Chapter Fifty-Eight: Revisited
Autumn foliage community.
Tang Tao rang the doorbell of Tai Jiwen's house, and it didn't take long for the door to open, and the person who came was a short and fat middle-aged woman wearing an apron.
"Who are you looking for?"
"May I ask if this is Tai Jiwen's home?" Sophie asked.
"yes, what's the matter with you?"
Sophie showed her police ID.
"Police, we want to find out about Mr. Tai, can we go in and talk?"
The woman stepped out of the door and shouted inside.
Tai Jiwen walked out of the back room with a newspaper, this person was a middle-aged man with a fat face, and his expression was obviously a little unnatural when he learned that the person who came was a policeman.
"Mr. Tai, we have something we want to talk to you about, no problem, right?" Sophie said.
"Okay, please take a seat."
After greetings, everyone sat down, and Tang Tao found that Tai Jiwen seemed to be afraid of his wife.
When Sophie asked Tai Jiwen about the night before, Tai Jiwen readily admitted it.
"That night there was a fire in Xiaolianzi Village, not far from your campsite, did you see it at that time?" Sophie asked.
"No, I slept early that night and didn't see anything."
"Did you hear any strange noises? Have you ever seen a car crossing a small bridge? ”
"Not either."
Then Sophie asked a few more questions, but Tai Jiwen didn't say that he didn't know that he couldn't remember, and he didn't seem to see anything, but in fact, the campsite could clearly see Xiaolianzi Village, and it was not even twelve o'clock when Zhu Lingling had an accident, this time is definitely the golden time for night fishers, and it is impossible to have fallen asleep.
Tang Tao thought of something and said with a smile: "Mr. Tai, can we borrow a step to speak?" ”
Tai Jiwen got up and walked to the balcony with Tang Tao.
"Mr. Tai must have had a good time that night, I think the young lady who spent the night with you must be very beautiful, right?"
"You...... What do you mean by that? Tai Jiwen's face changed.
"What do I mean, you know better than me, what do you think would happen if my sister-in-law knew about this?"
"What do you want?"
Tai Jiwen glanced at his wife on the sofa and said in a low voice: "I did see the fire you said, and there were indeed cars passing over the bridge after the fire." ”
"Then why did you lie just now?"
"Because I probably know the person you're talking about, the headlight on the right side of that car is broken, if nothing else, you should be here to catch a gang of thieves, right? These people have been stealing things from trains for a long time, and they live in the village, and I have heard about them for a long time. ”
Thief?
Tang Tao remembered Li Xiao's report, at that time they did not find a car with damaged headlights, if their inference is correct, then there is only one possibility, that is, the murderer had a car accident when he went down to Xiaolianzi Village and broke a headlight.
"I've said everything, don't let me identify it when the time comes, I don't want to be implicated." Tai Jiwen once again asked Tang Tao not to expose him, the reason was that he didn't want people to know about the scandal between him and his female assistant.
"Don't worry, we know how to do it, thank you for your cooperation, next time I push you to Wanfeng Lake, the place is wider and safer."
Sophie sat in the living room and saw the two of them chatting, and soon they came over together with a smile.
"Alright, let's go." Tang Tao said.
Tai Jiwen's wife seemed to notice something, and asked with a puzzled expression, "This is leaving?" If this old thing was fooling around with someone outside again, I knew there must be a ghost when he went out that night! ”
As she spoke, the woman grabbed Tai Jiwen's ear.
Tai Jiwen screamed in pain and hurriedly begged for mercy: "No, really not, what are you doing, the police haven't left yet." ”
"What's wrong with the police? Can the police control me from beating my husband? The woman said harder.
Tai Jiwen's teeth were grinning in pain, tilting his head, and his movements were very funny.
"Officer, you can help me talk." Tai Jiwen looked at Tang Tao with a pleading face.
Tang Tao smiled and said, "Eldest sister, don't worry, eldest brother is a good person, we won't bother if it's okay." ”
"I can't send it if I go slowly." The woman didn't have the slightest intention of letting go, this look was about to implement the family law, Tang Tao gave Sophie a look, and the two of them quickly flashed.
"What did you just say? God mysterious. ”
On the way back, Sophie couldn't help but ask Tang Tao.
"No, it's just some private matter, he did watch a car pass by on the small bridge on the night of the crime, but one of the headlights of this car was broken, and now as long as he finds this car, he can solve the case."
Tang Tao stopped a taxi and got in, followed by Sophie.
"Where?" The driver asked.
"Lincheng Road."
The brother is a man with glasses, wearing a light blue overalls, neatly and cleanly, wearing a mechanical watch on his wrist, and a faint fragrance of flowers on his body.
A thought suddenly popped into Tang Tao's mind, could the murderer be a Didi driver?
Or even a brother?
What could be more familiar with the surrounding routes than my brother?
The Lincheng Road in the evening rush hour is very congested, and it takes half an hour to stop and go, and it takes half an hour to travel for a few minutes.
"Where to go now?" The brother asked without looking back.
"Go back, drive to the intersection and drive back."
"What? Drive back and drive back? You mean to go around in circles on this road? The brother thought he had heard it wrong.
"Yes."
The elder brother turned the steering wheel and drove through the intersection to the road opposite the Tibetan mastiff base and continued to move slowly.
"Brother, what are you doing here? Get up on the wrong side of the bed? I tell you that you must look at it, this year is easy to live, life is easy, life is not easy, don't take it to heart, if I have such a beautiful girlfriend as you, I am willing to do anything. After speaking, the brother glanced in the rearview mirror and glanced at Sophie, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a wicked smile.
"Would you like to be a cuckold?" Tang Tao asked rhetorically.
"That's it."
Sophie didn't refute, and she didn't bother to refute, she snorted disdainfully and scolded these men in her heart for being really hypocritical.
The cold street lamps flickered constantly, bringing out Tang Tao's cold face from time to time, and then disappeared into the darkness in a blink of an eye.
"You should often walk this road, have you ever seen a hundred thousand or so scooters often go back and forth between Lincheng Road and the old city, most of the time is at night, his speed is not fast, stop and go, the driver is a man in his forties, medium build, relatively thin, sometimes wearing a suit, like a professor." Tang Tao asked.
The brother shook his head and said, "I didn't pay attention to this. ”
"By the way, sometimes this car will appear near the No. 2 Middle School in the city."
"I've really seen such a person in the second middle school, it's a white Kia K5, at first I thought it was a parent, but then I found out that he wasn't at all, he never picked up students, he always drove slowly on that road, and everyone laughed at that person for being a novice."
"And do you remember the license plate number?" Tang Tao hurriedly asked.
"I don't remember, but I think someone should remember, what are you doing? Police? ”
"No, as long as you do me this favor, I will pay me five hundred yuan."
As soon as he heard this, his brother immediately came to his senses, and said on the spot that he would definitely help.