Yao Huang's home is on the top floor of an old community. Liang Ronghua and Su Le knocked on the door of Yao Huang's home. A fat middle-aged woman blocked the door. Judging from the indentations on her face, she should be
Just got up from bed.
"Who are you looking for?" the fat woman asked angrily.
Su Le and Liang Ronghua did not wear police uniforms today. Liang Ronghua took out his ID and showed it in front of the fat woman and said:
"We are the police."
"What's so great about the police? I haven't broken any laws. What are you doing here?" The fat lady put on a arrogant look.
"We are looking for Yao Huang, who are you?" Liang Ronghua said angrily.
"Yao Huang is not at home, you can go." After the fat woman said this, she was about to close the door. Liang Ronghua stretched out his foot to block the door, and the door could not be closed after it was halfway closed.
"What do you want to do? Do you want to break into a house privately?" the fat woman opened the door and asked sternly.
"We are enforcing the law now. Please cooperate with our work. If you obstruct official duties, we can detain you according to law." Liang Ronghua warned her sternly.
"Hey, I still won't cooperate. You catch me, catch me. I'm just planning to go in and spend a few days in jail." Not only was the fat woman not frightened by Liang Ronghua, but she started to throw a tantrum.
Liang Ronghua reached for the handcuffs at his waist, but was grabbed by Su Le from behind. Su Le pulled Liang Ronghua and said:
"Forget it, forget it if you're not at home."
Liang Ronghua took a step back, and the fat woman closed the door with a bang. Su Le took a look at the door and found that there was no door mirror. He made a silent gesture towards Liang Ronghua, and then the two of them quietly stood next to each other.
Listen to the noise inside the door.
"Hey, Lao Yao, where did you die?" the fat woman's voice sounded in the room.
"You still have time to play chess, the police are already here."
"Tell me to throw you away, and you should get the hell back home as soon as possible."
Hearing this, Su Le pulled Liang Ronghua downstairs quietly. The two of them strolled downstairs of Yao Huang's house, one on the left and the other on the right, waiting for the target to appear.
About fifteen minutes later, Su Le saw a tall and thin man riding a broken bicycle from the direction of Liang Ronghua. He was in a panic and rode the bicycle very fast. When he passed Liang Ronghua, Liang Ronghua
Ronghua shouted behind him:
"Yao Huang."
"Hey." Yao Huang agreed and turned his head to look back.
Su Le took two steps forward and grabbed the handlebars of his bicycle. Yao Huang stopped with one foot on the ground.
"Are you Yao Huang?" Liang Ronghua stretched out his hand and pulled him off the bicycle.
"Yes, I am." Yao Huang's eyes showed fear.
"Take it back and ask?" Liang Ronghua asked Su Le. Su Le nodded and put Yao Huang's bicycle at the entrance of the corridor.
Liang County Police Interrogation Room.
"Yao Huang, do you know why I arrested you?"
"No, I don't know. Why are you arresting me?"
"Where were you on the night of the 25th?"
"Ah, I was drinking with my neighbor." Yao Huang's face began to turn pale.
"Who are the people drinking?"
"There is Shouhou and his two classmates."
"What are the names of those two classmates?"
"One is named Gangzi, the other is named Liang Shi."
"Who else?"
"Also, there is my nephew."
"Nonsense! You don't have a nephew at all."
"Yes, yes, he is my wife's nephew."
"Why did you drink that day?"
"Yes, I want to ask Liang Shi for help and arrange a job for my wife and nephew."
"What did you do when you were drinking?"
"No, I didn't do anything." Yao Huang replied with evasive eyes.
"Yao Huang!" Liang Ronghua slammed the table and shouted loudly.
Yao Huang was so frightened that he trembled all over. His whole body shrank and he formed a ball.
"Tell me honestly, what did you do to Liang Shi?"
Under the pressure of Liang Ronghua's momentum, Yao Huang began to tremble all over. His small eyes kept secretly looking at Liang Ronghua in front of him. Finally, he lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and whispered:
"I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything."
In the subsequent interrogation, although Yao Huang's spirit was almost broken, he still bit himself and did nothing. Liang Ronghua had no choice but to let Yao Huang go back.
After hitting a snag with Yao Huang, Su Le and the others found the owner of the barber shop at the table where the dead man was in the fight. The barber shop was a small facade with two rooms. There were two chairs used for haircuts, one for men and one for barbers.
The woman was busy giving customers haircuts. The man looked about 40 years old and had a fair-skinned Chinese face. When he saw someone coming in, he quickly smiled and asked them to sit down.
Su Le and Zhang Pengfei exchanged glances and sat down to wait for a haircut. Ten minutes later, the male barber finished cutting the hair of the customer in front and asked Liang Ronghua:
"Which one of you will take care of it first?"
"Is your name Li Yu?" Liang Ronghua stood up and asked.
"Yes, I am Li Yu."
"Okay then, we are from the police station. Let's go outside and ask you a few questions."
