You're Guilty: Conspiracy Scene 2 crime escalation

Chapter 49 The Drift Bottle

April 2012.The river is thawing, the spring is warm and flowers are blooming, the young swallows make new sounds, and the willows also sprout new buds.

At this time, nearly four years had passed since the first broken foot was found on the shore of Lingbo Bathing Beach.Time flies, things are different, and Li Guanlan led his criminal police officers to fight everywhere, solve many remarkable big and strange cases, and made great contributions to the peace and tranquility of the citizens of Quzhou.In four years, former Public Security Bureau Chief Xu Standing Committee fulfilled his parents' long-cherished wish and was promoted to Secretary of the Municipal Law Committee.In four years, Su Caixuan got married, but broke up sadly after two years.And Xu Tianhua and his girlfriend He Xiaoshun finally got married. They registered their marriage half a year ago, and He Xiaoshun was four months pregnant.

At two o'clock in the afternoon.In the Lingbo Bathing Beach of Quzhou City, there are already citizens in twos and threes who are not afraid of the cold, chopping the waves in the water, and even more excited children, whose cheeks and hands are flushed by the unexpected spring breeze, but they are still on the beach. Running and playing wearily.

Dandan and Nao Nao chased after each other, and their immature and sharp laughter and cries attracted the attention of the crowd on the shore, who cast their attention and affection on them.

Dandan ran on the beach with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Due to impatience, he lost his rhythm, stumbled, fell face down on the beach, and gnawed a mouthful of sand.Dandan knew that if she cried out loud, her mother would stop her from playing, so she suppressed crying and tried to get up with her hands on the ground.

Dandan's mother, Li Xiaomei, had already seen her fall, ran over in a fuss, and said cursingly, "I'm in my teens, and I'm still naughty like a boy. I picked up a dead foot here that year. Don’t know how to learn the lesson yet.”

Seeing her mother approaching, Dandan hurriedly stood up, her face covered with mud, tears of grievance flashed in her eyes, and she held a sneaker in her right hand.

Li Xiaomei scolded: "I'm going to die, and I still pick up this dirty thing." She snatched the sneakers with her hands, and raised her hands to throw them far away, only to feel the weight difference. When she looked into the shoes, her face immediately turned pale, " Damn, another broken foot!"

Until Li Guanlan brought people to the scene, Li Xiaomei was still chanting in shock: "It's really bad luck. I picked up dead feet twice in a row. Why didn't I have such luck buying lottery tickets?" She also complained to the criminal police standing beside her. Xu Tianhua, "You policemen are free? There are so many dead people's feet in the bath and you don't know how to clean them up."

Xu Tianhua didn't want to talk to her, so he turned his head to the side.

Wearing snow-white cotton gloves, Su Caixuan picked up the broken foot and said to Li Guanlan, "It's another one. The right foot, a women's shoe size 36, is exactly the same as the broken foot found before."

Li Guanlan nodded and said, "No.14, after a year and a half hiatus, reappeared."

Su Caixuan said: "It's really strange. I thought there would be no more in the fall of the year before last. According to experts, if these broken feet are all from the victims of the air crash, how come the time to float to the bathing place is so different? Even if there are eddies and wind directions on the way , reefs and other factors, there will not be a difference of one and a half years, right?"

Li Guanlan was also full of doubts. He took the broken foot from Su Caixuan and stared at it for a long time, as if expecting the broken foot to speak and tell its origin.

Li Guanlan brought five criminal policemen, plus three policemen from the police station in charge of the bathing place, and four technicians including Su Caixuan and Ma Dezhong. A total of 13 people carried out a blanket investigation on the shore of the bathing place. Any clues, even a suspicious hair, should be picked up and kept as evidence.

Li Guanlan seems to have made up his mind to handle this case.In fact, he himself can't tell what he thinks now. He feels helpless, frustrated, angry and annoyed, and more confused.

According to the expert's conclusion, it is determined that these broken feet are the wreckage of the victims of the air crash, and naturally everyone is happy, once and for all.But Li Guanlan felt that he had to do something. These broken feet that kept floating in the air brought speculation and panic to the citizens, but they brought him ridicule, shame and challenges.

However, even if you search tirelessly, what can you find?These broken feet have drifted for hundreds of miles, and the mighty river has washed away all traces.So far, they don't even know how these broken feet were formed.

Give up, a voice said in his ear, you will never find the answer, giving up is a smart choice, if you continue to be dragged around by the broken foot, you will bring shame on yourself.

Li Guanlan, who has always been wise, reserved, and well-founded, suddenly became very stubborn at this moment, even so stubborn that he looked extremely stupid.After thirteen people checked the beach, he took off his police uniform, bought a swimsuit from a store in the bathing place, put on swimming goggles, and led four police officers who could swim into Lingbo bathing place despite the chill of early spring. In the river, swim to the middle of the river.Li Guanlan ordered that every reef should not be spared, and even the crevices of the stones should be carefully explored. If anyone can find valuable clues, such as shoes, broken feet, human remains, etc., he will write written materials and report to the provincial government for them. The Public Security Bureau applied for meritorious service awards.

