Chapter 150: The astonishing number of clues...
Manager Yu cleared a conference room and let them ask questions.
But before they could ask, he had already asked his secretary to pour them some water, frowning angrily.
"Oh my God, what the hell is this?"
He covered his chest, looking furious.
Qiu Jiang glanced at him and became even more certain that he must know a lot.
Maybe the breakthrough lies here.
Ji Mingcheng also got straight to the point.
"Hello, someone saw the deceased yesterday getting into a fight in his car. About an hour later, he was hacked to death. The woman in his car is likely the murderer. I'd like to know who she is."
Hearing his words, Yu Zeshan was not surprised at all. He curled his lips fiercely, his impatience and disgust visible to the naked eye.
"Who else could it be? It must be his mistresses. I've told him to tone it down a long time ago. He's already so old, his children have their own kids, can't he just live a good life with his wife? He always agrees, then he does it again. Now look what happened, he's even lost his life."
"It's a good thing he's dead. What a mess he's made of our company today. It's like a market. If the reporters hadn't been unable to get in here, our Wanhe would have been gloriously published in the newspaper. How am I going to explain this to my superiors then?"
He clapped his hands in anger.
Just now, the two of them have learned that Manager Yu is actually the head of the Wanhe Group in Anxi, and Gu Guangyu is his old subordinate. The two have worked together for more than ten years, and it can be said that Manager Yu has a deep understanding of Gu Guangyu.
Everyone in their company knew that Gu Guangyu was not very stable in his private life, but he was capable at work and never caused any big trouble, so they pretended not to know.
That is to say, I would give him some advice in private.
Who would have thought that he would become more and more aggressive. Not only did he seduce Party B, but he also had the other party come to the door with a knife. Fortunately, nothing serious happened last time.
What a shame! Just two or three days later, his wife and children came to make trouble and almost made a big fool of themselves again.
Thinking of this, he was furious. "Logically, I shouldn't expose someone's shortcomings after they've died, but police officers, look at this matter. Is there any way to end it now?"
"Believe it or not, there will be more troubles later!"
He was so sure that Qiu Jiang and Ji Mingcheng looked a little strange.
However, they soon found out why he said that.
Even the two of them did not expect that there were more than a dozen people who had open emotional entanglements with Gu Guangyu, including some small leaders and employees in their unit.
In addition, there are many beautiful women from the third-party companies.
Even though Gu Guangyu sometimes thinks he has hidden things very well, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. There are some things that once you do, someone will definitely know about them.
As the news spread from one person to another, their old colleagues and leaders knew a lot more.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have said that he had talked to Gu Guangyu before.
Who knows that they don't care at all.
Now someone has died, and this morning he received a barrage of calls from Gu Guangyu's family and the police.
My head was buzzing at that time and I felt like it was going to explode.
As expected, today, bad things happened one after another.
Their company was just preparing to perform well at the head office in order to secure financial support for the next year, but this incident suddenly happened. If he couldn't handle it properly, he would definitely not be fired, but he would forget about the financial support either, and would just have to wait for it to be divided up by branches in other regions.
The head office can only provide so much funds in total. If others divide it up, how can they survive well?
This made him even more angry and he just wanted to curse.
At the same time, this is also one of the reasons why he is fully committed to cooperating with Ji Mingcheng and others in investigating the case. He has only one request, which is that anyone he wants can be sent to investigate, but the case must be kept confidential if possible. He doesn't want the development of the entire Anxi branch to be affected by Gu Guangyu alone.
Ji Mingcheng was quite understanding and shook hands with him before leaving. "Please ask the people I just mentioned to come with us."
"Don't worry, I'll tell you right away."
Things were progressing quite smoothly here, and Qiu Jiang was very relieved.
After all, there were so many people, and it would be a bit troublesome for them to call them all back for an investigation. But this time, the company leader wanted to go, so no matter what their expressions were, they still went even if they cried their hearts out.
It was after seeing these women that Qiu Jiang and the others looked very strange.
The reason is simple, because these women have very similar styles, with big waves of various colors. Even though some of them are pretty and some are average-looking, they all have well-proportioned figures and look very healthy and energetic.
"Does he collect stamps?"
Deng Xingwang leaned close to Qiu Jiang's ear and spoke in great confusion.
"Who knows?"
Qiu Jiang didn't understand either, and in this case, the black shadows he saw were completely useless, because the shadows of these people were basically not much different, and the possibility of determining who the murderer was based on the black shadows was almost zero.
However, this does not prevent them from undergoing a DNA test first to see if any of them can match the hair and fingerprints found in the deceased's car, so as to narrow the scope of suspicion.
