Chapter 24 The next victim (1)
After Director Xiezhi's investigation team invited me, I basically didn't need to participate in the "Zodiac Face" murder case.I flipped through the files of this case in my office, and the day passed quickly.After work, I came to the parking lot. As soon as I got into the car, Ke Xiaoxia suddenly appeared in front of the car and stopped my car.I opened the door and asked her to get in the car: "What's wrong? Miss Ke didn't drive today?"

"Stop talking nonsense and take me home." She really doesn't know how to be polite.

"Would you like me to be a driver?" I didn't start the car, she reached out and patted me: "Drive as soon as I tell you, what nonsense?"

"Okay, you're amazing, I've never seen a woman like you in my life." I had no choice but to start the car, and Ke Xiaoxia flirted with me and said, "Am I a woman? What kind of woman are you if you don't have children and aren't married? To tell you the truth, this girl is still a virgin!"

"Haha, which girl would go around saying that she is a virgin?"

"Don't blame me, I didn't go anywhere, I only told you."

"Why? Did you see me? What about Lao Bai?" I laughed.

"Looking at you? Think beautifully. The man I like must be responsible. I don't like a bitch like you."

"Bitch? You stop provoking me." I smiled wryly.

Ke Xiaoxia covered her mouth and said with a smile: "I've known you for so long, I finally see what you are like. Actually! I talked with Xiao Xiong and Lao Bai, and they were very unconvinced. Why did you hand over the case to Song An arrogant guy like Tian Ding? As long as you, the captain, say something, we will follow you through fire and water, and we will do whatever we want."

"Haha! We can't form a small case. Forming cliques is not a good thing. If the director finds out, we will all be punished. Besides, we have been investigating this case for so long, and there is almost no progress. Song Tianding came , and immediately found the next victim, the Xiezhi investigation team is really strong! They can solve the case, so why are we messing around?"

"We are not messing around. There is a saying that 'people fight for one breath, Buddhas fight for one stick of incense', have you heard it?"

I shook my head: "I'm illiterate."

Ke Xiaoxia became impatient: "Hey, you did it on purpose. I don't want to talk to you anymore. I want to get off at the intersection ahead." When I arrived at the intersection she designated, I stopped the car. She turned her head and said to me: "Mr. Hu, you will regret it, remember to tell me when you regret it." After finishing speaking, he got out of the car.

I pursed my lips and smiled, turned around and went home.It was already 06:30 when I parked the car in the community parking lot.I remembered that I had eaten up all the vegetables at home, so I went to the vegetable market outside the community to buy some vegetables and fruits.On the way home, I suddenly felt someone following me.I immediately became alert in my heart, who would follow me if nothing happened?I lowered my head and slowed down, trying to find a chance to see who this person was.At first I thought it would be the girl Ke Xiaoxia, but looking at the figure of the person behind her, she didn't look like a woman at all.The man was wearing a black coat and a peaked cap, the brim of which covered his face, making it impossible to see his face clearly.When I walked to the entrance of the community, I deliberately chatted with the security guard, and took the opportunity to glance back, only to find that the person following me had disappeared.

I felt that I was a little suspicious, so I had no choice but to walk towards Building A.When entering the elevator, there were already two strange men standing inside.Originally they were chatting happily, but when they saw me, they immediately quieted down, and both of them stared at me.

I nodded to the two of them and asked, "I don't think I've seen you before. Are you new to this neighborhood?" The two men looked at each other, and one of them smiled and said, "We're here to find friends."

"Friend? Which floor?" I glanced at the elevator floor number, "Eleventh floor? Are you on the same floor as me?"

"I pressed it wrong. Actually, I'm going to the fifteenth floor." The speaker stretched out his hand and slapped the other person. "Careless, I pressed the wrong button. What are you doing? Didn't you drink too much in the morning?"

