Chapter 107 Clues

◎But what about his wife and daughter?◎

This was not the first or second time that I was yelled at to shut up by the suspect in the interrogation room.

Zhao Xiangwan was already used to it.

Provoking suspects and stirring up their emotions is Zhao Xiangwan's forte, and most people really can't learn it.

Zhu Feipeng and Gao Guangqiang had been questioning for such a long time, but Min Chenghang had never been in a hurry. He was even in the mood to deliberately arouse Zhu Feipeng's vigilance and discover the so-called truth bit by bit according to his thoughts.

However, Zhao Xiangwan only chatted with Min Chenghang for a few minutes, and Min Chenghang was so excited that he committed suicide.

Zhao Xiangwan asked Min Chenghang where his wife and daughter were and whether they were safe. Zhu Feipeng and Gao Guangqiang looked at each other and a terrifying thought flashed through their minds: Could it be that Xiangwan suspected that his wife and daughter had met with an accident? Or was this man so cruel that he killed his wife and daughter?

If this is true, then Min Chenghang's behavior of stabbing people while drunk becomes traceable.

[Min Chenghang hacked his wife and children to death? ]

[Because his wife and daughter died, he became violent and took extreme actions to retaliate against society? ]

[No wonder he has been unwilling to reveal the whereabouts of his wife and daughter. It turns out that they have met with an accident! ]

Zhao Xiangwan felt helpless after hearing his colleagues' reactions. Min Chenghang hacked his wife and daughter to death? Not to the point, not to the point...

After hearing what Zhao Xiangwan said, Min Chenghang slumped in his chair like a punctured balloon, not moving for a long time. The two police officers who had held him down in the chair to prevent him from committing suicide also let go and stood aside, but still stared at him vigilantly.

Zhao Xiangwan repeated the question, his voice still cold: "Where is Min Jiahuai? Where is Min Shuangshuang? Where are they?"

Min Chenghang felt like a sharp knife was stabbed into his chest, and the pain made it hard for him to breathe. He raised his handcuffed hands, pressed them tightly against his left chest, and tried to calm himself down.

He struggled to squeeze out a few words: "They, they went back to their hometown."

Zhao Xiangwan pressed on: "Hometown? Which hometown? You two are orphans and don't even know your last names. Where is your hometown?"

Min Chenghang once again tightly closed his lips and refused to say a word.

【I don't know where they are.】

[After get off work that day, Manager Liu called me to the office to talk. When I got home, I didn't know where they had gone. There was only a letter on the coffee table asking me not to call the police.]

[Someone will come to collect the money in two days and hand me a note or photo. ]

[Before I took action, I received a call from Jia Huai. Seeing that they were all alive, what could I do? ]

A sharp light flashed in Zhao Xiangwan's eyes: "Two roads are placed in front of you, choose to trust the police, or choose them?"

They, what they?

Zhu Feipeng was confused, Gao Guangqiang seemed to be thinking about something, and Zhu Kang just buried his head and wrote furiously.

The interrogation room suddenly became quiet.

Min Chenghang raised his head suddenly and looked at Zhao Xiangwan steadily.

[No, I can't say that.]

[They are my lives. I can't take any risks.]

[If they alert the police and fail in their mission, they will die.]

Thinking of this, Min Chenghang took a deep breath and took the initiative to speak, breaking the silence in the interrogation room: "Comrade police, I told you, my daughter took our daughter back to her hometown. A week after Shuangshuang started school, a woman came to my house and said she was Jiahuai's family. My mother at home had been missing her and was now in poor health and bedridden. She kept talking about finding her. I couldn't accompany them because I had something to do at work, so I let them go with me. Jiahuai was eager to meet his relatives, so he immediately packed his luggage and took Shuangshuang with him."

Zhu Feipeng asked: "How can you be sure that the other party is from your mother's family?"

Min Chenghang: "The time of abandonment, the swaddling pattern all match, and the appearance is also very similar, so it must be real."

Zhu Feipeng asked, "Where is your mother's home address?"

Min Chenghang: "Which village in Luo County? The exact address... My memory is not good now, so I can't remember it. But police comrades, don't worry, she and Shuangshuang are safe. I talked to her on the phone, so you don't have to worry."

Zhu Feipeng asked again: "When did you talk on the phone? Where did you answer the call?"

