Chapter 6: The Scar Man's Suspicion

"Team Wang, is this the beautiful writer you invited?" Wang Shen took Xu Xiaolin and just walked into the office hall of the police force, and the big guys all raised their heads, looked at Wang Shen first, and then moved their eyes to Xu Xiaolin. When everyone saw Xu Xiaolin's appearance clearly, the curiosity in everyone's eyes gradually turned into surprise. Wang Shen didn't explain much, just said hello to everyone. Xu Xiaolin was much more generous, walking all the way, smiling and waving to everyone all the way.

Wang Shen pushed open the door of his office, invited Xu Xiaolin to sit down, and put a cup of tea in front of Xu Xiaolin. "Do you think there's anything wrong?" Wang Shen took a sip of tea and put all the notebooks and photos in his pocket on the desk.

"It's a big problem." Xu Xiaolin also opened her notebook, quickly glanced at her records, and frowned slightly.

"Tell me more about it."

Xu Xiaolin stared at the notebook and nodded. "You asked Manager Han if there was any character in his tone when Han Mo made that ordering call. Manager Han's answer was 'trembling'. Under what circumstances does a person's tone tremble? If it were me, I would probably have spoken in a trembling tone when my body was extremely cold and extremely scared. In both cases, extreme cold can be ruled out. Because of the climate in the south, even in winter, I don't think it's going to be 'extremely cold'. Unless naked. Xu Xiaolin laughed. Then there may be a second situation, Han Mo was in a state of extreme fear when he made that call. If so, we can speculate on the reason why Han Mo was extremely scared. I think it's a life-threatening threat. ”

"You mean that when Han Mo made that call, the murderer might be around?"

"It's also possible that Han Mo knows that danger is approaching." Xu Xiaolin guessed while drawing a line on her notebook.

"Regardless of whether the murderer was by Han Mo's side at the time, in that case, why did Han Mo make an order call?"

"It may be that the murderer forced Han Mo to beat him in order to find a way to make his own alibi."

"It's possible." Wang Shen put the teacup in his hand on the table, pursed his lips, and tapped his eyebrows with his index finger. "But what can make a person's tone 'tremble' is actually another state, pain!"

"Pain?" Xu Xiaolin didn't quite understand what Wang Shen meant at first, but after tapping a few times on the notebook with the tip of the pen, she suddenly realized. "You mean to say that Han Mo was already stabbed? Did she make this call after being stabbed? But that doesn't make sense. Why did Han Mo make this call after he was stabbed? Looking for help? That's not right, why don't you just call the police or call the hospital. Xu Xiaolin said many questions in one breath.

"Indeed, I still have no way of explaining the problems you mentioned." The tone of "trembling" was due to fear or pain, and it is still unclear. However, from the perspective of rationality, the possibility of fear is a little higher at present. "Since we can't answer this question right now, let's skip it for now and move on to what else you've found."

"Do you remember this menu?" Xu Xiaolin turned a few pages forward of the notebook, and put the menu written by Manager Han in front of Wang Shen again. "Sweet and sour pork ribs, hairy blood? Squirrel osmanthus fish, boiled pork slices? Although humans are omnivores, and with the development of the times, human tastes have become more diverse. But it's rare for a person to eat at the same restaurant and order such a different dish. There may also be some people who want to eat some sweet dishes at noon and some spicy dishes in the evening to change the taste, which is understandable. But Han Mo is a frequent customer of 'spicy' restaurants, and the change of cuisine is not a relationship between noon and night. According to Manager Han, Han Mo is the first menu every time he eats in, and every takeaway is the second menu. Why is this so? ”

"You might have some inspiration when you look at this." After speaking, Wang Shen walked to the filing cabinet, opened the cabinet door, took out a piece of paper from a pile of files and handed it to Xu Xiaolin.

Xu Xiaolin picked up the paper in her hand and looked at it carefully. "Han Mo, female, from Wuxi......" Han Mo's fingers slid on the paper, and his mouth was silently reading Han Mo's file data. When Han Mo's origin was silently recited, Xu Xiaolin's fingers paused. "Han Mo is from Wuxi?" Xu Xiaolin looked at Wang Shen in surprise. Wang Shen nodded. "So, the first menu is Han Mo's favorite taste, right?" Xu Xiaolin looked at Wang Shen and asked.

"Like you said, people are very tolerant of food tastes these days. Han Mo is a native of Wuxi, so she naturally likes sweet dishes, but she doesn't rule out liking Sichuan cuisine. But every time Han Mo eats in, he mainly eats beets and rarely orders Sichuan food, so it can be inferred from here that Han Mo's taste is still sweet, or he doesn't like spicy dishes so much. So, why is it that the takeaway is all Sichuan cuisine, and there is hardly a beet among them? ”

"If you extrapolate from this line of thinking, dine-in Han Mo orders according to his own taste, but take-out Han Mo is accommodating to others." Xu Xiaolin tapped the pen on the notebook a few times and said her judgment.

