It seemed that this sentence hit the mark. Zhuang Qiang's whole body trembled and he quickly fell into recollection.
It was surprisingly quiet inside the car, it seemed like you could even hear each other's heartbeats clearly.
Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Officer Wang did not disturb him, but waited quietly.
But a moment later, Zhuang Qiang's reply was still perfunctory: "I'm sorry, comrade policeman, I... indeed haven't told anyone."
"This kind of thing is my trump card to contain Zhang Da. How could I leak it to others?"
"That's strange." Listening to Zhuang Qiang's explanation, Gu Chen also felt guilty:
"If we go by the threatening letter, the other party obviously knows Zhang Da's secrets."
"And the only person who knows about this is you."
Seeing that Zhuang Qiang's face turned blue, he seemed to be hesitating.
So Gu Chen asked again: "In other words, is it possible? You accidentally let something slip and others heard it? Is it possible?"
"this……"
It seems that even Zhuang Qiang himself is not sure. At this moment, he also said worriedly: "Comrade police, to be honest, I don't know very well."
"You don't know very well either? Isn't it funny? How can you not be clear about this kind of thing? Could it be that you don't even remember what you said?"
Officer Wang felt that Zhuang Qiang was obviously perfunctory, so he was extremely dissatisfied with his answer.
But Zhuang Qiang looked miserable and said calmly: "Comrade police, I like to drink. Sometimes, after drinking, I will chat with my friends."
"As for whether you said these words while drunk? This... I can't guarantee it."
"Then who have you drank with?" Lu Weiwei also felt that this kind of thing was a bit nerve-wracking.
But after all, if you confide it after drinking, who will hear it? Or, in other words, will it be spread? This is quite fatal.
Zhuang Qiang scratched his head with both hands and tried to remember.
After a moment, Zhuang Qiang's eyes lit up and he suddenly looked in the direction of Gu Chen.
Gu Chen also turned to him and asked: "Remember?"
"Uh, yes... he is my apprentice."
"Your apprentice?" Everyone said in unison.
Zhuang Qiang nodded silently: "Yes, I have always blamed myself since I had a life on my hands."
"I have always deeply regretted the innocent victim I accidentally killed."
"So, after I was released from prison, I didn't really want to deal with people. I usually only visited customers to repair their cars and would chat with them casually."
"Who do I communicate with the most? It can only be my fellow prisoner and apprentice."
"So, when you were drinking, you told him about this?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"No...not sure, but it could be him." Zhuang Qiang didn't have the confidence to speak now, so he could only speak vaguely.
Gu Chen didn't force him, he just said calmly: "Think about it carefully."
"Okay." Taking a deep breath, Zhuang Qiang put his head in his hands and tried to remember.
After another moment, he looked at Gu Chen uncertainly.
"Do you have an answer?" Gu Chen asked him.
"Well, maybe you have told him about it?" Zhuang Qiang squinted his eyes and thought, and said truthfully:
"Because we usually live together, each in a room."
"We always eat together together. Sometimes when business is good, we have a few drinks in the evening."
"You have to know that since I made the mistake of drinking, I rarely drink alcohol anymore. I only drink when I am happy."
"My apprentice and I have drank together many times. Each time we were both very drunk. After we woke up, what did we say before? We may not remember clearly."
"So, you ask me, have I told anyone else about this matter? That's definitely not the case."
"However, if you say it while drunk and my disciple happens to hear it, then I can't guarantee it."
After listening to Zhuang Qiang's explanation, Gu Chen also felt a little worried.
After all, it is difficult to rely on something without basis as evidence.
But if one follows normal logic, only Zhuang Qiang's apprentice is suspected.
Gu Chen thought for a moment and then asked Zhuang Qiang: "Zhuang Qiang, you and your apprentice were former inmates. You two should know each other well, right?"
"Yes, you know the root and the bottom," Zhuang Qiang said.
"Then have you noticed that your apprentice behaves unusually?" Gu Chen asked again.
"This..." After thinking briefly for a few seconds, Zhuang Qiang shook his head: "That's not true. My apprentice also fought with a group of gangsters and was caught after committing a crime."
