Early the next morning.

All of a sudden, the courtyard of the research institute became very lively, completely breaking the original peace.

Meng Biao's family insisted on driving over to see the scene for themselves, and heard that there was also a working criminal investigator among their relatives, so that the matter became complicated from what was thought to be a simple drowning case at the beginning, but this was exactly what the Beiting detectives intended.

They also believe that things are far from being as simple as they seem, and that a life cannot be passed away inexplicably and farther and farther away from the truth.

Relatives gathered around the fish pond, most of them were just sad and sobbing, only a capable man in his thirties was busy with the front and back, it seemed that he was investigating the scene, this person was Meng Biao's distant relative Meng Zhuangquan, his other identity is the small leader of the criminal police team.

He is analyzing the case with several colleagues in the city bureau, and does not show too much sadness, Liu Yi did not appear today, and still arranged for the director of the security office of the institute to accompany him, mainly considering that the emotions of relatives are now very unstable, in order to avoid intensifying the conflict, the institute agreed that Mr. Liu should postpone his appearance, the matter has come to this point, and only by taking formal legal channels can the problem be solved.

Since the relatives have asked for their own investigation, and it is only suspicious, it is not too late to wait for what they have come to a conclusion.

Chen Tianyu and his entourage did not participate in their investigation, including Xu Jingnan, a primary school policeman, who was not qualified to meddle in this kind of case, and everyone just stood aside from a distance to observe the progress of the investigation at the scene.

The Beiting team is naturally interested, and they are also waiting for the right time, now it is the home of the municipal bureau case-handling personnel, among whom there are many professionals and technical experts present, and they do not need their help, but Meng Zhuangquan seems to be a little wary of the identities of several of them, and he does not know what their purpose is in coming to the scene. In the end, Xu Jingnan walked over and briefly explained, this time he did not mention Li Yiting's identity as the director, after all, these people in front of him are the official case-handling personnel of the state, Meng Zhuang did not speak, his cold face showed a trace of disdain, but this flash of expression could not escape Li Yiting's eyes.

Therefore, the Beiting detectives have always silently remained on the sidelines.

This extremely detailed and emotional on-site investigation lasted for six or seven hours, and the comrades of the city bureau did not find too many clues beyond Li Yiting's grasp, but they had also found that the weeds opposite the bungalow had a lodging shape and some white scratches.

In other words, these traces cannot be formed in the past few days, but this cannot be completely used as evidence that Meng Biao did not fall into the water, and it is also necessary to conduct peripheral investigations and be supported by other direct evidence.

The confessions of eyewitnesses are naturally an important link, but the isolation transcript of the two chef witnesses does not provide more valuable information, and the confessions of the two are relatively consistent, and it is obvious that they are indeed just reporters, and now the police are gradually turning their attention to the residents in the bungalow.

The people in the bungalow were quickly summoned to the living room of the small building in the middle, the living room furnishings were relatively ordinary, that is, the layout of the daily farm yard, two hardwood sofas, a coffee table, on which were placed ordinary tea sets and simple tea boxes as ashtrays, a total of four people, three men and one woman, and another worker who was present at that time went to work today.

Before taking the record, the investigators briefly inquired about the situation, and all four of them said that they had no idea, and only went out to join in the fun when they heard a loud movement at dawn, and none of them provided any clues about witnessing or hearing unusual noises.

The investigation was at an impasse for a while.

Meng Zhuangquan had a brief discussion with Ma Tao, the head of the city bureau, and felt that it was necessary to investigate the situation in the bungalow, and the deputy captain was a little hesitant, although this is normal, but there are still some legal scruples about searching private houses, even if it is only a survey without a formal search warrant, but there is no evidence to support that this incident is related to the residents in the bungalow.

Meng Zhuangquan was a little annoyed, he angrily reprimanded this former subordinate a few words, probably criticizing him for being too cautious and timid, in the case of unclear circumstances, anyone should be suspicious, not to mention that these people lived on the edge of the fish pond on the night of the incident, and it was impossible not to feel anything abnormal.

Ma Tao didn't dare to object again, but just said that he tried not to disturb the people, and Meng Zhuangquan responded coldly.

Two of the three men in the house are temporary workers of the 6914 factory, named Xu He and Zhu Yiming, who are about 50 years old, and the other is a young man who is Pan Chunxi, an accountant of a construction and decoration company, and the beautiful woman named Jiang Ru claimed to have come to the local area to run relatives to live with her cousin temporarily.

There is also a worker named Hu Zhong who went to work today, and he will come back for dinner around noon.

Several workers looked as usual, but Jiang Ru's expression attracted the attention of the case-handling personnel, especially Jiang Ru's appearance and conditions made them a little surprised, so Ma Tao first asked Jiang Ru how long he had lived here, Jiang Ru said at first that it was less than a month, and then said that it was almost three months, and for some reason he looked a little nervous.

Ma Tao said in his mouth, don't be nervous, think about it and then answer, but there are still some doubts in his heart, a beautiful woman living with four men in such a remote place will inevitably make people feel confused, and even think about it.

He casually asked, "What does your relative do, and what is his name?"

Jiang Ru was suddenly a little flustered, and she didn't answer for a long time.

Seeing this, Pan Chunxi on the side hurriedly answered: "She is our boss's cousin, and she is planning to go back to her hometown these days, and some things have been delayed." ”

The word cousin accidentally touched Ma Tao's sensitive nerves, and he immediately asked: "Who is your boss? Aren't you workers from Factory 6914, how can you live here?"

Pan Chunxi nodded: "Except for me, they are all old employees of the company, and our boss is in charge of the factory outsourcing project, surnamed Wen, in fact, he also works for the factory and the research institute." ”

Ma Tao didn't let go: "Do things, do things?"