Min Chenghang replied: "It was around noon on the 14th. I called Manager Liu's office. Our savings bank is not very big, so we only have two telephones, the director's and manager's offices. Manager Liu is a nice guy, so if we have anything to do, we usually call Manager Liu's office during the lunch break."

Zhu Feipeng asked: "What did you say on the phone?"

Min Chenghang: "Nothing much, I just found my family, we get along very well, and I plan to stay there for a while longer."

Zhu Feipeng asked, "Aren't you worried about your wife and daughter leaving with strangers?"

Min Chenghang answered fluently: "We are ordinary people with no power and no money. Who would come to visit us if not real relatives? Jiahuai and I had imagined countless times when we were in the orphanage, what we would do if relatives came to visit us, and what we would ask our parents when we met them. I thought she would have a lot to say to her relatives, so I didn't ask any more questions. If Jiahuai wants to stay there for a few more days, then let her stay."

Zhu Feipeng was really pissed off by him.

He just kept saying that he loved his wife and daughter, but now he has been gone for half a month and is not worried at all.

There must be something fishy going on here!

Zhao Xiangwan stood up, his face grim: "It seems that you chose them instead of us, very good."

Seeing Zhao Xiangwan stand up, Zhu Feipeng was a little anxious: "Xiangwan, the case two years ago...I haven't asked you yet."

Zhao Xiangwan shook his head gently: "No need to ask, he even lied about the whereabouts of his family, it is even more impossible for him to tell the truth about these things, let's go."

Min Chenghang never expected that Zhao Xiangwan would actually stand up and leave. He straightened his back and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but closed it again.

【Natural, must be natural. 】

[If I rush to admit it, it won't seem real.]

Zhao Xiangwan glanced at him coldly and snorted, "Stupid!"

Having said that, he was the first to leave the interrogation room.

When Zhu Kang and his team finished signing the subsequent transcript and returned to the office, Zhu Feipeng was the first to say, "Xiang Wan, why are you leaving so quickly? You said he was lying. That's right, it's because he was lying that we have to force him to tell the truth."

Zhao Xiangwan sat behind his desk, preparing to pick up the enamel teacup on the table with his left hand, and frowned slightly. The tendon of his left hand was damaged after the injury, and he couldn't use any strength.

She changed her right hand, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then looked up and asked him, "Yes, he is lying. Before we have direct evidence, what can we get out of him? His wife and daughter are his weak points, but he is lying about their whereabouts. What can we do?"

Zhu Feipeng sighed, sat back in his chair, and cursed, "Idiot! Don't trust us police officers."

He suddenly remembered what Zhao Xiangwan had said in the interrogation room just now: "Choose the police or them?" He looked into Zhao Xiangwan's eyes and asked: "Who are they?"

Zhao Xiangwan shrugged: "Who knows who it is? Besides the police, the rest are them."

Zhu Feipeng laughed, "Are you lying to him?"

Zhao Xiangwan lowered his head and took another sip of tea without making any comment.

Zhu Feipeng did not wait for Zhao Xiangwan's reply and discussed the next plan with Gao Guangqiang.

"Lao Gao, I see that the case two years ago is definitely related to Min Chenghang! I found two clues from his answer. First, the man named Aqiang in the knife shop on the second floor of the railway station small commodity market can trace whether Min Chenghang bought this machete and when he bought it; second, the customer manager of the Xinhua Road Savings Bank of Jinsui Bank may be able to remember whether Min Chenghang stayed in Zhushi on November 6 two years ago."

Gao Guangqiang saw Zhu Feipeng interrogating Min Chenghang step by step like Zhao Xiangwan, gradually getting closer to the truth, and praised him: "Not bad, let's do it this way."

Gao Guangqiang then instructed Huang Yuande: "Take your men to the Telecommunications Bureau to check the phone records of the Jinsui Bank Xinhua Road Savings Office to see if there were any calls at noon on the 14th and where the number belongs."

Huang Yuande immediately said: "Yes!"

Gao Guangqiang said to Ai Hui, "Take some more people with you, bring Min Chenghang's photo, and go to the knife shop on the second floor of the train station small commodity market to find a man named Aqiang. Bring him back and ask about Min Chenghang's knife purchase time and records. And check the knife shop. It's too dangerous to buy controlled knives there at will!"

Ai Hui accepted the task with great interest: "Yes!"

