Chapter 350 Asking the Mi Po As
Su Zhixiong rushed to the villa, Yi Jiayi was alone in the study with Mr. Zhao about her progress.
There were many uncertain things that she would not easily tell the old man, but the change that the case was considered a homicide must be informed.
"...Mr. Zhao, the police reopened this case as a homicide this morning, and my work here is also completed." Jiayi said, thinking about how much of the next content should be revealed to the victim's family.
As the father of the deceased, Mr. Zhao does have the right to know the truth, but the more details of this matter Mr. Zhao knows, the heavier the emotional burden will be.
"I know that the police station called me this morning and requested to recall Li De's body stored in the funeral home to the police station." Mr. Zhao closed his eyes tightly and pinched his brows. After a few moments of silence, he raised his head and said tiredly:
"Su Zhixiong is a good kid. I know he will work hard to solve the case. But sometimes people in the police station are under too much pressure and disturbed by loud noises, and they are unable to give full play to their abilities.
"And Officer Yi has made a breakthrough in such a short time since he came here. I trust you even more in my heart. My expectations for this case are actually all on you.
"I know this is not your obligation. When I mentioned this to Officer Fang before, I agreed to ask him to come here just to comfort him, but now..."
He sighed helplessly and continued with difficulty:
"The case is still handled by Su Zhixiong and his team... Officer Yi, can you stay for a while longer? Just be my personal consultant, it won't be too much trouble for you."
Jiayi was a little concerned about her work and family in Hong Kong. It was uncertain when Zhao Lide's case would be solved. If she agreed, would she stay here until the case was solved?
"I will add another 1 million Hong Kong dollars. Please don't refuse. This is the reward I should pay." Mr. Zhao said and looked at Yi Jiayi eagerly:
"I wonder if Officer Yi is used to the living and eating here?"
He has been fighting in the business world for many years and has not asked for help like this for a long time.
It is not easy to ask a younger person like this now.
Jiayi waved her hand and said, "That's not what I meant, Mr. Zhao. The 2 million Hong Kong dollars you paid before is already a lot. It is enough for me to buy a house when I return home. I can't ask you for more money."
She took a deep breath and saw that Mr. Zhao wanted to talk, so she explained,
"The reason I hesitated is that I missed my family and I am not sure how long it will take to solve this case, and I am not sure if I can really help."
"15 days, okay? If it exceeds this time and the case is still not solved, I will never keep Officer Yi any longer." Seeing that she was still thinking, Mr. Zhao finally gritted his teeth and said firmly to dispel Yi Jiayi's concerns:
"As long as you stay, you will be in charge of the Zhao family."
The Zhao family he was talking about was not just the people in the house, but also the power that his money and status could influence.
Jiayi was a little surprised at Mr. Zhao's decentralization. He trusted her so much when he had only met her for a short time...
The feeling of being counted on and relied on turned into an unspeakable sense of mission. The passionate young man could no longer refuse the request of the old man in front of him. Although she felt the pressure behind this trust, she still nodded.
"Thank you, Officer Yi." When Mr. Zhao saw that she agreed, he relaxed the breath he had been holding before, and he looked tired and weak.
There was a knock on the door, and Yabo's voice came in: "Master."
Logically, Yabo knew that he was talking to Yi Jiayi and shouldn't come to disturb him.
After frowning and answering, Mr. Zhao first conveyed that during this case, Yi Jiayi was granted the right to deploy troops at will in the Zhao family, and Yabo had to cooperate 100%.
Yabo hurriedly responded, and then he looked at Yi Jiayi with a strange expression, and then he said hesitantly:
"Master, Officer Yi, the second young master invited a fortune-teller to ask the eldest brother's ghost who is the murderer. In the living room, everyone else has already rushed over..."
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Yi Jiayi was completely stunned when she heard Yabo's words.
She really didn't expect Zhao Er to have such a shameless operation.
After a moment of silence, she suddenly realized something, "That is to say, everyone is in the living room now, right?"
Yabo didn't understand what she meant, so he just nodded.
Jiayi pursed her lips and pondered what she was going to say, then turned to Mr. Zhao and said,
"Mr. Zhao, I have an idea, but it's not very mature yet... I want to ask the police to test the shoes of the eldest young master, and I need the cooperation of the family. I didn't want to make a fuss, after all, this idea is only in the initial stage, and now it happens that everyone is not in their room, can we apply for-"
Mr. Zhao heard the meaning behind these words: the person she suspected was in this villa.
With a sad smile, Mr. Zhao nodded and said,
"No problem, Madam Yi, just go ahead and do it, I trust you completely."
He has been in business all his life and knows how to trust people. Now he wants to ask her to continue to be in charge of this matter and has given her some power. Of course he has to support such a thing.
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After getting Mr. Zhao's approval, Jiayi immediately found a place where no one was around and called Su Zhixiong:
"Officer Su, can you ask a forensic colleague to sneak into the villa from the backyard without alerting the people in the living room, and do an inspection in Zhao Lide's room to collect all the footprints and dust from the leather shoes in his shoe cabinet?"
"OK, I'll contact the forensic department right away." Su Zhixiong, who had already knocked on the door, looked at Yabo in front of him, nodded, and left with his mobile phone. He walked to a place far away where no one else could see him, and dialed Tian Hu's number:
"Officer Tian, please send someone to help with the inspection... Mr. Zhao agreed, and no search warrant is needed... But they have to jump in from the backyard in a low-key manner, and don't alert others for the time being."
