According to normal thinking, familiar people are not harmful to themselves. Therefore, after encountering a crime committed by an acquaintance, the person concerned often can't think about it. But in reality, the difference between the proportion of acquaintances and strangers is not as great as imagined. In fact, acquaintance crime is a common crime. Even if it happens to you, you don't have to think about it just because the other person is an acquaintance – it's no different from other crimes.

This time, I want to talk about a crime committed by an acquaintance who happened close to me.

On the afternoon of October 19, 2016, Zhou Yong and I were swimming in a health club. When swimming, Zhou Yong's apple watch kept ringing, and after he swam to the shallow water and stopped, he raised his hand and clicked a few times, looking up at me. I said what's wrong. Zhou Yong wiped the water on his face: "Brother Xu, as soon as Ma Bei died, he was already cremated!" ”

Ma Beiyi's death at this time is too coincidental and strange - he owes a lot of money and is still a suspect in a fraud case. And he didn't see his body dead, and when everyone knew that he was dead, only his ashes remained.

He is Zhou Yong's college classmate, and he is also a native of Yanshi, he is very shrewd, and he sold cigarettes in the dormitory building when he was a freshman. At night, after the dormitory door was locked, the students had to buy cigarettes at a high price from him. According to Zhou Yong, he earned his own college tuition.

On September 28, one of Zhou Yong's college classmates was getting married, and Ma Beiyi pulled a chat group and said that the prospective groom asked him to collect the money on his behalf, and asked his classmates to send red envelopes or transfer money to him. Two days later, someone talked about this with a classmate who was going to get married, and the other party was very surprised: "No, I haven't contacted Ma Beiyi for half a year." Then they tried to contact Ma Beiyi, but they couldn't get in touch at all.

After Ma Beiyi lost contact, Zhou Yong's circle of classmates exploded all of a sudden. Because many people think that they have lent money to Ma Beiyi from June to August of that year, including Zhou Yong, he is the one who borrowed the most.

In July, Ma Beiyi asked Zhou Yong for dinner, falsely claimed to be contracting projects in the south, and also sent construction site photos and engineering contracts to Zhou Yong, needed funds, and borrowed 150,000 yuan from Zhou Yong. After the classmates exchanged ideas, they found that he said the same thing to everyone.

I asked Zhou Yong for more photos of the contract, and called the local construction bureau for consultation, and found that the project number on the contract did not exist at all.

Zhou Yong didn't think much about it when he borrowed Ma Bei's money: "This person has always been quite reliable, although he made a lot of crooked money when he was in school, he borrowed money and repaid it quickly." When other classmates saved up to buy a mobile phone, he not only made money to buy an iPho

e, I also bought a mobile phone number with a tail number of 8888 and said that it would appreciate in value. Ma Beiyi in Zhou Yong's address book, the remark is "Ma Jingming".

Ma Beiyi is very popular among his classmates. He is a single-parent family, his mother suffered from uremia last year, and he has no relatives at home, so he relies on donations from his classmates to make up enough money for kidney replacement surgery. Zhou Yong also donated 30,000 yuan at that time, but his mother didn't survive in the end.

But it was later discovered that it was also false. After Ma Beiyi disappeared, several people looked for the instructor at the university and asked for the address of Ma Bei's family. After coming to the door, Ma Beiyi's mother who "died of uremia" opened the door for them, saying that she did not know anything about what Ma Beiyi had done. After the students found out that everything was a fraud, they immediately called the police and filed a case.

As a result, they received a notice from the police today: Ma Beiyi committed suicide - he has been cremated, and only his ashes remain.

Zhou Yong was in no mood to swim, so the two of us climbed ashore together and walked back to the locker room to sit down. Zhou Yong wiped his head and asked me if I thought Ma Beiyi was really dead or faked.

I said, "I'm suspicious of this kind of thing." A few days ago, I watched the news that a student committed suicide after borrowing money and not paying it back, and he was directly left with ashes, and I also think the authenticity is debatable. ”

I asked Zhou Yong for his mobile phone to see the information in his classmates' group. Someone suggested that the ashes be used for DNA testing, and Zhou Yong asked me if I could test them. I said of course not, the heat will burn the ashes to the point of inorganic matter and denature the DNA.

I thought about it and asked Zhou Yong if he could discuss it with his classmates and hand over this matter to us as an agent. "If Ma Beiyi fakes his death, we can help them find out the person, but 10% of the recovered money will be used as an investigation fee."