Gao Guangqiang groaned and said, "As for that account manager..."

Zhu Feipeng and Zhao Xiangwan stood up at the same time: "I'll go."

Gao Guangqiang nodded: "Okay, you two," he looked at Zhou Rulan again, "bring Xiao Zhou along and let her take the statement."

After everything was arranged in an orderly manner, the entire serious crime team was dispatched.

Zhu Feipeng was driving, Zhao Xiangwan was the co-pilot, and Zhou Rulan was sitting in the back seat.

As soon as the car started, Zhu Feipeng couldn't wait to ask Zhao Xiangwan: "How did Min Chenghang perform when I interrogated him just now? How was it that I found out about the client manager through his micro-expressions?"

Seeing his expression of "seeking praise", Zhao Xiangwan laughed and nodded, "Very good, very good."

The two clues, Aqiang from Knife City and Liu Shangjun, the account manager, were proactively thrown out by Min Chenghang, and Zhu Feipeng took them at face value. It must be said that Min Chenghang implemented the principle of "confession should be natural" very thoroughly, and he is a talent.

However, although it was Min Chenghang who took the initiative to throw it out, these were still two very important clues for Zhao Xiangwan.

Since it was arranged by “them”, these two people are most likely “their” people.

Digging out radishes brings out mud, and Zhao Xiangwan hopes to see more "radishes".

Xinhua Road is located in the city center, in a busy area. The Jinsui Bank savings office here has many people coming in and out every day. There are three clerks at the counter, but a long line has formed in front of the counter around 10 a.m.

Min Chenghang used to be one of them.

Sitting behind the glass window, he would take the passbook handed over by the customer through a narrow passage below the glass without even raising his head, and communicate with the customer in a formulaic manner.

"Deposit or withdraw money?"

"How much?"

"Please enter your password."

"Okay, please take all your belongings."

But now, Min Chenghang was put in the detention center, and the window No. 3 where he originally sat was replaced by a young woman dressed fashionably.

Zhao Xiangwan and two other people entered the office area at the back of the savings bank through the side door.

Account manager Liu Shangjun received them with a smile.

Liu Shangjun was in his thirties, with a handsome appearance and a good figure. Looking at his walking posture, Zhao Xiangwan asked, "Manager Liu, was he a soldier before?"

Liu Shangjun was stunned for a moment, then he immediately laughed: "Female comrades are considerate. I used to serve in the N Military Region."

Zhao Xiangwan asked further: "Which company in the N Military Region? What branch of the military?"

Liu Shangjun: "Artillery Company, Communications Corps."

Zhao Xiangwan asked again: "In which year did you get discharged?"

Liu Shangjun glanced at her and said, "1984."

【Why does she ask so much? 】

[Women are annoying. They ask questions all the time. If she wasn't a police officer, I would have shut her up long ago.]

Zhao Xiangwan looked away and began to look at the layout of the bank, as if the questions he had just asked were just casual questions. Liu Shangjun breathed a sigh of relief, led the three people into the office, and poured tea.

Liu Shangjun sat behind his desk and asked, "Is Comrade Min Chenghang behaving well in the detention center? He usually behaves well in the unit. Who knew he would suddenly go crazy and chop the children with a knife? What a pity..."

Zhu Feipeng coughed, and Zhou Rulan spread out the notebook on the tea table.

Liu Shangjun quickly made room for him: "Come on, come on, police comrade, please sit here so it will be easier for you to record."

Zhou Rulan didn't bother to be polite and exchanged seats with Liu Shangjun and sat at the desk, while Liu Shangjun sat on the sofa with Zhu Feipeng and Zhao Xiangwan.

Zhu Feipeng had been here before and had some basic knowledge of Min Chenghang's work performance. This time, he came again and exchanged a few pleasantries with Liu Shangjun before getting straight to the point.

"How long has Manager Liu been the manager of this savings bank?"

"Three and a half years."

"What kind of work is he in charge of?"

"Savings and credit, corporate accounts, key customer resources... there are so many things, everything related to the business is in charge."

"Do you remember what business activities were arranged in November of the previous year?"

【Here we go! 】

[Min Chenghang was very experienced in his work, and indeed the police came to investigate.]

【Min Chenghang is a talented person. 】

Liu Shangjun was surprised, but his expression did not change. Instead, he thought for a moment, his eyes unconsciously resting on a certain spot in the upper right corner: "Two years ago, that is, 1993? Let me think about it. It seems that I was on a business trip in November. I need to check the details."

