The Underworld Detective

“You lied? What do you mean?” I asked.

Shen Lijuan frowned and said: “When I looked at this photograph, I thought it should be him, so I said yes, but then suddenly I realized that it didn't seem like it. ”

“Is it or isn't it?” I frowned.

She gave a distressed look: "I don't know! ”

Huang Xiaotao stood up excitedly: “You clearly looked at him so many eyes...” I prompted her not to intervene.

Shen Lijuan lowered his head: “I'm sorry. ”

I asked her what had happened after that, and she went on to say that after a few days in the hostel, my grandfather was going to take her home and tell her not to tell outsiders what had happened in those days, otherwise she would not be at peace for the rest of her life!

For her, that would naturally not be mentioned to anyone. My grandfather took her to the hospital for an examination, which was in the '90s, and a middle-aged man in his 50s took a little girl with him for an examination in that area, which naturally attracted a lot of contempt and suspicion, but my grandfather didn't care.

Fortunately, she is not pregnant and has not contracted an STD.

My grandfather sent her home and made up a set of lies that Shen Lijuan had been kidnapped by the bad guys. Shen Lijuan was reluctant to accept this kind uncle because he didn't look down on her at all. In addition, she had a very strict family.

Later, at home, she suffered discrimination and accusations from her family, who looked at her differently, as if it was her fault to be kidnapped and raped! Every time her father was drunk, he heard her heart hang like a knife when he shook ‘no one wanted a broken shoe' and 'something he didn't know he loved'.

The incident itself, and the attitude of the family afterwards, caused her a great psychological shadow and prevented her from attending school at all, so she dropped out of school.

The next year, her father was hit by a drunken car, her mother remarried, and her late father was a strange person. Shen Lijuan couldn't stay at home, so she ran out to work and had a very difficult time.

She remembered to call my grandfather when he left, saying that he would have difficulty finding him in the future...

She called my grandfather in the mood to try it. After hearing about her predicament, my grandfather immediately remitted her a sum of money, and every month since then, it has lasted for more than 10 years. The money helped her through the toughest of times, getting her out of trouble and having a life of her own.

So to her, my grandfather was like a light in her life, her god.

Speaking of which, Shen Lijuan's eyes got wet and asked me, “By the way, is your grandfather okay? ”

I lied: "It's fine, I'm retired at home now, I listen to theater every day, I feed flowers, and my body has always been tough. ”

“Then I'm relieved. By the way, I saved some money for two years. When your grandfather rescued my money, I always wanted to wait for him to be able to pay it back. I'll pay you back a portion first. ”

I even said, "No, actually, my family is rich. You're pregnant now. You need money now, or you can keep it! I'll tell my grandfather when I get back. You're doing well, he'll probably be relieved. ”

Shen Lijuan smiled and stopped insisting. I asked: "Where were your schools? Do you remember where he was kidnapped? ”

She asked her husband to pick up a map and show me that the school she attended was the third secondary school in Ryokawa County, and that the kidnapped place was on a trail behind the school. She was particularly impressed because the road was straight, on the left was the back wall of the school, on the right was the shopping street, there was a shop selling spicy soup at the intersection, there was no light on the whole street, only the shop selling spicy soup was lit.

I said, "Can I have this map? ”

“Okay!” said Shen Lijuan, not concerned.

I didn't have anything to ask. I said I was sorry to interrupt, so I said goodbye to Huang Xiaotao and Sun Bingxin. After coming out, Sun Bingxin smiled: “I didn't expect Brother Song Yang to tell a good lie. ”

I said softly, "I'm just a pain in the ass. ”

Huang Xiaotao sighed: “Look at this man, he is clearly kind and unwilling to admit it. ”

I laughed and said, "I'm hungry. Find a place to have a night snack! ”

We came to a street full of hotels. When we passed a big row, Sun Bingxin saw a pile of red and spicy lobster and couldn't walk. We had to eat that. We sat down and ordered little lobster, barbecue, plum beans, chilled green bean soup.

I marked the map, and Sun Bingxin asked, "Why can't the aunt remember the killer's face? ”

I explained: "Because memories are inherently subjective and can be manipulated at will, she was in a situation of extreme fear, and it was normal not to remember who the killer looked like. ”

“Then why did she identify Ma Sanyou as the murderer?” Sun Bingxin is very confused.

“Because Ma Sanyou looks alike!” My words never cease to amaze me.

“Looks like!?” Sun Bingxin and Huang Xiaotao were both surprised.

I took out my phone and turned over the photo of Ma San Yu when he was younger. He said: "Look at the face on the bottom of this pot, ugly and fierce. In Shen Lijuan's subjective consciousness, the killer should be this kind of honor! That's why we replace what we see in front of us with memory, which is psychologically called memory contamination. This ugly face of Ma San Yong really hurt him, the police and the people around him think he is the murderer. ”

“You mean he wasn't the killer?” Huang Xiaotao said.

“Definitely not him!” I'm sure of it.

“That's not right! How do you explain the evidence that the officers Shaw and Nie found? ”

“Those two pieces of evidence, like nails, pin our minds firmly on top of each other and identify Ma San Yue as a criminal. Let's throw these two pieces of evidence aside and think about it from a different perspective.” Speaking of which, I spread out the map in my hand and marked the place where each body was discarded, and then marked two dots: “This is Ma Sanyou's house, this is his shop, and even if I didn't have to do it, I could tell it was completely out of line with the laws of criminal geography. ”

Huang Xiaotao said, "Yeah, why don't you use a quickie? ”

I shook my head with a bitter smile: "Too long ago, probably not so precise, but I'll try again later. ”

Huang Xiaotao asked: "Do you just see something wrong geographically? ”

“One other thing, note Shen Lijuan's account just now, every time the murderer comes to see her after dark, but Ma San Yu is a decent person, his time is very free, so the murderer should be a person who goes to work or school, the time is fixed. ”

Huang Xiaotao suddenly realized, Sun Bingxin asked: “Then why didn't the murderer kill Shen Lijuan? Is he in love with her and can't help it? ”

I shook my head: “No, according to this perverted logic, only a woman who falls in love will do the hard work. From a utility standpoint, Shen Lijuan is definitely safer to die than to live. But the killer didn't kill her because there was a bigger evil that was stopping him from killing Shen Lijuan. ”

“What?” they asked.

My finger landed on the map, where Shen Lijuan was kidnapped, and he nailed it down and said, “Because if Shen Lijuan dies, he will be exposed! ”