The landlady also had a dumbfounded expression, feeling that the conversation with Gu Chen was not in the same frame.
So he looked at the beer in Gu Chen's hand and said slowly: "Oh, this beer was sold here by a salesperson from a manufacturer."
"What do you mean?" Lu Weiwei asked confused.
"It means that the manufacturer first sells the beer in small stores. If the sales are good, the merchants will then stock the goods, which means the manufacturer distributes the goods." Before the landlady could speak, Gu Chen had already finished answering for her.
The landlady also nodded silently and agreed, "Yes, that's basically what it's like."
Looking at the shelves in her store, the proprietress continued to explain: "The products in my store generally include old brands and other miscellaneous brands, that is, niche brands, which are not very common."
"Usually, merchants come to sell their products and sell them in my store first. If the sales are good, then I will purchase them here."
The proprietress spread her hands and continued: "I don't spend any money anyway. The main reason is that my store has a lot of traffic."
Pointing to the surroundings, the landlady said again: "Look, how many restaurants and catering businesses are around here?"
"There are not many canteens, and each store has its own drinks."
"But I have more categories here, many people prefer to come to me to buy things, and this is also an old store."
“Many merchants see the good traffic here and want to come to me to sell goods on consignment.”
"How many distribution points does this brand have in Jiangnan City?" Officer Wang asked immediately.
"How many distribution points?" The proprietress was stunned and thought hard.
Not long after, the boss lady hurriedly replied: "Oh, it doesn't seem like there are many. This brand seems to have just entered the Jiangnan market and there are only a few salesmen."
"They should have rented a house, and the goods are all stored in the house."
"When sales here increase, they will rent offices again."
"Do people who have drank this kind of beer have any adverse reactions?" Yuan Shasha then asked. This is also the question that everyone is most concerned about now.
But the proprietress waved her hand: "It doesn't exist, it's a small brand, but the taste is quite good and relatively pure."
"In my opinion, it tastes better than that old brand. I've tasted it myself and I definitely know it."
After hearing what the landlady said, Gao Hu also continued to ask: "In other words, people who have drank this kind of beer have no problems and are in good health, right?"
"That's right." It felt like there was something a little different when these policemen came this time, and the questions they asked were also very tricky.
So the landlady started to get serious and seemed to realize something was wrong.
So he quickly asked Gu Chen: "Officer Gu, what is going on? Why did you come to the store to check the beer problem this time? Isn't this something that the industrial and commercial quality inspection should handle?"
"Because several people were collectively poisoned after drinking this beer, and they bought it from your store, so we came over to find out the situation." Gu Chen didn't hide it, and directly informed the proprietress of the situation.
But at this moment, the landlady was panicking and quickly asked Gu Chen: "Gu... Officer Gu, are you telling the truth? There is something wrong with this beer?"
"It's not that there's something wrong with the beer you have here. Someone might have poisoned it. Otherwise, why would you be fine if you drank it? But what would happen to others if they drank it?"
Seeing that the landlady was still a little panicked at this moment, Gu Chen quickly comforted him: "You don't have to worry too much, we just want to come over and understand the situation."
After he finished speaking, Gu Chen showed the photos of A Zhong and others in front of the landlady and said:
"These people came to your store to buy beer a few nights ago. Do you still remember them?"
"How many people are here?" Looking at the photos of corpses in the photos, the landlady's face was heavy and she quickly thought about it.
Not long after, she snapped her fingers and said, "Yes, I remember, that night, they seemed to have packed a lot of barbecue in the barbecue restaurant next door."
"Then he ran to my store and bought some beer and cigarettes. Yes, they must be right."
"It's them." Seeing that the situation reported by the landlady was basically consistent with his own investigation, Gu Chen quickly asked again:
"Do you still have the surveillance here from that time?"
"Yes... yes." Seeing that Gu Chen wanted to monitor, the landlady immediately began to cooperate.
So Gu Chen and others gathered around the computer to check.