"Oh, I thought something was wrong." As soon as I finished speaking, I arrived on the eleventh floor.I stepped out of the elevator, and they both nodded to me.I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't tell.When I walked to the door of the house, I heard laughter and laughter at home, and my wife seemed to be chatting with someone.I opened the door and went in, and Hu Yu's voice came from my ear: "Brother, you are back."

"Hu Yu, you came early? Why didn't you tell me?" I was surprised, Hu Yu ran up and hugged me and said, "Brother, you have lost a lot of weight, and you have been worrying a lot lately?"

"It's okay." I smiled.

"I bought a lot of good things, come, I'll help you carry them into the kitchen." He took the initiative to take the vegetables and fruits in my hand into the kitchen.I walked up to my wife and said, "Honey, you seem very happy that my brother is here." She nodded with a smile, "I haven't seen him for a long time, and he looks good." I looked back at Hu in the kitchen. Yu, he called to me: "Brother, I haven't eaten your food for a long time." I walked into the kitchen and said, "I will fulfill your wish tonight."

"Brother, you don't look very happy." He said while helping me wash the vegetables.

"Recently, there is a case that is bothering me, but it's nothing. The case has been handed over to someone else. Let's go eat casserole fish together tomorrow. Anyway, we are free when we are free."

"Dare to be kind! As soon as I think of casserole fish, I immediately go back."

"Really? Lie! If you really want casserole fish, you will be back long ago."

"Brother, didn't you make any progress in that case?" He asked. He has always paid little attention to my cases, but he has learned to care about me when he comes back this time.I frowned and sighed and said, "The murderer is perverted and clever. We can't do anything about him. But don't worry, he will be brought to justice in a few days."

"Congratulations, congratulations." Hu Yu smiled sternly.

"Where does the joy come from?"

"Congratulations on breaking the big case."

"This matter has nothing to do with me. The bureau has hired someone stronger than me to investigate this case."

"A person who is more powerful than you? Brother, let me tell you, in my eyes, when it comes to investigating cases, I am afraid that he is more powerful than you. Who has the ability to defeat my brother? Is your director an old fool? Already? I think you can definitely find the crux of the case, brother, you must not give up, you must not admit defeat, I support you." Hu Yu patted me on the shoulder.I shook my head without confidence. He has always been eloquent and glib, and I couldn't beat him, so I had to cook in silence.

After dinner, Hu Yu didn't stay at my house for the night. He said he had booked a room outside and he didn't want to disturb us.I knew he couldn't bear to face his sister-in-law who had lost both legs, so I had to let him go.However, we made an appointment to eat fish casserole tomorrow.

After running water for my wife to take a bath, I carried her to the bed.After she fell asleep, I went to the study and took out the case materials from the drawer to read carefully.The murderer seems to have plastic surgery according to the "zodiac signs". Now the rat, ox, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, and dog have all appeared, leaving only the tiger and pig in the zodiac.But the murderer doesn't seem to be killing people according to this zodiac sign. For example, the dead Ma Huiying is a bull head, which is the same as Nong Bintai and his wife with the bull head and horse face.Song Geng, the deceased who had not yet completed plastic surgery, had just had half of his face cut off. What would he have been transformed into?Tiger face or pig face?Looking at the birth year of the deceased, their zodiac signs basically match the completed zodiac faces.But Song Geng was an exception, he was born in the Year of the Rat, so he repeated with Lu Shaokang.

Looking around, I was also messed up, and my brain almost collapsed.The murderer seems to play his cards according to the routine, but it is often disrupted, which is confusing.At twelve o'clock, Ke Xiaoxia called me: "Old Hu, are you asleep?"

"Miss Ke, why are you calling again? Do you think the phone bill is too high?"

"Local calls don't cost money, so I just want to ask you, do you regret it?"

"Regret what?"

"I regret handing over the case."

"Why do you always care about this matter? Anyway, I handed over the case. This is Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai. One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. Don't worry about it. By the way, I will ask for leave tomorrow, so you can tell the director."

"You want to ask for leave? Hu, what are you running away from?"

