Five or six minutes later, Xia Shi escorted the sloppy dressed "Santa Claus" back to the door of room 103. At this time, the man was already handcuffed, his face was covered with two black bruises, and his clothes had also been broken through a hole, and he looked even more shabby and sloppy.

As soon as he saw Xia Shi, Gu Song was angry. If it weren't for the presence of outsiders, he really wanted to rush forward and punch Xia Shi's underwhelming face. He covered his head and asked Xia Shi with the anger in his heart, "Did you go a little too far just now?" I managed to regain my memory, and if I had a concussion, would you be responsible? ”

"I can't afford the responsibility, but I can help you pay for the medical expenses." Xia Shi said half-jokingly. Gu Song glared at him, pointed to the beggar's version of "Santa Claus" and asked, "What is this guy sneaking around?" ”

"He is an acquaintance of the victim Zhou Tiancheng." Xia Shi replied, "We'll talk about the specific situation when we go back to the bureau." ”

At 4:40 p.m., in the interrogation room of the Criminal Police Detachment of R City, "Santa Claus" was sitting opposite Gu Song and Xia Shi in a panic, with the word "suspicious" written on his face.

Xia Shi silently observed him for a while, and then asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Nguyen Heh."

"How old are you this year?"

"34 years old."

Hearing this age, Gu Song and Xia Shi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Gu Song looked at him again, thinking that this guy was only 34 years old, the same age as their heroic and upright Captain Qiao? How do you look like you're 43 years old? What kind of hard and difficult life can make a man who is in a good time become what he is now.

Xia Shi didn't have the heart to think about the mess, and continued to ask: "How did you know Zhou Tiancheng?" What does it have to do with him? ”

"A few years ago, I worked on the same construction site as Lao Zhou. Because the two of us are fellow villagers, we are relatively familiar with each other, and we often drink together, play cards or something. ”

"Where were you last night around half past ten? What are you doing? ”

"Last night...... Ruan Heping rolled his eyes and recalled, "I was already sleeping at home at that time. What's the matter, comrade policeman? ”

"Can anyone prove it?"

"No one can prove it." Ruan Heping shook his head and said, "I'm just a bachelor, and there is only Xiaoqiang in the kitchen left in the family besides me." He laughed self-deprecatingly twice, and suddenly looked at Xia Shi in a panic, "Comrade policeman, don't you think that I killed Zhou Tiancheng?" ”

Xia Shi ignored him, and then asked, "What are you doing sneakily going to Zhou Tiancheng's house?" ”

"I, I just wanted to go to his house and find something...... I didn't kill him, really, please believe me! ”

"Looking for something?" Xia Shi was a little impatient, and tapped his fingers on the table and said, "Can you make it clear at once, don't be like squeezing toothpaste, it's hard to listen." ”

"Eh, I'll just say it, I'll say it......" Ruan Heping was afraid that the police would misunderstand something, so he quickly explained, "When I used to work on the construction site, I often played cards with Zhou Tiancheng and a few other co-workers, of course, they were all the kind that won money." One night, we were playing Zakin and gambling money, and I was so lucky that I lost all my money. At that time, Zhou Tiancheng took a fancy to my watch and asked me to bet it on him, saying that I would redeem it when I had money in the future. I didn't think much of it, I just took it off and gave it to him.

"I later found out that my watch was actually quite valuable. It was a relic left to me by my dad, and I don't know much about what it was said to be a limited edition, but its value far exceeded my own judgment. After getting paid, I wanted to redeem the watch with 1,000 yuan, but Zhou Tiancheng seemed to know the goods better than me, and he already knew that the watch was a valuable thing, and he refused to return the watch to me. So ......"

"So you held a grudge and premeditated the murder of Zhou Tiancheng, taking this opportunity to take back the relics left by your father?" Gu Song half-jokingly scared Ruan Heping and said, "Look at you, there is no alibi, and the motive for the crime is also established, and you will definitely not be able to run away this time." ”

As soon as he heard this, Ruan Heping's face immediately turned pale with shock, and he shook his head again and again and denied: "I was wronged, comrade policeman." I'm a timid person, and I don't even have the courage to kill a chicken, let alone kill someone. I heard that Zhou Tiancheng's tongue was cut out, and I don't have much enmity with him, so I can't do such a perverted thing, right? ”

