After Xiong Wenqing put the cigarette away, he looked at Lao Lu and said, "Captain, I am really innocent of this." Don't listen to the nonsense of people outside. Yes, I admit that I had an argument with Zhang Baoxiang yesterday, but we only verbally said a few words, and we didn't do anything. I also admit that I owe Zhang Baoxiang three months' wages, but I didn't say that I wouldn't pay it. It's just that the cash flow has been poor recently, and my bastard boy has lost money in gambling, so I really don't have the cash to take it out for a while. Yesterday, I also told Zhang Baoxiang that within two months, I would definitely return the wages owed to him. And when I didn't find the right person, he was willing to help me look at the warehouse for a few days. You see, we've already said it, how could I still kill him? ”

I frowned and looked at Xiong Wenqing, he described it clearly, his face was embarrassed, and he was obviously not lying.

I asked, "Have there been any thefts on your site lately?" ”

Xiong Wenqing thought for a while and said: "There is theft, just last month, two local bastards came to my construction site to steal steel bars and were caught by Zhang Baoxiang. Ah, by the way, those two boys also said cruel words at the time, saying that they were asking Zhang Baoxiang to wait, and it seemed that they were going to clean him up. It can't be those two boys, right? ”

I asked, "Do you know the names and addresses of these two people?" ”

Xiong Wenqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Although I don't know now, I will cooperate with the police to arrest these two boys." ”

Lao Lu said coldly: "What qualifications do you have to arrest people, since you all know that those two boys are locals, why don't you know their names and addresses?" ”

Xiong Wenqing was scolded by Lao Lu like this, and he didn't know how to answer, so he had to say: "When these two boys were arrested that day, the local workers said that these two boys were locals, and they often went to the construction site to steal steel bars and sell them for money, and then went to the Internet café to surf the Internet. ”

I asked, "Who is the worker who said this?" ”

Xiong Wenqing gave us the contact information of the worker, and I quickly contacted the worker. However, Lao Lu has been suspicious of Xiong Wenqing, so he sent someone to investigate Xiong Wenqing's movements on the night of the crime, and found that he was entertaining at a KTV in the city at the time of the crime. However, Lao Lu still did not stop there, because he suspected that Xiong Wenqing was suspected of buying murder.

Of course, I can't judge Lao Lu's persistence, because I also know that this Xiong Wenqing is not a good product. However, I also understand that this murder case is not directly related to Xiong Wenqing.

I found the worker who recognized the steel thief, and this worker was very enthusiastic and personally took me and Lao Lu to find the two boys.

In an internet café, we quickly found the two children. I call them children because they are not even 18 years old, but they have dropped out of school and are at home and are idle all day.

When I saw these two children, I understood that these two children were definitely not murderers.

There are two reasons for my judgment. The first is that they are all over 175 cm tall, which does not match the height judged by the footprints on the scene. The second is that neither of the two children had a wound on their palms, which obviously did not match the characteristics of the murderer.

But even so, Lao Lu still criticized and educated the two children. I agree with Lao Lu's approach, because these two children are just doing some things now, and when they grow up, whether they have strength or courage, if they have not yet embarked on the right path, then they are very likely to embark on the road of crime and become criminals.

Lao Lu took the two children to the local police station and took their blood samples, saying that they were used for DNA forensics and police filing.

This incident scared the two children a lot. However, I think Lao Lu's move is very witty, perhaps because Lao Lu's move will completely change the life path of the two children. At least under this shock, these two children will not dare to go down the road of crime in the future, and they will go down paranoidly.

The suspicion of the two children has also been ruled out, so who is this murderer?

Back to the criminal investigation team, the report of the forensic appraisal center was also sent to Lao Lu.

The report details that the deceased was killed by a single-edged knife, most likely a small kitchen knife that is slightly larger than a fruit knife. Moreover, paint was found on the wound of the deceased, which means that the surface of this kitchen knife was sprayed with paint.

