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"What are you doing? Let me out!" Wang Xiaoning thumped the table in the interrogation room in panic, his face full of anger, "Why don't you interrogate Wang Songsong if you want to interrogate someone? I told you that he pushed the old man into the lounge and he is still inside For a few minutes!"

Hua Chong put a navy blue overcoat on the table, moved the chair and sat down.

Before Hua Chong could speak, Wang Xiaoning had already snatched the coat and quickly put it on.

According to the indoor temperature, there is no need to wear a coat at this time, but Wang Xiaoning wanted to wear it, and Hua Chong did not stop him.Not only did he not stop him, but he also gave her time to tidy up after she finished dressing.

This coat is mid-length, with few buttons, and can be fastened in half a minute.There are several cotton buckles on the waist to hang the belt, but there is no belt on it.Wang Xiaoning fastened all the buttons, and stroked his waist with both hands, probably because he missed something that should be hanging there, paused his fingers, and then moved to the hem of the coat.

Only then did Hua Chong say: "Where's the belt?"

Wang Xiaoning paused, but didn't react, "What belt?"

Hua Chong slightly raised his chin, "Shouldn't you have a belt in your overcoat? From what you've done just now, it seems like you want to wear a belt?"

"Waist, belt..." Wang Xiaoning hesitated, "I don't know where I lost it."

Hua Chong has already watched the surveillance video of Zuixiang Restaurant. When entering the lobby and private rooms, the belt on Wang Xiaoning's coat disappeared.

"Then do you remember when you lost it?" Hua Chong asked.

"How can I remember this?" Wang Xiaoning said impatiently, "You don't go to solve the case, but you want to help me find my belt?"

Hua Chong snorted and put Wang Zhangbing's strangle mark photo on the table.

Wang Xiaoning didn't see what it was at first, and after he understood it, he exclaimed: "You, you..."

"Your father was strangled to death." Hua Chong said flatly, "There are some cotton fibers hidden in the strangle marks. These cotton fibers come from the coat on your body."

Wang Xiaoning's pupils suddenly constricted, the blood on his face faded, and after a few seconds, his pale lips began to tremble violently.

"Now you understand why I care so much about your belt, right?" Hua Chong nodded with his index finger in the air, "Your belt may be the weapon that strangled your father."

Wang Xiaoning shook his head dumbly, his eyes widened, "No, it's not me, you guys made a mistake, it's not me!"

Hua Chong looked at her, leaned slightly, and asked, "It's not you, it's your husband Zhang Chongqi?"

Wang Xiaoning didn't say a word for a long time, first grabbed the coat with both hands, and then desperately tore off the buttons, tearing off the coat like getting rid of some monster.

But the clothes are easy to take off, and the crime is difficult to clear.

"It has nothing to do with Chong Qi!" Wang Xiaoning said tremblingly: "The belt has long since disappeared. It is not in my hands at all. How could I use it to strangle my father? You, if you don't believe me, you can check the surveillance. The belt has never been seen." On my clothes!"

"You can put it away in advance and put it in your bag or coat pocket." Hua Chong picked up the coat that was thrown on the ground, shook his hand twice, patted the pocket and said: "The depth of this pocket, put a Belts are no problem."

Wang Xiaoning grabbed the clothes again, "You are just imagining!"

"I'm reasoning based on evidence." Hua Chong propped his hands on the edge of the table, looking straight into Wang Xiaoning's eyes, "You and your husband entered the lounge during the meal, what are you going to do?"

"us……"

"You want to say, you are going to deliver soup to your father?"

Wang Xiaoning lowered his head and struggled for a long time before saying, "Chong Qi and I didn't go to the lounge together."

"You go in alone? And he goes in alone?"

"I..." Wang Xiaoning's eyes were red, "I really just want to feed my father a bowl of soup, it's not me who strangled him!"

"Hey soup? Are you so filial?" Hua Chong said: "Before I was outside, I heard you and Wang Nuoqiang arguing. You don't want to give up your filial piety to your father. Why did you suddenly think of giving soup to the old man? ?”

Wang Xiaoning trembled violently, and the loose flesh on his neck stretched out tense lines.

