Chapter 63: Bloodstains on the deceased’s electric bike.
When they arrived at the construction site, someone was already waiting at the door. When they saw them, they quickly came over and said, "The chief engineer and several other police officers are in the office."
Shen Qingye thanked them, walked quickly forward, pushed open the office door, and saw that Yue Lingchuan and others had arrived, and there were a few strangers standing in the room.
The project chief engineer was a little surprised to see Shen Qingye, but he quickly suppressed his curiosity and turned around to say to Yue Lingchuan politely: "Officers, to be honest, I just found out after asking that someone has indeed disappeared from our construction site in the past two days."
He nudged the middle-aged man in his forties next to him and introduced him, "This is Ding Guibing, Old Ding. He is a foreman on our construction site, and the missing man is one of his subordinates. If you have any questions, just ask him directly."
Ding Guibing quickly extended his hand and said, "Hello, officer! Hello, officer!"
Yue Lingchuan shook hands with him, thanked the project chief engineer, and then looked at him and said, "What is the situation of the missing person? Tell me in detail."
Ding Guibing said immediately, "Yes, yes, yes! The missing person is Feng Yuxue. He is my fellow villager, and has been working with me on projects over the years. He has been missing for about two or three days, it seems... the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday morning, when I went to work, I didn't find him on the construction site. I asked the person who lived with him, and he said that he didn't see him when he went back home last night. I didn't care at the time, thinking that he might go home late, and Lao Cao - the person who lived with him went to bed early. As a result, Lao Feng didn't come all day that day. Then I thought something was wrong, and I went to his house after get off work, and found that the door of his room was also locked, and I couldn't contact him. I thought maybe there was something urgent at home and he was in a hurry to go back, so I wanted to wait two more days to see." As a result, they appeared.
Yue Lingchuan sorted out the details and said, "That is to say, he was still working with you on the 23rd, but he didn't come on the morning of the 24th?"
Ding Guibing said: "Yes, he did go to work and leave work with us the day before. Everyone saw it."
Yue Lingchuan pondered for a moment: "Before that, did he tell you where he was going?"
Ding Guibing thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "That's not the case. But some time before he disappeared, his mother seemed to be ill and had not been in good health. He was working here and was worried about her. He told us many times. When I found out he was missing two days ago, I thought something happened to his mother and he was in a hurry to go back and didn't have time to tell us."
Yue Lingchuan pondered for a moment, then asked, "Where is the person who lives with him?"
Hearing this, Ding Guibing hurriedly pushed the person next to him and said, "It's him, Lao Cao, Cao Yuanjin."
A man in work clothes and a stiff look took a step forward stiffly and smiled uncomfortably, "Police, police comrade."
Yue Lingchuan said gently: "Don't be nervous, just tell the truth."
He nodded quickly and said, "Hey, hey, go ahead and say it."
"Are you sure Feng Yuxue didn't come back on the 23rd?"
Cao Yuanjin thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "He probably didn't come back. Anyway, I didn't see him when I was sleeping. It was almost ten o'clock at that time! I got up around six o'clock the next morning, and when I went out, his door was still locked. So I thought he might not have come back all night."
Yue Lingchuan asked: "No one has touched anything in the room?"
Cao Yuanjin shook his head: "No, it's the same as it was that night."
Yue Lingchuan exhaled, took out his phone, tapped it, and handed the screen to the two of them: "Take a look, is this the same piece of clothing he wore on the 23rd?"
Ding Guibing and Cao Yuanjin both came over and looked at the picture on the small screen, both of them were a little surprised.
Yue Lingchuan asked: "Are you familiar with it?"
Cao Yuanjin quickly came back to his senses, looked carefully for a while, and nodded firmly: "Yes, that's right, this is it!"
"Old Feng just likes to wear this kind of canvas pants, which are wear-resistant. And here," he pointed to the knee of his left leg and said, "When he was wearing this clothes, he accidentally fell on the construction site and his knee was bruised. He was reluctant to throw it away, so he went home and borrowed needles and thread from an old lady nearby to mend it himself, and he wore it to survive..."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the photo and suddenly realized something. He raised his eyes in a daze and said, "You, police comrades, what are you doing here?"
The picture only showed the lower body, and the image quality was rather blurry, so Cao Yuanjin couldn't see clearly, but he always felt that the legs seemed a little strange.
