A red CD player, a box of new black tapes, and a sky blue round disc.
At this time, Walkmans, an emerging electronic product, are still a luxury product for ordinary people. Most of the Walkmans on the market in Haidu are in tape format. Although there are also Walkmans in China that play this disc format, they are still available in China.
They are usually only sold in big cities.
It's actually a bit unusual for a female textile worker like the deceased woman Zhang Xiumei, who has been out of the countryside for less than a year, to own a CD player. When Zhou Nan wanted to buy one last year, her mother Yue Ping thought it was too expensive.
I don’t agree to buy it for him, let alone such a young female worker with a meager income.
That's fine, owning a Walkman doesn't mean anything. But what really caught Zhou Nan's attention and shock was this box of black tapes and that disc. On the edge of the tape and in the corner of the disc, there was a
Slight cracks, you really can't find them unless you look carefully.
This kind of crack is not man-made damage, nor is it caused by old wear and tear, but it is very particular.
This is called "authentic discs". Authentic discs are foreign genuine discs. Foreign publishers overestimated sales and mass-produced them. As a result, they could not sell them and had to be destroyed. These discs entered the country through different channels and became
Most of the popular products come from the United States.
For those who were obsessed with classical or post-modern music in the mid-to-late 1990s, there was no one who didn’t listen to oral CDs.
The music itself is complete and has the best sound quality, but unfortunately it has been given a distorted form. In the music circle, people who are obsessed with playing discs or playing tapes are called "dakou tribe", which is roughly the same as
The fashionable titles in later generations such as "Moonlight Clan" are similar.
In the 1990s, many of the most popular and best-selling rap discs were in the Gothic music style series. Zhou Nan leaned over and carefully observed the discs, and found that it was exactly this type of music. This kind of music deliberately creates a dark, decadent, cold, and terrifying atmosphere.
, makes people feel depressed and desperate, expresses the yearning for death and black, not only contains exquisite beauty, but also creates a sense of disharmony.
To be honest, people who like to listen to this kind of music generally have high cultural and musical literacy. It can even be said that this is a relatively elegant cultural taste, and few ordinary people can listen to this stuff.
Zhou Nan stood up slowly, feeling very strange.
As a female textile worker, the deceased woman liked playing CDs and Gothic-style European and American classical music? This possibility cannot be said to be impossible, but even if it is a hobby, these things are likely to be related to the murderer.
He didn't know whether the police had considered this detail or investigated it in depth, but he felt that this was definitely a very crucial clue and could not be let go.
Zhou Nan originally wanted to talk to his father Zhou Ningyu about this matter immediately, but then he thought about it and gave up. He strolled out of the exhibition hall, hesitated for a while at the entrance of the Haidu City Public Security Bureau, and finally took a taxi and went straight to Haidu.
He knows very well that there is only one place selling beat-up CDs in Haidu now. The antique cultural market on the left side of Haidadong Gate has not many stallholders selling these, and most of them are music fans who like this. This cultural market is also a
A place where the Dakou people often gather.
After getting off the car, standing at the east gate of Haida, Zhou Nan stared at the deep campus tree-lined avenue behind the two broad and solemn gates, with the red walls and green tiles hidden among them. Zhou Nan's eyes flashed with complex brilliance, slowly gathering into
A sharp look.
The campus of Hainan University in early winter is very calm, deserted and desolate. Occasionally, a few college students of both sexes walk out or walk into the campus. But in this peaceful campus, there is a life-and-death enemy that fills Zhou Nan with anger and coldness every time he thinks about it.
Chen Xiaoning, a disciple of high-ranking cadres.
Chen Xiaoning's father is a senior official in the province, and should be serving as vice chairman of the provincial CPPCC at this time. Although Chen Xiaoning's father is only a deputy ministerial cadre, and not a deputy ministerial cadre with real power, Chen Xiaoning's mother Long Min is not.
