I am a super cop

Chapter 1574 Another Candidate

In the courtyard, after knowing why Gu Chen wanted tools, the couple were dumbfounded.

But thinking of the corpses dug in the wasteland yesterday, he suddenly realized again.

The middle-aged woman immediately said in shock: "Comrade policeman, you mean that Xu Xintong's body was buried with our tools?"

"That's what it means." Gu Chen didn't want to play around with her, and in fact, he didn't plan to play around with her.

Normal people have long guessed the purpose of finding tools, but the two couples were a little slow to react, and it is only now that they understand Gu Chen's intentions.

The middle-aged woman froze for a moment, and looked at the man impatiently: "Husband, the police comrades said that the tools used to bury Xu Xintong's body were our hoes and shovels, so... doesn't that mean us?"

"Comrade policeman, the conscience of heaven and earth." The middle-aged man was a little scared when his wife said it, and immediately defended himself:

"My husband and wife have no conflicts with Xu Xintong. Our relationship has always been very good. I often treat her to barbecue. This... this matter has nothing to do with us."

"Yes, it has nothing to do with us." The middle-aged woman also hugged her husband and said nervously.

Gu Chen sighed and shook his head helplessly: "I didn't say it was you, you don't have to be so nervous."

"I came here this time because I suspect that the tool used to bury Xu Xintong may be the tool in your compound, so I want to come here to verify."

Gu Chen curled his lips, and said again: "But now, your tools are gone, which makes me believe even more that the tools that buried Xu Xintong's body that night may be the ones you lost."

When the two couples heard this, they immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

The middle-aged man said weakly: "If that's the case, then it has nothing to do with us. It's not us who lost the tool. We always put the tool here when we're done using it."

"Yes, yes, our tools have always been kept here, so we don't blame us for losing them." The middle-aged woman was also very nervous at the moment.

As long as there is anything that is not good for her, the middle-aged woman will try her best to get rid of it.

Gu Chen walked to the corner of the wall and looked through it carefully.

Pulling away a few sundries from it, I found that it was extremely hidden inside.

Looking back at the yard, from the middle of the yard, it is difficult to see the cracks in the corners.

And because of the angle, unless you walk here deliberately, it is difficult to find the tricks in the corner.

After learning about the situation, Gu Chen asked again: "By the way, besides yourself and the decoration worker, does anyone else know that these tools are stored here?"

"This one……"

When Gu Chen suddenly asked, the two fell into meditation instantly.

Lu Weiwei reminded: "Does the landlord, Mr. Zhao know?"

"I don't know. Apart from collecting the rent, he doesn't even know where the other things are kept." The middle-aged woman shook her head in denial.

Gu Chen also asked: "What about Gao Mingyang? Does he know?"

"He knew that once he wanted to loosen the soil for the flower bed in front of the door, and asked if we had any tools, I told him that there were shovels and hoes at the corner of the wall."

Facing Gu Chen's question, the middle-aged man answered readily.

But at this moment, Gu Chen's thinking came to a standstill.

On the one hand, even the landlord, Uncle Zhao, doesn't know where the tools are kept?On the one hand, the murderer used tools to complete the burial of Xu Xintong's body in a very short period of time.

If Xiao Zhicheng did it, then after he drove to the old house in Osmanthus Lane and strangled Xu Xintong to death, he had to immediately bring tools and go to the wasteland to bury the body.

But judging from the current situation, even if he is given an hour, he may not be fully sure to complete these.

As for the section of Osmanthus Alley, Xiao Zhicheng rarely came here, and the road was being repaired during this time.

If Xiao Zhicheng had known early on that morning and evening peak hours could be diverted through intersections, and he would drive from the trail to Osmanthus Alley, then he would have known where the tools were in advance.

However, Xiao Zhicheng didn't send Xu Xintong home many times. He usually sent people there and then drove back.

In such a short period of time, he didn't have time to investigate the situation around the yard.