Yue Lingchuan glanced at him, put away his phone, and said, "If our guess is correct, Feng Yuxue may have been killed."
Cao Yuanjin's eyes widened instantly: "Murdered?"
Ding Guibing exclaimed: "He's dead?"
The project chief engineer standing by was also stunned. Shen Qingye observed their expressions carefully, and seeing that their shock did not seem fake, he slowly withdrew his gaze.
Yue Lingchuan said, "This morning, someone from Wuping Village not far away called the police and said that a body was found in their pond. According to the inspection, the deceased had been dead for about three or four days. This coincides with the time you said Feng Yuxue disappeared."
"This..." Ding Guibing shook his body, his face a little ugly: "How could this happen? How could someone die out of nowhere?"
He was the one who brought the person out, and now he died inexplicably. How should he explain to his family?
The project chief engineer said in a serious tone: "Wuping Village... is it the Wuping Village thirty miles away?"
Yue Lingchuan nodded.
The project chief engineer hissed, "It's so far...what is he doing there?"
Luo Kaiyang said: "He didn't run there by himself. Someone killed him and dumped his body there."
Ding Guibing suddenly raised his eyes: "You mean, he was killed by someone?"
He blinked and muttered belatedly, "Yes, yes, for no reason. He has elderly parents and young children to take care of. It's impossible for him to seek death..."
Yue Lingchuan said: "At present, we need to first confirm whether the deceased is Feng Yuxue."
He looked at Cao Yuanjin in front of him: "Where is his home?"
Cao Yuanjin said hurriedly: "His home is not far from here, just over 20 minutes' walk."
The project chief engineer was very understanding. Upon seeing this, he immediately said, "Xiao Cao, go back with the police officers first. Today is considered as a day's work. Please cooperate with the investigation."
Cao Yuanjin naturally had no objection and said hurriedly: "Oh, then officers, follow me."
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In the car, Cao Yuanjin pointed at the road and said, "I don't have the key to Lao Feng's room, but the landlord lives upstairs, so I can just ask him to open the door later."
Yue Lingchuan responded with a "OK".
Five minutes later, the car stopped at a dilapidated building. Shen Qingye looked around carefully. This should be the old city area that had not yet been demolished. The walls were yellow and looked quite old.
Walking inside, the corridor was narrow and dark, and the iron stair railings were covered with rust. Passing by the first and second floors, Shen Qingye looked inside. The house was similar in layout to a school dormitory, with rows of small houses and garbage piled up in front of each house.
Shen Qingye followed him up to the third floor without any expression, and saw Cao Yuanjin walking through the corridor, opening a shabby door, and leading everyone in.
He rubbed his hands again and said stiffly, "Officers, please wait here for a moment. I will go upstairs to call the landlord."
Yue Lingchuan agreed and winked at Zhou Qiming, who immediately stepped forward and said, "I'll go with you. It's not good to ask the landlord to open someone else's door for no reason."
Cao Yuanjin said: "Yes, yes, yes, I was negligent, I was negligent."
The two left the room together, and Shen Qingye looked inside the room again. The living room is in the shade, with no sunlight coming in, so it looks very dark. The space is not big, only about ten square meters, and it looks more like a separate space for people to move around. There is a long sofa on the left side of the room. It looks very shabby and must be quite old. In the middle was a square table and a few chairs, scattered with some pickles and some leftover steamed buns.
The floor of the living room was not very clean, the brooms were placed in a mess, and the leftover garbage was not cleaned up. The whole room was a typical scene for a man living alone, nothing unusual.
Just as Shen Qingye was observing his surroundings, footsteps were heard in the corridor. She looked up and saw that Cao Yuanjin and Zhou Qiming had returned, followed by a man in his sixties.
The other party's face looked unhappy and he cursed a few words. Shen Qingye vaguely heard him saying how could such a thing happen and that people must not die in his house and so on.
After coming in, he glanced at Yue Lingchuan and others, then quickly walked forward to the room near the inside. With a bunch of keys, he picked for a long time before picking one out. After a while, he opened the door.
"Officer, this is the room of... uh, Feng Yuxue." He said with an apologetic smile: "Then you see, there is nothing for me to do now, right? Can I leave now?"
