Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 651 Doubts
on purpose!
The murderer's feet and hands, at least his feet, should not have been stained with Tong Guangyao's blood. Otherwise, according to Hu Jianguo, he would have chased after the killer so quickly, and if there were bloodstains on the ground, he would have seen them.

Therefore, if Hu Jianguo was not lying, it means that there was no blood on the soles of the murderer's shoes.

Since there was no bloodstain, even if he hid behind the clutter under the stairs, he couldn't have left any bloody footprints.

But the problem now is that bloodstains and handprints were indeed found there, which leaves only one explanation: the murderer returned a second time and deliberately left them there to confuse the police investigation.

In other words, the footprints and handprints he left behind should all be fake.

If the officers at the Shishan branch were to search for the person based on the footprints and handprints, it would be tantamount to being led by the nose by the murderer.

call……

After figuring all this out, Li Yancheng let out a heavy sigh.

"Wei Dong, drive faster."

Now that he had figured it out, he wanted to give a reminder to his colleagues on the front lines.

"Good leadership."

Upon hearing Li Yancheng's request to speed up, Guan Weidong responded and slowly increased the pressure on his right foot.

……

Meanwhile, accompanied by staff from the security department of Beijing Steel Plant, Captain Cao of the Criminal Investigation Team of Shishan Branch, who was leading a team to investigate in the steel plant's residential area, finally realized something was wrong after seeing the footprint left on the ground by a subordinate who had accidentally stepped in mud.

"Stop, stop, stop! No, no!"

Captain Cao stopped the group that was heading to the next building.

"What's wrong Captain?"

"No, since that person left bloody footprints behind the clutter under the stairs, it means he stepped in blood."

“Yes!” A detective from the criminal investigation team nodded.

"What's right about it? If he stepped in blood on the soles of his shoes, why wasn't there any blood anywhere else, only at the bottom of the stairs?" Captain Cao retorted irritably.

"Uh...did it get covered by other people's footprints?"

The staircase in the east unit of Building 12, especially the stairs below the third floor and the entrance to the building, did indeed have a lot of bloody footprints.

“What you said is possible, but… if there were bloody footprints on the ground, wouldn’t that Hu Jianguo have seen them when he chased downstairs? He was the first one to go down, so they couldn’t have been covered up, could they? He didn’t say he saw any footprints on the ground.”

!!!

If you still can't understand this, then you're all really stupid. Not to mention the detectives from the criminal investigation team, even the staff of the steel plant's security department understood it. Their eyes were wide open, and their faces were full of disbelief.

The reason why no one thought of this earlier was because they found the weapon first, followed by the bloody footprints and handprints. The successive good news made everyone a little complacent, so they didn't think too deeply about it. Now that it has been brought up, the group quickly realized that they must have fallen into the killer's trap!
"Captain, we should ask Hu Jianguo to verify this again," an investigator suggested after a moment of silence.

After hesitating for a moment, Captain Cao nodded in agreement. He turned to the staff member from the steel plant's security department who was accompanying him and said, "Director Liu, let's go to Comrade Hu Jianguo's house again."

"it is good"

The accompanying staff member was Deputy Director Liu of the Security Department of Beijing Iron and Steel Plant. His superiors had instructed him that, apart from the workshops and research institutes with classified missions, he should take the police to any other places they wanted to go, and fully cooperate with them.

The reason why the leaders of Jinggang were so willing to cooperate was mainly because the leaders of the metallurgical industry department, which is the superior management department of Jinggang, had spoken before dinner, requiring them to fully cooperate with the work of the public security bureau.

Like other long-established large steel mills in China, Jinggang Steel was directly under the management of the metallurgical industry department, and the person in charge of them was none other than Mr. Luo.

Captain Cao's hesitation wasn't because he thought it was already past eight o'clock and it was a bit late to bother people. For frontline investigators like them, the key was to seize every minute to solve the case. When they needed to find witnesses to understand the situation, they didn't care about the time.

He hesitated because he suddenly began to doubt Hu Jianguo, the first person to discover the dead body.

