Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 175 Accidental Death (15)
"You are dedicating yourself to our great cause. You are really ignorant. I heard that sister Zuo Li fell in love with the murderer in order to solve the case. Compared with the extremely noble sister Zuo Li, I am nothing." Lu Yingying said proudly. explain.

When mentioning Zuo Li, who had been sacrificed for more than three years, Xiao Ke fell silent. If she had not died young, she would have been talking and laughing with them today; maybe she was a wife and mother, but... Xiao Ke Ke's eyes were red. Lu Yingying saw that Xiao Ke was immersed in deep nostalgia and didn't want to argue with him anymore.

Lu Yingying saw Jiang Yiming standing under a big tree on the edge of the cliff, staring blankly at the resort under the cliff. What fascinated Captain Jiang so much?She was very curious, so she quietly walked up to Jiang Yiming and patted him hard on the shoulder. Jiang Yiming was startled, looked back and saw Lu Yingying, and said with a smile: "You little girl, you are very naughty as soon as you come out."

"Captain Jiang, if I were the murderer, I would have pushed you off the cliff. You used to have eyes on your back. Why are you so slow today?" Lu Yingying is 24 years old and Jiang Yiming is 34 years old. They are ten years older than her, so they like her. Calling her little girl, Lu Yingying didn't like him calling her that. She once protested to him. At that time, he vowed that he would change it, but he forgot about it later. Of course, it wasn't because of his bad memory.

"I just saw the 8 houses in the resort at the foot of the mountain, which reminded me of the 8 cases we have handled for more than a year. But when I was about to continue thinking along this way, you interrupted me. Please help me think about it. What if 8 houses are cases, so what do you think of them?"

Lu Yingying stretched out her head and looked down. She immediately stuck out her tongue, retracted her head, patted her chest and said, "It's scary to be so high. How can I have the guts to stand on the cliff and think about my thoughts?"

Jiang Yiming knew that she didn't want to think about it. Just when he was about to say a few words to him, the phone in his trouser pocket rang.When he saw it, it turned out to be the call from Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee Yang Long. Jiang Yiming was stunned: There might be a case, because Yang Long rarely called him: "Secretary Yang, hello!"

"Xiao Jiang, where are you?" The other party's tone was calm, not like something was wrong, and Jiang Yiming felt relieved.

"Secretary Yang, you have forgotten that you gave us the special permission to take three days off. We are on Niujiao Mountain. What are your orders?" Jiang Yiming is straightforward and straightforward. He never speaks in official style or deliberately flatters the leader.

"Oh, that's it. There was a fire in a small supermarket in Jiangdong District of our city the day before yesterday. This fire is quite special. I want to talk to you in person. Can you come to my office?"

"No problem, I'll be there soon." After Jiang Yiming hung up the phone, he explained the situation to his comrades, handed them the keys to the resort guest house, and told them to have fun in the mountains. He had already agreed with his boss Cai Zhong.Xiao Ke asked him to come back as soon as possible for dinner and have a barbecue and drink together in the evening.

Jiang Yiming nodded and drove down the mountain.

An hour later, Jiang Yiming came to Yang Long's office. Yang Long was extremely polite. He invited him to drink tea and smoke, turned up the air conditioner, then sat down and chatted with Jiang Yiming about home affairs, and asked him why he wasn't married yet?Do you have a girlfriend?Are your parents in good health?Do you want to introduce him to a girl with good conditions?
Although Jiang Yiming knew that what he said was just foreshadowing and not very sincere, he was still slightly moved. After all, he was the leader in charge of the Public Security Bureau and the Justice Department. Tian Yuan, the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, went to the provincial party school for half a year. He was the executive deputy secretary, so he had all the power and kept his word. , don’t be careless.

After chatting for half an hour, Yang Long came to the topic: "Xiao Jiang, the person who was burned to death in the fire the day before yesterday was my comrade Liu Qingyun. He is the same age as me and was born in 1959. I am five months older than him. He turned out to be a city employee." The director of the Bureau of Land and Resources, suffering from anemia, anxiety and mild psoriasis, was unable to do his job. He applied for medical retirement from his superiors, and the superiors approved it. After retirement, he thought he could entertain his grandchildren, but he didn't. Thinking that his daughter-in-law would not let him have contact with his grandson for fear that his disease would be contagious, he was very angry and felt empty and bored, so he opened a small supermarket outside Yangshan Park on Shengli Road in Jiangdong District to pass the time. The supermarket is 30 square meters and has opening hours of It was closed on weekends from 12 am to 8 pm. He lived alone in the supermarket at night. Unexpectedly, the afternoon before yesterday, at 7:4 pm on July 2, his supermarket suddenly caught fire and he was burned alive inside. .”

"Is there a fire brigade going to put out the fire?"

"Yes, by the time the fire brigade arrived to put out the fire, he had already been burned to death. His wife called me and told me that she suspected someone had set fire to Liu Qingyun, so I would like to ask you to help with the investigation. After the case is solved, I will Ask your superiors for credit."

"The day before yesterday was Sunday, so his store wasn't open, right?"

