The Book of Death by Heart Poison

Excuse me, Liu Zhiqin has just returned to the temporary office, holding a cup of ready-mixed instant coffee.

Hua Chong went to Linxian District today, while he and Xu Xiaozhou stayed in the city to continue sorting out Kuang Ming's interpersonal relationship.

Kuang Ming often came to his second brother, Lao Lu, in the middle of the night recently, and behaved strangely. He left the poker table early on the night of the murder. —He went to catch the employee who stole the frozen meat.

Su Yuan was quite suspicious, and he had indeed appeared at the scene of the crime, so he had enough time to commit the crime.However, after questioning him, Hua Chong believed that the murderer might be someone else.

A person who knew about Su Yuan's theft of frozen meat and Kuang Ming's attempt to arrest the scene.

The second brother Laolu is just a small workshop, and the responsibilities of employees are not clearly divided. Packers like Su Yuan can also help take orders, act as customer service, or run errands when customers request immediate delivery, but chefs generally do not communicate with others. The work is mixed together, and the chef is directly facing the ingredients. He is the easiest person to find that there is less frozen meat.

Kuang Ming hired a total of four chefs, and also hired a handyman.

"Frozen meat is missing?" Shen Tie is the head of the kitchen. He used to work in the barbecue restaurant opened by Kuang Ming. After Kuang Ming opened his second brother, Lao Lu, he was invited to develop dishes. He is not an ordinary employee, but has some technical skills. the meaning of.

He is about the same age as Kuang Ming, with deep wrinkles between his brows, as if they were carved with a knife, "I don't know, those meats are stored in the freezer, and they are frozen like stones. They can't be used right away, they have to be thawed." , and don’t you all know? There is something wrong with the meat, it’s expired, and it smells bad after thawing, so you can’t cook it right away, and you have to use spices to deodorize it. Deodorization is a big process, and Dawei is basically doing it, right? All the meat that comes to me is processed meat.”

Xu Xiaozhou asked: "You mean, you hardly ever get meat out of the freezer yourself, and you don't know what's in the freezer?"

"Of course I didn't count." Shen Tie was very impatient, "Could it be possible that you still suspect that I have messed with Kuang Ming? As for me? I have a wife and a child. My child will take the college entrance examination next year. I will point to An Anwen Live steadily, this shop grows bigger and stronger, Kuang Ming tells me whether he is close or close, what reason do I have to harm him?"

The full name of Dawei in Shen Tiekou is Gao Wei, which is probably one of the most common names in the country. Gao Wei's appearance is also extremely ordinary, and he belongs to the kind of person who will be drowned immediately if thrown in the crowd.

"I took out the meat to defrost it." Facing the special operations team, Gao Wei looked very nervous, "Those freezers, I, I have to open and close several times a day."

Xu Xiaozhou said: "Then you know that someone keeps stealing frozen meat?"

Gao Wei lowered his head and was silent for a while.He is not tall, about 1 meters, wearing a faded old-fashioned jacket, underneath a pair of wrinkled trousers, cut rough, the brown leather shoes on his feet have many creases, and even the uppers are covered with a lot of mud , I don't know how long it has been since I wiped it.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Xu Xiaozhou understood that he knew everything.

"Yeah." Gao Wei finally nodded, "I've counted, and not many are stolen, and it's not every day."

Xu Xiaozhou asked again: "Have you told anyone?"

Gao Wei shook his head quickly, "Who should I tell? There is no way to steal this, and it won't sell for much. But, it may be very difficult, I understand."

Xu Xiaozhou frowned slightly, "What do you understand?"

Gao Wei stammered for a long time, not expressing clearly, "It is difficult to understand him. Do you think it's boring to steal this meat? How much can you sell it for? Can you have it for 30 yuan? You can't even buy a cup of coffee and milk tea... ..."

Xu Xiaozhou didn't know why he suddenly became agitated, as if he had been stimulated by some kind.

"That's because you have lived a good life for too long, you...you...you don't know the pain if the knife is not stuck in your body!" Gao Wei blushed, "Anyway, anyway, I can understand him, because I have suffered too, if he steals it, I can’t help him, but I will definitely not tell the boss.”

