Chapter 214 Selling a Kidney I found a suspected kidney seller on a local forum...
The insider was the proprietress of a restaurant. She looked up and down at the photo they had printed out, nodding as she read: "Yes, yes, it must be him!"
She introduced him to Shen Qingye and the others: "This guy often hangs around our area. He has no money and no home. He is just a homeless man who makes a living by begging. The stores around here have been asked for money by him more or less. They are all annoyed by him. After all, a strong man who looks to be in his thirties or forties, with hands and feet, what can't he do? Beg?"
"The last time I saw him was yesterday afternoon, around... just after dark? Around six o'clock. I happened to have some free time at the time, so I took a look outside. I couldn't recognize him at first, but the more I thought about it, the more familiar he looked. Then I realized it must be him!"
Wei Zhengyi asked: "What was he wearing when you met him?"
The proprietress clapped her hands and said excitedly, "Hey, this is something to say! Why didn't I recognize him at first? It's because he was dressed so well. His clothes, wow, they all look like new! The same goes for him. His hair was originally long and messy, about here--" She gestured at her shoulders and said disdainfully, "It's greasy and all in clumps. Sometimes in the summer, he even has lice. I think he's dirty! But when I saw him yesterday, his hair was neatly cut, so clean and neat. If I didn't have a sharp eye, I might not recognize him if it was someone else!"
"And the clothes, the down jacket! There's an icon on it that looks like a duck or a goose. I've seen that brand when I went to the mall. A down jacket would probably cost at least 500 or 600 yuan! Not to mention the leather shoes on his feet, which must be expensive!"
Shen Qingye and Jiang Cheng looked at each other. The deceased did not have any down jacket or leather shoes.
He asked more details about the clothes and then said, "What is his name, do you know?"
The lady boss shook her head. "Hey, how would I know that? Who has time to ask his name? Anyway, those of us who don't like him usually call him a leper behind his back. He's annoying us all the time like a leper."
Wei Zhengyi thought for a moment and asked again, "Besides yesterday, when was the last time you saw him?"
"As for the last time..." The lady boss thought for a moment, "It seems to have been a week? Now that I mention it, I remember that I really didn't see him in the past few days."
"Then when you saw him that time, was there anything unusual about him?"
"Strange? What's strange?" The proprietress curled her lips and said, "Isn't it the same? He was sloppy and came here with a broken bowl to ask for money. I had a lot of customers at that time and was too lazy to pay attention to him, so I just gave him a dollar to send him off."
Jiang Cheng thought for a moment, then asked, "Do you know whose store he usually goes to on this street nearby?"
The proprietress mentioned a few more store names, and Shen Qingye and others went to ask one by one, and got similar answers.
Only the owner of a stir-fry restaurant provided another piece of information:
"Laizi, yes, he came to my place for dinner shortly after 7:30 last night."
Wei Zhengyi was shocked: "What did you order?"
The boss looked a little strange: "I ordered several meat dishes and a big bowl of pork rib soup. Oh, and I also brought two bottles of beer. I ate here by myself until almost nine o'clock and spent more than a hundred yuan! I remember it clearly!"
"I even told my family at the time, where did that guy get so much money? Did he do anything illegal? I felt that the hundred dollars was too hot to handle!"
When he said this, he couldn't help but ask cautiously: "Comrade police, does this...does this affect me? I don't know anything!"
Wei Zhengyi shook his head, thought for a moment and then asked, "About when did he leave yesterday?"
"When did you leave?" The boss thought for a moment and said, "I really can't remember. I didn't seem to care about it at the time..."
The lady boss nudged him with her elbow and said, "It should be before 8:45. Not long after he left, the last customer in the store also left. I thought it was getting late and snowing, so I wanted to close early. After I collected their plates, I checked the time. It was 8:45! Counting ten minutes earlier, that was probably the time he left."
Shen Qingye calculated that it would take less than ten minutes to walk from here to the alley on Jianshe Road. The deceased died at around eleven o'clock. The two hours in between were enough to freeze a thinly dressed person to death.
Shen Qingye asked: "When he left, was there anyone following him?"
"Following someone?" The couple looked at each other and shook their heads. "We don't know about that... But at that time, and with heavy snow, there shouldn't be anyone here, right?"
Shen Qingye paused and asked in a different way: "Are there any idle people coming and going in this area?"
The lady boss smiled when she heard this: "Is that still too little?"
She said, "Our area is considered an old city, with many people living here and no schools. There are many young men aged 16 or 17 or even older who don't go to school or look for jobs, and hang out on the streets all day. I know of two or three such cases!"
Shen Qingye's eyebrows moved: "What do they usually do?"
The lady boss waved her hands and said, "They don't do much, just wandering around, imitating the Hong Kong movies, the Young and Dangerous or something. The security here is pretty good, no one dares to ask for protection money openly. Besides, the people living around here are all old neighbors, and they know each other to some extent, so they dare not do anything."
Shen Qingye nodded, understood, asked some more details, and then said goodbye.
Not long after leaving, Zhou Qiming called and said that he had found the stores that sold underwear and down jackets to the deceased.