Since the store area is not large, there is only one monitoring point, which is behind the cashier.
The scope that can be monitored is the direction of the checkout counter and the entire store shelf area.
"That's it...they are them." The landlady found the surveillance screen and immediately reminded Gu Chen.
Everyone found in the picture that a few men just entered the small shop, browsed for a while, and selected some beers.
The whole process was quick, and I didn't stay in the store too long. I left immediately after buying something.
"Is this the scene?" Seeing that Gu Chen and others were watching carefully, the landlady also asked weakly.
"It's them." Gu Chen said.
"Then...what's the problem?" the landlady continued to ask.
"Not yet." Gu Chen said again.
From the monitoring, it was indeed not found that there was something wrong with the beer.
Moreover, several people left after buying things, which shows that the beer was poisoned later.
But these people returned directly to their residence afterwards. If anyone was poisoned, it was one of them.
But the strange thing is that among these people, all of them were poisoned and died.
Then we can rule out that the poisoner is one of these people.
"Could it be that there was another person in that rental house at that time? And that person left in a hurry after being poisoned?" While Gu Chen was thinking, he was also called out by the landlady.
"Gu... Officer Gu, do I have anything to do with it?"
It seemed that she was afraid of being implicated, so the lady boss didn't speak as slowly as before, but she seemed very nervous.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Oh." Seeing this, Gu Chen quickly comforted: "Don't worry, we are just doing routine inspections. If you drank this
If beer is fine, then the products you sell here are fine."
"Oh." With Gu Chen's protective remarks, the proprietress breathed a sigh of relief. She felt like she was scared to death just now.
At this moment, Gu Chen didn't want to waste too much time here. After briefly communicating with the landlady, he left in a hurry and returned to Luyuan Community.
At this moment, other police officers began to come here to deal with the aftermath, while Gu Chen's team followed the forensic doctor Gao Chuanfeng's team back to the technical department of the city bureau to wait for the final autopsy results.
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In the lounge next to the testing room, Gu Chen and others were calmly drinking tea, but Gao Hu and He Qian, the Xiangnan City police officers, were anxious.
Keep walking back and forth in the lounge.
It can be said that the investigation into the cause of Xu Tianxia's death seems to be becoming more and more confusing.
At the very least, everyone involved with Xu Tianxia seems to have had strange experiences.
First, Xu Tianxia's daughter, Xu Yaxuan, left without saying goodbye and was never heard from again. Then, Xu Tianxia's former close friend A Zhong and several people around A Zhong were collectively poisoned and died.
It feels like there is a mysterious network behind this, which has been controlling the development of the situation.
On the other hand, I still seem to have no clue.
Seeing Gu Chen drinking tea quietly, Gao Hu hurriedly walked to him and asked helplessly:
"Gu Bureau, how long will the autopsy take over there? When will the results be available?"
"It should be soon." Gu Chen looked down at his watch and continued:
"If it's fast, it might take about 10 minutes. If it's slow, it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes."
After all, Gu Chen comes here often and is well aware of the work efficiency of Gao Chuanfeng's team.
But Gao Hu and He Qian were a little incredible.
Xin said that he was just asking casually, how come you, Gu Chen, can estimate the time in such detail?
With a faint sigh, Gao Hu and He Qian were also anxious and continued to walk back and forth in front of Gu Chen and others to relieve their anxiety.
Sure enough, 12 minutes later, there was a sound of the door opening in the testing room next door.
Gao Hu and He Qian heard the noise and quickly opened the door to the lounge.
At this moment, forensic doctor Gao Chuanfeng came to the lounge with the documents in his hand.
"Gu Chen, the autopsy report is out. As usual, I will give you a simplified version first, and I will give you the detailed version later."
"Understood." When he heard it was a simplified version, Gu Chen knew that the autopsy report should contain some simple words. However, since Gu Chen and Gao Chuanfeng had been partners for many years, Gu Chen could understand it, but others might not necessarily understand it.
