Chapter 7: The Secret of Time
"You still haven't told us the truth." Li Jing spoke unhurriedly after listening.
From my point of view, I could see the panic in Mrs. Qin's eyes: "No, that's the truth of the facts, how can I lie about this kind of thing." ”
Li Jing walked up to Mrs. Qin again: "For people of your time, it is a very shameful thing to be bullied and pregnant. But if it's to protect another person, you can compromise anything, can't you? ”
"Me." Mrs. Qin had just said a word when Professor Qin interrupted: "I'm sorry, we don't know anything, and we won't say anything." If you continue to mess around like this, I, we'll really have to leave. ”
"So you don't even have the courage to admit it last?" Li Jing shouted and scolded Professor Qin, "Think about Jin Yuan, because you and your wife, he will carry the burden of his mother being a murderer for the rest of his life. Can you understand how dark his life is after the age of ten? He lived alone, searching for the truth. After the age of ten, he has to live every day mixed with the ridicule of others, contempt and his own confusion, which is just that the two of you want to selfishly save your face. Have you ever felt even a little guilty in the past 20 years? ”
Professor Qin lowered his head, took his wife's hand and wanted to go out, but Teacher Lu, who had not spoken for a long time, stood up and blocked the door: "If you still have a little compassion, stay and tell everyone the truth." ”
"There's no truth." Professor Qin lowered his head and said, still intending to leave.
Li Jing looked at the backs of their husband and wife: "Okay, I'll talk about the things under my body." ”
He walked up to Aunt Wang: "Aunt Wang, I just called you here today to confirm some information with you again, and you are not involved in this case, so you don't have to be nervous." ”
Aunt Wang only recovered from the shock just now, and saw Li Jing's anger, Aunt Wang now has no momentum at the beginning, she nodded: "Say it." ”
"You said before that you heard Jin Fengxia say with your own ears, 'If you don't go, it's too late'?"
"That's right," Aunt Wang nodded.
Li Jing asked again: "Whether Jin Fengxia comes in or goes out, she needs to go through the communication room, right?" ”
Aunt Wang admitted: "The factory usually only opens the front door, and employees can only enter and exit through the front door. The back door is connected to another factory, and we can't get out at all. ”
"At that time, other female workers in your factory also complained to you about being harassed by Xu Zilong, right?"
"Yes." Aunt Wang didn't understand why Li Jing asked yesterday's question again, but seeing that Team Xiao was looking at this, he couldn't say anything further.
Li Jing sat on the chair just now: "Now let me explain why I asked these questions. ”
Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Li Jing.
Li Jingkan attracted everyone's attention, so he stopped selling Guanzi, he opened the small book in his hand: "Why do I repeatedly ask about the communication room, it is because I sorted out all the timelines when I talked to Aunt Wang yesterday." The first sentence that aroused my suspicion was what Jin Fengxia said to the master of the communication room at the door: "If you don't go, it's too late." 'What is she too late to do?' What she said about being too late is definitely not that she didn't have time to turn herself in, but that she didn't have time to help someone make an alibi. When Li Jing said this, he looked at Professor Qin and his wife again. Both bowed their heads.
Team Xiao didn't understand, he frowned and asked Li Jing: "Didn't you say that the murderer is still Jin Fengxia?" ”
Li Jing bowed: "The alibi I am talking about is not an alibi for the murder, but an alibi for touching the corpse." ”
Team Xiao suddenly realized, but I didn't understand at first, and I continued to ask: "What does it mean to touch the corpse?" ”
"Dispose of corpses, confuse the time of death of corpses." Li Jing explained, "The time of the killing was something I figured out later, thanks to talking to Jin Yuan about his mother. Jin Yuan said that Xu Zilong often threatened his mother with him, which means that Xu Zilong basically appeared when Jin Yuan and Jin Fengxia were there, so he had the opportunity to threaten a mother with his child. If there were no children, I don't think Jin Fengxia would be easy to follow. If I'm not mistaken, Jin Fengxia's murder was not 9 a.m. at all, but earlier, when Jin Yuan should not have left home to go to school. If my guess is correct, Xu Zilong's death time should be earlier than 7 o'clock in the morning, that is, the time when Xiao Jinyuan got up. ”
"Why are you so sure?" Teacher Lu asked Li Jing.