Afterwards, they began to conduct preliminary interrogations of the women whose fingerprints had been compared and DNA records had been kept. The most important thing was to determine their whereabouts yesterday afternoon. If there were any witnesses, that would be best so that they could eliminate suspicion first. If not, they would have to conduct more in-depth interrogations.
Although there are not many things to do, there are too many people. By the time we finish all these things, the whole day is over.
They didn't even have time to eat lunch and were starving. Fortunately, their season team had ordered food in advance, and after a while, the person who went out to fetch the food came back.
Everyone involved in the case was eating beef offal stew and rice in the conference room.
They were all concentrating on eating, no one looked up, which showed that they were very hungry.
The same went for Qiu Jiang. Although her eating posture was still very delicate, her speed was quite fast. By the time others had almost finished eating and started drinking water, she had also put down her chopsticks.
After everyone cleaned up the garbage in front of them, they began to report and communicate all the information they had currently about the Binhe Road murder case.
Qiu Jiang was in charge of clerical work, so right after the interrogation, she had already started sorting out the information from her colleagues, and now she was the first to start summarizing.
"Captain Ji, of the eighteen women who came to the police station for questioning, six are from Vanward Real Estate. Four of them were at the office yesterday afternoon, so they have a strong alibi. The other two took leave yesterday. One said she had a stomachache and stayed home all day. Since they're from out of town and live alone, there are no witnesses."
"Another person said she had back pain from working overtime over the weekend and went to the hospital yesterday. However, after checking with the hospital, and the time on her medical records, we can confirm that she went in the morning and bought medicine around 1:00 PM. This doesn't prove she was not at the crime scene between 2:00 PM and 4:30 PM."
"What's strange about this person is that she initially tried to confuse us, saying she'd been at the hospital all day. Later, when she learned we'd checked the hospital records, she became panicked and refused to reveal where she'd been yesterday afternoon. She simply kept insisting she didn't kill anyone. Because her testimony was inconsistent, I felt it was necessary to conduct further investigation."
"As for the other thirteen people, eleven are from Vanward's second party, including the design institute, construction company, material supplier, and property management company, etc. The other two are a girl at the car wash and a gas station manager. In total, ten of them have evidence to prove their whereabouts yesterday afternoon, but the remaining three have no evidence."
"That means out of the eighteen people, thirteen have alibis, and the other five don't. However, we can't confirm whether any of those with alibis are lying, and further verification is needed."
"Finally, the testimonies from each of you are still being compiled. They will be finished by tomorrow morning. I'm done."
Ji Mingcheng nodded slightly, and then he heard people exclaiming in surprise.
"Oh my god, eighteen, eighteen."
Because not everyone went for interrogation, we just learned about this number, and it is really hard not to be shocked when we heard this number.
Of course it’s not envy, but surprise.
Especially those who have girlfriends, they know very well how much girls want their boyfriends to accompany them. Just one partner can make them exhausted and contribute almost all of their after-get off work time. They really can't understand how anyone can handle so many women.
Aren’t you tired?
However, they did not dare to ask. After being surprised for a moment, they secretly complained in their hearts and listened obediently to the reports of other colleagues.
Ji Mingcheng looked at Wang Li at this time.
Wang Li had just been busy interrogating Chen Meihua and some of the deceased's relatives. He said succinctly, "Captain Ji, Chen Meihua has categorically denied killing Gu Guangyu, but she also has no alibi. Her excuse is that she was out on business yesterday, heading south and north of Binhe Road, and happened to be stuck in a traffic jam, so she basically wasted the entire afternoon on the road."
"Furthermore, Chen Meihua harbored deep resentment towards the deceased and repeatedly stressed during the interrogation that the deceased was a scumbag and should have died sooner."
When he said this, Deng Xingwang didn't understand.
"Brother Wang, this is not right. Didn't she go to Wanhe and make a scene a few days ago, asking Gu Guangyu to marry her? She should be very fond of Gu Guangyu, but I don't feel anything at all."
"Indeed, if she wanted the deceased to die so badly, why did she insist that he marry her? There's something wrong with that."
"That's exactly what I wanted to say." Wang Li continued.
"Because Chen Meihua said that the reason she was making a fuss was because Gu Guangyu had promised to hand over the promotion of Wanhe Jinfu to their company, but when the building was almost completed, he suddenly changed his mind and gave the advertising work to a competitor."
"For Chen Meihua's company, Wanhe Jinfu is definitely a big project. She definitely can't do such a big business that she lost out on. She had previously privately approached the deceased, but he kept evading her. She felt that he had tricked her. She wanted to teach him a lesson, but also wanted to use the opportunity of causing trouble to make the deceased give in and then give them the project. However, she didn't expect..."