Simple. Long Min came from a wealthy and powerful family in the capital, and his uncle was the founding father of the country, General Feng.
General Feng was awarded the rank of Major General when he was awarded the title in 1955, and was just an ordinary general. But after returning from the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, he was appreciated by the leaders of the Military Commission for his outstanding military achievements and entered the General Staff Department. Later, he was promoted all the way to the highest position.
He served as deputy chief of staff for several years.
Although Long Min is not a direct relative of the Feng family, in China's kinship society, relatives are still relatives after all, and they can still lend some strength. Obviously, Chen Xiaoning's father, Vice Chairman Chen, can get to the deputy ministerial level.
It has something to do with the background of the Feng family.
At this moment, Chen Xiaoning is not the future chairman of Heilan Group, the arrogant and domineering Chen Xiaoning who dominates the shopping mall. He is now a teacher at Hainan University, or an associate professor.
At this point in time, Zhou Nan had not met Chen Xiaoning in his previous life. The two met a few years later. At that time, Zhou Nan initially built his own business kingdom and became a business genius who emerged in the domestic business world;
Chen Xiaoning also resigned from his job to go into business at that time and founded Heilan Group. Although Heilan Group is headquartered in Beijing, its main business is actually located in Binhai Province.
Later, Feiteng Group and Heilan Group had a fierce conflict over the competition for the landscape project in Binhai New District, Haidu City. When Zhou Nan won the project, he offended Chen Xiaoning, a high-ranking cadre who looked secretive and polite.
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Later, Chen Xiaoning lured Zhou Nan's assistant Pan Hu, conspired to instigate people to secretly open stock market accounts, controlled the stocks of Feiteng Energy and Feiteng Real Estate controlled by Zhou Nan, created the illusion of active trading in the secondary market, and defrauded investors of large amounts of money.
Funds... Of course, this is just one of Chen Xiaoning's methods to frame Zhou Nan. His series of frame-up methods also include forging false accounts and fabricating various vouchers for Zhou Nan's smuggling.
Because of the "support" of Pan Hu, a traitor whom Zhou Nan trusted very much in his previous life, and Chen Xiaoning's use of the power relations at the top, Zhou Nan was caught off guard and finally fell under the "frame-up tactics".
All market resources of the group were successfully taken over by Heilan Group.
The Feiteng business empire collapsed, and Zhou Nan himself perished as a result. More than ten years of hard work came to nothing. For Zhou Nan, such hatred is not deep or heavy! Such hatred and resentment are wrapped up in all kinds of things from the past and present life.
How could Zhou Nan forget the negative emotions!
But at this moment, Zhou Nan can't do anything. In his rebirth plan, his confrontation with Chen Xiaoning has not yet begun.
After standing at the gate of Hainan University and staring for a moment, Zhou Nan adjusted his mentality and walked into the cultural market with a calm expression. In a remote corner of the market, he found a stall owner selling taiko dishes. There were several people in front of the stall.
The young man was squatting there playing with discs or tapes.
Zhou Nan walked over slowly. A gust of cold wind blew by and got into his neck, making his whole body feel chilly. Zhou Nan couldn't help but shivered, then he wrapped his coat tightly and raised his collar.
After walking a few steps, someone hurried past him behind him.
A different kind of emotion suddenly arose. Zhou Nan's face turned cold. He looked up and saw the handsome back of a young man in his mid-twenties who was of medium build and well-dressed and tastefully dressed. This was a handsome man.
So much so that his back was so free and elegant, even Zhou Nan couldn't deny this.
The corners of Zhou Nan's mouth twitched violently, and his face turned red but soon returned to a faint indifference.
Although it was just a back figure, Zhou Nan could recognize this back figure, the back figure of the man named Chen Xiaoning, even if he turned into ashes!
What is Chen Xiaoning doing here? This was Zhou Nan's first thought.
