Crazy brother understood what he was thinking and said directly: "Your brother is fine. I will go home with you later."
When Xu Hai heard this, he smiled happily. His mouth opened, revealing a row of teeth. This expression reminded me of a clown mask. Both were smiling and looked similar. However, the clown mask was used to hide
Inwardly, Xu Hai's smile comes from the heart.
In our eyes, Xu Hai is a fool, but we who are smart have forgotten the most innocent smile when we were children.
Are things in the world too complicated, or have we forgotten our true nature as we grow?
"What are you thinking about? Let's go." Jiang Zi patted me and said, we were the only ones left in the interrogation room.
I smiled and caught up with Crazy Brother and the others together.
Xu Hai took us outside Wang Yu's home. We had just been here in the morning to check with Aunt Chen about Wang Yu's situation last night.
Crazy brother pointed at the open space in front of the house with his flashlight and asked Xu Hai: "Kid, where did you pick it up?"
Xu Hai looked around, then walked to a place, stood still, faced us and said, "Here."
I looked at where Xu Hai was standing and thought deeply.
The location where Xu Hai stood was still some distance away from Wang Yu's door, and it was not in the center, so it was not a place that could be seen at a glance.
However, the location is not out of the way. Wang Yu's house is on the roadside, and people pass by it from time to time during the day. If the hammer is always there, it will not be difficult to find it.
This is what surprised me. After some recollection, I determined that the hammer was not here when we came here in the morning. I asked the old cat and he said he had no impression.
So, when did the hammer appear here, and is it owned by Wang Yu?
With this question, Crazy Brother knocked on the door of Wang Yu's house. According to Wen Xin, Wang Yu left after Xiaoying was discharged from the hospital. He had to go to work tomorrow, so he should go home.
Crazy brother knocked for two or three minutes, and Wang Yu's voice came from above us: "Who is it?"
We raised our heads, and Crazy Brother shined a flashlight at the second-floor window, and Wang Yu's face appeared. He hurriedly covered his eyes with his hands. Crazy Brother removed the flashlight and replied: "Xiao Wang, we are from the task force.
Please open the door."
We have interacted with Wang Yu several times, and we had a drink together at noon. He recognized Crazy Brother’s voice and replied: “Okay, Officer Lin, wait a moment.”
After a few minutes, I heard a sound coming from inside the first floor, and then the door opened.
Seeing so many of us, Wang Yu asked sleepily: "What's going on?"
Crazy brother stepped forward, took the hammer to Wang Yu and asked, "Do you recognize this hammer?"
Wang Yu wanted to take the hammer over and take a look, but Crazy Brother's hand retracted and he was not holding it. Wang Yu was stunned for a moment, then stared at the hammer and asked doubtfully: "How did you pick it up?"
"Is it yours?" Crazy Brother asked immediately.
Wang Yu shook his head and said, "No, it's just that when I came back from the city tonight, I saw it at the door of my house. I picked it up and looked at it. I didn't know where it came from, so I threw it aside."
"In other words, it was here before you came back. The hammer is not broken. Since you picked it up, why don't you take it home and use it?" the old cat asked doubtfully.
Wang Yu replied: "I don't have the habit of picking up things from outside. Besides, the hammer I have at home is bigger than this one. There is no need for me to pick up a smaller one."
"What do you usually use a hammer for?" Crazy Brother asked.
"Well..." Wang Yu thought for a while and then replied: "It has many uses, such as hammering nails and protruding door panels. Almost every household in the town has a hammer."
Wang Yu is right. As a tool, hammers can be seen everywhere in villages and towns. The reason why we are so nervous is because there happens to be something like blood stains on it.
"Then do you recognize whose hammer this is?" I asked.
Wang Yu took the flashlight, shined it on the hammer and took a closer look, then shook his head: "The style of this hammer is very ordinary, I can't recognize it."
"You said you just took this hammer, so it has your fingerprints on it?" Crazy Brother looked at Wang Yu and asked.
"It should be like this, you know this better than me." Wang Yu was a little confused.
"I know, you can go back to sleep, sorry for disturbing you." Crazy Brother said with a smile.
After finishing talking about the business, Wang Yu looked at Xu Tao aside and asked: "Taozi, why are you here too? Does this matter have anything to do with you?"
Xu Tao said nothing, just smiled and shook his head.
Crazy brother didn't intend to tell Wang Yu the truth and said goodbye to him. Wang Yu didn't want to ask any more questions, so he closed the door and went upstairs.
After the old cat told us that there was blood on the hammer, Crazy Brother put on plastic gloves and held the hammer. Now he took out a plastic bag from his body, put the hammer in, sealed it and gave it to Jiang Zi, asking him to
Immediately drive back to the branch to compare the blood stains on it with the blood stains collected from Lu Yushan the day before to verify whether the hammer is a murder weapon. At the same time, all fingerprints on it must be collected to see if there are any murderers.
I remembered that after the rat died, the hospital took his blood for an alcohol concentration test, so I asked Jiang Zi to drop by the hospital to get the results.
"What should they do?" After Jiang Zi left, I pulled Crazy Brother aside, pointed at Xu Tao's family, and asked quietly.
Crazy brother thought for a while and said: "Forget it, let them all go back. Xu Tao has nothing to guard. We have asked him everything he can ask."
"What if he is the murderer?" I hesitated.
Crazy Brother snorted: "Now I wish the murderer would show more tricks!"
I looked over there and thought that it was right to let go. Otherwise, we have to guard Xu Tao and prevent Xu Hai from causing trouble. Then we don't want to sleep tonight. There are still a lot of things waiting for tomorrow.
Hearing that Mad Brother really asked Xu Tao to go home, Old Mao was very surprised and wanted to stop him, but was blocked by Mad Brother: "Old Mao, I have something to say later."
"Thank you, uncle policeman." When the Xu family left, Xu Hai did not forget to say to Mad Brother with a smile.
After they had walked about ten meters, Mad Brother looked at Xu Hai's back and said, "Thank you for providing us with clues."
Back at the police station, the three of us entered the dormitory. Lao Mao, who had been holding back all the way, said: "Crazy brother, I'm really worried about you letting the tiger go back to the mountains!"
"Xu Tao is not the murderer." Mad Brother said calmly.
"Why?" Old Cat and I asked in unison.
Although I don't believe that Xu Tao is the biggest suspect like Lao Mao, I haven't ruled out his suspicion. I don't know why Crazy Brother is so sure.
Crazy brother looked at me: "Since you haven't seen this hammer during the day, and it doesn't belong to Wang Yu, someone put it there deliberately, and there happened to be blood stains on it. This is too strange, so
, I boldly guess that this hammer is one of the murder weapons!"