Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 594 The treasure hunter dies again (6)
Guan Shanlin borrowed two motorcycles and handed the keys to Wu Jiang and Xiao Ke. He rode his motorcycle and drove towards Dujuan Valley.This is a small mountain road that can only be used by scooters, but it can be used by motorcycles. It is not as rugged as Guan Shanlin said.

Xiaoke followed Wu Jiang and Guan Shanlin, raising dust all the way that made Xiaoke's nose itchy. If there was a stranger in front of him, he would overtake immediately and would definitely not be punished. However, in order to respect Wu Jiang and Guan Shanlin, And for work, you have to endure it.

20 minutes later, Guan Shanlin stopped the motorcycle, supported the body, and climbed towards a smaller mountain road. There were weeds and shrubs more than one meter high on the roadside, and branches cut into their faces from time to time. The clear and melodious call of the cuckoo came from deep in the woods, making the valley even more peaceful and deep.

After climbing about a mile, Guan Shanlin stopped, pointed to a wooden house on the hillside and said: "That may be the cabin where Luo Qian lived. He told me about it, but when I came here before, There is no such cabin, but I haven’t been to Rhododendron Valley for almost 10 years.”

Wu Jiang looked up and saw a wooden house not far away. It was built of many round pine trees. The roof was made of cement tiles. It was surrounded by grass and wild flowers, forming a beautiful line against the blue sky. Scenery, living here, maybe you are happier than a god, right?
Wu Jiang signaled Guan Shanlin to continue walking up, and soon arrived at the wooden house.The wooden house is not big, about 40 square meters, and is divided into a living room, a bedroom, and a small kitchen. The door is locked with a large padlock.Wu Jiang lowered his head and looked in through the gap in the pine wall. There was no one inside.

"Brother Angkor, would you like to open the padlock and take a look?" Xiao Ke opened the padlock with confidence. His unlocking skills were learned from Wang Xiaoming, but because of lack of time, he did not learn at a higher level.

"No, this is illegal intrusion and you will be prosecuted..."

"Who are you?" Before Wu Jiang could finish speaking, he suddenly heard a cry. A man of about 40 years old ran down the hillside. His movements were quick and agile. At first glance, he looked like someone who had been active on the mountain all year round.

They didn't answer him. When he ran up to them, he recognized Guan Shanlin and quickly said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Director Guan, I didn't know you were here, so I'm sorry for the delay," he said. He took out the key to unlock the door.

"Welcome to Dujuan Zhai!" After opening the door, he warmly invited them into the room.There was only a large square table and four high stools in the room. He moved them over one by one and asked them to sit down.

Wujiang smelled the refreshing fragrance of flowers and grass, heard the sound of the mountain spring dripping into the water tank outside, and saw the mountains outside the door. It felt like a world away.

"We are from the Criminal Police Team of the Municipal Bureau. We want to know the situation from you. Please cooperate with our work." Wu Jiang saw that his height was similar to that of the suspect, so he vaccinated him first.

"Okay." He replied seriously.

"Excuse me, do you have a pair of Anta sneakers with white sole and gray surface?"

"Yes, I have a total of five pairs of Anta sneakers. They are all placed under the bed. How about I go and show them to you?"

"OK, thanks!"

Luo Qian stood up, walked to the bedroom door, pushed the door open, walked in, then squatted down, reached under the bed and took out four pairs of shoes, put them on a tea tray, took them out and put them on the table for them to see.

Wu Jiang took away a pair of sneakers with a white sole and gray surface, turned over the soles to observe, and immediately recognized that these were the shoe prints extracted 25 meters away from the central site.

"Have you been to Minghuang Valley recently?"

"Recently? It seems not..."

"What does it look like? I want you to be sure, not to be ambiguous."

"No."

"You're lying! If you didn't go to Minghuang Valley, how could your shoe prints stay there?"

"I often pass by Minghuang Valley to climb Shenxian Mountain, so the shoe prints will remain there." He has angular features and a resolute temperament, but he is also a bit wretched, not like a mountaineer, but more like being tortured by life. People who have bruises all over their bodies.Could it be that he was willing to come here to live a leisurely life in Taoyuan?
"No, our investigation methods are very advanced now. Your shoe prints were left in Minghuang Valley between June 6th and 24th, which is only four days from today. You can't deceive me!" Wu Jiang said sternly.

"I'm sorry, officer, I just lied. Because I didn't want to bear the reputation of not saving anyone, so I didn't dare to tell the truth. Here's the thing. At 6 o'clock in the morning on June 25, I went to Minghuang Valley to pick bitter herbs. I started looking from east to west, and then walked back. Halfway through, I suddenly found someone lying in front of me. I was shocked and stopped. I didn't dare to run forward. I was afraid of getting into trouble, so I walked around him. Run back to my cuckoo house."

"Why didn't you call the police?"

