Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 74 Zhao Xudong Disappears (2)
"I've known for a long time that the police will find out about this sooner or later. Look! I still want to hide it from the police." Wang Hu said gloatingly from the side, "Comrade police, I will report it. That kid called back yesterday. It's this mother." I don't know what to say, where he went, this girl must know."

"Shut up!" Zhang Guilan roared excitedly.

"Is what he said true?" Meng Shaohui ignored the dispute between Zhang Guilan and Wang Hu, and what he was most concerned about now was Zhao Xudong's whereabouts.

"Shaolong just called and chatted with me, asked about my physical condition, and didn't say anything else." Zhang Guilan glared at Wang Huhou angrily, and said.

"It's just that simple?" Meng Shaohui questioned.

"Yes, that child is filial. The reason why he concealed his identity is only because of his father. He can't do bad things or kill people. Police officer, please believe me!" Zhang Guilan pleaded bitterly. .

"Our police believe in evidence." Meng Shaohui said blankly, "I will ask you one last time, do you know the whereabouts of your son? You should be clear. Now he is involved in a major case. You Covering him is not for his benefit, but for his harm."

"I..." Zhang Guilan looked at Chen Haitao's parents, not knowing what to do for a moment.

"Guilan, has Shaolong ever done something bad? You mother doesn't know? If he hasn't done it, why don't you ask him to come out and explain clearly to the police officer?" Chen Haitao's mother asked anxiously. urged.

"That's right, I believe my grandson will never do anything illegal, Guilan, just ask Shaolong to come out and explain the matter clearly, as the saying goes, you are not afraid of your shadow being crooked." Chen Haitao's father said.

Although the two old men had no doubts about their grandson's character, they also had scruples about what Meng Shaohui said, and their inner worries were completely revealed through their wrinkled faces.

"Dad, Mom, Shaolong really didn't tell me where he went. He just said he had something to do and couldn't contact me recently, so he hung up the phone. I really don't know where he went!" Zhang Guilan choked up.

Regardless of what Zhang Guilan said was true, or she was protecting her son intentionally, Meng Shaohui felt that any further delay would be a waste of time. He ordered investigators to stay and monitor, and installed telephone monitoring equipment at Zhang Guilan's home. If Zhao Xudong called home , immediately trace the source of the call.

Meng Shaohui had just returned to the city, and another unfortunate news came. Hu Haoting died, and he also died of a golden silkworm. At the scene of the crime, Meng Shaohui looked at the golden silkworm crawling out of the corpse at Hu Haoting's home. , finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, he punched the wall angrily.It's no wonder he was so impulsive. Since the incident, this anger has been simmering in his heart for too long.

But the venting is the venting. After calming down, the investigation will still continue.Hu Haoting's death also made Meng Shaohui affirmed one thing, that is, Wang Wei's appearance at the banquet was indeed just a smoke, and the murderer who poisoned him was someone else, but where did the murderer put the poison?It takes seven days for the golden silkworm to be poisoned. Calculated according to the time, the time when Hu Haoting was poisoned was the day he attended the banquet, but all his itineraries that day were protected by the police. After Wang Wei was captured, Hu Haoting was also under the protection of the police Back home, how did the murderer poison it?
"Home?" The word suddenly flashed in Meng Shaohui's mind.

Indeed, there was a vacuum period between Hu Haoting's return home and the next day. Could it be that the murderer took advantage of this time to commit the crime?

Hu Haoting's wife, Wu Ying, was sitting by the bed in the bedroom and sobbing non-stop, while the female police officer beside her kept comforting her.

"Ms. Wu, I can understand your current mood very well, but I believe you also hope that our police can catch the murderer as soon as possible, right?" Meng Shaohui was angry, but he was still cautious when asking, mainly because he was worried that his words would be too direct Stimulate the other party, causing them to be unable to provide valuable clues due to excessive sadness.

Wu Ying didn't answer, just nodded while weeping.

"I want to ask you something. About seven days ago, that is, the night your husband Hu Haoting attended the banquet, did anything special happen after he came back?"

