Chapter 2 Investigating Neighbors

Lei Baoquan and Li Bai looked at each other, Li Bai just wanted to say something about his opinion, Sun Duo said again: "But"

"But what?" Lei Baoquan asked.

"But Tan Yan has always said that Xie Tao is the murderer." Sun Duo shrugged and said.

"Who is Xie Tao?" Li Bai was strange.

Sun Duo turned around, pointed to the direction where the two had just come, only two families separated from the victim's house, and said, "It's their neighbor, named Xie Tao, male, 26 years old this year. Tan Yan said that in the middle of the night last night, she couldn't sleep because of Xie Tao's cat, so she asked Peng Daliang to come to his house to have a look, and something happened. ”

"What about Xie Taoren?" Lei Baoquan asked.

Sun Duo took the two of them to move to the side to facilitate Luo Yiyang's work, and said, "Now that there is no one at home, I have already found someone to contact him." ”

The three of them walked to the door of Xie Tao's house, and vaguely heard a cat barking inside.

Li Bai pouted and said, "What kind of cat does a big man have?" ”

Lei Baoquan gave him a blank look and said, "Didn't you also raise one?" ”

Li Bai remembered that he had also raised one, so he stopped answering. The door of the room next to Xie Tao's house was open, and an old man stood at the door, being questioned by a policeman.

The three of them heard the old man say, "I heard, there was indeed a cat meow last night." ”

When Lei Baoquan heard this, he leaned forward and asked, "Uncle, you said you heard it?" ”

The uncle saw that there were three people around, as if he attached great importance to what he said, so he straightened his chest a little proudly, and said: "I am old, but I am not deaf, during this time, his cat barks at night, oops, the noise makes people so upset, I have told him several times, every time his attitude is very good, and it is an apology and a guarantee, and I am embarrassed to say anything." ”

"And you didn't hear anything else last night?" Lei Baoquan asked again.

Uncle, let's click, let's have a mouth with only a few teeth left. Q: "For example?" ”

Lei Baoquan was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, do you want me to give you a range? He said, "For example, do you hear footsteps, talking, etc." ”

The uncle thought about it thoughtfully, and finally shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Are you sure? Just last night between twelve and half past twelve. The interrogating officer emphasized again.

"Oh! You say between twelve and half past twelve! Uncle's tone suddenly rose. Seems to have remembered something.

Lei Baoquan and a few people seemed to see hope, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle, did you remember?" ”

The uncle nodded and said, "I'm old, but I don't have a bad memory." I remember that I had fallen asleep between twelve and half past twelve. I'll tell you. My old man's life is very regular, eat at the end of the day, sleep at the end of the day, the thunder can't move! Take the last time we were in the senior center."

Lei Baoquan and a few people thought that the old man had heard something, but they didn't expect to say a bunch of useless words, so they left disappointed, and the old man was still talking endlessly behind.

"What about the other neighbors? Has anyone provided any clues? Lei Baoquan looked at the entire floor, this is an old-fashioned family residential building, which is older than the building he lives in, but the internal facilities are okay. It's just that cameras are not installed like the current high-end residential buildings.

"Not yet" Before Sun Duo finished speaking, he heard someone next to him shouting: "Team Sun!" ”

The three of them looked back and saw that Sun Duo was a police officer who was doing an investigation in another house, which was across the door from Xie Tao's house. In front of the police officer stood a woman in her forties, who was beckoning them to pass.

"What's wrong?" The three of them walked over, and Sun Duo asked.

"She seems to have something to say." The officer gestured to the woman in front of him.

When the woman saw the "leader" coming, she was a little nervous, brushed her hair and said, "Just now I heard you ask the uncle next door if you heard anything, I seem to have heard something." ”

"Tell me about it." Lei Baoquan motioned for her to continue.

The woman recalled: "Xie Tao had several cats, and his cats were very lively. Like to call. It starts to bark every once in a while, and it lasts for about half a month. It started again a few days ago, and our old neighbors got used to it, and we talked to him at first. I didn't bother to say it later. Last night, I don't know why, his cat barked for a long time, and it was still barking in the middle of the night, making me noisy, and I couldn't sleep. And then. I dimly heard the sound of walking in the hallway, and then I heard someone knocking on the door. But I don't know which door I knocked on, but after knocking on the door, the cat's meow was gone, and I think it might be Peng Daliang who went to Xie Tao to talk to him. ”

"You mean you heard a knock on the door?" Lei Baoquan repeated.

"Yes."

"Are you sure?" Lei Baoquan asked again.

His question, coupled with the torch-like gaze, made the woman lose her confidence, thought about it and said, "It seems to be so." ”

"Anything else?" Sun Duo asked.

"Uh, no." The woman shook her head.

The three of them came to the side, and Lei Baoquan said first: "If the voice she heard is correct, it proves that Peng Daliang was not killed as soon as he went out, but had negotiated with Xie Tao before he died, and he was killed after the negotiation." Then this is what we have to investigate. ”

"And what if she misheard?" Li Bai questioned.

Lei Baoquan said, "What are you going to do?" "Why do you always disagree with me?" ”

"I'm not talking against you, she just said it, she's not sure, so what if she heard it wrong? Isn't it the wrong direction for our investigation? Li Bai said innocently.

"Either way, Xie Tao is now an important suspect." Sun Duo said, "Moreover, Xiao Luo also said that the injuries on the deceased's body were scratched, what do you think, what can catch people?" ”

"Cats!" Li Bai suddenly shouted.

Sun Duo nodded, but Lei Baoquan waved his hand and said, "Look at the size of the wound, even if it is a scratch, how can it be scratched by a cat?" It's pretty much the same to say it's a tiger. ”

"Uncle Lei, you don't know, some cats are very powerful, that claw is sharper than a knife, and if you scratch it lightly, even if it is a deep wound, it is not easy to heal." Li Bai explained.

"That's too much to say it's a cat scratch." Lei Baoquan still didn't believe it.

"It's okay, we'll know when the specific autopsy report comes out." Sun Duo said.

The three of them walked into Peng Daliang's house again, Peng Daliang's wife Tan Yan was still sitting there sad and crying, and the female police officer next to her asked for a long time, but there were still no more valuable clues. Sun Duo nodded at her, signaling that she could go out, and then the three of them sat in front of Tan Yan.

Tan Yan wiped her tears, saw three people in plain clothes sitting in front of her, and said, "They all asked me just now, and I told everything I knew, you have to hurry up and solve the case!" We can't let our old Peng die so unclear. (To be continued.) )