Zhou Yong sent a message for a while: "They all agreed." ”

At noon the next day, Zhou Yong consulted the university supervisor and found Ma Beiyi's address. The two of us drove to the place, bought two cartons of milk at the convenience store at the entrance of the community, and entered the community.

I went up to the fourth floor and knocked on the door, and someone inside asked us who we were, and Zhou Yong said that it was Ma Beiyi's classmate. A middle-aged woman with glasses and a slightly chubby attitude did not open the door very well: "I came to ask for money again?" Come on in. "It seems that someone has come to the door to ask for debts before, Zhou Yong and I entered the door, sat down on the sofa, and handed the two cartons of milk to Ma Beiyi's mother, her attitude eased a little: "Do you want to eat some oranges?" ”

Zhou Yong and I refused politely and got straight to the point: "Auntie, Beiyi's incident is too sudden, owing so much money, people are suddenly gone, to be honest, we are a little suspicious." ”

Ma Beiyi's mother didn't explain much to us, went into the bedroom and took out a few pieces of paper, put them on the coffee table, and let us read them for ourselves. Zhou Yong and I picked it up and looked at it, and it was three proofs. A medical death certificate, a cremation certificate, and a stub for the certificate of cancellation of household registration at the police station. I took advantage of Ma Beiyi's mother talking to Zhou Yong, and took a picture of all three pieces of paper.

After leaving Mabei's house with Zhou Yong, Zhou Yong took a bottle of water from the car and took a sip: "Brother Xu, is he really dead?" Not only did he have a death certificate, but even his household registration had been cancelled. ”

I said that death certificates are useless, you can do it online for a few hundred dollars, and you can do it if it's real or fake. Moreover, the cancellation of the household registration by the police station is also based on the death certificate and cremation certificate, so it cannot be accurate.

Zhou Yong asked me if I thought he wasn't dead.

I said, "Yes, I don't believe it, his house has to be fifty or sixty square meters." The house price in Yan City is the highest in history this year, although the house is a little old, but according to this location, it can also be sold for three or four million yuan. Ma Beiyi probably owes more than one million yuan - guarding a house of three or four million yuan, can he commit suicide for this million? ”

I decided to start with the cremation certificate to find out whether Ma Beiyi faked his death.

Generally speaking, a real death certificate is easy to handle, but a real cremation certificate is generally not available, and this certificate can only be given if the person is really burned. Moreover, the funeral parlors in Yan City implement the assembly line system, and the process is controlled by a computer system, and everyone will have an exclusive barcode as soon as they enter the funeral parlor - the barcode on the cremation certificate cannot be fake, and the authenticity will be known as soon as it is verified. I secretly took a picture of Ma Beiyi's cremation certificate, also for the barcode that can verify the authenticity of the barcode.

We saw that it was still early, found a copy agency on the side of the road, printed out a screenshot of Ma Beiyi's cremation certificate, and then drove on the highway and went straight to the funeral home.

After getting out of the car, Zhou Yong asked me: "Brother Xu, let's just ask the staff to ask?" ”

I said, "You don't have to ask both of you, you can take the paper printed with the cremation certificate and go to the staff and ask someone to help scan the code to check the authenticity." I looked around to see if there were any clues. ”

After a while, Zhou Yong sent me a message, saying that the barcode was real, and swept out Ma Beiyi's cremation information. I wrote back and said I got it, and asked him to come to me.

Zhou Yong and I walked around the funeral home a few times, but we didn't find anything, and we weren't allowed to enter the cremation room, so the clues were broken here. We both decided to go to the toilet and leave to think of something new.

The two of us urinated in the cubicle of the funeral home's toilet, which was plastered with small advertisements, some selling wreaths and shrouds, and some applying for fake certificates. I suddenly had an idea, and quickly put on my pants and walked out, Zhou Yong was washing his hands, and I patted him on the shoulder.

Zhou Yong pointed to my hand: "Brother Xu, you didn't wash your hands after peeing." ”

I said, "Don't worry about this for now, assuming that Ma Beiyi fakes his death, who do you say helped him get the cremation certificate?" 1. People who are looking for it online; 2. Acquaintances who already know; 3. The people in this funeral home. ”

Zhou Yong thought for a while: "I don't think it can be online, there are too many fake certificates online, and he needs a real certificate." The people I already know are not very reliable, how many people can know who does this? I think he's the guy he's looking for at this funeral home. ”

Zhou Yong and I thought about it together.

I asked Zhou Yong to sneak into the women's bathroom of the funeral home, and went into the cubicle one by one to look at the small advertisements on the wall, and I looked at the cubicle of the men's toilet.

