Chapter 50 Chapter 50 The Third Drawing
Xu An led people to retrieve the body from the sea.
The body was not found, but a lot of bottles and jars were retrieved from the sea.
They kept fishing until midnight, but only managed to pull up three iron buckets, half of which were empty.
Xu An didn't look at it any further and directly sent the iron bucket to the forensic office. The old forensic doctor gave him a lecture and said that the body was incomplete at first glance and they had to continue salvaging it.
Xu An agreed: "Yes, yes, I will definitely continue fishing."
He stayed at the beach from morning to midnight and only smelled a fishy smell on his body.
Xu An arrived at the office. In the office, a whiteboard was pushed in front of the desk. On the whiteboard were photos of several people, and next to the photos were their names, call dates, and number of calls.
Very detailed arrangement.
Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Pei Qing raised his head and greeted Xu An.
“I’m back!”
She pushed the thermal box on the table towards Xu An.
"Brother just brought it over, have a drink."
Xu An opened it and saw that it was lotus root, yam and pork ribs soup.
Xu An: "Have you finished drinking?"
Pei Qing: "Yes, I leave it for you."
Yang Xingping was very grateful for the food he had eaten, so he praised her: "Your aunt's cooking skills are very good."
Xu An: "Of course, my mother spent a long time choosing before she picked Aunt Chen."
After taking a few sips of soup, Xu An asked, "Have you checked the identities of these people?"
Yang Xingping pulled the whiteboard over and told Xu An about the current progress.
"I retrieved the call records. The one on the left shows calls with Yu Lequn, which went through. There are call records of several minutes each. The one on the right shows calls with Yu Lequn, but the calls didn't go through."
Pei Qing pointed to the column on the right and said, "These people are quite persistent. They kept calling even when the calls couldn't go through. One of them made more than 20 calls. If Yu Lequn's phone hadn't been shut down due to arrears, these people would have continued to call. What's the matter? Why are they so anxious?"
Xu An looked at the names on the right and found that there were quite a lot of people with the same name and surname.
Xu An: "What's going on? The whole family took turns calling Yu Lequn?"
Pei Qing turned the computer around and showed it to Xu An.
"From the household registration records, we can see that they are closely related if we count two generations back."
Pei Qing: "But these can be put aside for now."
She took a whiteboard marker and circled the name "Zhang Cheng'an".
"I know this person."
Xu An was stunned: "You know him? How did you know him?"
Pei Qing: "Just last night a boss came to ask if she and her boyfriend could get married, and I drew out an IOU for a full 800,000!"
Pei Qing held a pen to the name and said with certainty, "This man must be a moneylender. I looked through the call records of the past few months and found that he and Yu Lequn talked very frequently, sometimes several times a day. Before Yu Lequn's phone was shut down, he called several times, but then he didn't call again because he couldn't get through. You can go talk to him first."
Yang Xingping: "We are just checking whether there is any loan relationship between Yu Lequn and Zhang Chengan. No, there is no money transaction between the cards in their names."
Xu An: "They have no financial dealings, but they still call each other every day. How can their relationship be pure brotherhood? Let's talk to Zhang Chengan tomorrow."
After Yang Xingping finished speaking, he finally had time to ask Xu An: "Have all the bodies been retrieved?"
Xu An sat down on a chair and said, "Have you ever heard of finding a needle in a haystack? Now these bodies, I don't know if they were all put in iron buckets and thrown into the sea. Who knows where they were washed away by the waves? I'll have people take turns to continue the salvage. As for whether we can salvage them all, it depends on luck."
Pei Qing sighed, hugged his tablet, and said, "Leave it to me, I'll see if I can draw it."
In order to find inspiration, Pei Qing also went to the Forensic Office to seek excitement.
The old forensic doctor is working overtime with his head covered.
It was the forensic assistant who was dozing with his head down who first saw Pei Qing. He suddenly remembered something and stood up.
"I was so busy that I forgot. The DNA matching results just sent in are out. It matches. The sample is related to one of the DNAs."
The forensic assistant handed the paper results to Pei Qing.
Pei Qing had expected this, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly when he saw the matching result.
Yu Shuixiu had only one older brother in her family. Now that he is gone, she has to rely on herself for the rest of her life.
She put away the paper results and prepared to go to the iron bucket.
The old forensic doctor glanced at her and asked his assistant to kick Pei Qing out.
"We are working. Don't come and disturb others' work as an outsider."
Pei Qing: "I'll just take a look at the barrel—"
The old forensic doctor said, "What are you looking at? Why don't you go home to sleep in the middle of the night and stay here to look after the barrel? What's wrong with you, little girl? Tell your brother that there are not enough bones. Ask him to find a way to get more. Otherwise, the time of death we determine won't be accurate enough. If you can't get a body, don't go running to the forensic office all day long."
