Chapter 1146: New Case

Although Old Hu was a senior police officer and had even been a criminal police officer, it had nothing to do with him being an official.

His source of power was the forty-plus people under his command; only by mastering these people was he the detachment leader. Of course, some people didn't obey him. According to normal promotion, there were people in the team qualified, and there were people outside who were also qualified.

To exert management methods and adjust the personnel who didn't obey, in his position, he had to ensure one thing: not to delay the solving of cases, and not to rely excessively on any one or a few people with high seniority and high levels.

Wang Yan's trio belonged to his foundation, which was why he was nervous about whether the trio could adapt to criminal police work, successfully solve cases, and solve problems. Only if the trio could take on work and solve problems could he adjust the other personnel who didn't obey, which was the so-called "three fires of a new official."

With nothing in his hands, no prestige, and not enough ability himself, the fire wouldn't burn. Right now, the trio had only handled one case, and it was solved in half a day. Although the case wasn't too big, the meaning it represented was different.

This was a problem of case-handling thinking, criminal investigation logic, and necessary methods. In the final analysis, it was a problem of problem-solving ability. The trio did very well, better than expected, and Old Hu was naturally happy.

There was a lot of paperwork for handling cases, which was a detailed description of the criminal facts from beginning to end. Putting it into this case, it was from how they thought about stealing rails, to the process of every crime, and finally until they were caught. Let people who don't understand the case look at it, and they will clearly know the ins and outs.

This arduous work was naturally done by Wang Yan and Wang Xin. At this time, they still had to take care of the old comrade Ma Kui, so they let Ma Kui go home early. One interrogated one, and the two of them interrogated and wrote in the bureau until midnight before it was finished.

"Oh my, it's finally finished." Wang Xin yawned and stretched, then lit another cigarette. "How should the two of us handle it? It's so late, are we still going back?"

"I'm not going back, I'll just make do for the night here. You drive back yourself."

"Then I'm not going back either. It's almost dawn, no need to struggle."

"If I remember correctly, your wife should be at home today, right?"

"It's precisely because she's at home that I don't want to go back." Wang Xin exhaled a long puff of smoke.

Wang Yan was amused: "It's only been over a month since you got married, what's wrong, regret it?"

"That's not it, how should I put it, it's just..."

Wang Xin was silent for a while, frowning with a twisted face, "It just feels a bit different. It's not that I'm being pretentious, I also understand marital conflicts, we even mediated quite a few in the car, every family has trivial matters. I just feel that Yao Yuling before marriage and after marriage seem like two different people.

What she was like before marriage, you guys also saw, everyone knows the situation. Now it's good, she manages this, asks about that, and the money is all in her hands. Before, we didn't really turn red-faced, but after marriage, we've already argued twice. The key is that I can't understand it, it just feels quite uncomfortable."

"Isn't this quite good? It shows she's living her life, and you also said every family has trivial matters, arguing and fighting is very normal."

"You hurry up and pull it down, it hasn't saved much either. Anyway, the money we both earned, after last month, there was nothing left. My dad even supplemented me a bit. This month, it looks the same. Before marriage, I could still save quite a bit every month. Just like this, she's still researching buying a TV. I see she's aiming for my life."

"Young people, like fresh things, there's nothing wrong with that. Who told you that living a life means you have to save money?"

"It sounds like you're very old. Besides, if you don't save money, how do you live? It's comfortable now, but there will be suffering later." Wang Xin said angrily, "If you want to blame someone, blame you. You said, why did you buy a TV for no reason?"

"I was showing filial piety to my mother-in-law. She has nothing to do at home, get a TV, and people in the compound can also sit at home, how lively."

Wang Xin shook his head: "Your family is fine, you said who watches in my family? She stays at home four days out of five, my dad has a shift during the day and sleeps early at night. Now that we've transferred to criminal police, it looks like we're much busier than before, and we don't have time to watch. Just like this, you say buy what TV? Hundreds of dollars worth of stuff, buy it home and let it gather dust?"

"Aren't you planning to have a child? You'll be able to watch it then."

"She said the same thing." Wang Xin sighed helplessly, "She said starting this month, we have to save money properly and buy it before the child is born. When the time comes, if the money isn't enough, you lend me some, dear brother."

