My childhood best friend Wong died, and my investigation found that he was involved in the disappearance of a little girl 20 years ago.
There were three little boys present, but now two have died, leaving only Bin, who has moved to Wuhan and changed his name to Bing.
We went to Wuhan to find him and listen to his story of 20 years ago.
According to Bing, the three kids killed the little girl, Ceci.
"And then?" I asked Bing.
Bing took another gulp of liquor.
Bing said seeing Ceci with her eyes closed made the three children realize they were in trouble.
Ceci's unconscious, it's getting late, the adults could find this place at any moment, and no one can escape.
Chang slid to the bottom of the pit, ran his finger under Ceci's nostril, and said in horror that she was dead.
Bing and Wong also panic, Bing wants to go home to call adults.
Wong grabbed him and told him not to tell the adults.
'We've made a big mistake and we're going to be shot,' Mr. Wong said. 'We can't save anyone.'
Chang and Bing were crying.
Wong stopped them, saying that crying was useless and that they should do something.
Seeing the time getting late, three people are at a loss.
Wong suddenly said, just bury her and forget about it.
The other two did not dare to say yes, nor did they dare to leave the beach, and stood trembling in place.
Wong said she came alone, no one saw her, and no one knew she was buried.
Chang wavered and advised Bing that it was better to listen to Wong than to be shot.
Bing still didn't dare, time was running out, and Wong finally scolded Bing and pulled Chang to start filling in the hole.
After a toss, "trap" filled, three people agreed that no one can mention this matter.
Before leaving, Wong "told" Bing: "You also threw stones into the pit, maybe you hit her to death."
Then he took one look at Chang and said the same about you.
At the end of the story, Bing lowered his head and said no more.
"Do you remember where it was buried?" Feng asked him.
Bing nodded and said it was near the "xiaoqinghe" water level monitor.
The truth shocked me, but I wasn't sure if it was true.
Wong and Chang are dead, and he can blame both of them.
I asked Bing, why should I trust you?
Bing said, "Lam, I don't have to lie to you about this."
I wondered, "Why?"
"Wong said we would all be shot, but he was 12 and I was only 9, so even if I was shot, I wouldn't be shot."
We brought Bing back to the provincial capital.
After reading the record in detail, Zhao put the case of 20 years ago and the case of Wong in the previous period together.
On May 7, 2015, Bing led Feng and me to the "xiaoqinghe" beach where they had buried Ceci alive.
Nearly 20 years later, the riverbank has changed beyond recognition, but Bing has found a place.
I said you're so sure?
Bing pointed to the distance and said that this was directly across from qinghe Building, and there used to be a water level monitoring pole nearby.
Feng was in charge of taking the photos. I called the person in charge of the site and asked him if he had dug up the bones.
The person in charge of the construction site was startled and kept saying no.
I told him to relax. It's none of his business to dig it up.
The person in charge of this was relieved, thought about it, and said that there was no, as early as 2007, when the governance of this area, it was dug up.
On our way back, we passed the qinghe building, a local landmark.
Bing points to the building and sighs, "How time flies. When I left, qinghe Building was still not built. Now when I come back, it will be torn down."
I mean, you have a pretty good memory, finding a place after all these years.
Bing said with a wry smile, "This is the place where my childhood ended. How can I not remember it?"
Well, killers and lovers love to return to the scene, so that's true.
Ceci was buried, the children involved died two, Ceci parents are suspected of committing the crime.
Feng led the auxiliary police to the household registration management center of the Municipal Bureau, and searched for three days and nights before finding the original file card of Ceci's parents.
"Go to Anhui to contact the Ming couple, do not alarm the snake." "Zhao said.
Two days later, when we found Ming, he was beating hogweed in the yard.
As soon as he saw us, Ming sent his wife to make lunch quickly.
I said don't bother. We'll just find out about Ceci.
She looked at me blankly. I thought for a moment and said, "In 1995, your daughter Ceci went missing, remember?"
Ming pulled his wife and said: "You are busy with your work, hurry to the village supermarket to buy two bottles of liquor."