Zhou Yong shouted a few words, made sure that there was no one in the women's toilet, and quickly rushed in to open the doors one by one. In a pile of small advertisements in one of the cubicles of the women's bathroom, he found a line written in black pen - charge d'affaires cremation, telephone: 13 ×××××××××.

Zhou Yong called me: "Brother Xu, I found it." ”

I said, "Hurry up and shoot it, and I won't go in." ”

Looking at the phone number that Zhou Yong took a picture of, I took out my mobile phone and called it with the Internet phone app. There were a few rings, and someone over there answered: "Hello." ”

I said, "Hello, I would like to inquire about the cremation agency business." ”

He said, "Okay, do you have a need for burial in your family?" ”

I said yes.

He said: "We clearly marked the price of 12,000 yuan, and told you that 4,000 yuan was my intermediary fee, and the other 8,000 yuan was divided equally between the corpse transporter and the cremation chemical industry. Give me your identity information to ensure that there is no problem in every link, and you can get the cremation certificate directly. ”

I asked him where the body came from, and he said it would be easy.

"Wheat stalks, corn stalks, quilts, old clothes, and plastic models of human bodies can all be pretended as corpses, and after they are burned, they are all ashes, and they are directly put in urns."

I said, "Are you reliable?" Are there any recent success stories? Don't end up with the old man in the house being found in the ground and let people dig it out. ”

He said, "Don't worry, I just finished my job two weeks ago. ”

I hung up the phone under the pretext of discussing with my family - the cremation date written on Ma Beiyi's cremation certificate was exactly two weeks ago.

Zhou Yong and I went out and got into the car, and Zhou Yong handed me a cigarette: "It seems that Ma Beiyi's grandson is really playing fake death." I nodded, "Just find him." ”

We discussed it for a while and decided to keep an eye on Ma Beiyi's mother.

The next day, we drove over early in the morning and stared at the downstairs in the neighborhood for two days. For the past two days, my mother would go to the farmer's market at 2 p.m. every day to buy vegetables and fruits. Every night at 6:30, I would go downstairs on time and dance the square dance with the aunts and uncles downstairs until 8:30.

After mastering the law of Ma Beiyi's mother's actions, at 6:30 p.m. on the third day, Zhou Yong and I called the private detective Lao Kong, took advantage of Ma Beiyi's mother to dance downstairs, slipped upstairs and unlocked the lock, and asked Lao Kong to install eight pinhole cameras and two listening devices in the living room and bedroom, and debug them.

Before the square dance was over, we quickly withdrew to the car on the side of the road to monitor the situation in real time.

Two days have passed, Ma Beiyi's mother has not had any form of contact with Ma Beiyi, and her daily life is to watch TV and dance. At noon on October 25, a woman knocked on the door and delivered a package.

Zhou Yong asked me to guess if it was Ma Beiyi who came from the mail. I said, "I don't guess, just look at it." ”

Lao Kong is a master of equipment, and the installation of pinhole cameras can basically ensure that there are no dead ends in the living room and bedroom. Therefore, Zhou Yong and I clearly saw that she took out a wad of money from the package, no big bills, all of which were 20 yuan and 10 yuan bills.

Zhou Yong asked me if I could mail RMB?

I said no, RMB is a contraband for express delivery, but it's generally fine if it's mailed. Because there are very few courier companies that check before mailing.

We were discussing whether the money belonged to Ma Beiyi and whether there was any information such as a code on it, when Ma Beiyi's mother put a few wades of money in her bag and went out.

Zhou Yong and I waited for his mother to walk out of the gate of the community and drove up. She walked to the nearby vegetable market, walked around for a while, bought some food, stopped at a fruit stall for a long time, bought a lot of fruit, and then took a taxi away.

I asked Zhou Yong to drive with her, and I ran to the stall where Ma Beiyi's mother had just bought fruit, and took out two 100 yuan tickets: "Sister, can you help me change some change?" It costs ten or twenty dollars. ”

She said yes, took my 100 yuan note and shone it on the light, and then took out the 20 yuan and 10 yuan bills that Ma Beiyi's mother had just used to pay the money.

I took nine twenty dollars and two ten dollars and looked at them carefully and repeatedly, and there were no codes or anything like that. After looking at it for a while, I finally realized that something was wrong. All twenty dollar numbers are the same, and so are two ten-dollar numbers - these eleven coins are all fake!

At this time, Zhou Yong called and said that Ma Beiyi's mother had arrived home and asked if he was going to pick me up.

