South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Over the next few days, Yuan Mu and Ming Yu were busy with the case. They went into the crime scene to investigate many times, but they found very few useful clues. It looked like a murder of passion.

First of all, the murderer definitely did not plan it. Yuan Mu had already simulated the scene of the crime in his mind.

It should be that the suspect and the victim had an argument in the bedroom, and then the suspect went to the kitchen or somewhere else to get a knife, and then stabbed the victim several times, all of which were on the victim's arms or back in non-fatal places.

Maybe something stimulated the suspect at last, and he slashed at the victim's head and back of the neck, causing the victim's death. Yuan Mu thought this should be the process.

However, Yuan Mu asked the neighbors around and they didn't hear any shouting in the house. This was a very strange place. Could it be that the suspect's crime was really premeditated? Was he going to kill the victim?

But Yuan Mu had seen the body. Among so many slashes, only two were fatal. Was this a coincidence?

So what was the suspect's motive?

Vendetta? Not likely. After investigation, it turns out that this family has not offended anyone.

Was it a murder of passion? Now that this possibility cannot be ruled out, Yuan Mu can only visit the neighbors again.

Finally, Yuan Mu discovered some clues this time. According to the neighbors, the victim, Wei Honghua, would dress up beautifully and go out every few days. She would not come back until the evening, and she would go out when her husband was not at home.

Based on this clue, Yuan Mu continued his investigation and finally found a large compound, which belonged to the Ningyang Iron and Steel Plant.

Yuan Mu brought Mingyu here, holding the photo and began to ask people in the compound if they had seen Wei Honghua.

"Hello comrade, we are from the Ningyang Railway Branch Criminal Police Team. We would like to ask you if you have seen this person." Yuan Mu stopped a woman in her forties and took out a photo for her to identify.

"Oh, I know, it's Xiao Wei! She comes here often." The woman took a closer look and then smiled.

"Do you know him?" Yuan Mu's heart trembled.

"Of course I know her. How could I not know her? She is the cousin of Mr. Li from our hospital. She often comes to visit us."

"Who is this Lao Li you are talking about? What's his name?"

"Old Li, he's a technician in the factory, his name is Li Minghua."

"Oh, so where is his home? Can you take us there?" Yuan Mu looked at Mingyu behind him, and there was excitement in both of their eyes.

"Oh, this is such a coincidence. Mr. Li is on a business trip and has been gone for several days." The woman shook her head.

"Then please take me to their house and we'll take a look." Yuan Mu frowned.

"That's no problem, comrade investigator. Did Mr. Li commit a crime?" the woman began to inquire.

"Comrade, we have no comment on this." Yuan Mu shook his head.

The woman did not ask any further questions and finally brought the two of them to a small second floor. Yuan Mu looked at the lock on the door and there was indeed no one there.

"Well, comrade, could you please notify us if Li Minghua comes back?"

"Okay, why not? Cooperating with the police is what we should do." The woman said with a smile.

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation, we'll leave now!" Then Yuan Mu and Ming Yu turned and left.

"Mingyu, what do you think?" As soon as he left the compound, Yuan Mu looked at Mingyu beside him.

"It's strange. According to the clues provided by Wei Honghua's neighbors, Wei Honghua doesn't have a cousin in Ningyang at all. Her hometown is Linji. There is something wrong here. There should be something wrong with Li Minghua too." Mingyu said after a moment of hesitation.

"Well, my idea is the same as yours. Let's go to the steel plant and find Li Minghua's leader to find out the situation." Yuan Mu said after thinking about it.

Soon, the two rode their bicycles to Ningyang Iron and Steel Plant and found the factory director. The factory director then called the head of the technical department and finally confirmed that Li Minghua was not on a business trip, but had taken a leave of absence.

He asked for a long vacation, using the excuse that he was sick and needed to go out of town for treatment. The day he asked for leave was the day Wei Honghua was found dead.

Now the case has become confusing. Li Minghua and Tan Hui are both suspects of the crime, and it happens that both of them are missing. This undoubtedly increases the workload of Yuan Mu and Mingyu.

So the two of them urgently went to the train station and bus station to retrieve passenger information to see whether the two had left Ningyang.

In the end, Yuan Mu and Mingyu discovered that there was no record of Tan Hui, but instead it was Li Minghua who took the train to Shenzhen.

My god, this guy can reach quite far with one pole! Yuan Mu felt very uncomfortable. He had to go across provinces to find someone. For the transportation in this era, this was undoubtedly a tormenting thing.

But what can he do? He is a policeman after all, so let him do it!

So that night Yuan Mu and Ming Yu took a train to Shenzhen. The train creaked for three days and two nights before they arrived at their destination.

In fact, Yuan Mu didn’t think that it was Li Minghua who committed the murder, but he was still a suspect and he needed to get more clues from him.

With the cooperation of the local police, we tracked the information of the passenger transport section in Shenzhen and finally locked down Li Minghua in a small hotel in Nanshan District.

It’s no wonder that the hierarchy system in Shenzhen is more complete than that in Ningyang, and it didn’t take long to find Li Minghua.

So that day, Yuan Mu, Ming Yu, and several police officers went to the hotel together.

The arrest was very smooth. Li Minghua was still sleeping when Yuan Mu entered the room. He was directly held down by Yuan Mu and taken back to the local police station for interrogation.

Li Minghua was very timid. He gave up everything as soon as Yuan Mu threatened him. However, the result left Yuan Mu speechless.

According to Li Minghua's confession, he was not Wei Honghua's cousin at all, but her lover. Because Li Minghua was handsome, had a decent job and earned a lot, the two met by chance, and they hooked up in no time, and then developed an underground relationship.

As for why Li Minghua ran away, it was because he went to look for Wei Honghua that day. On the day they had agreed on, Wei Honghua did not come to find him, so Li Minghua went to look for him in a hurry, and finally found that Wei Honghua was dead.

After some inquiries, he believed that Wei Honghua was killed by her husband, so he became scared and asked for leave from the factory, hoping to seek refuge in the south.

Of course, these are all Li Minghua’s unilateral statements and cannot be used as direct evidence. Everything has to wait until Tan Hui is found.

He was exhausted from this trip and this train ride. He really didn't want to take the train anymore.