"Hey, it's because I have a greedy mouth and like to steal my mouth." The man was a little embarrassed.
"Come up and say it." Crazy Brother opened the back door and let the mouse sit next to him in the car.
As soon as the mouse arrived, he told us a piece of bombshell news: "That's it, I remembered something. I finished overtime a few days ago and was walking back to town when I saw a figure near the place where Boss Lu was killed."
"Tell me in detail!" Crazy Brother's eyes lit up after hearing this.
“The factory didn’t hire security guards, so they arranged a shift for six of us workers, one for each person. If there was any unfinished work during the day, these two people would work overtime and continue to work. If there was no work to do, they would have to live in the factory to guard the wood. That day It was my daughter-in-law's birthday, so I thought I'd better go back to spend time with her, so I asked Boss Chu for leave at noon and wanted to go home at night. But Boss Chu said that I would have to hand over the lumber for approval early the next morning and asked me to finish my work after get off work.
"It was almost ten o'clock when I finished my work in the evening. I gave an explanation to another worker and left. After walking halfway and turning a corner, I saw a figure in front of me. He didn't have a flashlight. I wanted to go to the town so late.
Most of the people leaving are people from the town, so I’m going to follow him and go with him..."
The mouse stopped talking here, and several of us asked in unison: "What happened next?"
"Do you have any cigarettes?" Mouse looked at Crazy Brother and asked, showing his smoky yellow teeth.
I was speechless. He really deserves the nickname "Mouse".
Crazy brother is a cheerful person, so he threw the remaining half of the box of cigarettes to him and asked him to speak quickly. The mouse was very happy. After lighting a cigarette, he said: "That man is also strange. I just left a few days ago."
He started running, I shouted, and he ran faster. I thought you didn’t have a flashlight, so I walked with you out of kindness to light the way for you. If you don’t want to, forget it, so I didn’t.
Chased."
"The place where you saw him was the place where Lu Yushan was killed?" Madge asked.
"It's almost the same. I can't see clearly at night, but the difference is only about ten or twenty meters." The man blew out a puff of smoke. I felt a little stuffy and opened the car window.
"Generally speaking, people walking at night will look back when they see a beam of light coming from behind. Has that person turned back?" Crazy Brother asked again.
The mouse shook his head and said, "No, I only saw his back and shone it with a flashlight. He was a man with a strong body and ran very fast."
Crazy brother asked: "Has anyone else in the factory encountered similar things?"
Mouse: "I didn't hear what they said, I guess not. Who ran out at night? If it hadn't been my wife's birthday, I wouldn't have bumped into her."
"What specific day are you talking about?"
The mouse replied: "Let's do it the night before yesterday. We have a three-day cycle. It happens to be my turn to stay at the factory tonight."
"You have something to do at home that day, wouldn't it be enough to switch with the other four workers who are not on duty?" Wen Xin asked.
Mouse hurriedly waved his hands and said, "That's not possible. Boss Chu strictly prohibits changing shifts, saying that would disrupt the rules."
This surprised me a little. Chu Jianhua looked kind-hearted, but I didn't expect that his management was quite strict.
I remembered what happened to Wang Yu, so I asked about it. The mouse told us that Wang Yu’s parents used to work on construction sites in the city. Three years ago, a place they were working on collapsed and both of them were killed.
After Wang Yu came back, he received a compensation from his boss. After taking care of his parents' funeral, he went to work in the factory.
What happened to his parents was a big blow to Wang Yu. From that time on, he shaved his head and started to eat vegetarian food, so his body nutrition could not keep up and he lost a lot of weight.
"Does he drink?" Crazy Brother asked.
"I usually have to drive and rarely drink, but he has a good drinking capacity. When he and Boss Chu go to have dinner with clients, Boss Chu likes to have him drink with him."
After the mouse left, we calculated that the figure that night was probably the murderer. He appeared there to check the spot.
Strong and fast, judging from this description, the murderer should be a young man.
We visited and learned that there was almost no one on that road after nine o'clock at night. The last two times, one was when Mouse came home unexpectedly for his wife's birthday, and the other was when Lu Yushan came out to repair the machine.
Since the murderer was visiting the spot, he had already planned it. He was from the town, so of course he knew that this place was inaccessible at night, but he still chose this place as the starting point for the robbery because he expected that a target would appear.
"So, the murderer's target is Lu Yushan, and he also calculated that the machine will break down in the next few days!" I speculated.
They all nodded in agreement, and Wen Xin added: "Then the scope of the murderer is clear. In addition to Lu Yushan, there are nine people left in the factory. Adding the two brothers Xu Tao, the murderer must be among these eleven people.
"
It stands to reason that the old workers in the factory are also suspects, but we have confirmed at the police station in the morning that the only old workers left in the town are Xu Hai and Xu Tao.
"Oulang and Bayuanhua can also be ruled out. If one of them is the murderer, the other will definitely testify. Robbery and murder are not small crimes, and no normal person would dare to cover them up. Wen Xin and I questioned them separately in the morning.
The confessions corroborate each other and rule out the possibility of accomplices." I added.
"Well, Lu Yushan drove away in a car. If they wanted to commit a crime, they could only find an excuse to ride in his car and leave the factory together. In this process, it is basically impossible for the two of them not to leave any traces in the car."
Jiang Zi said.
Crazy brother concluded: "The murderer committed the crime cleanly, leaving no traces at the scene, and finally put a clown mask on the face of the deceased. This is not something Xu Hai with low intelligence can do. If he is excluded, there are eight people left.
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Jiang Zi asked: "Where are Mouse and Wang Yu?"
Wen Xin said: "Just now in the factory shed, I deliberately tested Mouse. He is fully capable of manipulating the machine tools and controlling the date of the crime. Now that he has jumped out to provide clues, it cannot be ruled out that he deliberately eliminates his own suspicion. Moreover, he
The two characteristics mentioned are extremely common, and most of these eight people meet the conditions, including himself."
I continued: "Yes, if what he told is a lie, then he and Wang Yu are still suspected; if what he said is true, then he and Wang Yu can be ruled out. Although it is late, but the bald man
The characteristics are still easy to see, and he deliberately used a flashlight to shine on the other person. The mouse did not mention this, which means that the murderer is not bald."
Crazy Brother concluded: "Now it seems that Xu Tao is the most suspected, Chu Jianhua is barely the second, and the other six people have to wait until the two things I just mentioned come out before we can make further conclusions."
Afterwards, we returned to the Qingshan Town Police Station, and the director gave us three rooms, an office and two dormitories, one for Wenxin and one for the rest of us.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, we met the fifth member of the task force at the police station - Mao Hua from the branch's criminal police team. When Jiang Zi introduced him, he said his nickname was "Old Cat".