Chapter 69 Shoebox

Du Zhigang looked at Ke Lu coldly: "You are the one who came up with this idea, come and explain it to the police!"

Du Zhigang used to think Ke Lu had high emotional intelligence and was good at handling things, so he was very optimistic about this subordinate. But now that a murder case has been involved, and his only son Du Haoran has been dragged into it, Du Zhigang is very annoyed.

Du Haoran could see that his father was unhappy, so he quickly pulled his arm and begged softly, "Dad, it was Brother Lu we found, he's here to help us."

Du Zhigang shook off his son's hand and shouted, "You are students, it is normal for you to be ignorant. Ke Lu has been working for five or six years since he graduated from college. He has been in society for so many years, he should be sensible. Even if it is to punish Zhu Shengrong, he should not be brought to the hotel. This has a great impact on the reputation of our hotel! What's more, he has killed someone. Don't worry about this matter, let Ke Lu talk about it."

Facing the apologetic looks of Du Haoran and Qiao Duo, Ke Lu sighed.

He was sincere and spoke softly, "Officer Xia, I'm sorry to have kept you busy for two days. I wanted to find an opportunity to come to you and explain what happened, but I was busy at the hotel today and couldn't get a day off. I didn't expect you to find Haoran and the others so quickly. I underestimated the speed and level of the police in handling cases."

Gong Weiguo said unhappily, "Don't talk to us about this. Tell us now."

From what Ke Lu said, he originally planned to surrender himself, but the investigation speed of the Serious Crime Unit 7 was too fast, which disrupted his rhythm?

Ke Lu said, "Let me make it clear first. I didn't poison it. I never thought that there was poison in the cat food that Zhu Shengrong brought."

Xia Mufan looked at him.

Ke Lu had a pair of eyes similar to Coal Ash's, which made her feel very fond of him.

Now that he had become a person of interest in the case, Xia Mushige quickly suppressed his feelings and responded calmly: "Let's get started."

What Ke Lu said was basically the same as what Du Haoran said, just from a different perspective.

Du Haoran and Qiao Duo wanted to help Zhu Liang vent his anger and punish Zhu Shengrong. But none of the methods he tried worked, so when Ke Lu took Du Haoran home one day, Du Haoran asked him for help.

Ke Lu said, "When I was a child, I had a puppy. I often slept with it and we had a very good relationship. But later, I had to leave the puppy behind because of a move. This incident has always been a pain in my heart. So, when Haoran said that there are people in the world who are so vicious that they cut open a cat in the kitchen, I was very angry. Cats and dogs are also lives. Even if you don't like them, you can't hurt them like this, right?"

Having said that, Ke Lu raised his hand and smoothed his bangs.

A shallow "cross" shaped scar was revealed.

Xia Mufan looked up and saw it, and suddenly his mind flashed with what Lao Chai had said.

[His name is Xiao Ke, and he is a very, very good person. 】

[He has no mother, only a father who loves to drink. His father has a bad temper and often beats him. 】

[There is a cross scar on his forehead, which was left by his father who pushed him down and hit his head on the table. 】

He called me Shiba Inu, held me in his arms while I slept, and made bibimbap for me. 】

Old Chai played a great role in finding his mother Xu Shumei, and Xia Muchan always kept it in his heart. Although Lao Chai said that he did not need Xia Mufan to help him find his owner, he had waited for seventeen years, always hoping to see his owner again.

Xia Mufan asked, "Is the puppy you raised called Shiba Inu?"

Ke Lu was stunned, his eyes widened, staring at Xia Mufan motionlessly.

Xia Mushige continued to ask: "You picked it up on a rainy day. It was only one year old at that time, right?"

Ke Lu's eyes suddenly lit up with an incomparable brilliance: "Yes, yes, yes! Yes, my dog ​​is called Shiba Inu, because it was skinny when I picked it up. My dad often drank at that time, and he would go crazy when he drank. Fortunately, I had Shiba Inu to accompany me, otherwise... I might also go crazy."

After saying that, Ke Lu reached out in surprise and grabbed Xia Mufan's arm: "Do you know Shiba Inu? Have you seen it? How is it now?"