He had suspected it before, but he had dispelled his doubts after discovering the bloody footprints and handprints. Now that it was very likely that the murderer had deliberately left them to mislead him, his suspicions about Hu Jianguo resurfaced.

"Forget it, let's get a closer look and observe it more closely," Captain Cao thought to himself.

On a winter night, even though it's not yet nine o'clock, many homes have already turned off their lights. In this era with almost no entertainment activities and the freezing cold outside making it impossible to go out for a stroll, going to bed early has become the first choice for many families.

Unlike other buildings where almost two-thirds or more of the rooms were completely dark, in Building 12, especially the east unit, all nineteen households had their lights on except for the Tong family's house on the fourth floor.

What happened in their building today has had a huge impact on the residents.

People of a certain age have all seen dead bodies. Everyone has relatives and friends. Birth, aging, illness, and death are all normal occurrences. However, having seen a dead body does not mean that one has seen a murder victim, and even fewer people have seen a scene of bloodshed.

During the day, with so many people around, it doesn't have much of an impact. But at night, when everything is quiet, the images of corpses and the bloodstains everywhere keep popping into your mind, causing you to start having all sorts of wild thoughts. The braver ones will get over it quickly, but the timid ones will probably be unable to eat or sleep for the next few days.

As soon as they entered the east unit of Building 12, a strong smell of blood hit them, causing even the well-informed Captain Cao to frown.

"Director Liu, does Tong Guangyao have no other family members? No brothers or sisters, not even cousins?"

"Captain Cao, you should have already seen Tong Guangyao's information. All we know about him is what's in his file."

According to the information, Tong Guangyao is fifty years old this year. He was born in 1930. His father started working at Jinggang Steel, which was then called Shishan Steel Plant, in 1923. He married his mother in 1928.

His mother died in childbirth in 1930, and his father never remarried, raising him alone.

His parents' records do not show any siblings, and his parents had passed away long ago.

Tong Guangyao started working at the factory at the age of 15, four or five years after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan. Because of his tall stature, he was assigned to work in the factory security team.

In 1950, he married a female worker from the same factory. Perhaps due to a problem with the feng shui of his family, his wife suffered a difficult childbirth in 1953, and this time they lost their child, along with their unborn child. After that, he never remarried, and instead worked while taking care of his father, who had suffered a stroke and become paralyzed due to the trauma, until his father passed away five years ago.

Today, Tong Guangyao was murdered again. It can be said that this lineage has been completely wiped out with him, which is quite regrettable.

"Director Liu, since this guy surnamed Tong is single, why did your factory allocate him a family apartment?" an investigator asked curiously.

"This house wasn't allocated to him. It was given to his father by the organization to take care of him. Guangyao has been living here since Lao Tong passed away. Now that his family is gone, the house will definitely be taken back. It's just unknown who it will be allocated to next."

I suspect the next person to be allocated this apartment won't feel at ease living there.

It's really unsettling. This house has seen two people pass away: Tong Guangyao's father and Tong Guangyao himself. Although he didn't die in the house, it doesn't really matter.

The next person to be allocated this apartment must be incredibly resentful. They'll feel it's unlucky to keep it, but if they don't, housing is scarce right now, and who knows when they'll get another apartment?

As they talked, they arrived at Hu Jianguo's house.

Before Captain Cao could speak, Deputy Director Liu of the steel plant's security department stepped forward and knocked on the Hu family's door.

"dong dong dong"

"Who is it?" A man's voice soon came from inside the house; it was Hu Jianguo, the person they were looking for.

“Jianguo, that’s me, Liu Kejun.”

"It's Director Liu, please wait a moment!"

Soon, the door was opened from the inside. Seeing that not only Deputy Director Liu of the Security Department was standing outside, but also several people from the Public Security Bureau, Hu Jianguo was stunned for a moment. Then he quickly opened the door wider and stepped aside to invite the people outside into the room.

"Captain Cao is here too. Please come in, please come in."

"Comrade Hu Jianguo, I'm really sorry to bother you so late. We have some questions about the case that we need to discuss with you."