"I didn't run away from anything. I said Ke Xiaoxia, are you thinking too much? My younger brother came to see me, and I'll take him out for a walk tomorrow. Anyway, you have to remember to tell the chief that he doesn't trust me anymore. It’s okay to let me take a day off.”

"Forget it, you gave up on yourself. It seems that I can only rely on this lady to kill hundreds of it single-handedly."

"Ke Xiaoxia, what do you want to do?"

"What are you doing? You don't care, that stinky Song Tianding, he annoyed Miss Ben, don't want to have a good life." Ke Xiaoxia hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

I sighed, this Ke Xiaoxia doesn't look like a policewoman at all, I really don't understand what is it about her in the bureau?However, her carefree personality is indeed loved by her colleagues. She likes to tease others, and others like to tease her.Thinking of this, I found that she was not useless.

Early the next morning, Hu Yu called me and said that he was not free during the day, so we could go eat casserole fish together at night.In this way, I didn't want to owe Ke Xiaoxia any more favors, so I went to work honestly.Sitting in the office all morning, the information of the case really dazzled me.When I got off work at noon, Ke Xiaoxia came to my office door and said, "Old Hu, do you want to go for dinner?"

"Going with you?" I froze for a moment.

"What? Are you afraid that I will eat you raw?" She laughed.

"How about we call Lao Bai too?"

"Do you dare to ask him to believe it or not, and I will beat you up?" she angrily scolded.Strange, what happened between her and Bai Anle?

"The hero of the female school." I gave Ke Xiaoxia a thumbs up, "Okay, I won't be called Laobai anymore, but it's just us..."

"Mother-in-law, what? Can I treat you to dinner?" She was afraid that I would not go.

I laughed and said: "You know that I like to be greedy for cheap things the most. If you treat me, of course I will go. Where shall we eat? Fugui Hotel or Lixiang Hotel?"

"Go to the hotel? Don't even think about it, let's go to Aunt Yun's restaurant opposite the bureau."

"Aunt Yun's restaurant, can't you? Didn't you bring any money? We're all tired of eating there, so we might as well eat in the cafeteria in the bureau."

"Are you going?"

"Go, why don't you go? If you're really a treat, I think I'll make a profit eating skewers of beef offal." I stood up and walked towards the door.

Ke Xiaoxia took me to Aunt Yun's small restaurant, picked up the menu and said, "Give me a stir-fried kidney, stir-fried fat intestines, stir-fried chicken giblets..." Hearing her heavy taste, I grabbed the menu and said: "Ke Xiaoxia, you have your own taste! Would you like to add some chicken butts?" She smiled and said, "If you want to eat, I won't stop you."

"I can't see that you look quite small and fresh, with such a strong taste."

She urged: "Come on, what do you want to eat? Hurry up and order, don't make people wait." I looked at the menu and ordered a tea tree mushroom fried meat and tomato egg soup.Ke Xiaoxia waited for me to finish ordering, and ordered another "stir-fried pig tail".I laughed at her: "You have such a big appetite? Can you finish it?"

"If you can't finish eating, help me carry around." She smiled.

"Aren't you trying to hurt me?"

"Don't worry! I'm a well-known big eater, and I won't let you wipe my ass. Do I look like someone who needs someone to wipe my butt? On the contrary, it's you who always want someone to wipe your ass."

"Wipe your ass, wipe your ass, we're in a restaurant!"

"Do you think I'm unclean? Then you still follow me out?"

"Wipe your ass, how can I listen to the truth?" I looked at her.

She smiled bitterly: "Do you know what I went to do this morning?" I shook my head, and she continued: "I went to follow Song Tianding." I was very surprised: "You went to follow Song Tianding? Why did you follow him ?” She laughed and said, “If you don’t follow him, how do you know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd? Both of us are so looked down upon by him, I want to see what he can come up with.” I nodded and asked, “So Where did he go this morning?" Ke Xiaoxia touched the back of her head with her hand: "He went to an abandoned factory in the west of the city today, then went to the Baihe Trading Mall, and finally returned to the office. I didn't see him talking to anyone along the way. , I don't know what he wants to do."

