Chapter 24: Murder before the Spring Festival

The money won by Lu Dabiao was taken away by Cheng Liping. It was snowing today, and Cheng Liping was wearing a black down jacket with a thin sweater that imitated wool. Tie the sweater with a belt to form a natural pocket, and Lu Dabiao's more than 200,000 yuan was easily taken away by Cheng Liping. There is no monitoring in the residential area, and Cheng Liping is deliberately taking a remote route, unless Lu Dabiao pulls Cheng Liping hard, no one can find effective clues.

Sitting on the bed, Cheng Liping looked at these tempting banknotes and made a difficulty. It's a bit unrealistic to save, because a poor bastard suddenly goes to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, doesn't he tell Lu Dabiao clearly: It's me who beat you, and I took the money, and I don't accept you to bite me. It's not appropriate to put it in this dilapidated house, in case someone is patronized one day, there is no place to cry. As for temporarily handing it over to his parents for safekeeping, Cheng Liping didn't think about it at all, the second elder has always been worried that Cheng Liping will go to Lu Dabiao, if he knew that the matter was so big, he would faint on the spot.

After thinking about it for a long time, Cheng Liping finally came up with a way. I took a plastic sheet, wrapped the money tightly, and went to dig a hole next to the pond. It was first padded with a few bricks, the money was put in it, the dirt was covered, and finally a pile of snow was sprinkled on top and smoothed with a broom. The place where the money is buried is not marked in any way, anyway, there are special references, Cheng Liping is not afraid that he can't remember it.

Taking advantage of the New Year, Cheng Liping was afraid that his parents would not be busy, so he also returned to the thermoelectric home community to help. The situation is similar to what my mother said, in the days before the Chinese New Year, the business is better, and the daily turnover is as much as 3,000 yuan. After deducting costs, the net profit is more than 1,000 yuan per day.

Cheng Liping smiled: "It would be nice to be like this all year round." ”

My mother also smiled and said, "That's 20,000 or 30,000 a month, but it's amazing." ”

Indeed, although the housing prices in Licheng have approached the 8,000 mark, the per capita income has not yet risen, and it is still at the level of 2,600 yuan. Even for the working class, the average income is only worth more than 3,500 yuan. earning twenty or thirty thousand yuan a month, it is the top in Licheng, as far as Cheng Liping knows, none of these peers from Chengjia Village can do it.

No, maybe there is one.

Thinking of this person, Cheng Liping's mood was a little heavy. Since Du Deyong told him about Cheng Hongbin's abnormal situation, he would call the phone number Yaya gave him almost every day, but until now, he has not been able to call once. Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, according to the customs of Licheng, incense is to be burned to worship the dead relatives, will Cheng Hongbin come back to see his father's tomb?

Cheng Liping knows Cheng Hongbin, although everyone thinks that Cheng Hongbin has changed, but Cheng Liping knows that he is a filial son. Old Uncle Cheng died very aggrieved, and with Cheng Hongbin's temperament, it was impossible for him not to come back. Once he returns, the Licheng police are likely to take arrest action, will they help Cheng Hongbin, or sit idly by?

This is a difficult question to solve. If you don't help Cheng Hongbin, Cheng Liping will feel guilty. Helping Cheng Hongbin is tantamount to going against the police, and the consequences are not something Cheng Liping can bear. Since he was in a dilemma, he simply didn't think about it, Cheng Liping secretly reminded himself that the New Year was coming soon, and the only task this year was to spend the New Year with his parents.

On the morning of the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, before dawn, Du Deyong's phone call suddenly came in. Cheng Liping got up, I don't know if the weather was too cold or I realized something, I shivered.

"Something's wrong." Du Deyong's tone was a little strange.

