So is it time to focus on the person who is not on the ship?

My guess is that he is the least suspicious. Because in order to commit theft on a sand mining vessel, it is necessary to control the situation on board. This is a theft carried out under the noses of the crew, and if the self-thief is not on the ship, then how can he tell if the crew will be near the safe? Perhaps this insider will also use clever means to make it reasonable for the crew not to be near the safe, so that his accomplices can be more convenient.

Of course, this is just my inference, and in the future investigation, I will have to contact this person who is not on the ship.

I've finished asking my questions, and I've got an idea of what happened to the theft. Of course, a more in-depth investigation of these ten crew members will have to be carried out, because I believe that the inner ghost is among these ten crew members.

Lao Lu and the investigators began to investigate the scene and record confessions from the crew.

I stood on the side of the boat, lit a cigarette, looked at the dark river, and slowly fell to the diesel fishing boat that had brought us here, thinking that the thieves must have used a hand-cranked boat to infiltrate the sand mining boat. Otherwise, the noise of the engine will definitely cause alarm among the crew.

I thought about it again, did no outsiders sneak in, just the people on the boat who were guarding and stealing themselves? After they stole the safe, maybe they hid it on the huge sand mining ship?

I told Lao Lu and the old man about this idea, and they both said it was possible. So the organization of manpower began to carry out a carpet search of the sand mining ship. But after two hours of searching, nothing was found. Then it can be determined that the safe has been removed from the sand mining ship.

Now that there are no safes on the sand mining vessels, the focus of the investigation is now on those important suspects.

In the office of the criminal investigation team, Lao Lu held a stack of materials, which were the personal information and confessions of the crew of the sand mining ship. The confession was incomplete, as there was a lack of a confession from one person, who had taken leave of absence.

Fifteen hours have passed since the incident, but the police have still not found the person who left the ship, his contact number is turned off, and the rented house is empty. This made the suspicion of this person rise sharply.

Lao Lu's somewhat yellowed fingers held a cigarette, green smoke curled up from the cigarette butt, he squinted at me and said: "Liang Hongjian has not had any contact with the ship since he asked for leave of absence, and now that such a big thing has happened on the ship, but he can't be contacted, I think this person is very suspicious, and it is very likely that he absconded in fear of crime." ”

I sat on the sofa, staring at the ashtray on the coffee table, the cigarette butts in the ashtray were still burning, looking at the little sparks, I said: "I have analyzed it before, the inner ghost must be the person on the ship that day, and this Liang Hongjian's suspicion should be the youngest of the ten crew members." ”

Lao Lu refuted: "Ouyang, are you so sure that there is only one ghost on the ship?" ”

I know what Lao Lu means, what he means is that Liang Hongjian is also one of the inner ghosts, and he and the inner ghosts on the ship should cooperate with the inside and outside, and steal the safe on the sand mining ship.

However, I still disagreed, I said: "If Liang Hongjian is an internal ghost, then he asked for leave to leave the ship before committing the crime, which will increase his suspicion, I still insist that Liang Hongjian is the least suspected." We should now investigate the people on board who know the contents of the safe. ”

Lao Lu smiled and said, "Ouyang, didn't you always say before, not everyone is a criminal genius, and they may not think so comprehensively before committing a crime. Perhaps Liang Hongjian did not think that leaving the sand mining ship would bring greater suspicion, or perhaps he thought that he was not on the ship at all at the time of the crime, but was even less suspicious. ”

I frowned, because Lao Lu's statement was not impossible. So I nodded.

Lao Lu stood up and said, "Okay, now that we have locked the suspect on Liang Hongjian, then we will go all out to investigate him." ”

I have no objection, because these ten people will be investigated by the police one by one, and as for the order, it doesn't matter.

But the strange thing is that the police have been looking for Liang Hongjian for two days, but they still have no clue, this Liang Hongjian seems to have evaporated from the world.

According to the police, Liang Hongjian only took two days off, and it stands to reason that he should return to work now. Probably his vacation was over, but he didn't return to the ship. Such an abnormal behavior not only increased the police's suspicion of him, but also made the crew suspect that this Liang Hongjian was the ghost who stole the safe.

Of course, I also began to focus on Liang Hongjian.

Liang Hongjian, male, 39 years old, divorced, childless, from Xinxiang Town, Wanzhou District, rents a house in the urban area.

I feel very strange about Liang Hongjian's rental house in the city. Because the new township is not far from the sand mining ship where Liang Hongjian works, and the house he rents is even farther away from the sand mining ship. Moreover, the crew generally lives on the ship, and the sand mining ship also provides accommodation for Liang Hongjian. So this rented house is obviously not rented for the convenience of work, so what is the purpose of renting this room? I don't know yet, but it must be something I need to investigate in detail.

But at the moment, finding this Liang Hongjian is the most important thing, so Lao Lu drove me to Xinxiang Township in a police car.