I said, "Come on, there happens to be a hot pot restaurant next to here, let's have a meal first." ”

After Zhou Yong arrived, the two of us ordered a spicy pot in the store. When I told him that the package of money should be fake, Zhou Yong was surprised and asked me if it was really fake.

I said, "No, the money numbers are the same, and she picks a fruit stand without a money counter to buy things, so that no one will go out of their way to see the authenticity of the small denominations." ”

We all have the inherent impression that a counterfeit banknote must be a big 50 or 100 yuan banknote, and a small denomination banknote cannot be fake, so we will never look at it. In fact, this is not a good behavior, because there are more and more small counterfeit banknotes in the market.

Zhou Yong nodded: "This is too difficult to find, who can notice that the money number is the same." ”

I said, "Not only is it the same number, but this money also sounds a bit problematic." "The sound of genuine money is relatively crisp, the paper of counterfeit money is softer, and its sound is muffled when you play it by hand, and you can hear it when you play it with real money!

There is a question in front of me and Zhou Yong. Did Ma Beiyi's mother buy these counterfeit bills herself, or did someone else give them to her? Does it have anything to do with Ma Beiyi? We decided to keep an eye on her, and when someone delivered her a shipment, we stopped the courier to see if we could find out where the mail was sent from.

On the third day, the female courier who delivered the package last time appeared again, and still sent a package to Ma Beiyi's mother, which was still counterfeit bills of twenty yuan and ten yuan, and after the two said a few words, the female courier went out.

Zhou Yong and I sat in the car, watching her walk out of the community, and just wanted to get out of the car to stop her, but found that she was not riding a courier's delivery car - she was riding a private motorcycle.

Zhou Yong: "Brother Xu, this girl doesn't seem to be delivering couriers." ”

I nodded, "Let's follow." ”

Driving with the girl on the motorcycle, all the way north, almost to the suburbs, the girl stopped the car to refuel. Zhou Yong wondered: "Why didn't she add so many gas stations in the middle, and came here to add them?" ”

I asked him not to think so much about getting out of the car first, asking her for a phone, and telling Zhou Yong to let her take out the phone no matter whether she could get it or not.

Zhou Yong got out of the car and ran to the motorcycle girl, and I also got out of the car and walked around behind them. Zhou Yong took out his mobile phone and said a few words to the girl, and the girl shook her head. Zhou Yong said a few more words, and the girl took out her mobile phone, pressed it a few times, and then put it into her right trouser pocket.

I saw from behind that the password that the girl entered was 3312, and then pretended not to look at the road and bumped into it, took out the mobile phone in the motorcycle girl's trouser pocket, handed it to Zhou Yong behind her back, and apologized to the girl: "I'm so sorry, I didn't see it." She didn't speak, took back her gas card, and rode away.

I asked Zhou Yong how she asked her to take out her phone.

Zhou Yong: "She doesn't give her a phone call, I say then you write down my phone number, call me if you want, just call me if you don't want to - she is embarrassed to refuse." I also asked what this girl's name was, Li Xinran. ”

Motorcycles are easy to be used by criminals because of their convenience

I nodded, this was not necessarily my real name, but I didn't say much, and asked Zhou Yong to hurry up and drive to follow.

In the car, I took out Li Xinran's mobile phone, pressed 3312 to unlock it, and looked through the storage space of her various social software - WeChat has not been used much, there is basically no cache, Weibo does not take up any space, and there are only a few jokers who follow her.

But she uses QQ a lot, occupying more than 1G of storage space, of which more than 700 trillion come from a particularly active group, called "RMB exchange group", I flipped to this group, there are more than 100 unread messages. Click in and see that this girl is still an administrator. After flipping through it for a while, I realized that it seemed to be a counterfeit exchange group. I applied to join the group with an alternate account, and then used Li Xinran's account to be verified.

We followed the motorcycle to a suburban neighborhood and she rode in. This is a closed community, and strange cars are not allowed to enter, but fortunately, Zhou Yong has a friend's family living here. After we entered, we walked around the yard twice and saw the motorcycle in front of the door of a white single-family house.

I got out of the car and threw Li Xinran's mobile phone next to her motorcycle, pretended to have accidentally dropped it, and Zhou Yong wrote down the location of the house, and went home.

That night, I had been researching the counterfeit banknote group called the "RMB Exchange Group". This is not a counterfeit banknote exchange group, this is a counterfeit banknote sales group - there is only one seller in the group, that is, the group owner, and the rest are buyers. Although the members cover all parts of the country, everyone uses "code words" when communicating in the group, which took me two hours to figure out.