Could it be... Zhou Nan's heart was suddenly shocked, and he looked around and saw Chen Xiaoning walking up to the stall owner selling audio CDs, taking out a CD from his pocket, and seemed to be arguing with the stall owner about something.
Zhou Nan's eyes suddenly flickered. He really didn't expect that Chen Xiaoning was also a gangster. When he came here to investigate the situation with the mentality of "solving the case", Chen Xiaoning suddenly appeared and interacted with the "beater"
There is a certain connection between "Kou Dian"... However, this is actually nothing. Zhou Nan feels that he cannot be too sensitive.
Even though Chen Xiaoning was his life-and-death enemy, Zhou Nan would not bluntly associate Chen Xiaoning, who appeared by chance, with the perverted killer. Zhou Nan still couldn't do this kind of thing.
This was a sudden and fateful encounter.
Zhou Nan shook his head and forcibly expelled all the bad emotions that filled his heart. He stood aside and stared at Chen Xiaoning coldly until Chen Xiaoning changed a disc and left, and Zhou Nan also left. However, Chen Xiaoning
Before leaving, Zhou Nan's heart was moved by the detailed gesture of saying hello to several familiar "comrades" around him.
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Back at the company, sitting in his office, Zhou Nan silently sorted out the messy thoughts.
Regarding this case, he vaguely grasped something in his mind, but what it was was completely unclear. After thinking about it, he had a splitting headache. He smiled bitterly and simply stopped thinking about it. After all, he was not a criminal investigator, and he lacked professional skills.
Reasoning ability, it is not an ordinary difficulty to find the real clues to solve the case from all kinds of confusing clues.
However, in addition to the clues of beatboxing and relatively elegant European and American Gothic-style classical music, there was another detail of the case that caught Zhou Nan's attention.
Among the clues released by the Haidu City Police, there is such an inconspicuous statement: The victim Zhang Xiumei rented a private house with three female workers. The night before her death, Zhang Xiumei did not go back to live in, but her bed was spread out.
It was opened, spread out neatly, and laid out in advance to look like sleeping. Until after her death, the police found the rental house, and her bed was still very neat and intact.
The connection between the two seems to indicate that Zhang Xiumei knew the murderer, and could even be said to have some kind of close relationship. She might have stayed at the murderer's place for one night, and then was killed around noon the next day.
Thinking of this, Zhou Nan immediately picked up the phone and called his father Zhou Ningyu, but no one answered.
As soon as I put down the phone, I heard someone knocking on the door, and said in a deep voice, "Come in."
Zhang Hongxia walked in with a smile, a hint of flattery in her smile.
Zhou Nan felt very disgusted with this snobbish woman. It was not his wish to have her serve as the director of his general office. But he had just been promoted, and Zhang Hongxia was hired from above, so he couldn't say anything for the time being.
"Manager Zhou. According to the arrangements of the head office, our Xinghai Company will organize a few people to go to Xiangzhou and Hong Kong before the end of the year to further finalize cooperation projects with Lanli Energy Investment Group... This business trip needs to be done in advance.
I have to submit the plan to the head office, and also submit it to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the Construction Commission for approval, so I made an application and plan, and you can see if there is anything that needs to be modified..."
"You can leave me here first." Zhou Nan smiled lightly and nodded.
Zhang Hongxia placed the folder on Zhou Nan's desk, hesitated for a moment and then said softly, "Manager Zhou, the corporate management department and the finance department of the head office have urged you several times. You'd better take a quick look so that I can report it."
Go up."
Zhou Nan groaned, grabbed the folder, opened it, and started browsing. Seeing him start reading, Zhang Hongxia stood there quietly, and did not continue to leave, but waited silently.
There were no problems with the application and plan, so Zhou Nan brushed it off. But when his eyes fell on the list of people who had gone to Xiangzhou and Hong Kong for inspection, he frowned slightly.
