Zhou Liuyi immediately asked for the construction drawings of the townhouses here:
“What Nanyi liked most before was buying houses. Whether it was Fengmingxuan or the cake shop, the decoration was very tortuous, and there was a special place for the safe.
Moreover, although Du Mingkun has been living in a hotel and seems to have no fixed place to live, he must have left himself an escape route.
We didn't find any trace of him in the surveillance cameras, maybe he didn't leave at all.
..."
After Zhou Liuyi finished speaking, Lei Ming immediately came to his senses and began to look for clues with Zhou Liuyi.
The house next door was empty. The owner was relatively wealthy and didn't rent it out as a B&B. I called the owner, got the key from the property management, opened the door and checked, but there was no sign of anyone walking around.
They checked the people outside again. Most of the people who appeared in the surveillance cameras had acquaintances here. They conducted a carpet search and more than a dozen police officers went to ask if there were any suspects.
The main thing is to ask people who have appeared in the blind spots of surveillance.
A convenience store owner scratched his head until his hair became bald:
"I saw a man in a windbreaker prying up the manhole cover. Didn't the news say some time ago that manhole covers are too dangerous? If a child falls in, they will be lost after the water flushes out. Our city has also started inspecting manhole covers and is preparing to put up barbed wire. Workers have been coming here in the past few days.
But the man today didn't look like a staff member. He didn't have any tools. He just took a bag and went straight down.
I don’t know if this is the person you are looking for.”
Zhou Liuyi took out Song Fu's photo and said anxiously:
"Do you think this is the man?"
The convenience store owner was even more awesome, he just took out his phone:
"I took a picture of it. It was a person."
The policeman who was following him exclaimed, "Wow!", because Song Fu was carrying a huge bulging bag, and seeing how cautious he was, everyone immediately remembered that Old Man Liu's cabinet was empty.
That was because all the wine that Old Man Liu bought was taken away.
Lei Ming said: "Is he planning to hide in the sewer and come out when we are not paying attention?"
After all, this old guy had a history of climbing a mountain across provinces in the middle of winter. Even now, even a triathlon champion couldn't beat him.
Saturday one:
"No matter what he planned, he is now a rat in the sewer. We have blocked the entrance and exit, so this rat can't escape even if he has wings."
Liang Peihe urged Xie Min to mobilize people, and Xie Min quickly mobilized hundreds of police officers, including auxiliary police and civilian police. Everyone gave up their vacation, and some even took sick leave, and now they all came.
There were even retired police officers who came to help search the sewer openings.
It's the coldest time of the year, water freezes into ice, and New Year's Day is just around the corner, but no one is complaining. Everyone is actively contributing ideas and efforts, holding flashlights and guarding the sewers.
This is an old case with wide-ranging implications.
After the case was handled, all kinds of information and files piled up, and even a truck could not transport them all.
The Anti-Fraud Center, they just bought new printers before the New Year, and now two of them have broken down.
The area of ​​the sewer pipes is much larger than imagined. Urban road construction, subway construction, and some residential areas and commercial centers have four-story underground sewers, with many diversions and complexity. When the city is flooded, a water dragon can only pump out a layer of water all day long.
Zhou Liuyi, holding a city map, wearing long rubber rain boots and a mining lamp on his head, trudged below with the maintenance workers.
The water was black and smelly, cold and chilly, making one feel nauseous and giving them a headache.
In such a place, even police dogs are unable to perform their duties, so Liang Peihe also found a few more powerful police dogs.
After more than ten hours of work, the police dogs were exhausted. All four of their paws were slightly frostbitten. They were tired and hungry, and they squatted limply on the ground. In fact, the police dogs were not happy either, as they thought they had not completed their mission.
The dog trainer was feeding water with a distressed look on his face. The dog trainer had also been walking with the dog for a whole day, and in that environment, he had nothing to eat or drink.
Several maintenance workers initially looked down on Zhou Liuyi and other young policemen, thinking they were there just for show, but Zhou Liuyi really swept the water inch by inch in the pitch-black water.
Sometimes, when we were walking along the edge of a waterway, or wading in the water and tripped, everyone would help each other and we quickly became familiar with each other.
"Our sewers are actually very well built. They were not built all at once. New residential areas are all high-rise, with some more than 30 stories high, so we have to make the sewer pipes wider. In the old residential areas, the houses were not even two stories high, so the sewer pipes there were thinner."
"But every summer, as soon as it rains, our sewers still get criticized, especially those on the old campus."