Frowning slightly, Gu Chen continued to think.

"If that's the case, it seems a bit reluctant to place the murderer's hat on Xiao Zhicheng's head. After all, he has come to Osmanthus Lane several times, but he hasn't checked the surrounding environment, so he doesn't know where the tools are."

"The tools for burying the corpse are most likely the tools lost by the couple, but the tools of the couple are stored in the cracks in the corner."

"At this location, unless someone acquainted reminds me, it is difficult to find at all."

"If this is the case, why is Xiao Zhicheng confident? Without knowing the maintenance section of the Osmanthus Lane road, he can still use the tools that the couple hid in the corner of the wall to complete the attack on Xu Xintong in a short time. After killing it, bury it in the wasteland?"

With these questions in mind, Gu Chen suddenly had a frightening thought that the murderer was someone else.

"Junior Brother Gu." Seeing the doubts in Gu Chen's heart, Lu Weiwei walked from the couple and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with you?"

"Senior Sister Lu, come here." Gu Chen glanced at the couple, then pulled Lu Weiwei directly to the open space not far away, and whispered in her ear:

"I think our investigation may be in the wrong direction."

"The direction of the investigation is wrong?" Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei also stared blankly, and asked with a sneer: "You mean, the murderer is unlikely to find these tools by himself?"

"After all, these tools are hidden in such a secret corner. Even the landlord, Mr. Zhao, doesn't know. How could the murderer know?"

"Thinking about going together." Feeling that Lu Weiwei had already noticed that the problem was wrong, Gu Chen simply explained to Lu Weiwei what he was thinking just now.

Lu Weiwei's expression darkened when she heard this, and she hurriedly asked Gu Chen, "Junior Brother Gu, do you think that the murderer is someone else, and this murderer is hiding in the yard?"

"That's right." Gu Chen nodded silently, expressing his own thoughts: "At least, don't you think it's suspicious that the tool is missing?"

"If the tools are discarded nearby, it means that the people who use the tools at least know that these tools are placed in the corners and crevices."

"If this speculation is followed, then the murderer is most likely the couple, or the decoration worker, or Gao Mingyang."

"Gao Mingyang is unlikely." Lu Weiwei shook her head, and suddenly said: "If the two couples are setting up a night market every night, they must be able to find out from the surveillance. There is also a basis for this."

"The only person who hasn't shown up until now is the decoration worker."

"That's right." Gu Chen frowned, and said again: "Go and ask the exact location of the decoration workers, let's go and investigate."

"Yes." Lu Weiwei nodded silently, seeing that the two couples behind her were still discussing in low voices.

So Lu Weiwei didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Do you know which construction site that decoration worker is at?"

"Washington Family, there's a big hotel over there that's being renovated, and he's in a hurry, so he's been living there all this time," said the middle-aged man.

"Then do you know what his name is?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"Let's call him Xu Hua. He usually asks us to call him Hua Zi." The middle-aged woman said.

Lu Weiwei nodded silently, and glanced at Gu Chen beside her.

Gu Chen reminded: "Now think of a way to find the tool and see where it is? If you two are fine now, help find it."

"Hey!" Feeling that they could help the police find physical evidence, the couple immediately let go of their guard, and both came to Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei.

Afterwards, Gu Chen arranged for the couple to search for tools near the wasteland according to the surrounding building layout.

30 minutes passed.

At the same time when Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei were looking for another location in the wasteland, they suddenly heard the couple waving and shouting.

Without caring too much, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei ran over immediately.

At this moment, the middle-aged man pointed to a ditch and said: "I found the tool, right here. Someone threw the tool into this ditch and covered it with weeds."

"I said that it looked a little reflective just now, but at first glance, it turned out to be the shovel."

"Is this the tool you lost?" Gu Chen put on his white gloves and jumped into the ravine, ready to pick up the tool.

The middle-aged woman nodded to confirm: "That's right, it's the two tools we lost. I recognize the handle at a glance."