He didn't discuss anything with Zhang Hongxia. Without any hesitation, he took out the red pen and crossed out the names of Kang Zhanguo and Zhang Hongxia and replaced them with Sun Xiaolan, a clerk from the General Office, and another salesperson from the business department.
To be honest, this kind of business trip is said to be to discuss cooperation with the other party, but in fact it is a public-funded trip. It is not Xiangzhou, but there are still schedules in Hong Kong, so Zhang Hongxia and Kang Zhanguo are naturally not willing to let go of this kind of travel opportunity.
Seeing that Zhou Nan had crossed out her and Kang Zhanguo's names, Zhang Hongxia's face immediately turned red. She looked at Zhou Nan unhappily, but was speechless.
It is said that the first level of officialdom kills people. Zhou Nan is the manager of Xinghai Company. He has the absolute right to decide who is allowed to go and who is not allowed to go on the travel list. Zhang Hongxia can only watch her trip to Hong Kong.
Soaked in soup.
"Lao Kang and I can't both leave. One of us has to stay at home to take charge of the work. There are a lot of things at home. Director Zhang should stay and be busy with the basic work of the company. We have just started to operate, and there are still many things that need to be dealt with."
"In addition, two more places will be added to the inspection team to reserve for the leaders. If Mr. Meng and Mr. Zhao have time in the near future, they will lead the team there in person. That's it. You will report to the head office with an official document immediately. Please
Mr. Meng approves." Zhou Nan waved his hand lightly, ignoring Zhang Hongxia's shameful, angry and dissatisfied face.
"Okay." Zhang Hongxia forced a smile, squeezed out the word "Okay" through her teeth, and then immediately turned around and left with the document in hand.
Looking at her angrily leaving, Zhou Nan smiled coldly, but didn't take it to heart anymore.
Zhang Hongxia returned to her office unhappily, and her face immediately darkened. She threw the folder to Sun Xiaolan angrily, and said coldly, "Come and change this document. After you change it, report it to the head office and ask Mr. Meng to sign it."
Approval."
Sun Xiaolan and Zhang Hongxia had worked in the same office for many years and had a good relationship. Seeing that Zhang Hongxia looked unhappy, she asked with a smile, "Sister Zhang, what's wrong with you? Why did it suddenly turn from sunny to cloudy?"
"Do your business and talk nonsense." Zhang Hongxia glared and yelled angrily. In fact, she had no objection to Sun Xiaolan, but Zhou Nan changed her name to Sun Xiaolan, which made her feel unhappy and jealous.
Correspondingly, his attitude towards Sun Xiaolan became much worse.
Sun Xiaolan was a little confused. She wanted to get up and argue with Zhang Hongxia, but when she remembered that she was a leader and a subordinate, it would not be good for her to break up, so she gritted her teeth and endured it.
However, in the process of modifying the file, she saw that Zhou Nan had replaced Zhang Hongxia's name with her own, and she suddenly realized that Zhang Hongxia was having fun.
But how good is her taste... Zhou Nan has the final say in Xinghai Company now, and no matter how unhappy she is, she just stares!
Sun Xiaolan secretly glanced at Zhang Hongxia with pride, and when she saw that the other person was looking out the window and sulking alone, a gloating smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. At the same time, her heart suddenly became excited. She came from an ordinary family, from a small family.
, has never traveled far, and has only been to provincial capitals a few times. How could she not be happy to be able to travel to Xiangzhou and Hong Kong with public funds this time?
Kang Zhanguo slowly walked into the office and greeted Sun Xiaolan and Zhang Hongxia with a smile, "Xiao Sun, what are you busy with? Lao Zhang..."
"Manager Kang." Sun Xiaolan smiled and nodded to Kang Zhanguo, then subconsciously glanced at Zhang Hongxia, who had just turned her head and looked unhappy.
Zhang Hongxia looked at Kang Warring States and sighed and complained, "Manager Kang, the fact that you and I participated in the inspection group to go to Xiangzhou was ruined..."