…
After walking two blocks, I met Lei Ming. During this period, Lei Ming had lost a lot of weight and looked taller. The bones on his face were clearly visible, and for some reason his face was rosy, which was rare.
When she saw Zhou Liuyi, she quickened her pace, but she stepped on something and almost fell. Zhou Liuyi hurried over to support her, only to find that Lei Ming's hands were cold and his forehead was burning hot.
Saturday hurriedly said:
"I'll take you up there, and I'll tell you when I have any news."
Lei Ming shook his head:
"In another three or four hours, we'll find it."
On Saturday, a pair of hands held her hands tightly, rubbed them back and forth, and blew on them, but one hand was warm and the other was cold.
Lei Ming insists:
"I must catch him myself!"
The one who grabbed this with his own hands and stole all associated with our fathers.
In order to improve efficiency, Xie Min also adjusted several life detectors and infrared thermal sensing devices, and now he was conducting a complete carpet search.
In addition, people were arranged to guard the exits of the highway.
Lei Ming and Zhou Liuyi were walking in the front. Suddenly, the instruments they were carrying made a beeping sound, which meant that traces of biological organisms were found ahead.
Moreover, the thermal imaging instrument showed the outline of a person.
Lei Ming broke free from Zhou Liuyi and staggered over. Zhou Liuyi was also running forward. Under the light of the mining lamp, they saw a man curled up in the corner with a wine bottle on the ground.
Du Mingkun raised his head, looked at Zhou Liuyi and Lei Ming tiredly, and said at the end of his rope:
"You are so lucky to have caught me."
Lei Ming took out the handcuffs, Zhou Liuyi stepped on the sewer water, walked forward step by step, and then put the handcuffs on the hands of the man who had been at large for more than 20 years.
These handcuffs came twenty years late, but were finally put on his hands.
Zhou Liuyi squatted down and looked him in the eye. The young man's eyes were murderous, bright as day, and piercing:
"No, this is not luck. From the day I found out the cause of my father's death, I knew that I would catch you with my own hands!"
"I have waited for this day for too long."
Looking at this face that was almost similar to Zhou Kuan, Du Mingkun was instinctively a little afraid. He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.
Lei Ming sent a message to Liang Peihe, saying that the person had been caught.
The fellow workers contacted the ground and prepared a rope ladder to pull the man up. They had no sympathy at all for such an old swindler.
Du Mingkun had been in the dark underground for such a long time that he was getting old and needed treatment before he could start interrogation.
But for such an old liar, his confession is actually not that important. He did not trust anyone and carried too many things with him when he escaped. That bulging backpack was enough to convict him.
Everyone in the anti-fraud center was working overtime all night.
There are endless cases and methods of committing crimes that subvert people's worldviews. It can even be said that Du Mingkun is a living encyclopedia of fraud types.
He was quite happy to explain everything in order to get better medical conditions.
Such a bad guy, everyone is annoyed with him, Zhou Liuyi has never come to see him, but Du Mingkun insisted on seeing Zhou Liuyi.
I didn't want to see him again on Saturday. I was in the office working on case files with my colleagues. There were too many things that needed to be verified and sorted out. The time span over which this person committed the crimes was too long, and many of the victims had already passed away.
When I looked at these case files on Saturday, it was hard to imagine how these families who were harmed managed to survive.
When Du Mingkun committed crimes, he almost always cut off the source of the trouble. If he did not move, it would be fine. But if he moved, it would be as brutal as digging a grave.
What he said to Liang Peihe was:
“My father was unlucky back then, so he had to confront this kind of person. Let the court decide what it wants to decide.
The truth is that my father saw through their fraud, and they were so angry that they used the second method and directly robbed people.
In order to protect the bank's clients, my father offered to be an obedient hostage. He was too smart, and when these people failed to win him over, they killed him.
I don’t have to see that scumbag again.”
Liang Peihe's face was full of fatigue after the big case was over, and there were a few more white hairs on his head. Looking at the young and energetic Zhou Liuyi, he felt longing in his heart:
“Money makes profound people more profound and shallow people more shallow.”
Liang Peihe did not insist any longer.
Du Mingkun, who killed Zhou Kuan, Lei Ting, Liu Dazhuang... and several other people in the case, will definitely be sentenced to death. After the case files are sorted out, they will be transferred to the public security, procuratorate and courts, and they will go through the process, bring public prosecutions, and then the judge will make the judgment.
Zhou Liuyi is an extremely proud person. He doesn't want to waste time on trivial details of things that are under his control.
Lei Ming had a cold for several days, and her fever once reached 40 degrees. She had to be on IV drip for several days before she came out. She looked thinner, but in much better spirit. She was less cold and more warm and lively like other girls.