"However, he is still good. The main reason is that he is young and ignorant. After he was released from prison, he also changed his mind. He has no evil intentions."
"Are you sure?" Officer Wang was a little hesitant anyway.
But Zhuang Qiang was firm: "I'm sure there will be no problem with my apprentice."
"We have been together for a long time, and I didn't find him doing anything unusual."
"I usually stay in the car dealership and help repair vehicles, and rarely go out to interact with people."
"Anyway, if you doubt him, I object."
"We have to ask clearly before we can make a decision." Seeing Zhuang Qiang's resolute attitude, Gu Chen also believed that Zhuang Qiang's apprentice might really have no problem.
But various signs now indicate that the threatening letter Zhang Da received was obviously sent by someone who knew his background.
And that person, if Zhuang Qiang is excluded, only his apprentice will remain.
Therefore, Gu Chen did not want to let go of any clues.
Zhuang Qiang was asked to stay in the car, with Officer Wang watching over him, while Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei and got out of the car again and walked towards the inside of the dealership.
At this moment, the young man was packing things there, mainly returning the auto parts that Zhuang Qiang purchased from outside.
It can be said that due to his experience in a large car repair shop, Zhuang Qiang has taken care of his own car repair shop in an orderly manner.
Many shelves are clearly numbered.
Gu Chen knew that these numbers would eventually be entered into the computer.
Which item you need to look for can be found by just looking it up in the computer archive form.
Then find the required spare parts according to the number.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is what the young man is doing now, which is to return the parts.
Seeing that Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei were already behind him, the young man returned a box of parts and then turned around and asked, "Are they you? How was your chat with my master?"
"Not bad." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and then said: "I came here this time to talk to you."
"Looking for me?" The young man hesitated, but quickly agreed:
"Haha, you are looking for me because you want to know more about my master from me, right? Didn't I say it before? I've told you almost everything. I've told you everything you want to know."
"No." Seeing that the young man seemed to have misunderstood what Gu Chen meant, Lu Weiwei on the side quickly corrected her:
"I came to see you this time, specifically to talk to you. We are talking about you, not your master."
"Me?" It seemed that he also understood the intentions of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei. The young man was stunned and his expression was slightly stiff.
But soon, he laughed again and said, "What do you want from me?"
"Your master Zhuang Qiang had a fight with Zhang Da in the woods at the back of the mountain. Does anyone know the specific situation?" Gu Chen asked.
"Harm! I thought it was such a big deal?" After hearing that this was what Gu Chen said, the young man also sighed and then said:
"Didn't I tell you before? The grove they went into alone, no one else was allowed to go, and I don't know how the final duel between the two went?"
"Anyway, in the end it was my master who walked out of the woods at the back of the mountain, and it was Zhang Da who was defeated."
"That's it?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"That's it." The young man said with certainty.
Lu Weiwei shook her head: "Is there anything else you haven't explained?"
"What...what didn't you explain?" It felt like he didn't understand what Lu Weiwei meant, and the young man was also stunned.
Lu Weiwei did not follow him around the bush and said straightforwardly: "That is, has anyone seen the details of the duel between the two of them in the woods?"
Before the young man could answer, Lu Weiwei immediately added: "I mean, the kind that was seen secretly."
"Harm!" It felt a little baffling, and the young man also smiled slightly:
"Comrade policewoman, are you thinking too much? Didn't I tell you? No one went in."
"I was standing outside at that time, maintaining order and not letting anyone in. How can this be false?"
"Okay." Seeing the young man say affirmatively, Lu Weiwei turned and said:
"Then let me ask you, did your master tell you the details of the fight that day?"
"Ah?" He seemed a little confused, but soon, the young man came back to his senses, and then hurriedly explained:
"No, that day after my master avenged me, he walked out of the woods. I was so happy that I wanted to ask my master how the situation was."
"But my master didn't say anything, and he refused to say anything. He just told me that the matter had been resolved, so that I don't have to worry about it in the future, and no one will come to trouble us."
"Later, I went to check with the master many times, but he didn't tell me the details. He just told me that Zhang Da had already taught me a lesson and told me not to mention it again in the future."
