Detective: Open your eyes, I am handcuffed in the interrogation room.

Chapter 490: Outrageous Confession

The trip out of the mountain went smoothly, and Yushu didn't cause any trouble. However, with handcuffs on, his mobility was reduced by 90%, so even if he wanted to, he couldn't do anything.

It was already dark. Chen Yi notified Liang Qidong via satellite phone and told him about his discoveries in Yuluo Village. The latter was somewhat stunned. He obviously did not expect that an investigation into a homicide case would lead to the theft of Mingcheng's bracelet.

How could the Jiang family's stuff end up in Yuluo Village? It doesn't make sense.

"I will notify the border police station immediately."

Liang Qidong said.

After entering the town, Chen Yi will interrogate Yu Shu. If this case is really related to him, he will be sent directly to Mingcheng tomorrow and handed over to Hu Qingzhi for handling.

The murder case in Ruicheng is still the focus of the task force.

It was already 11 o'clock in the evening when Chen Yi and his three companions walked out of the mountains. It turned out that they could enter and exit Yuluo Village without horses, but it would be very tiring, and without a certain level of physical fitness, they might get stuck halfway.

Yushu seemed to be used to riding horses. His legs were trembling. As soon as he stepped into the town, he sat down on the ground, exhausted.

The police car was already waiting and the crowd gathered around.

"Team Chen."

"Team Chen."

Liang Qidong and Lao Shao walked in the front, and the director also came. They all looked at Yu Shu who was sitting on the ground with handcuffs.

Yesterday, Yushu brought three people into the village and were tortured out today. This is really dramatic.

Chen Yi took the water and distributed it to He Shixin and Qin Fei. He also gave a bottle to Yu Shu and uncuffed him.

While they were drinking water, Lao Shao squatted down in front of Yu Shu and frowned, "Ah Shu, what's going on? What are you doing? How did Ming Cheng's bracelet end up in your village?"

The town is very small and everyone knows each other every day. Lao Shao really doesn't want to see Yushu involved in the case.

Emotionally, this is almost the same as if one of my own descendants had committed a crime. It's very painful.

He had no doubt that Chen Yi had arrested the wrong person. In terms of investigating ability, no one present could compare to Chen Yi.

In response to Lao Shao's question, Yushu drank mineral water in big gulps. After feeling a little more comfortable, he showed a bitter smile, but did not answer Lao Shao's words.

Seeing this, Lao Shao sighed. Since he didn't make excuses at the first moment, it meant that there must be some truth to it.

Ridiculous.

The town is a vast world to Yushu, so how could he be involved in Mingcheng's theft case?

Liang Qidong was not so polite. He stared at Yu Shu and said coldly, "Using poison to prevent the police from entering the village to investigate the case is a very serious problem. I hope you can say more when we get to the police station later."

"Poison?!" Lao Shao was shocked. "Ah Shu, you...are you crazy!"

Chen Yi only spoke to Liang Qidong on the phone, and there are some things that everyone doesn’t know yet.

"Take him back and go straight to the interrogation room." Chen Yi gave the order.

"Yes, get up!"

Lao Shao nodded, angrily pulled Yushu up from the ground, and personally escorted him to the car.

"Have a cigarette." Chen Yi asked Liang Qidong for one. He had already finished his own. After lighting it up and taking two puffs, he said, "Old Liang, this theft case is probably not that simple. There should be more than one person involved. Let's do a preliminary investigation first, and leave the rest to Hu Qingzhi."

Liang Qidong: "Understood, do you want to hold a shift to interrogate overnight?"

There is only one person in Yushu, but there are many policemen. He is very tired now. When a person is tired, his mental and psychological defenses will be weak.

Chen Yi shook his head: "No need, take a rest if you need to, get him something to eat, and listen to what he has to say first."

Fatigue interrogation is against the rules, and the case in Yushu is not a serious crime that has angered the people and the world, so let's all be harmonious.

When they arrived at the station, the director arranged dinner and sent food to Yushu. After the meal, the trial began.

Qin Fei briefly talked about his experience in Yuluo Village, and Fang Shuyu and others listened with great interest. Offering a bracelet was quite rare.

"Jiang Yanyan's bracelet has been found in Yuluo Village..." Cheng Hanjun was extremely interested in this discovery and had already started to analyze and speculate in his mind, "Yushu is a big suspect. Since he didn't steal it, then he has an accomplice?"

After saying that, he looked at Chen Yi, and seeing that Chen Yi was eating and didn't intend to respond, he turned his gaze to other people.

From preventing the police from entering the village to all the clues after entering the village, all the clues pointed to Yushu being related to the case, there is no doubt about it.

He Shixin said: "We can put those who are in the same group or not aside for now. What is his motive?"

Several people pondered over this question. It was a crucial one. Why did they take such an expensive bracelet from Jiang Yanyan and place it in the village ancestral hall?

