conspiracy crime 4

Chapter 29
The police checked the door lock, but there was no trace of being picked. Because the scene was not protected in time, many messy fingerprints were left on the door lock, and the trace inspectors could not extract a complete fingerprint.

Wen Li asked Meng Jiao, when was the last time she saw her husband?
Meng Jiao thought for a while and said, it must have been midnight last night. He went to work in the resort yesterday and came back very late. I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw him take a bath towel to the bathroom to take a bath, because the bathroom was next to his bedroom. The bedroom door was not closed.

Wen Li asked what time was it at night?Meng Jiao said it was around 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Wen Li looked around, it was a standard courtyard house, Meng Zhaonian lived in the main house in the front yard, Meng Kai's family lived in the east wing, and Meng Jiao and his wife lived in the west wing.

On the west wing side, there are six rooms in total, and the doors of the rooms all open to the corridor.The original quaint courtyard, after the current renovation and decoration, looks a bit nondescript. Some rooms have air conditioners on the walls, and some rooms have solar water heaters installed on the roof.

Based on various signs, the police suspected that the murderer probably took advantage of Huang Jingui to take a shower in the bathroom, and sneaked into the room to hide before the bedroom door was closed, and committed murder after Huang Jingui had showered and gone to bed. Then open the door and leave.

Forensic doctor Lao Qin added a little bit, saying that the murder weapon that killed Meng Kai had been confirmed, it was a pointed hammer, it should be the same as the murder weapon that killed Huang Jingui, and the modus operandi was also very similar.

Therefore, the police can basically confirm that the two murders should be committed by the same murderer.

Wen Li looked at Fan Zetian and said, "It seems that we arrested the wrong person yesterday. The murderer was not Boss Hou. He stayed in the detention center last night, so it is impossible for him to come out and commit crimes." .

At this time, Xiao Li came over with a middle-aged maid and reported that the maid who swept the floor saw someone sneaking into Huang Jingui's room last night when he was taking a shower.

Fan Zetian asked the maid when did you see it?

The maid said it was 12:[-] at night, when everyone in the house was already asleep, she suddenly remembered that there was still a bag of garbage left undisposed under a pillar on the side of the west wing, because Meng Jiao was extremely demanding on the servants, She was afraid that Meng Jiao would scold her if she saw it the next morning, so she hurriedly got up in the middle of the night and took the bag of garbage away.

At that time, she heard the sound of Huang Jingui taking a shower in the bathroom in the corridor, and after a while, she saw another shadow jumping into his bedroom.

The lights in the corridor were very dim at that time, she thought that her old eyesight had made a mistake, so she didn't think much about it. It wasn't until Huang Jingui had an accident today that she felt that something was wrong.

Fan Zetian asked, have you seen who that person is?
The servant shook his head and said no. I saw that guy walking and jumping up and down, as if he was not alone.

Fan Zetian was startled, and asked if he was alone?What does it mean?
The servant thought about it for a while and said yes, it is not a human being, it seems, it seems to be a monkey.

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Is it a monkey?
Everyone at the scene was shocked.

Wen Li shook her head and said, "How is this possible? How can monkeys kill people?"

The servant was about to answer when he suddenly heard a scream from behind: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"

When everyone looked back, they saw Meng Zhaonian suddenly slumped on the ground, which shocked everyone in the Meng family.

His daughter Meng Jiao and daughter-in-law Qiaozhen rushed to help him.

Meng Zhaonian's legs trembled and he couldn't stand up for a while. "Monkey, monkey..."

He looked devastated, and muttered, "That's right, it's the monkey, it's the monkey who came to take revenge on our old Meng family..."

Fan Zetian asked, "Why did the monkey take revenge on your family?"

It took Meng Zhaonian a long time to be helped up, sat on the sofa, rested for a while, and then came to his senses, waved his hand, and asked his family to go out, saying that he had something to say to Officer Fan.

The Meng family looked at him and retreated silently.

Meng Zhaonian suddenly grabbed Fan Zetian's hand and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Officer Fan, the next person those monkeys are going to kill is me. You police must protect me, you must protect me!"

