In the twelfth lunar month of winter, it gets dark very early, and it’s already pitch black outside before I get off work.

There are only a few police officers and police assistants in the branch, and most of them have families. The canteen of the branch office has only provided lunch since last spring, and the aunt who cooks does not come in the evening.

Liu Guixiang couldn't go home because he had to work overtime, so he went to the Binjiang Port Group canteen to eat a few bites of food, and then returned to the detachment office to continue calling colleagues from surrounding areas who he had dealt with over the years.

"Chen Da, I asked you to help me look at it. How can I compare it if you send me a bunch of materials?"

"Brother, I'm a detective, not a technician. Those fingerprints all look the same to me, and I can't compare them!"

"Don't you have technical police in your bureau?"

"I have family matters, and besides, your workload is too heavy."

"You can input it into the computer for automatic comparison!"

"Computer comparison, our unit does not have the conditions. How about you sponsor a set of equipment for us, and I will arrange for someone to help you do it immediately."

"Okay, I'll think of something else."

If you don’t go to the hospital, you don’t know that there are many cancers. If you don’t know the public security bureau, you don’t know that there are so many missing people. Some people did not apply for second-generation ID cards before they disappeared. The public security organs did not collect their fingerprints, and they were not charged with illegal crimes.

Fingerprints were collected and records were left behind, and some people even went missing and their relatives did not report the case.

More importantly, comparing fingerprints is not as simple as imagined. Before comparing, you must carefully study the fingerprints, find and mark their characteristic points, and then conduct repeated comparisons.

No matter which public security bureau, there are very few technical police officers, and they all have one specialty and multiple abilities. For example, technical police officers who specialize in fingerprint research will also be responsible for trace inspection. Now the superiors require that all technical police officers who have the conditions to conduct inspections should go to investigate.

There are only a few people in total, and it is unrealistic to ask others to help you find a needle in a haystack to support so many units in handling cases. Moreover, today is the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and everyone is celebrating the New Year.

Liu Guixiang felt that he was doing useless work and was thinking that the case might end in vain when the landline phone on his desk suddenly rang.

"I am the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Changhang Branch. Who am I?"

"Liu Zhi, I'm Luo Wenjiang. I'm on duty at the branch tonight. I just passed by the door of your branch and saw the lights on in your office, so I called to ask."

"Isn't it normal to work overtime on duty? Do you have anything to ask?" Liu Guixiang answered listlessly.

The Water Branch is becoming less and less worthy of its name. There are only 17 civilian police officers left. It is said that the superiors have decided to wait until the Yangtze River Bridge is completed and opened to traffic, and only the Yingchuangang Water Security Police Brigade will be retained. The current office building and its land have long been occupied

The city collected the money, and the branch office will move to the city after the Chinese New Year.

There were not many people and nothing happened.

Luo Wenjiang, who was bored in this class, asked with a smile: "Liu Zhi, I just went to our canteen downstairs for a tour. There are hot pot ingredients, vegetables, and beef. Come over later and have a midnight snack together?"

"I won't go, I'm busy."

"What are you busy with?"

"What do you think you can do?"

"Working overtime to investigate that clueless case?"

"Um."

"Any clues?"

"Yes." Liu Guixiang lit a cigarette, looked at the materials on the table and said with a wry smile: "There is a repaired left thumb fingerprint, a DNA test report, a blood type test report and a small piece of the gash left by the murder weapon.

Metal."

"There is also a blood type report. Can the blood type be tested from that severed arm?" Luo Wenjiang was surprised.

Liu Guixiang explained: "The city bureau's forensic doctor dissected the severed arm and found that there was a blood clot inside. They conducted a test on the blood clot and found that the blood type of the owner of the severed arm was type B."

The Technical Team of the Municipal Bureau lives up to its reputation and is indeed very powerful.

Luo Wenjiang secretly praised it, then thought about it and said sympathetically: "It may not be enough to solve the case with just these clues."

"You just know that I made phone calls for two days, begging grandpa and grandma everywhere to ask for help in the investigation. I even had to use my own connections to work for the government, and I owed a lot of favors."

"Look for Xianyu to talk about it."

"He is my leader. I told him that I don't want to hang around anymore!"

"It's not that exaggerated. How many years have you been friends?" Luo Wenjiang was very envious of Ma Jintao being able to go to the banquet with Xu Mingyuan, and he asked nonchalantly: "Old Liu, do you know what Xianyu is doing right now?"

Liu Guixiang said impatiently: "How did I know that he is the leader of the bureau in charge of the work? He doesn't have to ask me for instructions and reports wherever he goes."

"He is having dinner with the general with Xu Guan and Lao Ma right now!"

"General? Real or fake?"

"Why are you lying to me? Director Qin is also here."

"Where is the general?" Liu Guixiang asked curiously.

I'm probably better informed than you.

Luo Wenjiang said with a proud smile: "The deputy chief of staff of the Air Force of the Nanjing Military Region, with the rank of major general, is here to express condolences to the officers and men of the Air Force stationed in Binjiang on behalf of the Air Force of the Military Region. By the way, you should have seen that when the Binjiang ship returned to Binjiang, the city held a party at the pier.

Yes, I was invited to watch it, and I sat with the city leaders."

Who would remember what happened so many years ago?

Besides, there were so many local party and government leaders and army chiefs at that party, who knew who was who?