Hearing Liang Ronghua say it was the police, Li Yu's face changed. He looked at the customers in the store a little nervously, and followed Liang Ronghua to the door obediently.
"Did you invite Bao Xing to dinner on the 25th?"
"Yes, it's me." Li Yu nodded and replied.
"Why did you invite him to dinner?"
"It's not that I want to invite him, but he often comes to the store to cause trouble, so I just want to treat him to a drink and ask him to take care of me and not come to the store to cause trouble."
"How many times has Bao Xing been to your store?" Su Le interrupted and asked.
"How many times? I, I don't remember, it must have been many times." Li Yu answered.
"When was the last time he came to your store?" Su Le asked.
"Yes, yes, the day before drinking."
"Why did he come to the store to harass you?"
"He, he asked me for money."
"Did you give it to him?"
"Give, give."
"How much was given?"
"Two hundred, oh, no, five hundred."
"How many hundred is it?"
"It's five hundred."
"How many times has he come to your store and asked for money?"
"I, I don't really remember, it must have been many times."
"How much money did you give him in total?"
"This, this, I don't remember."
"Who told you to treat Bao Xing to dinner?" Su Le asked.
"Yes, yes, I invited it myself, no one else." Li Yu replied hesitantly.
"Li Yu, you are dishonest." Liang Ronghua said.
"No, no, I'm not dishonest." Li Yu's forehead was already sweating.
"In addition to asking for money from you, has Bao Xing also gone to other stores to ask for money?" Su Le asked.
"I, I, I don't know." When Li Yu answered this sentence, he was obviously a little panicked.
"Okay, you can go back." Su Le waved his hand and said.
When Li Yu heard that he was told to go back, he quickly wiped the sweat on his head with his hands and ran into the house as if running for his life.
"Let him go like this? This guy is obviously lying." Liang Ronghua asked Su Le.
Su Le smiled and did not answer Liang Ronghua's question, but pulled him into a canteen next to the barber shop.
"Boss, take a pack of cigarettes and two bottles of water," Su Le said to a lady at the counter.
Taking the cigarettes handed over by the eldest sister, Su Le opened the package and took out one and handed it to Liang Ronghua. Liang Ronghua didn't know what kind of medicine Su Le was selling in the gourd, so he could only take it and light it. Su Le took out his mobile phone to pay the bill and opened it.
He took a sip from the mineral water bottle and asked the lady at the counter:
"Sister, do you know Bao Xing?"
"Bao Xing? Are you talking about the one who died two days ago?" the eldest sister asked, putting down the cell phone she was looking at.
"Yes, that's him."
"I've met him before. I know him. He came to my place to buy cigarettes, so I think he's acquainted with him."
"Has he ever come to your store to cause trouble or ask for money?"
"He, how can he have the courage to come to my store to buy cigarettes without bowing his head?" the eldest sister said with some disdain.
"Does anyone in your area charge protection fees?"
"Collecting protection money? How is this possible? Big brother, you have watched too many movies. If someone collects protection money, the police will kill him in minutes!" The eldest sister was amused by Su Le and laughed.
"Then who is this Bao Xing? Do you understand him?"
"He's just an unemployed homeless man. He doesn't do any work. He just idles around all day. I don't know what he expects to do for a living. Anyway, he is quite disgusting. I heard that he was beaten to death. The neighbors said he deserved it. This kind of person is alive.
It’s of no use, and it’s hurting the entire family.”
"How come the whole family is affected?"
"Gambling, I heard someone said that he owes a lot of debt because of gambling, and debt collectors come to the house every day, which makes the whole family uneasy."
"Does his family live near here?"
"It seems that he lives in the neighborhood next door. I heard that he often beats his wife at home. In the summer, her wife dare not wear short-sleeved clothes to go out on the street. Her arms are all bruised." The eldest sister said angrily.
"What does his wife do?"
"We don't know about that. I've never met his wife. I just heard what others said."
Coming out of the canteen, Liang Ronghua threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stamped it out, and said angrily:
"It seems that Li Yu, who runs a barber shop, lied to us. Let's go find him again."
Su Le grabbed Liang Ronghua and said:
"Don't worry, the more he lies, the more it means there is something wrong here. If Li Yu didn't treat him to dinner just to please Bao Xing, then why?"
"Why do you think they are?" Liang Ronghua asked confused.
"If there is no problem between them, then why did Li Yu lie?"
"Are they and that Yao Huang also working together to frame Liang Shi?" Liang Ronghua asked.
"Is Bao Xing willing to sacrifice himself to frame Liang Shi?"
"That shouldn't happen. I don't think Bao Xing is a courageous person."
"By the way, have you met Bao Xing's wife?" Su Le asked.
"I met her once. The woman was crying and very thin. I asked her but she didn't know anything. After completing the formalities, I told her to go home."
"Do you know her home address?"
"It's easy. It's all registered. I'll ask someone from the bureau to check."
"Well, let's go meet Bao Xing's wife and see if we can get some clues from her."
Su Le and Liang Ronghua walked forward side by side, the afterglow of the setting sun filling their upright backs.