nothing to do with that matter."

Liao Qiuyin asked with a smile: "Do you have any photos? Show them to me."

It happened that Su Xiaolin sent her location on WeChat. It was a nice-style restaurant, with a few photos of herself and the dishes, and an explanation, "My colleagues and I had lunch here."

Liao Qiu glanced at Hu Pingtao's mobile phone, his eyes suddenly enlarged, and he was full of praise: "It's very beautiful! No wonder you don't like Director Luo's daughter."

Hu Pingtao felt that the more he explained, the darker he got, so he simply took back his phone and sat on his chair, too lazy to respond.

Liao Qiu thought to herself: "It seems that this woman likes you very much. She even tells you where she goes to eat. Xiaohu, you have to do this and make her obedient to you. From now on, ask for instructions early and report later."

Don't dare to go east, and if you firmly hold the financial power of your family in your hands, you will be complete."

Hu Pingtao couldn't help but laugh: "Director, you seem to be talking about my sister-in-law, right?"

Liao Qiu was suddenly speechless, glanced at him sideways, breathed out deep resentment from his nostrils, sped up, and drove towards the police station.

…

Less than ten minutes after returning to the station, I received the 110 alarm: a murder occurred in Jinchang Community.

Liao Qiu, Hu Pingtao and others rushed to the scene.

Jinchang Community is an old community with more than 20 buildings, all with six floors. There are no walls around the community, and the green belt is also an old-style cement flower bed. Construction began in the 1980s, and there are only temporary parking spaces for bicycles in the community.

Sexual building, no parking space for cars.

A cordon of black and yellow tapes has been set up downstairs in the twenty-first building. Liao Qiu arranged for people to be on duty nearby. Non-residents of the building are not allowed to enter. There is also a built-in line from the fifth floor down to prevent anyone without permission.

Not allowed to get involved.

When Hu Pingtao walked into Room 601, he saw the female body lying on the bed through the open bedroom door connected to the living room.

The deceased's name was Zhang Hongxia, 29 years old, and worked in a private company.

There were obvious marks of strangulation on the neck, a blue denim women's jacket was scattered on the bed, the pillows and quilts had been pushed around, but no ropes or anything like that could be seen.

Liao Qiu was experienced. He whispered to Hu Pingtao who was standing next to him: "It was a homicide. The murderer probably took the murder weapon away."

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly: "Director, this case is not our turn. Let's report it to the Criminal Police Team first!"

"It has been reported." Liao Qiu said: "We are temporarily responsible for maintaining order and ensuring that the scene is not destroyed. When I called before, Wang Xiongjie said that you must be present."

Hu Pingtao asked curiously: "Why? I'm not from the criminal police team?"

"He's attracted to you." Liao Qiu said half-jokingly: "You're lucky, both Lei Yue and Wang Xiongjie have a special regard for you. Well, there's something else going on in the office, so I'll go over first. Wang Xiongjie will come later.

Now, just follow him. The office will not arrange work for you these days. Try to solve this case as soon as possible, just like the drug trafficking case last time. Give our office some face."

…

After Liao Qiu left, Hu Pingtao chose a relatively open location and carefully observed the murder scene.

When he was downstairs, he wiped the soles of his shoes with a tissue, went up to the sixth floor, and wiped them again before entering the room.

Wearing gloves, the movements are slow and the range of movement is not large.

During the training at the police academy, the instructor repeatedly explained that the crime scene must be investigated carefully and a fixed walking route must be drawn in the area to avoid damaging the evidence collection at the scene to the greatest extent.

Taking the common two-bedroom and one-living house as an example, the walking routes of the house surveyors are all repeated. "Y" shape, or "T" shape. Without special needs or the premise that a certain corner must be sampled, anyone can

You must follow a fixed trajectory and route. If you are led by a strict superior, even everyone's footprints must overlap to the maximum extent.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Xiongjie came with people from the criminal police team.

"You came quite early!" He greeted Hu Pingtao with a smile, and then glanced around the room: "Are there any clues?"

Hu Pingtao shook his head: "I just came a little earlier than Brother Wang and you, and I'm not a god. If you can find the murderer just by looking around, why do you need the police?"

"Hey! You kid, we haven't seen each other for a few days, and you've learned to play tricks on me!" Wang Xiongjie used words to attack Hu Pingtao, turned sideways, and said to a police officer standing next to him: "Xiao Zhang, turn around and give me the list.

Change it and add him to your group."

He immediately turned around and patted Hu Pingtao on the shoulder: "Let me introduce to you, this is Hu Pingtao from Eryuan Road Police Station, temporarily seconded to our criminal police team. This is Xiao Zhang, Zhang Wenxuan, who just arrived last month

Newcomer."

The two shook hands politely.

Zhang Wenxuan is a young man with a frail appearance. When he speaks, his thick Adam's apple moves up and down: "Add me on WeChat!"

As he spoke, he took out his phone and clicked on the page.

Hu Pingtao took the initiative to scan the other party's QR code business card and sent him a smiley face. Zhang Wenxuan clicked OK, but did not reply. He only nodded to him and turned around to leave.

Wang Xiongjie saw all this and whispered: "Xiao Zhang has a cold face and a warm heart. He doesn't talk much at ordinary times. Let's talk about the case! You came early and tell me your opinion."

Hu Pingtao was not pretentious. He turned around and pointed at the open door and said seriously: "There are no signs of prying on the door lock. It should be an acquaintance who committed the crime."

"The items in the room are neatly arranged. Walking from the door, the shoe cabinet, dining table, standing cabinets, and objects placed on the chairs are not pushed over or scattered. I looked around the room, whether in the bedroom or the bathroom,

There were no traces of a fight."

