Officer Wang looked at Gu Chen with some confusion.
Regarding the issue of dinner last night, Officer Wang was busy chatting with Lu Weiwei and did not pay attention to the movements around him.
As for Gu Chen, who was also having a meal, he actually noticed from the moment he sat down that there seemed to be something fishy about the two men behind him.
Officer Wang stepped forward and looked at the blade on the man's chest. It was obvious that the tip of the knife had hit a vital part, leaving the deceased with no room to struggle.
"This murderer seems to want the other person to die, and he is too cruel." Lu Weiwei frowned when she saw the scene in front of her.
"Maybe there was a deep hatred or irreconcilable conflict with him." Officer Wang also surrounded the deceased and carefully checked other clues.
The house was well decorated and all kinds of furniture were high-end goods, which shows that the deceased's family was wealthy.
"Who smoked this cigarette?" Gu Chen suddenly discovered that there was an unfinished cigar on the desk.
The cigar emits a faint fragrance, giving the whole room a faint scent of tobacco.
"No wonder I thought it was the smell of perfume just now." Officer Wang was also quite curious. He turned around and asked the auxiliary police next to him: "When you entered the door, did you find any lit cigars?"
"That's right, the cigar was still lit when we came in." The auxiliary policeman also told the truth.
"Besides you, who else has touched this cigarette?" Gu Chen asked.
The auxiliary police officer shook his head and said: "No one has moved. After the neighbor next door reported the crime, he did not dare to stay in the room. Originally, he wanted to come in and say hello. After all, the relationship between the two is not bad."
"That is to say, this cigar has not been extinguished since the deceased was killed until now? Isn't this too long?" Lu Weiwei has never smoked a cigarette, let alone a cigar, so this is the first time she has been asked this question.
Stumped.
"Senior Sister Lu, cigars are a special kind of cigarette. They are different from ordinary cigarettes." Gu Chen also explained.
"Aren't they all cigarettes? Is there any difference?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"The difference is for sure." Gu Chen walked to the side of the cigar, pointed to the English word cigar on the cigarette and said: "Cigar tobacco products are made from dried and fermented tobacco."
Looking at the size, Gu Chen frowned and said: "According to the size of this cigar, the length should be 125mm, the ring diameter is about 36/64, and the burning time of this cigar is about 1 hour and 25 minutes."
"Can a cigar burn for such a long time?" Lu Weiwei was also shocked. Although it was much larger than the cigarettes she had seen before, it could burn for 1 hour and 25 minutes. It was indeed a bit unbelievable.
"That's right, cigars can be lit and extinguished many times. If the deceased didn't pretend to be for others, then he might be a very experienced cigar smoker." Looking at the cigars on the ashtray on the table, Gu Chen hesitated.
After a moment, he said again:
"But then again, novices usually can't extinguish the snow smoke because they are afraid of burning out, so they smoke as hard as they can, so it's difficult to extinguish the cigar. If this cigarette has been left here for so long, it should be able to
Calculate the time."
Officer Wang hesitated for a moment and said: "When we received the alarm, I immediately contacted the auxiliary police officers on duty nearby to protect the scene. With our police lights clearing the way, it only took 20 minutes to get here. So from the time of reporting the incident,
Let’s calculate, it only takes about 25 minutes.”
"So?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Gu Chen put on white gloves, opened a delicate wooden cigar box next to him, took out a cigar that had never been lit before, placed it next to the burning cigar, and said, "So this cigar has been burning for an hour."
Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were both quite surprised, thinking how did Gu Chen know this?
"Gu Chen." Officer Wang asked first: "Why do you know so much about cigars? Have you ever smoked cigars?"
Gu Chen shook his head and explained: "My family runs a non-staple food supermarket. There is a counter that sells famous wines and cigarettes. They are all counters set up by the general distributor, including cigars. I and the salesmen from the general distributor,
I heard them talk about it while chatting.”
"So that's it." Lu Weiwei was a little uneasy and continued: "The time the murderer committed the crime should be within an hour. We have to quickly find out who has entered the deceased's house within this hour."
Officer Wang nodded slightly and asked the auxiliary police: "Where is the person who reported the crime just now?"
"It's at the house next door," the auxiliary police officer said.
"Take me over there and have a look." Officer Wang said.
Soon, Officer Wang knocked on the door of the next door.
A tall, middle-aged woman opened the door in a panic. Seeing a bunch of policemen standing outside the door, she also panicked and said: "Police... Comrade police, are you... okay?"
"Did you call the police?" Gu Chen, who was beside him, turned on the law enforcement recorder and asked.
"Yes...yes." The middle-aged woman nodded, a little nervous.
"We have something we want to tell you about." Gu Chen looked behind the middle-aged woman and asked, "Can we go in and talk?"
"Uh, this is of course possible, please... please come in." The woman's legs were trembling, and her whole body was extremely nervous.
In fact, Gu Chen, Officer Wang, and Lu Weiwei all saw this.
"Please take a seat." The middle-aged woman asked everyone to sit on the sofa, then turned around and went to the water dispenser, ready to pour some tea for everyone.