First of all, we can exclude interests, it’s not for money.

Cheng Hanjun made a judgment: "The village chief closed the ancestral hall, and the loss of Jiang Yanyan's bracelet was related to Yushu, so it can be suspected that there is a problem with the bracelets in their village, either lost or damaged."

The judgment was reasonable and everyone nodded in agreement.

Cheng Hanjun continued, "The lost or damaged bracelet is related to Yushu, so the village chief closed the ancestral hall. Yushu had many suspicious whereabouts after leaving Yuluo Village, so Jiang Yanyan's bracelet ran to Yuluo Village."

"This is a replacement. Jiang Yanyan's bracelet will be used to replace the village's bracelet. The two bracelets are of similar value. This way, no one will know that the original bracelet is gone, and the matter will be over."

Qin Fei raised a question: "Why do we have to use the real thing? I observed it when I was in the ancestral hall. Unless you are very close, you can't see it at all. Even the bottom of a beer bottle might be able to fool you. Why go across 700 kilometers to Mingcheng to steal a rich girl's bracelet? Isn't it too risky?"

This question left several people silent, as they really couldn't figure it out.

According to the previous inference, the purpose of the new bracelet was to pass off a fake as real, but Yushu did not do that, but chose the most difficult way.

It's like someone has lost a big diamond. He could obviously replace it with a rhinestone or white diamond or even take a piece of glass from a chandelier, but he refuses to do so and insists on stealing a similar one.

If you think about it carefully, it doesn't conform to normal human psychology.

Hearing this, Fang Shuyu also joined the discussion: "Isn't it said that jade is of great significance in Yuluo Village? Maybe the village chief or Yushu can't accept offerings of fakes?"

Qin Fei thought: "It is possible that we cannot understand their thoughts, but it still feels weird."

Chen Yi had finished eating. He took out a tissue to wipe his mouth and said, "When talking about motives, we can't ignore one question. How did Yuluo Village, which is located in a remote corner, get the information? Logically speaking, neither Yushu nor the village chief should know about this."

"Let alone a small mountain village, how many people know that Jiang Yanyan wears a high-ice imperial green bracelet? That is another social circle, which is too far away from Yuluo Village."

Qin Fei: "What does Captain Chen mean?"

Chen Yi: "As long as the fake jade is indistinguishable from the real thing, I don't think the person concerned cares about the quality of the jade. It's fine as long as it's almost there. There's no need to make it so exaggerated. There are many bracelets that are full of green. No one can tell in the dim ancestral hall."

"Unless stealing Jiang Yanyan's bracelet was one of the motives."

Hearing this, Qin Fei's eyes widened, and the others also looked surprised.

"What relationship can Yu Shu have with Jiang Yanyan?"

Cheng Hanjun felt that this case was becoming more and more bizarre. A god secretly took away Jiang Yanyan's bracelet, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he did it for money.

Now, the bracelet was found in Yuluo Village.

This is outrageous enough.

Chen Yi also suggested that stealing Jiang Yanyan's bracelet might be one of the motives. If Yushu was involved, it means that their goal was to go after Jiang Yanyan...

Will the villagers from the remote mountain village have anything to do with the rich girl from Mingcheng?
Why does it sound like the plot of a rich man's drama, a story about a rich man's illegitimate child or a poor boy with a beautiful face? Everyone looked at Chen Yi, wanting to hear him talk in detail. After following him for so long, nine out of ten of his inferences were true, with a high accuracy rate.

Chen Yi took a sip of water and smiled: "I'm talking about stealing Jiang Yanyan's bracelet. The focus is on the bracelet, not Jiang Yanyan. Compared with the connection between Yu Shu and Jiang Yanyan, the connection between the object and the person is more reliable."

Several people were stunned, and Qin Feihe quickly turned around and asked: "Is the bracelet related to the jade tree?"

Chen Yi nodded: "Yes, it is true that Yuluo Village is full of jadeite. I have seen it. Yushu is a native of Yuluo Village. If the bracelet or the jadeite raw material originally came from Yuluo Village, then the connection between Yushu and Jiang Yanyan's bracelet is very close."

Qin Fei hesitated: "Then... the bracelet from the ancestral hall?"

Chen Yi: "The two events have nothing to do with each other, but they happen separately and are connected by coincidence. We have handled too many cases, and this situation is not uncommon."

Qin Fei: "I see. I hope Yushu can tell us the answer to the question we just discussed."

Analysis is analysis, facts are facts. The suspect is sitting in the interrogation room at this moment, and all the questions can be answered from his mouth, provided that he speaks and what he says is the truth.

Chen Yi lit a cigarette after dinner and before taking two puffs he stood up to interrogate Yushu.

It would be best if the theft case could be concluded directly in Yushu. If not, it will be handed over to Hu Qingzhi. We must find a breakthrough in the homicide case as soon as possible.

