After Zhao Zimeng went to the tomb for a walk, his judgment changed again.

The vertical length of the robbery hole is about 2.5 meters, and the horizontal length of the robbery hole is about three meters, and the total length is less than six meters.

And the longer the digging, the greater the likelihood of exposure, which is very dangerous for tomb robbers.

Perhaps this is the main reason why they put the entrance to the burglar's cave in the main landlord's house at No. 117. With more than ten days, the tomb robbers should dig a robbery hole of less than six meters, which should be very calm.

The tomb robbers infiltrated No. 117 after the Rao family and the Cai family moved and handed over the keys, which shows that they had been eyeing this place early.

"Before you moved out, did you have any of this loess in the yard?" Zhao Zimeng pointed to the loess in the courtyard and asked the young man.

"Nope." Rao said at a glance.

"Comrade policeman, my family moved out a few days later, when Cai Lao and Xiao Rao moved, I was on the side to help, at that time, there was indeed no loess in the yard." Cao Runan Road.

"Then before you moved out, did the Cai family behave abnormally?" Zhao Zimeng continued to ask.

"No, it's business as usual." Rao shook his head.

"Xiao Rao, your family lives in the West Wing, the Cai family lives in the main house, and who lives in the East Wing?"

"The east wing is also where Cai's family lives. The kitchen is also his, I don't cook, I solve breakfast by myself, I go to my old house to eat at noon and evening, my family lives in the front village of Huaigu Village - after leaving here, I moved back to the old house to live. ”

"How many people are there in the Cai family?"

"The Cai family only has their old husband and wife, they originally lived on Ninghai Road, it is said to be a building, after their son got married, the old couple lived here." The sister-in-law of the car robbed the white road.

"Only two people living in such a big house?" Zhao Zimeng was full of doubts.

Mr. Cai is a painter, and the couple also like to raise some precious flowers, and they have a good life. The east wing is Mr. Cai's studio, and I noticed that the couple slept in different beds, Mr. Cai slept in the main landlord's room, and Aunt Cai slept in the west room. Rao answered in detail.

"Before the move, are you two of you on this 117?"

"Yes, just the two of us." Rao said at a glance.

"Have the houses on either side of the first entrance gate been empty?" Zhao Zimeng looked at the direction of the first entrance of the house and asked the young man.

"It turns out that in the first two houses, the east room is the reception room - some people often come to visit Mr. Cai."

"The other house is used by Mr. Cai to hang his paintings - after Mr. Cai finishes painting, he binds it himself, and after it is finished, he hangs it in this house to dry. Whenever a guest comes, Mr. Cai will show them the paintings. ”

"Originally, Mr. Cai and his wife were in this courtyard, they liked to be quiet, and they didn't want others to disturb them. Besides, they are very rich, so they rented the whole yard of No. 117. Sister-in-law Che showed a gossipy look.

"Mr. Cai is a reasonable person, Xiao Rao's house is tight, and I discussed with him that I wanted to rent a house for a transition. The couple quickly agreed. "Cao Runan Road.

"Xiao Rao is a diligent person, he lives here, and he takes care of all the heavy things like changing the gas." Sister-in-law Che smiled and patted Rao's shoulder and said.

"What do couples do?" Zhao Zimeng asked.

"Mr. Cai is a professor in the Fine Arts Department of the Western Academy of Arts, and his landscape paintings are very famous, and I also have a landscape painting by him at home; Aunt Cai was originally in the Propaganda Department of the Third Hospital of the city, and both of them retired. ”

"As far as I know, after retiring, Mr. Cai taught Aunt Cai to paint, and at the beginning, they often went out to sketch, Huangshan and Taishan, and they had to go once a year. When I am old and in poor health, I don't go out. Rao said.

"How many children do they have?"

"They are blessed to have two sons and a daughter." Che's sister-in-law said.

"Do the kids come to see them often?"

"The three children should not be too filial, and often bring things to see the old couple. Our neighbors know that. The second son and daughter came more often, and the eldest son worked in other places and came less - he only came back during the New Year's holidays. Sister-in-law Che said.

"Do you know what the three children do?"

"I don't know about this, the couple didn't say, and I didn't ask." Rao said at a glance.

"This is also very strange, this old couple never talked to us about the children's affairs, they are cultural people, they don't want to say, so we don't want to ask more." Che's sister-in-law said. Sister-in-law Che is a very talkative person who knows at a glance.

"Don't these old couples usually communicate with people?"

"There was also communication, and the people were very polite, but there were not many words. Mr. Chua spends most of his time painting, and his lover's energy is mainly on the flowers and bonsai. Uncle Cao said.

After Zhao Zimeng chatted with the three of them for a while, the inquiry about the neighborhood came to an end temporarily.

Later, Director Zhang, Manager Feng and Captain Xiao took Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei and three neighbors to the kitchen for inspection.

