Cooking (VI)
As soon as the arrest warrant for Xiao Tongzhang was issued, a team of people could no longer sit still.
"Did Gu Fang really solve the case? That must be fake. Our team hasn't made any progress in a year."
"The arrest warrant has been issued. Gu Fang will go to arrest the suspect personally. I estimate that the case will be closed before the Spring Festival."
"It's over. This is a slap in the face of our team. How can we continue to show up in front of the Second Detachment?"
"As far as I'm concerned, we'd better solve the case ourselves. If we can't solve it, we'll be embarrassed at home. If we hand the case over to someone else and they can't solve it, it's fine. But they solved it in just over two months, and we'll be embarrassed everywhere."
Du Zhenhai's face turned pale as he listened to their discussion. He didn't believe that Gu Fang had really solved the case.
Du Zhenhai went to find Zhang Changming, who was on the phone with a happy look on his face. After hanging up the phone, Zhang Changming said, "Zhenhai is here, sit down."
Du Zhenhai stood still, "Did Gu Fang really solve the case?"
"We have to wait until we catch the suspect and interrogate him before we can make a final decision. I estimate the probability is 70%."
Du Zhenhai's face turned even uglier, but he didn't want to admit defeat, so he forced a smile and said, "70%, I thought it was 100%."
"Zhen Hai, you are an old comrade with rich experience in handling cases. Gu Fang is young, has many ideas, and thinks quickly. You are both the backbone of our bureau. You should learn from each other and make progress together."
Du Zhenhai snorted, "Anyway, I'm old, and it's time to give way to the young people."
"Du Zhenhai!" Zhang Changming became serious. "It was you who said that there were too many old cases and that we should give some to Gu Fang. I agreed. Now that the case has been solved, what's your attitude? Du Zhenhai, you are the captain of the second team. Everyone in the team is watching you."
Du Zhenhai lowered his eyelids, "I will definitely solve a case for you to see."
…
Gu Fang led people to arrest Xiao Tongzhang. Xiao Tongzhang had no intention of resisting arrest and cooperated very well.
The provincial department personally supervised the case and ordered the Qi County police to seal off Xiao's home and conduct tests on the shadow puppets at Xiao Tongzhang's residence. Due to the heavy workload, forensic doctors from the municipal bureau and several counties and cities were transferred here.
One group is responsible for marking and collecting samples, and the other group is responsible for testing. An Xin was assigned to the collection team, and Shen Xingyan was assigned to the testing team.
The quantity is really large, and a lot of experimental equipment has been collected.
After the test results came out, everyone was very depressed, as 3 different types of skin tissues were detected. That is to say, in addition to Yang Pan, there are two other people, and these two people are young women between the ages of 18 and 25.
Currently, the DNA database is incomplete and cannot match the deceased, so the DNA can only be preserved first.
Gu Fang suddenly interrogated Xiao Tongzhang, but Xiao Tongzhang denied anything. He only said, "I don't know anything about what you are talking about. I bought the leather, but I don't know where they came from."
Gu Fang asked him for the supplier's contact information, but he said he had nothing to tell him. Gu Fang even wanted to hit him.
Compared with Gu Fang's impatience, Xiao Tongzhang was much calmer. He seemed to be sure that the police had no evidence. As long as he keeps silent, the police will no longer have the right to detain him after 48 hours.
Gu Fang was walking around in circles in the office, and he even wanted to ask the wealthy businessman from Hai City to come and testify.
Jiang Shengyu scratched his head in annoyance, "We know he's the murderer but we can't do anything about it. Captain Gu, Qiu Ming and I will go find a witness!"
"Where can I find it?"
"Xiao family, I don't believe it. No one came out to testify."
Gu Fang shook his head. "It's useless. If they could find me, why would they wait until now? The entire Xiao family, including the workers, have already colluded with each other."
"We're just going to wait like this?!"
"No, there will be a breakthrough, but I haven't thought of it yet." Gu Fang locked himself in the room and sorted out the entire case.
