Chapter 10: The Murderer
Wang Chen's figure is slender, thin eyebrows and pointed chin, fair skin, even if he is in his thirties, there are lines at the corners of his eyes, and it is unbearable to cry, most of the neighbors are scolding the deceased Wang Fu, and no one is too harsh on Wang Chen.
Daniel Zhang gave his subordinates a look, and everyone dispersed to ask the people in the crowd who spoke loudly.
Daniel Zhang found the loudest speakers and asked them one by one.
The first is the widow Sun who lives next door to the Wang family. She looks less than forty, has a fat body and a round face, and makes tofu at home.
"If you want to say that Wang Fu, it's really not a thing, the daughter-in-law is so good, and she always beats people, and her hands are not soft at all, when I hear Sister Chen's cry of pain, I can't wait to pick up the stick and help her fight back!" Sun said and waved his hand to make a beating gesture to express his inner anger.
"But this Wang Fu is also good when he is sober, the money at home is willing to be handed over to Sister Chen, when he comes back late at night, if he doesn't drink, he also knows that he is distressed, and he is reluctant to knock on the door to wake up Sister Chen to come and open the door, and he often jumps off the wall and goes home."
"Jumping off the wall?" Daniel Zhang's eyes swept the low wall of the Wang family, pointing to the side facing the street, "Jump the wall from here?" β
"Probably yes, there have been a few times when I got up at night and accidentally saw it, and it was this wall."
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The second, is the boss of Zhou, who opened a grocery store at the mouth of the alley from three houses, thin, with three points of kindness on his face, heard Daniel Zhang ask about foreign wealth, 'sneered', and looked at Wang Chen with his sleeve, "How can there be no foreign wealth!" Wang Fu is just a hunter, and his craftsmanship is not very good, how many years have not seen him play any big things back, a few years ago I don't know how, suddenly like his name, rich, every day there is meat, there is wine, clothes pick up good materials, daughter-in-law also has a hairpin on her head, said that there is no foreign wealth, who believes it! β
Boss Zhou said and looked left and right, lowered his voice and said to Daniel Zhang, "Someone saw Wang Fu sneakily carrying things to the pawnshop, it must be that he got some kind of unjust wealth when he was hunting in the mountains......
He said while making eye contact with Daniel Zhang, his face full of hints that 'deep mountains and old forests, Wang Fu had sought wealth and killed people'.
Daniel Zhang asked, "Who saw this?" Who knows? β
Boss Zhou shook his head, "I can't say who saw it, don't make trouble...... But none of the neighbors don't know about this matter, Daniel Zhang definitely has foreign wealth, there are quite a few of them, and there are many red eyes! Even if my shop earns a few taels of silver a month, I can't even blush. This Daniel Zhang has not been into the mountains much in the past two years, talking about fur business with people, losing several times, and also having silver turnover, tsk, but I feel sorry for me! This money will be given to me, and I can open a branch in the provincial capital! β
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The third is Boss Lu who is a paper shop at the end of the alley. The body is wide and fat, with a slightly bitter appearance, and he speaks quickly, "Wang Fu, I know him, his father died last year, and he sent things to me here!" But to do our kind of business, people don't like to contact, I don't know what Wang Fu's family was like before, I know that he has a good relationship with a wine girl recently, and often goes to her house to buy wine to drink, you ask other I don't know, where this woman sells wine every day, but I know......"
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The last one is an old man who is over the age of six, and his words are pertinent, "Wang Fu has a bad temper, but his heart is not bad, ten years ago, he also helped an injured stranger to seek medical treatment, and in the end, the stranger died, and he paid for the burial." A man who doesn't have a temper, isn't it good for his daughter-in-law to beat his daughter-in-law? As for money, people have the ability to get money, and it's useless for others to be red-eyed! β
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After that, there were all kinds of voices, some said that Wang Fu saved the nobles in the mountains, some said that Wang Fu recognized the rich godfather, and some said that Wang Fu was favored by the old man and wanted to be recruited as a son-in-law, all kinds of things.