For example, Gao Hu and He Qian looked at the autopsy report form. Although it was filled out in relatively detail, there were only a few words in the report column.
At this time, Gao Chuanfeng also sat on a sofa, got a glass of water from the water dispenser next door, drank it all, and said:
"These people all died from the poison."
"And according to our on-site beer testing, we found that someone deliberately punctured the can with a needle and injected highly toxic substances into the beer."
"Then, some methods were used to fill up the pinhole position of the can, and some trademark drawings were affixed."
"Have the fingerprints been detected?" Gu Chen glanced at the test report briefly before handing it to Gao Hu and He Qian beside him.
"There are only these few people at the moment. No one else has been found yet. It is estimated that the murderer injected a highly toxic substance first and then wiped off the fingerprints on the outside."
"In the end, these people drank beer containing highly toxic substances without knowing it, and eventually died of poisoning."
"Then there should be a sixth person in this room at that time." When he heard this explanation, Gu Chen's doubts began to slowly unravel, and he analyzed it to everyone:
"First of all, Azhong came from Xiangnan City and brought a total of four followers, including him, the number is five."
"Five people went out to buy late-night snacks, and all five of them were poisoned to death in the rental house."
"This shows that the person who poisoned the house may not have been one of these five people, but someone else."
"In addition, these people went to the barbecue shop to buy barbecue, and then went to the store next door to buy beer. They just finished buying and left. They didn't stop too much and went directly to their homes."
"But these people happened to be poisoned and died at home. This shows that this group of people was drinking with another person at that time."
"But this person may have used some means. He may have secretly inserted a needle containing highly toxic substances into the beer in the can while a few people were not paying attention."
"Then he drank and ate barbecue with these people. Maybe he drank too, but his can was definitely not poisonous."
Having said this, Gu Chen also looked at Gao Chuanfeng and asked:
"Among these cans, are there any that do not contain highly toxic substances?"
"Uh... no." Gao Chuanfeng hesitated for a moment, but soon shook his head in denial.
"Then how many did you find in total at the scene? Gu Chen asked again."
"There are five cans of beer in total." Gao Chuanfeng said.
"That's right." After hearing this, Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Gao Chuanfeng was a little puzzled and asked Gu Chen: "What...what's wrong?"
"This group of people bought a total of six cans of beer, but we only found no cans at the scene, which means that one of the cans was taken away by the murderer."
"We were just afraid that we would discover him and find the traces he left. In order to avoid trouble, we took him away directly."
"Oh my god, so these people were drinking with the murderer at home?" Yuan Shasha felt incredible when she heard this.
Officer Wang also took a deep breath and said involuntarily: "I really didn't expect that this murderer could be so vicious."
"After all, these are five human lives. It's really necessary to kill them."
"Maybe the murderer just wanted to kill people and silence them. Maybe there are some ulterior secrets hidden in these five people." Gu Chen also directly stated his analysis of the situation.
Lu Weiwei on the side also immediately agreed: "Yes, it is not difficult to see from the fact that these people left Xiangnan City and came to Jiangnan City to rent a house."
"Perhaps these people are avoiding something? Xu Tianxia also fell from a tall building inexplicably before, and his behavior was extremely abnormal."
"The biggest connection between these two groups is that they knew each other before they were alive, and they had a pretty good relationship."
"Good friends died together, which means there must be some ulterior secret hidden behind them."
"Then, the murderer wanted to get rid of these serious problems once and for all, so he used the despicable method of poisoning."
"One more thing." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen also added:
"One more thing to add is that this murderer may be acquaintances with Azhong and others."
"And he's the kind of person who's so familiar that he can just buy some barbecue and drink some wine."
"If the relationship was not strong, then Azhong and the others would have taken this person to a restaurant to eat, but they did not do so."
"And at the barbecue restaurant, I packed some random things, then went to a small store to buy some beer, and then went back home to have a dinner."
With a faint sigh, Gu Chen continued: "Obviously, the murderer is an old acquaintance with them."
