The pet shop is located on the ground floor of a building.

There is no signboard in front of the store.

Pushing open the drooping transparent plastic curtain, a pet stench mixed with cold air rushed to his face, almost forcing Fang Lei to withdraw.

He covered his mouth with his hand, and before he could speak, a young man in his twenties wearing a mask stepped forward.

"Uncle is here for the first time, give it."

He handed over a disposable mask and a pair of gloves.

Fang Lei hesitated, took the mask and put it on, but he didn't ask for gloves.

He only wore gloves at the crime scene.

"If you want to touch your pet, it's better to wear gloves to avoid germs crossing."

Fang Lei looked around.

Pet cages are stacked on top of each other on three walls of the house, and almost every cage has a puppy of various breeds.

They all seem to be taking a nap and don't react to strangers coming in.

Fang Lei waved his hand, indicating that he was not teasing the dog, and the young man put away his gloves.

Fang Lei found out that he was not the one who bought something at the convenience store just now.

"So, this uncle, what do you need to buy?" The young man said with a smile.

"I'm a police officer and want to ask about something."

When Fang Lei showed his police ID, the other party was obviously stunned for a moment, and his attitude changed a lot.

"Oh, officer, what's the matter?"

"That's right, there was a case of a dog falling from a height in the community recently, have you heard about it?"

"I heard. It seems that he still stoned someone? ”

"Hmm." Fang Lei is still observing the situation of the store, "Your store has been open for a while, right?" ”

"It's been more than a year."

"Then you should know more about the pets in the community?"

"Sort of, the dog residents in the community often come to the store to buy some pet supplies, and they will also talk about the experience of raising dogs, including we sometimes see a doctor for dogs."

"Oh, you're still a veterinarian?"

"We have a partner who has studied veterinary medicine and has a medical license."

"Have you ever seen it?"

Fang Lei took out the photo of the yellow dog from his pocket and handed it to the pet shop owner. The young man took it and looked down.

Fang Lei found that a trace of panic quickly flashed in his eyes above the mask.

Although it was very fast, he was still caught.

"What's wrong?"

"Haven't seen ......"

The young man handed the photo back to Fang Lei, but the latter did not take it.

"Do you want to take a closer look?"

"No need. I didn't ......."

"No, you've seen it."

The young man looked at Fang Lei in surprise.

"Is there anything you don't want to tell the police?"

The lad was silent.

After a while, he sighed and told Fang Lei everything he knew.

A few days ago, four small children had brought the dog to the store.

The dog was dead at the time.

The owner did a little examination of the dog and found that it had been abused before his death, and that he had been beaten to death with a hammer, which could be said to be very cruel.

But the children said that they wanted to call the police, and he advised them not to do it, the first police are not very good at this kind of thing (when he said this, he glanced at Fang Lei), and the second is because there is no animal protection law in China, even if the other party is caught, at most he will be educated, so it is useless to call the police for this matter.

Later, the children took the dog away.

"Officer, I really don't mean to slander you, we have been opening a pet shop for a long time, and we have seen a lot of pet disputes like this, generally speaking, the police are really not very careful, so I will say this, I hope you will forgive me."

"Were the kids disappointed when they left?" Fang Lei did not respond to what the boss said.

"Well, it looks like they're sad anyway. These are very cute and kind children. ”

"Do you think they threw the dog down the stairs?" Fang Lei thought of those cables, in fact, he already had the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to hear this young man's opinion.

"It's hard to say. But I hope not. ”

Fang Lei nodded. Logically, he hoped not. But the evidence is already solidifying, and this group of children is the perpetrator of the accident.

"One last question, I need the names of these children."

"Can you ......?"

"I can't." Fang Lei said, "No matter what mistakes they make, they should stand up and admit their mistakes and take responsibility, instead of hiding like now." Are you right? ”

The young man thought about it for a moment and nodded.

"I only know the name of one of the girls."

"What's it called?"

"Li Weiwei. Their family runs a breakfast shop in the community, and she occasionally works part-time with us, helping to walk the dog, deliver deliveries, and earn some living allowance. ”

Li Weiwei ......" Fang Lei's mind came to mind the girl with the dog he saw last time when he was chasing the maintenance worker.

"Officer, if you can, try not to say that I told you that. These kids are still kids, and I'm afraid they're going to hold a grudge against me and say that I betrayed them. ”

"Don't worry, I won't say it. Remember, though, that you didn't betray them, you did the right thing. ”

"Hmmm......"

Fang Lei felt a vibration of his mobile phone in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was a call from a mobile phone repair shop.

"That's it, thank you for your help."

"You're welcome."

Fang Lei held his mobile phone, walked out of the pet store, and pressed the answer button at the same time. The owner of the mobile phone store told him that the broken screen had been replaced and could be accessed.

"Also, there's a caller ID with the title of Wangju who has called you a lot."

Fang Lei immediately rushed to the mobile phone store. As soon as I got the mobile phone, Wang Ju's call came again.

"Old Fang, where are you? I've been looking for you for a long time. ”

"My phone broke and it was just fixed. What's so in a hurry? ”

"Hurry back to the bureau. They found Chai Hao. ”

In front of a private house on the outskirts of a neighboring city, the captain Jiang Jian looked at his watch, and then waved his hand, and the gun-wielding criminal police behind him surrounded the house.

Before that, he was unhappy that the director had transferred him to arrest an obscene maintenance worker who was secretly filming and selling videos of women.

"This is Fang Lei's case, he should be allowed to personally lead someone to arrest him."

"Nonsense, you're the captain of the criminal police, are you embarrassed to let an old man who is about to retire arrest someone?"

"But aren't I still working on the case of the female corpse of Tianping Mountain? How can I have time to ......"

"Let you go, where is so much nonsense! Besides, did you find conclusive evidence of the suspect's crime? ”

One sentence made Jiang Jian speechless.

He has been digging up evidence since his last failed interrogation, but alas, there is no clear evidence to convict Liu Hui other than an alibi and a motive for the killing.

In the end, he could only let Liu Hui go.

On the other hand, the investigators who investigated Chai Haocheng's whereabouts quickly made progress.

Chai Haocheng's ID card information is true, a local, his hometown is in Chaijia Village in the southern suburbs of S City.

After the investigators arrived at his hometown, they inquired and learned that Chai Haocheng's wife had died early, and his son had been out of town, and because of his business, he had borrowed a lot of money from relatives, friends, and banks, and had escaped a few years ago after the failure and had never returned. Now the house is abandoned, and the courtyard walls are full of signs for debt collection.

Soon, the police found his traces in a neighboring city.

Yesterday afternoon, the town savings bank had spent a sum of money of 10,000 yuan in savings and cash withdrawal, and the person who withdrew it was Chai Haocheng.

The police followed the clues and found the bungalow with the door closed in front of them.

According to neighbors, the suspect has not been out since he returned the night before.

Thirty seconds later, police broke down the door.

In the center of the poorly decorated living room, Jiang Jian met Chai Hao for the first time.

His feet off the ground, his face hideous, his neck dangling from a dusty ceiling fan, and a wooden bench that had been kicked over.