Chapter 21: The Landlady of the Miscellaneous Courtyard
Miss Xu...... When Xiao Wu talked about Xu Mei, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but have a smile.
He had a very good impression of this Miss Xu. She has a quiet temperament throughout her life, doing things meticulously and cautiously, and that day she happened to see her stepdaughter, holding her arm and calling her mother. It can be seen that she is also very good at managing her own family life. Such a person will be a murderer?
"Who did your client see was committing the crime?"
"No, but she was later instructed by a master and decided that it was a copycat."
"Dead masters?" Xiao Wu smiled.
"The dead master is also a master, I think the master is very right, you can come here to verify the case from fourteen years ago shows that you have read the old case records, Qin Su'e's murder case is classified in the Rainy Night Killer series, but it is obvious that her death is different from the previous four people."
Xiao Wu nodded and said, "Yes, the four deceased were all killed when they were alone, only Qin Su'e, her daughter was at the scene when she was killed." ”
"The murderer is so cruel, he actually let that girl go, don't you think there must be a reason for this? Also, Qin Su'e said that the victims of the four cases had been violated, and she was not violated, maybe the murderer saw her daughter at the scene and did not do it, which is also very strange, the murderer took into account the feelings of the little girl many times and did not hurt her. ”
"All five victims died of severe head injuries as a result of being hit on the head with a stick. The incidents took place on a rainy night, and in two of the cases, witnesses saw that the man in the raincoat had committed the crime, which was the reason why the series of cases were able to be combined. ”
"Stick to the head?" Ye Quan smiled, "If I say that the first case is that Xiao Fengxian was killed here, he was hit on the head by a sugar cane and died, and the murderer directly ate that sugar cane, do you believe it?" ”
Xiao Wu was shocked: "You are sure that these are true." ”
"It's more true than pearls, it's what it told me." Ye Yuan pointed to the old apricot tree at the exit opposite.
Xiao Wu lowered his head and pondered: "I'm looking for the old man who first found the victim back then." ”
The first person to find the body of Xiao Fengxian was an old man who lived near here, who was responsible for cleaning a few alleys and getting a little money from the city government, of course, the sanitation fee was also paid by the people in these alleys, and the wool was out of the sheep.
The old man was in his fifties at the time, and according to the archival records, he lived in a large courtyard in the alley next door.
The landlady had just had breakfast and picked her teeth with a toothpick: "Lao Huang, it's dead." ”
"Dead!" Ye Liang hurriedly asked, "When did you die?" ”
"When? Hey, I've been dead for five or six years. There is a lonely old man, and when he dies, there is nothing left, and the people in our yard still put together money to bury it. When the landlady said this, she raised her head proudly, "It's still what I proposed, this is a good deed, a virtuous one." ”
"Now there are so few people who think that the landlady is really kind and selfless." Ye Limit praised. The landlady held a toothpick in her mouth and smiled: "Hey, how can it be as good as you say, and it's not selfless." Hehe. ”
Her eyes suddenly rolled: "What are you looking for Lao Huang for?" Are you his relatives? Ah, this dressed person looks like a rich man, let me tell you, in fact, Lao Huang owes me two months' rent, you two ......"
After speaking, he looked them up and down. Xiao Wu said with a straight face: "I'm a policeman." He took out Paisi and shook it in front of the landlady's eyes.
"Oh, it's a policeman, it's really young...... It's promising. ”
The landlady smirked.
"Do you know the case of Xiao Fengxian being murdered in July fourteen years ago, the case that happened in Xinglin Lane."
Xiao Wu thought that this large compound looked very large, and the people who lived there were also three religions and nine streams, and this landlady might be able to know something if she came into contact with such people every day.
Sure enough, the landlady slapped her thigh: "I know, oh, you have found the right person, I'll tell you, I'm ......."
She looked at Ye Quan, and suddenly smiled again: "It's hot, and you have to be thirsty if you talk a lot, this tea, tea, and briquettes are also used to boil some water, wow, this is asking for money everywhere, hehe, Nong knows, right?" ”
Ye Liang looked at Xiao Wu, who reluctantly took out a bill and pressed it in the landlady's hand.
"Mr. Policeman, I'll tell you, it's right for you to ask me, that incident, it's been fourteen years, right, Lao Huang has been honest and inconspicuous all his life, but I didn't expect to encounter that incident, he has been bragging about it later, and he always takes it out to say it, I remember it very clearly, he said that he suspected that the murderer was a stinky person."
"Murder who asks for food?" Ye Liang and Xiao Wu both came to the spirit.
The landlady was even more proud: "Mr. Policeman, don't take your money for nothing, I have the best memory, I remember what Lao Huang said back then, he said that there was a person who asked for food near Xinglin Lane, that person was crazy and long-haired, smelly, that person looked at the woman's eyes wrong, this is all Lao Huang said, he said that the look was scary, that day he swept the floor, and saw a person under the mat in the corner, and thought it was the meal, because it was the person's mat that asked for the meal, but when it was opened, it was a little phoenix, naked, It's so white, it's white, it's not what I said, Lao Huang said that back then. ”
The landlady spoke passionately.
"Didn't he tell the police about that later?"
"These are all things he said when he bragged later, I think he can just brag, and he must have been scared to death when he saw the corpse, where did he think of so much, and then he remembered it."
The landlady laughed and said, "It's worth the money, isn't it?" ”
Seeing Ye Liang and Xiao Wu walk out of the courtyard, she took out a handkerchief from the buckle and waved goodbye: "If there is anything to ask again, the price is negotiable." ”
"A beggar wandering around the neighborhood is most likely the murderer." Ye Liang judged.
Xiao Wu frowned and didn't speak.
If what the landlady said is true, then Qin Su'e's claim of imitation murder is very likely to be true.
Because the four cases were all accidents in the alleys near here, only Qin Su'e's family lived in a neighborhood with relatively good conditions at the time, with courtyard walls and gates, and it was still a little difficult for a strange beggar to enter the house.
Xinghua said that when the murderer passed by her, he was covered in stink, and it was hot and humid when the crime occurred, and it was normal for a beggar to stink. Moreover, the murderer actually ate the sugar cane of the murderer after killing people. Yang Lao Wu said very clearly, at that time, Xiao Fengxian also laughed at him for using moldy sugarcane juice to harm people, a moldy sugarcane will not taste good, and it has just been used to kill people, and the people who can eat it are either born perverts, or people who have no requirements for the quality of food, but they love food very much. Ye Liang finally judged, "Looking at it this way, only beggars meet this condition." ”