Without waiting for Xia Mufan to reply, he started to nag again: "Shiba Inu is already eighteen years old, there is no way it is still alive. I dare not go back to Zheng'an Town, for fear of seeing the streets and houses where I walked with it when I was a child."

The hand that was holding Xia Mufan's arm was trembling, his voice rose three octaves with excitement, and there was a hint of sadness in his eyes. It can be seen that Ke Lu is very loyal and always cares about the Shiba Inu that accompanied him during his childhood.

Xia Mufan brushed Ke Lu's hand away and frowned slightly.

Ke Lu then realized that he had lost his composure and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Xia Muchen interrupted him: "Shiba Inu is still alive and has been waiting in the woods near the train station."

Ke Lu felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and stood there motionless.

A few seconds later, he started to walk around the house as if alive, speaking incoherently with excitement: "The Shiba Inu is still alive! It's still alive! I know that forest. Once my father wanted to drive it away, so I built a wooden house for it in the forest."

After confirming that Ke Lu was Lao Chai's master, Xia Mufan's attitude became much gentler.

In any case, Lao Chai helped her find her mother, and she also hopes to help it find its owner.

"After you left, Shiba Inu would go to the train station every day and wait for you to come back. Now it is very old and can hardly see anything, but it still stays in the wooden house you built for it, hoping that you will come to pick it up."

Xia Mufan's words made Ke Lu unable to hold back her tears, which began to fall one after another.

"Shiba Inu, Shiba Inu, I don't know..."

I thought that leaving when I was young was a helpless farewell. Who knows that in the mind of Shiba Inu, Kelu is its eternal master and has been waiting for it.

The more Ke Lu thought about it, the sadder he became. He felt so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.

"I was still young at that time, and pets were not allowed on trains. I had no choice. My father took me to Hubei Province, where I finished high school and was admitted to a junior college. I didn't return to Hui City until the year before last. I didn't dare to look for it, I thought it had died a long time ago."

Ke Lu hit his head hard: "Damn it! I should have gone back earlier."

Xia Mufan said leisurely: "Hurry up and explain the situation now, otherwise... I'm afraid you won't have the chance to go to Zheng'an Town."

After saying this, Ke Lu nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I'll tell you right away."

Because of his love for small animals and the happy memories of his childhood with Shiba Inu, Ke Lu was able to resonate with the three high school students.

He also hated Zhu Shengrong for torturing and killing cats, and felt that he should do something to stop him from continuing to torturing and killing cats.

He began to follow Zhu Shengrong.

The hotel where Ke Lu worked had one day off a week, and that day was used entirely to track Zhu Shengrong.

Ke Lu followed Zhu Shengrong to the pet shop and saw him buy a kitten every month, saw him put the kitten into an empty shoe box, and saw him throw away a garbage bag full of blood in the cover of night.

Ke Lu also saw Zhu Shengrong taking cat food to a remote area of ​​the community at night to feed stray cats. He saw the stray cats twitching all over after eating the cat food. He saw a cruel light flashing on Zhu Shengrong's fat face as he grabbed the cats and beat them.

The more he learned about Zhu Shengrong's daily life, the more anger accumulated in Ke Lu's heart.

Such a vicious man, yet everyone thinks he is an honest man and a good husband who cares about his family.

Ke Lu took photos of Zhu Shengrong poisoning, abusing and beating stray cats. One day, he knocked on Zhu's door and showed them the photos.

When Zhu Shengrong received a call from Du Haoran exposing his cat abuse, he was not afraid.

But facing the young and strong Ke Lu, listening to his threatening words and looking at his distorted face in the photo, Zhu Shengrong felt fear.

Du Haoran was listening with great joy: "Brother Lu, how did you threaten him?"

Ke Lu said, "People like him who only know how to abuse weak animals are actually the most timid. He is not afraid of being scolded on the phone, but he doesn't dare to do it face to face. I entered his house, which means he can't escape at all. The photos clearly record the fact that he abused the cat, and he has no way to deny it. He is afraid that his neighbors and wife and children will know, and that his current stable life will be destroyed, so he can only bow his head and beg for mercy from me."

