Dali Temple has his Lord Luo

Chapter 133 Case Qualification

Brother Shui stared at Luo Ning for a few times:

"How should I put it? Mou Qingping is a good businessman. The area in the north of our city is the main place for wood processing. Mou Qingping has a relatively large business!"

"Your relationship with him?"

"It doesn't matter. We are all peers. Others do better than you. I am just jealous and envious!"

Then why did Mrs. Mou directly point the finger at Brother Shui by name and surname?

Luo Ning felt that there was something he didn't understand.

"How long have you been in the lumber business?"

"Seven or eight years!"

"Is there any business conflict with Mou Qingping?"

Brother Shui hesitated:
"Mou Qingping always grabs business. I am really dissatisfied with him. I have mentioned it to the Timber Alliance several times, but I can't compete with the Alliance and no one cares about me!"

"Timber Alliance?"

"It was Mou Qingping and several other relatively large timber businessmen who brought together the timber processing offices in Anyang City to restrict and assist each other!"

Luo Ning understood: "So Zhao Guo's timber business, in other words, is actually operated by the Timber Alliance?"

"Well, Sir Mingjian, it is indeed the case!"

"How many people are there in the Timber Alliance?"

"There are three in Anyang City, and there are also in other state capitals. They are all relatively powerful businessmen. A wood processing workshop of my size can't talk to them at all!"

"If you are dissatisfied with Mou Qingping, then others will also be dissatisfied. Do you know who else?"

"Sir, I am a more direct person. I will tell you what I am dissatisfied with Mou Qingping. Everyone in the Timber Alliance knows about it. Even if other people have ideas, no one will know if they don't tell me!"

"In other words, you are the only one who openly expresses dissatisfaction with Mou Qingping?"

Brother Shui nodded.

"Can you tell me where you were the afternoon before yesterday? What did you do?"

Brother Shui thought about it: "I have been doing a lot of business recently and I work here every day. Sir, do you doubt me?"

"Not only you, everyone around Mou Qingping is also suspected!"

Brother Shui shook his head:
"Master Mou is traveling, both as a servant and as a servant. The battle is not small. How can something happen if it's like this?"

This information surprised Luo Ning. He had indeed ignored the time when Mou Qingping was killed. Mrs. Mou came to report the crime. His thoughts were limited to kidnapping and he had not thought about this issue yet.

Luo Ning blamed himself deeply for his carelessness, and almost made the case go wrong.

Brother Shui saw that Luo Ning looked bad and asked softly:

"Sir, Mou Qingping's death was a vendetta?"

Luo Ning was not sure whether to tell the truth. In fact, the interview with Brother Shui did not help the case, and it also ruled out Brother Shui as a suspect.

But his last words turned the case around again. Luo Ning did not answer and took Song Zhuer to visit Mrs. Mou.

On the way, Luo Ning felt a little guilty: "Zhu'er, after coming to Dali Temple for so long, I have become more and more preconceived in my judgment of the case."

Seeing that she looked bad, Song Zhuer looked at her nervously:
"What's the matter, my lord?"

"Brother Shui's words just now reminded me that I ignored the time of Mou Qingping's accident!"

"Does this have anything to do with it?" Song Zhuer was confused and didn't find anything wrong!

"If Mou Qingping travels according to Brother Shui's wishes, he should take a carriage with a young boy and a servant accompanying him. In this case, it is daytime, how can Mr. Mou disappear?"

Song Zhuer slapped her forehead:
"Yes, sir, I never thought of that?"

Luo Ning frowned:

"Now, I have a very bad attitude in handling cases. I am used to drawing conclusions first and then seeking verification. This way I can easily go astray!"

Song Zhuer quickly comforted her:

"Sir, don't blame yourself, you have done a good enough job! Mrs. Mou came to report the case, and we all thought it was a kidnapping, which shows that everyone has the same idea!"

"No, Pearl, it's different. This is a matter of judging the nature of the case. Because it is a kidnapping case, so our thinking is to seek money. If it was originally determined to be murder, then the direction would be different!"

Song Zhuer took Luo Ning's arm and hugged her: "Sir, let's go to Mou's Mansion for verification now. The time is just right!"

Luo Ning knew that Song Zhuer was comforting her, so she had to smile bitterly, but in her heart she began to analyze how Mou Qingping disappeared.

Mou's Mansion is a relatively large house in the north of the city. There is a cave inside, with rockeries and pavilions along the way. The scenery is even better than Taifu's Mansion.

Song Zhuer looked all the way and said to Luo Ning:

"Sir, Master Mou has made a lot of money, and his mansion is even more luxurious than ours!"

Luo Ning also lamented that whether it was a kidnapper or a vendetta, Mou Qingping was indeed a man with a family background.

Mrs. Mou had already returned home. When she heard that Master Luo was here again, she quickly washed herself up to welcome him out.

Seeing that her complexion was much better than that in Dali Temple just now, Luo Ning asked her directly:
"Mrs. Mou, we previously focused on the kidnapping case. Now that the case does not rule out vendetta, the scope of our investigation must be expanded."

Mrs. Mou understood what Luo Ning meant:
"Sir, I will fully cooperate!"

"You just said that Mr. Mou got up early and went out early?"

"Yes!"

"When did you leave, do you remember?"

"It's about time, I was going to go to the store to have a look, and then I'll be back!"

"Then when Master Mou goes out, will he go out in a carriage or a sedan?"

"carriage!"

"Are there any servants or servants?"

"Two boys are following you!"

"Where are those two boys?"

"Still in the house!"

Mrs. Mou sent her maid to call the boy and asked Luo Ning:

"Sir, are there any problems with those two boys?"

"Mrs. Mou, don't you have any doubts? Master Mou and his servant were traveling together, and it was daytime. Why was Master Mou kidnapped?"

"I asked the boy, he went to the toilet at that time."

Luo Ning looked at Song Zhuer, and the answer was unexpected.

At this time, two young boys walked in obediently and knelt down as they entered:

"Hello sir!"

Luo Ning looked at them, they were only fifteen or sixteen years old:
"Don't be nervous. Just tell the truth about why Mr. Mou disappeared that day!"

A boy said:

"That day when we walked to Xingwang Street, the master suddenly said he had to go to the toilet. We waited at the intersection for a long time, but he didn't come out."

Another person continued:
"The two of us ran to the toilet to check, but there was no one there. We thought the master had left beforehand. We waited for a while, but there was still no one, so we went back home!"

"You didn't notice anything unusual along the way?"

"Master is as happy as usual, nothing else happened!"

"Has this happened before? Master Mou left suddenly?"

The two people looked at each other:
"Yes, so the two of us didn't pay attention to it. We didn't know that the master was missing until we received the kidnapping letter in the afternoon!"

"How far is Xingwang Street from the wood processing workshop?"

"It was very close, so we thought the master went to the store by himself!"

Luo Ning looked at them. If what the boy said was true, then what happened to Mr. Mou?
(End of this chapter)