"How do you say that?" Kang Zhanguo frowned, "Won't the head office approve it?"
"We haven't reported it to the head office yet. We can't pass this level just internally..." Zhang Hongxia sneered, "Manager Zhou didn't agree for the two of us to go, so we replaced it with Xiao Sun and Xiao Wang from the business department."
Kang Zhanguo's expression suddenly changed and became gloomy. However, the gloominess on his face immediately dissipated. He glanced at Sun Xiaolan and said with a faint smile, "It's okay if you don't go. Manager Zhou and I are gone, who comes to see the house?"
Lao Zhang, it doesn’t matter if you can’t go this time, there will be a chance next time. Besides, we are not going out for travel but for work!”
With that said, Kang Zhanguo sat behind his desk, picked up the newspaper and browsed it as if nothing had happened. However, his face hidden behind the newspaper suddenly became ferocious, and the corners of his mouth were bitten tightly, as if
A very ferocious beast.
Zhou Nan probably didn't expect that he would show his face in front of a group of police and criminal investigation experts, thus earning him the nickname "Detective Zhou Nan".
Several opinions Zhou Nan put forward to his father Zhou Ningyu aroused strong reactions within the task force. At the subsequent case analysis meeting attended by Municipal Party Committee Secretary Liu Xiangdong and Political and Legal Affairs Committee Secretary Huang Zhen, Zhou Nan was invited to attend the meeting.
When he received the call notification invitation from the city bureau duty room, Zhou Nan couldn't believe his ears.
The reason why he is concerned about this case is mainly for the future of his father Zhou Ningyu.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Ningyu half-jokingly expressed his son's views on the case at a regular meeting of the task force, which immediately attracted the attention of provincial experts and relevant leaders.
Zhou Nan didn't want to be exposed in front of the stage, especially since he didn't understand the criminal investigation business at all. He just raised several doubts that the police had ignored in the past based on his information advantages and comprehensive judgment. He really wanted to make him appear in front of a group of police officers and crime-solving experts.
He is not willing to play tricks on the job in front of him.
However, after hearing that Secretary Liu of the Municipal Party Committee would attend this case analysis meeting, Zhou Nan immediately changed his mind and agreed to participate.
Anyway, he was just participating in the discussion as a citizen representative and not a criminal investigation expert. Even if he spoke some layman's words, it didn't matter. The emphasis was on participation and performance. It was also a rare opportunity to fully demonstrate himself in front of the Municipal Party Committee Secretary Liu Xiangdong.
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"Now, welcome to the citizen representative, Comrade Zhou Nan from Haidu Petroleum and Gas Corporation, to speak." Li Xincheng, deputy leader of the task force who presided over the meeting, smiled and raised his hand to Zhou Nan, who was sitting in the corner.
Of course it is no secret that Zhou Nan is Zhou Ningyu's son, but today Zhou Nan did not participate in the case analysis meeting as Zhou Ningyu's son, but as a citizen representative. In other words, this time the case analysis meeting was attended by municipal party committee leaders, allowing citizen representatives to
Participation is a form of show, and deliberately catering to the upper-level leaders' mentality of being close to the people is a disguised implementation of the spirit of Liu Xiangdong's previous instructions.
As for the citizen representative being Zhou Nan, it's just a coincidence.
Zhou Nan stood up calmly, glanced at his father Zhou Ningyu, then looked around the crowd and said loudly, "Dear leaders and experts, I don't understand criminal investigation, I just care about this case and have my own opinions. I will briefly talk about it below.
During the discussion, if you use layman’s language, please don’t laugh at the leaders.”
"In this case, it seems that the murderer's plan is spotless, but in fact there are many doubts. First, I think that the murderer and the deceased female Zhang Xiumei were acquaintances or even had an affair. This is because the deceased disguised her bed before her death.
It can be seen from the way she slept that her staying out all night before her death was not an accident, but she had been prepared for it. Is this the first time she stayed out at night?"