"Senior Sister Lu, continue." Gu Chen threw the shovel and the hoe onto the flat ground one by one, and then climbed deftly, and Gu Chen quickly returned to the top.

The two got the tools and started to check them immediately.

But nothing could be seen from the tools, so Gu Chen had no choice but to take back the tools and prepare to take them back to the Technical Section of the Municipal Bureau for Gao Chuanfeng to test them.

But at the next location, Gu Chen has to go to the family in Washington to look for the decoration worker Xu Hua.

The vehicle drove all the way, and after a 30-minute journey, it came to a mid-range community.

Since the community is a newly developed real estate, many stores are also in a state of renovation.

Based on the information provided by the couple before, Gu Chen also accurately found a big hotel that was being renovated.

The Grand Hotel is located at the intersection outside the entire suburb. It has a large area, and the interior decoration is also in full swing.

Gu Chen randomly found a carpenter and asked, "Master, is there a decoration worker named Xu Hua here?"

"Xu Hua?" The decoration worker hesitated for a moment, but didn't reply immediately, as if he was thinking for a while.

So Lu Weiwei also reminded, "It's Hua Zi, everyone likes to call him that."

"Oh, you said Xu Hua, I may not remember clearly, but when you talk about Hua Zi, then I must know that he is laying floor tiles on the second floor. Go over and have a look, it must be there."

"Okay, thank you master."

"You're welcome."

At the carpenter's place, after asking about Xu Hua's whereabouts, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei immediately rushed to the direction of the second floor, searching all the way.

There are many decoration workers here, and everyone has their own division of labor.

But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei focused on finding workers to install floor tiles.

It didn't take long to find two men talking and laughing with cigarettes in their mouths, laying tiles at the moment.

Gu Chen stepped forward and asked, "Which of you is Hua Zi?"

Hearing this, the two turned their heads to look at Gu Chen.

One of the tall and thin short-haired men stood up slowly, took off the cigarette in his hand, and said weakly: "I... I am Huazi, what do you want from me?"

"You are Xu Hua?" Lu Weiwei looked up and down the tall and thin man in overalls.

The man nodded silently: "Yes, I am Xu Hua, everyone calls me Huazi."

"You live in the old house in Osmanthus Alley, right?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

Xu Hua seemed a little nervous, and he didn't know the purpose of the two of them coming to find him.

But when he heard that the police already knew where he lived, Xu Hua's expression was stunned, and he replied weakly: "Yes... yes, I live in the old house in Osmanthus Lane, but it's in a hurry, so I have been living with you all the time. I seldom go back to the hotel.”

"Come out for a while." Feeling that it was inappropriate to question Xu Hua face to face here, Gu Chen glanced at his chin and signaled Xu Hua to come out and talk.

Xu Hua also had a dazed look on his face, he dropped the tools at hand, and followed Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei cautiously, and walked out of the hotel gate together.

Afterwards, the three came to a corner, and Gu Chen turned on the law enforcement recorder, took out the notebook and asked him, "The hoes and shovels that the couple in the yard often use, you brought them there, right? "

"Ah?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, Xu Hua's expression suddenly froze.

However, he found that the cigarette butt in his hand had already burned out, so he quickly threw it on the ground and crushed his feet.

"I'm asking you, did you bring that tool back?" Seeing that Xu Hua didn't respond for a long time, Lu Weiwei continued to urge her.

Xu Hua was a little embarrassed, and said weakly: "Comrade police, this is just a shovel and a hoe, and we have a lot of them on the construction site."

"And that was at the last construction site. The couple in our yard said that they wanted to grow their own vegetables, but because they had no tools, they asked me, is there any on our construction site?"

"As a neighbor, of course I said yes, so the next day, I secretly took a hoe and a shovel from the construction site. After get off work, I sneaked them back to the yard and gave them to the couple to use."

After a pause, Xu Hua said again: "But Comrade Police, it's not enough, isn't it just two tools? I just pay for the money, and there is no need to arrest me for two tools, right?"

