I am a super cop

Chapter 227 Face injury

Police officer Wang looked at Gu Chen with some confusion.

Regarding the question of dinner last night, Police Officer Wang was too busy chatting with Lu Weiwei, not paying attention to the movement around him.

As for Gu Chen, who was also eating, he noticed that the two men behind him seemed suspicious from the moment he sat down.

Police officer Wang stepped forward to check the blade on the man's chest. It was obvious that the tip of the knife had pierced a vital part, and the deceased had no room to struggle.

"This murderer seems to want the other party to die, and the attack is too ruthless." Lu Weiwei frowned when she saw the scene in front of her.

"It may be that there is a deep hatred with him, or there are irreconcilable conflicts." Officer Wang also surrounded the deceased, carefully checking other clues.

The decoration of this house is good, and all kinds of furniture are also high-end goods, which shows that the family of the deceased was wealthy.

"Who smoked this cigarette?" Gu Chen suddenly found that there was an unfinished cigar on the desk.

The cigar gave off a faint fragrance, which made the whole room have a faint fragrance of tobacco.

"No wonder I thought it was the smell of perfume just now." Police officer Wang was also quite curious, and turned to ask the auxiliary police next to him: "Did you notice any lit cigars when you entered the door?"

"That's right, the cigar was still lit when we came in." The auxiliary policeman also told the truth.

"Apart from you, who else has touched this cigarette?" Gu Chen asked.

The auxiliary policeman shook his head and said: "No one has touched it. After the neighbor next door reported the crime, he didn't dare to stay in the room. Originally, he wanted to come in to say hello. After all, the relationship between the two is not bad."

"That is to say, this cigar has not been extinguished since the death of the deceased? Isn't this time too long?" Stumped.

"Senior Sister Lu, cigars are a special type of tobacco, they are different from ordinary cigarettes." Gu Chen also explained.

"Aren't they all cigarettes? Is there any difference?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"The difference is for sure." Gu Chen walked to the side of the cigar, pointed to the English Cigar on the cigarette and said, "Cigars are a tobacco product that is rolled from dried and fermented tobacco."

Looking at the size, Gu Chen frowned and said, "According to the size of this cigar, the length should be 125MM, and the ring diameter should be about 36/64. The burning time of this cigar is about 1 hour and 25 minutes."

"Can the cigars burn for such a long time?" Lu Weiwei was also shocked. Although the cigarettes she had seen before were much bigger, they could burn for 1 hour and 25 minutes. It was a bit unbelievable.

"That's right, cigars can be lighted and extinguished many times. If the deceased was not pretending to be seen by others, then he might be a very serious cigar drinker." Looking at the cigars on the tabletop ashtray, Gu Chen hesitated. After a while, he said:

"But then again, novice cigar smokers usually don't extinguish it, because they are afraid of extinguishing the flame, and they smoke desperately, so it is difficult to extinguish the cigar. This cigarette has been kept here for so long, it should be fine. Calculate the time."

Officer Wang hesitated for a moment, and said: "We received the call, and I immediately contacted the auxiliary police on duty to protect the scene. In addition, our police lights cleared the way, and it took only 20 minutes to come here. From the reporting time Come to think of it, it’s about 25 minutes.”

"So?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Gu Chen put on white gloves, opened a delicate wooden cigar box next to it, took out a cigar that had never been lit, put it next to the burning cigar, and said, "So this cigar has been burning for an hour."

Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were quite surprised, wondering how did this kid Gu Chen know?
"Gu Chen." Officer Wang asked first, "How do you know so much about cigars? Have you ever smoked cigars?"

Gu Chen shook his head and explained: "My family runs a non-staple food supermarket. There is a counter dedicated to selling famous wines and cigarettes. They are all counters set up by the general distributor, including cigars. I told the salesmen of the general distributor, I heard them talk about it during the chat."

"So that's the case." Lu Weiwei was a little uneasy, and continued: "The murderer should have committed the crime within an hour. We have to quickly find out who entered the deceased's house within this hour."

Police Officer Wang nodded slightly, and asked the auxiliary police: "Where was the reporter just now?"

"It's in the house next door," said the auxiliary policeman.

"Take me there to have a look." Officer Wang said.

Soon, Police Officer Wang knocked on the door of the house next door.

A tall, middle-aged woman opened the door with a flustered expression. Seeing a group of policemen standing outside, she said in panic, "Police...comrade policemen, are you...do you have anything to do?"

"You called the police?" Gu Chen who was beside him turned on the law enforcement recorder and asked.

"Yes... yes." The middle-aged woman nodded, a little nervous.

"We have something to ask you about." Gu Chen looked behind the middle-aged woman and asked, "Can we go in and talk?"

"Uh, this, of course it is possible, please... please come in." The woman's legs trembled, and she was very nervous.

In fact, Gu Chen, Officer Wang, and Lu Weiwei were all watching.

"Please sit down." The middle-aged woman greeted everyone to sit on the sofa, then turned around and went to the water dispenser, ready to pour some tea for everyone.

"Don't be so polite, we just want to know something, and you don't need to be too nervous." Gu Chen also saw that the woman's hands were shaking so much that she couldn't help but comfort her.

