gentry

Chapter 55
Du Jinbao was sent to the interrogation room of the chief arresting room overnight.

At this moment, Du Jinbao was sitting in the interrogation room with a haggard face, while Javert, Luo Fei, and Xiaoman were all sitting opposite him with stern expressions, looking at him quietly, hoping that he could tell the truth by himself, at least It is the last respect for a firefighter.

"I'm a little thirsty." Du Jinbao said while stroking his chapped lips.

So Javert motioned Xiaoman to pour him a glass of water.

Afterwards, the three of them just watched Du Jinbao gulp down a large glass of water in one gulp, his Adam's apple wriggling greedily and frequently, giving people an inexplicable feeling of suffocation.

"Ah!" Du Jinbao wiped his mouth, calmed down his shortness of breath, and then began to speak slowly.

"My father is a firefighter. A few years ago, the Town God's Temple was on fire. He died in the fire to save people. I succeeded my father as a firefighter. My colleagues in the firefighting association took good care of me and regarded me as the son of a firefighting hero. , but I’m afraid of fire, so I stay at the back every time I put out a fire.” Du Jinbao smiled at himself, and began to play with the glass in his hand, “gradually, everyone looked down on me and talked about my It’s a tiger father and dog son, and the pressure in my heart is getting bigger and bigger, and I often can’t sleep at night. Two months ago, I woke up one morning and found myself wearing a firefighting suit..."

When Du Jinbao said this, his eyes became more and more empty: "I can't remember where I have been at all? What did I do? I was very scared, and then I saw Dr. Hovins' advertisement in the newspaper, so I went to In the psychological clinic, Dr. Huo told me that I might be suffering from sleepwalking..."

At this time, Xiaoman winked at Luo Fei.Luo Fei understood that Xiaoman wanted to say that this had nothing to do with Dr. Huo, but Luo Fei turned his eyes back to Du Jinbao with a blank expression.

"After the doctor's treatment, my condition improved a bit. I thought my sleepwalking was cured, so I didn't go to see a doctor again until one night..." Du Jinbao said and tightened his grip on the glass, "I remember my Obviously I was lying on the bed, but when I was half asleep, I suddenly heard an alarm bell ringing. I woke up suddenly, only to find myself standing on the side of the road, still wearing a firefighting suit. At this moment, a woman stopped me. Me, crying and asking me to save her child, I ran to the scene of the fire before I had time to think about it."

Luo Fei stared at Du Jinbao and said, "So, you have become a hero of the Fire Rescue Society."

Du Jinbao nodded, "That day, I became the first firefighter to rush to the fire scene. After everything was over, I returned home... Sitting tiredly by the bed and thinking about what happened just now, just as I was stealing When I finally overcame my fear of fire, I suddenly saw a barrel of kerosene and some balls of cotton yarn on the table by the window. I walked over in a daze, and found a circle drawn on the map on the wall. When Du Jinbao said this, he exerted force with both hands, and the cup in his hand was crushed with a snap, and the blood flowed down the glass shards embedded in the flesh, but Du Jinbao continued as if he felt no pain at all. "I was sweating all over, and then I realized that I had set the fire just now. I was terrified and wanted to surrender to the police station, but I was afraid that my father's reputation would be ruined..."

"Du Jinbao..." Xiaoman wanted to go forward to bandage Du Jinbao, but Luo Fei grabbed him.

"The next day I was very nervous all day, for fear that the house arresters would come and arrest me, but unexpectedly... I somehow became a firefighting hero who saved three people in a row." Du Jinbao let out a sigh of relief, " Especially when the president patted me on the shoulder and said that the real tiger father has no dogs, I really don't know what expression to make."

"You fantasized that you would become your father."

Xiaoman turned her head to look at Luo Fei, and hearing his tone of voice, she instantly felt that he also looked like a psychiatrist.

Du Jinbao nodded: "I didn't expect such a result, so I didn't turn myself in, and I didn't go to the doctor again..."

Hearing this, Javert said sharply: "You just let yourself sleepwalk and set the fire? Do you know that there were four fires and ten people died in total!"

Du Jinbao suddenly raised his head and looked at Javert with a horrified expression: "I'm sorry, I'm guilty, I deserve to die!"

Luo Fei saw that Du Jinbao's mood was a little unstable, so he hurriedly asked, "How did you choose the place to set the fire?"

Du Jinbao shook his head blankly: "I don't know."

Luo Fei stood up anxiously: "Why did you draw a movie theater on the map, and then ran to burn Wang Jifu's house?"