Fan Zetian helped him up and asked, "What's going on here?"

Meng Zhaonian said: "You don't know that the mountain we are backing on is not called Jiuhou Mountain, but Jiuhou Mountain. Monkey is a monkey of monkeys, and nine is the extreme number of yang, which means many. As the name suggests, there are many monkeys on this mountain.”

Fan Zetian wondered, "Then why is it renamed Jiuhou Mountain now? Besides, there is not even a single monkey on the mountain."

Meng Zhaonian told him that about [-] or [-] years ago, he suffered from a strange headache, which occurred once every three days.I went all over the big hospitals all over the country, but I couldn't find the cause.Later, I met a wandering doctor. After seeing him, he said that there is only one medicine in the world that can cure his disease, which is monkey brain.

Meng Zhaonian was skeptical after hearing this, and went to Jiuhou Mountain to catch a few monkeys, knocked off the Tianling cover with a sharp hammer, put a spoon in, scooped out the warm monkey brains, and ate them one by one.

After taking it for a month, it really works.

Later, he sent his son-in-law Huang Jingui and his son Meng Kai to go up the mountain every day to catch monkeys and give him their brains to eat.

After taking it for more than a year, the strange headache disease was completely cured.He also ate more than half of the monkeys in Nine Monkey Mountain, and those who survived escaped from Nine Monkey Mountain and never came back.

Many years later, the government wanted to build a tourist area here. At that time, some officials felt that there was no monkey on this mountain. Calling Jiuhou Mountain was suspected of misleading tourists, so they changed it to Jiuhou Mountain.

Meng Kai and Huang Jingui died tragically. Meng Zhaonian didn't think about it at first, but today he suddenly heard the maid said that he saw a monkey enter the house and beat Huang Jingui to death with a pointed hammer. Isn't his death exactly the same as when he killed a monkey to take his brain?

Meng Zhaonian put his head in his hands and said in horror, "I should have thought earlier that those monkeys came back to take revenge."

Fan Zetian really didn't expect that this beautiful Jiuhou Mountain would have such a bloody past.

He thought for a while and said, "But you have already said just now that the monkey shadow in Jiuhou Mountain has been extinct for more than ten years. How could a monkey suddenly appear to seek revenge on you?"

"How could there be monkeys? How could there be monkeys?" Meng Zhaonian was trembling all over, shaking his head like a sieve, and suddenly he slapped his head and remembered, "By the way, it must be Boss Hou, the monkey from Boss Hou's monkey troupe. So I have been fine for many years, but once the monkey troupe came, accidents happened one after another at home, it must be the monkeys from the monkey troupe, it must be..."

Fan Zetian asked: "How many monkeys are there in the monkey troupe? Where are they now?"

Meng Zhaonian said: "There are three monkeys in the monkey troupe. They live in the backyard with the monkey boss. After Hou boss is captured by you, his monkeys should still be in the house where he lives."

Fan Zetian said, "Take us to have a look."

He called Wen Li and Xiao Li, and followed Meng Zhaonian to the backyard.

On the way, he told them that Meng Zhaonian killed monkeys and took their brains more than ten years ago, which led to the disappearance of monkey shadows in Jiuhou Mountain, and they were both shocked.

When I came to the backyard, I found the small room where Boss Hou lived. The door was ajar. There were many things in the past two days. Since Boss Hou was taken away by the police, no one from the Meng family came in to clean up the house.

Fan Zetian pushed the door open and went in, only to see Hou Laoda's monkey troupe's costumes thrown in the room, and three small cages were placed under the table, one monkey was locked in two cages, but the third cage was bitten open by something. , the inside is empty for monkeys to go to the cage.

Meng Zhaonian said "ah", his face was pale, and he pointed to the empty cage and said, "Look, look, I'm not wrong, a monkey ran away. Maybe this monkey escaped from Jiuhou Mountain back then, and happened to be caught by the cage. Boss Hou captured it, and now it finally came back to take revenge. It has already killed my son and son-in-law. Tonight, its next target must be me, it must be me. Officer Fan, you must save me, must To save me..."