Pei Qing was driven into the corridor.
She carried her bag, walked around in circles for a few seconds, lost her temper, and turned to look for Xu An.
When Xu An saw Pei Qing coming back with slumped shoulders, he knew that she had been scolded by the old man.
He comforted her without any emotion: "Hey, the old man is over 50 years old this year, he has a lot of experience and qualifications. If you interfere with his work, it would be strange if he would be in a good mood."
Pei Qing: "I just want to see that bucket!"
Xu An: "Didn't you see it today during the day?"
Pei Qing: “Not enough.”
Xu An pushed her out.
"Then wait, I'll ask the people on the beach to continue fishing, and I'll show you the first glimpse after we're done."
Pei Qing thought of the several finger bones in the iron bucket he saw today and shook his head hurriedly.
“I don’t know if I can get it out.”
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On August 30, the three found Zhang Chengan.
Zhang Chengan himself runs a small loan company. He says it is a company, but after verification, there are zero insured persons under his name.
His company was not located in a commercial district, but in a residential building. Pei Qing looked for it again and again according to the navigation, turned several corners, and asked the owners of nearby shops before he found this "Sincere Loan".
When the three rushed to Zhang Chengan's company, they saw someone smashing things inside. People around them were sticking their heads out to watch the fun, and even passers-by were standing outside with their cell phones in hand.
"Fuck you, Zhang, we've been brothers for many years, how dare you steal my woman!"
"...Fuck, come on, brothers, move this sofa away. I gave it to you as a gift. Damn... you dare to lie to me..."
One man covered his face and shouted, "Who the hell is interested in your woman? She has no waist and no buttocks..."
A pot of spider plant was lifted up and thrown at Zhang Chengan.
Zhang Chengan reacted quickly and jumped back.
"Brother, brother, Da Ming, calm down. Your woman lied to you. We have known each other for more than ten years. Can I still cheat you for a woman..."
Yang Xingping impatiently squeezed into the crowd and waited on the roadside.
Pei Qing looked at Xu An, who was working hard to push through the crowd. He shouted, "What are you doing? It's broad daylight, and you're still smashing things. Police, don't move!"
Wang Ming said unhappily, "What's wrong with the police?"
He reached out to pick up the ornament on the table, and just as he was about to do something, Xu An snatched the thing from his hand.
Just as he was about to curse, Xu An pushed him to the ground.
Wang Ming was caught off guard.
Xu An looked at him and said, "You are really weak."
Wang Ming's face turned red and white.
Xu An: "Think it over. If you fight me now, it will be considered as assaulting a police officer."
He clapped his hands and began to disperse the crowd.
After watching Xu An's martial arts, Yang Xingping asked Pei Qing, "Where did he practice? I heard that your brother has always been the first in martial arts competitions."
Pei Qing: "I was kidnapped when I was a child. My family paid more attention to me and hired many instructors to teach me since I was young. Isn't that amazing!"
She raised her head, and Yang Xingping returned to his deadpan expression. Pei Qing: "Don't be unconvinced. If you're unconvinced, you can have a fight."
Before they finished talking, they saw Xu An waving towards them, and they walked towards the building.
Xu An had already asked Lai Taoshi and Zhang Chengan to sit on opposite sides.
The two sides reached a reluctant harmony.
As soon as Pei Qing came in, he pointed at Wang Ming and said to Pei Qing: "This is Wang Ming. He said that his wife was stolen away by Zhang Chengan."
Pei Qing had already recognized Wang Ming. He was the Lese who had written an IOU for 800,000 yuan and wanted his girlfriend to help pay off the debt together.
Zhang Chengan denied the charge.
"Comrade police officer, he is talking nonsense. I have only met his wife a few times. I have nothing to do with his wife."
Pei Qing asked Wang Ming calmly: "Have you got the marriage certificate? If not, she's called a girlfriend. Maybe now, she's an ex-girlfriend."
Wang Ming stared at her.
Pei Qing was in such a good mood. You deserved it for signing an IOU of 800,000 to cheat a woman!
Xu An looked at Yang Xingping, and Yang Xingping took out Yu Lequn's photo and identified him to them.
"Do you know this person in the photo?"
Wang Ming took a look at the photo first and quickly recognized it.
"Isn't this Lao Yu?"
Seeing the police looking over, Wang Ming's mind worked quickly. He immediately pointed at Zhang Cheng'an and said, "It's him. I don't know Lao Yu well. It's him. He's in the same group with Lao Yu!"
