Animal Detective

Chapter 313 If you don't gain any advantage, then you suffer a loss.
The hotel in town.

He Wenyu got up around 7 a.m., washed up, and prepared to go out to find something to eat.

His room was next to Shen Xin's. After hesitating for a moment, He Wenyu carefully knocked on the door.

He Wenyu didn't know what time Shen Xin returned last night, or even if he had returned at all.

I tapped it once but got no response, so I tapped it again, but still nothing.

He Wenyu was about to leave when the door unexpectedly opened.

Shen Xin, still wearing yesterday's clothes, greeted everyone with a sleep-deprived look on his face.

He Wenyu quickly asked Shen Xin what time he returned last night.

"Let's get to three o'clock quickly."

Shen Xin thought for a moment, then turned and went into the bathroom to wash his face.

He Wenyu leaned against the door frame and asked tentatively, "Judging from your reaction, you didn't notice?"

Shen Xin looked at his haggard reflection in the mirror and nodded.

Yesterday, Tiankui tracked Duan Dongqiang down to the house where he was working.

This family has cleared a plot of land on the mountain to raise chickens and plans to build two houses on the mountain to live in, so they need to transport building materials from the foot of the mountain to the top.

To save costs, they chose to use donkeys to transport the goods up the mountain in trips.

In other words, Duan Dongqiang's whereabouts yesterday were confirmed, but the murder weapon he disposed of was not found.

It's not even possible to determine whether he disposed of the murder weapon.

He Wenyu said "Oh," paused for a moment, and then encouraged, "It's okay. It's only been a day since the incident. Let's take it slow. We already have a suspect. I think the case is fine. We can't let him get away, can we?"

He spoke optimistically.

Shen Xin grabbed a towel, wiped her face clean, and glanced at herself in the mirror.

As always, he's handsome.

“That’s right, we already have a suspect. If we let him get away, wouldn’t that make us police officers look incompetent?”

Shen Xin patted He Wenyu on the shoulder and invited him to eat.

Does an elderly man living alone spend all his time reading Sherlock Holmes or watching Detective Conan?

It was just luck that the crime scene was disturbed; otherwise, the case would have been closed long ago.

A bowl of crispy pork noodles and two small rice cakes will fill you up with carbs and instantly restore your energy.

Shen Xin went straight to the police station.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiaowen had already set off.

I guess he didn't get to sleep for long.

With this kind of fighting spirit, how can we not solve the case?

Shen Xin called Li Xiaowen to ask about the situation.

On the phone, Li Xiaowen's tone was surprisingly calm, and he finally said casually, "Go ahead and look for me."

The journey of just a few kilometers is surrounded by mountains, and the thought of being abandoned anywhere is enough to make one feel hopeless.

But the thing is there; if you don't look for it, you'll never have a chance to find it.

What if we get lucky?

At the same time, Li Xiaowen also said that they are waiting for the DNA comparison results of the donkey dung to come out. Once the results are available, they will immediately apply for a search warrant to search Duan Dongqiang's house.

If the murder weapon isn't found, then proceed with the original plan.

Moreover, it involves not only searching but also interrogation.

Just tell him frankly that they've got their eyes on you.

Shen Xin said, "Okay, I'll bring Tian Kui with me to search together."

Since we've decided to stay and help, we can't just sit idly by.

Shen Xin sought out Guo Jin to see if he could give him a ride.

I decided to ride in Li Xiaowen's car again.

Without saying a word, Guo Jin got into his pickup truck and drove Shen Xin to Baijiashao.

During a casual chat on the way, Shen Xin remembered something.

This refers to the car accident involving Li Xingping.

I don't know what Li Xingping was thinking at the time, but when someone dies, there has to be an explanation.

He is indeed a suspect, but that's one thing at a time.

Just like a death row inmate who is about to be executed and gets into a car accident on the way, even if he is to be executed an hour later, he still has to pay compensation.

Now that Li Xingping's family only has two children left, someone has to step in and help deal with things.

Shen Xin felt that relying on the village was unlikely to work.

