The chief judge asked, "What's the name of the house across from you?"

Zhou Zuo shook his head and said: "I don't know, it turns out that the house has been empty, I don't know what happened last night, suddenly the lights came on, and there were people making noise inside, when I came back from watching mahjong and saw it." ”

"Are you sure it's not the owner of the house?" the chief inspector was surprised by the sudden appearance of these people, but the initial judgment was that the owner of the house had invited guests.

But Zhou Zuo denied the presiding judge's speculation: "No, I know the owner of the house, but I have never seen these people when I looked through the window." ”

The chief judge was about to suspend the interrogation of Zhou Zuo just now, but when he heard Zhou Zuo talk like this, he seemed to have found a new breakthrough point, if what Zhou Zuo said was the truth, he was not the murderer, then the person who suddenly appeared in the room in front of him was particularly suspicious.

"Okay, we'll send someone to the house to take a look, but until the matter is clarified, you're obligated to cooperate with our investigation. ”

"Okay. ”

The chief examiner suspended the interrogation of Zhou Zuo, but still reported the situation here, his superior was the previous flat-headed policeman, who was still handling the case outside at this time, just near Tongyu Village, according to the description of the chief examiner, he took people to the house opposite Zhou Zuo to check.

The flat-headed policeman led the team to the door of the house, he looked up at the house, and after learning the general layout of the house through the window, he began to break down the door. But because it was night, and there were still residents around, in order not to disturb other people, this time the door was not broken down violently, but a master who picked the lock, and easily entered the house.

The house is indeed as Zhou Zuo said, no one has lived in it for a long time, it has been empty, and almost every corner of the ground, table, and chair has been covered with dust, and it is estimated that no one has lived in it for several years.

Because of the dust, the footprints on the ground were particularly obvious, and they followed the footprints on the ground to the upper floor, which was lively compared to the desolation of the first floor.

There are three rooms upstairs, and the door to the master bedroom is open, and when you walk in, you can see that it is very messy, and the staggered furniture indicates that someone has been here and that there has been a fight.

The flat-headed policeman carefully inspected every corner of the place, and he believed that the more chaotic the place, the more clues would be left.

There is a pool of blood on the ground, the blood has coagulated, according to the degree of coagulation, the time is almost last night, which is almost the same as the time of the crime, but the distance between Huanghua Village and Tongyu Village is a little far, and the murderer cannot fight here and go to Huanghua Village to kill people, but there is also a possibility, that is, Huanghua Village is not the first crime scene, this is the real crime scene, the murderer killed the deceased, and then transferred the body to Huanghua Village.

It is indeed reasonable to think so, but the cause of death of the deceased in Huanghua Village was poisoning, and the blood left here shows that it was a weapon fight, and poisoning is completely two states, one is intense, and the other is moderation, is there a case within a case???

The flat-headed policeman became more and more agitated by the discovery here, and continued his search, where he found a rope on the bed, which, based on how bent the rope was and the state in which it was entangled, he judged that it was used to tie people.

Just as he was holding the rope to scatter his imagination, suddenly another police officer shouted, "Captain, there are bullet holes found here!"

Bullet hole??? the flat-headed policeman immediately came to inspect it, and found that there was indeed a bullet hole in the wall, but there was no bullet left on it, if there were bullets, you could judge what kind of weapon the person who fired the shot used, and without bullets, the range was suddenly much larger. And judging from the bullet hole marks, the bullet was deliberately dug down and taken away.

Shooting, kidnapping, fighting, poisoning...... Combined, these words seem to see a scene full of suspense and dark struggle, and the flat-headed policeman has a hunch that things are definitely not as simple as an ordinary homicide, this homicide is only one of the parts, a bigger play, is being carried out in an orderly manner by the director behind the scenes, this opponent is terrifying!

The flat-headed policeman conducted a careful search of the room again, but found no other updated clues, and he ordered someone to take some valuable clues and bring them back to the bureau for detection analysis and investigation.

At this time, it was already nighttime, and some of the surrounding villagers had fallen asleep, so the Pingtou police decided to close the team first, and wait until tomorrow during the day, it happened that tomorrow was the weekend, and the villagers should not go to work, and come to the nearby villagers tomorrow to conduct interviews and inquiries, collect relevant information as much as possible, get more human and physical evidence, and restore the whole incident.

Pingtou police officer has been in the police force for many years, and he can clearly feel the huge difference in the difficulty of urban investigation and rural investigation, because there are surveillance cameras in almost every corner of the city, and many cases can obtain a lot of information as long as they are investigated and monitored, and even solve the case directly through the surveillance camera.