"What is it all about?" Xu Xiaozhou complained to Liu Zhiqin after asking Gao Wei, "Gao Wei is timid, but when it comes to stealing meat, he immediately loses his mood and keeps emphasizing to me that he understands people who steal meat. , and said that we have never been stabbed with a knife, so we don’t know the pain.”

Liu Zhiqin did not inquire personally, but kept monitoring the situation in several inquiry rooms.

Gao Wei did attract his attention, he seemed to be a very empathetic person.In the follow-up questioning, Gao Wei confessed that he was not sure who stole the frozen meat, but he had several suspects in his heart, including Su Yuan.

However, when he was asked if he knew that Kuang Ming was going to arrest the scene, Gao Wei was so shocked that his cheeks trembled, that kind of reaction didn't seem to be faked.

Liu Zhiqin felt that there might be some clues about Gao Wei, but he couldn't figure out what the clues were for a while.

In fact, in terms of body shape, Gao Wei basically fits the profile of the murderer, but what reason did he have to kill Kuang Ming?

Liu Zhiqin pondered for a while, but couldn't find any motive.

In addition to Gao Wei and Shen Tie, the other two people working in the kitchen were also questioned one by one.

Chef Wang Xian, 31 years old, a native of Anjiang City, has been in the lo-mei business for many years. In addition to working for his second brother Laolu, he also has a lo-mei stall at home, which is mainly run by his wife and parents.Unlike Shen Tie, he often takes ingredients from the freezer, claiming to have a good memory and knows about missing ingredients.

He was the one who turned off the monitoring before the accident.

"But I'm none of my business. Who should I talk to? In our industry, this is really not a big deal. Which kitchen isn't stolen? It's not too rare, and it's lost. The things are not worth a lot of money. No one cares, and you see that Kuang Ming doesn't care either."

Knowing that Kuang Ming went to the kitchen many times in the middle of the night in order to catch the employees who stole frozen meat, Wang Xian's lips twitched for a long time, and he was quite speechless, "Oh, it's unnecessary for him to be like this, he already earns so much , why bother to live so tired?"

Chef Zheng Jian, 52 years old, a native of Anjiang City, came to work in the second half of this year. He has no children and takes care of his old mother alone. Usually, when he needs to work overtime, he is the last one left. He is also the one monitoring.

"How many times have I mentioned monitoring to Mr. Kuang? How much money was wasted if it can't be turned off at night? But he didn't listen to it, saying that the main purpose of installing cameras is to implement food responsibility. In fact, it is to supervise us who work. At night No one, so what else is there to supervise?"

Tan Meng, a handyman, is the only woman working in the kitchen. She is 26 years old and is from Qingyun Town, Anjiang City. Her situation is similar to that of Su Yuan. She has no education, struggles in big cities, and has done a lot of work. , but all prostrate at the bottom.

"I know it's Su Yuan, and he's the only one who would do that. I also know Mr. Kuang knows that someone is stealing meat. Mr. Kuang is a shrewd man. Although he always smiles, he is very clear about what happened under his nose. He I’m not surprised to come here to arrest people, bosses are like this, they hate being taken advantage of by employees.”

Among the five people, there were three without an alibi, namely Tan Meng, Zheng Jian, and Gao Wei.

Packers and customer service personnel were also questioned one by one, and soon the scope of investigation was extended to suppliers. Among these people, Zhao Jiulan and Yan Min were more noteworthy.

Zhao Jiulan is the administrator of the second brother, Lao Lu. She is 36 years old. She does all the things like recruitment and finance. She knows the purchase and delivery better than anyone else, and she goes to the kitchen to count almost every day.

At first she said that she didn't know that there was less frozen meat in the freezer, and later she said that she found something wrong when she checked the consumption last month, but because the loss was very little and it was not worth a few dollars, she didn't make any noise.

"Mr. Kuang must know that he is a modern week picker. I know he can't know? Let him do things that offend people. I'm just a part-time worker, and I can take my own salary. , I don’t care about anything else.”

Yan Min, male, 33 years old, sells expired frozen meat from his "black heart workshop".

Although Minrui Meat Products Processing Factory is a legal enterprise, under the healthy and hygienic skin, it also produces expired meat. These meats are all recycled at low prices. After reprocessing, they will immediately "turn waste into treasure".