He stood up and walked to his desk. He opened the drawer and took out a thick notebook. He flipped it open and searched carefully: "November 1993... I found it. On November 5, I went to Zhu City on a business trip. It was about a loan business. Look, it's here."

Zhou Rulan took his notebook and accurately found one of the records. The handwriting was old and it was indeed true.

Zhu Feipeng asked him, "Did you go there alone, or did you have someone with you?"

Liu Shangjun said affirmatively: "We are on a business trip for the bank, so it is impossible for us to go alone. I should go with my colleagues in the bank. Let me think about it..."

A second later, Liu Shangjun said, "I remember now. I went there with Min Chenghang. He said that his family had some problems and his wife needed money urgently for medical treatment. So he wanted to perform well and expand the business, so he took the initiative to ask to go on a business trip with me. Yes, yes, yes, we went to Zhushi together on November 5th and stayed near the train station. We should have come back together after the weekend."

Zhu Feipeng was very excited when he heard this: "Are you sure that you and Min Chenghang were in Zhushi from November 5 to November 7, 1993? And lived near the train station?"

Liu Shangjun nodded heavily: "Yes! There are many hotels near the railway station. Which one is it? I think it's called the Station Front Hotel. According to the accommodation standards, Min Chenghang and I stayed in the same room."

"So do you remember what you did on the night of November 6th?"

"Now that you mention it, I really remember it. We worked all day after we arrived, drank a little on the evening of the 6th, and then went to bed together. I was half asleep, and he seemed to have gone out at night. After he came back, he took a shower and changed his clothes. I wondered if he had gone out to find a prostitute. It seemed that such an honest Min Chenghang was not honest for once. I teased him a few times in the morning, and he looked a little flustered."

Zhu Feipeng gritted his teeth. Min Chenghang was in Zhushi on the day of the crime, and then he went out at night. What he said about watching TV with his children was a complete lie! Now there is a witness, let's see how he will defend himself.

Thinking of this, Zhu Feipeng glanced at Zhao Xiangwan and muttered a few words in his heart.

[Didn’t you say that looking at the upper right represents fabrication, and the upper left represents memories? Now it seems that’s not necessarily the case.]

Zhao Xiangwan lowered her head and did not make eye contact with Zhu Feipeng. She calmed down and listened carefully to Liu Shangjun's thoughts.

Because he was in a relatively excited state, Liu Shangjun threw out his prepared remarks while fragments of his true thoughts flashed through his mind.

[Am I lying? 90% of it is true. ]

[Business trip to Zhu City...Room in front of the station...Oh, yes, just the people who went with me...]

【I spent a lot of money on prostitution and resigned. 】

Combined with what Liu Shangjun had just said, Zhao Xiangwan had reason to suspect that 90% of Liu Shangjun's statement was true. As written in his notebook, in November 1993, he and his colleague went on a business trip to Zhushi and happened to stay near the train station. Indeed, his colleague went out that night. The only difference was that he replaced his colleague's small money with Min Chenghang.

Zhu Feipeng asked: "Did you know that a murder occurred near the train station on the night of November 6, 1994?"

Liu Shangjun was stunned for a moment, and his expression of surprise was just right: "Really? I don't know. I seemed to see a police car honking this morning, but we were in a hurry to leave, so we didn't pay much attention."

Zhu Feipeng nodded, turned around and asked Zhao Xiangwan: "Do you have any other questions?"

Zhao Xiangwan glanced at Zhou Rulan, who was sitting behind the desk concentrating on taking notes, pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and pointed to the conspicuous red landline on the desk and asked, "How many telephones do you have? If you need to find an employee here, which number do you usually call?"

Liu Shangjun's attitude was very natural: "The president has one, I have one, and the security department has one. If employees have any problems, they can call any of them and we will help."

[Here we are! The police asked for the phone number, which means Min Chenghang has told others that his wife and daughter called. According to our agreement, if we want him to confess, we must release his wife and daughter.]

Hearing this, Zhao Xiangwan's eyes dimmed.

What was Min Chenghang up to? How could he be in the detention center and use the little clues he occasionally revealed to get the police to pass on his message?