"When there's something, dear brother; when there's nothing, Wang Yan. Look at my brother Nian."

"I'm striving to learn from Comrade Cai Xiaonian."

Wang Xin laughed. Cai Xiaonian's mental state was very enviable; he was reliable and unreliable, had no worries, and was happy and unserious every day, feeling especially happy.

After laughing, he said, "This criminal police work is different, the work intensity has suddenly come up, handling cases and catching people in other places, staying up late to write documents. Later, if we handle big cases, I'm afraid we'll have to cross provinces, right?"

"Normally, you don't want to go home now. Wait until later when you're busy, you won't have time even if you want to."

"Why did you say it back again?" Wang Xin waved his hand impatiently, then asked, "What case are we handling next? Today was a small test, should we research a homicide case? Or go catch drugs?"

"The tone you speak in, it's as if homicide cases can be solved easily. How can it be that easy to do? If it were really that easy, wouldn't it have been solved long ago? Do you think other comrades are eating dry rice?"

"Then we have to be optimistic, I'm learning from Comrade Cai Xiaonian. You also heard it when we had the meeting, there are people following recent cases, the three of us are latecomers, where do we have room to choose? It must be cases that haven't been solved, and it must have been a long time. It's definitely difficult, but if we really solve one, then we'll have completely established a foothold, and no one will dare to look down on us. Besides, your reputation is so big, if people look down on us, are you willing?"

"What, you're standing up for me?"

"You're my dear brother, the younger brother definitely considers for you, we are on the same front."

Wang Xin smiled like a dog, got up and said, "No, what you said makes me unable to sleep. You wait a moment, I'll go get some case files, let's see which case has some hope and can be solved."

After speaking, without waiting for Wang Yan to reply, he ran away...

Because of the gradual opening up, there were gradually more people selling food near Ningyang Station. Declining Ma Kui's offer to bring food from home, Wang Yan, who was still energetic, and Wang Xin, who looked exhausted and listless, bought breakfast at the train station together. They ate big meat buns, and each had a bowl of tofu brain, very fragrant.

After breakfast, they returned to the bureau to wash their faces and rinse their mouths, basically reaching work time, and Ma Kui rode his bicycle slowly to work.

He carried a multi-layered lunch box and walked to the office: "Your aunt stewed meat for you early in the morning, the dry noodles were pasted last night, still hot, you two hurry up and eat."

"Didn't I say don't bring it anymore? We ate big meat buns in the morning, very fragrant."

Ma Kui snorted: "Does what I say work?"

Wang Yan smiled: "Keep it for lunch."

"Look, it's still the mother-in-law who is satisfied with the son-in-law, this father-in-law doesn't work." Wang Xin yawned, saying it narrowly.

Ma Kui ignored him, then said: "How is it, is it all done?"

"Here, you take a look, if it doesn't work, change it, it's still you old comrade who checks it." Wang Yan patted the stack of paper on the table.

Taking a chair and sitting down, after Ma Kui flipped through the pile of documents, he nodded and said: "It's okay, no problems. It's finished here, I'll send it to Old Hu..."

"Send what?" Old Hu's voice sounded, and he had already come over.

"Yesterday's case, these two kids stayed up all night to write the documents, don't you, the detachment leader, have to look at it? After that, transfer, send for inspection, you have to arrange it too. Here, it's all here."

Old Hu flipped through it casually and shook his head: "Do you have to burn the midnight oil? Isn't it the same if you write it during the day? Young people can't waste themselves like this, still have to pay attention to health, don't let it happen again."

After saying this, he took a breath, then pointed to the stack of case files on the table, saying, "How is it, found the case to do next?"

Wang Yan smiled and said: "Old Hu, your face changes a bit fast."

Wang Xin nodded in agreement: "Exactly, the previous sentence let us pay attention to health, the next sentence can't wait to let us work?"

"Look, I'm just asking." Old Hu didn't feel embarrassed at all, turned his head to look at Ma Kui, "Besides, you guys also have to discuss it with Old Ma, I'm just listening."

