Chapter 90
Tang Jixue insisted on joining in the fun, so Tang Qingqing took him along.
When Tang Qingqing arrived at the Public Security Bureau, she saw Shi Pengfei eating steamed buns and chatting about the case with someone in the office.
When he saw Tang Qingqing, he quickly finished the remaining half of the steamed bun in his hand, wiped his mouth and walked towards her.
"So, what did you find?"
Tang Qingqing shook her head: "I want to go and see it in person."
"Okay, I'll tell you about the work, and we'll be there soon."
It was Tang Jixue's first time to go to the Public Security Bureau, and his biggest impression was that everyone was very busy.
It's already past one o'clock, and many people are still looking at files or chatting about the case while eating. No one is idle.
Shi Pengfei took Tang Qingqing and Tang Jixue out on bicycles. Tang Jixue carried Tang Qingqing while Shi Pengfei rode one himself.
On the way, Shi Pengfei talked about this case with Tang Qingqing. The deceased was a section chief of the district taxation bureau. With such a big incident, everyone was wondering if he was involved in corruption.
Shi Pengfei denied this view: "During this period of time, our investigation did not find that the deceased had taken advantage of his position to engage in corruption. He was a stable and reserved person, and he was very serious about his work. We did not find that he had any grudges against anyone, nor did he have any conflicts with anyone at work."
"I heard that there is something wrong with his lifestyle?" Tang Jixue asked.
Tang Jixue often heard people discussing this case outside. This case caused a huge sensation in Yang City, and people on the streets were discussing who the murderer was.
The whole family was wiped out. What a huge vengeance this must be. It is definitely not a simple theft.
The deceased Zhang Xingli had been divorced once, and his current wife was his second. It was said that the divorce was very chaotic.
Zhang Xingli met his current wife before he divorced his ex-wife.
His current wife is their family's nanny, and they have been having an affair secretly for a long time.
Zhang Xingli comes from a well-off family. He is the youngest in the family. His older brother and parents are all civil servants. Therefore, even if he has problems with his conduct, it will not affect his future.
Many people think that he was retaliated against because of this.
"Zhang Xingli's divorce from his ex-wife was indeed very unhappy, but the reason for the divorce was that his ex-wife was in poor health and could not give birth to a child, so Zhang Xingli filed for divorce."
"According to our investigation, Zhang Xingli did not cheat during his marriage, and his divorce was respectable. It's just that his ex-wife has a bad temper. The couple met through an introduction, and they often quarreled."
Zhang Xingli's ex-wife came from a similar family background to him. She was a very capable woman and had her own temper.
The two had different philosophies on life. Zhang Xingli believed that women should take care of the family more, but Zhang Xingli's ex-wife wanted to develop her own career, and they had many arguments over this.
The child was just one of the reasons for the couple's divorce. If they could still live together, they wouldn't have ended up getting divorced.
After all, whether now or in the past, divorces are a minority, and organizations focus on reconciliation. Serious cases may even affect future development.
Zhang Xingli's current wife, Zhao Lifen, another victim, was indeed a nanny, but she worked for Zhang Xingli's parents.
Zhao Lifen was from the countryside. Zhang Xingli's parents were old and in poor health, and their children had to work, so they hired a nanny to take care of them.
Zhao Lifen is smart, capable and very careful, and is loved by the Zhang family.
After Zhang Xingli got divorced, he often went back to his parents' home. After a while, the two fell in love with each other and got together.
His ex-wife is doing very well now, and is married and living a happy life. They have not had any contact with each other for many years, so she has no reason to seek revenge on Zhang Xingli.
Zhang Xingli doesn't have any other lovers. People say that he has a mistress secretly, but those are all rumors.
Zhang Xingli didn't have any problems with his lifestyle, he just got divorced once.
Due to Zhang Xingli's special identity, a lot of manpower and time were spent on interviews and investigations, but no suspicious clues were found.
Tang Qingqing: "What about his wife Zhao Lifen?"
"Zhao Lifen came from the countryside. She was very kind and had no grudges against anyone. She had an older sister who also came to the city. The two sisters had a very good relationship. Zhao Lifen even lent money to her sister, Zhao Lixiang, to open a small shop."