"Secondly, the deceased woman came from a rural area and her income was not high. What does it mean that she owned a CD player? I think it is very likely that it was given to her by the murderer."
"There is another crucial point. I don't know if the police have noticed that among Zhang Xiumei's belongings there are drum discs and drum tapes... This kind of music is obviously not what a female textile worker likes to appreciate. This may be
The items left by the murderer at the deceased's place. At the very least, they are closely related to the deceased. Therefore, the police should investigate the deceased woman's relationships in various aspects in the past six months, and not be limited to her circle of acquaintances..."
"As far as I know, there is only one place in our city that sells dakou music, which is the cultural market at the east gate of Haidadong. That is also where dakou music lovers often gather. The circle is not big, and everyone should know each other...
...I think the police can start from this aspect and dig deeper, and they will definitely dig out important clues!"
"Now let's go back and talk about the murderer. Because of his superb anatomy skills, this gives us the illusion that the murderer's profession must be related to a doctor or a butcher. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. Whoever says he can kill pigs is
It must be a butcher?" At this point, Zhou Nan laughed, but the members of the task force, experts from the provincial department and others present did not laugh, and listened carefully to what Zhou Nan was going to say.
With just a few words from such a young man who didn't understand criminal investigation, he pointed directly to the crux of the case and suggested several key breakthroughs, which brought a glimmer of light to the deadlocked investigation of the case.
Xing Qiang, the deputy captain of the criminal police detachment, looked at Zhou Nan in surprise, thinking that this guy is not simple. His analysis and reasoning are succinct and he points to the crux of the problem. These are the things they have ignored.
"Taken together, I guess and judge that the murderer's age should be between 28 and 40 years old, because he completed the murder and dissection process in just a few hours, without sufficient time and energy.
It is impossible to have extraordinary physical strength, but because his economic conditions are relatively good, he cannot be too young; he has received higher education, has a higher cultural quality, and has a relatively petty bourgeois sentiment. This can be seen from his liking for oral music...
If we follow these clues, we might be able to dig out the traces of the murderer."
After Zhou Nan finished speaking, he smiled again and said, "That's all I have to say. I'll share some personal opinions and ask for criticism and correction from leaders and experts."
Zhou Nan slowly sat down, and after a brief moment of silence, thunderous applause erupted from the court.
Zhou Ningyu glanced at his son with excitement, and a look of pride and pride appeared on his face involuntarily. No parent does not want his son to have a future, and now for Zhou Ningyu, his son is not a future, but a future.
So promising...
Where did he come up with these twists and turns? Is there anything he doesn't understand? Such a strange thought suddenly came to Zhou Ningyu's mind.
Liu Xiangdong also reservedly applauded along with the crowd, glanced at Zhou Nan with approval, turned to Zhou Ningyu beside him, smiled and asked, "This young man is very insightful and his analysis is very reasonable. I think you should pay attention to him."
You’re right, which unit is he from?”
Hearing Secretary Liu ask about his son, Zhou Ningyu smiled and before he could say anything, Li Xincheng, the deputy director of the Haidu City Public Security Bureau, took over and interrupted with a smile, "Secretary Liu, you don't know yet, this young man
It is Zhou Nan, the son of Comrade Ning Yu, who is a top student at Guanghua School of Management at Beijing University and works at Haidu Petroleum and Gas Corporation."
"Oh? Comrade Ning Yu's son?! Yes, yes, it's true that the son of a mouse is born to be able to dig holes, and the son of a policeman is able to solve crimes. This is understandable, haha!" Liu Xiangdong's clear voice echoed in the room.
In the conference room, everyone was smiling and looking at Zhou Nan with something more in their eyes.
"The son of a policeman can solve crimes" or "Great Detective Zhou Nan" is just a joke, but because of this, the young man Zhou Nan left a deep impression on Liu Xiangdong. And this is exactly what Zhou Nan needs.