At this time, the shore was already full of spectators.Su Caixuan and Xu Tianhua didn't know how to swim, so they didn't enter the water. They stood together with other police officers, looking at the figure of Li Guanlan and others who were fading away in the river with concern, and almost began to doubt their own eyes. They didn't know why he To do such a crazy and stupid act, such a futile search for a needle in a haystack, can only smear the reputation and reputation he already possessed with thick black spots, and become the talk of those who hate him after dinner.

Lei Bo, the manager of Lingbo Bathing Beach, also came to Xu Tianhua and complained to him, "What kind of performance art are you fellows doing? The river is more than ten meters deep in the middle, and it's not for fun if something happens. No one in front of them As far as the protective net, call them back, just take it as me begging you."

Xu Tianhua asked Su Caixuan for advice, and said to Lei Bo: "It's so far away, what do you call it? Try it, can you hear it?"

Lei Bo is only 25 years old this year. He has not worked in the bathing place for long and has little experience in dealing with such emergencies. When asked by Xu Tianhua, he was a little at a loss, and replied in a daze: "You can use the bathing station's radio to call them back. The sound travels far, and they must be able to hear it."

Xu Tianhua retorted: "Brother, I didn't intend to make things difficult for you. The one swimming in the river is my boss. I must follow his command. How can I ask him to come back?"

Lei Bo was a little timid in front of the uniformed policemen, and when he saw that the words were not speculative, he was even tongue-tied and speechless.Seeing his embarrassed expression, Su Caixuan couldn't bear it, so she comforted him and said, "Don't worry, they are all good at water and have rich experience in dealing with dangerous situations, so nothing will happen."

Lei Bo grinned at her gratefully, with helplessness in his smile.

Li Guanlan led four police officers to search the icy river in early spring for about four to ten minutes before returning to the shore one by one.Everyone's lips were purple from the cold, dark blue appeared in their pale skin, water dripped from their bodies trembling, and their upper and lower rows of teeth knocked uncontrollably, obviously the cold had penetrated into the bone marrow.

The police officers on the shore had already wrapped the prepared towels and dry clothes on them. Su Caixuan didn't know whether it was distressing or complaining, and she muttered: "Is it worth paying so much for a strange incident that cannot be filed, and making such a big noise? "

Five police officers froze to death, but not much was gained.Two people were holding an empty shoe taken out of a crack in the stone, while Li Guanlan was holding an empty bottle in his hand.Seeing this, Xu Tianhua was slightly disappointed.

The two empty shoes were women's sneakers, and they were obviously foreign brands imitated by domestic manufacturers.Li Guanlan, who had calmed down from the cold, said to Su Caixuan: "We didn't pay much attention to these empty shoes before, can we do an analysis, whether these two shoes are related to the shoes with broken feet, for example, can they be matched together? A pair?" He said, his cheeks still trembling involuntarily.

Su Caixuan said: "Is this test worthwhile? Even if it can be matched as a pair, what does it mean? Still can't file a case, a waste of time."

Li Guanlan was reproached angrily by her, rolled his eyes, and had nothing to say.What he held in his hand was not an empty bottle, it was half full of pills.This bottle is made of plastic and is very large, about twenty centimeters long and seven or eight centimeters in diameter. It contains health-care tablets like vitamins.Since the bottle is well sealed, the tablets inside are not soaked, but the label on the outside of the bottle has been washed clean.Su Caixuan glanced at the bottle, and said, "How many messy things did you pick up after soaking in the water for forty minutes?"

Seeing her bad attitude, Li Guanlan smiled perfunctorily and said nothing.

Back at the police station, it was already around [-]:[-] pm.Su Caixuan casually threw the shoe with the broken foot into the freezer containing the evidence, and packed up her things to get off work.Suddenly, someone knocked on the door outside the laboratory, and when he opened it, it was Li Guanlan.

Su Caixuan was a little surprised, she stood at the door and said, "Is there something wrong? Are you still not giving up on the broken foot?"

Li Guanlan squeezed in sideways, closed the door, and said, "I found something in the bathing place today, maybe the case can be investigated."

Su Caixuan said in amazement: "With those two empty shoes and a medicine bottle, how can we check?"

Li Guanlan raised a brown paper bag in Yang's hand and said, "There may be important clues hidden here." Then, he put the bag on the desk and took out a brown plastic bottle from it.

Su Caixuan didn't know what tricks he was playing, she watched quietly without speaking.

Li Guanlan said: "I found this bottle during my investigation on the beach of Lingbo Bathing Beach. At that time, there were too many people, so I hid it and didn't tell others."

Su Caixuan said: "Okay, so you hid it, but to be honest, I really can't think of any connection between this bottle and the broken foot."

