Although Zhao Zimeng knew that there was little hope, he had to say that he didn't want to leave out anything related to the case.

"Got it, I'll send it over as soon as I find it—I'm leaving." Cha Huating dropped a sentence and disappeared into the darkness.

From the expressions of Director Gu, Xiang Daimo and Xiao Luhan, it can be guessed that they went away in excitement and returned in defeat.

"Che Huating's wife never asks about renting a house, and since she moved out of No. 157, she has never come to No. 157." Xiang Daimo said, "Because she thinks No. 157 is not clean." ”

"We also saw Che Huating's mother at Che Huating's house, and like her daughter-in-law, she knew very little about the situation at No. 157. There is a rule in their house. Xiao Luhan said.

"What rules?"

"Women never ask about things outside the male lead, inside the female lead, and outside, including renting a house."

"Captain, we also asked about the three brick walls, and the old man said that these things were all asked by dead ghosts in the early years, and then the third child asked, and she was a woman and never asked."

The "dead ghost" is Cha Rengui.

"Did you ask Cha Rengui about running away from home?"

"Asked. The old lady said that the dead ghost had a wild heart when he was young, so she didn't find it strange that Cha Rengui ran away from home no matter when she ran away. ”

In short, the old lady had a lot of grievances against Che Rengui, and she also said that no matter what kind of woman she was, marrying such a man was no different from a nun escaping into an empty door. Although she has four children, she is still in decline in this life, and if it weren't for the fear of hurting the faces of her four children, she would have stopped staying at Che's house a long time ago. ”

"Regarding the matter of the three walls, the old lady said that the boss may know that before the third child did not set up his own door, the dead ghost discussed everything with the boss, and most of the things were done by the boss. The old lady also said that house No. 157 had been repaired once in 1970, and she did not know whether the walls had been moved. ”

"Have you seen the boss?"

"The boss went on a business trip."

"When will you be back?"

"The old lady doesn't know. But I told the old lady that as soon as the car boss came back, he would come to us. ”

"What unit does Boss Che work in?"

"In the General Temple Taiping Shopping Mall, he is often sent out to engage in procurement."

The old lady mentioned a detail. Xiao Luhan suddenly remembered something.

"What details?"

"She said that before, there was a large pile of bricks and tiles in the southwest corner of the backyard of No. 157, but now, the bricks are gone, and only a few small tiles are piled up there."

"Yes, Che Huating's wife said the same thing. She had lived at number 157, so there was a little bit of an impression. Director Gu said.

"When did Che Huating's mother and wife see a large pile of bricks?"

"The old lady said that she saw the pile of bricks around 1970; Che Huating's wife said that when she saw the pile of bricks, it was after the old man assigned No. 157 to his man, Che Huating. ”

Zhao Zimeng stood up: "Let's go, let's go to the courtyard and have a look." ”

Everyone has been stationed in No. 157 for a relatively short time, and they haven't had time to pay attention to the environment of No. 157.

Linghu Yunfei picked up a flashlight from the coffee table and followed Zhao Zimeng into the backyard.

There is a separate house on the west wall of the courtyard, which is the kitchen, and the area of the kitchen is about ten square meters. On the south side of the kitchen, there are small black tiles about one meter long and about fifty centimeters high, it seems that these small tiles are some years old, and the small tiles on the side are very damaged, and the edges of the small tiles and the top tiles are covered with moss. There is also a small pile of broken bricks next to the small tile.

The bricks used for the first wall must have come from the large pile of bricks that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said.

Did the first and second walls, especially the first wall, be built first by the Che family, or by the tenants? This is a very important issue, if the Che family built it first, then the murderer may be the Che family.

According to common sense, it is unlikely that the Che family hid the body in their own house; If it is added by the tenants, then the murderer must be hidden among those tenants, and once the problem is clarified, the scope of the investigation can be determined - and the scope of the investigation will be much narrower.

If this issue is not even clear, then it will be difficult to investigate this case further.

The problem is that this is most likely an unsolvable equation, and first of all, the person who is most likely to know about this - Cha Ren Guiren has no shadow of the top of his hat. The comrades could no longer count on him.

Moreover, the car boss may not know the situation, if the case is related to the car family, then, even if the car boss knows the situation, he will not say it.

secondly, there are too many tenants, and they are changing from place to place; Worst of all: some of the houses were vacant while some of the tenants were staying at 157.

It doesn't take long to kill someone, and it doesn't take long to hide the body in a brick wall, in which case hiding the body in the brick wall of an empty house is hard to know.