Ma Kui smiled and patted Old Hu's shoulder, grabbed it hard, and asked with a smile: "Tell me, what case did you find?"

Wang Yan picked up a case file and handed it over: "Just this one, last year's railway corpse-dumping case, we talked about it at the time."

Old Hu and Old Ma gathered together to look at the case file, and Old Hu nodded: "I have an impression. But this one is not easy to do. Any ideas?"

"Where is there anything simple? Current cases have people doing them, and those that no one does are those that can't be investigated. It's also a random choice. Stake it out for a few days first and see the situation. If it doesn't work, change it. Alright, hurry back to your office, just have a count, what, do you want to investigate the case with the three of us?"

"Fine, since you said so, am I embarrassed to be annoying here? Stinky kid, I'm leaving, Old Ma." Old Hu shook his head and smiled, leaving happily, anyway, everything was good for now.

Old Ma hadn't spoken, and after Old Hu had been gone for a while, he finished reading the case file, raised his head to look at the two people smoking, and said: "I read the case file once, the comrades who handled the case at the time were very thorough. Victim 17 to 21 years old, female, signs of being beaten, investigated the surrounding area, no missing persons, confirmed to be from out of town, the incident location was a passenger car carriage attached to an adjacent freight carriage.

At that time, the comrades who handled the case also tried their best to find the passenger information of each carriage that day, and in the end, it was still nothing, and this case was stuck here, unable to be handled. Do you two have any ideas?"

Both shook their heads, Wang Yan said: "The thinking is no problem, it's just no clues. One point can be confirmed is that the murderer was on the train at the time, I think we should check it carefully again, maybe there will be some unexpected clues, just hit the luck."

At this time, someone passed by, saw the photo on the table, stopped his steps, and wondered: "What, interested in this case? It was handled by us at the time, do you have any ideas? Wang Yan?"

"No, just planning to check it again according to what you originally checked, it counts as checking for omissions. Exactly, tell us about the situation at the time?" Wang Yan handed over a cigarette and helped light it.

This person pulled a stool over and sat down, holding his elbow with one hand, and holding the cigarette with the other. In the smoke, his eyes were slightly narrowed in contemplation and memory. The morning light penetrated the glass, the Tyndall effect appeared, combined with the old office environment and the clothing of the era. If this scene were played decades later, and a dark filter were added, the suspense and horror feeling would come up immediately. But for the people in it, it was bright.

He smoked a few puffs, cleared his throat and said: "Actually, there's no situation. That train departed from Zhengzhou, passed through multiple provinces and cities, and the terminal station was Harbin. The body was discovered on the section from Liaozhong to Ningyang. It's all written in the case file, that's how we judged it at the time, searched through the pockets of this woman, no useful clues.

We also asked the crew on duty, and it was the same, not a single useful thing. Finally, we found more than two hundred passengers in our Liaoning Province, ran for several months, lost a lot of weight, and walked through it all. It was just the carriage where the incident occurred, two people said they had some impression, drew a portrait, but didn't find the person. Then there were no clues, and we had to stop."

"Not a single one found anything abnormal?" Wang Xin frowned and asked.

"Aren't you talking nonsense? If there was anything abnormal, could it be stopped?" This person rolled his eyes at Wang Xin.

"Then isn't this the same as not saying anything? Looking at how mysterious you were before."

"Aren't I recalling the case?"

Wang Yan shook his head with a smile: "Alright, brother, you go be busy, if we really hit the luck, we'll notify you then."

"Easy to say, if it's really handled, I'll treat you to a drink." This person waved his hand, bit the cigarette, and got up to leave.

"I see he's just mixing cigarettes to smoke." Wang Xin complained, "What do we do?"

"Look at the case file carefully a few times today, and contact the crew on duty, making an appointment to chat in these two days. Didn't you say there were two people who still have an impression? Let's go find them again. Old Ma, what do you think?"

"Then what else can we do? I'll go contact them, see when it's convenient, let's go on the train and chat with them."

Old Ma was decisive, saying and doing, and after contacting, it was determined that they would pass through Ningyang at four o'clock this afternoon, and the whole crew would be there. So that afternoon, the trio boarded the train at Ningyang Station... ===== CHAPTER 1147 =====