Cheng Liping took a breath and quickly rubbed his face to sober himself up: "What happened, is Hongbin back?" ”

Du Deyong said: "I don't know. ”

Cheng Liping frowned and asked, "What happened then?" ”

Du Deyong paused for two seconds and said, "Sun Xing is dead." ”

Cheng Liping was startled and didn't know what to say. Sun Xing's identity is extraordinary, although he has stepped down, but after all, he is the former mayor and a former department-level cadre, and his sudden death is not good to cause a big storm.

Cheng Liping quickly put on his coat, walked outside the door and looked at the white fish pond, and said, "How did you die, is there a clue?" ”

He asked very simply, because intuitively, he already knew that Sun Xing had died an unnatural death. Otherwise, there would be no need for Du Deyong to call him. Du Deyong's answer really confirmed his judgment: "I was killed, and the scene of death is related to you, in Chengjia Village." ”

From these simple conversations, Cheng Liping came to another conclusion that the object of the police's suspicion was Cheng Hongbin. Not only the police, but Cheng Liping also thinks so, the original demolition operation was commanded by Sun Xing on the spot, Cheng Hongbin is likely to regard him as the first murderer of his father, so he sneaked back to Licheng to wait for revenge. After leaving the company, Sun Xing no longer had so many followers around him, and it was easy to find an opportunity to start. When Cheng Liping saw the photos of the death scene, he strengthened his judgment. Because the place of Sun Xing's death is not far away, it is in the small alley between his home and Cheng Hongbin's house.

Walk five meters north along the small alley, which is the cellar where Cheng Hongbin was hiding. Now that Chengjia Village has been bulldozed, there are concrete and steel bars used for construction everywhere, and those who can accurately find that small alley on the unrecognizable construction site are either Cheng Liping or Cheng Hongbin.

In the past few days, Cheng Liping has been helping his parents in the thermal power community, believing that the police have investigated and he has sufficient alibi, so the object of suspicion is locked on Cheng Hongbin.

Cheng Liping was silent for a moment, and asked Du Deyong coldly: "What do you need me to do?" ”

Du Deyong said: "I will send someone to pick you up in a while, you go to the city bureau, this case is now in charge of the city bureau." ”

Cheng Liping had no choice but to agree. He knew why the police asked him for help, just hoping that he would persuade Cheng Hongbin to surrender. However, I can't contact Cheng Hongbin at all, how can I help with this? Even if he contacts Cheng Hongbin, can he watch Cheng Hongbin fall into the legal net with peace of mind?

Cheng Liping is very conflicted, but he can't help but go, if the police find Cheng Hongbin, and he resists stubbornly, he will definitely be killed on the spot. With Cheng Liping present, maybe there is room for relaxation.

When he arrived at the city bureau and saw Wang Dunru and other leaders, Du Deyong saluted in a proper manner, but Cheng Liping was fine, nodded and was done. Wang Dunru was a little unhappy on his face, but he didn't say anything, and introduced the middle-aged police officer next to him to Cheng Liping: "This is Ma Xianzhong, the captain of the criminal police brigade, he is in charge of the case, let's talk about it." ”

Ma Xian was about 40 years old and looked like an old smoking gun, with his index and middle fingers covered in smoke marks. When he opened his mouth to smile, the tooth confirmed it. The killing of the former mayor was not a trivial matter, and after Wang Dunru helped them introduce them, he hurried to the city government to report the situation to Secretary Tan. Ma Xianzhong led Du Deyong and Cheng Liping into the conference room of the Municipal Bureau, ordered someone to open the surveillance video on the construction site, and said: "This is the video near the scene of the incident, Mayor Sun...... The victim was taken hostage, and you see, there was an off-road vehicle behind this pile of steel, and from that point of view, only a section of the body could be seen...... There were three people out of the car, and the one in the middle was the victim, and if there were still people driving, we speculated that there were at least three or four murderers. ”

Several police officers with flowers on their shoulders kept writing down in their notebooks, and Du Deyong sat next to Cheng Liping, smiling wryly and shaking his head.