Yue Lingchuan glanced at him and said, "No hurry, let's wait until we finish the inspection."
The landlord had no choice but to wait on the side.
The bedroom is smaller than the living room outside, probably less than ten square meters. It is simply furnished with a bed, a bedside table, a small wardrobe, and a kettle on the floor. Apart from two quilts and a water cup, there were no personal items. It was much cleaner than the living room.
Shen Qingye looked at the wall, raised his hand and knocked, looked at the landlord, and said, "Your house was originally a one-bedroom, right? Did you change it into a two-bedroom?"
The landlord said, "Yes, yes, it was originally a big house. It was modified to make it easier to rent it out."
Shen Qingye understood and walked to the bedside table, opened two drawers and took a look. There was nothing inside, it was empty.
Zhou Qiming moved to the bedside, took out the evidence bag, and picked up the hair scattered on the pillow to match it with the DNA of the deceased. He also lifted up the mattress and pillows to collect more information.
Wei Zhengyi opened the door of the closet and rummaged through a few scattered pieces of clothing. Suddenly he shouted, "Here! There's something in my pants pocket!"
Everyone quickly gathered around and saw him take out a stack of things from his trouser pocket. When they unfolded it, they saw some scattered cash, probably a few hundred yuan in total, and an ID card.
Yue Lingchuan raised his hand to take it and looked at the information above: Feng Yuxue, 43 years old, native of Anhui Province.
Zhou Qiming said: "He didn't take his ID card or money. It's basically certain that he didn't go home."
Luo Kaiyang and Jiang Cheng also said: "We didn't find anything unusual in the room, no useful information."
Shen Qingye looked around, her eyelashes drooping slightly. She didn't hear any sound here.
Yue Lingchuan looked at the photo on the ID card, put his hands on his hips, and took a deep breath: "At present, it can be confirmed that the deceased is Feng Yuxue."
Although Cao Yuanjin on the side had expected this, he still felt uncomfortable when he heard it.
Yue Lingchuan looked at him again and asked, "The deceased was hit on the back of the head and died. The murderer was ruthless and showed no mercy."
"Do you know who Feng Yuxue usually has a grudge against?"
Cao Yuanjin paused, then smiled bitterly and said, "Who can Lao Feng have a grudge against? He is a well-known good-tempered person. He is always honest and kind, and he is always cheerful when talking to anyone. Although some of the workers around him say he is stupid, no one really hates him."
Everyone frowned when they heard this. Zhou Qiming said: "Do you know who he had a conflict with recently? Or did he accidentally offend someone, and someone holds a grudge against him, so he did this cruel thing?"
Cao Yuanjin hissed, and thought again and again: "If there is a conflict... eh!" His eyes lit up: "I actually thought of someone!"
Wei Zhengyi asked hurriedly: "Who?"
Cao Yuanjin said: "There is a man named Su Jinfu who works with us. He is a smooth talker and also a sly worker. More importantly, he likes gambling and often plays cards with his co-workers. Sometimes he can't stop playing and all his money goes into the game. When he has no money, he comes to borrow from his co-workers. But everyone knows what kind of person he is. If you lend him money, wouldn't it be like throwing it away? No one is willing to do that. A few people lent him money, but after a long time they couldn't get it back, so they didn't like him anymore.
"As for Lao Feng, I have lent him money several times before, but he never asked for it back. I advised him not to lend money anymore. It's not better to save the money for his wife and children than to give it to him. He listened to me at first, but the good thing about him is that he is honest, but that's also the bad thing about him! He is easily influenced and can't stand others saying nice things to him. Su Jinfu also bullies him in this way. He always stays close to him, saying nice things and making all kinds of promises. Lao Feng can't stand it every time and will lend him some money. Adding it up... I estimate it's about two or three thousand. Su Jinfu only pays back one or two hundred each time, which is far less than what he borrowed. Lao Feng is shy and embarrassed to ask him for the money."
Cao Yuanjin shook his head. "Then... last month, in the middle of the month, Lao Feng's family called and said his mother was sick and had been in the hospital. She needed medicine and surgery, which would cost a lot of money. Lao Feng had invested all his savings, but he was still short of money. He found Su Jinfu and wanted him to pay back the money. But the bastard said he would pay back the money after he got his salary. But he disappeared on the day of his salary. The next day, Lao Feng found him, and the bastard took out two hundred yuan. When asked where the rest of the money was, he said he couldn't help playing cards with others last night and lost everything, leaving only these two hundred yuan."
