"Ah, the motive is not clear, and there is no other way to let the actual materials sort out this mess. Come on, you take a look at this first. As he spoke, Tian Chunda handed the paper on which he had just written something to Hao Dong. Hao Dong unfolded the paper with both hands and looked at it: this was a thing like a list, and I saw that it was densely written:

(1) Meng Xiangyu. At around 4 p.m. on the 12th, after receiving a call from someone, I went out shortly after. The whereabouts of his body were unknown 14 hours after he was found on the morning of the 13th. According to the autopsy, Meng Xiangyu was killed between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Assuming that the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard is the scene of the crime, the situation will be as follows: Meng Xiangyu left home at about 4 p.m. on the 12th, and his whereabouts are unknown for about 7 hours after that. Between 10 p.m. and 1 p.m., Meng Xiangyu was killed. The whereabouts of the body were unknown for the next six hours. In the meantime, the criminals transferred the body. At 6:30 a.m. on the 13th, the body of the victim was found in the miscellaneous forest in the eastern suburbs.

(2) Lu Tian and Chen Xiong came to Ji Chuan's house to drink at around 7:30 p.m. on the 12th, and there were three neighbors who could prove it. Lu Tian and Ji Chuan drank together until before dawn the next day (3:30 a.m.), and then left Lu Tian and his three neighbors to stay in Ji Chuan. Sleep until 7:30 a.m.

(3) Chen Xiong. Left Ji Chuan's house at 11 p.m. I took a taxi to my lover's house at 11:30 and slept until dawn.

Hao Dong pointed to the place with black dots on the paper and asked, "These twenty minutes have added black dots, which is doubtful time, right?" ”

Tian Chunda nodded: "Yes." These 20 minutes were the only blank time that Lu Tian had not been certified by a third party during the period when Meng Xiangyu was killed. ”

Hao Dong said: "However, the scene of the crime was in the coal storage yard on Huimin Road, which is an obvious thing. The coal dust that the victim seemed to have inhaled in his nostrils and lungs before he died was probably the same as the charcoal in the coal storage yard. The results of the trial will be known shortly. In this way, even if there is a blank time of twenty minutes, it is impossible for Lu Tian to rush from Ji Chuan's house to the Huimin Road coal storage yard. It took us 56 minutes to take a police car from the Huimin Road coal storage yard to the vicinity of Ji Chuan's house. Even if it were a little faster, it would have taken forty minutes! It takes 80 minutes to go back and forth, and besides, you have to add the time to commit the crime. I'm afraid that this 20-minute blank will not play a role in solving the case. ”

47

The results of the two investigations ordered by Tian Chunda came back.

The first is a report from a university. The results of the test proved that the coal dust collected by Tian Chunda from the scene and the coal dust sucked by the victim were of the same carbonic quality.

"The scene of Meng Xiangyu's murder is the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard, now it should be certain!" Hao Dong said.

However, Team Leader Tian Chunda was sullen.

Hao Dong understands his feelings. If the scene of the crime is the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard, then neither Lu Tian nor Chen Zhiming have the time to commit the crime.

The second is the reply from the Meteorological Observatory. Before the dawn on the 13th, the rain in the area of Huimin Road was between 3 and 4:50 a.m.

"That's right! Herein lies the problem, Hao Dong. ”

Tian Chunda said, handing the rainfall schedule to Hao Dong.

"That's the breakthrough."

"What? Breakthrough? ”

Hao Dong listened to the team leader's words and couldn't help but ask strangely.

Tian Chunda said: "Didn't the little girl who found the bag say that the bag was not wet, and the policeman who received the handbag from the girl also said that it was not wet." Isn't that weird? The little girl was found around eight o'clock, so there was no doubt that the handbag should and must have been soaked in the rain that had been falling for nearly two hours. However, the handbag is not wet at all, what is the reason for this? ”

"That's right, the handbag was lost when Meng Xiangyu was killed, and it stands to reason that it should be wet by the rain that fell at about three o'clock!"

"So, why didn't you get wet?"

"That is to say, it was after the rain stopped, that is, after five o'clock, that the handbag was thrown at the scene."

"Yes, exactly. Objective logic can only be so. ”

"However, team leader, the deceased was killed between ten and midnight in the first half of the night, and the handbag was dropped at the scene after five o'clock, which is also not logical."

"Yes, that's what I just said unreasonable. However, objective facts are difficult to overturn, and we can only say that our reasoning is wrong somewhere. ”

What's wrong?

All of these are facts, both disorganized and independent, without paying attention to each other. It's like a set of out-of-tune gears, unfit and inoperable.

However, although these clues are not related to each other, they do not seem to be fake. In particular, the handbag was thrown at the scene after five o'clock, which was a bit unexpected, but it was this point that made a breakthrough in this case.

48

In the evening of the same day, Hao Dong was called to the team leader's room again.

Team leader Tian Chunda seemed to be extremely happy, and as soon as he saw Hao Dong come in, he immediately said with a smile:

"Hao Dong, that handbag is indeed a breakthrough! I looked through the transcript of the previous interrogation again, and I made a new discovery. ”

"Oh? Tell me about it. ”

"Ah, come, look here."

The team leader pointed to a passage in Chen Xiong's interrogation transcript, which read:

At around 5 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, Meng Xiangtian said that he had a quarrel with Ai Yuting and left Ai's house. ”

"Ahh I see. ”

The handbag was dropped at the scene, just after the rain stopped at five o'clock.

"These two gears finally closed their teeth at 'five o'clock'." Tian Chunda said excitedly:

"From Ai Yuting's house to the Huimin Road coal storage yard, it is only 20 minutes by bus. Left Ai Yuting's house at five o'clock and went to the site of the coal storage yard on Huimin Road, which was about 5:30. ”

"Are you saying that Meng Xiangyu's handbag was put there by Chen Xiong?"

"Yes. Hurry up and send someone to ask Ai Yuting if Chen Xiong was holding something when he went to Ai's house. ”

The criminal police officer who was sent to Ai's house soon came back to report: "Ai Yuting said that when Chen Xiong came to have a tryst that night, he brought a newspaper bag like a big lunch box. Ai Yuting asked him what it was, but Chen Xiong ignored her. Ai Yuting didn't want to ask again. ”

After listening to the report of the criminal police, Tian Chunda was very happy, and his expression suddenly became clear. However, he was a little angry, and couldn't help but nag with remorse: "If only the criminal policeman who went to visit Ai Yuting in the first place had asked about this earlier." It seems that he forgot to ask Chen Xiong the important question of whether he brought anything with him at that time. ”