Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 294 The mystery of freezing to death (10)
"It's like this: Ten years ago, the mountains they stayed in were separated from each other. The moso bamboo forest spread out year by year. The moso bamboos of the two families grew intertwined with each other. Gradually, the mountain boundaries became indistinguishable. Zhu Fu went up the mountain. They were cutting moso bamboo, but Ye Liang said that Zhu Fu had chopped his moso bamboo. The two of them had a big quarrel and almost started a fight. Finally, they were stopped. Zhu Fu invited me to go to the mountain to redraw the boundaries. I was a little embarrassed because I I really didn’t understand the boundaries between them, so I called all the village cadres up the mountain. With the consensus of both parties, we once again drew a clear line between them in Maozhu Mountain. Of course, Ye Liang later made money doing business in the provincial capital. , had no time to manage Zhushan, so he sold Zhushan to his cousin at a low price."

"Will Zhu Fu hold a grudge because of this?"

"It shouldn't be possible, right? This matter was decided upon by the two village committees at a meeting. Zhu Fu signed the agreement on the spot, and he didn't complain at all when he signed it."

Wu Jiang fell into deep thought.Xiao Ke opened the interview transcript and found that Zhu Fu had been questioned by him and Lu Yingying. He said he was sleeping at home at the time. Could he be lying?Why lie?
Xiao Ke explained the situation to Wu Jiang. Wu Jiang felt that Zhu Fu was suspicious, so they walked to Zhu Fu's house together and made sure to ask clearly.

Zhu Fu was washing the van in front of his home. When he saw them coming to him again, he was stunned for a moment, but he regained his composure instantly. He invited the four of them to sit in the living room and told his wife to make tea.

Information shows that Zhu Fu is 38 years old this year and has a 16-year-old son who is a freshman in high school at No. 21 Middle School. In addition to doing some farm work, he makes a living by transporting goods in a van or soliciting customers. His life is very ordinary.He is short in stature and has half-white hair, but his eyes are sharp and he looks like a shrewd man.

Because Xiao Ke had already looked for him, Xiao Ke came to ask: "Zhu Fu, you didn't tell us the truth. You didn't sleep at home after 1 o'clock in the evening on January 29, right?"

"I really sleep at home." He said calmly.

"But someone saw you driving back to Yeling Village at around 12 o'clock that day. How do you explain this?" Xiao Ke judged this based on Ye Xintian's statement. Although he is not sure, it can be used to try.

"It's so late, who would be awake? It's impossible, right? Who said that?" Zhu Fu was still arguing, but his face became pale and there was slight sweat on his forehead.

"I can't tell you. Just be honest. Where did you drive that night? What were you going to do?" Xiao Ke stared at him sternly.

"I'm literally sleeping at home."

"We suspect that you pushed Ye Liang to the paddy field and froze to death. You are suspected of murdering Ye Liang, and you will be sentenced to death." Xiao Ke said loudly.

"No, no, no, I didn't murder him. How could I murder him?"

"Because ten years ago, you and he had a quarrel over the Zhushan boundary line. You couldn't fight him, so you held a grudge and were always looking for opportunities to retaliate against him. That night you asked him to get off the bus at Sankesewan and took the opportunity to He was pushed into the paddy field and froze to death..." "Absurd! How could I kill him for a trivial matter ten years ago? This is a beheading... Okay, I'll confess... That night I went to Banling Village to buy goats , Huang Min from Banling Village called me that day and said that he had hunted a big goat. I was going to buy it at a high price and send it to the vegetable market in the provincial capital to sell it and make money from it. Goat is a national protected animal. Huang Min and I could only trade in the dead of night, so when you came to ask me yesterday, I was afraid that you would know that I was illegally buying and selling goats, so I could only lie to you. After 1 o'clock in the evening on January 29, I drove to half Lingcun went to buy goats. After Huang Min and I weighed the goats and calculated the money, we quietly loaded the goats into the car. Because it was still early and we were afraid of being seen on the road, Huang Min invited us to have a midnight snack. It was after 11:12. , he let me go home, so I drove back to the village. This is what happened. If I tell a lie, thunder will strike!" Zhu Fu looked at Xiao Ke blankly, as if to affirm that his words were definitely true. real.

"Where is Banling Village?" They had never heard Ye Xinfu say that there was a Banling Village nearby.

"Banling Village is between Yeling Village and Xibian Village, 5.5 kilometers away from Yeling Village. It is a small village with only 11 households. 500 meters below Sankeshuewan, there is a sandy road leading to Banling Village. Not many people know about that little place.”

"Did you see Ye Liang when your car passed Sankeewan?"

"I saw him. He was wearing a red jacket. He was very eye-catching. I thought he was thrown out of the taxi by the taxi driver. So, I stopped the car and asked him to get in. He told me to mind my own business. I pressed my hot face against him. My cold butt felt very boring, so I stepped on the accelerator and left."

"Didn't you ask him why he was on the road alone?"

"No, as soon as I opened my mouth, he was fierce to me, as if he was rich and great, so of course I would not talk to him again. The next day, I heard that he was dead, and I was afraid of being suspected. This was also a lie. one of the reasons."

In order to check whether Zhu Fu was lying, they asked Ye Xinfu to lead the way to Huang Min.The muddy road leading into Banling Village is indeed very small, only 3 meters wide and 3.5 kilometers long. The road surface is full of potholes and bumps due to rainwater, and the police car is as bumpy as a cradle when driving on the road.

They find Huang Min on his bamboo forest mountain, and Huang Min admits that what Zhu Fu said is completely true.Therefore, Zhu Fu’s motive for killing someone for a trivial matter ten years ago was not sufficient.The prerequisite for murdering Ye Liang must be to make him drunk, and Zhu Fu did not have time.Even if Zhu Fu had the cooperation of his accomplices, Ye Liang would not be able to get off the bus at Sankeshuewan. Ye Liang would never take Zhu Fu's words seriously because he was an inconspicuous person in Ye Liang's eyes.

Wu Jiang and Zhou Ting found Luo Xianglan, who was drinking with Ye Liang that night. Luo Xianglan was Ye Liang's ex-girlfriend. She said she wanted to relive her old dream with Ye Liang, but Ye Liang refused.She drank to drown her sorrows and kept drinking. Ye Liang was so sorry that he also drank with her.Luo Xianglan was so drunk that night that she was sent to the hotel to sleep by Ye Liang. After that, Ye Liang stopped Zuo Limin's car and went home.Luo Xianglan did not deliberately get Ye Liang drunk. It was Luo Xianglan who took the initiative to break up with Ye Liang and fall into the arms of others. She had no motive for murder, not to mention that she was sleeping in a hotel when the incident occurred.

The crime team spent nearly a month conducting an in-depth investigation, but found no clues. In the end, Ye Liang was drunk and accidentally fell into a paddy field and froze to death. The case was temporarily shelved, but the case was not closed. They were ready to launch investigations at any time.

(End of this chapter)