"You don't have to be so polite, we just want to know something about the situation, so you don't need to be too nervous." Gu Chen also saw that the woman's hands were shaking even when pouring water, so he couldn't help but comfort her.
"No...it's okay." The woman poured the water, put it on the coffee table, and then sat on the sofa cushions at a certain distance from everyone else.
"When did you find the deceased dead at home? Can you explain to us in detail?" Gu Chen asked.
"This." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment and murmured: "It was probably... around two o'clock. I happened to walk to the door of my house and found that the neighbor's door was open. The deceased Ah Wei and I were friends.
We usually visit each other, and I was curious, so I walked into his house to remind him that the door was open, but when I came to the living room, Ah... Ah Wei was already dead. I was scared, so I quickly called the police."
When she said this, the middle-aged woman seemed a little breathless, maybe she was too frightened, and her face turned pale.
Lu Weiwei quickly stepped forward and patted her on the back, comforting her and saying, "It's okay, our police are here."
After Gu Chen finished writing, he asked again: "Before you entered the deceased Ah Wei's house, did you find any suspicious strangers in the corridor or near the community?"
"No." The middle-aged woman shook her head and said: "All the old neighbors live here, and everyone knows each other. Before I entered the community, I really didn't notice any suspicious people entering."
Officer Wang lowered his head, remained silent for a while, and then said, "Has this Awei ever offended anyone? Has he had any conflicts with anyone at home recently?"
"Also, does the deceased Ah Wei have any relatives living here?" Gu Chen added.
The woman shook her head: "No, Awei has never had any conflicts with anyone at home, but I don't know if he has any conflicts outside. As for his relatives? He is a foreigner. Although he has bought a house here for many years, he is indeed
There’s not much family contact.”
After thinking about it, the woman added: "By the way, I heard Awei say that in the early years, he and his ex-wife divorced due to personality differences. He had a daughter and lived with his ex-wife."
"In other words, Ah Wei usually lives alone at home?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, he lives at home alone." The woman nodded in affirmation.
"Then what does he do?" Gu Chen asked again.
"He is a film director. He usually shoots some major online movies. I heard he has won awards. He can also edit himself. He understands the shooting and post-production of many movies," the woman said.
"You know him very well." Lu Weiwei said.
The woman was stunned and quickly clarified: "To tell you the truth, Awei and I have been neighbors for many years. Awei has very few relatives, and I am a chatty person, so we often visit each other's homes to chat.
Speaking of which, he told me all this."
The woman lowered her head, adjusted her silver-rimmed glasses, and asked: "Comrade police, this Awei is usually a nice person, how could he be suddenly killed? Is the murderer nearby? I'm afraid, I
Really scared."
"Don't worry, where is your family?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"My husband is on a business trip, and my daughter is in elementary school and hasn't finished school yet," the woman said.
Gu Chen suddenly remembered the short-haired man who argued with the deceased Ah Wei at the Japanese food store last night, and couldn't help but ask: "By the way, do you know that the deceased Ah Wei also has an apprentice, short hair, tall and thin, with a face
There are some new scars on it.”
Using his expert memory, Gu Chen accurately described the appearance of the man last night.
The woman suddenly said: "Yes, Ah Wei has an apprentice, exactly the same as you described."
"Then will he come to Ah Wei's house often?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, I often come here to eat. Sometimes at Awei's place, sometimes at my house. We call this man Azhe. I heard that Awei and Awei are both from the same hometown," the woman said.
Gu Chen recorded all this in the record, raised his head and asked: "In the past few days, have you noticed any fluctuations in the mood of this man named Azhe? Also, has he come frequently these days?
Going to Awei’s house?”
"This..." The woman was suddenly stopped by the question. After hesitating for a long time, she said: "I came here the day before yesterday. I don't know about yesterday and today. As for emotions... I really don't know. They are master and apprentice.
It seems that Ah Wei is very strict with him, but I don’t know much about the rest.”
"Shua...shua...shua!"
Gu Chen wrote very quickly. He would write wherever the woman said. Then he raised his head and asked the woman: "Please give me your name and ID number."
"Okay, my name is Zhao Mei, and my ID number is..."
After the process was completed, the woman named Zhao Mei signed her name on the transcript and put a red fingerprint on it.
"Ms. Zhao Mei, that man named Azhe, do you know where he lives?" Officer Wang asked.
Zhao Mei scratched her head and hesitated slightly: "He seems to live nearby. Last time he received an express delivery. This express delivery was for his master A Wei, but then A Wei gave it to him again.
I, the express package is still lost in the debris pile on the balcony, please wait, I will help you find it."
After saying that, Zhao Mei turned around and walked quickly to the balcony.
Not long after, she found an oilcloth bag in a carton, handed it to Gu Chen and said, "This has his home address on it."
"Thank you." Gu Chen showed it to Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei.
"Let's go over now and look for this person named Azhe." Officer Wang said.
Afterwards, the three people asked the auxiliary police to protect the scene and went to Azhe's residence.
In another community five kilometers away, Gu Chen knocked on the door of Azhe's house: "Is anyone home?"
"Who?"
It didn't take long for a man to respond.