After introducing the surveillance video, Ma Xianzhong sat back on the main seat and said: "According to the summary and analysis of the available information, we believe that the suspect is Cheng Hongbin, a villager from Chengjia Village. According to local custom, Cheng Hongbin had to burn incense and kowtow to his father before the Chinese New Year's Eve, so he and his accomplices should still be hiding in the city. I have already sent someone to pick up his mother and sister in the provincial capital, and I expect to be back in the afternoon. After saying this, Ma Xianzhong's face turned to Cheng Liping and said: "You and Cheng Hongbin grew up together since childhood, and the relationship is relatively good, if you can wait for Cheng Hongbin in the cemetery, try to assist our police work and persuade him to surrender." ”

Cheng Liping nodded and did not speak. After having some breakfast in the canteen of the Municipal Bureau, Cheng Liping called his mother and said that his old friend had come to Licheng and he would play with him for two days.

Du Deyong stood in the small garden, stepping on the snow on the ground, sighed, and said: "In the past, when Director Du was in office, he tried every possible way to transfer the city bureau, but now that he has gone to the CPPCC, I am not used to this place. ”

Cheng Liping took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Du Deyong.

"Magpie again, can you raise your grade a little." Du De never said satisfied. Having said that, he still took a beautiful puff.

Cheng Liping also lit a cigarette and deliberately asked, "Which Director Du?" ”

"Du Dezhong, the former director of the city bureau." Du Deyong said.

Cheng Liping smiled: "It's your brother, no wonder." ”

Du Deyong pursed his lips and said, "No wonder, I'm a year older than him." But ah, the two of us really don't matter. He is local, from my hometown of Fuquan. ”

Cheng Liping was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "It's not your brother, what do you feel about?" ”

Du Deyong dusted off his cigarette ash and said, "I feel that there is no talent in the city bureau." You look at Captain Ma's performance, it's all nonsense, and the situation in the monitoring is understandable to everyone, where to use him to explain. After talking for half an hour, in the end, it was not a sentence for you to persuade you to surrender. ”

Cheng Liping smiled helplessly and didn't say a word.

Du Deyong frowned and said, "Actually, there are several obvious suspicious points in this case, if Director Du leads the team, it will definitely be discovered." ”

Cheng Liping let out a meaningful "oh" and looked at Du Deyong.

Du Deyong waved his hand and said, "Think about it, if I were Cheng Hongbin, since I was determined to seek revenge on Sun Xing, why would I still hide my identity?" What does it matter if Dafang leaks his face out and lets the camera capture it? Besides, the internal report of the police said that Cheng Hongbin's gang had a very lethal gun, why did they go to the trouble of strangling the victim with a rope, and wouldn't it be more relieving to shoot the head directly? Also, Cheng Hongbin didn't do it early or late, he had to wait until he was going to worship his father, didn't he obviously want the police to arrest him, so how could he burn incense and kowtow to his father? ”

After saying this in one breath, Du Deyong seemed to feel a little more comfortable, and without waiting for Cheng Liping to answer, Du Deyong complained again: "Captain Ma used to be engaged in political work, and he didn't know what to do in criminal investigation work, if Du Ju can come back to preside over the overall situation, there is hope that this case will be solved." ”

Cheng Liping smiled slightly and said, "You're not bad, Du Suo." Since you can see so many suspicious points, you can't solve this case. ”

Du Deyong's rare face turned red, and said: "I'm only from the police station in the jurisdiction, and I didn't participate in this case, and it's enough to save face." Speaking of this, Du Deyong came back to his senses and asked in surprise: "Hey, no, you weren't surprised at all when you heard me say this?" ”

Cheng Liping smiled insincerely, and said, "I'm just a flat-headed person. When I saw Cheng Hongbin, I opened my mouth to say something, I couldn't see Cheng Hongbin, this matter has nothing to do with me, I was surprised. ”

Du Deyong stared at Cheng Liping's eyes, as if he wanted to see through his heart, but Cheng Liping's face was calm and watery, and there was nothing unusual.

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