Chapter 240: Footprints Behind the Tree
After returning to the police station, Xu Youliang asked Lao Zhao to take Han Shuo to Beicun, firstly to inquire about the situation of the Zhang family's daughter-in-law who died the next year ago, and on the other hand, to ask the drunkard eyewitness who had recorded the record at that time.
Xu Youliang took Wang Zhi and Xiao He to the scene of Jiao Ting's violence again.
"I said, Brother Xu, what are we looking for?" Xiao He followed behind tiredly, and kept whispering, because he drank too much last night, and he almost fell asleep on the way back, until he heard Xu Youliang say that he was going to the muddy road again, and he woke up suddenly.
"You say, why did Du Yu have to bring Jiao Ting here at that time?" Xu Youliang looked around, he couldn't understand this after listening to what Jiao Ting mentioned in Wang Zhi's report on the phone.
"How nice it is here, there are trees, just blocking the cold wind at night, since these two people in the winter have been shocked from the car to the field, how can they not be on the tuyere, it's cold, don't fall into any more diseases." Xiao He pursed his lips and said with a strange smile raising his eyebrows.
"Okay, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a dumb person." As soon as Wang Zhi heard Xiao He Yin Yang say this, his heart became angry.
Now that the matter has not been clarified, how can he rely on the few slanderous words that Du Yu said to pull Jiao Ting down from the identity of the victim and turn into a person who hurts others.
"If you don't say it, don't say it, what are you doing so fiercely." Xiao He frowned and said unhappily.
Standing under the trees, there was no trace of what had happened that night, and even the blood was covered with the newly fallen dead leaves.
"Why do you always think there was someone there yesterday?" Xu Youliang raised his head and looked at the three stout trees in the distance.
"Brother Xu, aren't you dazzled, it's just three trees, and there's nothing." Xiao He took off his sunglasses and looked at a few trees in the distance in the cold wind, no matter how he looked at it, there was no so-called person Xu Youliang said.
"Let's go! Go over and take a look. After Xu Youliang finished speaking, he walked forward.
"Huh? I'm leaving!" Along the way, Xiao He fell on the solid and smooth field that others walked through every step, but he was extremely cautious, for fear that he would never be able to wipe the shoes on his feet again.
But there were no other people's footprints on the field connected to the three trees in front of him, and even if he followed Wang Zhi's footsteps, the protruding dirt around the footprints would still completely destroy his shoes.
Helpless, looking at the two people who had already walked away, Xiao He could only hurry up and walk on the muddy field together.
Who would have thought that the sky that was originally quite sunny suddenly began to rain coldly at this moment, and the thin rain hit the cold face that had been blown away, making people feel even more uncomfortable and cold.
Xu Youliang and Wang Zhi observed the surroundings of the tree, under which was a thick layer of rotten leaves, mixed with the light rain that had just fallen, and some dust and dirt gathered on the leaves.
"Is there any sign of someone walking here?" Wang Zhi left the branch and pulled the leaves, so that under the dead leaves, the footprints of a suspected figure were revealed.
"I always felt like when we came to the scene yesterday, there was a guy standing here, watching us from here." Xu Youliang stood next to the tree and looked at the place where he came from in front of him.
When he came yesterday, it was already a little dark, and he couldn't see whether there was anyone here, but the feeling of being watched was so clear and intense.
"Judging by the thickness of the footprints covered by leaves, it should have been two or three days, not yesterday." Wang Zhi took out the camera that Han Shuo had left him and looked at the footprints looming in the leaves.
"Look carefully, pay attention to your feet and look carefully for anything suspicious." Xu Youliang said as he took the branch handed over by Wang Zhi, gently pulled the fallen leaves under his feet, and carefully looked for the available clues.
"There are also groups of footprints here, walking towards the side of the road, in two rows." Wang Zhi said, looking up at the field in front of him.
He walked a little further, and when he left the foliage-covered land, he found more and more footprints, which seemed to have been left by the person who was looking for Jiao Ting that night, and the set of footprints found by the tree were covered in those footprints.
"Don't just look for footprints, see if there's anything else." Xu Youliang continued to rummage.
"Brother Xu, there's a cigarette butt here." Xiao He took out a small section of cigarette butts under the leaves, pinched them with tweezers and put them in the evidence bag.
"Lingling~" Just when everyone was searching under the tree in the light rain, Xu Youliang's phone rang.
"Got a result?" Lao Xu asked Wang Xi on the phone.
"Well, I've found out, it's the phone number of an architect named Wenbo Road." Wang Xi looked at the information that several people had gathered into his hands and said.
"Architect?" Xu Youliang always felt that those who did this were quite tall.
"Well, he is the architect of Langma Design Institute in C City, and he is responsible for the design of the urban and rural primary schools from C City to L City." Wang Xi replied.
According to Wang Xi's investigation results, the architect named Wenbo Lu and Du Yu are in a cooperative relationship, but there should be no communication. But when Jiao Ting was victimized, the two were talking on the phone, and the signal source showed that Wenbo Road was near the field where Jiao Ting was abused.
"Then is this Wenbo Road in Yingnan Town now?" Xu Youliang asked Wang Xi on the phone.
"According to the latest call record of the phone, we should have returned to City C, but we called his company, and the other party said that Wenbo Road has been in Yingnan Town for half a month, and it is expected that he will go back the day after tomorrow." Wang Xi replied.
"Yes, okay, I got it." After speaking, Xu Youliang hung up the phone and repeated what Wang Xi told him to Wang Zhi.
"I have the impression of this Wenbo Road, a person who is usually arrogant." Xiao He has already guessed some eyebrows from the conversation between Xu Youliang and Wang Zhi.
"Does he usually have any contact with Du Yu?" Xu Youliang asked.
"I only remember that once I came back from the city and saw him coming together in Du Yu's car, but I have also seen the two of them appear together once, and there should be no contact with each other in normal times, after all, it doesn't look like a person all the way." Xiao He waved his hand and said, which was regarded as a denial that the two of them had a relationship.
"Sure enough." After listening to Xiao He's words, Xu Youliang's thoughts were completely different from his.
Xu Youliang looked at the cigarette butt in the evidence bag in his hand, and handed it back to Wang Zhi, asking him to compare it with Xiao He going to City C to extract the saliva on the cigarette butt.
"It's all like this, I really don't know if I can extract it." Xiao He looked at the wet cigarette butt in the evidence bag and muttered quietly, but after going back, he still drove the car and went to City C with Xiao He.