Under normal circumstances, the surface of the kitchen knife will not be sprayed with paint, because the paint will obviously contaminate the food. Only the inferior kitchen knives made by inferior manufacturers will spray paint on the surface of the kitchen knife in order to attract the attention of customers.

Then that's a very important clue. I had previously deduced that the killer was a worker on a construction site. Most of the workers on the construction site are from other places, so they generally do not own kitchen utensils, and certainly do not have kitchen knives.

Then it is very likely that the kitchen knife was bought by the murderer in a hardware store or supermarket.

After I reported the situation to Lao Lu, Lao Lu immediately sent investigators to the hardware stores and supermarkets in Lonza to investigate, perhaps the inferior kitchen knives spray-painted were sold in the shops in these villages and towns.

Of course, DNA testing is also mentioned in the report. Sure enough, as I suspected, the bloodstains at the scene belonged to two people. The kind of blood dripping at the entrance to the construction site was left by the murderer.

Based on this situation, I also reported the direction of my next investigation to Lao Lu.

I took the report and said, "Since the murderer was injured in the course of the murder, and judging from the bleeding, his injuries should not be light, then he will definitely go to the hospital or clinic to bandage after he is injured." ”

Lao Lu said: "He killed someone, I think he should have run away by himself, how could he go to public places such as hospitals and clinics?" ”

I said: "Comrade Lao Lu, not all murderers are intellectually superior and have counter-reconnaissance capabilities that ordinary people do not have. The scope of the investigation does not have to be too wide, just check the surrounding township clinics, pharmacies and other places. ”

Lao Lu said: "Well, it is true that you can't let go of a little possibility, and I will send someone to check it immediately." ”

The two groups of investigation teams carried out separate investigations, but they did not expect that a day later, the results were available at the same time.

In a hardware store in Longsha Town, the kind of small kitchen knife with paint on it was found, and the owner of the hardware store confirmed that just a few days ago, a man about 50 years old and not very tall bought such a kitchen knife. This kind of kitchen knife only costs 8 yuan a piece, which is the cheapest knife in their store, and this knife is in stock many years ago, so the boss remembers it very well.

Another investigation team found traces of the suspect in Yankou Township, not far from Longsha Township.

At a private clinic in Yankou Township, the clinic's doctor told us that someone came knocking on the door at about 2 a.m. on the day of the crime. Because the doctor lived upstairs from the clinic, he heard a knock on the door and hurriedly went downstairs and opened the door of the clinic.

When he opened the door, he saw an old man in his 50s, dressed as a peasant, holding up his left hand, which was covered in blood. The doctor quickly dressed him with medicine and asked how he was injured. The old man said that he fell while riding a motorcycle.

With many years of medical experience, the doctor understood that the wound on his hand was cut by a knife blade, but the doctor saw that the old man's clothes and pants were also dusty, so he did not think too much about the cause of his injury, thinking that it was cut by some sharp places on the car when the motorcycle overturned.

Of course, the dust on the old man's body was left behind in the fight with the deceased Zhang Baoxiang.

According to the doctor's description and the hardware store owner's description, the person they saw was probably the same person, the murderer.

To prove this easily, I asked Lao Lu to invite a criminal investigator and asked the doctor and the hardware store owner to describe the appearance of the old man they saw.

The criminal investigator quickly drew the person they were describing, and the two said in unison, "It's him." ”

Since I judged that this person was a worker on the construction site, I took the portrait back to Xiong Wenqing's construction site and asked my migrant worker friends on the construction site to help me identify the person in the painting.

Migrant workers quickly recognized the man. It turned out that this person's name was Song Jiacai, a small package foreman from Zhong County, and he had been working on Xiong Wenqing's construction site with seven or eight workers for almost half a year. However, a week ago, he and several of his workers had a conflict with Xiong Wenqing, and the cause of this conflict was also because Xiong Wenqing did not pay them wages. And the day before the case, that is, after Zhang Baoxiang and Xiong Wenqing had a conflict, the Song family also came to Xiong Wenqing, and it seemed that he knelt down for Xiong Wenqing, probably to ask for wages.