"It's...it's okay." The woman poured water, put it on the coffee table, and then sat on the sofa cushion keeping a certain distance from everyone.

"When did you find out that the deceased died at home? Can you explain to us in detail?" Gu Chen asked.

"This." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, and murmured: "Probably... around two o'clock, I just walked to the door of the house, and found that the door of the neighbor's house was open. I was friends with the deceased Awei. I usually drop by, and I was also curious, so I walked into his house, wanting to remind him that the door was open, but when I came to the living room, Ah... Ah Wei, he was already dead, I was afraid, so I hurried to call the police."

When she said this, the middle-aged woman seemed to be out of breath, or she might be overly frightened, her whole face was pale.

Lu Weiwei hurried forward to pat her on the back, and comforted her: "It's okay, our police are here."

After Gu Chen finished writing, he asked again: "Then before you entered the deceased Awei's house, did you find any suspicious strangers in the corridor or near the neighborhood?"

"No." The middle-aged woman shook her head and said, "The people living here are all old neighbors, and everyone knows each other. Before I entered the community, I really didn't find any suspicious people entering."

Police Officer Wang lowered his head and remained silent for a while, before saying, "Then, has this Ah Wei ever offended anyone? Has anyone had any conflicts at home recently?"

"Also, does the deceased Awei have any relatives living here?" Gu Chen added.

The woman shook her head: "No, Awei has never had any conflicts with anyone at home, but I don't know if there are any outside. As for his relatives? He is a foreigner. Although he has bought a house here for many years, he does No relatives."

After thinking for a while, the woman said again: "By the way, I heard from Ah Wei that in the early years, because of a disagreement with his ex-wife, the two agreed to divorce. He has a daughter and lives with his ex-wife."

"That is to say, Ah Wei usually lives alone at home?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes, he lives at home alone." The woman nodded in affirmation.

"Then what does he do?" Gu Chen asked again.

"He is a film director. He usually shoots some big online movies. I heard that he has won awards. He can also do editing. He understands the shooting and post-production of many films." The woman said.

"You know him well." Lu Weiwei said.

The woman was taken aback, and quickly clarified: "To tell you the truth, I have been neighbors with Awei for many years. Awei has very few relatives, and I am a chatty person, so we often visit each other and chat at each other's homes. To be honest, he told me these things."

The woman lowered her head, adjusted her silver-rimmed glasses, and asked: "Comrade policeman, Ah Wei is usually a nice person. How could he be killed suddenly? Could the murderer be nearby? I'm afraid, I'm afraid." Really scared."

"Don't worry, where's your family?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"My husband is away on a business trip, and my daughter is in elementary school and hasn't finished class yet," the woman said.

Gu Chen suddenly remembered the short-haired man who was arguing with the deceased Awei at the Japanese grocery store last night, and couldn't help asking: "By the way, do you know that the deceased Awei has another apprentice, short hair, tall and thin, with a face There are some fresh scars."

Using his specialized memory, Gu Chen accurately expressed the appearance of the man last night.

The woman suddenly said: "Yes, Ah Wei has an apprentice who is exactly the same as what you described."

"Then will he come to Awei's house often?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes, I often come here to eat, sometimes at Awei's place, sometimes at my house. We call this man Azhe, and I heard that he and Awei are from the same village." The woman said.

Gu Chen recorded all these, raised his head and asked, "Then these days, have you noticed that this man named Ah Zhe has any emotional fluctuations? Also, has he come to the office frequently these days?" Have you been to Awei's house?"

"This..." The woman was suddenly stopped by the question, hesitated for a long time, and then said: "I came here the day before yesterday. I don't know about yesterday and today. If you want to talk about emotions... I really don't know. They are masters and apprentices. It seems that Awei is very strict with him, but I don't know the rest."

"Shhhhhhhhhhh!"

Gu Chen wrote very quickly, Gu Chen wrote wherever the woman said, then raised her head and asked the woman: "Please tell me your name and ID number."

"Okay, my name is Zhao Mei, and my ID number is..."

After a process, the woman named Zhao Mei signed her name on the notebook and pressed the red handprint.

"Ms. Zhao Mei, that person named Azhe, do you know where he lives?" Officer Wang asked.

Zhao Mei scratched her head, and said with a little hesitation: "He seems to live nearby. Last time he received a courier, which was for his master Awei, but later Awei sent it to Me, the courier package is still in the sundry pile on the balcony, wait, I'll help you find it."

After saying that, Zhao Mei turned around and walked quickly to the balcony.

Not long after, she found an oilcloth bag package in a cardboard box and handed it to Gu Chendao: "It has his home address on it."

"Thank you." Gu Chen showed it to Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei.

"Let's go over now and look for this man named Azhe." Officer Wang said.

Afterwards, the three of them asked the auxiliary police to protect the scene, and then went to look for Azhe's residence.

In another community five kilometers away, Gu Chen knocked on the door of A Zhe's house: "Excuse me, is anyone home?"

"Who?"

Not long after, a man responded.

Soon, when the door opened, Azhe was quite shocked when he saw three policemen visiting, and said, "Police...comrade policemen, are you okay?"