Minrui Meat Products Processing Factory has a long-term cooperative relationship with the second brother Laolu. As the son of Minrui’s boss, Yan Min personally delivers the expired meat that is easy to be checked, and also helps to check the inventory.

When Kuang Ming had an accident involving expired meat, Yan Min sweated profusely, and immediately shifted the responsibility to Kuang Ming, "It was Kuang Ming who took the initiative to ask us to buy expired meat. We never hide the problem of meat. Whoever tells us that they are willing to buy that kind of meat, we will do it. In fact, we are only a contractor, and we only produce after receiving the order.”

Several employees of the Minrui Meat Processing Factory said that Kuang Ming came to the factory a month ago and had a violent conflict with Yan Min. The two even fought outside the factory, and Yan Min threatened to kill Kuang Ming.

Regarding that conflict, Yan Min explained that it was Kuang Ming who blackmailed him by producing expired meat, and wanted to buy a large amount of expired meat at a lower price. If he refused, he would expose the matter of expired meat.

This matter was not negotiated in the end, and Yan Min was not easy to mess with. He was doing a rogue business, and he and Kuang Ming were considered rogues to meet rogues.

After this round of investigation, we did find a few suspicious people. They lacked alibi and could take advantage of the conflict between Su Yuan and Kuang Ming. However, a crucial issue remained unclear, that is, their motives.

Yan Min did have a motive, and even said that he wanted to kill Kuang Ming.

However, the sale of expired meat was still carried out according to the original plan. Would he really kill Kuang Ming because of a moment of anger?

Liu Zhiqin pondered with lowered eyes, and felt that the possibility was extremely small.

Because once something goes wrong in Kuangming, the police will find out the expired meat, and thus find out the Minrui meat processing factory.The failure of the business is the biggest harm to Yan Min.

But apart from Yan Min, the others didn't have a clear motive.

Motivation is the core component of crime. In premeditated homicides, except for very few indiscriminate murders, most cases have motives.

The murderer may have hidden the motive so deeply that the police will find it difficult to detect it for a while, but it is like a spider thread that connects everything together.

When Hua Chong sent the photo, Liu Zhiqin was sorting out the clues in his hands, his mind turned quickly, and when he first looked at the photo on the phone, he subconsciously thought it was a reliable clue, and immediately analyzed it carefully, but after analyzing it for a long time, he couldn't see it. Come up with an idea.

There are several photos, but the angles hardly change, some are blurred, and some are crooked.

This style seems familiar, when Hua Chong photographed him, his second baby, or any random scenery, it was all in this style.

But if you are taking on-site photos and physical evidence photos at work, Hua Chong is much more careful, at least not blurred, if it is indeed blurred, delete it and start over.

It didn't make sense to send him all the vague clues.

After asking, I found out that these photos were not clue photos at all, but the scenery that Hua Chong had taken halfway through the investigation of the case for him to enjoy.

On this day, Liu Zhiqin had to control the entire investigation process on the one hand, and follow up on every detail on the other. His spirit was always tense and never let up.When Hua Chong interrupted him, he took a moment to relax and sent a voice message: "You also like to take pictures of this style?"

Hua Chong didn't understand for a while, "What kind of style is this?"

Liu Zhiqin posted a screenshot of the niche comment, "Take dilapidated walls as a photo frame, and outside the photo frame are big rivers and urban forests. It is very popular to take pictures like this now."

Hua Chong smiled, "Our brother Liu knows a lot."

Liu Zhiqin also laughed.

After talking for a while, Hua Chong said again: "However, this photo can also be regarded as an indirect clue."

Liu Zhiqin said, "Huh?"

Hua Chong briefly talked about the tricks of buying old houses on Xieyang Road, and Liu Zhiqin said after listening: "If such a good position is obtained through relationships, then Jiangheng Inn is indeed easy to attract people's envy."

"I haven't had time to follow the case of Wang Jie myself, but I went through the Huang Xia case again. Although there are many clues, there is still no clear relationship with the Kuang Ming case."

The river water reflected the sun, shining golden and dazzling, Hua Chong turned his back, because he had just seen something bright, and immediately turned to the dim hut, his vision was difficult to adapt, as if he had cast a layer of shadows.

