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Chapter 8 Doubt

The rooftop where the incident took place was already full of people, chattering about Wu Changxu's fall from the building last night.People from the Patrol Bureau kept those pedestrians out of the accident site, and some people were on the scene to deal with and search for some small details.

Zhong Chengyi stood on the rooftop where Wu Changxu died, looked at the neon lights on the sign of the singing and dancing hall opposite, and asked, "This is the place you saw that night, right?"

The resident replied: "Yes, sir, at that time I heard a sound like something falling outside, because there were some flowers on the iron shelf outside the window of my house, and it was a bit windy that night, I thought it was something The flower pot fell, I thought what would happen if I hit someone in the middle of the night, so I quickly opened the window to look, but then I found that none of the flower pots had fallen, so I looked at the opposite side, and there was nothing, so I went back Go to sleep."

"Is the sound of the impact the sound of Wu Changxu falling to the ground?" Zhong Chengyi leaned on the railing of the roof and looked down.

"No, Lord, it was the iron window downstairs that was blown open because of the strong wind that day. It should be that Wu Changxu hit the iron window when he fell." Zhang San stepped forward and replied, "And because Wu Changxu himself was a little too heavy, The heavy weight, coupled with the weight of the fall, even if there is only one layer, the place where the iron window connects to the window frame is also slightly twisted."

Zhong Chengyi saw something that looked like soot on the ground, knelt down and wiped it with gloves, and asked, "What is this?"

Zhang San approached and looked at the smear on Zhong Chengyi's gloves, and replied: "I took this to the hospital for examination, it is the soot that fell from the burning of the soot. From the limited evidence, Wu Changxu should have smoked the soot before jumping off the building. It caused hallucinations and accidentally fell down."

"Have you checked the news about that sea salt merchant?" Zhong Chengyi stood up and asked.

"Yes, I have already checked, but the family of the salt merchant said that it would take a week to go to sea, and there is no way to know where it is, so I can only ask him when he comes back."

Zhong Chengyi nodded, and continued: "Well, wait until I go to the hospital."

"General, the autopsy report on the corpse is out, so there should be no need to go to the hospital." Zhang San asked cautiously, looking at the dimming sky.

Zhong Chengyi glanced at Zhang San, and said: "It's okay, Lieutenant Li and I will go for a while, you can go back first."

Zhang San hurriedly said: "Oh, don't, sir, this is also our responsibility, how can I let you and Lieutenant Li go." After speaking, he called people to go downstairs to drive.

Zhong Chengyi got out of the car and happened to be Lin Xinshu and Qi Mingyang who were paying the medical bills at the entrance of the hospital.

"Chengyi." Qi Mingyang saw the people from the patrol station behind Zhong Chengyi and asked, "Are you investigating Wu Changxu's case?"

Zhong Chengyi nodded.

Qi Mingyang continued to ask: "How did you find any results?"

"Yes, but according to the only evidence at hand, Wu Changxu committed suicide."

"What? It's unlikely. Although I don't know him very well, I have met him once or twice. I remember that he has a wife and a son in his family. It is unlikely that he will go back and commit suicide in this situation. "Qi Mingyang asked in surprise.

Zhong Chengyi shook his head. Although he is skeptical about this established suicide case, he can only believe it temporarily in the face of many evidences.

Zhong Chengyi looked at Lin Xinshu and asked, "You and Xinshu came to the military hospital?"

"Oh, Xinshu is here today to send grandma to see a doctor and be hospitalized." Qi Mingyang replied.

"How is grandma?"

When Qi Mingyang heard Zhong Chengyi ask this, he sighed and said, "Not too optimistic."

Zhong Chengyi frowned when he heard this answer, looked at Lin Xinshu, remained silent for a few seconds, and said, "I'll take care of grandma's medical expenses in the future, don't let Xinshu alone bear it."

"Hey, when it comes to this, I actually want to help him share some of the burden, but Xinshu's character is that kind of person who doesn't like to trouble others, and this time he is also, for the sake of grandma's medical expenses, the jade pendant given by mother He didn’t come to ask us to borrow money. I remembered that he was bullied by others when he was a child, and his knees were scratched. "

When Zhong Chengyi heard Qi Mingyang explain about Lin Xinshu when he was a child, he couldn't help but tighten his heart. Looking at Lin Xinshu's thin back, he felt an urge to take him into his arms.