Che's mother said that she remembered that there used to be a large pile of bricks on the west wall of the backyard of No. 157, and now there is only a small pile of broken bricks left in this pile of bricks.

Could the bricks used for the first wall come from that pile of bricks? This is very likely, and if this is the case, all you need to do is get a few bags of cement and lime from the outside, and the materials for building the wall will be available. The three families living south of 157 – 158-1, 158-2 and 158-3 – are not easily noticeable.

To find valuable clues, comrades still need to spend a lot of time and do a lot of work.

"Let's go, let's go to Mrs. Li's tea stove to fetch water." Zhao Zimeng said.

Ling Hu Yunfei stood up; "Let's go, I'll go with you."

Xiao Luhan walked into the kitchen, turned on the light, and picked up two water bottles from the stove, coincidentally, there was no water in the two water bottles. There are also three thermos on the stove – the thermos is full.

When the Qin family moved out, they also threw down the hot water bottle.

"Go, I'll lead you." Director Gu was already standing on the steps in front of the foyer.

"I'll go too." Min said long.

Five people walked out of the small door and into the alley.

Xiang Daimo and Ma Jianping stayed at No. 157.

The alley was dark and rumbling, and I couldn't see my fingers. Looking south, there was a faint light not far away, and only after walking around the corner did I know that the faint light was the afterglow of the street lamp at the entrance of the alley.

On the opposite side of the alley was a telephone pole with a street lamp on which the shade was gone, only a dusty bulb remained.

Next to the telephone pole is a tea stove, diagonally facing the alleyway.

There was a line of more than a dozen people in front of the tea stove, and a few people in the back carried hot water bottles in their hands (at least two, at most four).

An old lady with a funnel in her left hand and a scoop in her right hand was boiling water into a water bottle, and a long hot water bottle was placed on the stove.

Director Gu said that originally, there were three tea stoves on Zhonghe Street, and the two on the street and at the end of the street were closed two years earlier, and now, the degree of modernization is getting higher and higher, and many families have abandoned those old lifestyles.

Linghu Yunfei and Director Gu stood at the back of the team.

"Director Gu, come, I'll rush you first—you don't need to queue up." Mrs. Li saw Director Gu at a glance.

"Yes! Director Gu, you rush first. A bald man in his fifties in the team said.

"Thank you, no need, there are not many people, it will be here in a while, Aunt Li, we don't have anything to do now, you are busy with yours." Director Gu said.

"This pot of water is almost gone, I'll have to wait for the next pot for a while." A woman in the team said.

"It's okay, we're fine, we can wait." Zhao Zimeng said.

Everyone's attention was focused on the five people, and the people on the street, most of whom knew what happened at 157 "Impermanence Lane".

When Linghu Yunfei and Director Gu moved to the tea stove, the boiling water was finished. Mrs. Li opened the lid of the other cauldron and scooped the water in the other cauldron into the first cauldron with a spoon, and the water in the second cauldron was at least forty degrees, and the water at forty degrees would boil faster. This is a very clever approach, put a few pots next to the main pot, the water in the main pot is boiled, and the water in the other pots also has a certain temperature, so that it not only saves fuel, but also speeds up and increases the output.

Zhao Zimeng noticed that there were three deep cauldrons of different sizes next to the main pot.

Soon, there was a sound of water in the main pot.

Taking advantage of this gap, Director Gu and Mrs. Li talked.

"Aunt Li, have you heard about No. 157?"

"I was there this afternoon. Director Gu, you flush the water later, flush as you go, don't queue up, your case is important, you are all neighbors, and no one cares about you. If you're busy, put the thermos with me, flush it, and I'll send it to you. ”

"Thank you, old, you don't need it, we borrow the flush to go out for a walk, and the rules still have to be followed - I don't care about this time."

"Aunt Li, this is Captain Zhao of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. He wants to ask you something. ”

"Okay! As long as I know, Comrade Captain, what do you want to ask? ”

"Auntie, there used to be a lot of tenants in the courtyard of No. 157. Did they flush the boiling water with you? Zhao Zimeng walked up to Aunt Li.

"Yes, as long as it is a tenant who lives in this area, they will come to me to boil water, if it weren't for them, our tea stove would have been unable to open a long time ago."

In the nineties of the twentieth century, real estate development has been in full swing in many corners of the city, and the city managers have not yet had a more mature thinking on the issue of whether to demolish these old houses, or they have not had time to consider this problem, so the ancient buildings in the south of the old city can be temporarily preserved.