Counterfeit money with a face value of 100 yuan is coded as "red bull" or "red goods", a face value of 50 yuan is called "frog", there are 20 yuan of "yellow goods", and 10 yuan of "blue goods". The price of a 100-yuan "red goods" is 15 yuan each, the 50-yuan "frog" is 10 yuan each, the 20-yuan "yellow goods" are 3 yuan, and the 10-yuan "blue goods" are only 5 yuan a piece.

I pulled a very active old group member for a private chat. This person told me that small counterfeit banknotes are now far more popular than large counterfeit banknotes, and the ratio of sales can reach almost 5:1.

According to his words: "Ten yuan, twenty yuan, do it very really, no matter how you spend it, you can get rid of it!" ”

I asked him how the counterfeit banknotes were selling.

He said: "It's a cow, the group can sell more than a million denominations of counterfeit banknotes every day - the group owner has to earn hundreds of thousands a day!" ”

I remembered Li Xinran, who sent counterfeit banknotes to Ma Beiyi's mother: "Are they all special people in charge of transportation?" The fellow made a laughing expression: "Where can it!" How high the cost is, it's all express free shipping. ”

Investigating Ma Beiyi, he found a counterfeit banknote gang, which was quite surprising - millions of counterfeit banknotes are exported every day, and if you can get first-hand information, you will definitely be able to sell them at a good price!

But this did not solve the biggest puzzle between me and Zhou Yong - where did Li Xinran send the counterfeit money to Ma Beiyi's mother come from? We decided to start with this girl.

She sent counterfeit banknotes to Ma Beiyi's mother, and she was the administrator of the counterfeit banknote group, so she must know something.

On the morning of October 27, Zhou Yong and I drove to this community again, wanting to get into her villa and see if we could find any clues.

At around 11 p.m., after Li Xinran rode out on her motorcycle, Zhou Yong and I got out of the car. Zhou Yong: "Brother Xu, what should I do if there is someone in her family?" ”

I said, "Let's ring the doorbell first, Yan City will be heated on the 15th of next month, and the heating will be tested during this time." Let's just say it's the property, check if the heating is leaking. Zhou Yong nodded, and the two of us walked to the door and rang the doorbell, but no one responded for a long time.

Zhou Yong and I walked around the villa, and after confirming that there was no one in the house and no cameras around, we pried open the window of the bathroom on the first floor and slipped in.

The décor of this villa is more European, with a variety of black, gold and brown combinations. The LCD TV on the wall is very clean, and it looks like someone wipes it down often. The entire building is spread over two floors, each with two bedrooms, each with a bathroom.

I asked Zhou Yong to look for evidence on the first floor, and then went up to the second floor lightly. The two bedrooms upstairs were occupied, and the quilts were not folded. I found a few hairs on the washbasin and wooden comb in the bathroom of the two bedrooms, put them in a plastic bag and put them in a plastic bag — these things can be used as proof if I need to verify whether Ma Beiyi is alive through DNA.

After loading my hair, I looked around carefully and noticed that the toilet seat in the toilet was lifted. If only women live in this house, they generally don't open the toilet seat - there may be men in this house.

Immediately afterward, I walked over to the washbasin and looked closely at the toothbrushes hanging on the wall, and found that the bristles of both toothbrushes were damp, and in the trash can in the toilet I found an old freshly discarded razor blade and a pair of socks that had been replaced. After checking upstairs, Zhou Yong happened to check downstairs and told me that the bedrooms downstairs also had traces of people.

I didn't find anything like a computer in the house, so I was a little unwilling, so I asked Zhou Yong to go upstairs and look for it again, and I looked downstairs again to prevent me from missing anything. Zhou Yong nodded, walked upstairs, and stopped at the bend of the stairs between the first and second floors: "Brother Xu." ”

I looked at him, Zhou Yong pointed to the corner of the stairs, and I walked up the stairs to take a closer look - there was a door there, and I didn't notice it at all because the color was too similar to the wallpaper. Between the first and second floors, there is a mezzanine room without windows! I pulled out the partition wall and listened to the door, put on my headphones - there was the sound of someone talking inside, and the sound of the machine humming, probably the sound of the printing press!

I gestured to Zhou Yong and asked him to go out and call the police. There was the sound of a printing press, and the machine for counterfeiting banknotes was probably in this room.