"Are you Ah Zhe? Wang Zhe?" Gu Chen asked.

The man standing in front of him was the man who begged Ah Wei in the grocery store last night.

There are still two Band-Aids on his face, and there are still some bruises on other parts, and he looks haggard.

"I'm Wang Zhe, but what exactly do you want to do?" Wang Zhe was a little confused, and his face was not very good-looking.

"Your master Awei is dead, just this afternoon, did you know?" Gu Chen asked.

Wang Zhe opened his mouth wide in surprise, stood there dumbfounded, and asked with dull eyes: "How...how is this possible? I had dinner with my teacher at noon, why did he die?"

Hearing the bad news, Wang Zhe was terrified and leaned against the door with a thud, staring at the ground blankly.

"You said you had dinner at Awei's house at noon?" Police Officer Wang couldn't help being taken aback when he learned of this clue, feeling that he had made a new discovery.

"No... that's right, I made an appointment with the master at noon, and he asked me to go and have lunch with him," Wang Zhe said.

"How long have you stayed at Awei's house?" Gu Chen asked.

"Well... After dinner, I left, because things have been negotiated at the dinner table." Wang Zhe lowered his head, recalling the situation at noon.

"What is the content of your conversation? Can you tell me?" Gu Chen asked.

Wang Zhe hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and said: "It's about the shooting of a short film. I asked the master for advice. We talked for a long time at the dinner table. Afterwards, it was around 12:18. I was in a hurry to get back I was engaged in editing at home, so I said goodbye to the master and went home."

"Are you sure you left around 12:18?" Gu Chen turned the notebook over to the other side and asked.

"This..." Wang Zhe paused, and said, "Anyway, it's about this time. I just looked at my watch at that time. There may be some discrepancies, but it's basically around 12:18."

"Thank you for your cooperation. By the way, write your name and ID number here."

"it is good."

After Wang Zhe finished writing, he also pressed the red handprint, raised his head and asked weakly: "Comrade policeman, can I ask?"

"Tell me." Gu Chen put away the notebook and looked up at Wang Zhe.

"My master, he... how did he die?" Wang Zhe became depressed instantly, and said: "After all, I still have a lot of questions to ask the master, but we had a good chat at lunch, but why, why did he die?" Died all of a sudden?"

"I was stabbed in the heart with a knife and died on the spot," Gu Chen said.

Wang Zhe frowned, and said angrily: "Who is it? Who is so cruel, to attack my master, this is simply lawless..."

After a reprimand, Wang Zhe held Gu Chen's right hand tightly, and said, "Comrade police, please...please catch the murderer and avenge my master. If you need my help, Wang Zhe Zhe must go all out to cooperate with your police in handling the case..."

This Wang Zhe is really the same temperament as the Wang Zhe I met in the Japanese grocery store last night, and he is too impatient.

He almost knelt down to Ah Wei last night, and today he heard that Ah Wei was dead, and he was also very sad and indignant.

Gu Chen suddenly asked: "Wang Zhe, how did you get the injury on your face?"

Wang Zhe was stunned suddenly, and waited for a few seconds before he said: "This, this was injured when he was arguing with a bunch of bastards on the crew. You also know that sometimes there will be many problems in the filming work, and we can't discuss it. It’s justifiable to go together and do it.”

"Understood." Gu Chen sighed, and asked Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei beside him, "Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Lu, do you have any questions?"

"Not for now." Lu Weiwei said.

Officer Wang also shook his head: "Not now, let's talk about it when there are other things that require Wang Zhe's cooperation."

"Comrade police, I will fully cooperate with your work." Wang Zhe said in grief and indignation: "Please try to catch the murderer who killed my master as soon as possible, and avenge my master."

"Don't worry, it's our police's job to catch the murderer, so you don't have to worry about it." Police Officer Wang also briefly explained a few words, and left Wang Zhe's house with Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei.

After getting into the police car, Lu Weiwei asked Gu Chen: "Junior Brother Gu, do you think there is anything wrong with this Wang Zhe?"

"Of course there is a problem." Gu Chen also said without hesitation: "I observed it just now, and when I asked him where the injury on his face came from, his answer suddenly stopped, obviously making excuses. I was in Japan last night. When I saw him in the grocery store, he had bruises on his face."

"Gu Chen is right." Officer Wang also agreed: "This Wang Zhe, just now chatted with us about the situation, and his tone was not interrupted at all. It can be seen that he is a very talkative person, but when Gu Chen asked When he got the injury on his face, he suddenly became a little sluggish, with such a big difference between before and after, there is obviously something wrong."

"Then how should we investigate now?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Go and investigate the surveillance video first. If it is true that he left the scene around 12:18 as Wang Zhe said, it means that the murderer is not him." Officer Wang also judged based on the condition of the cigar.

However, Gu Chen retorted: "Brother Wang, I think it's more reasonable to let Forensic Doctor Liu verify the condition of the deceased."

Officer Wang looked at Lu Weiwei beside him.

Lu Weiwei also nodded.

"That's all right, go to Forensic Doctor Liu first, and then adjust the monitoring."

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(End of this chapter)