Guo Jin said, "I've been thinking about this. The two kids are still so young. I'll discuss it with Lao Fu later and see what we can do."

Shen Xin nodded, thinking of Li Shi, and felt a surge of emotion.

Just then, the pickup truck sputtered a few times and then stopped.

"Hey!"

Guo Jin slammed his hand on the steering wheel in annoyance, his face full of frustration.

Shen Xin chuckled inwardly. A police car, after all, it's understandable.

Just as he was about to get off the car and push it, Guo Jin stopped him.

Guo Jin said, "No need. Old Sun is right. This car is old. You have to be gentle with it, coax it, and talk to it more. It will be fine."

As he spoke, he put his hands together and muttered something to the steering wheel.

Shen Xin, both amused and exasperated, said he'd better go down and push it himself.

This is too idealistic.

"Don't disbelieve me, that's how Old Sun does it anyway." Guo Jin muttered, took a deep breath, and turned the key again.

The engine sputtered and started.

Guo Jin's eyes lit up, and he said, "See? It's useful."

Shen Xin nodded speechlessly and said that they should hurry up and submit the application to change the car.

It's probably not that Guo Jin is unwilling to spend the money on repairs, but rather that the car simply can't be fixed.

After all, the speedometer was off the charts; who knows how many tens of thousands of kilometers it had driven?

Guo Jin shook his head and said, "Forget it, as long as the four wheels can still run, it can still run for another ten years." Not long after, Shen Xin and Li Xiaowen met up.

The three of them were searching along the road towards Yeyangjing Village.

After the meeting, Li Xiaowen briefly explained his arrangements.

The cement road leading out of the village is flanked by farmland, so Duan Dongqiang shouldn't have been abandoned there.

Turning onto the highway, with mountains on both sides, this is a possible location.

The distance here is almost three kilometers. Then turn right onto the side road and it's one kilometer to Yeyangjing Village.

This section is also surrounded by mountains, so it's possible.

After passing through Yeyangjing Village, you still need to cross a mountain to reach Mabaogou Village, where you can work. The distance is probably about four kilometers.

This eight-kilometer stretch should be the area where he disposed of the murder weapon.

Li Xiaowen further deduced that it could only be on the way there, so he moved to the right and extended fifty meters outward from the road.

Within this area, divided into sections, he assigned nine people to search on foot.

Li Xiaowen comforted himself, saying, "It sounds scary, but it's only eight kilometers. Look, we've only searched a little over a hundred meters in this hour."

"Divide into three groups, 300 meters per hour, 3 kilometers per ten hours, and it will take about three days."

He kept the accounts crystal clear.

One of his men said, "Captain Li, you're too optimistic. What if he sees a passing truck and just throws it into the cargo bed?"

"And you think he's too old to throw far, but he's not. He climbs up the mountain and throws a little farther, so who would know?"

Shen Xin nodded slightly.

Indeed, there are too many uncertainties.

Not to mention a passing truck, what if he sees a well in the farmland outside the village and just throws it in?

All of these are possible.

And you're not even sure what he threw.

If it's just a bloodstained brick, exposed to the wind and sun, by the time you find it, you probably won't be able to extract any DNA.

Finding the murder weapon would be pointless.

Li Xiaowen retorted seriously, "Trucks are fast, how could you possibly be so lucky as to throw it in? As for your question about throwing it from a distance, if we can't find it within 50 meters, we'll expand the search area to 100 meters."

The two men exchanged a glance and said nothing more.

Li Xiaowen told them to go forward and search back from the end of the highway, while he and Shen Xin led Tian Kui to search.

Shen Xin simply untied Tian Kui's leash and let him run around freely.

He will proactively warn others if he smells an unusual odor.

Li Xiaowen verbally defended himself, but he probably knew how difficult the matter was. After his two subordinates walked away, he took the initiative to apologize to Shen Xin, saying that he had not only delayed Shen Xin's schedule but also made Shen Xin do the most tiring work.

"Captain Li, it's alright."

Shen Xin patted his thighs. How could a criminal police officer work without a pair of iron legs?

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Xin said, "Captain Li, actually I have another way, which is to go through Duan Dongqiang's donkey to find it."

