The director was relieved and called Boss Li over.
When ordering dishes, the director introduced us: "Don't look at Li Huiguo, he is just the owner of a small restaurant now. He has been in the special forces before and has achieved third-class merit. Every year on Army Day, the district chief
The Ministry of Armed Forces will come to express condolences to him."
I looked at Li Huiguo. His hair and beard were messy, his face was shiny, his clothes were dirty, and his back was slightly hunched. He had a very ordinary image and could not be associated with the word "special forces".
"Really, when did Boss Li retire from the army?" Crazy Brother wanted to take the cigarette case, but found it empty. Then he remembered that all his cigarettes were given to rats. The old cat's eyes were quick and he took out his cigarette.
I handed one to Li Huiguo and passed it to the rest of us.
"It's almost ten years ago. I'm getting old, and my health is no longer what it used to be." Li Huiguo said as he took the cigarette, took out a lighter from the bag hanging on his waist and lit it.
"Boss Li, you are so humble. You are in great shape." Jiang Zi said.
Li Huiguo laughed twice, and then said: "Forget about these things, I'll go and prepare meals for you."
Just when Li was about to turn around, Wen Xin suddenly asked: "Boss Li, there is something strange that I find..."
As soon as Wen Xin's words came out, not only Li Huiguo, but the rest of us also cast curious eyes on her.
"What's the matter?" Li Huiguo asked with a smile.
"At noon, we asked you if Xu Hai likes hammers. How dare you let him hold a hammer? It will knock people to death. But according to what we learned, Xu Hai did use a hammer made of wood to knock him unconscious.
He killed someone. Qingshan Town is such a small town. It should be widely known that something like this happened. How could you not know about it?" Wen Xin stared at Li Huiguo with an unreadable expression.
When Wen Xin said this, I thought about it and realized that it was really the case! Although we are both detectives, Wen Xin, as a woman, is still more careful than us.
After Wen Xin finished speaking, the private room was completely silent for a few seconds, and the atmosphere was a bit strange.
"Really? I really don't know, when did it happen?" Li Huiguo broke the silence with a smile on his face.
"After Xu Tao was arrested." Wen Xin said in a deep voice.
"I remembered!" The director patted his thigh.
We all looked at the director, and he said to Li Huiguo: "During that time, the door of your store was closed several times when I came over for dinner. When you came back, I found out that your father-in-law was ill and hospitalized. You and your
My wife has gone to the city to look after him."
"Oh, we closed the store for three days. After we came back, we were busy with business all day long and didn't care about these things in the town." Li Huiguo said.
"So that's it." Wen Xin suddenly said, and Li Huiguo responded with a smile.
I was also relieved. I was thinking just now that there was no reason for him to deliberately conceal this matter.
However, just after Li returned to the pot and left, the director told us another thing.
Li Huiguo once fought with Xu Tao.
What happened was that Li Huiguo's son was riding Xu Hai like a horse. When Xu Tao saw him, he grabbed him and threw him aside. Li Huiguo's son fell to the ground and broke his head.
Li Huiguo's family has only been passed down for several generations, but he never saw his son being bullied like this. When he heard the news, he rushed over with a broom and had a big fight with Xu Tao, both of whom were bloody.
After mediation at the police station, the two parties promised not to fight each other over this incident in the future. After that, Li went back to the pot and forbade his son from playing with Xu Hai, and the two families were fine.
After hearing this story, I said: "Boss Li is considered to have a close relationship with Xu Tao. When we asked him, he did not deliberately exaggerate Xu Tao's ferocity. The quality of the special forces is really high."
"Perhaps, he is just afraid of causing trouble for himself." Crazy Brother said with a smile.
The food ordered was served quickly, and the director took out two bottles of wine from the trunk of their car. When Crazy Brother saw this situation, he repeatedly waved his hands and said that he couldn't drink, and that he would discuss the situation later when he went back.
"You are also the leaders of the municipal bureau. When you arrive in Qingshan Town, you still need to pick up the wind. Besides, for the six of us, two bottles of wine are nothing. It will not affect your ability to solve the case." The director was very enthusiastic, and the policeman he led also advised him.
Crazy brother didn't want to refute the director's face, so he finally agreed, but he halved the quantity and asked the director to open only one bottle, saying that he would drink to his heart's content after the case was solved. The director accepted it as he liked, and
Wen Xin didn't drink it, so the five of us shared the bottle of wine equally.
The restaurant is not a place to discuss cases, so we chatted casually. The director gave us a brief introduction to the history of Qingshan Town, as well as some famous figures, including the Xu brothers, Li Huiguo, and the two bosses of the lumber factory.
When Chu Jianhua was mentioned, the director was very interested and asked us to guess his education level.
"University?" Crazy Brother spoke first.
The director smiled and said nothing, Wen Xin guessed it was high school.
The director still didn't answer, so he asked me to take a guess. I thought about Chu Jianhua's appearance, combined with the director's expression, and guessed it was a junior high school.
The director looked at Wen Xin: "Madam can have two chances."
Wen Xin: "Could he have returned from studying abroad? Then he is really the same as the murderer in our last case."
"Haha, it's all wrong." After we all finished guessing, Old Mao laughed. He came from Qingshan Town, so he naturally knew the details of Chu Jianhua.
There are only a few educational levels. Apart from what we mentioned, basically only "elementary school" is left. I said these two words in confusion, and the director nodded heavily.
Although I was prepared, this answer was unexpected. In fact, I have met a lot of bosses with primary school diplomas, and there are many who are richer than Chu Jianhua, but I can roughly tell those people at a glance, because
Temperament actually takes a long time to develop. It's really rare for people like Chu Jianhua to deceive several of our criminal police officers.
The director did not give in, and went on to say: "After Chu Jianhua finished primary school, he went to work on a construction site, moving bricks, painting, and cementing. He stayed there for more than ten years, working from morning to night, all day long.
He was very tired, but he still made some money and accumulated the initial capital for him to open a processing factory.
"The conditions at the construction site were poor. It was inconvenient to take a bath and wash clothes. He always smelled and his clothes were dirty. As soon as he left the construction site, he would be looked at differently. He received a lot of looks for this. Since then.
From that time on, he had the idea of becoming a master, but it was not possible to go back to school. He didn't have the brains. This was not because I was dismissing him, but because he said it himself.
"Later he went to a wood processing factory, and when he had more free time, he took the time to go to the city, sit on the street and watch the people passing by, and see how successful people dressed and behaved.
"After watching this for a year, he tried to buy a few sets of decent clothes, cut his hair, and shaved his beard. When he was not working, he would wear good clothes and go to the city, specifically to the busiest streets.
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