Hua Chong asked forcefully, "Why are you going to the lounge to deliver soup?"

A few minutes later, Wang Xiaoning suddenly became gloomy, and let out a strange laugh, "It looks like, I still have to do it."

Hua Chong saw indifference and self-deprecation in Wang Xiaoning's eyes. This penny-year-old woman who has no children seems to really hate the sick old father.

"Anyway, today's meal is also to celebrate the old man's birthday. They all pretended to go in and have a 'chat' with the old man. Is it unreasonable not to go in and show concern?" Wang Xiaoning said shaking his head, "But he only loves his The eldest son and the youngest daughter, the house is given to the eldest son, and the money is given to the youngest daughter. I am caught in the middle, it seems like he picked it up. He didn’t treat me well when I was a child, and I gave Wang Nuoqiang Wang Chuning all the good things. Is it my turn? I got married, but he didn't even prepare a dowry. If I don't have children, he will look down on me even more, and never think of me when it's good. He loves Wang Nuoqiang and Wang Chuning, and then Wang Songsongji Chan, after all, I don’t have my share. Now that he’s old and demented, he’s got to have his excrement and urine taken care of by others, so he’s thinking of me? Pooh, why? But I’ll still pretend to be filial.”

Wang Xiaoning laughed again, "Is it just serving a bowl of soup to ask for warmth? I will."

Hua Chong analyzed Wang Xiaoning's words, his brows gradually tightened.

Wang Xiaoning's belt is the murder weapon, but if Wang Xiaoning is not the murderer, then who is the murderer?

The murderer hid the belt ahead of time, trying to blame Wang Xiaoning?

Who has the chance to quietly take the belt?

Where is the belt now?

Obviously, Zhang Chongqi was the easiest person to hide his belt, and he also had the motive to kill Wang Zhangbing.But why did Zhang Chongqi frame Wang Xiaoning?This doesn't quite make sense.

As for the other people in the private room, as relatives, even relatives who have emotional rifts, they can't do without contact with each other, so any one of them has a chance to take the belt.For Wang Xiaoning, the loss of the belt might not be a big deal, she would not even think that her belt was deliberately stolen, she would only think that she lost it carelessly.

After all, under normal circumstances, no one would steal someone else's belt.

Hua Chong asked: "Recall again, when did you realize that the belt was missing?"

Wang Xiaoning calmed down a little, "A few days ago... I really didn't know."

"If I said that someone stole your belt and strangled your father to death." Hua Chong said, "Who do you think this person would be?"

Wang Xiaoning opened his mouth in surprise, the lines of his jaw and cheeks trembled slightly.

"You're thinking of someone, aren't you?"

"No, I don't know." Wang Xiaoning turned his eyes away, "I didn't kill anyone, and I don't know who killed my father!"

The light fell on the table, and Wang Xiaoning's face was covered with shadows.

Hua Chong stared at her, knowing that she already had the answer in her heart.

The person who stole the belt was Zhang Chongqi.

But she was unwilling to say the answer.

Just now outside, Wang Xiaoning was extremely aggressive, sometimes saying that Wang Songsong was the murderer, and sometimes saying that Wang Chuning and Wang Nuoqiang were not innocent. If she thought the belt was taken away by these relatives, she would definitely say it.

Now that she chooses to remain silent, the only person she can think of is Zhang Chongqi.

This answer made it difficult for her to accept.

At this moment, Liu Zhiqin's voice came from the earphones.

"Flower team, come here, Zhang Chongqi has something to say."

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"She did it by herself, I don't know! I was ahead of her in the lounge, and the old man was fine at that time!" Zhang Chongqi straightened his back, trying to make himself look innocent, but the dodge in his eyes had already betrayed him he.

"Zhang Chongqi initially insisted that he had nothing to do with Wang Xiaoning and Wang Zhangbing's death, but when I told him that the murder weapon might be Wang Xiaoning's belt, his rhetoric changed quickly." Liu Zhiqin said: "He It was shocking at first, and after the shock, I began to distance myself."

