Chapter 55 Chapter 55 The Third Drawing
Forensic Office.
Pei Qing was looking at the fish in the bucket. The fish's body was gray-green, but its belly was bright red. Its entire body was oval in shape, less than 20 centimeters long, and its sides were extremely shriveled.
The old forensic doctor held the fish in his hand. The fish's mouth opened, revealing two rows of serrated teeth.
The old forensic doctor looked at the bitten policeman for a few seconds and then asked him to go to the hospital for a tetanus shot.
The innocent police officer who was bitten did not take it seriously: "Just wipe it with iodine."
The old forensic doctor scolded, "You lazy bastard! The most serious bacterial infection can result in amputation. Are you unable to walk or something? You will be exhausted if you stay in the hospital! Go now!"
The police officer was scolded out of the Forensic Office.
Pei Qing waited until the old forensic doctor finished scolding him before coming up to him and asking, "What kind of fish is this? A piranha? Why do its teeth look like this? Did it chew the body?"
She turned her head and looked at the skull on the table, but she couldn't tell whose skull it belonged to at just one glance.
The forensic doctor listened to her questions and said, "We found some rodent marks on the bones before. At first, I suspected that some marine creatures got into the iron barrel and left these marks on the bones. Now it seems that this is not the case."
The old forensic doctor narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the skull on the table.
He introduced it to Pei Qing in a long voice: "This is a Nassaurus, but we usually call it a red-bellied piranha. It is very aggressive when in groups and usually does not appear alone. This fish is not delicious and is usually only used as an ornamental fish."
Pei Qing quickly asked: "So there is more than one fish?"
Her mind raced: "This is a piranha. Did the murderer buy it to destroy the body? Then why did he throw the body into the sea?"
The old forensic doctor's good temper only lasted for a few seconds.
"That's your job! Go check it out yourself! I'm only responsible for the bodies! And--"
The old forensic doctor had a fierce expression on his face: "With the addition of these we just fished out, we won't be able to complete the body!"
Pei Qing looked at the fish the forensic doctor was holding and said, "Maybe the rest was eaten by the fish."
After being stared at by the old forensic doctor, Pei Qing stood up obediently.
"Understood. I'll leave right away and urge them to continue fishing."
After leaving the Forensic Office, Pei Qing called Xu An.
Xu An and Yang Xingping were checking the surveillance footage of Liu walking out of the massage parlor.
Since he walked out and didn't drive, the place where Liu Xing and the suspect had an appointment should not be far away.
Following the route Liu Xing took and checking the surveillance along the way, Xu An and Yang Xingping quickly found the last place Liu Xing entered.
It is a three-story restaurant.
Walking in through the glass door, you can see several rockery stacked together. Under the rockery is a pond with a few fish swimming in the water.
Xu An and Yang Xingping found the restaurant manager.
In response to the police’s questioning, the restaurant manager quickly found the surveillance cameras in the restaurant.
Liu Xing did walk into the restaurant. He walked around the second and third floors, then walked into the kitchen and never came out of the kitchen again.
The manager hurriedly said, "There is a back door in the kitchen. He must have gone out through the back door!"
Xu An's eyelids jumped: "There is no surveillance at the back door?"
Manager: "The back door is not ours. The back is a residential building. They won't be happy if the surveillance camera is facing them!"
Yang Xingping took a few steps and pushed open the back door of the kitchen. The back door faced the front door of someone else's house, so it was indeed difficult to install surveillance.
The restaurant manager did not lie.
Xu An asked: "Is Liu Xing a frequent customer here? He is so familiar with the kitchen."
The manager continued to shake his head, trying to distance his restaurant from this scoundrel who came from nowhere.
"No, no, I don't even know him!"
Yang Xingping got angry and yelled at the manager: "He doesn't know you, but he can walk into your kitchen and know where the back door is. He even knows there's no surveillance at the back door! You call this unfamiliarity? You're kidding a fool!"
The restaurant manager also refused to accept the suggestion: "With so many people coming and going every day, who can remember who?"
Xu An pushed Yang Xingping out the back door and asked him to go to the residential building at the back door to ask someone while he continued to chat with the restaurant manager.
Pei Qing called at this time. Xu An asked the manager to go and do his work first and turned around to answer Pei Qing's call.
"Did you find out who those cards belong to?"
Pei Qing told him not to think too much.
"I checked, I don't know where these cards were bought from, but the people behind them are all elderly people in their 50s and 60s from the mountainous areas."