Xia Shi glanced at Gu Song, and said in his heart What kind of mess are you making at this time, when I see that the bearded man in front of me is not the human trafficker killer they are looking for. But after thinking about it for a while, he understood that Gu Song said this to let Ruan Heping explain everything he knew as much as possible. Because the current situation is very unfavorable to him, only by confessing everything can he clear his suspicions. "And then?" Xia Shi continued to ask, "You also know your current situation, don't hide anything, tell us everything you can get up and related to Zhou Tiancheng." ”

Not long after, Zhou Tiancheng stopped working on that construction site. For about a year or so, I lost contact with him. It wasn't until one evening three weeks ago that I saw Zhou Tiancheng near a bazaar on Renmin South Road. At that time, he was leading a little boy, both of whom were dressed in tatters, and looked like they were begging for food. At that time, I didn't talk to him, but quietly followed him and found that he lived in the messy alley where I went today.

At the same time the next day, I saw the child again near the market and found that the child was indeed a begger, while Zhou Tiancheng was secretly monitoring the child not far away. I was quite curious, so I stopped Zhou Tiancheng after they 'closed the stall'. Maybe it's because I've changed a little bit in the last year, and he didn't recognize me for a while. I said that I was Xiao Ruan, a fellow villager on the construction site, and then he opened his mouth in surprise and asked me out for a drink to catch up.

"We found a food stall on the side of the road, and the mute kid kept following Zhou Tiancheng and behaved very honestly. During the whole chat, Zhou Tiancheng didn't mention a word about the watch, and I don't know if he really forgot it, or if he deliberately pretended to be confused with me. When he saw my depressed appearance, he couldn't help but ask me curiously why I had become like this, and I said that I couldn't quit gambling, and I lost all my belongings, and now I even lost my job, and my life was very difficult. He took two sips of liquor, lowered his voice and said to me, why don't you try a little cash cow too? You don't have to do anything all day long, just sit back and wait for the money to be collected.

I looked at the little boy in rags and asked Zhou Tiancheng curiously where he got this child. He didn't shy away from telling me that he was looking for an acquaintance to buy it, and he also gave me a contact information very enthusiastically, so that I could contact that person if I needed it, and the acquaintance might give me a discount or something. In the past few days, I have been struggling with whether to get a disabled child to beg for money like Zhou Tiancheng, but I always feel that it is too immoral to do so.

"When I watched the news this morning, I learned that Zhou Tiancheng and his wife were all killed. I sneaked into Mr. Chow's house while the policeman was on the toilet to see if my watch was still there. As a result, I had just been rummaging in the bedroom for a while when you guys rushed in. I was scared and ran out of the window. Comrade policeman, I swear to God, everything I said is true, I did not kill Zhou Tiancheng, nor did I kill his wife. If I had killed them last night, I wouldn't have waited until this afternoon to look for something at his house! ”

After listening to Ruan Heping's narration, Gu Song and Xia Shi already understood the cause and effect of the whole thing. Indeed, Ruan Heping's image of a waste material uncle is completely incompatible with the trafficker killer they are looking for, unless this person is also an actor with ungodly acting skills. Judging from his performance, the situation he gave should be basically true.

The most important thing is that they learned from Ruan Heping's account the specific location where Zhou Tiancheng often took Xiaojie to beg. If the trafficker killer also found the target in that place, then there, they might be able to find some clues about the trafficker killer.

In addition, they must find a way to contact the middleman who resold Xiaojie and Xiaofang to Zhou Tiancheng and Wu Xia. If things go well, they might be able to dig up more information about the trafficker gang.

At 6:30 in the evening, in the classroom of the second class of the third year of the No. 1 Experimental Middle School in R City, Mu Zi was sitting in the third-to-last row by the window, holding his chin with one hand, and staring intently at the playground in the distance.

The slanting sunset sprinkled on her delicate face, like a girl in an oil painting, quiet and beautiful, but on closer inspection, her expression vaguely revealed fear and uneasiness.

For a girl who is only eighteen years old, after experiencing something like last night, it is difficult to heal the wounds in her heart in a short time. Especially when she closes her eyes, two cold corpses will unconsciously appear in her mind, as if she can still see the bloody eyes, and can hear the faint crying of children.

Because of her fear, she had to barely survive the night in the office of the criminal police team. But tonight, no one will help her anymore, so where will she go? Do you go back to that empty, gloomy residential building alone, and hold a candle across the street from the murder scene?

She has never been afraid of ghosts, but she is afraid of bad guys. Because she has experienced too many ups and downs and misfortunes since she was a child, she understood a truth very early, that is, if the human heart is dark, it is much more terrifying than ghosts and gods......