Zhou Yong whispered: "What if you don't be inside, isn't that a false police?" ”

I said, "It's okay, I'll detain you for a few days at most." ”

Zhou Yong nodded, went downstairs and went out of the villa to call the police.

Watching Zhou Yong walk out, I put on my headphones again, and when I wanted to continue to listen to what the people inside were saying, the door suddenly opened. A middle-aged man walked out, and we both startled each other. I turned and ran downstairs, and the man grabbed me from behind and shouted hoarsely, "Someone's coming in!" Come out! ”

I felt a few more arms tugging at me, and when I turned my head, there were three more men in the prime of life, and they grabbed me together, dragged me into the mezzanine room, and closed the door.

I saw that I couldn't run, so I raised my hands and took the initiative to hand over my phone: "Serve, let's have something to say, don't do it." ”

As I spoke, I looked around at the mezzanine room, which was not small, about forty square meters, and the walls were covered with sound-absorbing cotton, which perfectly concealed the sound of the printing press.

Sound-absorbing cotton

Inside the house is an extremely professional counterfeit money processing factory - several computers, large printers, hot stamping machines are placed around, and several female workers are printing counterfeit money on the assembly line. I looked at the finished products piled up on the floor and in the corners of the house, and they looked exactly like real money, almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye.

The middle-aged man who bumped into me came up and kicked me and asked me who I was in non-standard Mandarin. I said I was a debt collector.

He kicked me on the arm again: "I'll go to you, who are you fooling, the debt collection is here, whose debt are you chasing?" "I said Ma Beiyi.

They looked at each other, but neither spoke. The middle-aged man thought for a while and shouted into the corner over there: "Ma Beiyi, do you know this person?" He said he'd take care of your debts! ”

In the corner stood a very thin man. Although it was the first time I saw me, although I was a little thin and out of shape, Zhou Yong showed me a photo of him - this person is Ma Beiyi. Ma Beiyi stood up, looked at me in confusion, and said that he had never seen me.

I said, "I'm Zhou Yong's cousin, don't you know that my brother lent you more than 100,000 yuan?" ”

He nodded and said that Zhou Yong was his classmate, and he did care about Zhou Yong's borrowing money.

The middle-aged man came up and grabbed my hair and asked me if I had called the police, and I asked for the phone to come back and unlock it to show him the call logs, and I didn't call 110.

He asked me again how I found it.

I told you the truth: "I followed a little girl on a motorcycle who delivered a courier to Ma Beiyi's mother. ”

Another person scolded, saying that Li Xinran was exposed, and he was going to call the big guy, and by the way, he asked how to deal with this person, opened the door and walked out. The middle-aged man asked me to go to the corner and squat, and told Ma Beiyi to look at me.

I squatted in the corner, Ma Beiyi walked over, I accosted him, didn't mention Zhou Yong's matter, and pointed to a female worker who was soaking counterfeit banknotes in the water: "What are you doing?" ”

Ma Beiyi glanced at me and said, "She's making counterfeit banknotes old." It is vinegar water, soak it for more than ten minutes and then take it out and dry it, it can be corroded by acid a little bit, and it looks old. As he spoke, he pointed to another female worker next to him and said, "The method she uses is a little more clever than this, and the mild corrosive agent we prepare ourselves makes counterfeit banknotes without acetic acid, and this kind of money is sold for one yuan more each." ”

I took a closer look, and the woman took a white bottle and sprayed it on the counterfeit note a few times, then replaced it with a blue bottle and sprayed it a few more times—the banknote, which was originally brand new, slowly changed color and lost its luster at all, like money that had been used for a long time. Finally, use a hair dryer to dry the counterfeit banknotes.

I asked Ma Beiyi if it was possible to let me go. Ma Beiyi told me not to think about it.

I kept talking to Ma Beiyi and asking him questions. The reason why I did this was to divert his attention and make it easier for me to look around and see if there was a chance to escape—it would be too much to kill me before Zhou Yong brought the police in. Fortunately, he was quite willing to answer my questions.

I pointed to the printer that was printing counterfeit money and asked him what the difference was between it and a regular printer. Ma Beiyi said: "This is a gravure printer, hundreds of thousands of yuan larger, the price is high, but the printed money has a three-dimensional effect, which is most like the real one." ”

I said, "Then did you spend all the money you cheated on your classmates?" ”

Ma Beiyi's mood fluctuated a little: "I didn't want to cheat Zhou Yong out of their money at all!" Originally, I wanted to use this money to buy equipment to print counterfeit money and sell it, and quickly return the money! ”

I was looking at the door, where the middle-aged man who found me was sitting with another person, and the door was locked from the inside - there was little chance of escaping by two people and unscrewing the lock.

