Tian Chunda instructed Xue Zhicheng that you immediately let your subordinates carry out an order.

Xue Zhicheng took out his mobile phone and asked: What order?

Tian Chunda said: Let them immediately go to all the apprentices of Tong Ruide and ask them if Tong Ruide has asked them to assist in catching the thief recently? Did you catch it?

Xue Zhicheng immediately used his mobile phone to give orders to his subordinates. He looked at Tian Chunda with admiration and said, "It's still the teacher who thinks far." If Tong Ruide wants to catch the thief, he is weak, and he will definitely mobilize his apprentices to assist him. Tian Chunda once lectured in the training class for criminal investigation cadres in the city, so Xue Zhicheng called him a teacher.

Tian Chunda replied: "Don't put a high hat on me." And he said, "Is there any smoke?" Give me one. ”

Xue Zhicheng hurriedly handed over a cigarette, Tian Chunda took the cigarette and glanced at it with a smile on his face, "Your cigarette is not bad." Xue Zhicheng hurriedly took out a lighter and lit a cigarette for the teacher.

Tong Ruide lives on the first floor of the family building of the county party committee. He was a little surprised to see the criminal police visiting, but he still politely invited the criminal police into the living room.

Xue Zhicheng introduced Tian Chunda with a smile: "This is Tian Chunda, the deputy head of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment and the leader of the group of serious cases, and also my teacher."

Tong Ruide was busy shaking hands with Tian Chunda and saying hello.

Xue Zhicheng introduced Hao Dong again: "This is Hao Dong, a cadre of the serious case group."

Tong Ruide shook hands with Hao Dong again and said hello.

After everyone sat down, Tian Chunda looked at Tong Ruide and said, "We are here for routine business, and we want to know some about the situation."

Tong Ruide said: "I will cooperate." But please speak softly, my mother has a heart attack and is lying in bed, and I don't want to frighten her. ”

Tian Chunda nodded: "Let's talk quietly." He whispered again, "Are you two the only ones in the house now?"

Tong Ruide replied in a low voice: "My wife took the child back to her parents' house."

Tian Chunda asked again: "Do you know about the theft of the office of Secretary Xiao of the county party committee?"

Tong Ruide shook his head: "I don't know about this situation." ”

Tian Chunda thought to himself, it seems that Tong Ruide doesn't want to tell the truth. The criminal police had already investigated with Qu Yunxiang, a cleaner in the county party committee office building, and she said that when she was mopping the floor with a mop in the corridor, she heard Tong Ruide exclaim after walking into Secretary Xiao's office: "What? Stolen!" Then I heard the sound of cleaning up in the room, which may have been turned over by thieves.

But now Tong Ruide said that he didn't know about the theft of Secretary Xiao's office. Tian Chunda didn't expose him immediately, and asked: "Did you go out in the middle of the night in the days before and after the Lantern Festival?" The reason why he asked this was because the medical examiner told him that Xu Chuan's time of death was a few days before and after the Lantern Festival.

Tong Ruide shook his head again, "I slept at home and didn't go out." ”

Tian Chunda felt that Tong Ruide didn't want to tell the truth, so he asked again: "Where is the car you drove now?" ”

Tong Ruide said: "In the garage behind the county party committee compound."

Tian Chunda said, "You take us to have a look."

Before getting into the police car, Tian Chunda said two words in Hao Dong's ear, but he didn't get into the car.

After the police car drove away, Hao Dong returned to Tong Ruide's house. He came to Tong Ruide's mother's bedroom door and knocked on the door and asked in a low voice: "Aunt Tong, I am a policeman, and I want to ask you something old."

Aunt Tong said in the house, "Please come in."

Hao Dong walked into the house, sat on the edge of Aunt Tong's bed, and said softly: "Auntie, may I ask you, have you ever gone out at night in the days before and after the Lantern Festival?"

Aunt Tong replied: "I don't sleep well, I often wake up at night, I heard that Rhett went out in the two days before and after the Lantern Festival, and he didn't come back until dawn."

Hao Dong asked, "Then didn't you ask him what he was doing when he went out at night?"

Aunt Tong shook her head, "I didn't ask." Rhett is driving for the county party secretary and requires a strict mouth. He never told us or asked us. But I think he went out two nights to check the safety of the festival with Secretary Xiao. Isn't it time to call for greater security at the festival? ”

"Hmm. I don't have anything else to do, so let's have a good rest. After that, Hao Dong said goodbye and left.