Lei Ming is already twenty-seven years old this year, not seventeen, but in Zhou Liuyi's eyes, this female police officer who has been with him throughout his adolescence is even more beautiful than when she was seventeen.
New Year's Day just passed by, without flowers or sense of ceremony. I worked overtime in the office on Saturday Monday. After get off work, I went to the hospital to buy a midnight snack and ate it with Lei Ming.
It was snowing outside and Lei Ming had a high fever. I would fall asleep after just a few words to him.
She has been a police officer for so many years, but she actually has very little sleep. She is always ready to be on duty, go to work, and be called to go out on duty...
This was probably the longest break she had had in all these years.
Zhou Liuyi didn't have the heart to talk to her any more, as I wanted her to sleep a little longer.
Although Zhou Liuyi was in the hospital, Xu Zhongping and others kept calling him to ask questions.
Everyone, please take some time out and go see Sheng Changfeng.
Sheng Changfeng's operation lasted eighteen hours. The ministry attached great importance to it and specially invited experts from the military hospital to take over the operation on Sheng Changfeng.
But he hasn't woken up yet.
Liu Yang almost risked his life to stop those desperate criminals. Even though he was the most seriously injured person, he was still helping the doctors who came behind him to rescue his colleagues.
After the specialist finished the operation, he said the same thing to Liang Peihe:
"Strong and iron! The team you lead is like a piece of steel!"
And now, Sheng Changfeng is wearing a hospital gown, lying pale and thin on the hospital bed, with various tubes inserted into his body. He only survives by transfusion of these nutrient solutions every day. It is unknown when he will wake up.
When Shang Tiankun and his colleagues come over, they will bring mints. Sheng Changfeng does not smoke, and he also asks his colleagues to smoke less, so that these newly arrived young social recruited police officers can develop a healthier hobby.
He also takes good care of his health at work and takes time to rest...
But now, he lay there, not knowing what would wake him up.
Lei Ming would occasionally visit Sheng Changfeng, but the sterile ward did not allow long visiting times, so Lei Ming went straight back to work after finishing the saline drip.
"I want to interrogate Du Mingkun."
The voice was very indifferent, washed away from all worldly matters, with a hint of tiredness and laziness after seeing so many things happen.
This is like a normal girl.
I took a look at Lei Ming on Saturday:
"Okay, I'll just be forced to open the business reluctantly."
Lei Ming rolled his eyes:
"If you don't want to, forget it. There are many male police officers in our office who want to go with me. You don't have to make it difficult."
Saturday morning hurriedly said:
"No, no, no, I'm anxious to meet that scumbag and ask him why he has lost his conscience."
Before entering the interrogation room, Zhou Liuyi heard another explosive gossip: all the prison guards who were in charge of Du Mingkun at the detention center were punished.
Because of this, he was imprisoned with two death row inmates. He actually committed fraud again. He told the families of the death row inmates that he had connections and was able to get the death sentence changed to a suspended death sentence of 20 years. With some additional work, he would be able to get out in three years.
What is the concept of death penalty?
The crimes are extremely heinous, including murder and arson, and it is not unfair to sentence him to death.
This kind of people were actually fooled by Du Mingkun. The family members outside were scrambling to transfer money to the bank card account provided by Du Mingkun.
He really refuses to repent.
Sitting in the interrogation room, Zhou Liuyi and Lei Ming both changed into police uniforms. Lei Ming had a relatively high police rank, with two bars and one certificate, which was not easy to achieve at this age, especially since she was a girl.
Zhou Liuyi's one-bar and two-bar look were brand new, and because he was so young, it looked like he was from a promotional video.
There seemed to be light where the two of them were sitting, and they looked at Du Mingkun calmly.
Du Mingkun now looks very old, with sinister eyes and a hunched back. It seems that he has aged more than 20 years in just a few days.
After he came in, the first thing he wanted to do was to contact his family who were thousands of miles away.
But his ex-wife refused directly and cursed on the phone:
"Let's get that idiot sentenced as soon as possible. He said he wanted to do business and tricked me and my family into borrowing money, but he ran away and spent his whole life eating, drinking, gambling, smoking, cheating and deceiving people!"
He called his son, and his son said directly:
"I changed my last name a long time ago. I have a father now. It's hard enough for me to support him. The death row inmate is your business. Don't bother me anymore."
Zhou Liuyi was even bored and flipped through the case files:
“Do you have anything else to say?