Xu An: "Then why are you calling me?"
Pei Qing said happily, "We have made another discovery! The corpse recovery team just brought up a new bucket with a red-bellied piranha in it. The old forensic doctor said that although this fish is ferocious, it is an ornamental fish. We must have a source of supply. We can look for clues from here."
fish?
Xu An walked to the lobby of the restaurant and asked Pei Qing: "What kind of fish?"
Pei Qing repeated: "Red-bellied piranha! I'll send you the photo."
After receiving the photo, Xu An compared the fish in the photo with the fish in the pond and found that the color of the fish was similar, except that the fish in the pond was fatter, but they were indeed the same species.
He called the restaurant manager over again, pointed at the fish and asked, "What kind of fish is this?"
Restaurant manager: "Ornamental fish are so valuable!"
Xu An: "Red-bellied piranha?"
The restaurant manager waved his hands and denied it: "There are not so many piranhas nowadays, they are all raised ornamental fish..."
Xu An squatted down and looked at the fish in the pond, and said to the restaurant manager: "That's hard to say. Where did you buy this fish? Is this usually sold in the seafood market?"
Restaurant manager: "I bought it from someone on VX. I only buy it on VX."
Xu An said "Oh" and said thoughtfully: "Tax evasion. What is the QQ number of this supplier? I'll add it."
The restaurant manager wiped the sweat from his forehead and wished he could send Xu An away immediately.
Restaurant manager: "Don't say it was given by me."
Xu An: "Okay, that's right."
He remembered something and asked the restaurant manager, "Are there any people from Yuwan Village among your restaurant employees?"
The restaurant manager recalled and shook his head, "No, our restaurant is full of locals. Although Yuwan Village is not far from here, it takes 40 to 50 minutes to drive there. It takes too much time to come here to work."
Xu An frowned and called Yang Xingping back from the back door.
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Xu An found the supplier on vx and bought a few red-bellied piranhas. The supplier thought it was too little and asked him to add more.
Xu An argued with him for a long time, and asked the supplier to send him the actual picture of the product. Finally, he found the supplier through the address on the express delivery number.
When they arrived at the place, Xu An called the supplier away to look at his delivery list.
Pei Qing was looking at the fish in the water tank. She said to Yang Xingping, "This color is pretty nice."
Yang Xingping: "A fishy smell."
Pei Qing: "You really don't like it? How about I buy a few and put them in the office?"
Yang Xingping decisively refused: "No."
Pei Qing: "Then we have to buy a few pots of succulents. Our office is really empty."
Xu An quickly found the delivery list and he only looked at the people who bought the most red-bellied fish.
There was a man named Daman who bought the most, he bought exactly 100.
Xu An asked the supplier: "Didn't you ask him why he bought so much?"
Supplier: "Why am I asking so many questions? Just sell the fish!"
He only cares about collecting money and doesn't care about anything else.
The real one is only concerned with money and doesn't care about anything else.
Under Xu An's stare, the man shrank his neck.
"There are still people using kitchen knives to hack people, and no one is holding the seller of the kitchen knives accountable! These and these are all given to you."
The supplier gave Xu An the delivery note and courier slip, including the buyer's personal information, just wanting to get the person away as quickly as possible.
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After getting the clue, Xu An tried to find the person behind WeChat.
He called, but the phone number was turned off and the WeChat account was no longer in use.
Yang Xingping found the road surveillance camera outside the residential building at the back door of the restaurant.
There are at least three ways to get to the main road from the back door of the residential building.
There is a lot of traffic here, so it is not easy to find Liu Xing among them.
The three of them summarized the current clues.
"Liu Xing must know the murderer."
"The relationship is pretty good, otherwise Liu Xing wouldn't have lent me the courier truck. At the end of last month, the demolition money hadn't arrived yet."
"The murderer bought a hundred red-bellied piranhas. He should at least have a fish pond. If the purpose is to dispose of the body, the fish pond should be far away from the crowd."
"The murderer and Yu Lequn had a financial dispute, and the amount must be considerable."
"Looking at the date, he bought the piranha first and then borrowed the courier truck. This shows that the murderer had planned to kill people in advance."
But there are still some puzzles to be solved.
Pei Qing: "Why did the murderer throw the body into the sea? He has a fish pond, so there should be a piece of land. Wouldn't it be better to bury it there?"
Xu An: "I have another question. When Liu Xing borrowed the car, did he know that the murderer wanted to kill someone?"