I was a little surprised, Ming waved to us, said the police officer to come into the house said.
After entering the house, Ming lights a cigarette and says that she is not Su and does not know what happened before.
This surprised me, and I said, where's Su?
"We divorced shortly after Ceci went missing and I have no idea where she is," Ming said.
That year, Su in order to find Ceci, spent the family's money, or no news.
Ming want to take advantage of young, and then have a child, Su is bent on finding children.
Later even the furniture is sold out, there is no news, Ming see this can not go on, said Su a few words.
Su was filled with resentment, and the two quarreled.
Ming got angry and hit Su, then she left and never came back.
I asked Ming, have you received the police identification notice?
Ming said received, the county informed him to go to Jinan, said that his daughter found.
He went, he left his DNA, but public Safety told him it didn't match, and the body wasn't Ceci.
Ming is not lying, I read the record of the body identification, the body was later taken by someone else.
I continued to chat with Ming for a while, and initially ruled him out as a suspect.
As he said goodbye, Feng asked Ming if he had heard from Su recently.
He was a little contemptuous, said that the woman, the road is very wild, who knows if she really went to find her daughter.
I think there are words in the words, out of the foot and back, turned to ask Ming, what is called "road wild"?
Ming blinked for a moment, but he quickly reacted, hurriedly haha, said not mention worth mentioning.
I said not to mention can not, still want us to come to you later.
Ming said, in fact, there is nothing, Su used to do "miss", we were met in the foot washing room.
I was disappointed and asked Feng to leave.
Ming wants to see us off, turning to get clothes from the hanger.
At this point, Feng suddenly reached out, took a cigarette butt from the table and stuffed it into his pocket.
I smiled, thinking the boy was clever enough.
On the way back, I was depressed.
In stature, looks and accent, Ming was a far cry from the people targeted in those cases.
And his current living situation, with a wife and kids, doesn't even have a motive.
And missing Su, where is she?
Return to the provincial capital, contact the Gansu Wuwei police, investigate Su's whereabouts.
But found Su in the local is empty - account here, my whereabouts unknown.
But Feng found a copy of Su's temporary residence permit form with her ID number.
Check the police platform, find a message related to her.
According to the platform, Su was involved in a burglary in our city last year.
Feng takes out the address book of the Public Security Bureau and finds Xu, the police officer who handled the theft.
On the phone, Xu said that unless he returned to the scene of the crime, it would be difficult to remember.
I said it was a good place to go. After all, all the information surrounding Wong's murder leads back to Lotus Road.
Lianhua Road urban village, located in the outskirts of the provincial city, called it "in the city", the actual is not really in the city, but is located between the provincial city and the city "mezzanine".
The village in the city is far from the city, and few people come here.
However, in the past few years, the provincial capital began to build the surrounding area, and the village in the city was also prosperous.
The transportation is convenient, the house price is cheap, and a large number of migrant workers rent houses here.
The village originally had fewer than 10,000 residents, but now it is estimated to have 100,000 migrants.
Here are full of illegal houses, scattered and complicated, refuse to waste a little space.
No. 1197 Lotus Road is even more hidden. If there is no Xu with us, we cannot find it.
The landlady at 1197 owns a grocery store, and she was incoherent when we arrived.
When I explained the purpose of my visit, the landlady kept complaining, thinking that one of the tenants was in trouble again.
Feng asked her about the theft, and the landlady, without thinking, said she couldn't remember.
Feng thought she was deliberately prevaricating, with a bit of emotion in her language.
The landlady also had a temper and replied, "This place is stolen a dozen times a year, what do you policemen usually eat?"
Feng's face suddenly changed, and I quickly tapped him on the shoulder and glared at the landlady.
The landlady also realized that it was too much and did not dare to look at us.
I said, on January 9th last year, you were burgled. Do you remember?
The landlady thought about it and said she really couldn't remember, there were too many burglaries.
I said, was there a tenant named Su who lived here?
When the landlady heard the word "Su", she said, "Damn, of course I remember this woman."