Yang Pan became interested in shadow puppetry after listening to Zhan Weiyi's speech, and learned how to make shadow puppets from Zhan Weiyi. After learning it, Yang Pan got bored. In order to keep her, Zhan Weiyi told her about the Xiao family.
Yang Pan then went to the Xiao family to seek further improvement in his shadow puppet making skills, and thus met Xiao Tongzhang.
After his skills were improved, in order to make better shadow puppets, Yang Pan turned to pursue better leather. The year I graduated, I went to the Xiao family again.
Did she find better leather in the Xiao family? What if Xiao Tongzhang told her that the best skin was human skin?
Sparks suddenly flashed in Gu Fang's mind. He opened the door and quickly walked towards the interrogation room.
Xiao Tongzhang chuckled, "Captain Gu, have you figured it out?"
Gu Fang also smiled and sat down with his legs crossed. "See if my guess is right. You asked Zhan Weiyi to give speeches at various schools. On the surface, it seems that you are developing members of the society, but in fact, you are helping you find candidates for the leather.
Zhan Weiyi's society is like a deformed shadow play. He perversely requires everyone to act like a shadow puppet. He saw himself as the director of the whole play and the savior. ”
"I don't even know the Zhan Weiyi you're talking about."
"Don't worry, let me explain slowly. Zhan Weiyi will introduce the qualified students to the Xiao family, and then you will personally check them. You brainwash the students, if they agree to sacrifice, you will follow their wishes; if they disagree, you will kill them.
What you want is their skin, and as long as the goal is achieved, their wishes are not important. ”
Zhan Weiyi laughed out loud, "Captain Gu is really good at telling jokes. I don't have that ability."
Gu Fang stared at him coldly and continued, "The year Yang Pan graduated, she went to the Xiao family to look for better leather. You told her that human skin is the best. If you want to get good leather, you have to skin a person alive. If the person is dead, the skin will not look good. You need warm, living skin to make the best shadow puppets.
You specifically target young girls because their skin is delicate and better suits your needs. ”
Xiao Tongzhang had a blank expression on his face. "Captain Gu is really good at guessing, but unfortunately he is wrong."
"But your expression tells me that I guessed it all right. You can refuse to speak, but Zhan Weiyi can't." Gu Fang stood up and ordered Jiang Shengyu to arrest Zhan Weiyi in front of him. He turned around and grinned at Xiao Tongzhang, "Once he confesses, the situation will be different."
Xiao Tongzhang closed his eyes and stopped talking.
Gu Fang left the interrogation room. Jiang Shengyu asked if they really wanted to arrest Zhan Weiyi. Gu Fang said, "Arrest him. Even if he is not the mastermind, he is an accomplice. After arresting him, bring him to trial immediately!" Jiang Shengyu and Qiu Ming went to arrest him immediately.
Qi Jiabao stood behind Gu Fang, holding the transcript, with a look of admiration on his face. When would he become so majestic?
…
Zhan Weiyi was caught, but like Xiao Tongzhang, he refused to admit it. He said he didn't know Xiao Tongzhang, but the Xiao family was too famous and the entire shadow puppet world knew about it. When I introduced Yang Pan to the team, I was just trying it out.
No matter how Gu Fang interrogated him, he refused to change his words.
As a result, they caught two, and neither of them spoke.
Xiao Tongzhang will be released in ten hours. If we can't find a breakthrough within these ten hours, it will be difficult to catch him.
Must race against time!
Gu Fang walked around the room, drawing the relationship diagram on the blackboard again and again.
Suddenly there was a sound of talking. Shen Xingyan came and Qi Jiabao was telling her that the case had reached a stalemate and no breakthrough had been found. Shen Xingyan, however, was smiling, as if he had everything planned out for himself. Standing next to her was Professor Zhong Jiaoren, who had drawn the sketch of the deceased.
Gu Fang stared at Zhong Jiaoren, his eyes becoming increasingly deep.
Shen Xingyan walked up to him and said, "I found a witness."
"Him?" Gu Fang looked at Zhong Jiaoren.
Zhong Jiaoren nodded, "Hello, Captain Gu, we meet again."