Zhao Lixiang was also the first person to discover that something had happened to Zhao Lifen's family. She had a good relationship with her younger sister Zhao Lifen and often came to see her.
That day, Zhao Lixiang came to look for her sister as usual, but after knocking for a long time, there was no response at home. She thought Zhao Lifen had taken the children out to play, so she didn't pay much attention and went back.
But in the afternoon, she knocked on the door again and found that there was still no response, so she felt something was wrong.
Zhao Lixiang ran to Zhang Xingli's parents' house to get the key, so she ran to Zhang Xingli's parents' house to get the key.
Zhang Xingli's parents' home is not far from here. This house was originally allocated to them, but because they felt that the room upstairs was inconvenient, they exchanged houses with Zhang Xingli, so they also had the key.
Zhao Lixiang got the key and opened the door. She went upstairs and saw her sister and her family lying in a pool of blood. She was so scared that she crawled to call the police.
Tang Qingqing frowned: "It seems that the two victims have no enemies, but if they are not enemies, why would they be so cruel?"
The deceased's home had indeed been ransacked and all valuables were missing.
But if it was just for the money, even if they were discovered, they would just kill two adults under normal circumstances. The three children were upstairs and couldn't hear anything, so there was no need to do that.
Unless the murderer is extremely perverted and enjoys killing people.
Such people are often not committing crimes for the first time and have a criminal record.
If a stranger commits a crime randomly and has no direct relationship with the victim, this type of case is also the most difficult to investigate.
With current technology, if the murderer is on the run, he will disappear without a trace and will never be caught.
The three arrived at the victim's home. At this time, a cordon had been set up around the small building, and many people could not help but avoid it when passing by.
Those who are timid should not even take a second look, as they always feel that this place is gloomy and eerie.
The case was not solved, and nearby residents were in a panic, fearing that the brutal criminal would come back and harm other families as well.
It was broad daylight now, and the place was deserted.
The closer Tang Jixue got, the colder he felt in here. When he opened the door, he felt a cold breeze blowing across his back.
But when he saw that Tang Qingqing looked calm, he didn't dare to show his fear, otherwise he would seem useless.
Shi Pengfei gave the two people shoe covers and gloves, and asked them to put them on before walking in.
The case handling procedures in the city are obviously more rigorous than those in the commune, and great attention is paid to these details.
When Tang Qingqing was in the countryside, the scene was not only destroyed by the murderer group, but some police officers also had no awareness of protecting the scene.
It was not until Tang Qingqing became famous that she said that their intrusion would increase the difficulty of her investigation, and then things gradually changed.
Tang Qingqing has been paying attention to the traces on the ground. "After Zhao Lixiang found out that someone was dead, did people nearby rush into the house?"
Shi Pengfei: "No, the young people were all at work, and the only people at home were the elderly and children, and no one dared to go into the house. When we went in, we all wore shoe covers."
Tang Qingqing nodded and squatted down to check from time to time.
It took a while to walk to the second floor. As soon as she reached the stairs, Tang Qingqing smelled a strong smell of blood.
When we arrived at the room, although the body was no longer there, we could still tell how horrific the scene was.
Tang Qingqing looked around and walked to the third floor again, her steps obviously much heavier.
The bloodstains on the bedding stung Tang Qingqing's eyes. The scene overlapped with the photos she had seen, and she seemed to still see the three children lying there.
Tang Qingqing suppressed the strange emotions in her heart and carefully inspected the scene for traces.
"The murderer was very calm. He killed five people and was able to clean up the scene calmly." Shi Pengfei frowned.
Such people are still on the loose and are extremely dangerous.
Tang Qingqing didn't say anything. She took out a candy from her pocket, opened the candy wrapper and put it in her mouth, her attention all on the ground.
Tang Jixue wanted to ask her several times out of curiosity what she was watching, but Tang Qingqing didn't hear him at all and ignored him.
After a while, Tang Qingqing confirmed: "The murderer did not climb in or out through the window."
If you climb through the window, there will definitely be traces.
Although the iron railings on the first floor were pried open, there was not a single scratch. This is impossible.
Especially since the hole is not that big, it is impossible that there would be no trace at all.