Although he felt passive, for the safety of Min Chenghang's wife and daughter, Zhao Xiangwan still dutifully asked: "At noon on the 14th of this month, Min Chenghang came to your office and answered a call. Was it you who transferred the call at that time?"

Liu Shangjun nodded: "Yes."

"Is the person calling over there a man or a woman?"

Liu Shangjun's eyes quickly turned from left to right: "Female."

Zhao Xiangwan asked again: "Min Chenghang is answering the phone in your office?"

"yes."

"How long did the call last?"

“I didn’t check the time.”

"What did you say?"

Liu Shangjun couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Comrade police officer, how could I have the nerve to listen to my colleague answering the phone? I was standing outside the door at the time."

Zhao Xiangwan nodded: "Min Chenghang was arrested this week. Did anyone call him?"

Liu Shangjun seemed to suddenly think of something and patted his head: "Look at my memory! There really is a woman who called me and left a few words. You can take them back to Min Chenghang later."

Liu Shangjun tore off a page from the desk calendar and wrote a line of words on it.

"Shuangshuang and I are doing fine. We'll be back next week."

Zhao Xiangwan took over and said, "It should be a call from Min Chenghang's wife, right? Oh, by the way, when did she call?"

Liu Shangjun said: "The day before yesterday at noon."

Zhao Xiangwan nodded and prepared to leave. For some reason, Min Chenghang's words suddenly flashed through her mind: Our savings bank is not very big, and there are only two telephones in the director's and manager's offices.

But Liu Shangjun made it very clear that all three phones were stored, in addition to the director's and manager's offices, there was also one in the security department.

Zhao Xiangwan glanced at Liu Shangjun and asked a few more questions.

"Does your bank have a large amount of cash deposits and withdrawals every day?"

"It's relatively big."

"How is the cash transported every day? What is the security situation?"

"There are money transport vehicles, special guards and armed security personnel. Our security guards are very responsible."

"What time will the money transport truck arrive? How many banknotes will it be responsible for?"

"There are five stores starting from Xinhua Road. We are the first one, so we will be there earlier. We have to be there from 8 o'clock."

"If you find anything unusual, please report it immediately. As National Day approaches, security must be careful."

"Yes, yes, I will pay attention, police comrade, please rest assured."

Liu Shangjun perked up and answered Zhao Xiangwan's questions seriously, but his heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

【What on earth is she going to do? 】

[Aren't you investigating Min Chenghang? Why are you asking about the money transport truck?]

【Did she discover something?】

Hearing the last sentence, Zhao Xiangwan's heart skipped a beat.

——What Liu Shangjun wants to do is related to the money transport truck!

——Liu Shangjun is one of “them”.

After getting the information he wanted, Zhao Xiangwan chose not to make any moves and smiled, "I'm just curious. A bank smells like money as soon as you walk in."

Liu Shangjun's heartbeat finally calmed down, and he smiled sincerely: "It's normal to be curious. Our bank seems to have money everywhere, but the money is deposited and withdrawn by customers, and the bank is just transporting it."

The three of them stood up and left. Standing at the door of the office, Zhao Xiangwan turned around and said to Liu Shangjun, "Manager Liu, please stay."

Liu Shangjun stopped and said with a smile, "Okay, then I won't see you off. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me."

Zhao Xiangwan raised the note in his hand and said, "Don't worry, I will tell Min Chenghang."

Liu Shangjun nodded: "Oh, okay——"

[That bastard better plead guilty.]

[If I delay any longer, I will have to transfer to another branch. ]

Zhao Xiangwan walked out from the side door and handed the note to Zhou Rulan, observing the flow of people in the savings bank and the surrounding layout.

The main door of this savings bank is a glass door and a rolling door, with a width of about six meters. The lobby is very large, about sixty to seventy square meters, with three private business windows and one corporate business window. There are three rows of seats in the middle of the lobby for people to wait.

Walking out of the gate, there is a platform. Going down three steps, you will find yourself facing the middle section of Xinhua Road. The sidewalk is bustling with people coming and going.

If a money transport truck drives in, it must drive onto the sidewalk before reaching the gate.

Zhu Feipeng came closer: "What do you think is wrong?"

Zhao Xiangwan said softly, "Let's talk about it when we get back."

For some reason, although Zhao Xiangwan's voice was soft, Zhu Feipeng sounded a little nervous, as if something big was about to happen.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, all members of the serious crime team met.