The person is dead.
Everyone silently complemented him in their hearts.
But this is too jaw-dropping.
I just wanted to get a project, but I have to sleep with him.
Just sleep with him, you won’t get anything from the project.
It would be fine if he didn't get anything, but he still persevered and continued to think of ways to achieve his goal.
Even though they had seen many cases, they still gasped in shock when they encountered such a situation. They even couldn't help but wonder if other women were also involved with Gu Guangyu because they wanted something from him.
On this point, they actually guessed right a little.
Among these nineteen people, more or less all of them have some interest in Gu Guangyu.
And it's one-way.
Since Gu Guangyu has gained more or less benefits for them.
Whether it is a promotion, salary increase, commission or project winning, they always get what they want.
But at the same time, the price they paid was having sex with Gu Guangyu, and more than once. Otherwise, other people in the company would not have known that they were together.
Some of the women here even have spouses, and some of them naturally keep the secrets of their other halves a secret. But when they were questioned this time, they realized they could no longer hide it, and they cried breathlessly during the interrogation.
There are also some other objects that know it.
This part is mostly divided into two situations.
One type is that some people’s partners have also obtained obvious benefits. Even if they know about it, they pretend not to know, or they don’t know it on the surface, and just want to get the benefits.
The other type is that they had indeed heard rumors before, some of which had been confirmed, but they endured them for the sake of their family and children. However, they made a lot of noise when they first found out.
However, regardless of whether they knew it or not, few people came to the company to cause trouble over the years, for fear of offending Gu Guangyu and causing losses to their own interests.
Of course, Gu Guangyu is also very sensible. He always does everything he promised to do without any mistakes. This is also the key to the fact that he has been able to ensure that nothing has happened over the years even though he has had affairs with many women.
Chen Meihua's case is definitely an exception.
In fact, if nothing unexpected happened, Gu Guangyu would not regret what he promised. However, this time it was an old subordinate who he had worked with for a long time who came to him for the beg, so he agreed out of weakness.
Speaking of this matter, Qiu Jiang also learned some information.
"The deceased had a subordinate named Du Yingxia, who divorced early in life and raised her daughter alone. They had been in a superior-subordinate relationship for over ten years. Knowing Du Yingxia's family was struggling and that she hadn't asked him for help in all those years, and that the advertising company she recommended offered decent conditions, he agreed. However, Chen Meihua felt he was deceiving her, saying he had clearly agreed to something, but then changed his mind in the blink of an eye. That's why she went to their place to make a scene."
She heard all this from the front desk lady before she came back from Wanhe.
I don't know where she heard it, but she spoke with certainty. Plus, there were two other people next to her who also interrupted from time to time. It seemed that this matter leaked out from somewhere, so many people in their company knew about it.
Now it is convenient for them.
"Oh my goodness, it turns out none of the people he cheated with were true love, they were all just for personal gain."
The others were also shocked.
And if you count it this way, there are at least six people who have no alibi, and Chen Meihua cannot clear herself of the suspicion of killing the deceased out of anger because the deceased did not meet her demands, so she can only be detained for the time being.
Let’s put these aside for now.
Ji Mingcheng shifted his gaze to look at the others, "What else is going on?"
Jia Wang raised his hand. "Captain Ji, the knife manufacturer has found the knife sales list and sent it over. These women's names aren't on the knife purchase list. Instead, the deceased had purchased a knife, and the serial number matches the one on the murder weapon."
"Ah? Gu Guangyu bought it? Then how could the murderer have hacked him to death with a knife? He couldn't have thought the murderer truly loved him, so he tried to play the sympathy card to get forgiveness? And then he got himself into trouble? Did the murderer really want to hack him to death?!"
No, the knife was brought by the murderer.
Because it was pulled out from her arms and chopped, and besides...
"I am inclined to believe that the knife was brought here by the murderer."
As soon as she spoke, everyone stopped discussing and looked at her.
Qiu Jiang took a deep breath, stared at them, and said, "Don't forget, there were no fingerprints found on the knife handle, but the blood on the knife was not wiped off. It's very likely that the murderer had wrapped the knife handle with something, or perhaps he was wearing gloves, which prevented fingerprints from being left on it."
"But if the deceased brought it here, there would be no need for him to wrap the handle specifically."
You can't say that he loved the murderer so much that he was willing to die even though he knew the murderer wanted to kill him, and he didn't want the police to find him.
Besides, considering that he took advantage of his position to have improper relationships with so many women, it doesn't seem like he would love someone so much that he would be willing to be killed.