"No disturbance, no disturbance, Captain Cao. To be honest, I didn't think much about it at the time. But after I came back from giving my statement at your police station, I've been sitting at home and the more I think about it, the more scared I feel. My wife went downstairs this afternoon after hearing the noise, and she was also quite frightened. Neither of us can sleep at all right now."

Look, my wife and I were even planning to have a few drinks, hoping we could get a little tipsy and fall asleep. Luckily, the baby didn't go down, otherwise…”

While inviting the people outside into the house, Hu Jianguo said with a bitter expression.

You can see a bottle of bulk liquor and a plate of peanuts on the coffee table in the living room. His wife is standing there, and when she sees Deputy Director Liu from the General Factory's Security Department bringing several police officers over, she looks a little nervous.

"Don't just stand there, Xiaoxia, tidy up the table and pour some water."

"Don't bother," Captain Cao waved his hand and said, "Comrade Jianguo, we're just here to ask you a few more questions and then we'll leave. Don't bother with this."

"Uh... well... how about some water?"

"No more drinking, Comrade Jianguo. We came here to ask you something. This afternoon, after you saw Tong Guangyao lying on the ground, you went over and turned him over, and then you heard footsteps downstairs, right?"

Captain Cao did not sit down after entering the room; he stood there and immediately began to ask questions.

"Yes," Hu Jianguo nodded. He had been asked this question at the police station that afternoon, and he was a little surprised that the police would come to his home late at night to ask him again, but he still answered very cooperatively.

"After I turned Section Chief Tong over, I saw blood gushing out of his body, which startled me and I almost screamed. Then I heard some noise downstairs. Without thinking much, I shouted, 'Murder! Catch the murderer!' I got up and chased after him, but I didn't see anyone even after I got out of the building."

"Okay, Comrade Jianguo, did you notice the bloody footprints on the stairs at the time?"

"That's impossible. I didn't even have any blood on my feet, let alone the murderer. Blood was everywhere before it started flowing. I reckon the murderer would only have blood on their body and hands, not on their feet."

Because of the thick winter clothes, Tong Guangyao was stabbed more than a dozen times, but the initial blood loss was mostly absorbed by his cotton-padded clothes. Otherwise, Hu Jianguo would have seen the blood when he was lying on the ground.

Then blood was everywhere on the ground because the amount of bleeding was too great, and the person was being moved around passively.

Seeing Hu Jianguo's confident answer, Captain Cao frowned slightly. Assuming what he said was true, did that mean the murderer was in this unit, or to be more precise, on the first floor?

It couldn't be on the second floor, because Hu Jianguo was at the corner between the second and third floors at the time. If there was any noise on the second floor, he would definitely not have misheard it.

But they had already visited the four households on the first floor. The residents were all elderly, the youngest being almost sixty. Their children didn't live with them; they only came out after hearing the shouts outside. The families seemed to get along well…

Ok?
"Comrade Hu Jianguo, may I take a look at your kitchen?"

"what?"

Hu Jianguo was taken aback by Captain Cao's request, and it wasn't until Lao Cao repeated it that he came to his senses.

"Oh, okay, Captain Cao, please come with me. This kitchen is shared by two families."

The reason Lao Cao suggested looking at the kitchen was because he thought of the kitchen on the first floor. Since Hu Jianguo chased out of the building and didn't see anyone, it meant that the murderer was indeed hiding. Since the footprints and handprints left under the stairs were a deliberate deception, there must be a place for him to hide.

Those four households definitely couldn't be the answer, so that leaves only the kitchen.

The shared kitchen between the two families was not large, with only one sink and individual cutting boards and stoves. Captain Cao simply stood at the kitchen door and glanced at it before waving for everyone to follow him so that Hu Jianguo could rest.

……

Meanwhile, after returning home, Li Yancheng called the duty room of the brigade, told Political Commissar Wan about the doubts he had just considered, and then hung up the phone and didn't care about the matter anymore.

To be frank, since the lost weapon has been found, and it appears that the lost weapon and the murder are two separate cases.

The case that occurred in the steel mill's residential area was a common homicide case, with only one person killed. According to regulations, the Shishan branch could investigate it on its own, only needing to report to the municipal bureau. The brigade didn't even need to send anyone to assist.

(End of this chapter)