Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 360 The insulted old man (4)
"Those are all trivial matters. There's nothing to say." He replied calmly, as if he didn't want to bring up the past.

"No, these things are important to us solving the case, and you have to tell us the truth."

"Okay, just ask, and I'll tell you everything I know."

"I heard that you had a good relationship with Wang Lili when you were young. Is this true?"

"Yes, there is nothing to hide. Everyone in the village knows it."

"I heard that she hacked your Xuande stove?"

"Yes, no, maybe she didn't do it maliciously. I think she might have been stolen and sold by her son Yang Xiong. She couldn't explain to me, so she turned her back and refused to recognize anyone. Of course her son is more important to her than me. I have already forgiven her. , don’t you think I’m living a good life now? If I had sold the Xuande stove at that time, I might have become a person who did everything from eating, drinking, having fun, gambling and whoring.”

"But it is the most precious thing in your life after all. If you don't hate Wang Lili, you should also hate Yang Xiong, right?"

"Yes, I hated Yang Xiong very much at that time. Not only did he steal my Xuande stove, but he also knocked me down in front of many villagers and stepped on my face for a full quarter of an hour. This was the biggest blow to me. I once Want to take revenge on him.

"However, since he sold Xuande Furnace, he started to run a business. His status has become more and more prominent. I know that I can't defeat him, and my hatred is getting weaker and weaker. The business run by Yang Xiong has paid a lot of taxes and solved a lot of problems." Regarding the employment issue, I think I can consider it as an indirect contribution to the country." He spoke unhurriedly.

It is not easy for an old farmer to have such noble thoughts. Most of the old farmers Wu Jiang knows have very serious small-scale farmers' consciousness and do not look at problems at a high enough level, resulting in their relatively low quality.

Wu Jiang listened to him very attentively, carefully observing every detail of his expression, hoping to see flaws in it, but he was naturally calm, as if he was telling Wu Jiang someone else's story.

"Wang Lili was killed, what do you think?"

"She is a kind person and should not be killed. I have no other thoughts except feeling sorry for her. She is optimistic, kind, and pays attention to health. It stands to reason that she can live for more than ten years. Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth is here. God, maybe this is destined."

"Wang Lili died on the morning of August 8. Where were you that day? What were you doing?" Wu Jiang couldn't tell from his appearance that he had a motive for murder, so he went straight to the point. Maybe Wang Zhongwen's heart was not what he looked like at all. Wu Jiang knew about tomb robbing. Most thieves are bold and cruel.

"That day... I entered the county town and went to my daughter's house. My granddaughter was celebrating her first birthday. I went to have a wedding banquet. When I returned home on August 8, I found out that Wang Lili was dead."

"Okay, we will check it out. If you have any clues, please call me." Wu Jiang handed him a business card and walked out with Che Xiaolin. Wu Derong sat on the wooden pier at the door and read WeChat.

Wu Jiang and Che Xiaolin came to Wang Zhongwen's daughter's home on Huancheng Road and asked her about Wang Zhongwen's whereabouts on August 8. His daughter said that her father had entered the city on August 23, and she arranged for him to stay at a Qianshui Hotel. , because her daughter’s birthday banquet was held at Qianshui Hotel and she stayed there for three days in total. The manager of the hotel front desk can prove that every time Wang Zhongwen comes to the city, she arranges for her father to stay in that hotel.

Wu Jiang and Che Xiaolin went to the Qianshui Hotel to inquire. By asking the floor attendant and checking the surveillance video, they confirmed that Wang Zhongwen was not at the crime scene. This made Wu Jiang very happy. He seemed to have seen how a tomb robber turned into a compassionate wise man.

Wu Jiang felt that he should ask Yang Xiong if he sold Wang Zhongwen's Xuande stove. However, Yang Xiong might not tell him the truth. Who would admit that he made a fortune by cheating?Wu Jiang thought: Even if Yang Xiong refuses to tell the truth, he should have a good talk with him, maybe he can find clues from it.

Wu Jiang asked Zhu Gang to call Yang Xiong and ask him to come to the criminal police team. Yang Xiong said that he was just about to pass by the Public Security Bureau and he would be there soon.

Yang Xiong arrived. After the two parties sat down, Wu Jiang began to ask: "Mr. Yang, I heard that you hacked Wang Zhongwen's Xuande Furnace when you were young. Is this true?"

"Who said that? The villain Wang Zhongwen must have complained first. You should go check him out. I think he is the biggest suspect in killing my mother." Yang Xiong was a little sullen, not like a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC, which shows that he is a very strong person. The person's face has the temperament of a gangster.

How could a boss with tens of millions of assets but leave his old mother alone in the countryside become a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference?Wu Jiang really couldn't understand.

"We have checked and found that Wang Zhongwen was not at the scene when the crime occurred."

"Is there any omission in your investigation? Many criminals can forge alibi." Yang Xiong sounded like a leader who came to the criminal police team to guide the work. This made Zhu Gang very unhappy. He wanted to refute, but was stopped by Wu Jiang's eyes. blocked.