Huang Yuande was the first to report: "We found the phone number. It's the public phone at the Hongyu Grocery Store at Luoxian Bus Station."

Zhao Xiangwan asked: "The call at noon the day before yesterday, was it also from there?"

Huang Yuande: "Yes, the same phone number."

He added: "I called and learned about the situation. The boss said that their grocery store is located at the bus station, and people come and go every day. This phone starts at 7 am and lasts until 10 pm. There are almost hundreds of people calling every day. I can't remember who used the phone on the 14th and the day before yesterday at noon."

Zhou Rulan took out the page that Liu Shangjun had torn off the calendar, pointed to the message on it and said, "Shuangshuang and I are doing fine and will be back next week. This should be Min Jiahuai calling to tell him that they are safe and will be back next week. Because the Min family didn't have a phone installed, they communicated through the savings bank's office phone."

Gao Guangqiang concluded: "It seems that Min Chenghang did not lie. His wife Min Jiahuai is in Luo County and they are in contact. If she comes back next week, we will investigate and visit her again."

Zhu Feipeng looked at Zhao Xiangwan and grinned: "You guessed wrong."

Zhao Xiangwan asked back: "What did I say?"

Zhu Feipeng said, "You asked Min Chenghang if his wife and daughter were safe. He was so excited at the time that we all suspected that his wife and daughter had met with an accident. But Min Jiahuai and the others were fine. We worried for nothing."

Zhao Xiangwan shook his head: "Not necessarily."

Zhu Feipeng was not convinced: "A phone call can explain everything, how can it be different?"

Zhao Xiangwan glanced at him, and this look made Zhu Feipeng feel that his IQ was crushed: "If they really talked on the phone and Min Jiahuai was safe and sound, why did he commit suicide during the interrogation? Think about it, what I talked to him about at the beginning was everything about the orphanage, right?"

Zhu Feipeng nodded: "Yes, I heard you chatting with him, it seemed very pleasant and relaxed."

Zhao Xiangwan said: "Min Chenghang and his wife have known each other since childhood and have a very deep relationship. If he is sure that his wife is safe and cannot go home temporarily because his family has been found, then... when he heard me ask him where his wife and daughter are and why they didn't come to see him, what should be his reaction?"

Zhu Feipeng put himself in the shoes of the police and quickly answered, "He should feel a little ashamed because he was taken to the interrogation room by the police and felt sorry for his wife and daughter."

Zhao Xiangwan said: "Yes, but what was his reaction at that time?"

Zhu Feipeng recalled the interrogation scenes that morning.

——Min Chenghang suddenly became furious, stood up abruptly, and slammed his head with his handcuffed hands. "Bang! Bang!" He stared at Zhao Xiangwan and said, "Shut up, shut up!"

Zhao Xiangwan stood up, walked to the small blackboard, and wrote a word: "Love".

"The word 'love' moved Min Chenghang's heart. From the interrogation this morning, it can be seen that Min Chenghang and his wife have a very good relationship, and he has devoted all his love to his daughter. The relationship built up in this kind of suffering is far more dependent than that of ordinary couples. They are all orphans, and their desire for family affection is far greater than that of ordinary people."

"Normally, if Min Jiahuai really found her family, Min Chenghang should have been excited and happy when talking to them about her family, and shouldn't have been so calm."

"If Min Jiahuai really went to her mother's family in Luo County, she should have contacted her husband quickly and called him every day. But you see, up to now, Min Chengye has only received two calls, and the calls were very short. Is this normal?"

Gao Guangqiang nodded involuntarily after hearing this: "That's true. We solve cases based on evidence, but we can't deviate from common sense. If the chain of evidence is complete, but it goes against common sense, then there must be something wrong."

After a day of visits and analysis, Zhao Xiangwan had a general idea. This was the Serious Case Unit, and they were comrades fighting side by side, so he boldly expressed his views.

"I have an idea. I don't know if it is accurate, but I would like to share it with you for discussion."

"Min Chenghang, a man who values ​​his family, could commit the crime of hacking and killing a child in the street. Being drunk, impulsive, being scolded by the leader... these reasons are not valid. There is only one reason that could make Min Chenghang take such a risk, and that is that his wife's life was in danger."

"What?" Zhu Feipeng stood up suddenly, "Someone kidnapped someone and threatened Min Chenghang to kill him?"