Tian Chunda and others went to the garage in the backyard of the county party committee and began to inspect the Audi car driven by Tong Ruide. When inspecting the trunk of the car, Tian Chunda saw a box containing a complete set of wrenches. When I opened it, there should be five wrenches of different sizes inside, but one large one was missing.

Tian Chunda asked Tong Ruide: "Why is there one less wrench in this box?"

Tong Ruide replied: "I lost a handful while repairing the car on the road."

Tian Chunda asked again: "How long has it been lost?"

"It's been a few months."

"Did you fix this car?"

Tong Ruide replied: "I repair it if there is a temporary problem on the road, and there is a special repair master for daily maintenance."

"Is the maintenance master here now?"

"It looks like it's in the duty room." Tong Ruide's hand pointed to a room on the right.

Tian Chunda walked to the room, knocked on the door and entered, and saw a master in his 50s sitting indoors smoking. His hands were rough, as if he was doing a lot of work. He asked kindly, "Master, your surname?"

The master replied, "My surname is Wang." What's the matter with you?"

"I want to ask you a question, is Secretary Xiao's Audi car maintained by you on a daily basis?"

"Yes, I'm in charge of the day-to-day maintenance."

"You also use that set of adjustable wrenches in the car, right?"

"yes, I use it every time I get this car serviced. There are five in total. ”

"When we checked the car just now, we found that there was a missing wrench. When did you lose it?"

"I maintained the car before the Spring Festival, and the five wrenches were still there. I haven't repaired this car during this period after the Spring Festival, and I don't know the wrench situation. ”

Leaving the repairman's duty room, Tian Chunda received a mobile phone report from a criminal policeman: "Team Leader Tian, I learned about a situation when I was interrogating Tong Ruide's apprentice named Liu Ping. Liu Ping had assisted Tong Ruide in catching a skinny, short thief in the courtyard of the county commercial bureau the night before the Lantern Festival, when the thief was climbing the stairs to prepare for theft. ”

Tian Chunda asked: "What happened later?" What did Tong Ruide do with the thief?"

"Liu Ping said that after catching the thief, Tong Ruide let him go home, and he didn't know how the master dealt with the thief."

As soon as he finished talking on the phone, Tian Chunda saw Hao Dong coming back, and he reported to Tian Chunda about the conversation with Aunt Tong. After hearing this, Tian Chunda said: "Now immediately take Tong Ruide back to the county public security bureau for interrogation."

Seeing that he was brought into the Public Security Bureau, Tong Ruide was a little nervous, but after all, he had been a scout, and his nerves were relatively tenacious, so he quickly calmed down and looked very calm. Entering the interrogation room of the county public security bureau, Tian Chunda, Xue Zhicheng, and Hao Dong sat behind the desk, and Tong Ruide sat about a meter in front of the table.

Tian Chunda looked at Tong Ruide and asked, "Do you know why I brought you here?"

Tong Ruide shook his head, "I don't know." ”

"You have been a scout, and you have driven for the leader, you are well-informed, you should know?"

Tong Ruide shook his head again, "I really don't know, you can ask whatever you want." ”

"I think you should be honest about the problem, so as not to waste our time and tongue."

"I've said everything I need to say!"

"No, you didn't say the key issues, and even if you did, some of them weren't the truth."

"I've said everything I need to say. If you don't believe me, I can't help it. ”

"If you really don't say it, I'll say it for you. After the theft of Secretary Xiao's office, you did these things: First, you concealed it, or someone else asked you to hide the theft. In this matter, you lied. This has been proven. Second, you take action, or someone else tells you to take action to catch a thief. On the night before the Lantern Festival, you have your apprentices set up in some office buildings to assist you in catching thieves. In the middle of the night, your apprentice Liu Ping found a thief near the office building of the county commercial bureau, and you rushed over to catch the thief, his name is Xu Chuan. You let Liu Ping go home to sleep and escort Xu Chuan away, but Xu Chuan escaped on the way, so you used a stunt and threw out a wrench to hit him, resulting in his death in the back of the head. You transport his body in a car to the outskirts and throw it into a well. and threw away or buried the murder weapon, the wrench. Then you go to Xu Chuan's house and search for the stolen goods he has stolen, one of which is very important and must be found and retrieved. All of this is true, right? ”

Tong Ruide's face turned pale, and he lowered his head and remained silent.

"You'd better be honest and honest."

"I, I don't have anything to say." Tong Ruide lowered his head and muttered quietly.