Du Mingkun's mouth twitched:
"What do you want to ask me? I'm old enough and know a lot. I can help you get promoted quickly. Young people nowadays are under a lot of pressure and are too ambitious..."
Saturday sneered:
"This doesn't appeal to me. I just want to be a local police officer and check household registration. You want to trick me in exchange for better food and a few more pieces of braised pork for every meal. You've got the wrong person."
After saying that, Zhou Liu stood up and was about to leave. He hated this scumbag.
Du Mingkun laughed:
"Don't you want to know what your father said before he died? He knelt on the ground and begged us to let him go and spare his life. He said that his wife had been laid off, his daughter was still young, and his second child was still in his wife's belly. He didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl, and he wouldn't tell anyone about us..."
Zhou Liu's eyes were red as he walked straight up to Du Mingkun, punched him in the face, grabbed his collar and tried to lift him up.
He was so angry that he was shaking all over, and the blood was rushing to his head, and he was about to explode:
"You have no right to mention him!"
Du Mingkun laughed:
"He said his biggest wish in life was to see his two children grow up and earn some money for his wife. I told him I wanted to see if he had the guts to do it. He didn't cry out even when he was beaten, so I let him go.
I pulled out his fingernails one by one, and he didn't say a word. He kept asking me if I could let him go. He really wanted to go home and watch his child being born.
He didn’t know at all that I was lying to him…”
The police outside heard the noise and rushed in, trying to pull Zhou Liuyi away, but Zhou Liuyi raised his foot and kicked Du Mingkun hard.
“Scum!”
For so many years, he had been resentful that his father became a hero in order to protect others, but he never thought that his father would endure the greatest suffering in the world just to see him.
What kind of pain would it be to pull out your fingernails one by one?
In the end, he was brutally murdered. How desperate must he have been at that moment?
Lei Ming had never been so slow before. She didn't come up to help until the two policemen pulled Zhou Liuyi apart .
In the yard, beside the flower bed, Zhou Liuyi sat in the snow, expressionless, but in the blink of an eye, tears suddenly fell:
"Before he passed away, the person he cared about the most was me, but he didn't even know whether I was a man or a woman..."
Lei Ming squatted down and hugged his shoulders:
"Yes, he really can't let you go. If he has a choice, he will definitely not leave you. If he is still alive and if you need him, he will definitely risk his life for you..."
Liang Peihe gave the leave note to Zhou Liuyi.
Although according to regulations, some case details are still confidential, Zhou Liuyi was asked to sign a document so that his mother, Ms. Luo Meixia, could know the truth about her husband's murder.
His sister, Zhou Qian, is also on secondment to the Anti-Fraud Center. On the one hand, she is dealing with a mountain of cases. After all, the deaths of Wu Xiaowei and others need to be verified.
On the other hand, it also allows her to understand the complete case.
Zhou Qian's acceptance level is obviously higher because she is older than Zhou Liu and has had complete fatherly love and childhood.
This strong young forensic doctor, who was well-educated, bowed to Liang Peihe and thanked him:
"Director Liang, thank you."
Then he turned around, tears welling up in his eyes.
I went home on Saturday.
The small instant noodle restaurant at home has a thick curtain hanging on it, and people are coming in and out, with steam rising from the air.
As soon as he got home on Saturday, his mother had her back to him and was skillfully cutting a bag of instant noodles with scissors. Then she cut a piece of ham, scooped a spoonful of soaked meatballs, sprinkled them with chopped green onions, coriander and chives, and they were ready to be served.
After years of using scissors, his hands are badly deformed and rough.
"What do you want to eat? Ham, meatballs and lettuce?"
Turning around, she saw Zhou Liuyi. Ms. Luo Meixia was very surprised and ran over quickly:
"It's only been four months since we last met. How come you've become so thin? Come on, sit down. I'll get you something to eat."
Someone else came in from behind, and Luo Meixia said directly:
"We have something going on at home today, so we won't be open."
The guest felt a little sorry, but Ms. Luo Meixia smiled and said:
"Come back tomorrow, my son is back and I want to cook for him!"
Luo Meixia went out immediately and pulled down the sign of the box light, turning it dark, meaning the store was no longer open for business.
"There are dumplings in the refrigerator. I'll make them for you. I made them the day before yesterday, ready for you to eat when you come back. You loved eating dumplings when you were a child, but I was busy making money and doing your laundry and housework, so I had no time to make dumplings. Now that you all have jobs and don't spend the family's money, I finally have some free time, but you all stay out and don't come back..."