"A cocoon on your hand." Li Jing took out the photo in the file bag, "The calluses on his hands are flat. I remember Grandma Li said that Xu Zilong usually has the skill of repairing things. ”
Grandma Li nodded: "That kid usually does rely on this whole little pocket money." ”
Li Jing put away the photo: "Twenty years ago, most people still used two-wheeled transportation such as motorcycles and bicycles, and there should be a lot of people repairing cars during the morning rush hour. If Xu Zilong was killed at 9 o'clock, then he should have died in public, not in his own home. But if she died in her own home, Jin Fengxia Kendong would not have nothing to provoke this man, and at 9 o'clock, Jin Fengxia should start work, under normal circumstances, between 7 o'clock and 8 o'clock, she should also stay with her children for breakfast, and ride to work in the garment factory from 8 o'clock to 9 o'clock. There is no time to commit the crime, if you say that the person who was killed at 9 o'clock, then what caused him to run to the neighbor's house to kill the person after sending the child to school? ”
Everyone was asked, and Professor Qin's back had always been stiff.
Li Jing observed everyone's expressions for a moment before continuing: "If there is no reason, you can only find the answer in the time of killing." I asked Jin Yuan that his mother was not in good health, and it was possible to go home to rest. But the people in the same yard have other female workers working in another factory, Jin Fengxia can tell others that she is sick, and ask others to help him bring a message to ask for leave, or call directly to ask for leave. But Jin Fengxia didn't, so what did Jin Fengxia do between 8 and 10 o'clock? Can you sue me, Professor Qin? Li Jing asked Professor Qin without any tone.
"How would I know." Professor Qin retorted, but the obvious discrimination was not as sufficient as when he reprimanded me just now.
"Then I'll help you remember." Li Jing looked away from Professor Qin's back, "She still went directly to the garment factory." Because Jin Fengxia's murder incident was not 9 o'clock in the morning at all, but 5 o'clock earlier! ”
Professor Qin's and his wife's backs shook.
Li Jing walked behind them: "It happened to be Jin Yuan who reminded me of this. Jin Yuan was sure that he called his mother Jin Fengxia at 9 a.m., but the police found a record of 10 a.m. At first, I really thought that he was misremembering when he was young, but he insisted that he had called his mother during the first recess exercise, so I went to check the call history of the day of the incident 20 years ago, and finally figured out the reason for the time difference. It was really just a small negligence that made the detection of this case go in another direction after all. ”
Li Jing took out a copy of Li Jing's information from the file bag: "Now let's look at this call record." Because of the circumstances of the case, only the phone number of the garment factory was confirmed, but another thing was ignored. At 10 o'clock, the garment department did receive a phone call, and this call was indeed looking for Jin Fengxia. Although I can't find out who called, I am sure that the caller will definitely not be Jin Fengxia's son Jin Yuan, because in the operator's confession at that time, it was written that the caller was looking for Jin Fengxia, and the police had confirmed with her why it was definitely looking for Jin Fengxia's phone, and the operator and the police who visited at the time said that the caller was calling Jin Fengxia's name, and what he said was 'looking for Jin Fengxia'. I think if it is a child, it will not call its parents by their names, and even if they need to mention their parents' names, they will add a title before their names, such as 'my mother Jin Fengxia'. Because of this, I specially checked other call records of that year, and the staff of the telephone bureau of that year gave the police a complete set of call records for the record, and I found this. Li Jing walked up to Mr. Lu and pointed to a record.
After Mr. Lu read it, he muttered to himself: "It's just one number." ”
"Yes," Li Jing nodded, and stood back where he was, "20 years ago, at 9 o'clock in the morning on the day of the incident, Jin Yuan did call his mother. It's just that he dialed the wrong number and called the communication room of the garment factory, and Uncle Qin in the communication room reflexively gave the phone to Jin Fengxia, who was there. So Jin Yuan didn't lie back then, and it was precisely because of this little episode that the phone call at 10 o'clock later happened. You should have been the one who made that call, right? Professor Qin. After Jin Fengxia answered her son's call, she realized that this call had disrupted your original plan, so he quickly called you again. In order to make the plan go smoothly, you decided to take the risk of calling your garment department again at 10 o'clock using the phone of Jinyuan School. Because they are all school phones, as long as the numbers of the two phones can be matched, they can confuse the police's sight and confuse the episode. It's a pity that you didn't plan this emergency thoroughly, and a small title still let me see the clues. In addition, the reason why Jin Fengxia can stay in the communication room all the time is also part of your plan. Old Man Qin is your father. Li Jing's tone rose a little, and he looked at the backs of Professor Qin and his wife for a long time.
"You're right." Professor Qin, who hadn't spoken for a long time, finally spoke.
Professor Qin and his wife slowly turned around, and his face showed a tired color: "After all, it was discovered." ”