Hearing Ma Beiyi's words, I became a little interested.

Ask him, "What about your mother?" You're not a liar, aren't you? You said your mom had uremia, donated for surgery, and then your mom passed away again, but in fact your mom is still alive. ”

Ma Beiyi scolded and said, "What do you say? My mom did get uremia and passed away. ”

He wouldn't lie to me in this situation, but I was still a little unconvinced, and said, "No way, I saw your mother yesterday, and I met you at your house." Forty or fifty years old, a little fat, short hair, wearing glasses, the corners of the mouth are a little drooping, dare you say it's not your mother? ”

Ma Beiyi said: "No. I told you all, my mom is dead, uremia, a year. ”

I said, "I saw with my own eyes, a girl who gave your mother counterfeit bills got out of this villa and rode a motorcycle." ”

Ma Bei nodded: "You said that the girl's name is Li Xinran, and she is my girlfriend." ”

I feel a little chill in my heart, if I have been following and monitoring for many days, going downstairs to dance square dances every day, and showing Ma Beiyi's death certificate to me and Zhou Yong, is not Ma Beiyi's mother, then who is she?

Ma Beiyi looked calm, not the slightest surprise that someone was pretending to be his mother.

I said, "You must know who she is." ”

Ma Beiyi didn't answer my question and asked me if I knew Peng Daxiang.

I know a little. Peng Daxiang is a painter in Shantou and is over 70 years old this year. The reason why he is famous is not because of how good his paintings are, but because he claims to be the "godfather" of China's counterfeit banknote industry. He was arrested by Guangdong police in 2014 and is serving a life sentence in prison. How powerful is this old man? He has hand-painted thirteen sets of master renminbi, and 96.7% of China's counterfeit coins are rubbed using the master renminbi made by Peng Daxiang.

Peng Daxiang is the main culprit in the "803" extraordinarily large counterfeit money case

Ma Beiyi said: "You still know Peng Daxiang, but most people don't know." ”

I said, "I'm more interested in this stuff, that's why I do this kind of debt collection work." ”

Ma Beiyi continued: "The thirteen versions of the RMB mother coin made by Peng Daxiang are all in a face value of 100 yuan. But in fact, before he was arrested, he also made two sets of master renminbi, one version is 20 yuan, and the other version is 10 yuan. ”

I remembered that the best sellers in the counterfeit banknotes group were ten and twenty yuan. Asked him if the two sets of master renminbi were in their hands.

Ma Beiyi said: "Yes, the woman you think is my mother, also surnamed Peng." ”

I asked Ma Beiyi if the woman was Peng Daxiang's junior, and Ma Beiyi said that he didn't know either: "But she is a little related to my girlfriend." ”

I asked him if he had been introduced to this woman through his girlfriend? Ma Beiyi said yes.

After his mother's death, he traveled around for work. When he arrived in Shantou in March this year, he was recruited as a printer at the railway station, so he went with him, only to find out that it was a counterfeit banknote gang. Ma Beiyi quickly learned how to make counterfeit banknotes and *** online, and got a girlfriend in the gang, Li Xinran.

During the small talk, he and his girlfriend revealed his family situation and the death of his mother. Li Xinran told this to his elders, who were also the leader of the gang, a woman surnamed Peng.

The woman surnamed Peng has always been the target of police surveillance in Shantou, and when she heard about Ma Beiyi's family situation, she brought him to discuss whether it was possible not to cancel Ma Beiyi's mother's household registration and let her use Ma Beiyi's mother's identity to hide. Because it was the request of his girlfriend's elders, Ma Beiyi agreed.

The woman surnamed Peng told Ma Beiyi that she had two sets of fake banknotes of Peng Daxiang in her hand, and asked Ma Beiyi if he wanted to cooperate. Ma Beiyi has dared to think and dare to do since he was a child, and when he thinks that he is still Peng Daxiang's master, he will definitely be able to make money. He pretended that he was contracting the project, borrowed money from classmates and friends, and with a little savings of his own, he scraped together more than 1 million yuan of construction capital and bought a gravure printing press and other tools needed to print counterfeit banknotes.

In order to hide his eyes, he also rented a house in the sparsely populated suburbs, and covered the rooms where he printed money with soundproof cotton.

What Ma Bei thought about was that after making money quickly, he would immediately repay the money he borrowed from his classmates and friends, and there would be nothing to do. But his idea did not come to fruition, and the woman surnamed Peng soon found her own team from elsewhere and gradually excluded him.

