Chapter Fifty-Four: Revisiting Hoop Barrel Lane
According to Section Chief Wen, Zhao Zimeng suddenly felt that the situation was not optimistic.
If the smuggling channels for cultural relics are so smooth, then where are the other cultural relics stolen from the Ion Mountain Tomb at this moment......
He didn't dare to think about it, but he had to plan for the worst.
Some of them may be about to be traded, or they may have fallen into the hands of some "collector" in the country, and some of them may have been flown across the ocean to another country.
And among these so-called collectors, some people are waiting for a price to sell, and they understand the future development trend of the cultural relics market.
Once the cultural relics fall into the hands of such people, it is difficult to find their traces, and they will not easily let the treasure "show its golden face" again. But after all, this kind of person is a very small minority, and the vast majority of people have no front and back eyes.
Zhao Zimeng felt that the situation was urgent, and it was necessary to speed up the pace of investigation of the case, strive for more recovery of cultural relics, and minimize the loss.
Zhao Zimeng's invitation to comrades from the Cultural Relics Bureau and Xiang Daimo to Haizhou was motivated by this consideration: they had come into contact with cultural relics smuggling cases and had a better understanding of the situation in the cultural relics market.
After bidding farewell to several professors and comrades from the Cultural Relics Bureau and returning to the criminal investigation team, Zhao Zimeng planned to divide his troops into three ways:
Xiang Daimo and Section Chief Wen hurriedly continued the interrogation of Ning Shangzhi and Da Qibao, and then went to Haizhou.
Xiao Luhan, Ma Jianping and Lu Qian succeeded Xiang Daimo to join Linghu Yunfei and went to Xicheng District to continue to search for No. 1 and No. 2 - especially the traces of No. 1.
Zhao Zimeng always felt that finding the traces of No. 1 and No. 2 was the main direction of the "10.5" tomb robbery murder case.
If you can find traces of No. 1 and No. 2, you may be able to find the murderer of the "10.5" tomb robbery murder case, and if you find the murderer, you will definitely be able to find the whereabouts of the stolen cultural relics from the late Ming Dynasty tomb in Ion Mountain.
Zhao Zimeng and Lin Di went to Hoop Bucket Lane to find Professor Cai and his wife to verify the situation - mainly to verify the situation explained by Cai Yaohui.
Zhao Zimeng believes that the investigation of Cai Yaohui and Wei Qiliang needs to be further deepened.
Zhao Zimeng was sure that this Cai Yaohui did not tell the truth, at least not on the issue of reselling cultural relics.
Cai Yaohui seems to have given Zhao Zimeng an unsolvable equation, and his answer has led the comrades' detective work into a dead end, and the person who sold the nine sheep bottles to him was disguised.
Although this statement is absurd, it also has a certain amount of truth.
Finding someone who is easy to look at is a puzzle!
If you want to solve this problem, it depends on the ability of Zhao Zimeng and his teammates.
There are two paths to find the murderer by searching for the whereabouts of the bronzes and finally finding the bronzes by searching for the murderer.
Zhao Zimeng couldn't be sure which path could solve the case, so he had to take a two-pronged approach.
After the task was clear, the three groups of people went their separate ways.
Zhao Zimeng and Lin Di drove to Hoop Bucket Lane.
It was Aunt Cai who opened the courtyard door.
Because Zhao Zimeng had come once before, Aunt Cai led the two into the east wing without saying anything, but her face was very ugly.
Zhao Zimeng came to the door again, and there were two people here, Aunt Cai should have a premonition.
In fact, the last time Zhao Zimeng came, Aunt Cai was already alert.
Professor Cai was splashing ink in the studio, and when he saw someone visiting, he put the brush in his hand in the paint tray and walked out of the studio: "Please sit down, wife, pour two cups of tea for the two comrades, I'll wash my hands, and I'll come right away." β
Aunt Cai walked into the kitchen with a gloomy face, poured two glasses of water, and then brought them into the reception room and put them on the coffee table.
Professor Cai walked into the reception room while wiping his hands with a scarf, took off his apron, handed it to his wife, and sat down opposite Zhao Zimeng.
So far, the couple has not known anything about the arrest of their son Cai Yaohui.
Zhao Zimeng will never be emotional, after more than ten years of criminal investigation work, he has become accustomed to facing different people, including the suspect's relatives.
Aunt Cai handed a glass to Professor Cai's hand.
Professor Cai unscrewed the lid of the teacup and was just about to speak, when the courtyard door rang: "Tu-tu-tu-tu-"
Aunt Cai got up and walked out of the reception room and opened the courtyard door.
Two women rushed in from outside the courtyard gate.
"Yaohua, Kelly, why are you here?"
Yaohua is Professor Cai's daughter, the younger sister of Cai Yaohui.
"Mom, Yaohui didn't come home last night. This morning, I went to look for him in his shop, but the guy said he didn't come. Another fashionably dressed woman walked into the foyer and said in a shrill voice.
"Qiliang is not in the store either. The guy said that yesterday Yaohui went to the store to reconcile the accounts and left. Mom, where is he going? β
The woman who spoke should be Cai Yaohui's wife, Wei Qiliang's sister.
She has a fashionable big curl, wears a red trench coat, black high heels on her feet, gold earrings on her ears, and jade bracelets on her wrists, and looks like a rich lady.