Fan Zetian also frowned, thinking that the monkey would take revenge on the murderer. Although it sounds a bit bizarre, it is not impossible.No matter what, let's find the monkey who is only suspected of major crimes.

He asked Xiao Li to bring more people and search around to find the missing monkey, especially the Jiuhou Mountain behind the village, which must be searched carefully.

Wen Li said: "The monkey is so clever, even if you find it, it may be very difficult to catch it."

Fan Zetian was right when he thought about it, and said, "You call the city bureau to send Boss Hou right away. Now he is the only one who can catch the monkey that escaped. Also, it cannot be ruled out that Boss Hou trained monkeys to kill people." Therefore, it is not possible to let him out of the control of the police for the time being."

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The police dispatched a lot of manpower and invited some villagers to help. After searching up and down the mountain for a day, they didn't even see the shadow of the monkey.

After Boss Hou came back, he confirmed that the escaped monkey was the second monkey among the three monkeys.

Fan Zetian asked him to take the police to look for Hou Er. Boss Hou yawned and said that the monkey was out of the cage. The mountains are high and the forests are dense here. If you escape to the mountains, where can you find it?
Fan Zetian asked what should I do?
Boss Hou said don't worry, it's useless for you to look for it now, I know the animal's habits best, and I expect it will come back by itself tonight.

After all, it was a matter of life and death, Fan Zetian could only half-believe his words, while continuing to send people to search outside, while ordering people to squat in Mrs. Hou's house.

It was getting dark soon, but the escaped monkey was still not found.

Meng Zhaonian became more and more restless, as if his time was approaching.

When he was sleeping at night, he ordered people to nail the front and rear windows of the bedroom with planks, and added an inner latch behind the door, and then searched the closet under the bed to make sure that the vicious monkey was not hiding in it. After the bedroom, I dared to enter the room to sleep, and the door was also locked tightly from the inside.

Fan Zetian originally wanted to send two people into the house to protect him, but Meng Zhaonian refused to let any strangers into the house. After experiencing the tragic changes in human relations between the death of his son-in-law and the death of his son, he no longer trusted anyone.

The police had no choice but to be vigilant and secretly protect him.

Although Fan Zetian is still skeptical about the monkey killing theory, after all all the clues point to that monkey now, so he dare not take it lightly.

He personally led people to guard the door of Meng Zhaonian's bedroom, and asked Wen Li and Xiao Li to take a person to guard the front and rear windows respectively. Considering that monkeys would climb the wall of the room, he also asked two young criminal policemen to squat on the roof to guard. .

In addition, four security guards were transferred from the hot spring resort run by Meng's family to form a patrol team, patrolling around Meng Zhaonian's house without interruption.

It can be said that Meng Zhaonian's bedroom is protected like an iron bucket.

The news of the strange monkey's killing has spread like wildfire. Not only the Meng family's house, but even the entire Jiuhou Village were terrified. Everyone was in danger. As soon as it got dark, they closed their doors and went to bed early.

For a while, the night fell, and there was a dead silence around. Occasionally, one or two dogs barked, which made people tremble in their hearts.

As the night deepened, Fan Zetian heard that Meng Zhaonian was silent in the closed bedroom, suddenly he was a little worried, knocked on the door and called out: "Mr. Meng."

Meng Zhaonian seemed startled by the knock on the door, and after a while he asked in a trembling voice, "W-what's the matter? Did the murderous monkey catch it?"

Fan Zetian said, "The monkey hasn't been caught yet. To prevent accidents, I will call you outside every half hour."

On a summer night, there is no wind, and it is very hot.

Fan Zetian unbuttoned his police uniform and looked at his watch. It was already past 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.

He told his companions to cheer up and not to fall asleep, because the previous two murders happened after midnight.

After squatting for more than an hour in the sweltering night, the yard was quiet, there was no sound, and there was no abnormality.

(End of this chapter)