Everyone found this possibility incredible.

——Going to great lengths to kidnap Min Chenghang’s wife and daughter, just to allow him to chop people down in the street?

Liu Liangju was the first to raise an objection: "Generally, kidnappings are for money. Min Chenghang is just a small bank clerk with a heavy family burden and poor conditions. Why kidnap his wife and daughter?"

Zhou Rulan thought of another possibility: "Is it because Min Chenghang works at the bank? He wants to rob someone from the inside? But... he has been arrested by us and is in the detention center."

Zhu Kang and Ai Hui exchanged glances and shook their heads at the same time: "Impossible, impossible. Xiang Wan, your speculation is too bold. Although this makes Min Chenghang's criminal behavior more reasonable, why force him to commit a crime? This makes no sense at all!"

Zhao Xiangwan wrote four more words on the small blackboard: Li Dai Tao Jiang.

"Didn't everyone make a guess this morning that Min Chenghang might be the murderer of the November 6 robbery two years ago?"

Zhu Feipeng nodded: "That's right. Whether it's the murder weapon or the murder method, Min Chenghang is inextricably linked to the November 6 robbery."

Ai Hui raised his hand and answered, "Yes, today we went to the knife city on the second floor of the small commodity market at the railway station and brought back the man named Aqiang. Aqiang said he remembered Min Chenghang because he often came here and got acquainted with him. Aqiang said that Min Chenghang was a greedy person and liked to look at all kinds of knives. He had a special liking for this machete. He bought the same knife in July this year and the year before last. We asked him why he remembered it so clearly. He said that Min Chenghang had been looking at knives for several years and only spent money to buy them twice. He was so impressed by this incident that he couldn't forget it even if he wanted to. He also showed us the receipt. It was indeed in July this year that he bought the knife. As for the purchase of the knife in July 1993, there was no evidence, only confession."

After Ai Hui reported the results of today's investigation of Aqiang, he reported to Gao Guangqiang: "Old Gao, our city bureau still needs to strengthen the establishment of a mass reporting mechanism. If Min Chenghang hadn't said it, we would have no idea that there were so many controlled knives for sale on the second floor of our city's railway station small commodity market. Just a machete like this only sells for 35 yuan, and there are all kinds of police items, military daggers, everything can be bought! Even if we have a comprehensive rectification this time, it is estimated that it will revive again in a short time. We must listen more to the voices of the masses and investigate and deal with them at any time."

Gao Guangqiang nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, I'll take note of this and report it to Captain Xu later. Knives are everywhere nowadays, and it's really too dangerous. The bloody incident like Min Chenghang stabbed people in the street last time must not be allowed to happen again. If there are really criminals or dangerous people who have been wronged and want to take revenge on society, and they swing knives at unarmed passers-by or children who have no ability to resist at all, the impact caused will be too bad, and we must prevent it from happening again."

Zhao Xiangwan brought back the topic: "Is Ah Qiang's testimony necessarily correct?"

She wrote Ah Qiang, Liu Shangjun's names on the blackboard, and then wrote Qiu Sanyong's name: "Is it possible that these three are in cahoots? Their goal is to send Min Chenghang to prison, to make him admit to the November 6 robbery, and then get Qiu Sanyong out?"

Everyone's brains are a little bit insufficient.

"What do you mean? They kidnapped, hacked, and framed Qiu Sanyong to get him out of prison?"

"Why go to so much trouble? Can't you just let Min Chenghang have a change of heart and surrender himself to the city police?"

"Yeah, what kind of brain-burning and high-IQ plot is this! Turning yourself in is the easiest."

Zhao Xiangwan asked: "Min Chenghang came to the Municipal Bureau to surrender and admitted that he went to Zhushi to kill someone two years ago. Would you believe it?"

Zhu Feipeng said: "Why not? He only needs to tell us the details and let the victim identify him. Why don't we believe it?"

Zhao Xiangwan: "Okay, he admits to the murder, presents evidence, gives details, and the police quickly arrest him. Then what happens?"

Everyone was confused: "Then? What then? Then put him on trial, convict him, and release Qiu Sanyong."

Zhao Xiangwan sighed: "But what about his wife and daughter? It's easy for him to turn himself in, and the kidnappers can quickly achieve their goal, so can they just kill them?"

At this point, Zhao Xiangwan suddenly figured out all the key points.