Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 13 A Strange Attack (1)
Through the investigation of Hu Zhendong's colleagues, it was indeed confirmed that he was having a party with his colleagues in a bar when Wei Qiuyuan was killed, and there was no possibility of committing a crime.

Hu Zhendong's alibi was confirmed. On the one hand, it means that the possibility of him killing Wei Qiuyuan can be ruled out, but on the other hand, it means that the investigation of the case has returned to the original point, and the efforts of the past few days have once again been in vain.

Although Wei Qiuyuan has a very perfect alibi, in Meng Shaohui's heart, he does not dispel his suspicions. The main reason is his calm attitude when facing the truth about the death of his biological parents, regardless of whether Wang Youcai's guess is true or not. If it is an ordinary person, after learning that there is something hidden about the death of his parents, he must be very surprised and excited, but Hu Zhendong was only a little surprised, and he quickly became very calm, and he was able to calmly respond to the interrogation. Analysis and rebuttal, these seem to be contrary to common sense. If it is not because his parents have left him for too long, the relationship has faded, or he has already known the truth of the matter in advance, but even so, he should still pretend to be completely innocent. I don't know the surprised expression, but he didn't have it at all. Could it be because of that perfect alibi that made him feel confident?
It is undeniable that Hu Zhendong's alibi was indeed perfect. He won the lawsuit on the day of the crime, and then he had a party with his colleagues to celebrate at night, so that he had a colleague's certificate, a barman's certificate, and a taxi driver's certificate. Everything was fabricated by him, and it must not be so perfect.However, Meng Shaohui seems to have some problems with this perfection. He always feels that all this is arranged in advance. The proof of his colleagues is unquestionable. The main doubts are concentrated on the bar waiters and taxi drivers. body.

According to the bartender, the reason why he remembered that Hu Zhendong came to the bar at the time of the incident was because Hu Zhendong gave him a tip of 200 yuan that night. Indeed, the bar was dimly lit and there were many customers every night. Regular customers of the bar, plus it was ten days ago, if nothing special happened, I believe the waiter would never remember it so clearly.The reason why the taxi driver remembered that he drove Hu Zhendong that night was because he asked the driver for a small ticket when he got off the bus. At the same time, he accidentally dropped his wallet on the taxi. The contact information found the driver through the rental company, and thus retrieved the wallet, and the driver also had a deep impression on him. Hu Zhendong said that he wanted a small ticket because the company could reimburse him. However, the behavior of losing the wallet made Meng Shaohui feel that it was too coincidental .

If you combine the two points of waiter and taxi driver, Hu Zhendong's behavior is very ordinary in normal times, but now because these incidents happen to happen at the time when Wei Qiuyuan was killed, Meng Shaohui feels like It was deliberately arranged so that people would remember him and let more people who had nothing to do with him do alibi for him. As a lawyer, he must know the importance of alibi in a case.

However, all of this is speculation, and there is no actual evidence to support it. Although there is a clue of bloody shoe prints, it can only prove the murderer's gender and some vague external characteristics, and it cannot prove that the bloody shoe prints were left by Hu Zhendong.What's more, at the time of the crime, Hu Zhendong did have an alibi. If he was the murderer, how did he go to Sparrow Village to commit the murder?Could it be that he can fly?Or maybe he paid for murder?
Although buying murder can explain why Hu Zhendong has a perfect alibi, there is a problem, that is, the time of Wei Qiuyuan's death. At that time, the door of Wei Qiuyuan's house did not show any signs of being pried. It was in the living room, and there was no trace of a struggle at the scene. All the signs are enough to prove that the murderer is an acquaintance. Could it be that the murderer Hu Zhendong is looking for is someone from the village?Even if it was, why did the villagers agree to help him kill Wei Qiuyuan?They treated Wei Qiuyuan as a reborn parent, how could they kill him?Without knowing Wei Qiuyuan's will, if he were to kill him, if he gave all the inheritance to his children, it would be tantamount to cutting off the villagers' income. I believe that none of them would be so stupid!
"A will...could it be a will?" Meng Shaohui suddenly had this thought in his mind, "Hu Zhendong already knew the content of Wei Qiuyuan's will before, so he used it as a bait to ask a certain villager to help him kill Wei Qiuyuan, and then killed him In this way, the village owns 90% of the shares of the mahjong factory (the other 10% is in the hands of Feng Yao), but the benefits belong to the whole village and cannot be owned by individuals. Is everyone willing to become a murder tool for the common interests of all people? Of course, there is another premise that Hu Zhendong announced the truth about the cancer in the villagers back then, so that the villagers not only killed for profit, but also for revenge. But according to Wang Youcai, the He never told anyone the secret, so how did Hu Zhendong know the truth about the cancer in the villagers back then? If he didn’t know the truth, then he couldn’t have the motive to commit the murder, and the theory of revenge is simply not valid.”