Zhou Liu stood up, held Ms. Luo Meixia's hands, looked straight at her, and said word by word:
"Mom, stop busying yourself. I have some important news to tell you. I caught the murderer who killed my father. I caught him with my own hands."
Ms. Luo Meixia couldn't believe it, her eyes were red, and she kept looking around:
"How is that possible? Are you kidding me? It's been 20 years, and the police have no way to catch those people. The evidence is gone. I know of two police officers who were handling the case, and they are both gone. How is it possible that they can catch them?"
Saturday once again firmly said:
"Mom, I didn't lie to you. I caught it with my own hands."
Luo Meixia opened her eyes and tears began to flow. Her lips and teeth could not align, and the sound seemed to come from her throat:
"Are you sure? You're not lying to me?"
Zhou Liu nodded, called Liang Peihe, and then called Luo Meixia:
"Mom, this is the phone number from the organizer, Director Liang. He will talk to you personally."
Luo Meixia took the call and fainted after listening for less than a minute. Zhou Liuyi quickly hugged her and shouted several times:
"mom!"
Then, Luo Meixia woke up, her face covered with tears and snot:
"I am so happy. It is true. The murderer of your father has been found! Director Liang is a good man. Let's buy something to thank him. By the way, let's go to your father's grave and tell him the news..."
At the end, Luo Meixia was incoherent and burst into tears:
"I've been waiting for twenty years, and finally this day has come!"
…
Zhou Kuan's tomb is in the Martyrs Cemetery.
Luo Meixia took Zhou Liuyi to go shopping:
"Your dad loves to eat the instant noodles I cook. He says it's a tonic. At that time, a pound of meat was only four yuan, and instant noodles were one yuan. It was really expensive. In fact, I can't cook, but I can now. He loves to eat pulled noodles. Bring him a bowl and put less vinegar in it."
"Your dad is an intellectual, he likes to show off. Buy him some flowers. He is allergic to roses. Don't buy him roses. I don't know how he can be allergic to flowers that have no fragrance at all. Lilies will do. They can bloom for a week and still have fragrance."
"I asked you to buy paper money, why didn't you buy it?"
"You naughty kid, why do you listen to the relevant departments so much? Let's burn some secretly, how can they find out? Your father works in a bank, so burning some ghost money from Tiandi Bank for him, isn't that just right?"
"You really pissed me off. When I'm gone, there will be no one to burn paper for me and your father. We won't have any money to spend down there. It's true. We didn't have any money in our lifetime when we were alive, and we'll have to live in poverty again when we're down there."
"I bought some paper money for the dead and burned it in a porcelain basin in the yard. I also took the fire extinguisher from the store and put it next to it. Is that ok? These small villas and tablets are also well made. If your father were still alive, he would be very happy to see these smart phones and computers nowadays. He would buy a new one as soon as it came out. I would definitely quarrel with him because he kept changing his phone. These are not expensive. It's only ten yuan to buy five. Just buy them all."
Holding a pile of things, Luo Meixia cried in the wind:
"Liuyi, I really miss your dad! How could he just leave me behind?"
In front of the tombstone, Luo Meixia wiped Zhou Kuan's black and white photo over and over again with a towel she brought specially. Zhou Kuan was dressed in a suit and tie, and he was gentle and elegant, with deep and gentle eyes. He looked so young.
Every time Luo Meixia visited the grave, she howled so loudly that Zhou Liuyi and Zhou Qian were terrified, and even the nearby birds were scared away:
"You heartless bastard, take me away!"
"How can I live with this house full of debt collectors?"
…
But this time, she couldn't stop sighing:
"You left early, so young. Now my face is full of wrinkles and my hair is all white. I'm really afraid that you won't recognize me when we meet again in the future..."
Luo Meixia finished what she wanted to say and left:
"You have never liked to visit your father since you were a child. Now, talk to your father about what you want to say."
On Saturday, he was alone in the empty cemetery. He looked at the tombstone, walked over, sat down against the tombstone, then closed his eyes and hugged himself with his hands.
It was as if someone hugged him from behind.
"Dad, if I'm stupid and don't do well on the test, will you beat me and scold me?"
"Dad, I want to go to a stall and shoot balloons with a toy gun during the holidays. Will you go with me?"
"Dad, my mom doesn't like the girl I like. Will you help me?"
"Dad, my friends are going to the swimming pool with their dads. Can you take me with you?"
"Dad, my mom doesn't smoke or drink, but I really want to try what it's like to smoke and drink. Can you pick me up after school and take me to try it? I'm not a bad kid, I'm just curious."
…
Dad, ever since I knew there were dads in this world, I have been thinking about you all the time.