The villagers said that the news they had heard from various sources was mostly hearsay and did not correspond to the facts.
Daniel Zhang secretly thought in his heart, it seems that he has to go to the outskirts of the city to see the wine girl.
"Wang Chen, what do you have to say about your husband's death?" Before leaving, Daniel Zhang asked the deceased's wife.
Wang Chen bowed deeply, "As the third master said, although my husband has some temper, he is very good, although he is good at wine, but the amount of wine is very good, it is impossible to drown in the river, I beg the master to find out the truth and avenge my husband." β
After speaking, she hesitated for a moment, her face turned slightly pale, and she bit her lip, "The day before yesterday, the master of the hunt found out the person who had a dispute with my husband, and that person was the biggest suspect, why didn't the master arrest him and interrogate him carefully?" β
As soon as she spoke, there was immediately a voice in support from the crowd, "Yes, didn't you find a suspicious foreigner!" Outsiders come to our territory to spread wildness, how can they not be cured! β
There is a murder near their home, everyone is in danger, the Wang family is not pleasing to the eye, and even the neighbors are a little strange, if it is a foreigner who does the crime, it means that the neighbors are good, they have nothing to worry about living here, so they naturally have to hug the group and kill the foreigners!
Suddenly, the crowd was excited, and Shen Wansha, who was frightened, shrank his neck.
"It's not me...... I'm not wrong...... If he wants to provoke me, I will hit him a few times, but he is worse than me......" Shen Wansha subconsciously hugged Lu Li's arm.
Lu Li patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay." β
Zhang Meng also comforted him, "What is the case, in the end, it is necessary to speak with evidence, whatever they say, you can rest assured, you are not guilty, my father will definitely be able to catch the real murderer." β
The three of them nested on the side very low-key, thinking that they could spend it safely, they didn't want to be too crowded here, some were more familiar with Daniel Zhang's family, somehow noticed the three, and recognized Daniel Zhang's son Zhang Meng, "It turns out that the little catcher is also here!" β
This person has a loud voice, and everyone looks here when his voice comes out, and even the people next to him take the initiative to make a loophole, and the three of them can't hide.
Zhang Meng smirked at his father embarrassedly, "Daddy......"
Lu Li stroked his forehead and sighed, "Uncle Zhang." β
Before Shen Wansha could speak, Wang Chen suddenly rushed over, grabbed Shen Wansha's clothes and knelt on the ground, shouting at Daniel Zhang, "Master Hunter, this person killed my husband, begging Master Catcher to capture the murderer and avenge my husband-" She said while kowtowing and crying, her forehead and clothes were stained with mud, which was very pitiful.
Daniel Zhang hadn't moved yet, and the people around him were excited, "It turned out to be this person!" "Murderer!" "Killing people at such a young age, how did you teach them at home!" "The people who killed us can't be spared!" "My face is also smeared with ashes, I don't want people to see it!" "It can't be like this without doing bad things! He must have killed Wang Fu! β
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A group of people were eyeing each other, some were rolling up their sleeves and some were looking for weapons, all of them came around this side, Shen Wansha was stupid, where had he ever seen such a scene, these people seemed to be going to eat him alive!
Lu Li shook his hand, walked to the front, protected him behind him, blocked everyone's sight, and sneered, "I understand today, what does it mean to call three people tigers!" β
He put his hands behind his back, his eyebrows raised high, and his eyes shot a cold light, "Human life is at stake, how can you wait for a word!" Wang Fu's life is life, and other lives are not life! Wang Fu's case, what are the facts, there is a verdict made by the government, but you don't believe the government, and you decide to use lynching? You can know that lynching is also guilty! β
His eyebrows were cold, and a few words landed soundly, people looked at him, and then looked at the hunters who were black-faced and ready to show their weapons to maintain order, and they didn't dare to step forward again.
Dare shouted, "You are not a family member of the deceased, how can you stand up casually!" Why are you! β
"I examined the body of the deceased!"