Previously, I thought that with Tiankui, it was unnecessary, but given the current situation, it seems that we can only use the old method.

At that moment, Shen Xin shared his thoughts.

Duan Dongqiang came out in a donkey cart. If he stopped on the way and abandoned the murder weapon, the donkey would be watching.

Once enough goodwill is cultivated, we can take this donkey and walk the same path again to find out where Duan Dongqiang lost his things, so we can search for them purposefully instead of just throwing manpower at them and gambling on luck, as we are doing now.

"Is this still possible?"

Li Xiaowen stared wide-eyed, his face filled with disbelief.

He had only one thought in his mind: It's a donkey!
Even if, as Shen Xin said, the donkey is actually not stupid but quite clever, remembering where Duan Dongqiang stopped, how would you know? Could it open its mouth and tell you?

Shen Xin cited the cases of Liu Laibin and Han Xiaolong as examples to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach.

Just like in the Han Xiaolong case, even after many years, Xiaotianquan still clearly remembers who the murderer was.

Li Xiaowen felt his scalp tingle as he listened to the two cases, especially the Liu Laibin case, in which seven people worked together to set up a scheme and put on a show for the victim. It was a seemingly flawless case, but in the end, it was solved by a parrot.

He was stunned for a long time, then murmured, "Shen Xin, I used to think that Lao Hu using divination to solve cases was already unbelievable enough, but what you've done is even more..."

He looked at him strangely.

Shen Xin was stunned: "Using divination to solve cases?"

Who is this expert?

Only after asking did I learn that it was a deputy captain of the criminal investigation team that Li Xiaowen had worked with in Huaiyi more than ten years ago, whose surname was Hu.

I don’t know when he developed this habit, but when a case gets stuck, he’ll try to consult the oracle, for example, to see who the murderer is among the suspects.

Or perhaps you could consult a fortune teller to see which direction to visit.

As a result, they solved quite a few cases using this method.

"Is this for real? This is too unbelievable." Shen Xin thought to himself, what's the difference between this and those people on the internet who use two sticks to find underground water?

Li Xiaowen said, "It's quite unbelievable, but he really solved the case with it, and even he himself can't explain it."

After saying that, Li Xiaowen hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, if you think it's okay, then give it a try."

Having perhaps witnessed even more ingenious methods of solving cases, Li Xiaowen accepted it quickly.

Li Xiaowen also thought that Shen Xin was good at training police dogs, so it was normal for him to be good at solving cases through animals.

As they were talking, Zhu Qiuwei called. After saying something, Li Xiaowen put down his phone, and his expression became much more serious.

Li Xiaowen said, "Old Zhu found out that during the relocation and land allocation in 07, because Duan Dongqiang was an old bachelor in the village, Zhang Kaiyong allocated him a piece of the most remote land."

"Because of this, he often complained to people about Zhang Kaiyong. When Li Xingping reported him and the town came to the village to investigate, he was very active and spread the news that Zhang Kaiyong had embezzled public funds."

“Zhang Kaisheng had warned him and even hit him. Then in 14, when the village was paving the road with cement, Duan Dongqiang discussed with the village whether the cement could be poured onto his wall. When the discussion failed, he even blocked the construction team.”

"Because of this incident, he has talked about Zhang Kaiyong behind his back quite a bit, so Shen Xin, I think he has enough motives."

Shen Xin remembered that there was a gap of more than a meter between the cement road and the wall of Duan Dongqiang's house.

Shen Xin said, "Captain Li, it's been ten years since the land was divided. Do you think he can still remember it? And this concrete pavement, the area in front of his house, shouldn't be considered a public area, right? So he's not in the right here."

I sense there is motivation, but it's not that strong.

Li Xiaowen shook his head and said, "No, Xiao Shen, in the countryside, land is of paramount importance, as is paving cement roads. Just think of it this way: if you don't gain any advantage, then you've suffered a loss."

"There's another point: Lao Zhu suspects that Duan Dongqiang has a criminal record."

Shen Xin was stunned. A criminal record? Really?

(End of this chapter)