"That's right. From the number of takeaways, we can see that there is always a person who will go in and out of Han Mo's house. And this person must be someone that Han Mo values very much. Otherwise, how could Han Mo be so accommodating to this person's taste. Also, the person who was accommodated by Han Mo must be very fond of Sichuan cuisine. ”

"Then this person could be the murderer?" Xu Xiaolin wrote the word "murderer" in her notebook and drew a circle.

"Quite possibly."

"In this case, we can start with the household registration, the Sichuan and Chongqing household registration." Xu Xiaolin tapped the pen on the notebook again, as if she had found a breakthrough.

Wang Shen couldn't help laughing twice, took a sip of tea, and said, "My beautiful writer, do you think that only people from Sichuan and Chongqing eat Sichuan food now?" People all over the country like to eat Sichuan food, and if we look for it according to taste, then we will be busy. ”

Xu Xiaolin knocked on the door of her head with a pen, thought about it, what Wang Shen said was indeed reasonable, and then crossed out the words "Sichuan and Chongqing" on the notebook. "Anyway, we still found some clues, at least we know that there is a person close to him in Han Mo's house. By the way, speaking of this person, do you remember the person who often went in and out of the restaurant with Han Mo mentioned by Manager Han? ”

"You're talking about this person?" Wang Shen picked out one from the pile of photos on the table, faced Xu Xiaolin, and held it in his hand.

"That's right, it's him. You should know who he is. ”

"This person's name is Xiao Lin, and he is Han Mo's former assistant, who is responsible for helping Han Mo contact some reader meetings."

"To put it simply, it's Han Mo's personal secretary?"

"So to speak."

"Is it possible for this person to ......?"

"Nope." Before Wang Shen could finish speaking, Wang Shen shook his head with a smile. "He shouldn't be Han Mo's lover, let alone the person in the house."

"Are you so sure?" Xu Xiaolin pouted, revealing an unconvinced expression.

"It should be certain. Han Mo and his assistant Xiao Lin often go to the 'spicy' restaurant to eat, and they order all the dishes that Han Mo likes to eat. Han Mo didn't seem to have any intention of accommodating Xiao Lin. I also investigated Xiao Lin's information, and it was a coincidence that Xiao Lin was from Sichuan. ”

"That's right." Xu Xiaolin interrupted Wang Shen's words. "Xiao Lin is from Sichuan, so Han Mo and Xiao Lin reached an agreement to eat sweet food during the day and spicy food at night."

"If you want to say that......" Wang Shen paused.

"Can't refute it?" Xu Xiaolin looked at Wang Shen proudly and took a sip of tea.

"There is a real possibility. However, my experience in handling cases tells me that this Xiao Lin has nothing to do with Han Mo. In short, let's list him as our suspect first. Besides, I'm going to visit him after all. ”

After Wang Shen finished speaking, he saw Xu Xiaolin quickly write down Wang Shen's words on the paper. After Xu Xiaolin finished writing the main points, she turned the book forward two more pages and said, "It's not just that, the mobile phone ringtone mentioned by the delivery man Ah Cheng and the big man are also very strange. First of all, let's talk about the ringtone. According to Ah Cheng's description, Han Mo's mobile phone should have been in the house at that time, and the door had been locked. What we need to figure out is whether Han Mo was alive or dead when Ah Cheng went to deliver the food. ”

"I've looked into this early in the morning. According to telephone records, Han Mo ordered the meal at about 9:45 that night, and according to the distance, Ah Cheng's delivery time should be around half past ten. Judging by the time of death given by the forensic doctor, Han Mo's time of death should be between twelve and one o'clock at midnight. Therefore, when Ah Cheng went to deliver food, Han Mo should still be alive. ”

"If so, do you think it's possible that the murderer was in the house at the time? If the murderer was indeed in the house at the time, why didn't Han Mo call for help? ”

"The murderer may be in the house, and the reason why Han Mo didn't call for help may be that he was restrained." Wang Shen picked up the marker on the table, walked to the wall on the left, and used the marker pen to write some important information on the plastic blackboard hanging on the wall. "Trembling tone", "Different menus", "Assistant Xiao Lin", "Mobile phone ringtone", ...... Then a big question mark was put on it.

"And that big man, it's him, this scar man. Who is he? Xu Xiaolin walked to Wang Shen's desk by herself and flipped out the photo of the scar man from a pile of photos.

"He is Han Mo's stepfather." Wang Shen glanced at the scar man and explained.

"Huh? Stepfather? Han Mo's? Xu Xiaolin was obviously surprised.

"That's right. I investigated Han Mo's file. Why are you so surprised, do you think that a glamorous person like Han Mo can't have anything to do with this kind of person? ”

According to Ah Cheng, this man must have gone to Han Mo that day. Judging from the clues that are now in hand, he is the most suspicious. Xu Xiaolin wrote the words "scar man" in the notebook again.