"It seems that he already thinks Wang Xiaoning is the murderer." Hua Chong sighed slightly.Wang Xiaoning and Zhang Chongqi have been husband and wife for decades. They have no children as the bond of marriage, but they have not fallen apart. The relationship seems to be good.But in front of a belt, Zhang Chongqi easily pushed his wife out, but Wang Xiaoning still refused to express his suspicion about Zhang Chongqi.

"I synthesized the opinions of all the people in the private room, and roughly figured out the order in which they entered and exited the private room." Liu Zhiqin said: "Wang Songsong pushed Wang Zhangbing into the rest room, stayed for a few minutes, and left. Then Wang Chuning, and then Wang Nuo Qiang and Zhu Zhao, followed by Zhang Chongqi, and finally Wang Xiaoning. This order is very important, because if they hadn’t committed crimes collectively and shielded each other, then the murderer could only be Wang Xiaoning. They had a fierce quarrel just now and blamed each other, but in reality In fact, whether it is Wang Xiaoning's accusation against Wang Songsong or other accusations, it is not valid. Wang Songsong entered the lounge first, and if Wang Song loosened his hand, the people who followed will definitely find out."

"Wang Xiaoning ignored this point, so he just talked nonsense." Hua Chong analyzed: "In this order, the people who entered the lounge before Wang Xiaoning are not suspected, and Wang Xiaoning is the only suspect."

"But it's hard to say." Liu Zhiqin shook his head. "They don't have to enter the lounge from the private room. The other door of the lounge is located in the blind spot of surveillance. Anyone who enters from there may commit crimes. Before 1:[-], except Wang Xiaoning, Wang Songsong, and others have all left the private room. They may have gone to the bathroom, or they may have taken a detour to the lounge."

"Wang Songsong's suspicion can be ruled out. He was the first to enter the rest room, and he never left the private room on the way, so he has no time to commit the crime." Hua Chong said, "The key is the belt. After using the belt, where did the murderer put it?" Go? If the murderer is one of the people in the private room, then 'he' must not be able to take the belt too far after committing the crime. If it is dealt with on the spot, how to deal with it? The fire is too eye-catching and there is not enough time."

"Li Xun and the others didn't find anything suspected to be Wang Xiaoning's belt near Zuixiang Restaurant."

"strangeness……"

Liu Zhiqin asked: "What if the murderer hid the belt away from the scene?"

"Then 'he' can't be the person in the private room." Hua Chong said: "This is in line with our other thinking - the murderer is not a descendant of Wang Zhangbing, 'he' entered the lounge from a blind spot of the camera , strangled Wang Zhangbing to death. But the question is, why does this person have Wang Xiaoning's belt?"

Liu Zhiqin was silent, his eyebrows loosened and then tightened, "We might have thought this case too simple before."

Hua Chong nodded, "Everyone in the private room has a motive, and except for Wang Songsong, they all have time to commit the crime. Wang Chuning is also ready to commit the crime. But the murderer may be someone else."

Both of them were thinking, and a bitter cry suddenly came from the direction of the interrogation room.

After learning what Zhang Chongqi said, Wang Xiaoning broke down and cried hoarsely, as if being squeezed out of his lungs.

"Wang Xiaoning doesn't have much affection for her natal family, but has a deep affection for Zhang Chongqi." Hua Chong said: "She never thought that Zhang Chongqi would 'abandon' her so easily."

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Liang Ping lay sideways on the bed, unable to sleep all night in pain.When it was almost dawn, I finally felt a little sleepy, and had to get up to make breakfast for my family.

It is cold in winter, and no one wants to get up early. My son gets up very angry. If the breakfast is not to his appetite, he will throw the bowl and kick the table.Liang Ping was afraid that her son and daughter-in-law would be in trouble, and she didn't know what they wanted to eat, so she made wontons in clear soup and glutinous rice cakes in red soup, boiled some tea eggs, and boiled a pot of millet porridge. Eat whatever you want.

But the daughter-in-law suddenly said that she wanted to eat the shiitake mushroom vermicelli buns at Jiekou instead of the breakfast at home.

The son did not speak, but sat gloomily at the table.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liang Ping immediately picked up the keys and wallet tremblingly, "I'll go buy them right away."

