Riverside Police.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, three police cars drove slowly to the Jiangfeng Village Section of the North Branch of the Yangtze River.

A suspect in his 30s who was wearing handcuffs and shackles, and the handcuffs and shackles were connected with iron chains, was escorted out of a police car by three criminal policemen.

It was the first time for Han Yu and Xiaoyu to see the suspect today, but they had heard of it more than once.

The guy who was escorted to identify the scene of the abandoned murder weapon was named Chen Xiaodong, and he lived in the sixth group of Jiangfeng Village under the river embankment.

He used to be a frequent visitor to the No. [-] Factory Police Station. He was sent to a labor camp for two years for theft when he was in junior high school.

After returning from the forced labor camp, he had nothing to do and started sneaking around again.After returning home for less than three months, he was sentenced to three years in prison for alleged theft.

A few days after he was released from prison, he actually raped a woman with some mental problems in the village. She was sued by her husband and sentenced to several years in prison.

A month and a half ago, he stared at an old man who was watching the block nearby.

In the middle of the night, he touched the shed on the inside of the water conservancy gate and carried out the theft. The old man who woke up found out, so the theft turned into robbery and murder!
After the incident, the Criminal Police Brigade and the Sichang Police Station thought of him first. It is said that he confessed to the crime, but he did not expect to lack the key evidence of the murder weapon.

Han Yu glanced at the suspect curiously, and signaled to Wang Yan, who personally led the team to bring the suspect here, to quickly ask the suspect to identify the location of the discarded murder weapon.

Xiaoyu went up to him and observed quietly, wanting to see if there were any injuries on the suspect's body, so as to judge whether Wang Yan and other criminal police had tortured him to extract a confession, and whether the suspect had been tortured into a trick.

Wang Yan didn't know what Xiaoyu was looking at, and he directly thought that Xiaoyu wanted to take a closer look at the murderer. After all, murderers are very rare in Linghai.

"Don't dawdle, think about it, where did you throw the dagger!" Wang Yan grabbed the suspect's arm and pulled the suspect forward.

"It seems to be there."

"where?"

"Over there, over there with the plastic bags."

Fang Zhiqiang followed behind, heard clearly, and subconsciously looked at Han Yu.

Han Yu pondered for a moment, then asked, "What time was it at night when the dagger was thrown?"

Fang Zhiqiang studied the dossier repeatedly, and said without hesitation: "He said it was around three o'clock in the morning."

"Around three o'clock in the morning..." Han Yu thought about it and asked again: "He stabbed someone to death with a dagger, is there blood on him?"

"No." Fang Zhiqiang stopped in his tracks, looked at the suspect in front of him and said, "It was Chinese New Year when the crime happened, the weather was still cold, and the clothes were thicker."

Xiao Yu ran back and asked inexplicably, "Then how did you decide that he was a murderer?"

"He himself admitted that he did come to the riverside on the night of the crime. The technical police took his footprints near the crime scene, and the shoe prints matched his shoes." Fang Zhiqiang paused, and added: "Besides, we haven't identified him as the murderer for the time being, otherwise we wouldn't bring him to identify the scene, let alone ask for your help."

"He admitted it?"

"The attitude is very cooperative."

Just as he was talking, Wang Yan also ran back, took out the smoke and said, "Salted fish, he said he just threw it here, and said that when he threw it, he heard the sound of a dagger falling into the water."

Before Han Yu could speak, Xiaoyu looked at the location identified by the suspect and said, "Impossible."

"impossible?"

"A month and a half ago, around three o'clock in the morning, the tide didn't start to rise in this area, and there was no water in the location he just identified. How could he hear the sound of a dagger falling into the water!"

Seeing Fang Zhiqiang and Wang Yan looking at him at the same time, Han Yu confirmed: "Abandoning the murder weapon is not throwing a grenade. Even if you throw a grenade, at the tide level at that time, this piece of river beach is all exposed on the water. It is impossible for him to throw it that far, let alone hear the sound of the dagger falling into the water."

"Did you hear that, you don't believe me!" Xiaoyu murmured.

"It's not that we don't believe you, but...but this situation has a lot to do with it."

"Then do you want to salvage?"

"Wait, I'll ask him again."

"Hurry up."

Xiaoyu is still thinking about playing games, a little impatient.

Han Yu put on his rain boots and walked carefully along the gentle slope of the embankment to the muddy river beach, scaring away a few small crabs.

Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, returned to the car, and unhurriedly changed into the "Shuijiao" that Laoqian hadn't worn for several years, and followed Han Yu downhill to the river beach.

"Little fish, when the tide is low, it doesn't mean there is no water on the beach. Push aside the reeds to see if there are any ponds and puddles."

"Row."

A criminal policeman stood on the shore and couldn't help shouting: "President, we went down to search this area, but we didn't find it."

"Understood, let's take a look." Han Yu didn't like the title "President" from the bottom of his heart, but old friends called it that, so he could only accept it.

Suppressing a smile, Xiaoyu pushed aside the reeds and searched carefully, and asked curiously, "Dried salted fish, political commissar Jiang said that you want to transfer back to our sub-bureau, is there such a thing?"

"There is no horoscope."

"Why don't you write a horoscope?"

"Zengguan, Maguan and Zhou political commissars said that people go to high places and water flows to low places. It is possible to transfer them back, but the premise is that the Changhang Public Security Bureau becomes an administrative unit."

"Qi Bureau and Political Commissar Jiang said that the Public Security Bureau of the Ministry of Communications has reported to the superiors, and we can be transferred to civil servants after approval. From now on, we will be administrative police just like local police!"

