Chapter 222: Strange Request

The shopkeeper carefully talked about what had happened that day, and I kept observing the expressions of him and all the staff in the store. When Du Lei went to the coffin shop to pick up the coffin, it was raining heavily, and the store was already closed, which was definitely a problem, unless Du Lei was in an emergency, he would not choose to pick up the coffin during that time period.

What is he anxious about? Suicide in a hurry? Apparently not, because the time of his death was not the day the coffin was delivered, but the day after.

According to the owner of the coffin shop, Du Lei paid a lot of money, I asked for the detailed price, and when the boss said it, we were all shocked. Including the cost of building and transporting the coffin, according to the market price, it only costs a few hundred yuan, but Du Lei paid nearly 10,000 yuan.

The owner of the coffin shop regretted it very much, and he said that if he had known that he would be involved in this matter, he would never have taken this business.

"Go on, what did he ask for later?" I asked.

The owner of the coffin shop nodded, because he collected a lot of money, so he and several employees sent the coffin to the designated place for Du Lei. The driver is also a neighbor of this street, and he has a small truck, and he usually takes over the business of transporting goods and makes a living from it. The shopkeeper informed him that he had a business, so he readily took it.

When he got in the car, the owner of the coffin shop knew that Du Lei asked to send the coffin to another city, at night, the driving was much slower than during the day, he pondered for a while, I am afraid it will take more than four hours to go back and forth, but so much money is there, he agreed.

There are only two positions in the truck, one driver's seat and one co-pilot, Du Lei is a customer, and the owner of the coffin shop of course asked him to sit in the co-pilot, but Du Lei refused. He climbed directly into the back compartment of the truck, Du Lei doesn't like to talk, and the shopkeeper is not reluctant, just when he is a rich man, in the eyes of the coffin shop owner, the rich have such an attitude towards the poor.

Several employees carried the coffin into the back compartment, and the car drove for nearly two hours to the place designated by Du Lei. The shopkeeper said that when he was on the road, he sat in the front seat, so he didn't know if Du Lei had any strange behavior during those two hours. There is an iron window between the front seat and the rear compartment, and when the truck is about to enter the town, Du Lei asks the driver to stop through the iron window.

"This man is very strange, before the car entered the town, he asked us to stop and asked us to carry the coffin into the village!" The owner of the coffin shop said.

This is the same as I speculated before, the small truck, that is, the truck, this kind of car drives, the sound is very loud, according to the time calculation, when Du Lei and the coffin shop owner are about to arrive in the town, it is about one o'clock in the morning, at that time, the residents of the town have already slept, and the whole town is very quiet.

In this case, the truck drove into the town, and it was impossible for the whole town not to hear it. However, through the police investigation, no residents said that a relatively large car entered the town that night, so the coffin must have been sent into Xu Yi's house on foot.

"Did he behave strangely while on the road?" I asked the staff. Several employees sat in the back compartment with Du Lei.

Several employees thought about it, and finally shook their heads. They said that Du Lei did not speak all the way, but just rested his head on the coffin, as if he was sleeping.

"And then?" The criminal police asked.

"Such a heavy coffin, even if there are many of us, it is enough to carry it into the town. Everyone was tired of the day, of course they didn't want to, but the man was tough and said that if we didn't do it, he asked us to return the money to him! The coffin shop owner sighed.

At that time, he felt that the money was really not so easy to earn, he collected all the money, and sent it so far away for others, he couldn't let the duck fly to his beak. In desperation, they had to agree, and the driver was only responsible for the delivery, so he waited on the truck.

The owner of the coffin shop and several employees carried the coffin, and Du Lei led the way in front, and they carried the coffin for more than ten minutes. Finally, Du Lei stopped at the door of a family. After Du Lei opened the door, he asked them to carry the coffin into the house.

"It was dark in the house, and the man didn't turn on the lights, and when we crossed the threshold, we almost tripped up!" The coffin shop owner complained.

I caught a detail he said, Du Lei opened the door and entered.

"He has the key?" I asked.

The owner of the coffin shop looked at me suspiciously: "Yes, he opened the door with a key and went in." "The owner of the coffin shop still thinks that it is Du Lei's home, and it is very normal to go to his house and enter with a key.

I nodded and let the shopkeeper continue.

Everyone felt very tired after carrying the coffin for so long, and after putting down the coffin, everyone wanted to leave, and Du Lei did not stop them. But they didn't take a few steps before Du Lei stopped them again.

"This man is really weird, and he makes a very strange request." The owner of the coffin shop said to us.

Before he could say anything, I guessed what Du Lei's strange request was, and sure enough, the owner of the coffin shop continued to say that Du Lei asked them to lock the door from the outside. The shopkeeper thought it was strange at the time, but Du Lei repeatedly asked the coffin shop owner to do so.

In order to go back early, the coffin shop owner finally agreed. Hearing this, Jiang Jun shouted angrily: "Don't you think it's strange!" ”

The owner of the coffin shop and several employees were frightened by Jiang Jun, and the owner of the coffin shop nodded hurriedly, saying that he thought it was strange, but he felt that it was okay to lock the front door, and the back door could be opened from the house. Du Lei didn't turn on the lights, so he didn't notice that the house didn't have a back door at all, only a back window fenced off by an iron fence.

There are some old houses that don't have a back door, and in the area of Xu Yi's family, the old houses don't have a back door, unless they are rebuilt later.

"Comrade policeman, it's really none of our business!" The owner of the coffin shop begged bitterly: "We are only responsible for beating the coffin and delivering the coffin, we have no grudge against him, and there is no reason to harm him at all!" ”

The owner of the coffin shop was about to cry, and at this time, the driver who was in charge of driving was also found. He said he rarely took on business that late, but the coffin shop owner gave him a lot of money, so he agreed. After parking, the driver's remarks were the same as those of the owner and employees of the coffin shop, and it was indeed Du Lei who asked for parking and asked everyone to send the coffin into the town on foot.

After the inquiry, we did not leave immediately, because the owner of the coffin shop closed the shop and suspended business because of the police visit. Everyone was sitting in the coffin shop, the store was full of the smell of burning paper, and I leaned back against a coffin, thinking carefully about Du Lei's purpose.

After a while, the police who called to inquire brought the news. They followed the phone numbers in the contact book one by one, and finally found a few customers who knew about it. When Du Lei asked the owner of the coffin shop to make the coffin for him, they happened to be in the coffin shop.

They all heard Du Lei ask the coffin shop owner to build a coffin according to his own body shape, which proved that the coffin shop owner was indeed not lying. While we were waiting, the detective went to the vicinity of the coffin shop to inquire about the news. Several employees are also on the street, and they have been working in the coffin shop for several years.

Everyone said that a few employees and the owner of the coffin shop were very good, and if there was a funeral at the neighbor's house, the boss would lower the price.

Jiang Jun asked me what to do next, I thought about it and asked the police if they had found the key in Xu Yi's house, the criminal police shook their heads, they said that the criminal police searched the entire house and did not find any keys. Eventually, we decided to go back to Xu Yi's town to find the key that Du Lei used to open the door.

Before the case was investigated, the police temporarily listed the person in the coffin shop as a suspect, because the evidence was insufficient, the police had no way to arrest him, so they could only send criminal police to observe nearby.

We got in the car and went back to Xu Yi's house again. It was almost dark, and because of the murder, Xu Yi's house was sealed. The criminal police searched in the house, and Jiang Jun and I searched around the grass near Xu Yi's house, and we searched carefully for more than half an hour, and finally, I found a key under a big tree.

The keys are new.