At this moment, Du Jinbao began to shake his head vigorously, covering his head with bloody hands: "I really don't know anything, it was all done in a dream, I was wrong, I'm sorry for my dad, I'm sorry for the firefighting society , I deserve to die, so shoot me!"

Du Jinbao broke down and burst into tears immediately. The bloody face mixed with tears made Luo Fei and the three of them feel extremely heavy.

The clue was interrupted, Luo Fei sighed, and walked out of the interrogation room slowly.Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei's back with concern.

When Xiaoman returned to the apartment after dealing with the house arrest, she saw that Luo Fei's room was still lit.So, I went upstairs to 203 and knocked on the door.

As soon as the door opened, Luo Fei stood at the door holding a cup of coffee.

"what's up?"

"I saw the light in your room was on all the time."

Luo Fei took a sip of coffee: "Because I can't sleep."

Looking at Luo Fei's actions, Xiaoman couldn't help but laugh: "Can I go in?"

Luo Fei leaned weakly against the door, spreading his hands.Xiaoman then went into the room, and saw that the room was in a mess, documents were piled up everywhere on the table and on the floor, and there was an extra safe open in the living room.

Xiaoman saw that the strange coffee machine on the table was still dripping coffee, and shook her head helplessly: "Can't sleep and drink coffee?"

"Coffee can expand the blood vessels in the brain and reduce the respiratory rate. It will take 10 to [-] minutes to stimulate the brain. If you grasp the time well, drinking coffee can help you sleep."

Xiaoman picked up a piece of paper on the table and looked at it: "Du Jinbao's confession, isn't the case closed?"

Luo Fei sighed slightly: "Do you really believe that Du Jinbao is the murderer of the arson case?"

After hearing this, Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei with strange eyes, then frowned and thought for a while and said, "He confessed himself."

Luo Fei put down his coffee cup, came to the wall covered with clues and materials, and looked at the intricate red lines nailed on it: "It's not that simple, there are too many doubts in this case."

"If there are any doubts, tell me quickly, I can help you reason together." Xiaoman said and moved over.

Luo Fei immediately showed a helpless wry smile: "Miss, reasoning is not about pushing a cart, it's not about two people working together to make it faster."

"Don't forget that I'm also a police detective. Even if I can't use my strength, I can give you some inspiration, right?" Xiaoman said seriously, but she no longer cared as much about Luo Fei's domineering tone as before. .

Luo Fei looked at Xiaoman, and he was not as aggressive as before, but directly nodded and explained: "Okay, the first doubt is that Wang Jifu doesn't know Du Jinbao at all, how could he know that he is going to set fire to his house?"

"He dreamed about it." Xiaoman blurted out.

Luo Fei shrugged: "Do you believe in such strange powers?"

Xiaoman thought for a while, and then began to reason: "You said 'thinking every day and dreaming at night', maybe Wang Jifu knew Du Jinbao, and Mrs. Wang heard that he was called Mr. Jin in a dream. Is there a word "gold"? There must be a festival between them. He saw the report of three fires and knew that Du Jinbao did it. That's why he was so afraid that he had nightmares..."

"So Du Jinbao has a feud with the victims of the previous three fires?" Luo Fei hugged his shoulders and looked at Xiaoman with a smile.

"Yes, there must be some connection between them..." Xiaoman bit her lower lip stubbornly, trying to stick to her reasoning, when suddenly Xiaoman turned around and pointed at Luo Fei, "By the way, Du Jinbao's father was Those who died in the firefighting may have been caused by Wang Jifu and the others, and Du Jinbao avenged his father."

Luo Fei pretended to be surprised, and clapped his hands perfunctorily a few times: "When you spoke just now, your eyeballs kept turning to the upper right, which shows that this reason is just your imagination, and you yourself know that this reason has no basis at all. It’s very rich, but being a detective can’t just rely on imagination, but on investigation and research.”

Xiaoman withdrew her hand in embarrassment, walked to the side table, glanced at the dazzling information on the table and asked: "You have done a lot of research and research this week, tell me what you have found out?"

Luo Fei walked over, picked up the information on the table, and ranked Xiaoman in order: "At first, I suspected that there was some connection between the victims of the fire just like you, but when I checked the ages and occupations of the ten deceased, I found Nothing in common. Just when my investigation was at an impasse, what you just said reminded me..."

"What?" Xiaoman suddenly became inexplicably excited again.

"I suddenly realized that I was only comparing the status quo of each person horizontally, but ignored the vertical time, so I changed direction and investigated the previous experiences of these ten people. As a result, I discovered an interesting thing." Luo Fei He pointed vigorously at the photos of the four charred corpses on the table, "In each of the four fires, one of the victims resigned from his original job ten years ago. Together with Wang Jifu, these four people are..."