Soon, when the door opened, Azhe was quite shocked when he saw three policemen arriving: "Police...comrade police, are you okay?"
"Are you Azhe? Wang Zhe?" Gu Chen asked.
The man standing in front of him was the man who begged Awei in the Japanese restaurant last night.
There were still two band-aids on his face, and there were some bruises on other parts of his face, making him look haggard.
"I am Wang Zhe, but what do you want to do?" Wang Zhe was a little confused, and his face didn't look very good.
"Your master Ah Wei died this afternoon, did you know?" Gu Chen asked.
Wang Zhe opened his mouth in surprise and stood there dumbfounded, asking with dull eyes: "How... how is this possible? I had dinner with my teacher at noon, why did he die?"
Hearing the bad news, Wang Zhe was completely frightened. He leaned against the door and looked at the ground blankly.
"You said you had dinner at Awei's house at noon?" When Officer Wang learned this clue, he couldn't help but feel that he had made a new discovery.
"No...that's right, I made an appointment with the master to meet at noon, and he asked me to go find him and have lunch together." Wang Zhe said.
"About how long have you been staying at Ah Wei's house?" Gu Chen asked.
"Well...I left probably after dinner because the matter was settled at the dinner table." Wang Zhe lowered his head and recalled what happened at noon.
"What was the content of your conversation? Can you tell me?" Gu Chen asked.
Wang Zhe hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "It was about the shooting of a short film. I asked the master for advice. We talked for a long time at the dinner table. After that, around 12:18, I was anxious to get back.
I was editing at home, so I said goodbye to the master and went home."
"Are you sure you left around 12:18?" Gu Chen turned the notebook to the other side and asked.
"Well..." Wang Zhe paused and said, "Anyway, it's probably about this time. I just looked at the watch casually. There might be some discrepancies, but it's basically around 12:18."
"Thank you for your cooperation. Please write down your name and ID number here."
"good."
After Wang Zhe finished writing, he also pressed the red fingerprint, raised his head and asked weakly: "Comrade police, can I ask?"
"Say." Gu Chen put away the notebook and looked up at Wang Zhe.
"My master, he... how did he die?" Wang Zhe became frustrated instantly and said: "After all, I still have many questions to ask the master, but we had a good chat during lunch, but why, why did he
Died suddenly?"
"He was stabbed in the heart with a knife and died on the spot," Gu Chen said.
Wang Zhe frowned and said angrily: "Who is it? Who is so cruel and wants to attack my master? This is simply lawless..."
After an angry scolding, Wang Zhe held Gu Chen's right hand tightly and said: "Comrade police, please...please you must catch the murderer and avenge my master. If there is anything you need my help with, Wang Zhe, I, Wang Zhe,
Zhe will definitely go all out to cooperate with your police in handling the case..."
This Wang Zhe, and the Wang Zhe he met in the Japanese food store last night, really have the same temperament, very impatient.
Last night he almost knelt down in front of Awei. Today, when he heard that Awei was dead, he felt extremely sad and angry.
Gu Chen suddenly asked: "Wang Zhe, how did you get the injury on your face?"
Wang Zhe was suddenly stunned. He waited for a few seconds before saying: "This, this was injured when he was quarreling with a bunch of bastards on the crew. As you know, sometimes there will be many problems during filming, and we can't discuss them."
When we get together, it’s understandable that we take action.”
"Understood." Gu Chen sighed and asked Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei beside him: "Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Lu, do you have anything else to ask?"
"No more for now." Lu Weiwei said.
Officer Wang also shook his head: "Not now, let's wait until there are other things that require Wang Zhe's cooperation."
"Comrade police, I will fully cooperate with your work." Wang Zhe said with grief and anger: "Please try to catch the murderer of my master as soon as possible and avenge my master."
"Don't worry, it's our police job to catch the murderer, so you don't have to worry about it." After a brief explanation, Officer Wang left Wang Zhe's house with Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei.
After getting into the police car, Lu Weiwei asked Gu Chen: "Junior brother Gu, do you think there is anything wrong with this Wang Zhe?"
"Of course there is a problem." Gu Chen said without hesitation: "I just observed that when I asked him where the injury on his face came from, his answer suddenly paused. He was obviously looking for an excuse. I was in Japan last night.
When I saw him in the food store, he had injuries on his face."
"Gu Chen is right." Officer Wang also agreed: "Wang Zhe, when he chatted with us about the situation just now, his tone never stopped. It can be seen that he is a very talkative person, but when Gu Chen asked
When the injury appeared on his face, he suddenly became a little sluggish. There is such a big difference between before and after, so there is obviously something wrong."
"Then how should we investigate now?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"Let's investigate the surveillance video first. If, as Wang Zhe said, he left the scene around 12:18, it means he was not the murderer." Officer Wang also judged based on the condition of the cigar.
However, Gu Chen retorted: "Brother Wang, I think it is more reasonable to let forensic doctor Liu verify the condition of the deceased."
Officer Wang looked at Lu Weiwei beside him.
Lu Weiwei also nodded.
"Okay, let's find Forensic Doctor Liu first, and then adjust the monitoring."