"That's true, but what if the murderer wiped off his fingerprints afterwards? That's not impossible."
Someone asked.
Qiu Jiang immediately replied, "This is related to the information I just mentioned."
And raised a question.
"Think about it, if the murderer really wanted to wipe the fingerprints, what posture would she use?"
"posture?"
"What postures are possible?"
They all gestured subconsciously, and soon Deng Xingwang's eyes lit up and he successfully got what she meant.
"I see. If I were the murderer, I would have pressed my hand against the blade to wipe the fingerprints off the handle. And since the murderer was able to kill someone with the knife, it proves she used a lot of force, so deep fingerprints would have been left on the handle. But when we checked, the handle was spotless, as if no one had ever used it. If that's the case, she must have used a lot of force to completely remove the fingerprints. So, she must have pressed the blade with a lot of force, otherwise the knife would have been pulled out."
"But don't forget that the blood on the knife was flowing smoothly, and there were no signs of being pinched. So it's unlikely that she wiped off the fingerprints. It's more likely that she wrapped it in advance or wore gloves. So I agree with Jiang Jiang's opinion. This knife was most likely brought by the murderer. It was clearly premeditated murder."
Everyone listened attentively.
Not to mention, his analysis sounded quite reasonable and we all started laughing.
"Xingwang is doing well, and he's getting stronger and stronger."
"Yes, that brain works really fast."
"Amazing! He's becoming more and more like a seasoned detective."
"Thank you so much! It's all thanks to my partner's guidance, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of this. But you can praise me more. It's really nice to hear that."
Deng Xingwang clasped his fists joyfully and made a request, which immediately livened up the whole audience.
"Hahaha--"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Finally, I can find some joy.
Ji Mingcheng knew that everyone was very tired after the day, so he did not disturb their lively atmosphere at all. He even crossed his arms and looked at them with a slight smile on his face.
Obviously, he also likes this atmosphere.
After a while of arguing, everyone got back to the point and someone even raised a question.
"If the murderer brought the knife, why would she have such a knife? Could it be that the deceased gave it to her? Or was it actually someone in his family who killed him?"
When this view was put forward, some people were dumbfounded.
Okay, that seems to make sense.
After all, few people would give kitchen knives as gifts to others. Buying a knife is more likely to be used by oneself, so who can get access to that knife?
My own family is most likely.
At this time, Chang Xuemin and Tong Beike had something to say.
"Although the deceased's family seems to be in a state of despair, they actually have a deep resentment towards him. After all, he had cheated on so many people, he certainly couldn't hide it from his family. We asked the deceased's neighbors, and they all said that because he refused to change his ways, his wife had been having affairs with other women. She had many hysterics and even suffered from severe depression for a period of time. She wanted to divorce him, but in the end, he knelt down and promised that he would never do it again."
"It's not like he hasn't done it again."
Jia Wang complained.
"That's right. His wife has been disillusioned with him for the past two years. She often turns her back on him and doesn't want to talk to him. Their children and the deceased's sister have tried to reconcile them more than once, but it seems to be of no use."
So if we're talking about murder, not only the 19 women who were called back today have a motive, but even his family members probably have one too.
The most important point is that the deceased's wife was unable to prove that she was not at the scene yesterday.
The reason was that their children had been married for a long time and no longer lived with them. Usually, only the couple lived in their home. The deceased was not at home that day, and his wife did not like to go out much, so naturally there was no evidence to prove that she was at home.
When everyone heard the news, they suddenly felt very tired.
"That's it. This is a lot of scope for further investigation. I feel like they're all quite suspicious."
"Who said it wasn't? What should I do?"
"You guys said this case wouldn't be the longest one we've ever solved, right?"
Faced with so many complicated issues, everyone couldn't help but make fun of themselves.
They now only have a hunch that this case is not that simple.
There will be more to check tomorrow.
They sighed.
At this time, Ji Mingcheng coughed lightly.
Everyone immediately sat up straight and looked at him.
"These are the clues we have at the moment. Everyone, please work hard tomorrow to verify the authenticity of their testimonies."
Everyone answered, "Yes."
"And Jiang Jiang, you should keep an eye on the trace examination tomorrow and try to get the results to the team as soon as they come out."
"Yes." Jiang Jiang said crisply.
"Xuemin, you and Tongbei continue to visit the deceased's neighbors. Wang Li will focus on interviewing the family tomorrow to see if he can find any information about the knife."
"Yes, Team Season."
The people who were called responded in turn, and then Ji Mingcheng stood up and announced that this was the end of the day.
"We'll do it tomorrow. Let's go home."
"Okay, thank you, Team Ji."
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