"It is better to do less than to do more. I have suffered too many losses like this in the city. Once, I went to help an old lady who fell down on Qianjin Street in Liangcun, and her children defrauded her of more than 2 yuan. Therefore, I still have lingering fears and dare not help others anymore.”

"When you were walking from east to west, didn't you see a person lying there?"

"I started searching along the stream of Minghuang Valley, and when I came back I walked through the junction of Minghuang Valley and Devil's Mountain. Therefore, I didn't see that person at first." He answered calmly. 4
"Why did you go to Minghuang Valley so early to pick bitter herbs?" Wu Jiang still didn't believe him.

"First of all, the bitter herbs in the morning are fresh. Secondly, if you get up earlier than others, the newly grown bitter herbs will not be picked by others." He looked at Wujiang sincerely to show that he could trust it.

"When was this house built?"

"It has been three years since it was built, and it took me half a year to build it. Every wood and every board was made by myself." He looked around, as if looking at his lover, proud and attached.

"Although this house is far away from the hustle and bustle, is it inconvenient without water, electricity and fuel?" Wu Jiang suspected that he had ulterior motives, such as murdering Chi Ye and He Wendong.

"Inconvenience is convenience. Modern people rely too much on technology and so-called civilization. In fact, it is a kind of fetters. Do you know the American writer Thoreau? He wrote a collection of essays "Walden", which became an immortal masterpiece. There is a consistent proposition throughout the works, which is to return to nature and live a simple and peaceful life. Most of us modern people are trapped by family, work and various material needs, have lost their spiritual pursuits, and live a materialistic life .This kind of life is very tiring, so..."

"I'm sorry, we are not here to listen to your preaching. Without soldiers and police to maintain social peace, there will be no peace no matter where you live. Did you avoid the deceased from the left or the right?" Wu Jiang interrupted.

"What dead person?" he asked doubtfully.

"The man you left to die was murdered."

"Huh? How is that possible? I thought he was drunk or fell down and couldn't get up."

"Didn't you see a crossbow arrow stuck in his back?"

"No, I was a little panicked at the time. I just took one look and walked away quickly."

"Did you meet anyone else?"

"No, after I got around him, I stopped picking bitter herbs, because I picked a basket full of bitter herbs, which was enough for me to eat for two days. You see, that basket-" He pointed to the basket hanging on the wall. Said the bamboo strips carrying the basket.

Wu Jiang took a look at the basket and felt that there was nothing wrong. It was a small bamboo basket and could not hold too many things.He asked Xiao Ke if there was anything he wanted to ask Luo Qian?Xiao Ke said no.So they said goodbye to Luo Qian and returned to Songzhuang.

Luo Qian's statement is consistent with the shoe prints extracted from the scene, because his shoe prints were not left next to He Wendong's body, but 25 meters away from the body, so there was no loophole.

Next, we need to investigate No. 41 Yichuan brand sandals.

Wu Jiang and Xiao Ke, with the assistance of Guan Shanlin, screened villagers who were over 174 centimeters tall. In order to accurately know who met this height, Wu Jiang called Leng Xiaoying, the household registration police officer of Yinhe Township, and asked her to help with the inquiry.

After a while, Leng Xiaoying sent the names of eligible people in Songzhuang to Wujiang’s mobile phone.There are 16 people in total, two are not at home and the others are at home.Guan Shanlin took them door to door.

By noon, the 16 villagers had been basically eliminated because none of them wore Yichuan brand sandals.Wu Jiang was afraid that some of them were deliberately concealing the facts, so he not only asked them to take off their shoes and carefully observed their gait.As a result, it was discovered that none of them were suspects.

Gait refers to a cyclical form and appearance of human movement and advancement through limbs.Unlike walking, which is a process, gait is a form.Gait is a cyclic phenomenon that describes the characteristics of human walking, and each cycle can be divided into multiple parts for analysis.

At this time, two villagers who had gone to work in the mountains returned home. One of them was a middle-aged man and the other was a young man.The middle-aged man said that he never knew what brand of sandals he was wearing, and he bought them all at the canteen in the village.They once went to the canteen to find out, but the canteen had never carried Yichuan brand sandals.

Wu Jiang asked him to take off his shoes and take a look. It turned out that his feet were very big and he was wearing size 42 sandals. The shoes he wore were all size 42, which was wrong with the shoe size left at the scene, so he was also excluded.By this time, it was already time for lunch.

Guan Shanlin accompanied them to the village canteen for dinner.

There used to be an old cook in Songzhuang, but he later retired when he was old.Therefore, the village committee decided to contract the canteen to the village women director Zhang Chunzhi.Zhang Chunzhi is an all-rounder. He can chop firewood in the mountains, plant rice in the fields, and cook in the kitchen. He is recognized as a tomboy.

Usually when there are not many guests, they eat at her home and she arranges the food.If there is a villagers' representative meeting, they will eat in the village committee canteen, because it can accommodate hundreds of people.

(End of this chapter)