Shi Pengfei: "But after inspection, there is no sign that the door has been pried open."
"Who else has the key to the house?"
"Apart from the deceased couple, only Zhang Xingli's parents had a key. They rarely used it and kept it in a drawer. They knocked on the door when they came, and they didn't bring the key with them."
The old couple did not interfere in the lives of their son's family. Even though they had the key, they did not regard this place as their own territory. They came and went as they pleased.
The investigation also found that no one had lost their keys; they all kept them on their person.
The child at home was rather naughty, and Zhao Lifen was often at home, so the couple did not give the key to the child.
Tang Qingqing pursed her lips and looked around:
“Does this family clean the house every day? When do they usually clean it?”
"Zhao Lifen is a very diligent person. She cleans twice a day. Once after lunch and once after dinner."
"On the night before the incident, after Zhao Lifen's family had dinner, did anyone come here?"
Shi Pengfei confirmed: "No, there were no guests visiting the deceased's home that day."
"Where's Zhao Lixiang? Has she been here?"
Shi Pengfei raised his eyebrows slightly: "She hasn't been here either. Is there something wrong with her?"
Tang Qingqing looked at her: "Have you ever suspected her?"
"I didn't suspect her at first. Zhao Lixiang's husband died five years ago, leaving her with only a pair of children. Zhao Lixiang's husband's brother drove the three of them out of the house and took over everything in the house."
"Zhao Lifen saw that her sister's family had no home to return to and she herself was living well in the city, so she took her sister to the city. She arranged for her sister to be a nanny for her parents-in-law, which relieved her urgent needs. After the opening up, she also set up a small shop for her sister to look after."
After visiting, we learned that the two sisters had a good relationship and Zhao Lixiang had no motive to kill anyone.
According to forensic identification, the murderer was an adult male, and Zhao Lifen was a female who was relatively short and did not fit the description of the murderer.
Therefore, Zhao Lixiang was excluded from the very beginning.
But Zhao Lixiang's subsequent performance made Shi Pengfei suspicious.
"Zhao Lixiang is too emotional."
Tang Jixue was puzzled: "Isn't it normal to be emotional when your sister who was so kind to you was killed? I'm lucky I'm not crazy."
Shi Pengfei shook his head: "It's different. She said that if the case is not solved, the bodies of my sister and her husband's family will not be buried. They can't die with regrets."
Tang Jixue still didn't feel anything was wrong, "What's wrong with this?"
Shi Pengfei just shook his head and did not explain why.
After being a criminal police for a long time, I have seen all kinds of people and am more sensitive than ordinary people.
Zhao Lixiang was so emotional that she even wanted to bang her head against the wall and leave with her sister and her family. She cried and was very sad.
At first, Shi Pengfei really felt that she was too sad. Her sister had helped her so much, and it was normal for her to feel heartbroken after seeing her family suffer such a tragic death.
But after seeing it too much, I began to doubt it.
Tang Qingqing said, "Tell me in detail, from the moment Zhao Lixiang saw her sister and brother-in-law die tragically to the moment she called the police, where she went and where she walked."
Shi Pengfei took Tang Qingqing for a walk. "Zhao Lixiang saw that there was no movement on the first floor, so she went straight to the second floor. When she saw her sister's family had died tragically, she sat on the ground with weak legs. It took her a while before she got up and ran out to call the police."
Tang Qingqing checked the situation back and forth, occasionally lying on the ground, and then turned several directions to check the situation.
"No."
"What's wrong?"
"She was in and out of the bathroom."
Shi Pengfei said seriously: "Are you sure?"
"Is Zhao Lixiang about 1.56 meters tall, 30 years old, and thin?"
"right!"
"That's right. Come here and look. If you lie down at the angle where I was just now, you can see her footprints here." Tang Qingqing pointed to the place where she had just lay down.
The floor of this house is made of terrazzo, which is very smooth. In addition, Zhao Lifen loves cleanliness very much and sweeps and mops the floor every day, so the floor is so shiny that it can reflect light.
Shi Pengfei imitated Tang Qingqing's actions just now and lay on the ground. Looking from the side, he could see the blurry shoe prints on the ground through the light.
