Chapter 31: Death Scene 1

Chapter 31: Death Scene 1

Chapter 31 The First Death Scene
With the financial resources of Wang Xiaocui's family, they can definitely afford a car.

However, because Li Cheng married into Wang Xiaocui's family, the car worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, which was originally intended as a dowry, was also driven away by Wang Xiaocui's brother.

The three members of the task force guessed that Li Cheng definitely had some resentment towards his brother-in-law's behavior of monopolizing things.

Wang Xiaocui knew it in her heart, but she thought there was nothing unreasonable about it... On one side was her own brother, and on the other side was her husband who was becoming more and more decadent due to alcoholism and smoking.

Li Cheng no longer has the glory he had when he first came to Baxia Village. At that time, he was a village official and a teacher at the town’s junior high school - a school run by a tiled house that was not much bigger than his current home, and the rate of admission to higher education was almost zero.

A college student village official from the city was still a rare talent in that era, and Li Cheng was also good-looking when he was young, so Wang Xiaocui liked Li Cheng at that time. But now this feeling has long been erased, and is only imprisoned by marriage and children.

She complained to the task force members, saying that if her husband had complaints, he could just earn money to buy a car. Her car was driven by her brother who had loved her since childhood, so why should he be angry? After all, they were all family.

Xu Yiqing and Zhou Shi looked at each other, as if asking whether such a mentality was reasonable... They were also married people, but they did not understand Wang Xiaocui's thoughts at all.

Zhou Shi shrugged quietly, indicating that when a woman no longer loves a man, she has a thousand reasons to please him, and it's not about money at all.

Du Yu asked: "So your brother has been driving your car all along? Where is your brother now?"

Wang Xiaocui wiped her tears and nodded: "My brother went back on the third day of the New Year. He is working on a construction site outside and said that the work must start on the fifth day of the New Year."

Du Yu took out the file he had sorted out last night, which contained records of the deceased Li Cheng's interpersonal relationships. He turned to the column about his wife Wang Xiaocui's direct bloodline and it was indeed written that Wang Xiaocui's brother was a small contractor who worked away from home all year round.

Du Yu asked again: "Since you don't have a car at home, what are these wheel tracks?"

Wang Xiaocui shook her head: "I don't know! Is it from a fire truck?"

Du Yu carefully observed the wheel tracks again, wiped them with his fingers, and twisted them: "There is snow on the wheel tracks."

Xu Yiqing thought for a moment and said, "The last snow was yesterday morning."

At that time, he and Lin Sheng were waiting for Du Yu in the restaurant, and saw Zhou Shi who had just returned. It was snowing heavily outside the window, and Lin Sheng was also impressed that it snowed so heavily after the Chinese New Year.

This means that the tire tracks were from at least yesterday, and the fire truck came to the village because it snowed.

Du Yu asked the police officer next to him: "When did the snow fall yesterday?"

The police officer replied: "It was early yesterday morning and ended at noon."

That is to say, there was no snow the night before the incident and after the fire.

Therefore, the tire tracks that appeared next to Li Cheng's house could not have been left by a fire truck or a police car.

At this moment, Wang Xiaocui suddenly realized: "It's possible that the car was driven by those friends who came to drink the night before last."

Zhou Shi wondered: "Is it necessary for people from the same village to drive?"

Wang Xiaocui explained: "Not necessarily in the village. My husband knows a middleman who sells fish and specializes in delivering fish to restaurants. It was him who called my husband yesterday. He said he had just received a large order and would be delivering fish to a restaurant the next day. When people have happy events, they want to have a drink to celebrate."

"What's his name?"

"Is his name Liu Zhu? We all call him Zhuzi."

Xu Yiqing flipped through the autopsy report, flipped through it once, then went back to read it again, and then said, "It should be this person. The household registration checked by the police showed that his name was Liu Zhu, and Zhu and Zhu are homophones. The deceased No. 6 was one of the two people who died in the main house."

"Let me see." Du Yu came over: "Liu Zhu, age 41, widowed, no children. There is a credit card debt and a car loan in the credit report."

After reading it, he asked Wang Xiaocui: "Where does Liu Zhu live?"

Wang Xiaocui said, "It's the first one at the west end of the village."

The task force came from the east of the village. Liu Zhuhua's son lived there, and the village boundary marker was also there...if that dilapidated house could be called a residence.

The three members of the special task force and the criminal police of the serious crime team went to Liu Zhu's home. Behind his house was a dead pond with no water. It was the middle of winter, and the pond was surrounded by dried-up groves.