"This..." Wu Ying wiped away the tears on her cheeks, and after thinking for a long time, she said with a choked voice: "I remember he came back that night, and then we went to bed, and suddenly his cell phone rang late at night, and was caught I woke up. I checked the time. If I remember correctly, it should be 11:45. He answered the phone without saying a word, and hung up after a while. Then he told me that a colleague from the previous unit came to him for something. , told me not to come out and continue to sleep, and then I heard the sound of him going to open the door."

"Then do you know who came? Do you know what they said?"

"I don't know. I was very sleepy at the time, so I didn't get up. Then I heard the sound of them going to the study. Not long after they entered, I vaguely heard Hao Ting say something loudly, 'How could there be such a thing? thing', but soon there was no sound again, and then I fell asleep in a daze, and I don't know when that person left."

Although Wu Ying's narration can only prove that someone came that night, but he doesn't know the identity, appearance of the other party, or the content of the conversation between the visitor and Hu Haoting, but these are not important. For Meng Shaohui, all he wants to prove is One point, that is, after the banquet, Hu Haoting did have contact with people, and the murderer should have used this vacuum period to inflict poison.

The murderer was indeed very cunning. He first arranged for Wang Wei to pretend to be a waiter, and told him the location of the surveillance probe, so that he could use suspicious behavior to attract the attention of the police. Naturally, Wang Wei's arrest was a matter of course, but Wang Wei's appearance, Undoubtedly, it was used by the murderer to delay the police investigation time and mislead the direction of the investigation.Although after investigation, there was no golden silkworm in the wine used by Wang Wei, which would make the police shift their attention from the banquet to other places, but the time gave the murderer enough time to commit the crime. Hu Haoting's murder was the best prove.

Meng Shaohui had to admire the murderer's suspicions. Since the incident, he has been following the route laid out by the murderer. All the clues he found were deliberately left by the murderer in order to lead the police to investigate those who were not at all. clues to clues.

"Could it be that Zhao Xudong is really B?" Meng Shaohui thought.

After Hu Haoting answered the phone that night, he told his wife that it was a colleague from the previous company who came to him, and Zhao Xudong and Hu Haoting had both worked in Nova Century, and they had also studied the golden silkworm together and sold it together. However, Hu Haoting did not know the real identity of Zhao Xudong. If there were sufficient reasons for Zhao Xudong's late-night visit, Hu Haoting would definitely not be able to reject him.

And Zhao Xudong did have a motive for the murder. Li Jian and others sold the golden silkworm research materials privately for profit. Li Jian's father's death was probably caused by Li Jian because of the other half's research materials, but in fact Li Jian could not be the real culprit at all, because whether Chen Haitao is dead or alive does not affect his sale of research materials at all, at most it is less It's just to make some money, he doesn't need to kill people at all, even if he kills Chen Haitao, he won't get the research materials, not to mention that according to Du Ping, Chen Haitao only has half of the materials in his hand.

Zhao Xudong mistakenly believed that Li Jian and others had killed Chen Haitao for their own benefit, so they launched a series of revenge actions. Although this reason made sense, it also had problems.He himself was also involved in the sale of research materials back then. What is the reason for this?Since he knew about this and Chen Haitao was his father, it was impossible for him not to tell Chen Haitao about it.Another point is to return to the theme of the case, the golden silkworm. Where did the golden silkworm that Zhao Xudong used to kill people come from?

Judging from the current investigation results, A used Chen Haitao's death to make a fuss and attracted Du Ping into the game, and B found Du Ping's help through A's introduction. Wei replaces his own identity. From this point of view, the relationship between A, B and Du Ping forms a triangle, with A at the top, and B and Du Ping are all connected by him. If Zhao Xudong is really In the case of B, what will be his relationship with A? Who is A's real identity?
And the strangest thing is the mysterious disappearance of Zhao Xudong. If he hadn't disappeared, the police would not have turned their attention to him so quickly. What they found out before was just using a pseudonym to cover up his real identity. , and did not suspect that he was the murderer.But because of his disappearance, it seemed like a guilty conscience, instead of calling himself, it made the police focus on him.

Was Zhao Xudong's disappearance another trick set up by the murderer?Or is he really the mysterious B, who was worried that Hu Haoting's case would reveal his identity, so he hid?Or are A and B originally the same person?
(End of this chapter)