It was dry and cold outside, Liang Ping came out in a hurry, forgot to put on her coat, and when she walked quickly to the street, her hands and feet were almost numb from the cold.

It only took a quarter of an hour to buy the buns, but the daughter-in-law was very upset. Not only did she not take the buns, but she also said angrily, "Don't eat, don't eat, it's so slow, you want to make me late?"

The son threw away the chopsticks, left with his daughter-in-law, and slammed the door with a loud bang.

Liang Ping froze in place, with tears gradually filling her eyes.

But she has been wronged for decades, and her heart has been completely numb.As long as you don't suffer from the "family stick", it seems that all grievances are nothing.

At this time, there was an angry curse from the husband's bedroom, "What are you doing so early in the morning? Damn woman, are you making such a fuss to piss me off?"

Liang Ping shrank instinctively, not daring to say that the noise was caused by her son and daughter-in-law. After thinking about it, she felt that it was useless to explain or not.

Anyway, in this family, all the faults are hers.She lost her job very early. She used to rely on her husband to live, but now she lives on the wages of her son and daughter-in-law. She has no position to resist.

After cleaning the house well, Liang Ping didn't dare to use the speakers when she went out, and she didn't know what else she could do without dancing in the square.

Although they are both in Changlu District, the Wutong community is still a few bus stops away from the community where Liang Ping's family lives.Liang Ping had nothing to do, so she wanted to go to Wutong Community to have a look.

She envied those old people who were killed, for her, death was a relief.

After a few days, police cars were still parked outside Wutong Community, and the riverside leisure area was so quiet that only the sound of water flow could be heard.Liang Ping stood at the gate of Wutong Community and looked in, and was soon asked to leave by the vigilant security guards.

She had nowhere to go, her back was so painful that she couldn't straighten up, so she walked to the riverside recreation area, found a stone bench and sat down, staring at the rushing river.

Suddenly, she felt someone standing behind her.But when he turned around, he saw nothing.

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There was a murder case, and the recently opened Zuixiang Restaurant closed down, and several nearby restaurants were also affected. The residents living nearby talked a lot. In less than a day, they made up several versions of the murder case. The one with the largest audience One version is that the three brothers and sisters of the Wang family were wolf-hearted and cruelly murdered their father at the birthday banquet.

Hua Chong listened for a while, but didn't take it seriously, walked around to the back door of Zuixiang Restaurant with Liu Zhiqin, looked at it for a while, and said, "If the murderer leaves through this door after committing the crime, no camera will be able to capture it." He'. There were three wedding banquets in the store at noon yesterday, it was extremely busy, if 'he' pretended to be a waiter, no one would notice 'him'."

Liu Zhiqin raised his head slightly and looked towards the roof, "I still can't figure out, if the murderer is an outsider, what is the motive for committing the crime, and why he must use Wang Xiaoning's belt to strangle Wang Zhangbing to death. Flower team, this case will not be related to Wutong Community Is the case related?"

"The victims are all old people, and this is the only connection between them." Hua Chong said: "One side cut the throat very professionally, and the other side strangled the neck not so professionally, and the murderer also left cotton fibers on the neck of the deceased. It is basically impossible for the murderer in both cases to be the same person."

Knowing that the police were coming again, the boss rushed over with a look of embarrassment on his face, and immediately asked, "Well, has the murderer been caught?"

Hua Chong asked, "Do you have any clues to provide?"

"Can you..." The boss frowned, and swallowed back the words that came to his lips, "Look, officers, my store has just opened, and such a big incident has happened, and now I can't do business at all. I'm in a hurry!"

"Aren't we in a hurry?" Hua Chong said, "Pay attention, if anyone with strange behavior appears, please contact us immediately."

Hearing this, the boss let out a "huh" and seemed to be in deep thought.

"What?" Hua Chong asked, "Who do you think of?"

"People have been watching the fun yesterday and today." The boss said, "The story of someone dying in my store has been widely spread. They can watch it if they want. I can't stop it, but there is a man who Seems kind of weird."

Liu Zhiqin asked: "What kind of strange method?"