We became interested and asked her why.
Su, she said, was "sick."
On January 9, 2014, the landlady received a call that the house had been burgled and asked her to come and deal with it.
The landlady rushed back to the rental house and learned that a total of 6 households were stolen, and the loss was not small.
As the year drew to a close, the tenants, who had worked hard to save their savings for a year, were robbed, and they were very angry and made a lot of noise.
The landlady couldn't. She had to call the police.
All the other tenants took statements, except Su.
Finally, the case was solved, the suspect gang was caught, most of the stolen money was recovered, and the stolen tenants went to the police to recover their property.
Only Su didn't go to the police station, so he didn't get anything.
Landlady also Su pity, but did not think she came to the door, to the landlady to compensate her losses.
The landlady said, "You didn't go to the police, and now you're looking for me, aren't you a fraud?"
Su complained that the landlord did not inform her, the landlady said, everyone went, you do not go, so afraid of the police, do not be a fugitive.
They got into an argument and ended up in a fight.
Then the landlady kicked Su out.
"Before she left," said the landlady, "she looked at me very badly and said through her teeth that one day she would burn my whole house down."
I asked the landlady for Su's registration form.
But after searching for a long time, the landlady handed me a piece of printer paper, and I took it to see that it was only a photo and Su's date of birth.
Holding the crumpled paper, I stared at the landlady and asked, do you rent a room here without registration ID?
The landlady looked embarrassed, hurriedly laughed, and said something.
It was over and I didn't want to go into it, just ask her about Su.
The landlady said that Su moved in the year before last, rented a room, and did not know what she did.
On the back of the printer paper was written Su's phone number. I called, but it was out of service.
Feng and I were a little disappointed and ready to leave.
But the landlady suddenly remembered something, clapped her hands, told us to wait, and then she went into the building.
After a while, the landlady came out with a broken sack.
I asked her, what do you mean?
The landlady opened the broken sack, which contained several broken glass bottles.
The landlady said: "Some time ago, someone kept throwing this stuff at my house, breaking several Windows, and there was something in the bottle. I had someone smell it and said it was diesel."
Feng's eyes brightened and he asked the landlady to speak quickly.
The landlady said that she had almost forgotten, just talking about Su, and suddenly thought that she was going to burn my house, I thought it was probably her.
I asked the landlady, did she call the police?
The landlady said there was no damage, no need to bother the police.
In fact, the landlady is afraid of the police, the tenants here are mixed, she does not follow the normal process, the police will probably punish her.
I asked her, "When did the glass break?"
The landlady said that it was probably after the New Year, the home was installed with surveillance cameras, and the video was still stored.
The video shows a man, with a bag on his shoulder, wandering downstairs for a while before he stops, takes a bottle out of the bag, and smashes it at the window.
The presence of this man reminds me of Wong's arson case, the men in the two videos, the behavior is very similar.
I asked the landlady, "It was a man. How can you blame Su?"
The landlady said with disdain that she was a trouper, and there were many men, who knew which of her friends was this.
I asked her what did she mean?
The landlady said it was nothing and turned to leave.
Xu, a police officer on the side, went up to stop her and said that you were honest, or you would go back to the station to talk, what problem you don't know?
The landlady's face suddenly changed, which explained the purpose of Su renting.
Su rented here for prostitution.
Although she is over fifty years old, she is still charming, and the "guests" come here in an endless stream.
These activities are clear to the landlady, but Su gives 300 yuan a month more "tea fee", the landlady acquiesces.
I asked the landlady, did Su ever talk to you about her family?
The landlady thought about it and said that once she chatted with her "guest" and heard that she had a man, a long-distance driver, and was not at home all year long.
I said, how did you end up talking to her "guest"?
The landlady said that the man wanted to rent a house here, probably wanted to be putty with Su all the time, we also added a wechat, but then no contact.
Then the landlady took out her mobile phone, rummaged for a while, and handed it to me.
That micro signal, I was stunned.
That "guest" is my childhood good friend.
Wong.