Pan Chunxi said: "I mainly do finance, several of them are mainly engaged in interior decoration, and some dirty manual work, although they are all odd jobs, but they have been working with the boss for many years, and the leaders of the institute take care of us, so let us live in this courtyard." ”

Ma Tao nodded, and he asked a more important question: "Does your boss live here?"

Pan Chunxi hurriedly shook his head and said, "How can our boss live here, the conditions are too poor." After thinking about it, he hurriedly added: "Occasionally, I will come to stay for a day or two, mainly to arrange work for us." ”

"Where is he now?" Ma Tao asked.

There was a fatal accident at the door of his house, and it seems that this Boss Wen should not have heard of it.

Pan Chunxi said: "He said he would come over at noon." ”

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Li Yiting and Chen Tianyu stood on the edge of the fish pond, and found that the calm and clear water in the fish pond is now a little turbid, it seems that the chefs are right, and within a few days after the gate is closed, the sea water in the pond has indeed been polluted, the visibility has been greatly reduced, and the bottom of the pond has long been visible.

The two of them stood together with their hands behind their backs, just watching the crowd of people go about in a hurry, and they didn't move, but the place was not big, and no small movement in each place could escape the ears of the two of them.

When the accountant mentioned Boss Wen, Li Yiting suddenly whispered to Chen Tianyu: "It seems that this is Wen Jiulin's backyard." ”

Chen Tianyu naturally understood, he thought silently for a moment, and then said, "Who is this?"

Li Yiting thought about it for a long time before he said: "Typical businessman." Shrewd, sociable, generous and bold, he is definitely a well-fed figure in this area, and almost all the big leaders in Boone have a friendship with him. "He had just had dinner with this Wen Jiulin, at least he was not a stranger, not to mention that he had also paid special attention to the few people he had been in contact with recently.

Chen Tianyu actually joked: "It seems that you haven't been here for a few days, and you have already mastered the characters with faces here." During this time, I have received a lot of benefits from this Boss Wen, right?"

Li Yiting laughed angrily: "I ate a full Han banquet." What, have an idea?"

Chen Tianyu sighed: "I don't have any ideas, just a little envy." ”

Li Yiting scolded with a smile: "Hell, although the dinner is high-end, but the food doesn't know the taste, what is there to envy, but the wine is worth drinking, at least all the gods in the village have appeared." It's just that it's hard for Yongkun, he was completely put down by them, and he was drunk for a day and a night. ”

Chen Tianyu nodded and said, "It's a good way to follow the customs." Before he could finish speaking, for some reason, the group of people by the pond seemed to be in a commotion.

At this time, the face of the director of the security office Qi was slightly red, he did not understand why this Meng Zhuangquan suddenly made a very excessive request, although the relatives of the deceased were police officers, they were very emotional, and they always wanted to make a difference, but they were only cooperating with the investigation, so why should they specifically target and embarrass themselves? At the same time, he also found out that Meng Zhuangquan was not actually a police officer in this city.

The fatal accident occurred in the research institute, and he swallowed his anger and looked at people's faces from beginning to end, and he really had no confidence in his heart, but when Meng Zhuangquan suddenly proposed to drain the water of the fish pond for some reason, he also had an inexplicable anger in his heart.

So he said coldly: "Officer Meng, can it be said that this pond of water can be drained when it is drained? Not to mention the fish fry that have just been invested in more than 100,000 yuan, what is the purpose of draining this water?"

Meng Zhuang said coldly: "You can't let go of any possibility, how Meng Biao was killed, there will definitely be traces at the bottom of the pond, and maybe there is direct evidence." ”

Director Qi was not a complete layman, he asked rhetorically: "Officer Meng, as a case-handling officer, how can you conclude that Meng Biao must have been killed so early." What's more, such a practice of wasting money on the people is just a simple suspicion, and who will compensate for the losses caused by the time come?"

Meng Zhuangquan was obviously also an extremely stubborn person, and he said in a stiff tone: "Director Qi, are you trying to hinder us from handling the case? Everyone would have thought that a strong and strong living person would never fall into the water and drown for no reason. ”

Qi Zhixuan was really angry this time, and he yelled: "Put your * bullshit, if you want to pump water, you can figure it out yourself, don't ask me." As for the loss, it has nothing to do with me, what do you like!"

He had no scruples at this time, and taunted sharply: "Don't forget, we cooperate with this kind of informal investigation to give you enough face, don't deceive people too much." According to the law, you are to avoid suspicion, and you are not qualified to participate in the handling of the case at all. ”

Ma Tao in the room probably heard the noise outside, and hurriedly came out to persuade him, after all, what Director Qi said was not wrong, he could only say politely: "Director Qi, you see if this will work, you can ask your leader for instructions, just say that in the case of trying to avoid losses, our police can't let go of any suspicious points, if there is really no discovery, our police station will bear part of the pumping costs, okay?"

Meng Zhuangquan didn't speak again, but his face was ugly.

Director Qi held back his anger again, in the final analysis, the matter happened in the institute after all, and he had to be somewhat restrained as the on-site representative of the institute, and he could only reluctantly agree to report it.

Then reluctantly walked to the edge of the fish pond and squatted, took out his mobile phone and called Liu Yi.

After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, Mr. Liu's voice was not loud but very resolute.

"If they want to check, they can check, and we will fully cooperate. ”

Director Qi hesitantly reminded: "If the water is really drained, I don't think a single fry will survive." ”

Mr. Liu replied quickly at this time: "What is this loss now, you can arrange manpower according to their requirements, or the same sentence, fully cooperate." ”

Director Qi hung up the phone helplessly.