Don't open the door to strangers, it's a thing that everyone knows. But sometimes, often those victims, it is the wolf themselves who bring the devil into the house.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month of this year, a murder occurred in a wealthy family in Xiongjia Town.

When I came to Xiongjia Town, I saw that the town was full of lights and celebrations. But on this festive day, it added a touch of gloom.

The crime scene was a separate compound on the edge of the town, and the families who owned such a compound were usually large families.

There are two big red lanterns hanging on the door beam of the courtyard gate, and the new couplet is red and gold, which looks elegant and magnificent.

Entering the courtyard gate, the clean yard was full of people, including police, relatives, and villagers. A woman in her 40s, dressed not fashionable, but with a certain taste, is hiding her face and crying.

Because this woman is the daughter of the deceased.

I came to this courtyard because I wanted to see the home of the deceased. Because according to the investigators, the deceased has been at home alone recently, and her daughter rushed back from the city in a hurry after discovering that her mother was missing.

I will elaborate on the details of the deceased later, and now I come to the deceased's home, which is where you are to see where the deceased was killed.

That's right, the deceased's home is where she was killed.

In the courtyard, there is a small three-storey building, the walls of which are covered with delicate brown tiles, and the windows are all well-made aluminum alloy security nets.

Both the gate of the courtyard and the doors and windows inside are intact, which shows that the murderer entered the deceased's home peacefully. This shows that the dead and the murderer should be aware.

The first thing you enter is the living room. The living room is very spacious, about 30 square meters, and there are many melons and fruit snacks on the coffee table. There was some sugar in the melon seed plate, and on the side of the melon seed plate, some melon seeds fell on the coffee table, and two candy wrappers were also thrown aside. It means that someone has grabbed melon seeds in this melon seed plate and ate two candies at the same time.

In the center of the living room, there is also a pair of automatic mahjong machines, which are scattered on the mahjong machine desktop. There are also two temporary money drawers on the mahjong table that are open, and the power plug of the mechanical mahjong is still plugged into the socket.

There is also cigarette ash on the mahjong table, and the ashtray is placed on a blue plastic stool next to the table, with only two cigarette butts in it.

This shows that someone used to play mahjong here, but according to the number of cigarette butts, they didn't play mahjong for a long time.

I looked at the corner of the living room, and there were some horizontal scratches on the wall in the corner, which were parallel to the desktop of the mahjong machine, and there was a piece of color on the ground that looked relatively new. So I can conclude that the mahjong machine was placed in this corner before, and only recently has it been carried to the center of the living room.

In this case, it means that the deceased played mahjong at home before his death, and the deceased was killed immediately after the mahjong game was over.

The basis for my judgment is that the living room as a whole is tidy and tidy, whether it is the furnishings or the pillow cushions on the sofa, they are all placed regularly. There wasn't much dust on the TV, and there were traces of fresh wiping on the inside of the ledge near the wall. All of this shows that the owner of the house is a person who loves neatness, how can a person who loves neatness make the scene so messy after the game is over? He'll definitely be packing up as soon as possible.

But no, the scene was messy, which can only show one thing, that is, the deceased was killed before he could clean up.

I checked the bedrooms on the second and third floors, and there was no sign of them being turned over, so it means that the murderer has not been to other parts of the house to steal.

Well, now back to the dead. I said that the deceased was killed in this room, why do I judge it like that? So let's talk about the cause of death of the deceased, she was pinched by a rope and suffocated to death. The place of death was next to the mahjong table, because there were clear traces of struggle on the ground next to the mahjong table, especially the traces of the heel violently rubbing against the white marble tiles, and even left black marks.

Well, now that the investigation into the deceased's home has come to an end, then I will review the place where the deceased was found and the circumstances of the deceased's death.

The place where the deceased was found was under the dirt slope of the road more than 60 kilometres away from the deceased's home.

The deceased was a woman, Du Ping'e, 61 years old. He wears black flat leather boots and black and gray striped pants underneath, and a dark orange sweater on his upper body.

The deceased had pierced ears with obvious strains, indicating that the deceased had worn earrings, but the earrings were removed by human violence. There is a ring mark on the middle finger of the left hand, but there is no ring, so the ring was also taken.

No more valuables were found on the deceased, such as mobile phones, wallets, etc.

Later, I learned from the deceased's daughter that the deceased's mobile phone, satchel, gold earrings, gold necklace, gold ring and a mink coat worth tens of thousands of yuan were missing.

Moreover, the daughter of the deceased described to us that on the second day of the first lunar month, the deceased took 15,000 yuan in cash and put it in a satchel he carried with him for use during the Chinese New Year.

According to the description of the deceased's daughter, the disappeared items were all belongings of the deceased and were valuables. So I concluded that this case was a murder of property.

