Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 505 Motive
When the young man who opened the door saw that the people knocking on the door were three police officers in uniform, he was stunned at first. When he heard that they were looking for his wife, he looked a little surprised.

"Do you guys... want to talk to Pepe about something?"

The young man looked at the three police officers outside the door with some doubt.

Before the police officer could say anything, a woman's voice was heard from inside the room.

"Ping'an, who is that?" Immediately afterwards, a sweet-looking woman appeared behind the young man.

When she saw clearly that the person outside the door was a police officer, she was completely stunned.

"Are you Zhong Peipei?" The police officer from the county bureau's criminal police team looked at the woman and asked.

"Yes, I'm Zhong Peipei, may I ask who you are?"

"Pepe, are they here to see you? What happened?" the young man turned to look at his wife and asked.

"Looking for me?" When Zhong Peipei heard that the police were looking for her, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.

"What do you want to see me about?"

The first person that flashed through Zhong Peipei's mind was Guo Xiaohu. After all, his brother-in-law is a public security officer. Could it be that the affair between her and Guo Xiaohu was exposed, and his brother-in-law came to cause trouble for her?
Her husband was by her side at the moment, so she could only suppress the panic in her heart and asked calmly.

"I'm from the criminal police team. I have something to ask you. I hope you can cooperate. Zhong Peipei, do you think I should stay here or..."

The police officer from the county bureau's criminal police team showed his work ID to Zhong Peipei and her husband respectively.

"Please come in, three police comrades. If you have any questions, please speak inside."

Before Zhong Peipei could speak, her husband opened the door wide and invited the three police officers in to talk.

Seeing this, the three police officers walked straight in, and Zhong Peipei's face turned ugly.

"Comrades, please take a seat. I'll pour you some water."

"Comrade Song Ping'an, you don't have to bother. We are just here to ask your wife a few questions and then leave."

"Uh... do you know me?" When the young man heard the police officer calling his name, he was stunned at first, and then a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.

"Haha, I just asked a nonsense question. In our Rouhuai, there are probably not many people who don't know me. I wonder what the three of you want to ask my lover?"

"Ping An, can you please go to the bedroom first? I think Comrade Gong'an wants to see me alone."

These words were said by Zhong Peipei. While speaking, she kept looking at the three police officers who had already sat down, with a pleading look on her face.

The two men from the headquarters did not speak, but just glanced at the woman calmly. The police officer from the county bureau spoke again.

"Comrade Song Ping'an, we do have something we need to discuss with your wife alone. I hope you can step aside for now."

Hearing the police say this, a look of suspicion flashed in Song Ping'an's eyes. He glanced at the three police officers, then looked at his wife, thought for a moment, and nodded.

"Okay then, you guys chat."

After saying that, he turned and walked into the bedroom, closing the door behind him.

Seeing her husband walk into the bedroom, Zhong Peipei finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Excuse me, what do you want to ask me?"

"Comrade Zhong Peipei, we have some things we need to know from you. We would like to ask you a few questions and hope you can answer them truthfully."

"Ask me whatever you want, I'll tell you everything I know."

"Excuse me, where were you last night?"

"At home"

"You didn't go out all night?"

"I had dinner in the company cafeteria after get off work yesterday, and I didn't go out again after I got home."

"With your husband?"

"My husband stayed at school last night and didn't come back. I was home alone."

"Are you alone? I hope you can think it over carefully before answering my question."

Swish!
The police officer's words made Zhong Peipei's face turn red.

It turned out to be because of Guo Xiaohu!

She didn't quite understand what had happened and why the police came to ask her this question, but it was obvious that they already knew something, otherwise they wouldn't have asked like that.

She glanced back at the bedroom door behind her. She didn't know how to answer this question, and she didn't know if her husband could hear it from inside the house.

After hesitating for a moment, she took two steps towards the three police officers sitting there and said in a low voice: "I...I was with Guo Xiaohu last night."

"At your house or somewhere else?"

"Right here, in my house."

"Were you two together all night?"

"Yes," Zhong Peipei answered with some difficulty, her face turning even redder.

"What time did Guo Xiaohu come?"

"It should be around nine o'clock."

"When did you leave?"

"I don't know when he left. He wasn't awake yet when I left home for work at 7:40 this morning."

How courageous! He really doesn't take his original wife seriously.

Her answer made the three police officers think of the same thing at the same time.

"Comrade Zhong Peipei, I want to remind you that if you lie to us, you will be held legally responsible."

"I told you the truth about something as shameful as this, so how could I lie to you about something else?"

Knowing it's shameful, they still do it. The three police officers curled their lips calmly.

They didn't intend to care about this matter. Now that they had obtained the answer they wanted, they stood up and prepared to leave. The murder case was the most important thing at the moment.

……

At around eight o'clock that evening, Li Yancheng listened to a report in Lin Wentao's office. When he learned that Yang Daguang sold three bronze artifacts for a total of 6,000 yuan, he was able to put aside some of his doubts.

