Chapter 149: The Old Man's Whereabouts
"And after that? Didn't find anyone? Xu Tian asked.
"Because the staff on the merchant ship could not confirm that the person who boarded the ship at that time was the suspect we were looking for, and the young man who got on the ship never got off the ship at all, only a few of the staff on the merchant ship had met with him." Yu Yi said.
"Missing on the dress?" Xu Tian asked.
Suffice it to say, none of the people who had met the young man had an impression of him, because the testimony provided to the police by the staff of the merchant ship at the time said that when the young man was calling for help at the pier, he saw that the merchant ship had a tendency to rescue him, and the young man jumped into the sea and swam in the direction of the merchant ship. When the young men got on board, they were arranged to rest in the rest room, and since the merchant ships were not very far inland at that time, the young men were not given food and baths. Because the staff on the merchant ship had been away from home for a long time, everyone was in a hurry to go home, and no one cared about the young man who was rescued on the ship, and many of them had even forgotten about the young man who was rescued on the ship before the police launched an investigation on the ship. Yu Yi said.
"Although there are some illogical circumstances in this, the suspect has not been contacted, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"You don't mean logical, why would you be rescued by merchant ships when you call for help at the docks on the island?" Yu Yi asked.
"It's really unconscionable." Xu Tian said.
According to the reply given by the staff on the merchant ship at that time, it was because the young man shouted very loudly when he asked for help, as if someone was chasing him, and the merchant ship wanted to dock to see if there was any situation, but the young man himself jumped into the sea first, and after rescuing the young man on the ship, he didn't see anyone on the pier, so the staff in the mall didn't pay much attention to these things, and another important reason is what I just said, the people on the merchant ship haven't gone home for a long time. They were in a hurry to get home, so they ignored it. Yu Yi said.
"Sounds reasonable, but since then, you've shifted your suspicions to the old woman, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"Because the case that happened in the ancestral hall is so unbelievable, and I have observed the grandmother pretending to be stupid before, the most suspicious person must be the grandmother." Yu Yi said.
"You suspect that the old lady must have a basis too, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"Because on the night of the fourth case, I didn't see my grandmother come out of the ancestral hall. You have heard the deeds of the grandmother before, every day the grandmother will go to the ancestral hall, almost from the afternoon to the evening, the grandmother will definitely go out of the ancestral hall, sometimes it will be early to noon or morning, anyway, the grandmother has never spent the night in the ancestral hall, and her grandson Lao Ma will not allow the grandmother to spend the night in the ancestral hall. On the night of the fourth case, I had been staring outside the ancestral hall, and I was living in a small house outside the ancestral hall gate, and I knew in my heart that the case was in a white-hot stage, so I stared at the ancestral hall while thinking about the case. I began to stare at the door of the ancestral hall almost in the afternoon, that day I heard the watchman complain that the grandmother had not come out, and then the village leader and the old horse entered the ancestral hall, they were sighing when they came out, I also went out to say hello to them, according to the news I heard at that time, the old grandmother just refused to go home that day, it was the Double Ninth Festival, so the old horse wanted to take the old grandmother home earlier. After that, I went back to the small house and continued to stare at the ancestral hall, and I did not see my grandmother walk out of the ancestral hall until the sun went down. After the night fell, because I had an appointment with Mr. Xu that day, I rushed to Mr. Xu's house, on the way I also met the old horse who went to the ancestral hall to find the old grandmother, I also reprimanded the old horse, why didn't I go to pick up the old grandmother in the afternoon, why wait until the sun set before coming, the old horse also felt a little ashamed at the time, and I said a few words and rushed to the ancestral hall. It wasn't until the early morning after the incident that I learned during the investigation that no one had seen the grandmother leave that night, but the old horse said that he had picked up the grandmother that night, and the grandmother did sleep in her house in the early morning! However, according to my investigation, neither the watchman of the ancestral hall nor the daytime caretaker of the ancestral hall has ever seen the grandmother leave. Yu Yi said.
"There are two doubts in this, the first is whether the caretaker or watchman of the ancestral hall saw the old horse go to the ancestral hall to pick up the old grandmother after the sun set; The second suspicion is whether the police officers in the ancestral hall who were staring at the stage saw the grandmother leave. Xu Tian asked.
"The watchman did see Lao Ma walk into the ancestral hall after the shift was handed over, but the watchman told me that Lao Ma walked out by himself after about ten minutes after he entered, and the old grandmother did not follow him out of the ancestral hall, but Lao Ma denied this incident, and Lao Ma insisted that he had left with his grandmother, because the watchman was a drunkard, he drank a lot of alcohol that night, and the watchman was also very unsound when he usually talked to others, so his testimony was not accepted by the police." Yu Yi said.
"But there should always be police officers watching the stage in the backyard of the ancestral hall, right? Didn't anyone see when the old woman left? Xu Tian asked.
"There were indeed some situations that day, the police officers who were guarding the backyard of the ancestral hall during the day were temporarily transferred to Caogang Village in the evening, and there was an incident in Caogang Village where the dog temple was smashed that day, and people were injured. Yu Yi said.
"Your people who are secretly investigating this island have also been transferred?" Xu Tian asked.
"That's not true, but on that day, our people received an order temporarily, and most of them went to have a small meeting, and the time when the day shift and the night shift people handed over was the time for a small meeting, so the backyard of the ancestral hall was unguarded for about twenty minutes, and then when the night shift people went to stare at the stage, the old grandmother was gone, but the lights in the backyard of the ancestral hall had not been extinguished at that time, so the night police officer could be sure that there was no one else in the backyard of the ancestral hall." Yu Yi said.