If the angle is wrong, it will be difficult to detect.
Shi Pengfei was also convinced, "Your eyes are amazing!"
Tang Jixue was confused: "What does this prove? Maybe she was too excited and scared at the time and forgot to say such a thing?"
"How could she have the time to mess around in that situation?"
"That's true."
Tang Qingqing added: "But this is not the point. According to the footprints, she had been in and out of the bathroom and mopped the floor."
Tang Jixue's eyes widened, "What does she want to do?"
"There was so much blood at the scene, it's impossible for the murderer to leave no trace at all. When he left, he must have left footprints, but they were cleaned up."
Shi Pengfei's eyes lit up, "There really is something wrong with her!"
Tang Jixue was incredulous: "That can't be possible. Her sister is so good to her. If it weren't for her sister, how could she have gone to the city? Is she okay?!"
Shi Pengfei can no longer stay here. This is an important clue.
Once it is proven that there is something wrong with Zhao Lixiang, we can start from this direction.
"Comrade Tang Qingqing, you have helped us a lot!"
"I hope this will help you with your subsequent investigation. It's a pity that we didn't see the murderer's shoe prints, otherwise it would have provided more clues."
“This is already a major discovery!”
The forensic doctor had collected fingerprints from the mop before, but only found those of Zhao Lixiang and her sister, not the murderer.
Zhao Lixiang also often came to help her sister with work, so this was not surprising.
At that time, everyone thought that the murderer had anti-detection capabilities and wore gloves when committing the crime.
On the way back, Shi Pengfei no longer paid any attention to Tang Qingqing and her brother and sister. He rode away on his bicycle as fast as the wind, looking very anxious.
Tang Jixue looked at Shi Peng's back as he flew away and sighed, "The salary is not much, but he works harder than anyone else."
"The sense of accomplishment brought by work cannot be replaced by money."
"Do you really want to do this in the future? Is it worth it to be so busy every day?"
Tang Qingqing tilted her head and thought carefully.
“I don’t know if it’s worth it, but I like this kind of work.”
"Don't girls like to be pretty? Our family is not without ability, why do you have to work so hard?"
"You don't have to work so hard on your own. Your parents can pave the way for you. Why don't you go?"
Tang Jixue laughed: "It seems that we are the only two in this family who can reach an agreement on this topic."
Tang Qingqing raised an eyebrow and looked at him, "More than that."
She heard that Tang Zhenzhen also supported him in doing business.
Tang Jixue knew what she was thinking and said, "If Zhenzhen knew that I was going to sell socks on the street, she would probably feel very embarrassed."
"You're going to sell socks? Haven't you outsourced the hair ties?"
"You can't make too much profit from the price difference, that would make you a capitalist. And I know those people, so I can't be too ruthless. It's not something valuable, it's not appropriate."
Others can't do these things, but Tang Jixue can, so it's reasonable for him to charge some fees, but the profit is still relatively limited.
He still has to do his own business, so that he won't be easily caught by others.
"Are you planning to sell socks yourself?" Tang Qingqing looked him up and down.
If you sell this thing, you will definitely be laughed at.
"What are you looking at me like? Are you looking down on me? It's just selling socks, what's the big deal?"
"I'm afraid your parents will beat you to death."
The son of a machinery factory director had a good job but he chose to go door to door selling socks.
Tang Qingqing could already imagine what the scene would be like when this matter reached the ears of Tang Jianguo and Su Rong.
Through his connections, he got some hairpins and flowers so that the educated youth returning to the city would have something to do. Although this might not seem like a good thing when word got out, it did show the spirit of mutual help.
But if Tang Jixue started selling socks himself, the situation would be completely different.
"So I'm going to sell it in another area! You can't tell anyone at home."
Tang Jixue didn't want to challenge his parents' bottom line, so he tried to develop his career outside first.
"I have nothing to say. It's just that truth cannot be hidden. You have to be prepared for the storm."
Tang Jixue shook his hair and said, "I am such an outstanding talent, but I have to go from street to street selling socks. What's there to be afraid of?"
On the day Tang Qingqing went to school to register, the theft case made progress.
When she went to the Public Security Bureau, Shi Pengfei took the lead in applauding her.