He sighed, "How could Lao Feng agree to that? He chased him to pay back the money. But Su Jinfu insisted that he had no money. Lao Feng had no choice but to call the police if he didn't pay back the money. Su Jinfu panicked and said that he would give him some more time and he would find someone to help him pay back. But he has been waiting until now."
He looked at Yue Lingchuan: "If you want to tell me who Lao Feng had a conflict with, I can only think of him. It's possible that... he didn't want to pay back the money, but was afraid that Lao Feng would really call the police, so he killed him?"
Everyone looked at each other, and Shen Qingye asked, "Where is Su Jinfu now?"
Cao Yuanjin scratched his head and said, "He should still be at the construction site, right? I saw him there yesterday."
Were you still here yesterday?
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan looked at each other and walked out quickly: "Go back to the construction site!"
"Hey hey!" Cao Yuanjin hurriedly followed.
The car sped towards its destination, and less than five minutes later, it returned to the place it had just left.
They thought they had found a clue, but unexpectedly, Ding Guibing heard their purpose and asked in surprise, "Su Jinfu?"
He said: "Su Jinfu...seems not to be here today?"
"What?" Luo Kaiyang was stunned: "Didn't come?"
Ding Guibing saw that their faces were not right, so he turned around and looked around, then called out to the workers behind him, "Where's Su Jinfu? Is Su Jinfu here today?"
The workers who were working heard the sound, but no one responded.
Ding Guibing asked again: "Has anyone seen Su Jinfu today?"
A tall man shook his head: "No, I haven't seen Su Jinfu all day."
Others also said: "Yeah, he didn't come, I didn't see him during dinner."
“We didn’t see it anyway.”
"I guess he played cards with someone all night last night and didn't get up this morning?"
The surroundings suddenly became noisy. Shen Qingye's heart was slightly moved after hearing what they said. He looked at Ding Guibing and asked, "Does Su Jinfu not come here often?"
Ding Guibing wiped his sweat and said with a wry smile, "Yes! Officers, you don't know that Su Jinfu has always been lazy and doesn't work properly. Sometimes it's windy and rainy, and he doesn't come if he doesn't want to; sometimes he may play cards with others until midnight, and he can't get up in the morning, so he doesn't come. Whether he goes to work or not depends entirely on his mood, and everyone is used to it."
Luo Kaiyang asked: "If he doesn't come at this time, don't you care?"
Ding Guibing said, "How can we control that? We pay wages on a daily basis. If he doesn't come, he won't get paid for the day. We've known each other for such a long time, and we're a big company and we're short of people. It's not good to just kick him out."
Zhou Qiming asked: "Does he have a phone?"
Ding Guibing nodded: "Yes! He treats me very well. Everything I eat, drink and use is good. He bought me a cell phone when he just made some money!"
Zhou Qiming raised his head: "Give him a call and try."
Ding Guibing quickly responded with a "OK", took out his cell phone and dialed the number. The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered.
He looked at everyone: "No one answered this."
Cao Yuanjin asked, "Could he have drunk too much last night and passed out at home?"
Yue Lingchuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are you sure Su Jinfu came to work yesterday?"
Cao Yuanjin nodded vigorously: "Sure!"
Ding Guibing also said: "I saw him yesterday, he was definitely here."
Yue Lingchuan asked again: "Then was there any difference between him yesterday and usual?"
"The difference..." Cao Yuanjin thought for a moment: "Hiss...does it count as him being in a bad mood yesterday?"
Shen Qingye looked at it intently: "What do you mean?"
Cao Yuanjin said, "Su Jinfu, you can't say he has a very good temper normally, and he often has conflicts with his co-workers. But yesterday he seemed to be particularly irritable, and he would lose his temper at the slightest dissatisfaction. When I was working yesterday, I accidentally spilled cement on him, and he started arguing with me, and his temper was extremely bad."
Ding Guibing also said: "Indeed, Su Jinfu had a quarrel with many people yesterday. No one could persuade him, and he almost got into a fight. I thought he was in a bad mood because he lost a card game. Now that I think about it, he didn't seem to have such a bad temper before..."