But then he stroked his forehead with a headache. Mr. Zhu from the east city, needless to say, must be Zhu Yongyang. How come this guy is involved in every business now, and even has his tentacles extended to Rouhuai, which is dozens of kilometers away from the city.

He picked up the phone on Lin Wentao's desk and called the duty room of the headquarters directly. The duty leader of the headquarters tonight was Jin Zhihai.

"Zhi Hai, it's me"

"Director Li, how is Rouhuai's case going?" At work, Jin Zhihai still chose the official title.

"It's still under investigation. Zhihai, send someone to find Zhu Yongyang and ask him where the people who came from the south to buy old items are. They are the people who bought the three bronze artifacts in Rouhuai.

If you find these people, investigate them to see if they are really looking to buy old items or if they have some other hidden secrets.

If they have already left, ask Zhu Yongyang where these people are from, and then send a joint investigation notice to the Southern Province to ask them to help investigate."

There is no specific law on the protection of cultural relics at present, and it is not illegal for private individuals to buy and sell these old items, unless what you have is dug out from the ground by illegal means.

"Okay, I'll send someone to look for Lao Zhu right now."

"Well, call me if you have any news." "I know."

After explaining everything to Jin Zhihai, Li Yancheng put down the phone and looked back at the notebook in his hand. Like the other police officers involved in the investigation, he also became suspicious of the accountant of the Yangjia Village production team.

"This Yang Tianshou..."

"Director Li, I plan to send someone to investigate him after the case analysis meeting."

"Yeah." Li Yancheng nodded and set his eyes on Zhu Dongjun who was speaking.

"We need to find out who Yang Tianshou associates with and what he does every day. This guy concealed such an important clue that Yang Daguang's family has 5,000 yuan. There must be something wrong."

"Yes"

"Wentao, have you found out about this Guo Xiaohu? He was indeed at the home of this woman named Zhong Peipei last night?"

"According to what Zhong Peipei said, it is indeed there. But even if it is there, we cannot rule out the possibility that he asked others to kill people and steal money. I have already instructed them to investigate all the guys who followed Guo Xiaohu after the meeting."

"Check out this guy named Song Ping'an, who is Zhong Peipei's husband." Li Yancheng added.

???

Lin Wentao was slightly stunned. He first responded with a "yes" to indicate that he accepted the order, and then asked curiously, "Director Li, why do you want to investigate this Song Ping'an?"

"He teaches at the county middle school. I remember passing by the county middle school and the county theater when I drove here today. The distance is not far, and it takes at most ten minutes to walk. I don't know where the theater family compound is, but I think it should be not far from the unit. Why doesn't he go home at night but stay at school when the distance is so close? This is a bit unreasonable."

"Director Li, is it possible that he lives in school intentionally to create opportunities for Guo Xiaohu?" This was said by Zhu Dongjun. Apparently, he had heard something from others, so he said this.

"It's possible." Li Yancheng nodded: "But, Dongjun, do you really think a man can be a turtle so thoroughly?"

This question made Zhu Dongjun and Lin Wentao silent. They didn't know whether others had the possibility or not, but they knew that they definitely couldn't do it.

Li Yancheng did not stop talking, but continued: "If it is really a deliberate attempt to create an opportunity, then there must be something unknown. Let's check it out first."

As he spoke, he put the notebook in his hand on the table, picked up the cigarette on the table and lit one for himself.

After receiving the order, Lin Wentao nodded and responded again.

This name Song Ping'an was not the first time that Li Yancheng had heard of it. To be precise, less than half an hour before he saw this record book, someone called the Rouhuai County Bureau and asked him to help investigate this person, or rather, to investigate, if it was convenient, the incident in which this Song person reported the leader he served last year.

The person who made the call was Su Xiaotong's brother Su Xiaomin. The person reported by Song Ping'an was his former comrade-in-arms.

One of the Su brothers is in the army, and the other is in the Social Affairs Bureau. It is not convenient for them to intervene in investigating local affairs, even in private, as this is a big taboo.

It's not that they don't have other connections elsewhere, but Su Xiaomin is not confident in letting other people do this kind of thing. He didn't intend to rescue this comrade-in-arms, he just wanted to see what the situation was.

If my comrade really did commit a crime, then there is nothing to say, just do what you want, but if he was wrongly accused...

Su Xiaomin was worried about letting someone else investigate the matter, but if he handed it to Li Yancheng, he would have nothing to worry about.

Li Yancheng did not expect that when he was thinking about how to investigate the matter, he saw the name of Song Ping'an, the person involved in the incident, in the record book. It was like a pillow falling asleep.

Lin Wentao knew that there was a lot of trouble behind Song Ping'an's report. According to his original intention, he would not intervene in it, especially since it had been almost a year since the incident. Although the city has not yet made a positive response to the report, it can be seen from the fact that the person being reported has always been detained in the city's detention center that something must have happened.