"No, I'll do it myself!" When Tian Hu heard that they were going to Mr. Zhao's villa, thinking that he might see Yi Jiayi in person, he immediately made a decision and jumped up from his chair to set off. "
But I have to jump over the wall--" Su Zhixiong thought of Tian Hu's not very agile figure, and the small belly that was obviously not representative of an office police officer running field work...
"It doesn't matter, I can jump!"
"...Okay, I'll wait for you."
In less than half an hour, Tian Hu appeared at the backyard wall of the Zhao family villa with his tool box.
With the help of Su Zhixiong and Dai Gui, Tian Hu finally jumped into the yard. Although his knees were rubbed raw and his wrists were scratched, he still walked with Yabo through the back door and turned from the servants' porch to the second master bedroom.
With leaf stems on his head, mud on his wrists, and a hole on his knees... Tian Hu carefully inspected the bedrooms and study rooms of Zhao Lide and his wife Zhao Wang Yuqing in this desperate state, and carefully collected several pairs of soles of the same brand of leather shoes that the deceased was wearing when he died -
Zhao Lide had 5 pairs of shoes of the same brand, including 3 pairs of the same model but different colors, which obviously showed that he loved this style very much.
After collecting the contents of the soles of three pairs of leather shoes of the same style and soles as the deceased, Tian Hu made a preliminary judgment on one of them:
"The soles of this pair of shoes have a faint smell of incense ash. I need to go back and do some tests to confirm it. It's very suspicious."
Su Zhixiong nodded, and then stretched out his hand to Tian Hu: "I asked you to bring the tracker?"
"Here." Tian Hu hurriedly took it out of the small box and handed it to Su Zhixiong.
This was what Yi Jiayi suggested Su Zhixiong bring. If their investigation can be kept confidential, it would be great. If it cannot be kept confidential, and someone finds out that the police secretly suspected these pairs of shoes, then the biggest possibility is that they want to destroy the evidence that was found.
If there is a tracker in the shoe, once its location changes, the police will have enough reason to go out - whoever steals the evidence will be the most suspicious.
Mr. Zhao agreed, and there is absolutely no procedural problem for the police to do so.
Su Zhixiong touched the inside of the shoe, considered it, and pressed the tracker under the tongue, which is already the least likely to be found.
"Done, then when can we see Officer Yi?" Tian Hu stood up, rubbed his waist that was twisted when jumping over the wall, and looked around expectantly.
"Ah... Officer Yi is in the living room. It will be very suspicious if she leaves, so she must be there the whole time." Su Zhixiong had an expression of 'don't you know'.
"..." Tian Hu.
Jumping over the wall in vain and falling!
Gritting his teeth, Tian Hu thought that since he was already here and couldn't see Yi Jiayi, he had to collect more clues.
In addition, he had already asked Chen Guangyao, a senior forensic chemist in Hong Kong, to do something... he had already asked, so he had to ask more.
In the end, he simply asked Ya Bo to lead the way, and took photos of the footprints of several other young masters in the study room of the second young master Zhao with the door open, the bedroom of the third young master Zhao, where the servants could clean, and so on. Then he followed Su Zhixiong and Dai Guishun and quietly left through the corridor behind.
After a few breaths, Yi Jiadong stood up from the long table and went to the kitchen to pour himself a drink of water. Looking up, through a very small window leading to the backyard from the kitchen, I saw a slightly plump figure, hunched over, limping towards the wall of the backyard covered by a big tree.
"?" Yi Jiadong raised his eyebrows in confusion, but thinking that this was someone else's house, he kept silent. Thinking that he would quietly tell his sister about it later, he poured the water and returned to the long table.
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In the living room, the pretentious preparations of Wen Mi Po in the early stage finally ended. At this time, the summoning of spirits was at its highest stage. All the candles on the table suddenly went out with a puff. Wen Mi Po rolled her eyes and became crazy in an instant.
She kicked the chair away with one foot, twisted her body like a machine, and her joints made a crackling sound, and she slowly stood up.
Yi Jiadong straightened his back nervously, and at the same time he was a little worried: Is this old lady suffering from severe arthritis?
The rice-hunting lady certainly didn't know what was going on in Yi's mind. She was performing with all her heart, like a madman, and scared several people at the long table so much that their faces turned pale with nervousness.
Even Zhao Er, who invited the rice-hunting lady, swallowed several times in horror. His mouth was obviously dry, but he was too nervous to drink water.
"Ahhhhh... Ahhhhh..." The rice-hunting lady gradually made strange, inhuman sounds, and began to point at everyone present with her shaking arms, not even Yi Jiayi and Yi Jiadong.
Zhao Er saw the situation of Wen Mi Po and even pointed at Yi Jiadong and Yi Jiayi who could not possibly be the murderer. He could not help but feel a little embarrassed. Fortunately, Wen Mi Po quickly turned her finger away.
She kept muttering:
"Ahhh, the one who killed me... the one who killed me..."
and began to tremble like crazy.
Everyone frowned and clenched their fists, waiting nervously, and suddenly footsteps were heard at the door.
The thump thump thump sound frightened everyone's backs, and they turned their heads with horror - it turned out to be the third young master Zhao Liqin who was called back from school by Zhao Er.