"It looks very nervous and a little excited. It doesn't look like someone who just watched the excitement."

"When? Where was he standing?" Hua Chong asked.

The boss pointed in the direction of the front door, "It's over there."

"In the monitoring range? Call out the video immediately!"

The boss was startled, and quickly asked someone to adjust the video, trembling: "Why, what? This person is the murderer?"

Hua Chong did not explain to him that in some homicide cases, the murderer would return to the scene after committing the crime, some to admire his "masterpiece", and some to inquire about what clues the police had found.

The video stopped at 7:23 in the morning. A middle-aged man in a black down jacket was looking into the store. The camera pointed outside, capturing the expressions of him and the surrounding people clearly.

Curiosity and surprise were on other people's faces, but joy and excitement were on this man's face.

Hua Chong immediately took out his mobile phone, and was about to arrange to investigate this person, when Zhang Mao called.

"Flower team, Ji Can said that there is a situation that he wants to report to you."

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The whole Wang family gave people a gray and defeated feeling, but Ji Can was different. She wore a high ponytail, a white plush coat, and a camel scarf. She was tall and beautiful, but this beauty seemed to be wrapped in a layer of chill. , giving a sense of indifference.

She doesn't look like the daughter of a poor family.

On the one hand, it shows that Wang Chuning tried his best to give her the best life and never made her suffer. On the other hand, she may never have cared for or helped her mother.

Hua Chong asked, "What do you want to say?"

Ji Can didn't panic, and there was no sorrow in his eyes, "You are looking for who killed my grandfather, did you find out? Is it my aunt?"

"You hope it's her?"

Unexpectedly, Ji Can shook his head, "If it's really my aunt, then grandpa will be miserable. My mother wants to kill him, my aunt wants to kill him, and maybe my uncle wants to kill him too. Then what's the point of having children? ?”

Hua Chong remembered that it was Ji Can who coldly exposed the "fake filial piety" of the three siblings of the Wang family the day before.

"You must be investigating my grandfather's interpersonal relationship, right?" Ji Can sighed, "I know a person who has some conflicts with my grandfather. This matter is indeed my grandfather's fault."

According to Ji Can, about seven or eight years ago, Wang Zhangbing built a pigeon cage on the balcony and raised a dozen pigeons.

The cleaning of the pigeons is not easy to take care of, the feathers of the pigeons are flying around, and the pigeon droppings are everywhere.The neighborhood committee came to persuade many times, but Wang Zhangbing did not dispose of the pigeons, and still let the pigeons "make chaos".

Later, a pigeon flew to a neighbor, a family named Li. Wang Zhangbing came to ask for the pigeon, but the pigeon had already been eaten by the other party.

Wang Zhangbing was extremely heartbroken and extremely resentful. He must give an explanation from the Li family, but the Li family first said that pigeons should not be kept in residential areas, and then they ate them as soon as they were eaten. What can you do to me?

The Li family had three Pomeranians, but Wang Zhangbing was furious. While the old lady of the Li family was walking the dogs alone, he beat the three Pomeranians to death with a cane, and stewed dog meat soup that night.

For this matter, Wang Nuoqiang paid the Li family a lot of money and disposed of all the pigeons in the family.After that, Wang Zhangbing became more and more depressed until he developed Alzheimer's disease.

"After my grandfather got sick, the family surnamed Li said 'he deserves it'." Ji Can said: "To be honest, I also think my grandfather deserves it. It was his fault for raising pigeons, and he even beat him to death." three dogs."

"Does this Li family still live in the old place?" Hua Chong asked.

"I've already moved away. After much deliberation, the only idiot thing my grandfather did in his life was to kill the Li family's dog." Ji Can breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was finally relieved , "That family may still hate my grandfather."

Liu Zhiqin knocked on the door and came in, and put the tablet on the table, which was playing the surveillance video at the entrance of Zuixiang Restaurant.

"Have you seen this person?" Liu Zhiqin asked, pointing to one of them.

Ji Can picked up the tablet, his expression changed a few seconds later, "This person..."

"You know him?"

"He's the one who had a dispute with my grandfather! Li... Li what is it?"