"Comrade Tang Qingqing, thank you for this discovery!"
The suspect Zhang Yaoguang actually has a twin brother! Who would have known that such a thing could happen.
When the two brothers were born, the younger brother came out too late and was suffocated, so his condition was very bad.
Zhang Yaoguang's parents had no money to treat his child, so they just abandoned him in the hospital and ran away.
Unexpectedly, the hospital saved my brother's life and he was adopted by a childless couple.
Before Zhang Yaoguang's parents passed away, they told him that he had such a younger brother, but they didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
Zhang Yaoguang went there to investigate based on the information given by his parents, and unexpectedly he actually found this brother who looked exactly like him.
Shi Pengfei: "Not long after Zhang Yaoguang's brother was adopted by his foster parents, he had his own child. His situation suddenly fell to the bottom. His foster parents treated him worse and worse, shouting at him in various ways, and often beating and kicking him. As a result, he had no feelings for his foster parents, so he hung out with Zhang Yaoguang."
"Zhang Yaoguang has been a bad person since he was a child. When he saw his younger brother who looked like him, he came up with this idea. If the older brother went to steal something, the younger brother would deliberately show up in front of others. If he was discovered, he would have an alibi. If the younger brother went to steal something, the older brother would deliberately run in front of others."
Tang Qingqing glanced at Zhang Yaoguang's brother and found that it matched the shoe prints left behind.
"I was fooled by these two guys! Fortunately, you discovered this."
This matter is quite difficult to investigate. If Tang Qingqing hadn't been so sure, it would not have been a good idea to bother the police there.
Compared with this case, Tang Qingqing is more concerned about another case.
"How is the progress of the family murder case?"
"She confessed. Zhao Lixiang did clean up the scene. She refused to admit it at first, but she confessed only after we caught the murderer."
When Tang Qingqing heard this, her heart sank: "Who is the murderer?"
"He is Zhao Lixiang's daughter's boyfriend."
After confirming that there was something wrong with Zhao Lixiang, they conducted further investigation into her social relationships and discovered the problem.
Zhao Lixiang's eldest daughter is already sixteen years old. She stopped studying after graduating from elementary school and has been helping her family. She also has a boyfriend in the city.
The man was a local, but his family was not well off and he was a bit stupid.
He often went to the grocery store to help the mother and daughter move things, but Zhao Lixiang never liked this future son-in-law and always wanted to break them up.
Zhao Lixiang thought her daughter could find someone better, but her daughter was determined to be with this man, and the mother and daughter had quarreled over this.
Tang Qing frowned.
"At first, the murderer wanted to take all the blame on himself. It was Zhao Lixiang's daughter who didn't notice the interrogation and took the initiative to confess that everything was planned by Zhao Lixiang. She said that if she didn't do this, she wouldn't let the two of them be together."
"Zhao Lixiang is still being stubborn and only admits that she recognized the owner of the footprints. She thought that her sister's family had already died and she couldn't get more people involved, so she cleaned up the traces and didn't want another person to be harmed by this incident."
Tang Qingqing was even more incredible, "Why? Aren't they sisters very close? Why did she kill him?"
"We are still investigating further, but according to the information collected so far, the relationship between the two sisters may not be as good as it is said. Zhao Lifen's son often bullies Zhao Lixiang's younger son, especially the older son who is particularly naughty and is usually a bully in school. Teachers often report this to Zhang Xingli and Zhao Lifen, but Zhao Lifen doesn't take it seriously. If her son hits someone and the other person retaliates and injures him, Zhao Lifen will scold the child and his parents.
The eldest son bullied his cousin who was about the same age as him. He would throw homework to him and sometimes tease and bully him for fun. A child once heard Zhao Lifen's eldest son scold Zhao Lixiang's youngest son, saying that their family was a parasite and that if it weren't for their family, they would have died outside, so he had to do whatever she said.
Children's attitudes are often influenced by their parents.
If the two sisters had such a deep affection for each other, then the children of both families should not have said such harsh words and done such terrible things.
Even if it was done, given the relationship between the two families, they would have communicated early on, criticizing when necessary and comforting when necessary.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen, and the situation got worse and worse.
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