"Please don't doubt our working ability. I heard that you started a business by selling Xuande stoves. I'm doubtful, so I have to ask Mr. Yang personally." Wu Jiang wanted to ask Yang Xiong if he knew the name of the No. 1 crime team , but considering that asking like this would exclude Zhu Gang, he didn't ask. "I got a loan from a bank when I started my business. If you don't believe me, you can check it out. Besides, that Xuande furnace is worthless at all. It's still in my mother's hands and kept in her box." Yang Xiong said dismissively.

"Oh, where is the box? Why didn't we see it?"

"Put it in the barn on the second floor. It's piled with rice. Surely you won't dig through the rice, right?"

"How do you know that Xuande furnace is not valuable?"

"I secretly took the Xuande stove to an expert for appraisal. The expert said it was a replica from the Republic of China period. The maximum value would not exceed 5000 yuan, and the current market price would not exceed 10000 yuan."

"Since it's worthless, why didn't your mother return the Xuande stove to Wang Zhongwen?"

"The Xuande stove does not belong to Wang Zhongwen at all, it is passed down from our ancestors. When I was a child, every first or fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, my grandfather would light incense and put it on the Xuande stove.

"Later, my grandfather fell ill. His only last words before his death were to tell my father and mother to take good care of the Xuande furnace, because it was the most valuable thing in our family. After my grandfather died, my father took it down from the shrine. Put it in a camphor box and bury it under the barn.

"Later, my father also passed away. Before he died, he told my mother to take good care of the Xuande furnace. Wang Zhongwen said that he gave the Xuande furnace to my mother for safekeeping. This was a complete lie and his purpose was to slander my mother."

"Why did Wang Zhongwen slander your mother?"

"Because my brothers and sisters and I have grown up and become sensible, my mother no longer wants to be entangled with him and resolutely severed ties with him. He urged my mother to change her mind, but my mother has made up her mind not to have anything to do with him. He He became so angry that he spread the news everywhere that my mother had hacked his Xuande stove.

"I was very angry after hearing this and taught him a lesson. From then on, he never dared to pester my mother again. Officer Wu, think about it, we are in a remote rural area and no dignitaries have ever lived there. Where did he come from? Where is the Xuande furnace?"

Wu Jiang felt that Yang Xiong's words made sense. It was difficult for such a precious antique as the Xuande Furnace to appear in Kaoshan Village. However, it would not necessarily be the case if Wang Zhongwen had been dug up by tomb robbers elsewhere.But will a thief come to steal the counterfeit Xuande furnace inherited from Yang Xiong's family, and be caught in a conflict with Wang Lili and kill her?Wu Jiang asked: "Is your ancestral Xuande furnace still there?"

"I don't know. If you hadn't asked me, I would have forgotten about it."

"Have you never come home since your mother died?"

"No, alas, I'm too busy. I plan to wait for you to solve the case, then cremate my mother, take her ashes back to my hometown, and spend a lot of money to bury her. When she is alive, I have no chance to repay her, so I can only make my mother famous after she dies. burial……"

"Does this still make sense? Besides, you are a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC, and you are not allowed to take the lead in extravagance and waste, right?"

"I am a non-party member and I am not a leader. This should not violate discipline. I believe the organization will understand me."

Wu Jiang didn't want to talk to him anymore. Wang Lili didn't show filial piety when she was alive, and wanted to be buried in a grand ceremony after her death. She was just afraid that people wouldn't know how rich and prestigious he was.

Wu Jiang and Zhu Gang took everyone to Wang Lili's house and went straight to the second floor.The second floor was very spacious, but filled with a lot of debris, and the wooden floor was covered with dust. Wu Jiang walked in front. As soon as he reached the door of the building, he took out the footprint light and shined it. A series of clear shoe prints appeared on the floor. They are Li-Ning brand sneakers, about size 40, extending all the way to the barn.

Xiao Ke took photos of the shoe prints and fixed them. After extracting the shoe prints, they walked to the barn to check it out. It was a barn made of kelp boards, with a length and width of two meters each, and half of the barn lid was lifted. , pressed on the other half of the fixed cover, Wu Jiang asked Che Xiaolin and Xiao Ke to lift the cover and put it on the floor to extract fingerprints.

There is a partition in the middle of the barn, which divides the barn into two halves. The left half contains a small amount of glutinous rice, and the right half contains several hundred kilograms of rice, which is nearly one meter high.Xiao Ke climbed into the barn on the right and pulled open the rice with his hands. After a while, a small box was revealed. The box was originally locked with a padlock, but the copper lock was opened with a vise, leaving the box empty.

Xiao Ke took out the box. There were obvious circular indentations at the bottom of the box, which should have been made by the Xuande furnace that Yang Xiong said was passed down from his ancestors.Xiao Ke used a multi-band light source to illuminate the painted box cover and found many messy fingerprints on it. He extracted the fingerprints and then compared them. He found that all the fingerprints were the same, which meant that they were left by one person, because the fingerprints The belly is larger, and it can be judged to be a man’s fingerprint.

(End of this chapter)