At this time, Lin Xinshu had already paid the medical expenses, and came to tell Qi Mingyang that he could go, when he saw Zhong Chengyi and Qi Mingyang chatting.

Zhong Chengyi saw Lin Xinshu approaching, and found pastry crumbs under the corner of Lin Xinshu's mouth, he raised his finger to wipe it off.

Lin Xinshu felt Zhong Chengyi's fingertips brushing the corner of his mouth, and was stunned.

Seeing Lin Xin's dumbfounded expression, Zhong Chengyi chuckled and said, "There are pastry crumbs on the corner of your mouth, wipe it off for you."

Lin Xin nodded in a daze. It had been wiped off obviously, but he felt itchy where the corner of his mouth was touched, so he unconsciously licked it with the tip of his tongue.

All these cute little actions fell into Zhong Chengyi's eyes, and the smile and tenderness in his eyes spread into the dark pupils.Zhong Chengyi thought that once upon a time, there was such a cute little guy who would softly call "Brother Ayi" behind him every day, but because of his own incompetence, he lost him and could never find him again. See When Lin Xin wrote, he always felt that he could find the figure of the little guy in him, as if he had never left himself.

Seeing Zhong Chengyi staring at Lin Xinshu in a daze, Qi Mingyang waved his hands in front of Zhong Chengyi's eyes and said, "Chengyi? What's wrong with you?"

Zhong Chengyi recovered from his short thoughts, and replied: "It's nothing."

"Oh, that's good, Xinshu and I will go to the ward to see grandma, why don't you wait and go together?" Qi Mingyang asked.

"Okay, I'll finish the matter and wait for you at the hospital gate."

"General Zhong, hello, I am the doctor who examined Wu Changxu's body, and my name is Zhao Chenxin."

After Zhong Chengyi simply greeted him, he asked, "Hello, can I have a look at the test result?"

"Yes, General Zhong." Zhao Chenxin found Wu Changxu's report from a pile of folders, and handed it to Zhong Chengyi.

Zhong Chengyi briefly glanced at the inspection report, and found that it was almost the same as what Zhang San told him, and continued to ask: "Is there anything else besides this?"

"Actually, that's all the information I can get from the body of the deceased, but there is a very strange point that I just discovered, that is, although Wu Changxu himself has been smoking tobacco for nearly half a month, the addictive drug like tobacco Once it gets on people, a middle-aged man will become skinny in half a month, but Wu Changxu is not like that, but his body is thinner than before, his face is a little darker, and the rest is no different from ordinary people. "

Zhao Chenxin paused, and continued: "So I suspect that Wu Changxu's dose of smoked soil in the past half month may be within the controllable range."

"What's more suspicious is that, although smoked earth is addictive, it takes a large dose to make people hallucinate, but in Wu Changxu's autopsy, I found that Wu Changxu didn't smoke a lot of smoked soil that night, and he was still with him. The usual dosage..."

Zhong Chengyi sat in the car thinking about every word Zhao Chenxin said just now, and he always had a question in his mind, which was also the main reason why he suspected that Wu Changxu did not commit suicide.

That is, both Wu Changxu's home and the frequented wharf are far away from the abandoned rooftop. If he committed suicide, why did he choose this place?Is it just that you don't want people to see it?And why did he choose that time of day to commit suicide?Is there any meaning in it?

"Chengyi, we're here." Qi Mingyang patted Zhong Chengyi on the shoulder, seeing Zhong Chengyi's frowning all the way, he comforted him, "Don't think about the case too much, things will always come to light one day."

Zhong Chengyi put his hand on Qi Mingyang's and patted it, telling him not to worry.

When Lin Xinshu got out of the car, he felt a cold wind blowing, and he couldn't help shivering, but the next second he was surrounded by warmth.Turning around, he found that Zhong Chengyi took off his military uniform and put it on for himself, wanting to take it off and return it to Zhong Chengyi.

Seeing this, Zhong Chengyi pressed his hand, only to find that Lin Xinshu's hand was extremely cold, and his brows that had just been calm were clustered again, and said: "Your hand is so cold, why don't you say it? It's getting colder this night. Why don’t you know how to add an extra dress, put it on me honestly.” After speaking, he gathered up the clothes that were draped over Lin Xinshu’s body.

Lin Xinshu blinked, looked at Zhong Chengyi, and suddenly smiled, and the more he smiled, the happier he became.

