"Where to move from?" Crazy Brother asked, looking at the ground.
Jiang Zi walked to a place and replied: "This is outside the driver's seat of the car. There is a small pool of blood. We speculate that the deceased's face was smashed here. Then, the deceased was dragged from here along the front of the car to the side of the car."
On the right side, there is blood dripping on the road."
I nodded secretly. When Mad Brother introduced the case just now, he mentioned that the deceased's feet were facing the direction of the town. This can also support the process Jiang Zi reconstructed just now.
"Where are the family members of the deceased?" Wen Xin asked.
"Lu Yushan had a wife. When Ou Lang called last night, he and his wife were already sleeping. He answered the phone and left the house, while his wife continued to sleep. It wasn't until this morning that she learned that Lu Yushan was dead."
"Lu Yushan didn't come back all night, and his wife didn't think it was strange?" Wen Xin frowned.
"There is a dormitory in the factory. Lu Yushan used to go to the factory in the middle of the night to deal with things. If it was too late, he would not go home and just spend the night in the dormitory, so his wife didn't take it to heart." Jiang Zi explained.
"It's so late at 11 o'clock. Is there anyone still working in the factory?" I asked.
"Let Ou Lang answer this question for you." Jiang Zi said, pulling the man next to me in front of me.
This man is in his forties, with dark skin and an unshaven beard, and his appearance matches the word "worker". I thought he was just watching the fun, but I didn't expect him to be a key witness in the case.
Oulang told us that the processing plant is small, with only six workers, and the daily work can be completed during the day. When customers are in a hurry, the boss will ask them to work overtime. There was a batch of camphor wood that needed to be cut last night, and it happened to be
It was Oulang and Bayuanhua's turn to work overtime. After cutting most of the camphor wood, the machine suddenly had a problem and made an abnormal noise. Oulang called Lu Yushan. After receiving the call, he went to the factory to troubleshoot the problem. Unexpectedly, he returned
He was killed on the way to town.
"Where's Bayuanhua?" Crazy Brother asked.
"It's me." Another man came out and said. He was in his thirties, with a gray face and a burly build. He looked like he did hard work.
"Is this what Ou Lang said?"
Bayuanhua kept nodding his head: "Yes, yes. After Boss Lu left, we continued cutting camphor wood. After we finished, we went back to the dormitory to sleep. We didn't hear any strange noises during this period."
Crazy brother nodded, looked at the remaining man and asked, "Who are you?"
When we came, there were three people and one policeman here. The policeman was Jiang Zi. Besides Oulang and Bayuanhua, there was one other person among the people. It was he whom the crazy brother asked.
"Hello, police officer, I am Pan Xingbang, the director of Hongyuan Timber Factory. Our boss asked me to assist you in investigating this case and doing logistical work." The man said respectfully, while taking out a pack of Nanjing brand cigarettes from his handbag.
, trying to spread it out to us.
Crazy brother waved his hand to reject his cigarette, looked at him coldly and asked: "Isn't your boss dead?"
"Our factory is a joint venture between two bosses, I'm talking about the other boss." Pan Xingbang explained with a smile.
He has a standard Chinese face with some spots on his face, but his skin color is much paler than that of Ou Lang. He wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses. The eyes under the lenses are relatively small, and they almost narrow into a slit when he smiles.
"Another boss?" Wen Xin asked thoughtfully.
"Yes, Lu Yushan is a technology investor. He didn't contribute much money, so he can only be regarded as the second boss. Chu Jianhua is our big boss, and he asked me to come here." Pan Xingbang always had a humble smile on his face.
"Technical investment? If the machinery in the factory breaks down, he will be responsible for repairing it?" Wen Xin asked.
Pan Xingbang answered Wen Xin in the affirmative and said that some old workers had stayed there for a long time and could do some simple repairs, but Oulang's group of workers had only been in the factory for a short time and did not dare to let them operate the machines.
I had some doubts before, as a boss, why did Lu Yushan go to the factory to repair the machine in the middle of the night? It turned out to be like this.
However, I heard another meaning: "According to you, the six workers now are all new ones?"
"Well, the longest one didn't last more than a year."
Wen Xin asked: "Why are all the old workers gone?"
"The economic situation has not been good in the past two years, and the business of the processing factory has been poor. A year ago, the boss cut the workers' wages. They were not happy and threatened the boss on the grounds that they would not work collectively. The boss did not relent, so they left one after another."
"So you're new here too?"
"No, no, no, I was there when the factory was built." Pan Xingbang took out a pack of Jiaozi from his trouser bag, dispersed it for Oulang and Bayuan, and then ordered one for himself.
I was thinking that if all the old workers could be made to resign, the wage reduction would probably be a bit large. This reminded me of a dispute I had mediated when I was in the M Country Patrol. After the labor contract expired, the boss was unwilling to hire someone again.
Employees, just lower the salary of that position and force them to resign voluntarily.
It seems that this situation is not uncommon in China.
Wen Xin waved away the smoke that Pan Xingbang exhaled when he spoke: "Your salary has not been reduced?"
"Hey, Boss Chu is my brother-in-law. For my sister's sake, he didn't surrender to me." Pan Xingbang saw Wen Xin's actions and threw away the cigarette he just lit with some embarrassment.
Lu Yushan and Chu Jianhua were both bosses, but Pan Xingbang's expressions were completely different when he mentioned them. It turned out that there was such a relationship. Presumably in his heart, Lu Yushan was just a "worker".
"Where are you, Mr. Chu? The second in command in the factory died and he didn't even show up?" Crazy Brother took over and asked.
"Isn't there a batch of camphor wood to be delivered today? That's why we asked the workers to work overtime last night. Boss Chu is receiving customers in the factory." After Pan Xingbang finished speaking, he added: "He came to the site to see it immediately.
Yes, this police officer knows."
Jiang Zi nodded and confirmed what he said, and said: "Brother Lin, this is not the place for questioning. Let's go to the town police station."
Crazy Brother agreed to his proposal and asked the three people from the processing plant to walk there with him, while Wen Xin and I drove behind them.
The speed of the car was very slow, and I observed the terrain on both sides while driving. Qingyang Town is more than 20 kilometers away from the urban area. Since it is a new town, it has not yet developed. The buildings are mainly private houses and are relatively concentrated.
Therefore, although the crime scene was only one kilometer away from the town, there were no buildings on both sides of the road. One side was a hillside and the other side were fields.
It was less than twelve o'clock when Lu Yushan left the factory last night. The factory was almost one kilometer away from the scene of the incident, and it only took a few minutes for the car to drive there. However, after Lu Yushan was killed, he was not discovered until after six o'clock the next morning.
This shows how deserted Qingyang Town is.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the murderer moved the body to the right side of the car. If the body was on the side of the cab, the driver would definitely see it once a vehicle passed by. But on a dark night, there was just a car parked on the side of the road.
Of course no one paid any attention to it.
It can be said that the murderer's move bought him enough time to leave the scene and hide.