According to the workers, the conflict between Xiong Wenqing and Song Jiacai was still very noisy, and Xiong Wenqing's son also led the hooligans in society to punch and kick these people. The workers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, saying that Xiong Wenqing was often in arrears of workers' wages, which was very hateful.

After hearing this, I was very puzzled, Xiong Wenqing owed Zhang Baoxiang's wages and Song Jiacai's wages, so these two people should be on the same front? But why do the two still have a desperate fight to the death, so that one of them dies? It doesn't make sense.

So I asked the workers again and asked if this Zhang Baoxiang and the Song family had any grudges?

Workers said that Zhang Baoxiang was an introverted stuffy gourd who rarely talked to outsiders, and of course he would not offend people, let alone have conflicts with others. As for Song Jiacai, this person brought a few co-workers, and those co-workers all called him eldest brother. In the eyes of people, the Song family is a very righteous small bag foreman, in order to get back the wages for the workers, he can endure any grievances, he is a gentleman.

I can't figure it out even more, why would such two people fight to the death? It seems that only when the Song family is found can the truth surface.

Lao Lu retrieved Song Jiacai's photo in the public security system and was wanted by the whole network.

Soon, the Song family was arrested in his hometown of Zhongxian.

When I saw Song Jiacai, he looked very haggard, his eyes were red, and he seemed to have not slept peacefully for a long time.

This 50-year-old man, although not tall, is very strong, and his dark face reveals a kind of weathered vicissitudes. His hair was already gray, and his hairline was already high, and it was only a matter of time before he went bald.

During the arrest, he was very silent, but he kept wiping tears, and he didn't know whether these tears were tears of fear or tears of remorse.

In the interrogation room, Lao Lu looked at Song Jiacai's red eyes and asked, "Say, tell us the process and purpose of your murder of Zhang Baoxiang." ”

Song Jiacai lowered his head, looked at the interrogation table in a daze, and did not say a word.

Lao Lu frowned and looked at him, but did not scold him, because the person in front of him did not look like a heinous person in any case, and Lao Lu looked at people very accurately. So, he was waiting, waiting for the small package foreman to explain the facts himself.

But in exchange, there is still silence.

Standing on the side, I patted Lao Lu's shoulder and said softly, "Let me try." ”

Lao Lu frowned and nodded.

I walked to the edge of the iron fence, looked at Song Jiacai, who had been keeping his head down, and said, "As long as you explain the facts of your crime clearly, I can help you get back the wages of your co-workers." ”

As soon as my words fell, the Song family raised his head and asked loudly, "What do you say?" ”

I looked him in the eye and said, "I mean what I say." ”

I could see Song Jiacai's tears flowing down again. After that, the Song family explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly.

That day, the Song family came to the construction site office to find Xiong Wenqing, and he had only one purpose, that is, to ask Xiong Wenqing to pay him and his co-workers, but Xiong Wenqing still had a posture of denying and refusing to give it. The Song family knew that it was useless to come hard, and even knelt down for Xiong Wenqing and begged Xiong Wenqing to pay them the wages.

But the response was still indifferent.

The Song family knew that there was no choice but to go to the labor inspection department to complain. But the Song family couldn't swallow this breath, so before going to sue Xiong Wenqing, they had to find a way to find Xiong Wenqing's bad luck. It happened that the Song family knew that Zhang Baoxiang had just resigned, so he concluded that the warehouse was unguarded tonight, so he thought of setting fire to the warehouse on Xiong Wenqing's construction site.

So Song Jiacai bought a knife in the town to defend himself, took a lighter, rode a motorcycle outside the construction site late at night, and then quietly sneaked into Xiong Wenqing's construction site.