The location of the kitchen is on the south side of the east wing, and there is also a stove in the kitchen, with large, medium and small pots. Sure enough, there was a small pile of chopped firewood in the stove.

Ling Hu Yunfei squatted down and pushed aside the pyre, which had some red and green paint on it. There are many fine holes in the firewood, which is a masterpiece of termites.

Sister-in-law Che suddenly said: "Director Zhang, these green-colored firewood are either the windows of my house or the windows of Uncle Cao's house." ”

Uncle Cao walked up to the chopping wood and looked at it: "Yes, the windows of the Che's house are painted with green paint, the doors and windows of No. 117 are painted with red paint, and these firewood with red paint are on the doors and windows of No. 117." ”

"Juying's man works in the paint shop of the shipyard, and he got all the paint back, and the paint on the doors and windows of my house is also given in small pieces."

The tomb robbers stayed at No. 117 for nearly half a month, burning the fire and cooking, and the firewood in the courtyard of No. 117 alone was definitely not enough, so they climbed over the courtyard wall and went to other people's houses to get some firewood when they were more quiet.

"Before the 10th, did all the demolition households here move out?"

"Around September 8th or 9th, it's almost time to move." Uncle Cao said.

"My family moved out on September 7th, and the day after the Cai family and Xiao Rao's family moved out, my family moved out." Che's sister-in-law said.

"My house moved out on the Eight." Cao Runan Road.

"Uncle Cao, sister-in-law Che, Xiao Rao, before you moved out, did you see some strangers wandering around this area?"

Zhao Zimeng thought: Before the tomb robbers decide to do it, they must first conduct on-the-spot investigations, and only after preliminarily determining the specifications, grades and location of the tomb entrance will they do it.

The choice to dig the cave at No. 117 should have been carefully considered, and they had a very accurate grasp of the progress of the demolition of Huaigu Village, especially the moving time of No. 117 and several surrounding families.

So, they must have been here. Of course, they – or one of them – is likely to be locals, and this is also confirmed by whether the killer cut off the head of the first deceased and smashed the face of the second corpse.

"I didn't find out, I went out every morning and came back in the evening, and I usually spent very little time at home. Uncle Cao, have you seen anyone wandering around No. 117? Rao asked Uncle Cao at a glance.

"I didn't care, who would have thought of such a thing? There is an ancient tomb on the mountain, and this legend has indeed been around for a long time, and there were people looking for ancient tombs in the woods in the past. Didn't expect the legend to be true. Uncle Cao said.

"When did Mr. and Mrs. Cai move here?" Zhao Zimeng asked Sister-in-law Che.

"I moved here five years ago, I know this, Professor Cai's friend's child is the director of the district housing management office, for someone else, who has such a big face and can withstand such a large yard." Sister-in-law Che's eyebrows flew and danced - this sister-in-law knows a lot of things!

"Before Mr. Cai and his wife moved in, there were at most five families living in No. 117." Sister-in-law Che continued.

"Then do you know where Mr. Cai moved to later?"

"I know that." Rao said at a glance.

"When I moved, I took a hand, my family lived close, and there was little furniture, and after moving, I helped Mr. Cai's family move."

"Mr. Cai's later address is on Longpan Road diagonally opposite the gate of Centipede Mountain Park, in the first alley on the left, after entering the alley, it seems to be the third house on the left, and it is also an independent small courtyard, with three main rooms, two wing rooms, and a kitchen."

"House number—I don't remember it."

Ling Hu Yunfei took out a notebook and a pen from his pocket, and wrote them down one by one in the notebook: Mr. Cai - opposite Centipede Mountain Park - Longpan Road - the first alley on the left - the third on the left.

Qin Dazhao lifted the lid of the small pot, and the stove and lid were covered with ash, and there were bricks and clods there, but now they were cleaned up by the workers.

The lid was made of wood, and when a worker saw the lid of the pot, there were more than a dozen bricks pressed on it, and the lid had been smashed.

Inside the pot were six porcelain bowls, six pairs of chopsticks, a spatula, and a soup spoon, all of which were gray and dirty, and it looked like they had been here for a while.

Two of the six porcelain bowls were broken, presumably by falling bricks when workers used a bulldozer or excavator to knock down a brick wall or chimney.

The comrades deduced that the six porcelain bowls should have been left by the tomb robbers.

If this judgment is true, then there are six people involved in the tomb robbery. After the six men robbed the tomb, there was a fight, two of them died, and the other four men slipped away with the burial goods in the tomb.

Six people, no more, no less, enough to complete a tomb robbery. If there are too few people to play, so long thieves and so many earthworks require a certain amount of manpower.

Too many people will not work, too many people will have more thoughts, it will be difficult to control, there will be problems in the distribution of stolen goods, and it is easy to be discovered.