Yue Lingchuan's eyes darkened slightly: "Before this? Were there any other signs?"
"As mentioned before...he was in a particularly good mood a few days ago..."
Wei Zhengyi asked, "How do you mean it's particularly good?"
"He was just... he was always talking and laughing with everyone, calling everyone his brother, and he looked very proud. Everyone was surprised to see him, but who would have thought that within a few days, he would become the same as he was yesterday."
Everyone looked at each other and felt more and more strange.
Shen Qingye asked: "Do you know where Su Jinfu lives?"
Cao Yuanjin shook his head: "I don't know, but some of our co-workers have played cards with him..."
Upon hearing this, Ding Guibing immediately turned around and called out, "Da Hai, come here!"
The tall man who had just spoken ran over, his eyes swept over Yue Lingchuan and the others, with undisguised curiosity in his eyes: "Brother Ding, what's wrong?"
Ding Guibing said, "Take a few police officers to Su Jinfu's house. I remember you played cards with him before, right?"
"Police, police?" Zhao Dahai didn't react for a moment. He looked at them a few more times, and was slapped hard by Ding Guibing before he reacted: "Oh, yes, yes, yes, I have been to his house to play cards. Police comrade, follow me."
As he spoke, he walked out somewhat unsteadily.
Yue Lingchuan told Zhou Qiming to search around here with Luo Kaiyang and Wei Zhengyi for any suspected murder weapons. He then took Shen Qingye, Jiang Cheng and Zhao Dahai out.
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Zhao Dahai was a little restrained along the way, and basically answered whatever Shen Qingye asked.
"You often play cards with Su Jinfu?"
"Not often. I played with him twice when I first came here. Later, when I saw that he was playing too big, I stopped in time and didn't dare to play anymore."
“They’re having a big time?”
"Yes, a handful costs at least a few dollars, and more can even cost dozens of dollars."
"Who are the people he plays with?"
"I don't know about that. Maybe some of his neighbors? And some people working for other contractors. It's a mess. I don't know any of them."
"Does Su Jinfu win much when he plays cards?"
"I win sometimes and lose sometimes. Sometimes I win a little, sometimes I lose all the money I have. But I think I lose more often. Otherwise, why would I borrow money from everyone so often?"
"So what's his temper like?"
"People who play cards all have the same temper, don't they? They're happy when they win, but they curse when they lose. It all depends on your luck."
Shen Qingye understood and chatted with him for a few more words. More than ten minutes had passed, but they still hadn't reached their destination.
Yue Lingchuan was driving in front and couldn't help but look back at him and asked, "Are you sure you're going the right way?"
Zhao Dahai said confidently: "I am sure that I remember the way well."
Jiang Cheng said: "This is not close to the construction site. How does he usually get to and from get off work?"
Zhao Dahai said: "Oh, he has an electric bike and usually rides it to and from get off work."
Electric car?
Shen Qingye and Jiang Cheng looked at each other and had some guesses in their hearts.
The construction site is not close to where the body was dumped, and the possibility of someone walking there with the body is too low. But if Su Jinfu had a means of transportation, wouldn’t it be much easier to transport the corpse?
Shen Qingye asked: "What does that electric car look like? Can you recognize it if you see it?"
Zhao Dahai said: "Yes, I remember it was a red car with a box in the back."
Shen Qingye felt a little relieved when he heard this.
Another five minutes passed and Zhao Dahai finally finished speaking. Shen Qingye got out of the car, looked at the four-story building in front of him, and followed Zhao Dahai forward.
"If I remember correctly, Su Jinfu would park his car in the corridor every time he came back... Look, that's the one!"
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed and saw a red electric car parked at the bottom of the stairs leading to the second floor.
Everyone quickly gathered around and looked closely at the car body. Because it is red, any blood stains on the car are not obvious.
Shen Qingye speculated on how the murderer might have transported the body. His eyes fell on the footrest in front of the car, and he scanned it bit by bit, finally pausing suddenly at the back:
She exclaimed in surprise: “Here it is!”
Everyone hurriedly lowered their heads and moved over, and saw a spot of blood that was extremely similar in color to black and red had already solidified on the black footsteps.
Yue Lingchuan said in a deep voice: "Call Captain Xu."
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