Lu Li narrowed his eyes and quietly glanced at Daniel Zhang.
Daniel Zhang nodded behind him, and the catchers dispersed, running to the best directions and staring at the crowd carefully.
Lu Li took a step forward, "The deceased drowned before his death, with fluid in his abdomen, a hideous expression, and a rather miserable death. There were no fatal injuries around the body, and there were black-purple indentations on the back of the neck. He looked at the crowd and slowly spoke, "At the end of the twenty-second day of the winter month, Wang Fu left home and went out to socialize. The business was happy, the wine was in full swing, and there was an argument with the young master behind me, and the two had a push. Wang Fu didn't want to cause trouble, so he left after a few troubles, and then he might have gone elsewhere to buy wine, or he might go home directly. On the way home, he passed by the river, and drank wine, and his vigilance was not as strong as before, so someone took advantage of this moment to push him into the river, and pressed the back of his neck with a branch in the shape of a 'ya' so that it could not come out of the water, until he drownedββ"
"The crime table is clear, it is an acquaintance who committed the crime, and the murderer is among you!"
Lu Li squinted slightly, looked at the startled Qi Qi took a step back, and looked at the crowd left and right in a panic, "What kind of resentment is it, which has accumulated into a demon for a long time, and let you start?" When Wang Fu fell into the water, did he call your name and scold you...... He wants to swim away, how do you hold him down with a branch to keep him from coming to the surface? He struggled in the water, have you ever felt compassion? Have you ever regretted brutally killing him? β
Lu Li's voice suddenly increased, and he dropped the last bomb, "You know that you have evidence on the deceased!" β
The sound of gasping in the crowd was everywhere, could it be...... Is the murderer really here?
Some of them bowed their heads deeply, some looked left and right, some clenched their fists, and their bodies tensed.
Lu Li looked at Daniel Zhang, nodded to him Daniel Zhang, he exhaled slightly, and his voice was slightly relaxed, "If you stand up and turn yourself in now, the government may be able to open the net, if you wait for the government to find you...... Killing pays for your life, you can think about it. β
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After this time, people have their own thoughts, and no one is holding Shen Wansha anymore anyway.
Shen Wansha patted his chest and gave Lu Li a thumbs up.
Lu Li smiled slightly and looked at Daniel Zhang, Daniel Zhang and the catchers had already caught a few people for interrogation.
Daniel Zhang's confession scene today was very large, almost everyone nearby called, this case is an acquaintance temporary crime, the murderer is likely to be here, so Lu Li said the above words, trying to cause psychological pressure on the murderer.
Daniel Zhang and his subordinates stared carefully, and they could always find people with wrong expressions, so maybe they solved the case?
Zhang Meng looked at his father's majesty, stood where he was and refused to leave, Lu Li also wanted to know the follow-up, and pulled Zhang Meng and Shen Wansha to the side to avoid causing trouble to the catchers.
Who knew that the place where he retreated was by the wall of the Wang family...... Lu Li stared at the wall, walking, watching, and even asked Zhang Meng and Shen Wansha to help set him up, so that he could see the top of the wall.
After a while, he touched the soil on the wall, looked at the center of the crowd, and the corners of his lips raised slightly, "I know who the murderer is." β
"Who is it?"
Before Lu Li could answer, Daniel Zhang came over with a big smile, "We asked, Wang Fu's family wealth was given by Miao Fang." β
Lu Li was suddenly stunned, "Miao...... Square? β
The name came out from the tip of the tongue, as if a touch of nostalgia was drawn from the heart, and the head was about to explode, and it hurt.
"Miao...... Fang ......" he covered his forehead and silently recited the name over and over again, "Miao ...... Fang ......"
"Dad, Brother Oak just said that he knows who the murderer is!" Zhang Meng greeted Daniel Zhang happily, not wanting his back to sinkββ
"Rousseau!"
Before Lu Li lost consciousness, he was very anxious when he heard Shen Wansha's call.