The Song family had only been working on this construction site for half a year, and he knew that there were many flammable items in the warehouse, and all he needed was a lighter, and the warehouse would inevitably be engulfed by fire. His plan was simple, he would break the glass windows of the warehouse, enter the warehouse and set it on fire, and escape through the broken glass windows.

But just after he smashed the glass window, Zhang Baoxiang suddenly appeared, which caught the Song family off guard. Unexpectedly, the warehouse keeper who had resigned was still on duty here. Of course, Song Jiacai would not know that the honest Zhang Baoxiang was performing his last duty.

Zhang Baoxiang is honest and very upright. After he saw Song Jiacai, he immediately thought that Song Jiacai came to the warehouse to steal because he couldn't get his salary. Zhang Baoxiang was very ashamed of this kind of behavior, so he cursed Song Jiacai loudly and threatened to denounce Song Jiacai.

The Song family was scolded by Zhang Baoxiang like this, and they were immediately angry, and when they learned that Zhang Baoxiang was going to denounce themselves, it was even more impossible for them to recover their wages. At this time, the hatred for this black-hearted construction site, the hatred for this black-hearted bear Wenqing, and the hatred for the humiliation of being punched, kicked and kneeling down were vented to the former worker in front of him, the migrant worker friend who was sympathetic to the disease.

The evil knife stabbed at the innocent Zhang Baoxiang.

The road to asking for salary, but it cost his life.

After Song Jiacai finished speaking, he was already crying. Lao Lu and I were also silent, not knowing what to say.

Lao Lu and I walked out of the interrogation room, I clenched my fists fiercely, and said to Lao Lu: "All of this is caused by that bastard Xiong Wenqing. He not only defaulted on the wages of migrant workers, but also organized idle people in society to beat up wage seekers. Would this tragedy have happened if it hadn't been for the unpaid wages? Captain Lu, don't you care about this matter? ”

Lao Lu frowned and looked at me, didn't speak, just slowly picked up the mobile phone and dialed the phone: "Hey, is the Labor Bureau Supervision Brigade going?" I'm Lu Jinfeng of the District Criminal Investigation Team......"

After that, both the labor inspection brigade and the labor arbitration commission conducted an investigation of Xiong Wenqing's construction site. Lao Lu also filed a case for investigation into Xiong Wenqing's son organizing social personnel to beat wage seekers, and arrested the people involved.

With the help of the government, the migrant workers finally got their own wages. The family of the deceased Zhang Baoxiang and Song Jiacai's daughter also received the salary in exchange for blood.

After that, the migrant workers also organized themselves and came to the criminal investigation team with pennants, flowers and firecrackers. It's just that this time it came, not because the criminal investigation team cracked any major cases, but because the criminal investigation team helped the migrant workers recover their wages and punished the bullies.

I saw that Lao Lu's eyes were already moist when he received the pennant sent by his migrant workers. Because I know that Lao Lu's father is an out-and-out migrant worker.

Song Jiacai was about to be escorted to the court for trial, and before leaving, he asked to meet with his daughter.

The girl has just been admitted to college, and the Song family is running around so hard, the purpose of which is to provide for their daughter to go to college.

Across the iron fence, Song Jiacai grabbed his daughter's hand and trembled, he was already in tears, he muttered: "Girl, do you blame me?" ”

The girl cried and shook her head, unable to speak.

Song Jiacai said tremblingly: "Girl, my father is a murderer now, and the murderer will have to pay for his life, and I can no longer make money for you to go to college, what are you going to do?" What should I do? The Song family couldn't control their emotions and cried.

The girl cried and said, "Dad, don't worry, I will work while studying to make money, and I will study hard in college, you must rest assured." ”

Song Jiacai held his daughter's hand tightly, he couldn't say half a word, and tears kept flowing.

I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, turned around, wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, and only hoped that the law would give them a chance to reunite father and daughter.