"Besides, on our construction site, we often bring some tools, wrenches, hammers, etc. home. There are many people around, and the construction site leaders didn't investigate. Did they call the police for these things afterwards? Isn't the layout too small?"

"I'm not asking you this, what are you doing so far away?" Feeling that Xu Hua didn't understand what he was asking, so Lu Weiwei immediately corrected:
"I'm just asking you, did you give the tools they used to farm the land to the couple who were making barbecues in the yard? It's as simple as that."

"It's...it's that simple?" I felt like I still didn't understand what Lu Weiwei meant, but Xu Hua didn't dare to lie, so he nodded and admitted, "Didn't I just say that? I brought the tool, it doesn't matter how much it is, I'll just go out."

"Xu Xintong was killed, did you know?"

Seeing Xu Hua's various complaints, Gu Chen took a deep breath and informed him of the situation.

But when he heard the news that Xu Xintong was killed, Xu Hua's eyes froze for a long time, and he didn't recover from it for a long time.

"Xu Hua." Lu Weiwei frowned slightly and reminded directly.

Only then did Xu Hua's expression freeze, and he recovered from the astonishment just now.

After a while, Xu Hua suddenly looked depressed, and said with a sob: "Comrade policeman, is what you said true? That Xu Xintong is really dead?"

"Yes, after being strangled to death 10 days ago, the body was buried in the wilderness outside your yard, and we discovered it yesterday."

Gu Chen also talked about it, explaining what happened last night to Xu Hua in detail.

Xu Hua's legs softened at the moment, and he leaned against the wall with his right hand resting on his forehead. He also felt a little dizzy and said, "Actually, it shouldn't be. Xu Xintong is a girl who usually has a good personality and hasn't provoked anyone? How could that be?" ? How did it die?"

Looking up at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, Xu Hua asked again: "But Comrade Police, what does this matter have to do with me? Why did you come to me?"

"Because the tools buried in Xu Xintong's body were the shovel and hoe." Lu Weiwei also told the truth.

Xu Hua was stunned, thinking about it carefully, but then asked: "But what does this mean? Does it mean that I did it?"

"We didn't say it was you." Gu Chen took a step forward and said, "We found that these two tools have been stored in the corners of the couple's house. It is difficult for ordinary people to find, even the landlord Zhao The uncle doesn't know where there are tools."

"However, after our on-site investigation, we found that the tools used to bury the corpse were the two hidden in the cracks in the corner of the wall. This is a bit weird."

After a pause, Gu Chen walked back and forth in front of Xu Hua, and continued to remind: "Think about it, killing Xu Xintong and burying Xu Xintong's body in the wilderness, relatively speaking, there is not enough time."

"But how did the murderer manage all this smoothly in a short period of time? And how did the murderer discover those two tools?"

"Did the murderer step on the spot in advance and discover the exact location where the tools were hidden? Or did the murderer already know where these tools were placed?"

"This……"

Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Xu Hua finally understood that Gu Chen was targeting the residents of the compound with suspicion.

As one of the insiders, he naturally became a suspect.

Xu Hua, who was somewhat dissatisfied, immediately retorted: "However, this matter has nothing to do with me. You said that Xu Xintong was killed 10 days ago, but I have been working on the construction site here for more than ten days."

"There was also a power outage at the construction site the day before yesterday. My workers and I went to a nearby restaurant to play cards for fun. That's all. I haven't returned to Osmanthus Lane. You can ask my workers about this, and they can all testify to me."

Seeing Xu Hua's confident expression, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, and they seemed to believe Xu Hua's words.

After all, whether it is a lie or not, you can tell the workers if you ask them.

In addition, there are a lot of monitoring around here for reference. Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei expected that Xu Hua would not dare to lie.

But since the murderer wasn't Xu Hua, who could it be?Gu Chen seemed to have another candidate in his heart.

……

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