"Yes, the first floor outside the store is an aluminum alloy rolling shutter. After opening the rolling shutter, there is a glass door. The firefighters said that both floors were locked at the time. They broke in."

"Is there any other entrance or exit?"

"No, the gate is the only way in and out."

"Then this is a completely sealed secret room, and the possibility of being set on fire is extremely small." Jiang Yiming thought for a while and said.

"Yes, my thoughts are the same as yours, but my sister-in-law...oh, I'm sorry, Liu Qingyun's wife said he was set on fire and was crying and begging me to help her ask the No. 1 Crime Squad to intervene."

"The store door was closed, and the fire started inside the store. It should have been caused by flammable materials in the store being ignited by sunlight, such as wire short circuits, gas leaks, smoking, lighting mosquito coils, etc..."

"I asked you here because I want you to help me investigate the case thoroughly. Maybe a murderer used a remote control to detonate flammable materials and caused a fire. So, try not to regard this fire as an accident, just like Zhou Shan and Luo Just like a serious murder case, it looks like an accident on the surface, but in fact it is man-made." Yang Long seemed a little unhappy.

"Okay, Secretary Yang, we will file a case for investigation immediately. I will negotiate with the fire brigade first and ask them to give us the cause and information of the fire. We will go to the scene to investigate carefully and report the progress and results of the case to you at any time." Jiang Yiming understood. Due to Yang Long's displeasure, he did not want to stay here for a long time, so he said goodbye to Yang Long. Before leaving, Yang Long repeatedly told him that he must report the situation to him at any time, so that he could give an explanation to Liu Qingyun's wife Zhao Xiaowei and let Liu Qingyun rest as soon as possible.After coming out, Jiang Yiming thought: Why didn't Secretary Yang talk to their director, but instead asked him to condescend to talk to him from across the mountain?

2. Accidental fire

Jiang Yiming did not recall his comrades. He wanted to wait until they had taken three days off. It was a rare time for them to take a vacation a year. After all, it was an accidental fire. If the deceased was not Yang Long's comrade, the crime team would definitely not take this case. .

Jiang Yiming drove to the Jiangnan District No. 30 Fire Brigade to learn about the situation and found Ma Qiang, the firefighter who went to the fire scene at the time. Ma Qiang was the squadron leader. He was nearly [-] years old and had rich fire-fighting experience.

Ma Qiang explained the situation in detail to Jiang Yiming: After receiving the fire alarm from the masses, they immediately sent two fire trucks to the fire point. After arriving there, they divided into two teams, and one team broke in through the gate. ; A team of people smashed the glass wall of the store and rushed into the sea of ​​​​fire. Because some people said that the boss was inside, they broke down the door first to save people. After 15 minutes of fighting, we put out the fire and carried Liu Qingyun out of the sea of ​​​​fire. But unfortunately, he was burned beyond recognition, was not breathing, and his heart stopped beating.Later, the deceased's wife and son arrived and confirmed that the deceased was Liu Qingyun, and took the deceased to the funeral parlor to be frozen.

"Did his son and wife say anything to you?"

"They just cried and didn't say a word to us."

"Did they say they suspected arson?"

"Arson? How is that possible? They have absolutely no suspicion. I also think it was an accidental fire."

"What do you think caused it?"

"Based on my years of experience, I judge that it should be caused by flammable materials indoors being exposed to the scorching sun in the afternoon. White phosphorus, for example, can spontaneously ignite in a closed space because its ignition point is only 40 degrees Celsius."

"Where is the center of the fire?"

"On the first row of shelves with a glass wall, the glass is transparent. The shelves stand against the glass wall. The sunlight at 02:30 in the afternoon is deflected, just enough to shine on the shelves, and Liu Qingyun died next to the shelf. I checked After that, there were hundreds of iron casings of disposable lighters under the burned shelves. I judged that the scorching sun shone on the inferior lighters, and the high temperature caused the lighters to explode and cause the fire. We have dealt with such fires before."

"If the lighter explodes in the sun, can it instantly ignite a raging fire and burn Liu Qingyun to death?"

"It's generally impossible. Even if all the lighters are ignited, the amount of fire will be limited. The fuel of hundreds of lighters can only be 200 ml at most. This amount of fuel cannot burn a person, let alone the person who will run away. Of course, except for the deceased who is seriously drunk. , or take sleeping pills.”

"Is there any other fuel next to the lighter?"

"I don't know about this. You should ask Liu Qingyun's old customers."

"Okay, that's it for today. We may bother you again in the future."

"welcome!"

Jiang Yiming said goodbye to him, returned to the car, drove to the fire point, and observed carefully outside for a while. The scene was burned to a mess. When he walked in, a homeless man was rummaging on the ground, seemingly looking for scrap copper. Scrap metal, messy footprints were everywhere in the house, and the scene was completely destroyed.

Jiang Yiming asked the police officers from the peripheral team to bring in security and cordoned off the scene. He sent people to guard the scene 24 hours a day, and no one was allowed to enter.

On the third day, Wu Jiang and the others returned to the team. Jiang Yiming held a simple meeting to explain the fire case Yang Long had to handle and asked everyone what they thought.
(End of this chapter)