After the words fell, the scene suddenly became extremely quiet.
Gu Chen's sharp eyes were fixed on the young man in front of him.
The young man also felt the sharp look from Gu Chen.
The two simply looked at each other, and the young man quickly looked away. He did not dare to look directly at Gu Chen, always feeling that Gu Chen's eyes were surprisingly scary.
Gu Chen also sighed, and then asked again: "Then when your master was drinking with you, did you mention this matter intentionally or unintentionally?"
"No, absolutely not." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, the young man denied it.
Gu Chen asked again: "Are you sure?"
"Of course, I'm sure that my master would never tell me this, even when he was drunk. This seems to be a secret between him and that Zhang Da."
"Sometimes I wonder why the relationship between master and Zhang Da is so subtle?
It feels like these two people have known each other before, but they are not very familiar. Anyway, I can’t put my finger on this feeling. I just feel that the relationship between the two is very subtle."
"Anyway, in this area, everyone recognizes that these two people are mortal enemies. Especially after Zhang Da lost the fight, he started to keep a low profile..."
The young man talked a lot at once, and Gu Chen also used many interrogation techniques to question the young man in a circumstantial manner.
But all I got was negative.
After staying at the car dealership for about 20 minutes, Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei back to the outside of the police car.
Officer Wang rolled down the car window and asked Gu Chen: "How?"
Gu Chen shook his head, glanced at Zhuang Qiang in the back seat of the car, and said, "You can come out now."
"Okay." Seeing that Gu Chen was about to let him out, Zhuang Qiang opened the car door very cooperatively and came to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen pointed to the inside of the car dealership and said, "Your apprentice is busy over there, you can go over and help."
"Uh." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zhuang Qiang was stunned on the spot and couldn't calm down for a while.
Seeing him standing motionless, Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"
"I...I have no problem, right?" Zhuang Qiang asked.
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded slightly.
"Then...I can leave, right? You won't trouble me anymore, right? I'll be fine, right?" Zhuang Qiang was not convinced at the moment, and still asked Gu Chen in an uncertain tone.
Gu Chen still nodded silently.
Zhuang Qiang finally breathed a sigh of relief and tried to calm down. He made a fist-clasping gesture to Gu Chen and others, and then walked quickly to the car dealership.
Officer Wang came to Gu Chen and looked at Zhuang Qiang's leaving figure. He also curiously asked Gu Chen: "What? Is his apprentice okay?"
Gu Chen shook his head: "At the moment, there doesn't seem to be any big problem. I always feel that the sender, or the person who sent the invitation letter to Zhou Xiaotong, may be someone else."
"Moreover, this person is definitely still in this area."
"What should we do?" Officer Wang was a little anxious after hearing this explanation.
Lu Weiwei shook her head helplessly: "There is no way. What Junior Brother Gu wants to do is to go to the back hill of Xinxin Hotel first and see what's going on there?"
"Now?" After hearing this result, Officer Wang looked down at the time, then turned to glance at the sky and said, "Gu Chen, go over now. It might be dark after only a few steps."
"What we want is this effect." Gu Chen also investigated this area for a long time. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, Gu Chen felt that it was necessary to go over and see the specific situation based on the route Zhou Xiaotong walked that day.
Lu Weiwei also patted Officer Wang on the shoulder and said, "Old Wang, please stop complaining. If Zhou Xiaotong entered the back mountain alone, he must be in the back mountain."
"Didn't you listen to what the people at the Xinxin Hotel said? There is nothing in the back hill of the Xinxin Hotel, just a lot of graves."
"If you have done nothing wrong, ghosts will not cause trouble for you."
"You are the one who did something wrong." Seeing Lu Weiwei teasing him, Officer Wang retorted on the spot: "Isn't it just to go to the back hill with many tombs at night? What is there to be afraid of?"
"Back then, I followed Director Zhao to investigate the case. In order to confirm the identity of the deceased, I even dug a grave and confirmed the identity of the deceased in the coffin. I was not afraid at that time. What should I be afraid of now? You really underestimate me.
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Officer Wang's characteristics have always been to be arrogant and tough-tongued. Even at all times, he needs to maintain enough elegance and face.