Zhong Chengyi looked at Lin Xinshu with a puzzled expression, but seeing Lin Xinshu so happy, he also hooked his lips and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

But Lin Xinshu shook his head, covered his stomach, and couldn't stop laughing.Zhong Chengyi saw that people couldn't stop at all, so he put his hand on Lin Xinshu's sensitive waist and scratched it maliciously, pretending to ask viciously: "Do you want to say it? Huh?"

Lin Xinshu was already ticklish, but after being scratched by Zhong Chengyi, he laughed even louder, pushed Zhong Chengyi's hand that was making trouble around his waist, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, don't, itchy, I say, I say. "

Zhong Chengyi let go of Lin Xinshu, took advantage of the situation to support his shoulders, lowered his head and asked, "Okay, then tell me."

Lin Xinshu wiped away the tears from his laughter, looked at Zhong Chengyi panting and said, "The way you taught me just now reminds me of my mother, and I think it's a little funny."

In Lin Xinshu's memory, the appearance of his mother is actually a little vague, but he can also vaguely remember some scenes of getting along with his mother. The woman in his memory reminds him over and over again with a gentle and stern tone. Caring about things big and small. . .

Both of them seemed to be caught in some kind of memory and looked at each other for a long time.

Seeing that the two of them hadn't followed, Qi Mingyang turned around and shouted: "Chengyi, Xinshu, why don't you two come in, did you forget something?"

When Lin Xinshu heard Qi Mingyang's voice, he came back to his senses and found that the two had been looking at each other for so long. He put down his hand against Zhong Chengyi's chest, returned the clothes on his shoulders to Zhong Chengyi, and said "thank you" by the way. Then went in.

Seeing that Lin Xinshu had returned to his original alienation and indifference, Zhong Chengyi couldn't help sighing.

But Zhong Chengyi didn't notice that Lin Xinshu's ears had turned red. . .

Aunt Chen had already prepared the meals and brought them to the table. When she saw Lin Xinshu coming in, she said, "Come, Xinshu, sit down quickly."

Lin Xinshu walked to the table and sat down.After finishing speaking, Aunt Chen asked again: "Xiao Shu, how is your grandma's illness? What did the doctor say?"

When Lin Xinshu heard Aunt Chen asked this, he felt a little lonely and sad in his eyes.Seeing Lin Xinshu's appearance, Aunt Chen hurriedly comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay, the old lady is auspicious, she will be fine."

Lin Xinshu nodded and said, "Thank you, Aunt Chen."

Zhong Chengyi also came in at this time, and saw that everyone was seated, only Lin Xinshu was sitting on a bench, but because of what happened just now, he was afraid of Lin Xinshu's embarrassment, so he wanted to change seats with Qi Mingyang. When he wanted to talk, he saw Lin Xinshu quietly moved the place, leaving a place where one person could sit.

Seeing that Lin Xinshu made room for him, Zhong Chengyi felt a little joy in his heart, and the little bit of unhappiness that Lin Xinshu felt alienated from him just now dissipated.

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Inside the Office of the Chief of Police.

"Who allowed this newspaper to be distributed!" Director Huang pointed at the newspaper on the table and shouted at the patrolman in front of him.

"Huang Ju, don't be angry, I'll ask the people in the newspaper to remove the page immediately." Seeing the scene of Huang Ju getting angry, the little patrolman couldn't help shaking his legs. Such bad luck.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw! Is it too late to withdraw now? This newspaper has been published!" Bureau Huang picked up the newspaper, clicked on the big characters on it, and said: "What is written on it? Wu Changxu, the largest salt merchant in Shanghai, was arrested Conspired to push down a tall building, unfortunately died."

"Who allowed this to be published! Huh?" Huang Bureau was so angry that he threw the newspaper in the face of the small patrolman.

The little patrolman hurriedly took down the newspaper thrown at his face.

Director Huang sat on the seat, calmed down his anger a bit, took out the medicine from the drawer, and ate it with water. Seeing that the little patrolman was still there blankly, he couldn't help getting angry again, and said: "You Why are you still standing there? Why don’t you go soon?”

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll go right away." The little patrolman was so frightened that he quickly ran out of the Yellow Bureau's office with the newspaper.

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The author has something to say: the recent cases are written while conceiving, thinking about the plot, and there are some stuck words when writing.Suddenly found that the case is really difficult to write!The two finally showed some signs of ambiguity!I hope that the little fairies who read this chapter will not bother to order a favorite~ I love you