So according to the trajectory of the deceased's activities before his death, the person who came to the deceased's house to play mahjong is, of course, the most suspicious. And the murderer has a long-distance behavior of throwing the body, so it means that the murderer must have a car.

So we quickly locked down the three people who went to the deceased Du Ping'e's house to play mahjong that night.

The three of them are Wan Guangcai, Li Yufu, and Zeng Zhikui, all of whom are male and local.

First investigated Wan Guangcai, Wan Guangcai said that he and Li Yufu left together that night, went to the mahjong parlor after leaving, and played cards until 5 o'clock in the morning before returning home.

Li Yufu's statement was the same as Wan Guangcai's, but he provided more detailed information. He mentioned that at around 8 o'clock that night, he received a call from Du Ping'e, asking him to ask two people to come to her house to play mahjong, so Li Yufu contacted Wan Guangcai and Zeng Zhikui to go to Du Ping'e's house. However, because Zeng Zhikui was unwell, he played until about half past 10, and Zeng Zhikui went home. Because of the lack of three, the game is scattered.

I asked Li Yufu, "Do you know Du Ping'e and the three of you?" ”

Li Yufu said: "Du Ping'e only knows me, Wan Guangcai works in Guangdong, and only goes home once in several years, and Zeng Zhikui's home appliance business in Changshou rarely goes back to his hometown." ”

I asked again, "Do you all have cars?" ”

Li Yufu said: "We are all doing something to make a living, how can we afford a car." ”

After that, we went to the mahjong parlor to learn that Wan Guangcai and Zeng Zhikui did come to the mahjong parlor at about 10:40 and played until the early hours of the morning before leaving.

The suspicion of the two cannot be ruled out immediately. In my conversation with them, I learned that they said that the hand ended around 10:30 p.m. But the medical examiner determined that the time of death of the deceased was also between 10:30 and 11 o'clock that night. In other words, these two people may also go to the mahjong parlor to play cards after killing people during this time period to confuse the public.

Finally, Zeng Zhikui was investigated.

This Zeng Zhikui has a bullish big back, two mustaches, a gold necklace can be faintly seen around his neck, black leather clothes and shoes are polished shiny, a high-end mobile phone in his hand, and a luxurious watch on his wrist. But I can tell at a glance that the watch is a high-quality imitation watch, and the price should not exceed 100. Although he has a fake watch, he feels that this person has a style. Listening to Li Yufu, he is a small boss in the electrical appliance business.

So I asked, "On the night Du Ping'e was killed, did you come to her house to play cards?" ”

Zeng Zhikui replied solemnly: "Have you played? ”

I asked, "Tell me about your night?" ”

Zeng Zhikui turned the mobile phone in his hand and said: "Because I drank too much wine at dinner, I had a headache, but my brother made an appointment with a card game and it was not easy to refuse, so I went to play, but the more I played, the more uncomfortable I became, and I couldn't bear it, so I dismantled the table and left." ”

This is consistent with the situation reflected by Li Yufu before.

So I asked, "Where did you go after you left?" ”

Li Yufu said: "After leaving, I went to a friend's house to play poker and fight the landlord. ”

I frowned and asked, "Aren't you feeling unwell?" Why don't you play mahjong and run to poker? ”

Li Yufu smiled calmly and said: "When I walked out of the room, as soon as the cold wind blew at night, my head would not hurt, and I would be comfortable." It's not fun to go home so early for the Chinese New Year, so I went to a friend's house to play poker. I played until more than 2 o'clock in the morning before going home to sleep. ”

I nodded, looked at him again, then looked at his shoes and said, "Good shoes." ”

Zeng Zhikui said: "That's right, these shoes were bought in the town." The leather shoes of Xiongjia Town are well-known at home and abroad. I'll tell you a joke, a friend of mine went on a trip abroad, spent a lot of money abroad to buy a pair of high-end leather shoes, took it home and pulled out the insole, and the underside was printed with the Xiong's family made. Hahahaha......"

I also laughed perfunctorily.

At the end of the investigation, Lao Lu asked me: "I feel that all three of them are suspicious." ”

"Before, I thought all three were suspicious, but now I think only one person is suspicious," I said. ”

Lao Lu asked, "Who?" ”

I said, "Zeng Zhikui." ”

Lao Lu was a little puzzled and said, "He? I just think he's the least suspicious. Do you think, this is a robbery and murder case, do you look at that Zeng Zhikui, who seems to be short of money? Look at the way he talks and laughs, I don't believe that such a person goes to rob. ”

I smiled and said, "Don't be a person." The murderer will not have the murderer written on his face, and the murderer's appearance does not have to be vicious. ”