Looking at the forensic doctor who was squatting beside the bed to examine the body, Wang Xiongjie suddenly felt doubtful. He turned around and asked Hu Pingtao: "Who reported the case?"

Regardless of the scene environment or the current state of the deceased, it is shown that the murderer had sufficient time to commit the crime, and the entire murder process can even be described as "unhurried".

This means that the murderer will close the door when he leaves and the entire room will remain airtight.

In other words, if the body was not rotting and smelly, and the neighbors would not be aware of the problem, it would be impossible for anyone to report the crime.

But for now, although the details have to wait for forensic identification, visual inspection shows that the death time of the female body on the bed should not be too long.

"It was reported by the property management of the community." Hu Pingtao said: "They clean the corridors of the community at noon every day. The cleaning staff said that she was cleaning from the downstairs to the top. When she got to the sixth floor, she found that Room 601

The door is open a crack."

"Calling the police if you open a crack in the door? Are cleaning people very vigilant?" Wang Xiongjie expressed doubts about this.

"Brother Wang, please be patient and listen to what I have to say!" Hu Pingtao explained: "The property management company has regulations: During the cleaning process, if a resident's door is found open, he must knock on the door and ask. If there is no response,

, she went into the house to check and got in touch with the resident in time. At that time, the cleaning staff knocked on the door of 601, but no one answered, so she pushed the door in and found the head of the household lying on the bed. She pushed a few times, but the other party did not respond. She was

I was so frightened that I ran out to call someone and then called the police.”

Wang Xiongjie looked solemn and nodded slowly: "You can call Liao Qiu later and ask him to send me a copy of the detailed transcript."

The alarm was handled by the police station. The community property management and the cleaning staff who cleaned the corridor at the time have been brought back to the police station to receive transcripts.

Hu Pingtao continued: "I just took a look around. This case is very strange. There are no signs of disturbance in the house. The murderer obviously did not seek money."

"Interesting..." The house is not big. From Wang Xiongjie's position, he can see the appearance of the deceased: "This woman has a good figure and looks okay. Since theft or robbery and murder can be ruled out with a high probability, why did the deceased

The clothes on your body are kept intact? It seems that it is not for sex..."

Hu Pingtao didn't answer.

He had discovered this suspicion before, but whether the deceased had been violated before his death had to wait for the results of the forensic examination.

Half an hour later, the forensic doctor stood up from the bed. He walked up to Wang Xiongjie, took off his mask, and greeted Hu Pingtao with a smile: "Xiaohu, long time no see."

His name is Ding Jian, a middle-aged man in his thirties. He is very fat and looks like he is out of breath when walking. However, he passes the physical fitness assessment of the public security system every year and passes the standard.

Hu Pingtao was seconded by the Anti-Narcotics Brigade and stayed in the branch for a while. Because of Wang Xiongjie, he became familiar with the people from the Criminal Police Team.

Ding Jian, like Wang Xiongjie, both likes to joke.

"Xiaohu, let's have dinner together tonight! I'll order some fried pork liver for you." Ding Jian's fat face looked even rounder under the squeeze of a smile. This was something he often said after the autopsy, no matter who he was talking to.

All like this.

When Hu Pingtao heard him make such a joke before, he always had a strong desire to vomit.

The training in the police academy was very effective, and he now has a strong immunity to it. Hu Pingtao nodded and replied with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Ding. But how can liver alone be enough? You are too stingy, add some intestines."

Bar!"

The smile on Ding Jian's face disappeared, and he curled his lips: "I haven't seen you for a few months. You kid is not fun at all."

Wang Xiongjie asked: "Fat Ding, tell me about the results of the preliminary examination."

Speaking of work, Ding Jian became particularly serious: "The deceased was an adult female, and the cause of death was strangulation and suffocation by external force. The time of death was between midnight and two o'clock in the morning yesterday. There were no signs of struggle on the body of the deceased, and the initial examination of the body fluids showed that there were

There are sleeping drug residues, and the detailed results will not be available until further inspection after returning."

He then added: "This woman is already pregnant. I estimate she is about three to four months old. Her pelvis is large and her abdomen is not swollen very much. It cannot be seen through her clothes."

Wang Xiongjie looked serious: "When the report from the on-site investigation team comes out, let's take the body away! Fatty Ding, hurry up and do the autopsy. It's different when there is a fetus. As for the family of the deceased...sigh..."

He shook his head and stopped talking.

Homicide cases are different from ordinary theft cases in that they have a great social impact, and words such as "female deceased" and "pregnant woman" are extremely sensitive. Once a topic is formed on the Internet, it will quickly ferment, triggering various controversies, which is extremely detrimental to the police investigation.

Hu Pingtao asked: "Brother Ding, can you see the murder weapon used by the murderer?"

There are many types of strangulation marks.

Iron wire, rope, strips of cloth, plastic bags... in short, any soft and tough material can be used. Taking rope as an example, the marks of thick hemp rope and braided thin rope are very different, which can be judged by the naked eye.

Hu Pingtao's training program at the police academy included trace studies. However, after careful comparison, he still could not tell where the strangulation marks on the neck of the female corpse came from.

It is definitely not a thick hemp rope or a thin iron wire. The strangulation mark is somewhere in between. There is no hemp fiber residue, and there is no damage to the skin caused by the thin iron wire or wire being tightened. Hu Pingtao believes that the murder weapon should be a fiber belt.

Something like that, but he searched the scene carefully and couldn't find any evidence.
To be continued...