"Kelly, don't worry, Yaohui must have something important." Aunt Cai said.
"When there is something, he will call me, every night, no matter how late, he will come home, and Qiliang never leaves the store in the morning. I went to the parking lot to see it, Yaohui's car was not there, and Qiliang's van was not there. β
Professor Cai stood up: "Did you call Yaohui?" β
"I called, from last night until now, I have made more than a dozen calls, but he keeps turning off the phone." This woman named Kelly looked flustered, and there was no master of the six gods.
Zhao Zimeng originally planned to understand the situation first and then tell the truth, but the sudden arrival of Cai Yaohua and Kelly disrupted his plan, and at this juncture, Zhao Zimeng had to say it in advance.
Zhao Zimeng stood up: "Professor Cai, Aunt Cai, you don't have to look for Cai Yaohui and Wei Qiliang. β
"Comrade Zhao, you came to us, are you ......" Aunt Cai's face changed suddenly.
"Mom, Dad, who are they?" Only then did Kelly notice that there were two living people in the family, and she looked at Zhao Zimeng.
"They belong to the Municipal Public Security Bureau." Professor Cai said.
"Huh? Police, how could they come to our house. Cai Yaohua was shocked.
"Don't get excited, please sit down, our Zhao team has something to tell you." Lin Di Dao.
When Kelly hears that the police are visiting, her woman's sixth sense attacks, and she has a premonition that something may have happened to her husband.
She only felt that the sky was spinning, her body shook a few times, and she was about to faint, Cai Yaohua took two steps forward when she saw this, supported Kelly, and led her to the chair to sit down.
Professor Cai and Aunt Cai sat down on the bench, and their expressions immediately became sad.
Kelly's face was bloodless, with tears in her eyes, and Aunt Cai's tears had overflowed her eyes.
"Professor Cai, Aunt Cai, originally, I wanted to tell you in a relatively gentle way, but now, I can only tell you the truth." Zhao Zimeng said.
Professor Cai's lips trembled and said, "Rebel! I told him I don't know how many times, and he kept turning a deaf ear to my words. He must have done something illegal! I knew ......"
"Comrade, tell me quickly, what's wrong with my son Yaohui?" Aunt Cai's voice has changed.
"The two elderly people, Cai Yaohui and Wei Qiliang, are suspected of reselling cultural relics and have been arrested by us. We were caught red-handed when we were trading last night. After interrogation, he confessed to the crime of reselling cultural relics. β
"Reselling cultural relics? This bastard thing! I knew something was going to happen to him sooner or later. It must have been that he couldn't resist the temptation of money and started the business of reselling cultural relics. Rebel! Unfilial son! Professor Cai thumped his chest and was in great pain.
Aunt Cai was teary-eyed, and she cried: "I hurt Yaohui!" At the beginning, Lao Cai did not agree with his resignation and went to the sea, if I had resolutely opposed it, Yaohui would not have fallen to the point where it is today. I hurt him! β
Kelly cried bitterly.
"Please don't get excited, we are here today to tell you something important."
The two women wept and cried, and the conversation could not continue for the time being.
"Wife, Kelly, don't cry yet, listen to what Captain Zhao has to say." Professor Cai said.
"Cai Yaohui was caught by us this time, and he actually had reservations about confessing the crime. You should understand that this is very bad for him. I hope that the second elder can do Cai Yaohui's ideological work. Let him confess all his crimes truthfully. Zhao Zimeng said.
Aunt Cai wiped away her tears with her sleeve: "Captain Zhao, Yaohui has listened to me since he was a child, and I can persuade him to completely confess his crimes." I will definitely ask him to hand over all the money he made from reselling cultural relics. My son, I know, is not bad in nature, he must have been a wealth obsessed with money, so he embarked on this road. β
"Professor Cai, Aunt Cai, we are worried that Cai Yaohui is not just reselling cultural relics."
"Yaohui heβwhat other crime did he commit besides reselling cultural relics?" Professor Cai frowned and looked at Zhao Zimeng.
Kelly was still sobbing.
Professor Cai glanced at his daughter-in-law and said sharply, "Kelly, don't cry. I knew today, why bother at the beginning, I asked you to persuade Yaohui more, and told him to do business in a proper manner, did you persuade him? β
"Dad, I persuaded him, but he disobeyed the yang and the yin, what can I do! I also told him not to take Qiliang down the wrong path, but he-this-how should I explain it to my parents! Kelly cried again as she spoke, her face covered with makeup.
"This bastard, I have told him more than once, peace is blessing, people must follow the right path, I am sorry that I have taught him so much since I was a child! He's going to me off! β
Kelly was shocked by Professor Cai's fall, and she stopped sobbing, but the tears still fell like beads of broken thread.
Cai Yaohua handed Kelly a few tissues.
Kelly took the tissue and wiped the tears from her eyes and cheeks.
"Captain Zhao, you go on." Professor Cai said.
"The bronzes we seized from Cai Yaohui have been determined to be one of the funerary goods stolen from the ancient tomb of the late Ming Dynasty in Huaigu Village. Among the stolen tombs, there are a total of sixteen bronzes. β
After listening to Zhao Zimeng's words, Professor Cai already understood what he meant: "Comrade, could it be that Yaohui is related to the case of Ion Mountain in Huaigu Village?" This- how is this possible! No, it won't! Definitely not! My son won't kill. β