In the car, Lao Lu said to me: "We have investigated Liang Hongjian, he is tall, strong, is a short-tempered and tough person, it is said that he divorced because of domestic violence against his wife in marriage, his wife couldn't bear it, so he sued for divorce." And the crew on the sand mining ship reported that Liang Hongjian was very good at gambling and a little helpless, and several crew members on the ship had borrowed money from Liang Hongjian when he was playing mahjong, but Liang Hongjian never paid it back. Everyone was also afraid of Liang Hongjian because he was an old crew member on the sand mining ship and looked like a human bear, and they did not mention to him about repaying the money, which caused Liang Hongjian to be even more unscrupulous on the ship. Like this leave, the captain of the general employee will never approve it, and only he, Liang Hongjian, can ask for leave with such a big face. ”

I listened to Lao Lu's description of Liang Hongjian, and I generally know what kind of person Liang Hongjian is, but this does not prove that he is the ghost who stole the safe, and we need to investigate further.

Soon, we came to the new township. Xinxiang Township is located in the southeast of Wanzhou District, 21 kilometers away from the city. The middle part of the terrain is high and flat, low on all sides, with an altitude of 600-950 meters above sea level and an area of 42.19 square kilometers.

Liang Hongjian's home is a blue brick building on the side of the road a kilometer outside the town. Such buildings can be found everywhere in the countryside, and are usually built with two floors. The ground floor is occupied by the living room, kitchen and utility room, and the second floor is occupied by the bedroom.

When we arrived at Liang Hongjian's house, the door of his house was open, and two elderly people, a man and a woman, sat in the living room of the house.

Two old men were sitting facing each other at a wooden table, weaving some bamboo sticks in their hands, and there were several new bamboo baskets on the ground.

We walked to the door of the house, Lao Lu knocked on the door and said, "Excuse me, is this Liang Hongjian's home?" ”

The two old men looked at us at the same time and stopped what they were doing.

The old man put down the bamboo stick, stood up, and said, "You...... Do you have anything to do with my family Hong Jian? The old man probably saw Lao Lu's police uniform, so he was a little nervous.

Lao Lu said: "We are here to understand the situation. ”

The old man said: "Hong Jian works on a sand mining boat on the river, and rarely goes home, so you can call him if you have anything." The old man said as he walked to the coffee table in the room.

There was a landline phone on the coffee table, and there was a stack of notebooks next to it, which seemed to be phone books.

When the old man picked up the phone book, I said, "You don't have to look for his phone, we know, but his phone is no longer available." ”

"What?" The old woman on the side also stood up, and it seemed that the woman's self-consciousness made her feel uneasy. She hurriedly urged the old man and said, "Lao Liang, hurry up and call Jian'er to see, the police have found the house." ”

I exchanged glances with each other and decided to respond to the change.

The old man should have also sensed the seriousness of the situation, and his hand shaking through the phone book kept shaking.

He finally found Liang Hongjian's mobile phone number in the phone book, of course, the result after dialing was still the same, it had been turned off.

The old man put down the landline earpiece in his hand, looked up at the old woman, and shook his head.

The old woman looked at the old man with a sad face, then looked at us again, and said, "Comrade policeman, we are Liang Hongjian's parents, what did my Hongjian do outside?" She said as she burst into tears of anxiety.

I hurriedly said: "Auntie, don't worry, we are just here to understand the situation, not that Liang Hongjian has committed anything outside." ”

The old woman said in a loud voice: "That's good, that's good, sit down quickly, sit down and say." ”

Lao Lu and I sat side by side on the stool at the wooden table, and the old man made tea for us.

The old woman said anxiously: "Our family Hong Jian works on a sand mining boat, although it is not far from home, but he is very busy with work, and he rarely goes home, and we are not very clear about many things about him." ”

I looked at the old woman and said, "When was the last time Liang Hongjian came home?" ”

The old woman said, "He went to work after the New Year, and he never came back. I still remember that I left on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lao Liang, did you say? ”

The old man listened to the old woman's words, looked at me and Lao Lu and nodded.

I continued, "And when was the last time he spoke to you on the phone?" ”

The old woman thought for a while and said, "Hong Jian doesn't seem to have called us this year, we all called. I remember the last time I called him, it was last month. ”

I nodded and said, "Do you know what Liang Hongjian rented a house in the city for?" ”

The two old men looked at each other, and the old woman asked, "Has he rented a house in the city?" We don't know. ”

I frowned, stood up and said, "Can you let us see Liang Hongjian's bedroom." ”

The old woman nodded.

Coming to the second floor, the old woman pointed to the door with half of the badly discolored red happy word on it and said, "This is the room before Hong Jian." ”

I pushed the door open, and there was a strong musty smell inside, apparently uninhabited for a long time.

The room was messy, with a winter coat and down jacket on the bedside, and a dresser with a woman's facial cleanser on it, but it was years ago.

