After learning that Xu Beihong's authentic handiwork was stolen, I became very interested in this theft, not to mention the theft methods of the perpetrators, I admired it a little, and the origin of this painting alone is very legendary.

Although Granny Xu lives in a community with a good environment, she is by no means a particularly wealthy family, so why does she have such a precious painting in her home? With a responsible attitude towards the case and some curiosity of my own, I learned about the origin of the painting from Granny Xu and her family, and as a result, I learned about a legendary history.

Granny Xu's ancestors had a solid family, especially Granny Xu's father, Xu Guanghui, who once served as an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy, but later due to the outbreak of the civil war and opposition to the civil war, he was disarmed and returned to the field, and abandoned the official to engage in business. Because of the good way of doing business, buying a house in the local land can also be regarded as a rich party. In that war-torn era, he also had many contacts with progressives, and even helped the famous leader of the Chongqing regional organization during the underground period of the CCP, Jiang sister Jiang Zhuyun.

Speaking of this painting of Xu Beihong, it was exchanged by Xu Guanghui for eighty quintals of rice and a lot of brocade silk, which shows that this painting was already worth a lot of money at that time.

Looking at the photo of this painting taken by the Xu family, I thought, what kind of mood and what kind of reason did Master Xu Beihong create such a down-and-out old beggar who walked alone in the wind and snow.

Returning to reality from the painting, I feel that I have a great responsibility to recover this lost masterpiece, but from the investigation of the theft scene, it is indeed a bit strange, and I will even inadvertently associate the image of the thief in the movie.

This is a closed community, and Granny Xu's house is on the 14th floor, but the closed floor-to-ceiling windows have a standard round hole about 70 cm long, which is obviously cut with an advanced glass cutter, and the outside of the glass is the vertical exterior wall of the building. Roughly speaking, the thieves are like Spider-Man, hanging on the exterior wall, and then using special cutting tools, opening an entrance to the glass, and then sneaking into the room and stealing the paintings hanging in the living room.

Because the painting is a traditional framing process, and no frame is used, this saves the thief a lot of trouble in the process of stealing, and only needs to wrap the painting and leave it. So there was nothing of value to be found at the site except for a glass hole.

However, if there is no finding inside the house, it does not mean that there is no outside the house, so I climbed on the roof of this house and found that the door lock on the roof was broken, and from the traces of damage, it is new, and it is very likely that it was damaged on the night of the crime.

Perhaps because of the strict management, there was no illegal expansion on the rooftop, and apparently no one had come up for a long time. However, even if someone came up on the night of the crime, it would be difficult to leave footprints on the concrete floor, but I believe that some valuable clues can definitely be found on this rooftop.

I estimated the location of the floor-to-ceiling windows of Granny Xu's house and found the guardrail opposite the rooftop, and here, I did find a valuable clue, that is, there were traces of friction on the guardrail, which were obviously traces left by the friction of the rope.

Later, I found traces of friction on one of the exhaust columns on the rooftop, to which the rope was apparently attached. And judging from the traces, it should be two ropes, which is exactly in line with the main rope and safety rope required in the cliff rappelling technology. So since the cliff rappelling technology is used, it can be seen that the perpetrators must be more than two people, one person descends through the main rope to commit the crime, and the other person or more people are responsible for the protection of the safety rope.

From these traces, it can be basically determined that the thieves used ropes to descend from the roof to the window of Granny Xu to commit theft.

However, this theory is very simple, but it is quite difficult to implement. The thief must have excellent physical fitness, mental fitness, climbing skills, and be able to control the glass-cutting machine at high altitude, all of which can only be seen in movies, but it actually happens in reality.

Since it happened, I have to think about the conditions under which it can happen. Then the necessary condition is that the thief is a master of rock climbing skills, such people may be folk rock climbing enthusiasts, or they may be professional and technical training personnel, such as special police, firefighters and rock climbers. Secondly, he has a certain understanding of the cutting technique of glass, which I think is not something that can be mastered by looking at the manual. In any case, in the vast sea of people, the scope of searching for thieves is much narrower. Of course, this is also relatively small, and the difficulties are still quite large.

There are still a few big doubts that bother me. How did the mountaineering equipment and glass cutters get to the rooftop? And where did that cut glass go?

So I found the property in the community and retrieved the surveillance video of the day before the crime, and under the joint identification of the security captain and several security guards, they did not recognize the particularly suspicious people coming in and out. From the surveillance, there is no clue at all about this theft.

"Eh, do you look at that long-haired one, doesn't it look like Lu Qiujun?" Tang Zhenguo pointed to the surveillance screen and said.