In the interrogation room, Chen Yi pushed the door open and walked in and sat down. After replenishing water and food, Yushu felt much more energetic, but sitting for a while on the mountain road for ten hours was not enough to relieve the fatigue.

Chen Yi was also very tired, but he had to conduct the trial despite his tiredness.

"Did you understand my previous reminder?" He looked at Yu Shu and said, "You don't have to tell me, but we will ask the village chief. I hope you don't waste each other's time."

Yu Shu seemed to have figured it out on the way and nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Chen Yi asked, "Did you bring that bracelet into the village and place it in the ancestral hall?"

Yushu: “Yes.”

Chen Yi: "Where did it come from?"

Yushu: “A friend gave it to me.”

Chen Yi: "What's your name? Where are you from? Where do you live?"

Yushu shook his head: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Chen Yi narrowed his eyes slightly. "Okay, let's start from the beginning. Don't be in a hurry. Let's first talk about where your ancestor's bracelet went and why the village chief closed the ancestral hall."

Yushu took a deep breath and began to recount what happened two years ago.

He often goes to the ancestral hall. The reason why he goes there so often is because of his rebellious mentality. In his early years, he was beaten by the family rules for stealing tribute and had to lie in bed for three days. He always remembered it in his heart, so he went to the ancestral hall to make trouble many times over the years.

Eating offerings, disturbing the spirit tablets, scattering weeds all over the ground... I have done all of that.

He had become much smarter since he was caught for the first time, so he avoided the investigation of the elders.

He kept making small mistakes but never made big ones, but as the saying goes, one day he would get his feet wet if he walked by the river often. Finally, one day he accidentally broke the bracelet in the shrine.

"Broken?" Chen Yi asked, "Where are the fragments?"

Yushu: "I went to Ruicheng and sold it."

Chen Yi: "Be more specific, which store?"

This time Yushu gave a definite answer: "Golden Phoenix Jadeite."

Need to be verified.

After purchasing a broken high-quality jade bracelet, the shop owner will definitely have a very deep impression and will never forget it. He may even remember what the seller looks like.

Broken bracelets also have value. If they cannot be repaired, they can be processed again into very small beads and woven into bracelets, which are still worth a lot.

Since there is an accurate store, the credibility is still very high.

"Why do you want to sell it?" Chen Yi continued to ask.

Yushu said: "The village chief asked me to go out and buy a similar one, but I have no money, so I can only sell it."

Chen Yi: "Then what?"

Yushu: "My money was stolen. I didn't know what to do and I didn't dare go back to the village. Then I ran into a friend I met in Mengzhu Town. He said he could help me wait for a few days, and when we met again, he gave me the bracelet."

Chen Yi's face darkened.

He thought Yushu was really going to tell the truth, but he didn't expect him to be talking nonsense on the key issue.

In order to help Yushu, a friend went to Mingcheng and stole Jiang Yanyan's bracelet worth hundreds of millions and gave it to her for free. This is truly a great friendship and it is simply impossible.

Even if such a thing happened, the motive would not be to help Yushu.

That's 100 million.

What does 100 million mean? Even brothers would turn against each other, even husbands and wives would turn against each other. When 100 million is placed in front of you, you can even see the darkest side of human nature.

"Are you kidding me?" Chen Yi's voice was cold.

Yu Shu was very calm and shook his head, "I'm not kidding, it's true. I know you don't believe it, but it's true."

Chen Yi stared at him for a while: "You remember what he looks like, right?"

Yu Shu: “Remember.”

Chen Yi turned around and shouted, "Call Lin Chen in!!"

When the portrait drawing began, Chen Yi did not leave the room. He listened to Yu Shu's description of the suspect's appearance. It could be seen that he was indeed trying hard to describe the person in his memory, and it was difficult to make up a story.

This made Chen Yi frown. Did he lie? Did someone really help him? But this was too outrageous. That was a bracelet worth 100 million.

The money was stolen and then someone gave me a bracelet.

What luck this is.

At present, only half of Yushu’s confession can be believed.

What happened in the village should be true, because the village chief can be verified, and Yushu will not fail to understand this, but what happened outside the village... Chen Yi is skeptical.

The portrait was completed quickly and Lin Chen handed it to Chen Yi.

Chen Yi took it and glanced at it. He looked very ordinary, a male, probably in his thirties or forties.

"Did he tell you where the bracelet came from?"

Yu Shu shook his head: "No, he just gave me the bracelet and didn't say anything else."

Chen Yi used his mobile phone to pull up the surveillance screenshots and video clips and showed them to Yu Shu: "Is it him?"

Yu Shu leaned in to take a closer look and hesitated, "He... he's wearing a mask so I can't see him."

Chen Yi: "Look at the body shape, height, and walking posture."

Yu Shu hesitated: "It seems...right? I'm not sure."

(End of this chapter)