Li Guanlan opened the bottle cap and poured out the contents. There were many lucky stars folded from colored glossy paper, nearly a thousand of them.Li Guanlan said: "It's nine hundred and ninety-nine, I counted them." He took out a note folded into a heart shape from the bottle, unfolded it, and said on it: "Shun and Hua know each other by heart. May this life be together forever. , vertical white head, not separated." There is a mobile phone number written below.

"It's a gadget made by a lover," Su Caixuan recited those few words silently twice in her heart, and said, "The names of Shun and Hua are somewhat similar to the names of He Xiaoshun and Xu Tianhua, which is interesting."

Li Guanlan said: "It's the two of them. The phone number below is He Xiaoshun's. I checked it."

Su Caixuan said puzzledly: "Even if it belongs to the two of them, why don't you return it to them and hide it instead? It's not close to the broken foot. Don't you doubt Xu Tianhua?" When she said the last sentence, A thin layer of goose bumps appeared on his body.

Li Guanlan said seriously: "I'm not doubting him, but I hope this bottle can help us solve the mystery of the broken foot. Two years ago, some experts demonstrated that the broken foot was separated from the victims of the air crash. Floating to Limbo Bathing Beach. However, there are two major doubts in this, which cannot be explained by the experts' arguments. One is why the broken feet floating over are all young women's stumps, and they all wear sports shoes? This is different from that of airplane passengers. Sex does not match. Second, why did the broken foot reappear after two years? The victims of the air crash all fell into the water at the same time. Even if there is a difference in the time of the broken foot drifting, it should not be so long apart. These two points do not make sense. Expert evidence is not credible."

Su Caixuan said: "Even so, what can we do? We tried hard three or four years ago."

Li Guanlan weighed the drifting bottle in his hand and said: "After putting the 99 lucky stars in this bottle, it weighs one catty one tael, which is close to the weight of a shoe with a broken foot. The material of the bottle is vinyl plastic." , which is similar to the material used to make the soles of sports shoes. Previously, some water conservancy experts have demonstrated that in the Juliu River Basin, the Lingbo Bathing Beach has a special terrain, so that the sundries drifting from the upper reaches are concentrated there. There are also several places that are also similar to Lingbo Bathing Beach. The terrain of the wave bath is similar. Because of the central negative pressure caused by the huge pipe-shaped stone wall, a huge vortex is formed, which becomes a gathering place for floating objects in the water. The weight and material of this bottle are similar to the shoe with the broken foot. Can we Assuming that the two drifting routes are also the same, the place where Xu Tianhua and He Xiaoshun dropped the drifting bottle was the starting point of the broken foot drifting with the river?"

When Su Caixuan listened to his analysis, she kept close to Xu Tianhua and his wife, and felt chills, but after thinking deeply, his analysis was actually very reasonable, so she said: "At that time, experts believed that the broken foot came from the junction of H province and Songjiang province. It floated over from the upper reaches of the Juliu River, which is also the place where the air crash occurred in Province H. Some experts once analyzed the drifting route of the broken foot, and came to a conclusion based on factors such as weather, wind direction, water flow, and water temperature. I also read According to the expert report, it is very scientific and quite convincing.”

Li Guanlan agreed: "I don't doubt the quality of these experts in their respective professional fields. The conclusions they draw cannot be completely overturned. However, factors such as weather and wind direction are variables, and deviations in calculations are inevitable."

Su Caixuan said: "As long as the calculation deviation is within a reasonable range, it is allowed."

Li Guanlan reminded her: "You remember that we went to the Botanical Garden in Zhao'an City for vacation four years ago. Later I learned that He Xiaoshun's family lived there, and Zhao'an City is located at the junction of Songjiang Province and H Province. The places where the air crashes occurred in Province H are less than a hundred miles away."

Su Caixuan defended Xu Tianhua and said: "Even if the drifting bottles of the two were thrown into the water in Zhao'an City, and the drifting route of the broken foot is the same, that's just a coincidence."

Li Guanlan was noncommittal, saying: "But this coincidence helped us define the scope of the investigation. If this is a criminal case, the place where the crime occurred is likely to be in Zhao'an City."

At this time, someone knocked on the door and came in, but it was Feng Xinran, who reported to Li Guanlan: "After checking, the medicine bottle you fished out of the river is a product of Zhao'an Pharmaceutical No. Half a bottle of calcium tablets."

Only then did Su Caixuan understand, and she said to Li Guanlan sarcastically: "It turns out that you rushed people into the water with a red face to find evidence. After you found the drift bottle on the shore, you didn't make any changes. You hid it really well." .”

Li Guanlan didn't care about her weird tone, and said: "The content of today's conversation is limited to the three of us, and it must not be spread in the police force."

Hearing his serious tone, Su Caixuan didn't dare to show a carefree attitude, and stammered in a low voice, "Li... Detachment, what are you doing? Could it be Xu Tianhua..."

(End of this chapter)