"That's right, it's him!" Lao Lu also said almost in surprise.

That's right, it's Lu Qiujun, this time he didn't wear a mask, I can see it clearly. I said in my heart that this Tang Zhenguo can always find some pictures in the surveillance video that ordinary people don't pay attention to, and his eyes are really good. So I smiled and turned to look at Tang Zhenguo, who was still staring intently at the computer screen.

After that, I consulted with the security guard, and the security guard said that this long-haired man should be a friend of a resident of a certain neighborhood and often come here.

Lao Lu said a little angrily: "No wonder we squatted all night and didn't wait for Lu Qiujun, it turned out that we came here, could it be that this theft case is also involved with him?" ”

I said, "Your conjecture is very likely, because I found a pair of climbing shoes that did not belong to him in Lu Qiujun's house, and the owner of those shoes is probably the Spider-Man of this theft." ”

Lao Lu frowned and questioned: "Although Lu Qiujun appears in the surveillance, we are still confused about how the thieves carry the tools of the crime." ”

I lowered my head and pondered for a while, and said, "If you don't find it, it can be regarded as a kind of discovery, what kind of person will not be regarded as a suspicious person in the surveillance?" ”

Tang Zhenguo wiped his nose and said, "You mean, the thieves live in the community?" ”

I nodded and said, "Not bad." Assuming that the thieves have a house in the community, then many things can be solved. The first is the crime tool, which he can prepare for a long period of time in advance, and then hide the tool in his own home, so that even if the investigation of the community surveillance, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Secondly, he moved the tools of the crime from his home to the rooftop, which could be carried out by using a safe passage without surveillance. ”

Lao Lu nodded and said, "Then what method can be used to find this thief's residence in the community?" ”

I said: "It's very simple, take a look at the surveillance video of the elevator, which building and which floor Lu Qiujun went to, and we can check the residents on that floor." And I guess that the thief's room and Granny Xu's room should be in the same building. ”

Retrieved the corresponding surveillance video, and sure enough, it confirmed my conjecture. Lu Qiujun went to the building where Granny Xu lived, but Granny Xu lived on the 14th floor, while Lu Qiujun went to the 21st floor.

"Let's go, let's go to the 21st floor!" Lao Lu rushed to the 21st floor with me, Tang Zhenguo, the property manager and the security captain with an eager face.

I had judged that there should be at least one tenant on the 21st floor, and there would be a high probability that this tenant would be a thief. However, after consulting the property manager, I learned that there are a total of six households on the 21st floor, and there are no tenants, all of whom are owners. And the property manager also told us a strange thing, saying that there was a family that moved in half a year ago, it is said that the current head of the household found the original owner, and gave the original owner a price higher than the market price of 50% to buy it, the reason is that the feng shui and room number of 2106 This room is particularly consistent with his eight characters, and it will prosper him. However, the property later learned that this person had also talked to the owner of the 2006 household, and the reason was the same, but the owner of the 2006 household was unwilling to sell.

I did not hesitate to ask to investigate the residents of 2106 first, and made my point of view clear to everyone, because Granny Xu's house is in 1406, and 2006 and 2106 are exactly perpendicular to 1406, so whether you buy 2006 or 2106, it is to facilitate theft. It's just that I didn't know what happened later, and I chose the starting point of the crime on the rooftop.

I rang the doorbell at the door of 2106 for a long time, but no one answered. The property manager found the contact number left by the person, but the phone could not be reached. But fortunately, when the property is registered, it is necessary to register with real name, so we know the name of the owner, Shi Tao.

Now the owner can't be contacted, and we definitely can't enter the room of 2106 on the spot, and I think in this case, it seems a little inappropriate to use my unlocking technology.

Lao Lu asked me again if I was sure that 2106 was a den of thieves, and after I checked the shoe cabinet outside the door of 2106, I gave Lao Lu a positive answer. Because in the shoe closet, I found several pairs of different styles of climbing shoes, and they were the same size as the one at Lu Qiujun's house.

So Lao Lu dialed the phone and asked Xiao Xia to quickly apply for a search warrant for room 2106.

When Xiao Xia sent the search warrant, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and me, Tang Zhenguo and Lao Lu had not slept all night, so they were napping in the lounge arranged for us by the property manager.

Xiao Xia sent a search warrant and brought a very shocking news, this afternoon at about two o'clock received a report, a farmer in the Luotian (place name) deep in the mountains, found a man burned to death in the car, the owner of the car is Lu Qiujun, but the identity of the deceased has not been confirmed.