"You? Accuse Xiao Tongzhang?" Something flashed through Gu Fang's mind, but he couldn't catch it so quickly.
Zhong Jiaoren nodded, his eyes looking into the distant past, "I also have another name, Xiao Tongwu."
Gu Fang:! ! !
Not only Gu Fang was shocked, but Jiang Shengyu and the others were also shocked. They didn't expect that Zhong Jiaoren was actually the missing Xiao Tongwu.
This news was so explosive, and what was even more explosive was that the person who found him was Shen Xingyan!
Shen Xingyan's image in their hearts suddenly became taller. Jiang Shengyu patted Shen Xingyan's shoulder and said, "That's great, Xiao Shen. You can do great things quietly."
Qi Jiabao's eyes were bubbling, "Sister Chen is really the best!"
Yang Dawei and Wen Ke gave Shen Xingyan a thumbs up, and even Qiu Ming said, "That's great."
At this moment, Shen Xingyan was like the savior of the Second Team. In their eyes, she was shining with blingbling light.
Gu Fang looked at the team members praising Shen Xingyan unanimously and coughed, "Okay, praise them later, let's get down to business first." He nodded to Zhong Jiaoren and took him into the interrogation room.
When Xiao Tongzhang heard the door open, the corners of his mouth curled up, "Captain Gu, even if you catch Zhan Weiyi, it's useless. He can't testify against me."
"What about me?"
A low voice exploded in his ears. Xiao Tongzhang opened his eyes and saw a man with gray hair standing next to Gu Fang. He was in his fifties, wearing a black jacket with a black and white checkered shirt underneath. He seemed to have been immersed in books, and even his hair was written with the words "knowledgeable".
Gu Fang asked, "Does it look familiar?"
Xiao Tongzhang's pupils suddenly grew larger, "It's you! You're not dead yet?!"
Zhong Jiaoren sneered, "You are not dead yet, how dare I die? I live for this day."
Xiao Tongzhang laughed loudly, "I should have killed you in the first place! I have done nothing but pull out the weeds and not the roots. It is my own fault!"
"When I saw the skinned body, I knew you were the one who did it. I waited all these years for the truth to finally come out. These days, I have been living in trepidation, praying that Captain Gu will catch you soon. God has opened his eyes, after 40 years, my mother can finally rest in peace!"
Zhong Jiaoren's eyes were moist and his voice choked when he mentioned the word "mother".
Xiao Tongzhang stared at him resentfully, "You have everything since you were born. You have parents and a grandfather who love you. And you are so smart. Everyone in the Xiao family likes you and says that you are the hope of the Xiao family's future.
As for me, I was despised the moment I was born. I was an illegitimate child and could not be seen in public. I can’t eat at the dinner table, and I can’t even call him grandpa. We both have the surname Xiao, so why should you be so high and mighty while I should be trampled into the mud? !
You will never know what it feels like to sleep under three quilts in the cold winter; you will never know what it feels like to compete with dogs for food because you have no food; and you will never know what it feels like to be whipped by your father with a whip because you cannot learn how to make shadow puppets.
In order to make the shadow puppet well, I stayed up all night and my hands were cut all over by the knife. Even so, my father still dislikes me because I am not as smart as you, nor as likable as you. But I was clearly his child, and he was the one who insisted on having me with a woman outside! He didn't even ask for my consent! ”
Xiao Tongzhang wiped away the tears from his eyes fiercely, and a bitter look appeared on his self-deprecating mouth, but he said unwillingly, "We are all members of the Xiao family. What you have, I must have too. What you don't have, I must have too! After I took over the Xiao family, the Xiao family's industry expanded rapidly. In the entire shadow puppet world, who would not show respect to the Xiao family? If the Xiao family gave it to you, could you do it!"
Zhong Jiaoren was filled with hatred, "But you also pushed the Xiao family to ruin. You destroyed the Xiao family!"
Xiao Tongzhang was almost crazy, "So what! I have done what our ancestors did not dare to do. Shadow puppets made with human skin are the best!"
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