Now that the city bureau leaders have ordered an investigation into the parties involved in this incident, he has no choice but to accept this order. After all, compared to those figures that appeared and disappeared in this incident, he is more afraid of the young leader in front of him.

Time soon came to nine o'clock in the evening. In the conference room of the Rouhuai County Public Security Bureau, the first case analysis meeting of the Yang family murder was held. All the police officers who were investigating and visiting outside came back, including the forensic doctor who performed preliminary autopsies on the two bodies at the funeral home, who also came to attend the meeting.

The preliminary results of the autopsy cast a new layer of mystery over the case.

The male victim, Yang Daguang, was beaten to death with a hammer. He was hit on the head three times in total. The first hit was probably because the murderer was a little panicked or the victim was dodging, so it didn't hit him hard, but just grazed the edge and scratched his scalp. The second hit knocked the victim down, and the third hit was fatal.

The victim's right hand joints had bruises and bloodstains that did not match the deceased's blood type, which most likely meant that he had fought with the murderer and injured him.

Apart from the head, there were no other obvious injuries on the victim's body, which showed that the murderer came out intending to kill people. He hit the victim's head with a hammer as soon as he came up, and it would have been difficult for him to survive.

The female victim, Guo Meihua, was indeed strangled to death with a rope. At the same time, after cleaning, the forensic doctor found a total of thirteen knife wounds in her abdomen.

After her wrists were tied and her neck was strangled with a rope, it could be said that she was completely under control and death was only a matter of time, but she was stabbed thirteen times. It would be unreasonable to say that the murderer had no grudge against her.

Therefore, was this case a murder caused by 5,000 yuan, or was the murderer intent on killing people and the money was just a by-product? This became a question in the minds of everyone present.

For this type of non-inciting murder case, only when the motive of the crime is clear can an effective targeted investigation be conducted. Now that we don’t even know the motive, it is difficult to investigate and we can only conduct larger-scale visits.

Such a wide-ranging investigation would waste time. The two children are still missing. Judging from the traces at the scene, they were most likely taken away by the murderer. The longer the two children stay in the murderer's hands, the more danger they will be in.

So after listening to the reports from various investigators and arranging the next focus of the investigation, the meeting ended, which lasted less than an hour and a half in total, and the investigation continued overnight.

……

"Hey"

"Director Li, I have found out from Zhu Yongyang that those southerners have not left Beijing yet. I have already sent people to investigate them.

According to Zhu Yongyang, this was not the first time these southerners came here to purchase old items. They had come two years ago. These people not only purchased items here, but also went to several other provinces and cities such as Henan Province and Qin Province. During several contacts, he did not find that these people had any other actions besides purchasing old items.

He also said that these people were very generous and paid relatively high prices for those old items. Among the few people who came to Beijing, there were some who had knowledge in this area and could tell whether they were genuine items or later imitations. "

Just after the meeting, the county bureau’s duty room received a call from Jin Zhihai.

Listening to what was said on the other end of the phone, Li Yancheng frowned. It seemed that he had made a wrong judgment this time. Those people might have really come here just to buy old items and had no other intentions.

After hanging up the phone, he did not go to the county government guesthouse where a room had already been booked to rest, but instead wandered around in the yard of the county bureau while smoking. Zhu Dongjun, who also did not go to rest, walked up to him.

"Director Li"

"Everyone has been sent out?"

"Everyone has arranged their respective tasks and has given them away."

"Yeah," Li Yancheng nodded, with a look of confusion in his eyes: "Dongjun, do you feel that this case is a bit strange?"

"It's really strange. I still can't figure out the murderer's motive. Was he after the money or the person?"

"What I don't understand is why neither the two deceased nor the two missing children made any noise. It was late at night when the crime happened. If they had made some noise, even if the victim's home was at the end of the village, it should have been heard by others.

It is understandable that Mr. Guo didn't hear anything because of his old age and poor hearing, but I think it is a bit strange that another family on the small road less than five meters away from the Guo family and the family opposite also didn't hear any noise.

The victim had a chance to fight with the murderer, but didn't he have a chance to shout for help? Also, I noticed that the family closest to Grandpa Guo's house had a dog. According to that family, they didn't hear the dog barking last night. What's the reason for that?"

"Either the dog knew the murderer, or the murderer came from the woods over there and went straight into Yang Daguang's house."

The victim's home is at the end of Yangjia Village. Not far away on the other side is a large forest. People from several nearby villages usually chop firewood in this forest.

"Has the woods been searched this afternoon?"

"Director Lin sent people in to search, but found nothing unusual."

Li Yancheng stopped and thought for a while: "Dong Jun, why do you think the murderer took those two children away?"

"I don't know. I really can't imagine the murderer's purpose." Zhu Dongjun shook his head with a wry smile.

The murderer in this case was full of unpredictable actions from beginning to end, which really made him feel a little confused.

Ugh……

Li Yancheng sighed with a headache, then raised his legs and started walking around the yard again.

At the same time, the police officer in charge of the investigation outside had driven to the production team accountant named Yang Tianshou.

(End of this chapter)