"I have a hunch that after the case with Wang Jie begins, the sense of separation between the three cases will be even greater." After clearing his vision again, Hua Chong walked downstairs, "The victim's cause of death and the chopsticks will combine the three cases together." Together, the killer's motives tore them apart."

The police car stopped on the patch road outside the yard, Haizi honked the horn.The main purpose of their visit to Linxian District today is to restore the scene. As for the follow-up investigation, they have to go back and continue.

Hua Chong walked towards the police car, and after getting in the car, he took a look at those old buildings.

They are all buildings of the last century. Those boatmen and quarrymen built them just to have a shelter from the wind and rain. They must have never imagined that the bearer of their difficult life would become the young people's competition after decades. Check-in Internet celebrity building.

Thoughts are not shared.

Therefore, joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys are not shared.

Liu Zhiqin called out "Flower Team", Hua Chong came back to his senses, "Huh?"

"What are you thinking?" Liu Zhiqin said, "Suddenly stopped talking."

Hua Chong couldn't describe what he was thinking just now. In the early stage of the investigation, a large number of clues came rushing in, which was more ferocious than the river water seen on Xieyang Road.

He must broaden his thinking, but doing so will also cause many problems. For example, excessive divergence leads to some ideas lacking support, and they cannot be taken back, causing some negative problems in the direction of investigation.

"It's okay." Hua Chong said, "We'll talk about it when we come back."

Liu Zhiqin said: "Okay, let's get a thorough understanding of all three cases, and then look for the motives and connections."

After receiving the notification from Hua Chong, Zhao Ying immediately contacted the planning project team of Linxian District.

The project team enjoyed the bonus of the development of Linxian District, and had a great view. At first, they didn't take Zhao Ying seriously. Zhao Ying got angry on the spot in their magnificent work area, and then called the person in charge of the project team.

The person in charge was surnamed Zhou, in his 50s, and served Zhao Ying with good tea, but Zhao Ying didn't drink a sip.

Of course Team Leader Zhou knew about the Jiangheng Inn, but he never thought that this matter would be found on his head a few months later, so he asked awkwardly, "Captain Zhao, what can we do for you?" ?”

"When Xieyang Road was first developed, what was the basis for buying and selling old houses?" Zhao Ying asked coldly.

Team leader Zhou was surprised, "This..."

Zhao Ying said: "Jiangheng Inn got the yard with the best location on Xieyang Road. At that time, there were quite a few people who fell in love with that yard, right? By what criteria did you finally hand over the yard to Bai Jiao?"

Group leader Zhou hesitated for a long time, then laughed awkwardly, "I said Team Zhao, don't you understand the plan? It's definitely not that anyone who likes it will definitely be able to buy it."

Zhao Ying glanced at him displeasedly, "So how did Bai Jiao take over that yard?"

Team leader Zhou walked around the office for a long time, sighed heavily, "It wasn't her who took it down, but her mother helped her take it down."

Zhao Ying said, "Yes, Huang Xia."

The name made Team Leader Zhou stunned for a moment, with cold sweat on his forehead, as if he suddenly realized that the case that everyone had talked about many times was really related to him.

Zhao Ying said, "What does Huang Xia have to do with you?"

Group leader Zhou was in a mess, so he recruited immediately.

Huang Xia and Team Leader Zhou's wife have known each other for many years. They are poker friends. It was deliberately losing in a card game, and Team Leader Zhou was blown away, so Bai Jiao got the yard.

"Huang Xia told us thousands of times at that time, saying not to let her daughter know. Her daughter is innocent and doesn't need to know these things." Group leader Zhou said anxiously: "In fact, there are too many such things. There are only a few houses on Xieyang Road. , It’s really not something you can buy with money, Team Zhao, this matter can’t be blamed on me, all the houses are sold, in fact, there are human debts.”

Zhao Ying said: "Then who else wanted the yard of Jiangheng Inn at that time?"

"Yo, that's too much." Group leader Zhou wiped off his sweat, "It took me a lot of effort to help."

Zhao Ying stared at him seriously, "What exactly are there?"

Group leader Zhou was startled, and called the secretary, "Wait, we'll sort it out right away!"

When Hua Chong returned to the Municipal Bureau, he had already obtained this list.