Later, when he cheated his classmates out of money, he found a woman surnamed Peng, hoping to use the money he earned to repay the borrowed money - as a result, he was simply placed under house arrest and faked the illusion that he was dead.

Ma Beiyi's story is complete, but he is lying. If he really wanted to make money quickly and pay it back to his classmates, he wouldn't cheat people out of money to expose himself. I didn't debunk him, but asked a question - why did you talk to me so much.

Ma Bei smiled: "You are not Zhou Yong's cousin, you are Xu Lang, right?" I said, "How do you know?" ”

Ma Beiyi said: "Zhou Yong posted a photo of you in the circle of friends, although it is just a side face, but your head shape is quite special, I recognized it immediately." I know you and Zhou Yong always act together, you may have called the police, right? If I want to go out, I will definitely have to be sentenced to three to ten years, and tell Zhou Yong for me that I am not a person who borrows money and does not pay it back. ”

I don't believe his, and I don't know what he's telling me for. I looked at my watch, and it had been more than forty minutes since Zhou Yong went out to call the police. I didn't find a chance to escape, but I achieved my goal of delaying time.

After a few more words with Ma Bei, there was a knock on the door in the compartment, and the middle-aged man got up to open the door: "Why did you finish the call?" ”

He unscrewed the door, and several strong men rushed in outside the door, and the first person took the ID and showed it to the people in the room: "Don't move, police!" When Ma Beiyi was taken out by the police, Zhou Yong stood at the door, and the two looked at each other without speaking.

When Zhou Yong and I finished the transcript, it was already late. The two of us stood in front of the police station and smoked cigarettes, as we did every time we took a transcript.

Zhou Yong lit a cigarette: "Brother Xu, did you say that the woman surnamed Peng caught it?" ”

I said, "I should have caught it, and I will report this to the police as soon as they enter the house." When we came out just now, I heard someone say that Li Xinran was also arrested. ”

Zhou Yong took a deep breath of cigarette: "Then Li Xinran sent some counterfeit banknotes over every two days, why?" ”

I said: "It should be sent to the boss for verification, she is a middle-aged woman who went to the market to buy vegetables, even if it is found to be a counterfeit banknote, it can be said that it is not her own, no one will doubt it." If it's all spent, it's fine. ”

Zhou Yong nodded, he didn't speak, he might not be in a good mood - because of Ma Beiyi's matter. I proposed to go drinking, and Zhou Yong said okay. We both went to the bar and drank until dawn before we came home.

The next morning, before I woke up, Zhou Yong knocked on the door frantically. I held back my anger and opened the door to ask him what was the matter, and Zhou Yong showed me his mobile phone - the money of the defrauded person was coming back. I immediately sobered up and asked him what was wrong.

Zhou Yong told me that during the overnight interrogation of the police last night, it was found that Ma Beiyi said that in order to raise the start-up capital, he sold the mobile phone number of Unicom with the tail number 8888, and sold it online to a mobile phone number collector for 70,000 yuan.

As soon as the police called, the person who received the mobile phone number was recruited - because Ma Beiyi's WeChat was not untied, the second dealer used the mobile phone number to get on Ma Beiyi's account, and saw that he had a classmate who was going to get married, so he made a fortune in the classmate group. This kind of thing does happen from time to time, and it is too dangerous to change the mobile phone number and not unbind the relevant accounts. From this point of view, Ma Beiyi told me the truth yesterday - he may not really want to cheat his classmates out of money, but he couldn't help himself later.

After I told Zhou Yong everything Ma Beiyi and I said, he felt a little better: "Brother Xu, if we don't pursue the matter of the money, won't Beiyi have to go in?" ”

At this time, I suddenly remembered that Ma Beiyi told me with great certainty yesterday that he would be sentenced to three to ten years for printing counterfeit banknotes - this is the lightest sentence for counterfeiting banknotes. Ma Beiyi participated in the early stage and is not considered the main offender, so it is very likely that the sentence will be relatively light. But if he is found to be fraudulent, the amount of more than one million yuan will be sentenced to at least ten years.

The purpose of what he said to me yesterday was probably to help him get rid of the crime of fraud when I went to the police station to record the contents of the transcript - he didn't want to deceive people, just normal borrowing behavior.

This is very likely, but in order to make Zhou Yong happy, I said: "You can't think like that, if you make a mistake, you should be punished accordingly, and it has nothing to do with anything else." ”