At this time, Luo Fei took out four photos from a pile of documents, and placed them on top of the four corpse photos one by one: "Zhao Datong, a senior translator at the Ministry of Industry, was the manager of Liza Foreign Firm ten years ago...Fang Libin, New Nanyang A mechanical factory worker, an engineer, was an engineer at Yonghe Security Machinery Factory ten years ago... Zheng Yuan, currently the security manager of Dashijie, was the security director of Huiqi Bank ten years ago... Wang Jifu, currently the social news of "Xinlin Daily" The editor in charge of the column, ten years ago, he was the business manager of Huiqi Bank..."

Luo Fei patted the photo with one hand, and pointed at Xiaoman with the other: "Ten years ago, they suddenly quit their jobs at about the same time, moved house and changed their address, what does that mean?"

Xiaoman nodded thoughtfully: "Something must have happened at that time. Have you checked the news from ten years ago?"

And just when Xiaoman felt that the clues of the case became clear, Luo Fei smiled dejectedly: "No need to investigate, I still remember that you once asked me if there was any unsolved case. I just started working as a detective ten years ago, and the first case I encountered The unsolved case is the diamond theft from Huiqi Bank, which has not been solved yet. This case is like a small cog stuck in a corner of my mind, and I didn’t expect it to turn around now.”

"You mean that the diamond case is related to these four people?" Xiaoman asked tentatively.

Luo Fei nodded, then took out a photo of a man and handed it to Xiaoman.

Xiaoman took the photo and looked at it. In the photo was a well-dressed man with a heroic face.

"Who is he?" Xiaoman raised her head and asked Luo Fei.

"Licha Matheson's comprador Kim Charlie." Luo Fei sighed, walked to the window and looked at the neon-lit Gordon Road not far away, "Ten years ago, this Kim Charlie bought real estate in Shanghai, He bought a huge amount of assets saved in his life into priceless diamonds and brought them into the public concession from abroad. Charlie Jin deposited the diamonds in the safe of Huiqi Bank, which is known as the safest in the Far East. He disappeared in the heavily guarded safe, and the police found no clues. Because he couldn't bear the huge blow, Charlie became mentally disturbed, and finally set fire to his office and died by self-immolation."

While looking at the photo on the table, Xiaoman couldn't help but sigh after hearing Luo Fei's memories.She walked over slowly and looked at Luo Fei who was talking about it, it seemed that the fire that year was burning again in her piercing eyes.

"The four dead in the arson case, one was the manager under Charlie Kim, two were employees of the bank, and the other, although seemingly not directly related to the theft, was an engineer proficient in various safes." Luo Fei said, turning his head to look at Xiaoman.

"You mean, these four people conspired to steal the diamond?" Xiaoman said holding up the photos of the five people.

"I think the Mr. Jin mentioned in Wang Jifu's dream should not refer to the firefighter Du Jinbao." Luo Fei said as he took out a photo of Charlie Jin from Xiaoman's hand and pressed it on the window. .”

Therefore, Xiaoman followed Luo Fei's train of thought and continued to reason: "Wang Jifu had this nightmare because he was afraid that the wronged soul ten years ago would come to seek revenge on him, but the murderer of the arson case was not a ghost but a human being. The real purpose of the murderer was... "

Luo Fei nodded: "It's a priceless diamond."

"It all makes sense now!" Xiao Man said excitedly.

But at this time, Luo Fei shook his head helplessly: "It's a pity that these are all based on assumptions, without any evidence, and it is even more difficult to go back and investigate the unsolved case ten years ago."

"To find the real culprit of the arson case, we must first solve the old case ten years ago. It's getting more and more interesting!" Xiaoman said this, and suddenly became extremely excited, and pulled Luo Fei down to the sofa and sat down. "Tell me carefully, what is this case that even you can't solve?"

"Ten years ago..." Just as Luo Fei started, the pocket watch in his vest suddenly dinged, and he took it out to take a look, "It's 15 minutes."

"What 15 minutes?" Xiaoman stared at Luo Fei with wide eyes.

Luo Fei smiled, pointed to the bubbling coffee machine on the table and said, "The best time for coffee to help you sleep, sorry."

Luo Fei immediately got up and walked quickly into the bedroom, closing the door with a bang.

"What? You...how can you be so appetizing!" Xiaoman pouted and complained. Gradually, looking at the closed door, she couldn't help feeling a strange feeling in her heart.She seemed to see Luo Fei leaning against the door at this moment.
(End of this chapter)