"I hope so too, but can the higher-ups approve and return the two claims?"

……

The two walked and talked, and searched for more than an hour on the reed-covered and extremely muddy river beach. Except for a pile of white garbage collected by the way, a few ground cages and two small crabs caught by small fish, they found nothing.

Back on the shore, Han Yu said in an affirmative tone while changing his shoes: "If the suspect remembers correctly, the murder weapon was thrown here, so the murder weapon will definitely not be washed away by the river."

"There are so many reeds, are they blocked by the reeds?" Fang Zhiqiang asked in a low voice.

"Well, the reeds below are denser than looking down from the shore, and we can't even move our legs below."

Han Yu looked back at the river beach, thought about it, and added: "The high tide will bring a piece of sand, and the low tide will take away a piece of sand. There are two tides a day, and this is repeated, so the bottom is flatter than we imagined. At least the area where Xiaoyu and I walked just now didn't find any puddles or ponds."

Xiaoyu was afraid that the second senior brother would not understand, so he emphasized: "It's still the same sentence, if the suspect really threw the dagger around three o'clock in the morning, he must not have heard the sound of the dagger falling into the water."

"Understood, let's go back and try again."

Fang Zhiqiang stepped aside and called the bureau leader to report.

Wang Yan looked at Han Yu and Xiaoyu hesitating to speak.

Han Yu could understand his mood at this moment. There were doubts about the case that he thought was a certainty. For the police handling the case, it meant that the previous investigation was not meticulous, and the previous work might be useless.

But this is a murder case, and there must be conclusive evidence.

Han Yu couldn't help, so he stuffed his dirty rain boots into the woven bag containing "water support", opened the trunk of the police car of the Changhang branch, stuffed the woven bag in, and headed home with Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu glanced at the rearview mirror, leaned on the steering wheel and asked, "Dried salted fish, if you can't find the dagger, is Wang Yan going to release some bastard?"

"That bastard admitted it, and it's probably impossible to let him go."

"It can't be released, and it can't be appealed. Is it just closed like this?"

"There are many people who have been detained for extended periods. It is said that they can be detained for two or three years for a long time."

"That's not what was said in the training, and it's not written in the criminal procedure law either!"

"Suspecting guilt is never easy."

Han Yu looked back at the police car of the Linghai Public Security Bureau that had just followed, and said helplessly: "Chen Xiaodong has a lot of bad records and a lot of criminal records. Others don't know that you know best, what the masses said when the crime happened. Lao Wang and the second senior brother are under a lot of pressure, and Zhang Ju and Lao Shi are under even greater pressure."

The old man who watched the blockade at the gate was killed. After hearing that Chen Xiaodong did it, the nearby people scolded the law enforcement and judicial departments, saying why such a scourge as Chen Xiaodong should be released from prison.

Xiaoyu usually stays in Bailonggang, so he knows better than Han Yu, so he can't help nodding: "I can't let him go. If we let that bastard go, the Public Security Bureau will be scolded by the public. The relatives of the victim may even petition and sue the Public Security Bureau."

"Fortunately, it's none of our business, otherwise our life will not be easy."

Xiaoyu took it for granted, and simply changed the subject: "Dried salted fish, the second brother said on the phone at noon that Niu Bin had left?"

"Well, I returned to Shenzheng with my wife and children."

"Let's go, I'm annoyed when I see him!"

"What are you bothering about?"

"Like a nouveau riche, giving gifts everywhere as soon as you come back, and treating guests to dinner every day. You are obviously a deserter, but you still act like it is very honorable!"

Xiaoyu recalled what Master had said to Xianyugan back then, and said confidently: "He went to a technical secondary school like you, and he went to a technical secondary school in the police academy. He was trained by the state, and the state gave him money when he went to school, but he was lucky. He ran away after working for two years. How could he be like this."

"He can't run away. Senior brother is in Shenzheng. Where do you think he can go?"

"You mean Elder Brother will find a way to make him put back into the police uniform?"

What kind of brain circuit is this...

Niu Bin resigned back then, but did not stay without pay.

Even if he was suspended without pay back then, it was impossible for his superiors to keep him a job for so many years.

Han Yu didn't want to explain, so he simply said in a perfunctory way: "Eldest brother didn't know that he was in Shenzheng before, but now that he knows, he will definitely take care of him."

"What's there to take care of? He's doing better than the big brother now. He's the big boss, so it's not too bad to take care of the big brother."

"Eldest brother is not short of money, but fellow villagers see fellow villagers with tears in their eyes, and mutual care is still needed."

While talking, the phone rang.

There was no landline nearby, so Han Yu glanced at the caller ID and could only answer it with his mobile phone.

"Shiju, I'm Han Yu, what instructions?"

"You are the president now, and no one dares to instruct you if I instruct you." Shi Shengyong took a deep breath, and then asked eagerly: "Xianyu, are you sure that Chen Xiaodong can't hear the sound of falling into the water when he throws the dagger down?"

"Sure." Han Yu realized that Wang Yan and Fang Zhiqiang called him to report, and emphasized: "If you don't believe me, I can ask the Hydrographic Bureau of the Yangtze River Committee to give you a copy of the hydrological data at that time."

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome, I just want to confirm it." After the case was completed, Shi Shengyong's scalp was numb, and he held the phone tightly and asked again: "Are you sure that if the dagger is thrown at the place Chen Xiaodong pointed out, it will not be washed away by the river?"

"determine."

"I really don't know what Wang Yan is thinking all day long. I haven't figured out such an important situation. Thanks to you and Xiaoyu. I will find a way to find out what's going on in this case, and I'll invite you to dinner later."