Hu Zhendong's clue made Meng Shaohui see the dawn of solving the case, but with his perfect alibi, the case undoubtedly plunged into darkness again after the brief dawn.

But at this time, the police officer in charge of protecting Wei Xiluo in Sparrow Village called and said that Wei Xiluo had been attacked and suffered a head injury. Fortunately, he was discovered in time and his life was not in danger. Although he was glad that no one died, But the news made Meng Shaohui so angry that he almost smashed the phone.

When Meng Shaohui arrived at Sparrow Village, it was already past 3 o'clock in the morning. When he got out of the car, he saw the police officer in charge of protecting Wei Xiluo, and immediately became furious.

"What's going on? Didn't you ask you to protect him? Why did something happen? What are you doing? Fortunately, he didn't die. What if he died?" Meng Shaohui reprimanded.

"Captain Meng, I'm sorry, we don't know when Wei Xiluo left home." One of the police officers replied aggrievedly.

"what's going on?"

"We don't know the specific situation. We have been staying at Wei Xiluo's house all the time. At 10:11 in the evening, he said he was sleepy, so he went back to his room and went to sleep. But after [-]:[-], he yelled He ran back from the outside with help, and his face was covered with blood, we were all stunned at that time, because we never saw him leave the house, but we didn't ask carefully when we saw that situation, and quickly called the emergency number."

"Where is Wei Xiluo now?"

"In the bedroom, the ambulance personnel just arrived not long ago. They said that his head was broken by a hard object. They originally wanted to take Wei Xiluo back to the hospital for treatment, but he refused to leave anyway, so the ambulance personnel had to treat him in the bedroom. For treatment, fortunately, the wound is not too deep, and the bleeding has stopped, so it should be fine after bandaging and resting."

After listening to the police officer's report, Meng Shaohui didn't blame them any more. Obviously, it wasn't their negligence this time, but Wei Qiuyuan deliberately avoided the police's sight. Judging from his behavior, there must be some special reason.

Wei Xiluo's injury was not serious, and he didn't need stitches. The ambulance personnel just disinfected and bandaged the wound on his head, told him to rest more, and then left.

"Why did you sneak out of the house, avoiding the police guarding you?"

Facing Wei Xiluo whose head was wrapped in gauze, Meng Shaohui asked unceremoniously.

"I received a text message. The other party said that he knew the secret of 'Birds Returning to Nest' and told me to go to the main hall of the Bird Temple at 11 o'clock in the evening, and not to tell other people, and to get rid of the police protecting me." Wei Xi Luo handed the phone to Meng Shaohui weakly.

Sure enough, the content of the text message was consistent with what Meng Shaohui had guessed before. Judging from the content, it was indeed very tempting to the Wei brothers.

"Have you confirmed the identity of the other party?"

"I replied to the text message, but the other party didn't say anything, only said that I will know when I arrive at night."

"You didn't confirm the identity of the other party, and you didn't confirm the authenticity of the matter. You just went there rashly. Have you considered the consequences?"

"Go and see, there's nothing wrong with it! If it's fake, it's like being played by someone, and a piece of meat is indispensable, but if it's true, then I will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life."

"Then you know now that you have been tricked! And you are not only missing a piece of meat, you almost died, you know?" Meng Shaohui reprimanded seriously, "Have you seen the appearance of the murderer who attacked you?"

"I didn't see it. I went to the main hall of the Sparrow Temple. I waited for a long time and didn't see anyone. I thought maybe I was tricked by someone, but I can't think of anyone who can use this to trick me, only mine. My younger brother Beigui, because besides him, there is no other person who would boringly use this kind of thing to make me happy, so I planned to leave and come back to settle accounts with Beigui, but who would have thought that when I turned around and was about to leave, I was caught Hitting the back of the head with something, I thought I was being robbed, so I instinctively turned around and pushed the other person, and then ran away."

"Then you didn't see the other person's appearance when you pushed him?"

(End of this chapter)