But one thing is for sure, Xianyu really knows many army leaders. Thinking about Deputy Director Qin of the National People's Congress, Ma Jintao, and Xu Mingyuan have all been there, Liu Guixiang said to himself: "They should have known each other during the 1998 flood fight.

We are comrades who participated in flood fighting and rescue operations together."

"You guessed it, Lao Liu. You may not believe it when I told you. When the army went out for the expedition, I packed my backpack, but I was replaced by Xianyu at the critical moment! It would be a pity if I didn't listen to him at that time.

Yes, insist on going with them, and now I can exchange cups with the general and become brothers!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

"What are you laughing at? I'm really not kidding you."

"It's too late to regret it now. I won't let you play with me, so you should make hot pot by yourself."

At the same time, the dormitory area of ​​the former Bailonggang Passenger Terminal was brightly lit and extremely lively.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In order to create a New Year atmosphere, Lao Han bought more than a thousand yuan of lanterns to fill the yard, and two big red lanterns were hung at the gate.

I also bought a bunch of firecrackers, crackers for children to play with, throwing crackers and fireworks.

Mom was busy chatting with Aunt Xiaohong and Aunt Yuzhen in the house. Hanhan was left alone and had a great time playing in the yard with the little crocodile.

When Xunxun got older, he couldn't play with his younger brothers and sisters, so he stood at the door and acted as a "safety officer." His father had just bought a car and was parked in the yard, but he couldn't let Han set off firecrackers.

Han blew up the car.

Lao Han, Han Gong, Han Shen and Xiaoyu's grandfather Lao Qian were playing mahjong while discussing the matter of knocking down the old house in the dormitory area and rebuilding a small western-style building after the Chinese New Year.

Director Xiang and Mother Han were busy putting away the pots and pans and preparing tomorrow's meals.

Xiaoyu's parents also came back to celebrate the New Year. Because they had been in Donghai some time ago, they didn't spend much time in their hometown. As soon as they finished eating, they went home to clean up the room.

Han Xiangning liked the atmosphere of family reunion very much, and while she was doing her homework, Ji Xiaohong suddenly asked: "Ningning, San'er, are you busy during the New Year? My dad is treating you at noon on the third day of the Lunar New Year, so I asked you if you can take time to have a meal."

"busy."

Talking about the arrangements during the Spring Festival, Han Xiangning clasped his fingers and said helplessly: "He has to be on duty on New Year's Eve. He says he is on duty, but in fact he is going to several police stations to have New Year's Eve dinner with the policemen on duty on New Year's Eve. He will go back to Bailonggang to visit his parents in the morning of the first day of the new year.

They pay New Year's greetings, and after lunch we will accompany my parents back to Sigang to pay New Year's greetings to my grandma."

Linghai has a tradition of inviting relatives and friends to dinner during the Spring Festival. Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, they take turns to invite friends and family to eat. Families with many brothers and sisters can continue to eat until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Xiaoyu's family also had a treat plan, and Yuzhen asked curiously: "Where's the second grade of junior high school?"

"On the second day of junior high school, I am going to Director Qin to pay New Year greetings to Sister Zhu. Sister Zhu has made an appointment a long time ago, and we have agreed to the appointment early. It would be bad if we don't go. On the second day of junior high school, we are not only going to Sister Zhu's house, but also to visit Bureau Zhang and Uncle Ge to pay New Year's greetings.

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"What about the third grade of junior high school?" Ji Xiaohong asked eagerly.

Han Xiangning said apologetically: "I have to go on duty at the headquarters in the third year of junior high school. I definitely can't go. San'er is going to pay New Year's greetings to Jiao Li in the morning of the third year of junior high school. Jiao Li treats guests every year in the third year of junior high school. Yuzhen, you and Xiaoyu

I want to go too. On the afternoon of the third day of the Lunar New Year, the Linghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government held a New Year group meeting, inviting Linghai leaders, big bosses and successful people from all walks of life who have returned to their hometown from other places to celebrate the New Year to discuss Linghai's economic development plan."

Yuzhen chuckled and said, "Sister-in-law, the city has also hired Brother Xianyu. Brother Xianyu is also a successful person?"

"The Minister of United Front Work personally went to Binjiang to deliver the invitation. Secretary Qian was worried that San'er would find an excuse not to go, so he called himself to invite. San'er had no choice but to agree."

"Do you care about the food?"

"No matter, it's not fun to eat, and I don't know many of them." Han Xiangning chuckled and added: "Linghai not only invited San'er this time, but also invited me. Unfortunately, I have to be on duty in the third grade of junior high school and can't go.

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It is not difficult for a person to live well outside, but it is not easy to be recognized by one's hometown. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as foreign monks being good at chanting sutras.

Han Xiangning has long regarded herself as a Linghai native, and she is truly happy to be invited by the Linghai Municipal Party Committee and Government.

Ji Xiaohong envied Han Xiangning very much, thinking that although she had made some money in the past few years, she had no social status. She could not meet the city leaders at all, let alone let the city leaders treat her to dinner. Then she thought about her son who was very competitive and had good academic performance.

Sooner or later, their long-term relationship will turn over.

Han Xiangning didn't know that Ji Xiaohong was envious of herself, and continued: "I almost forgot, during the Spring Festival, we are going out to pay New Year greetings to our elders, and some people are coming to pay New Year greetings to us. I have to think about how to receive them. I can't let people come to Binjiang to visit us.

We don’t even have to eat.”

"Who wants to wish you a happy New Year?"
To be continued...