Zhang Chengan's face changed when he saw this: "Comrade police officer, if he got into trouble, it has nothing to do with me. We would have broken up long ago!"
Wang Ming and Zhang Chengan were both left behind, and the rest were cleared out.
Zhang Chengan and Wang Ming glared at each other, both feeling that the other party was holding them back.
The rolling door was pulled down.
Xu An found a place to sit and asked, "When was the last time you saw Yu Lequn?"
Wang Ming first said: "I am not familiar with Yu Lequn. He is the most familiar with me. They were classmates in high school, but I was not!"
Xu An looked at Zhang Chengan.
Zhang Chengan forced a smile and said, "We were quite familiar with each other in the early years, but we have had some disagreements on business recently."
Yang Xingping put the law enforcement recorder aside.
When Zhang Chengan saw this thing, his eyes widened.
Xu An looked at his expression and asked, "What are you afraid of? It's just a normal procedure."
Zhang Chengan forced a smile.
"Comrade police officer, please don't make it difficult for me. In our line of work, if you deliberately make it difficult for me, then I can only accept it."
Xu An: "So please talk nicely. I can't really cheat you. I'm busy lately."
Zhang Chengan: "I did break up with Yu Lequn."
Pei Qing pulled out the call records and placed them in front of him.
"You still called him after you broke up? You two seem to be on good terms after the breakup."
Zhang Chengan: "There are still some debts that have not been collected, and it will take time to clear them all."
Xu An: "Oh, have you guys finished breaking up yet?"
Zhang Chengan: "After so many years, how can it be completely broken up? It takes a while for a man and a woman to break up. If someone can be kicked out suddenly, then they are a waste."
Wang Ming suddenly jumped up from the stool and was about to fight with Zhang Chengan.
"What the hell are you talking about!"
Zhang Chengan: "I'm just talking casually."
Xu An kicked his chair.
"Speaking properly, when was the last time you contacted Yu Lequn?"
Zhang Chengan smiled and said, "Doesn't the police officer have the call records in his hand? I don't remember it clearly in my mind. The number on it is the number of the last time I contacted Yu Lequn."
Xu An: "You have never met in private?"
Zhang Chengan: "In early July, Lao Yu and I had a quarrel, and Lao Yu has not come to my place since then."
Yang Xingping: "Where is the evidence? Where is your surveillance camera?"
Zhang Chengan looked at the policeman who was leaning against the wall without a smile on his face, pointed at the computer and said, "The surveillance is connected to the Internet, it's all in the computer, I can show it to you. But police comrade, we have to agree that you only look for Lao Yu, don't worry about the others."
Xu An: "What else have you done wrong?"
Zhang Chengan: "Our business is all about lending and collecting debts. Please just let me go and I will talk to you about Lao Yu. How about that?"
Pei Qing disliked Zhang Chengan and wanted to say something when he heard what he said, but Xu An reached out and pulled him back.
Xu An: "Tell me about it."
Zhang Chengan has been in this industry for a long time, has his own little thoughts, and knows where the bottom line is.
He knew that these policemen would not speak unless they saw the bait, so they would definitely say something today.
Zhang Chengan rubbed his hands and asked first: "Did something happen to Lao Yu?"
Xu An: "Say yours."
Zhang Chengan was blocked, but the smile on his face did not change. He continued: "I knew that something was going to happen to him. We were originally partners in the past few years, but recently it has been difficult to collect debts and recover funds. I saw that Lao Yu had some ideas. He wanted to work alone. Of course, the profit sharing of one person and two people is different. I advised him at the time that this business is not easy, and he should not go in alone and not even hear the sound of the money. He didn't listen..."
Xu An was impatient to listen to his beating around the bush, and then he cleared himself of the problem with a few words and asked directly: "He opened his own company?"
Zhang Chengan obviously looked down on what Yu Lequn did. He said, "It can't be called a company. It's such a small place, and he has to run all the chores himself."
Xu An asked him for the address.
Zhang Chengan reported a place name.
Xu An: "Where did he get the funds? Cashing out?"
Zhang Chengan: "Yes, I have cheated quite a lot. Some country folks don't know the law and are easily deceived. Old Yu is too bold. I dare not let him go. If there is an impulsive person among them, he will be stabbed to death sooner or later."
Xu An: "Where are all his funds? Several cards in his name have been frozen. Does he have other cards?"
Zhang Chengan: "Just buy a few bank cards, it's not a hassle."
Xu An asked him to write down the card number.
Zhang Chengan evaded the question: "How can I remember?"
Seeing the policeman's unfriendly face, Zhang Chengan took out his mobile phone: "I really can't remember, let me check the transfer record."