Liu Zhu planted those trees ten years ago, thinking that planting trees would make him rich. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago, and the second best time is now. Liu Zhu obviously has some economic sense.

But he didn't know that planting and cutting down trees yourself is sometimes illegal.

After turning around a large locust tree with only dead branches left, the group arrived at Liu Zhu's house.

It was a very ordinary rural courtyard. The house was already old, and it was obvious that it was a red-tiled house left by the ancestors. Liu Zhu reinforced the outer perimeter of the house and built a garage.

Du Yu was walking when he suddenly raised his hand.

The criminal police and Xu Yiqing stopped in tacit understanding. Only Zhou Shi, who was transferred back from another place, was a little slow in reacting.

That's a very professional "stop moving" gesture.

Du Yu was a member of the armed police when he was young, and then he returned to the local police force. "What's wrong?" Xu Yiqing asked in a low voice.

The detective next to him even put his hand on the holster at his waist.

Du Yu pointed to the ground and said, "Don't be nervous. I'm just afraid of leaving footprints."

Then everyone discovered that there were some faint ruts in the mud in front of them.

Xu Yiqing squatted down and observed for a while, then said confidently: "It is the same pattern as the tire tracks near the fire scene just now, and there is snow on the tracks."

Zhou Shi said: "This shows that the two tracks appeared at least before the snow fell... that is, the night before the fire."

Du Yu nodded: "A car appeared in two places at the same time, and there was no such car at the fire scene, which means that Liu Zhu's car first stopped at Li Cheng's house, and then drove here."

Everyone followed Du Yu's gaze and saw that the faint tire tracks extended all the way to the garage door next to Liu Zhu's house.

His garage had a rolling door, which was now closed with a note taped to the white door.

"No one is home, if you are interested, please call: 1XXXXXXX"

The three members of the task force were almost suffering from PTSD. When they saw the transparent tape and the note, they were reminded of the note to Li Dusheng and the note found at Liu Zhuhua's residence.

And then think of [accomplice].

Careful Zhou Shi stepped forward and took a look at the transparent tape used to stick the note. "The transparent tape is very new, and there are fingerprints on it."

"If there are fingerprints, then it shouldn't be him." Du Yu shook his head: "The [accomplice] is very careful and would not leave such obvious evidence."

Then he took out his cell phone and dialed the number above.

Now no direction of investigation can be missed. While making a phone call, Du Yu asked the criminal police next to him to notify his logistics colleagues to check the phone.

After ringing for a long time, the call was connected.

"Hello, Zhiyuan Used Car, what can I do for you?"

Du Yu pressed the speaker button and continued to speak amid everyone's puzzled looks: "Hello, I called you after seeing the note you posted at Liu Zhu's home in Baxia Village."

"Baxia Village... Oh, what's your relationship with the person who called me the night before last?"

"The person who called you the night before last?"

"Yes, someone from your village called me the night before yesterday and said they wanted to sell a car, and asked me to pick it up the next day. But when I got there, no one was home! Oh, and was there a fire in your village? I heard that seven people were burned to death!"

The Internet is too developed now. Whenever something happens, the way to spread it faster than reporters is through WeChat Moments, followed by various media and marketing accounts.

It is very difficult to block the news, and blocking the news also puts a lot of pressure on the leaders. Du Yu was not surprised at all that the news of the fire spread.

"It's okay." Du Yu said, "I'm a policeman. Someone will contact you later. Please keep your phone turned on and the call is open."

"Hey, what...police? We..."

Ignoring the other party, Du Yu hung up the phone and took a deep breath and said, "Liu Zhu wants to sell a car."

Du Yu was not worried that the other party would cheat him. In today's society, as long as your phone number is found, it is equivalent to finding out all your personal information.

Within half an hour, the logistics police will retrieve the other party's information. As long as he is in Jiangcheng, the field police will visit him in an hour.

By then, it will be clear whether what he said is true or false.

Xu Yiqing said: "Liu Zhu had a drink and suddenly wanted to sell the car. This is totally unreasonable."

Zhou Shi also said: "The dealer who bought the car the next day did not contact Liu Zhu...so the car should still be in the garage."

Du Yu waved to several criminal police colleagues nearby, and they decided to break down the rolling door.

A layer of iron sheet could not stop the strength of these martial artists, so waves of harsh sounds of metal deformation echoed in Baxia Village in the early morning.

Soon the rolling door was opened.

After seeing Liu Zhu's car clearly, Xu Yiqing's pupils shrank.

"I think we've found it," he said. "Liu Zhuhua's first death scene."

A box refrigerated truck for transporting aquatic products is parked in the garage.

(End of this chapter)