"Zhu Shengrong said he had no status in the family and no money. His wife treated him like a grandson and ordered him around. His son didn't get close to him. He felt like he was just a nanny who cooked and mopped the floor, and he didn't get paid. However, his wife was in charge of the family's finances, so he didn't dare to resist. He could only relieve stress by killing cats."

Hearing this, everyone let out a contemptuous "Pah!"

Who among modern people lives without stress?

Businessmen have the pressure to make money; students have the pressure to pass exams and go to higher education; police officers have the pressure to solve cases. If everyone looks for such perverted ways to relieve stress, then this society is really doomed.

Ke Lu gritted his teeth and said, "I was so angry at him that I lost control and beat him up."

Du Haoran and Qiao Duo said in unison: "Well done!"

Du Zhigang was a little annoyed: "Just beat him up if you want, and teach him a lesson. Why did you bring him to the restaurant?"

Ke Lu asked, "Can such a person be reformed just by being beaten?"

Du Zhigang didn't expect that Yi Kelu would have such a strong sense of justice: "What else do you want? Do you want to kill him? Killing a cat will at most lead to criticism and education, but killing a person means paying with your life."

Ke Lu shook his head: "Why should I kill him? It's not worth it to sacrifice my life. I just want to punish him a little and let him feel the pain of being humiliated. Haoran and the other three hope to give him a taste of his own medicine. I'm just wondering how to do it."

Du Haoran nodded desperately: "Yes, give someone a taste of his own medicine. Murong Fu in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils knew this trick. We should do the same when we teach Zhu Liang's father a lesson. That's how he will remember it."

Du Zhigang was so angry that he yelled, "What the hell are these books? They are just a mess! You keep reading these nonsense books all day long. I will burn them all in a fire when I get home!"

Du Haoran shrank his neck and muttered quietly, "What kind of Nine Divisions of Heavenly Dragons are there? They are so uneducated. How terrible."

Du Zhigang suffered from his lack of education all his life, and he hoped that his only son would study hard and get into a good university. However, his son was playful and willful, like a child who had not grown up, which made him worry a lot. Although he didn't hear clearly what Du Haoran said, he knew from his expression that it was not a good thing. He immediately became angry and raised his hand as if to hit him.

Ke Lu hurriedly stopped the general manager and said with a smile: "Manager Du, don't be angry, let me finish what I want to say."

Du Zhigang was reluctant to hit his son, so he put his hand down and snorted, "Hurry up and tell me, hurry up and tell me."

Ke Lu said: "The children are very creative. They said that since Zhu Shengrong feeds the wild cats poisonous cat food, then we should let him eat poisonous cat food as well."

After hearing this, Du Zhigang got anxious: "Kelu! Watch your words. It was you who gave the children the advice, so why are they now saying that he was fed poisonous cat food?"

Ke Lu could understand Du Zhigang's desire to protect his son, but the general manager's attitude of putting all the blame on him also made him angry. He said coldly, "Manager Du, I'm telling you the truth. Why are you so anxious?"

Du Zhigang glared and was about to show off his leadership authority, but was stopped by his son: "Dad! Stop talking. I was the one who begged Brother Lu for help in this matter. It was my idea."

Seeing that the scene was a bit chaotic, Xia Mushi raised his voice: "Quiet down!"

After the police officer spoke, Du Zhigang finally calmed down.

Ke Lu continued, "I am older than them, so of course I know that I cannot poison Zhu Shengrong. Otherwise, we who originally stood on the side of justice would become criminals."

Qiao Duo said weakly: "Yes, that's what Brother Lu advised us at the time."

Gong Weiguo asked: "How come the cat food Zhu Shengrong ate was poisoned?"

Ke Lu shook his head blankly, "I don't know either. At the beginning, we agreed to force Zhu Shengrong to the restaurant and make sure he ate the cat food under my and Qiao Rui's noses. The cat food is fishy and hard, and most people are not willing to eat it. I guess after eating the cat food, he will never want to see cat food again in his life. In this way, he will naturally not dare to bully the kitten again."

Xia Mufan asked: "Why did you ask Qiao Duo to leave him a message on the pager?"