This Tongyu village is relatively poor and backward, in addition to the entrance to the village there is a monitoring, the village is scattered and scattered, whether it can be used is not known, there is no monitoring, to the case has brought great difficulties, many times only rely on on-site evidence and the villagers' oral description, it is difficult to get accurate information, and it is even possible because of memory errors and the entire direction of the case is deviated, so the task of increasing the monitoring layout of rural areas has become very urgent.

But there is still no way to solve the current difficulties immediately, and the flat-headed police left two people here to watch, and then closed the team and returned to the bureau to sort out and summarize today's actions.

Liu Chen's side, he and Wu Sheng took the beggar Zhang Haiyang to the city to take a bath and get a haircut, put on new clothes, people rely on clothes, and Zhang Haiyang's image and temperament have been greatly improved, just like the sharp brother who became popular on the Internet.

After arranging Zhang Haiyang to stay in a hotel, Liu Chen and Wu Sheng decided to go to Manager Cao's hometown to investigate, trying to start from the family side and see if they could find any clues.

Xiao Xu said that Manager Cao had taken a week off for a week to go back to his hometown to deal with things a month ago, maybe this matter had a lot to do with Manager Cao's work for Hu Bingcheng, with anticipation, Liu Chen and Wu Sheng flew to Manager Cao's hometown.

Manager Cao's hometown is in a village below Shanhe County, Caojia Village. Caojia Village is located in a remote mountainous area, is the only poor village under the provincial capital, there are only about 100 households in the village, mainly surnamed Cao, it is said that Manager Cao was the first college student in their village, and now he drives an Audi car back to his hometown, which is also regarded as a return to his hometown, attracting the attention of the whole village.

Liu Chen and Wu Sheng drove the navigation, because there was no high-speed, they could only take the provincial road, and there was a large section of country roads behind, 40 kilometers away, and they drove for nearly two hours before they came to the destination Caojia Village.

Caojia Village is almost surrounded by mountains, and only this one path connects the village to the outside world, which is relatively closed. At first glance, there are almost no three-storey buildings in the whole village, and there are basically two-storey buildings or bungalows. There is a huge stone tablet at the entrance of the village, the stone tablet is engraved with the big words "Caojia Village", although the village is poor, but just from the name of these seals, the people in this village are still quite arrogant.

Wu Sheng slowly drove the car and walked into the village, according to Qin Si, she had only heard of this place, and had never been there, so she didn't know that the specific house was Manager Cao's home.

While he was slowly searching, there was an old man on the road who was returning from the field with a hoe, and there was still mud on his legs.

Few cars came in the village, and all of them were outsiders, so Liu Chenwusheng and their cars attracted the attention of this old man.

Just to ask for directions, Liu Chen asked Wu Sheng to drive towards the old man, and after getting closer, Liu Chen pulled down the window and poked his head out and asked the old man with a smile: "Uncle, we are here for the first time, we don't know the road, may I ask, which family is the home of Cao Minghui's eldest brother?"

The old man raised his head and looked at Liu Chen, and asked rhetorically, "Cao Minghui, are you looking for Ah Hui's family, you are Ah Hui's friends?"

Liu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, we are his friends, and we want to come to his house to sit down." ”

"Oh, Ah Hui shouldn't be at home, I'll live next door to theirs. The old man put the hoe off his shoulder and waited for Liu Chen to continue to ask.

Liu Chen pursed his lips and thought for a while, then asked, "Then is there anyone else in their family now?"

"There is only one elderly mother in the family, Ah Hui will go back to his hometown every once in a while to accompany his old mother, a very filial child. Speaking of Manager Cao, the old man had a smile in his eyes.

Judging from the impression of this neighbor, Manager Cao's reputation in their village is quite good, and thinking about it this way, it is even more incredible that he can help Hu Bingcheng do things, and there must be some ulterior motives behind it.

"Can you take us to their house, then?"

"Yes, you can. ”

Liu Chen hurriedly beckoned to the uncle: "Uncle, you get in the car, let's go in together." ”

The old man looked down at his body and said embarrassedly: "I'm covered in mud and dirty cars, so I'd better go in." ”

"It's okay, uncle, get in the car. With that, Liu Chen jumped out of the car, opened the car door, personally helped the old man into the car, and then drove towards the village together.

According to the old man's guidance, they soon came to Manager Cao's house, and by the way, they also sent the old man home.

Manager Cao's hometown is one of the few three-story houses in the village, and according to the uncle, Manager Cao changed the family to a new house as soon as he made money, and then bought himself a car.

Liu Chen and Wu Sheng listened to these stories about Manager Cao and couldn't help but be moved by his filial piety.

Afraid that it would not be appropriate for Liu Chen and Wu Sheng to come to the door rashly, they specially asked the old man to take them into the house.