"Then you spent the whole morning following him for nothing." I smiled.

"Don't worry, I can always find something useful. By the way, how many people did Song Tianding bring here? Surely he didn't do it alone! The reason why the Xiezhi investigation team is so powerful is because they are an extremely powerful team. Now only Song Tianding One person stands out, and the other members are like ghosts, this group of people is really powerful."

"So you want to find someone from the Xiezhi investigation team, who are you competing with?"

"Competing with you, the good-for-nothing captain, and myself."

"In the future, don't tell me about this kind of thing." After I finished speaking, the dishes were served.Ke Xiaoxia snorted coldly: "If you don't talk, don't talk, eat." She picked up the chopsticks and picked up several pieces of fat sausage and put them in her mouth. Seeing her eating with gusto, I smiled and picked up the bowl and chopsticks to eat.After lunch, Ke Xiaoxia received a call and said goodbye to me.She was mysterious and didn't know what she was doing. It had to be said that Song Tianding had stimulated her too much.

I went back to the bureau and sat around in the office all afternoon.After get off work, I happily went home and picked up my wife.She didn't want to go out at first, but when I said I wanted to eat stone pot fish with Hu Yu, she reluctantly agreed.The relationship between his wife and Hu Yu has always been very good. If it wasn't for the car accident, the two of them would not have seen each other for so long.My wife likes Hu Yu very much, because Hu Yu's personality is similar to hers, cheerful and playful, and also likes to pursue all kinds of excitement.Hu Yu also likes this sister-in-law, and will call his sister-in-law for any activities, such as outings or travel.I have to say, sometimes I am really a sullen enough person.At the beginning, I was quite concerned, but I also knew that I didn't have much time to accompany her, so I didn't say anything for her happiness.What's more, if Hu Yu hadn't helped me coax her, she might have divorced me.

I took my wife to the place where I eat stone pot fish, and found a place by the lake and sat down.As night falls and the lights come on, the city is still noisy with people coming and going.Looking at the bright lights by the lake, my wife asked, "Hasn't Hu Yu come?" I picked up my mobile phone and called Hu Yu. Why hasn't this kid appeared yet?He said he would be there early.

No one answered Hu Yu's phone, I was a little puzzled, but I still comforted my wife: "Don't worry, he will come, he is not the one who will release our pigeons." In the past, when I was the only one who released their pigeons, Hu Yu never Let us both dove.For Hu Yu, playing is the greatest interest in his life. He never knows how to work hard, and he doesn't know what to do except play.

After about ten minutes, Hu Yu called back.

"Hey! Where are you? Are you coming or not? Are you playing tricks on us?" I scolded him head and face.

"Brother, I have something to do here." Hu Yu said aggrievedly.

I asked, "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

"A friend died."

I was taken aback by what he said, so I asked, "Your friend died? How did he die?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. I was playing with him in the morning. I didn't expect... I just received a call from his wife. Brother, I have to go and see, he is my best friend, I took good care of me during my lifetime. This fish casserole, how about...or next time? My friend died, his wife needs someone to comfort him, and he still has two children. This man suddenly disappeared, she must be emotional Very unstable..." Hu Yu explained.

I coughed dryly: "Okay, forgive you once, you go and do your work!" Hu Yu smiled and said: "Brother, you still know me best. Next time I will definitely accompany you to eat casserole fish, remember to tell sister-in-law Say, I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" I said, "Okay, that's it!" After I finished speaking, I hung up the phone, Hu Yu hadn't returned to Lixiang City for a long time, why didn't I know he had such a Best friend here?

My wife looked at me and asked, "What happened to Hu Yu?"

"He said he wasn't coming." I answered honestly.

"I'm not coming, I'm not coming, then let's... let's go back!" The wife seemed a little uneasy.

(End of this chapter)

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