I picked up the bottle of facial cleanser, and the old woman, perhaps touched the scene, and said behind me: "Hey, my Hong Jian's personality is too stubborn, and he just beat his daughter-in-law away, these things were used by his daughter-in-law before." ”

I put the cleanser back in its place and asked casually, "What year did Liang Hongjian get married?" ”

The old woman said, "It's the year before last." ”

I said, "Then he got married very late, is he the first or second marriage, and how old is the daughter-in-law?" ”

The old woman said, "Yes, he was married at the age of thirty-six, and it was the first marriage." The daughter-in-law is very young, only twenty-four years old. But Hong Jian doesn't know how to cherish it, it's really, hey! It's annoying to think about. The old woman wiped away her tears as she spoke.

I didn't know how to comfort her, so I continued to observe the bedroom, which was less than fifteen square meters.

I walked over to the bed and found a corner of a book under my pillow.

I lifted the pillow and realized that it was not a book underneath, but a soft-sided copy.

I took out this soft copy, looked at the contents, and found that there were a lot of words densely written in the soft copy, and the content was excerpts from some newspapers and magazines.

I don't think these words have much significance, and they are mainly used by the owners of the soft-sided copyists to practice calligraphy.

To be honest, it's a pretty good word.

The old woman saw that I was looking at the soft copy, so she said proudly: "This little book is built by my family, don't look at him who looks five big and three thick, and he is only a secondary school culture, but his good hand is not comparable to ordinary people." ”

Looking at the words, I knew that the old woman was not boasting.

I quickly flipped through the contents of the soft copy. Skip the blank page in the middle, and on the last page, densely filled with words, these words are layered and intertwined, and it seems that the writer is very emotional and frustrated.

Although a lot of words were written, only six words were written back and forth: I'm sorry Chen Xiaoyan.

I looked at these words and asked, "Is Liang Hongjian's ex-wife called Chen Xiaoyan?" ”

The old woman nodded and said, "Yes." ”

I asked, "Did they still have contact after the divorce?" ”

The old woman shook her head in confusion, not knowing what she meant by the lack of contact, or whether she was unaware of the matter.

Leaving Liang Hongjian's home, Lao Lu looked a little depressed, he said: "From Liang Hongjian's parents, I didn't get any news about Liang Hongjian, it seems that Liang Hongjian's absconding was hidden from his family." ”

I looked at Lao Lu in surprise and said, "You used the word absconding?" ”

Lao Lu said: "Yes, is there anything wrong? I even suspect that these two old men are hiding something from us. ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't think so, but Liang Hongjian's disappearance has indeed aroused my curiosity. When will the search warrant for Liang Hongjian's rental house come down? ”

Lao Lu said: "At this time, it should have come down, and it is estimated that a colleague has gone to investigate." ”

I said, "Then let's get over there." ”

Lao Lu nodded.

Soon, we came to Liang Hongjian's rented house. This rental house is located in the residential area behind the military sub-district, which is considered a relatively old house. However, it is in a good location, less than a 10-minute walk from the city center.

The investigators took the search warrant and, with the cooperation of the landlord, had opened the room.

This is a two-bedroom house, and the interior of the house is very tidy, which is diametrically opposed to the situation I saw in Liang Hongjian's bedroom in his hometown.

First of all, I suspect that this room is not only inhabited by Liang Hongjian, but also a woman.

I walked around the living room and bedroom in the house and found no items or clothes for women. Am I wrong in my speculation?

When I came to the bathroom, I found that there was only one pair of toothbrushes and towels, so it seemed that Liang Hongjian lived alone.

However, I found a pack of tampons in the bathroom locker, and only one tampon was used. Then I deduce that although Liang Hongjian is living alone in this house, there must be a woman who has a relationship with Liang Hongjian and will come here to stay temporarily. Then if you find this woman, you may be able to find Liang Hongjian.

I checked Liang Hongjian's bedroom again and found that there was no trace of the clothes in the wardrobe being taken, and there was a black suitcase next to the wardrobe. If Liang Hongjian wants to abscond, then suitcases and clothes are essential items. But he didn't take it, so it shows that Liang Hongjian did not abscond.

But this is even more bizarre, Liang Hongjian's disappearance for no reason is even more bizarre and confusing. I didn't contact my family, I didn't take away the necessary supplies, so I turned off my phone and evaporated?

I frowned, a foreboding feeling in my mind. Because in my career, I know that a person disappears suddenly, and he disappears without any signs and preparations for a long journey, then this person has most likely encountered an accident.

In order to prove this, I applied to Lao Lu to investigate Liang Hongjian's call records and bank funds.

Liang Hongjian's bank funds show that there has been no major outflow of funds in the past month. The largest sum of money was also 500 yuan taken out fifteen days ago. This shows even more that Liang Hongjian's disappearance is not that he is deliberately absconding, but that he has encountered something indescribable.

Of course, in my mind, he may have been imprisoned or had met with an accident.

Now I think that finding Liang Hongjian is not just as simple as investigating the safe. Chances are, it will be a disappearance, or even a homicide.