According to them, the deceased came to buy clothes at around five o'clock. He looked tattered and his cotton jacket looked like it had not been washed for more than ten years. He also smelled bad. At that time, none of them were willing to receive him, fearing that he would dirty their clothes. The clerk in the underwear store saw him touching clothes with his black and dirty hands, and after trying to persuade him gently for a few words, the clerk started arguing with him. In the end, Laizi directly took a set of long-sleeved shirts and long pants, threw the money in the clerk's face, and said that the clerk was looking down on him because he had plenty of money now, which made the girl cry for a while.
The same argument applies to down jackets. Based on information from several stores, we can roughly determine that the deceased entered the mall around six o'clock, bought a set of clothes, and left at around seven o'clock. After that, I strolled around the street and had a meal at around eight o'clock. I left the restaurant at around half past eight.
Luo Kaiyang suddenly said: "When I first came here, I saw that there seemed to be a lot of hotels on Jianshe Road. The reason why the deceased was there... was he trying to find a hotel?"
Wei Zhengyi nodded: "That makes sense. After you have money, you can eat and dress well, so the next step is to live well, right?"
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. After this, the whereabouts of the deceased before his death were almost clear. The next step is to determine who took the clothes and any money that might have been on the deceased.
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After setting the target, everyone started searching and inquiring separately, and finally in the afternoon, Zhou Qiming found a suspect.
When he was found, he had dyed his hair yellow and was walking around the street in a black down jacket with a flamboyant look on his face. But after seeing the police, his expression suddenly changed, and he turned around and ran away, just like a mouse seeing a cat. Zhou Qiming strode forward and subdued the man effortlessly. After interrogation, he learned that the man was only seventeen years old, a junior high school dropout, and had been hanging out on the streets all day with a group of kids of similar age.
The group of boys usually looked powerful and proud, but they were still young after all. After just a few words, they confessed all the crimes they had committed with them.
After Shen Qingye and others arrested the people involved in the case, they learned about the case from them.
The average age of this group of school dropouts is only 16 or 17 years old. They usually just hang around the streets and do nothing serious. But they don't dare to do anything illegal. It was not until yesterday afternoon when I was out playing that I happened to run into the deceased leper. I saw him swaggering into the mall, so out of curiosity I followed him. As a result, I saw him spend hundreds of dollars to buy a set of clothes without blinking an eye.
They were shocked when they saw the thick stack of money that Laizi took out. They felt envious and greedy, and followed him unconsciously until he came out of the restaurant and walked towards Jianshe Road. The group of people followed him for some unknown reason.
"It's not me, it's really not me, it's Sun Xiang, that guy who instigated it! He said that guy was a pauper before, but now he suddenly has so much money, and he doesn't know where it came from! We took his money, and it's also, it's also..."
He grunted and said nothing. Zhou Qiming knocked on the table with a cold face: "What is that?"
The young man shrank his neck and whispered, "It's also to get rid of harm for the people..."
Wei Zhengyi sneered, and the young man's face turned red and then pale. Finally, he couldn't help shouting, "But I really didn't know he had so little money! I wondered who would carry all their belongings with them. I thought it was just a small part of his savings. I really don't know, police officer..."
Hearing the word "uncle", Wei Zhengyi's eyes twitched and he said unhappily, "Alright, stop quibbling!"
"Tell me, how much money did you steal from him?"
The young man's eyes wandered: "Just, just two thousand yuan, we only pay one cent, so it won't be much..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Qiming slammed the table and said sternly: "Why don't you tell the truth? How dare you play tricks here?! Do you know where this is?"
The young man suddenly became alert and said in a tearful voice, "Twenty-one thousand six hundred and eight! Twenty-one thousand six hundred and eight!"
Several people looked at each other, and Zhou Qiming said in a deep voice: "I advise you to think about it carefully and stop having any evil intentions."
The young man said with a trembling voice: "I'm not playing tricks, I'm really not playing tricks! Uncle police, I really didn't lie this time, it's exactly 21,680, we counted it several times at the time!"
Wei Zhengyi asked: "Where's the money?"
The young man whispered, "We divided it among ourselves. I hid my share at home. I just spent a little money this morning to get a perm on my hair..."
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"More than 20,000 yuan, what can I do to suddenly have more than 20,000 yuan in just a few days?"
In the office, Zhou Qiming held the teacup in one hand, removed the foam on top, and took a sip slowly.
Shen Qingye sat against the wall, raised his hand and fiddled with the small stone, turning it over.
Luo Kaiyang was careless and said directly: "What else can we do? If we sell his kidney, won't we have one?"
As soon as these words fell, everyone raised their eyes and looked at him. Luo Kaiyang was a little confused and scratched his head: "What, what's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
Shen Qingye smiled: "That's right."
She leaned back in her chair and sighed deeply.
A missing kidney and suddenly an extra 20,000 yuan.
Her premonition came true. This case was indeed not that simple.
Wei Zhengyi turned his chair and said, "But now the victim is dead, he has no relatives or friends, and he doesn't even have a place to live. It's like all the clues on his side are gone. How can we investigate?"
"Yes, I can check." Jiang Cheng, who had been sitting in front of the computer silently, suddenly said, "I found a person who is suspected of selling a kidney on the local forum."
As he spoke, he turned the computer screen towards everyone, and everyone immediately came over after hearing his words.
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