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After obtaining Yu Lequn's recent consumption records, Pei Qing made a list of the consumption records.
It was discovered that Yu Lequn’s last consumption record was on July 24th.
She checked several cards and found no new spending records after July 24.
Unless Yu Lequn got a few new bank cards after breaking up with Zhang Chengan, the time of his disappearance can be tentatively set at after the 24th.
Pei Qing recorded the time, and Xu An drove to No. 18 Daqing Road.
This is the new company address of Yu Lequn provided by Zhang Chengan.
Pei Qing: "You are still so concerned about your former colleagues even though we have broken up."
Yang Xingping put away the law enforcement recorder.
Yang Xingping said: "Haven't you heard of this saying?"
Pei Qing heard what he was going to say.
Yang Xingping mocked: "I am afraid that my brothers will suffer, and I am also afraid that my brothers will drive a Land Rover."
Pei Qing: "Is that what you men think?"
Xu An told them to stop talking nonsense.
"I've gone too far. I'll go back a bit."
The car was parked at No. 18 Daqing Road, which is a private house. You have to turn from the main road to the small road to see it.
Although it is a one-story house, the door is magnificent. It is a big iron door painted red.
Pei Qing walked to the door and slipped.
Yang Xingping followed behind her and pushed her.
Pei Qing stood still.
She crushed the ground with her feet and it was all sand.
Xu An parked the car, walked over, saw the sand on the ground, and asked, "Has there been construction here? Where did the sand come from?"
Yang Xingping pointed to the houses.
"Brought it from inside."
Xu An: "Go in and take a look."
He began to distribute gloves and foot covers.
Pei Qing felt awkward when he wore it for the first time.
Xu An asked her to be patient.
Yang Xingping put on the foot covers, glanced at the wall, nimbly climbed over the wall and looked inside.
Xu An asked him: "What did you see?"
Yang Xingping looked at the smooth cement floor in the house. There was no sand on the ground. He said, "It's clean. Someone has cleaned it."
He jumped into the house, walked along a cement road, came to the room opposite the gate, pushed the door open and walked in.
The room was very clean, with no garbage, no kitchen utensils, no dishes, and no bloodstains.
Like no one has ever lived here.
He pried open the door lock and let Xu An and Pei Qing in.
The house was indeed very clean. The three of them walked through all the rooms and suddenly discovered that the wall of the room facing the gate was darker than that of the other rooms, as if it had been repainted.
Xu An smelled the wall, but of course smelled nothing.
Xu An: "I'll ask the trace investigator to take a look."
There’s no reason to only paint one room.
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Trace detectives arrived at the scene quickly and conducted a bloodstain test on the house.
Finally, after chipping off several layers of the wall, blood stains were found on the wall.
Trace investigators took DNA samples.
Originally, everyone thought that the case had ended at this point and the crime scene was this house.
However, the DNA matching results showed that the several bloodstains taken from the house could only be matched with Yu Lequn's DNA. As for who the other DNA in the iron bucket belonged to, there was no result yet.
Xu An: "I have checked all the databases, but the missing persons and criminals databases don't match."
Pei Qing held his tablet and wrote and drew.
"That means no family members reported him missing, and he has no criminal record."
Yang Xingping retrieved the surveillance footage from Yu Lequn's apartment. He focused on the night of August 2 and discovered that there was something unusual about the person who entered the elevator that night.
He pointed at the surveillance camera and said to Pei Qing and Xu An: "This person didn't show his face. After entering the elevator, he turned his back to the surveillance camera."
Pei Qing: "There are no surveillance cameras in the elevator of this apartment?"
Yang Xingping: "No. I checked and there is no surveillance camera at the door of Yu Lequn's house."
Xu An: "Check the surveillance cameras in their apartment complex."
Pei Qing moved the surveillance camera back more than ten seconds and watched the masked man approaching the apartment. She looked at him several times and began to write and draw on the tablet.
Two figures soon appeared on the tablet. As Pei Qing's brushstrokes deepened, the back of one person and the front of another appeared.
The two men faced each other, and the man with his face exposed looked terrified.
Pei Qing continued to paint the background, which was a path.
It was the first time that Yang Xingping watched Pei Qing paint, and he kept a stern face as he watched this strange scene the whole time.
Xu An took out his cell phone and took a photo of Pei Qing's tablet, focusing on taking a photo of the man with his face exposed.
After Pei Qing finished drawing, he asked, "Is this the Daqing Road we're going to today? Could the other person in the iron barrel be an unlucky passerby?"
Pei Qing: "That's too unlucky."
Yang Xingping: "It means that one has a bad fate. One is unlucky and can choke to death even when drinking water."
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