Ke Lu: "By exerting constant pressure, we will scare him and force him to obey our arrangements."

Xia Mufan asked again: "Why didn't you call? Qiao Duo is studying in a boarding school, and it's not easy for her to come out."

Ke Lu hesitated for a moment, and finally told the truth: "I was afraid that Zhu Shengrong would call the police later, so I left a backup plan. The source of the message can be found. If I call from the hotel phone, the police will definitely find us. This is indeed my selfish motive."

Xia Mushige asked: "Did you threaten him to delete the message?"

Ke Lu shook his head: "No."

Xia Mushige: "You mean, Zhu Shengrong is afraid that the fact that he abuses cats will be discovered by others, so he deletes the messages at any time?"

Ke Lu said calmly: "It should be."

Xia Mufan still felt something was wrong.

Judging from Ke Lu's description just now, Zhu Shengrong should not have committed suicide. Then why did he come to the restaurant with poisoned cat food? Who puts rat poison in cat food?

Xia Mufan raised his eyes and looked at Ke Lu: "When did you come to see Zhu Shengrong? When did you arrange to meet?"

Ke Lu said: "At noon the day before the incident, I was waiting at Zhu Shengrong's door when he came back from delivering lunch. I punched him a few times, but I didn't kill him, and didn't cause much damage. I made an appointment with him last night. In order to scare him, I emphasized that we are a cat-loving organization. If he doesn't do what we ask, I will expose everything and make him die ugly."

Xia Mushige: "Why don't you prepare cat food in advance, but let him bring his own?"

Du Haoran answered quickly: "He has been buying cat food with attractants for a long time, so he should reap the consequences!"

Xia Mufan looked at Sun Xianbing who was taking notes.

He wrote down the conversation quickly. However, such a bizarre survey result was really beyond her expectations.

Xia Mufan narrowed his eyes, and his gaze became extremely sharp: "I'll ask you one last time, don't you know that cat food is poisonous?"

Ke Lu knew that this question was the most critical, and immediately answered, "Of course! Zhu Shengrong brought the cat food from home himself. On the way from home to the restaurant, Qiao Rui and I were busy in the restaurant and didn't leave for a moment; Haoran and the other three were also at school. Qiao Duo was on duty that day and was able to leave school for a short time to make a phone call, but Shuguang Middle School was far away from the restaurant, so they had no chance to contact Zhu Shengrong. After Zhu Shengrong entered the restaurant, the white shoe box containing the cat food was placed on the table for everyone to see, and we didn't touch it, so there was no chance to poison it."

Xia Mufan looked at Qiao Rui and said, "You are in charge of serving the dishes, so you should have a chance to touch the shoebox, right?"

Qiao Rui shuddered and stammered in fear: "I, I was only responsible for serving the dishes. Sister He was the one who arranged the dishes. I had no chance of touching the shoe box at all."

Xia Mufan's gaze was too strong. Qiao Rui was timid to begin with, and she became even more flustered when she stared at her. Tears welled up in her eyes: "Really, I just took the opportunity to urge him. I really didn't poison him. I wouldn't dare. I don't even dare to kill a chicken at home, how could I dare to poison him."

Ke Lu said, "Officer Xia, you should have checked the fingerprints on the shoe box, right? I can guarantee that neither Qiao Rui nor I touched the shoe box."

Xia Mufan was silent.

Of course, the technical department checked the fingerprints on the shoe box. Apart from the fingerprints of Zhu Shengrong's family of three, no fingerprints of Qiao Rui and Ke Lu were found.

The shoe box was taken from Liu Caiyang's shoe store, so it's not surprising that the fingerprints of the family of three were left on it...

Wait a minute!

Zhu Liang only went home on weekends, never cared about the shoe store business, and was not interested in the empty shoe boxes randomly placed at home. Why were his fingerprints left on the shoe boxes?

Could it be that Zhu Liang secretly poisoned the person?

Doesn’t Zhu Shengrong usually feed stray cats with poisonous cat food?

Is it possible that after listening to Ke Lu's arrangement, Zhu Liang privately suggested poisoning the cat food?

Xia Mufan stood up suddenly: "Let's go! Let's go to Liu Caiyang's house again."