Yang Xingping: "We need to find Liu Xing to know this, but he doesn't have much brains. He dares to ask a murderer for money. He must not have thought so much when he borrowed the car."
Pei Qing also agreed with Yang Xingping's opinion.
The three of them refocused their attention on Yuwan Village.
Yuwan Village actually meets many conditions.
Pei Qing: "The village had just been demolished, so they needed to make room for the government. If the murderer was from Yuwan Village, it would be easy to understand why he dumped the body instead of burying it."
Xu An: "Besides, it is near the sea, so it is suitable for dumping corpses."
Yang Xingping: "It's easy to find. Just ask who has a fish pond in Yuwan Village. The fish pond is quite remote."
The three of them took action immediately.
In this demolition of Yuwan Village, most people chose to take the money. Rural people have much more residential land than urban people, and after receiving the money, they can choose and pick a suitable house in the city.
The three of them first went to find the village chief of Yuwan Village.
The village chief now lives in the city, and he holds all the demolition money in his hands. After buying a house in the school district, he doesn’t have much money left.
He had nothing in his hands, and he urged his son and daughter-in-law to go to work, while he and his wife stayed at home enjoying their grandchildren. This was not a bad thing in the village, and their life could be considered harmonious and happy.
When the police came to his door, the village chief thought that it was another young man in the village who had committed crime after getting the money and implicated him.
He put on a sour face and invited the police in.
Before the police could ask any more questions, the village chief said, "Who in my village is causing trouble again? Yuwan Village is gone. I am no longer the village chief of Yuwan Village. You can't blame me for everything! I just bought a new house, but the police come to my door every few days. My neighbors even think I am a criminal!"
Pei Qing was surprised: "Are there other police officers here?"
Xu An knew most of it: "After receiving the demolition compensation, the villagers started to indulge in drinking, whoring and gambling?"
Yang Xingping was not interested in the eating, drinking, whoring and gambling of the relocated residents. He just looked up at the interior decoration of the house and the mahogany sofa, which was a typical old man's aesthetic.
The village chief's wife made a few cups of tea and brought them over.
The three of them hurriedly expressed their gratitude.
Pei Qing: "No need to bother, no need to bother!"
The village chief's wife was mild-tempered. She sat next to the village chief and said, "They are all young people, and their parents can't control them. If they become rich overnight, there will definitely be problems. It's the same in our family. Fortunately, the old ones in my family can control the young ones, otherwise there would be trouble. Who do you want to ask this time?"
Pei Qing: "Liu Xing, the courier."
The village chief snorted unhappily.
"What do you mean by delivering a package? He just got the demolition compensation and went to play with women."
Pei Qing: "There are no elders in his family?"
Village chief: "The elders in his family died early. Even if they are alive now, they will be pissed off by him. I heard that he spends money like water every day."
Xu An took the opportunity to interject: "Is there anyone who doesn't get along well with him who can give him some advice?"
The veins on the village chief's forehead were throbbing: "What's there to persuade? His friends are all the same!"
Xu An asked directly: "Does any of his friends have a fish pond at home?"
The village chief thought for a moment and said, "Oh, you mean Xinglin! They used to play together, but then Xinglin got a job and persuaded Liu Xing to go back to work. Liu Xing didn't want to, so the two of them fell out a bit."
Xu An thought of the restaurant and asked the village chief, "What does Xinglin do for a living?"
Speaking of Xinglin, the village chief smiled and said, "Xinglin is a chef who cooks delicious dishes. In the past, we always asked him to cook for weddings and funerals in our village."
Pei Qing's eyes lit up.
String it together!
Having worked as a chef, and possibly in a restaurant, he was familiar with the kitchen and knew that there was no surveillance outside the back door of the restaurant, which made it convenient for him to direct Liu Lin to follow his instructions.
There is also a fish pond at home, which also meets the requirements.
He also used to have a good relationship with Liu Xing.
It was most likely him, that's right.
Pei Qing asked: "So how is the fish pond now?"
The village chief said with regret: "Isn't this demolished? The fish pond is also inside. Xinglin can't do anything. After getting the money, Xinglin left. It's better for him to leave, so that he won't be led astray by these lazy people in the village!"
Bad influence?
Pei Qing and Xu An frowned at the same time, grabbed Yang Xingping who wanted to speak, and asked about Xinglin's full name and current address.
The village chief waved his hand and said, "Alas, since Xinglin received the demolition compensation, he has not contacted me again, and I don't know where he lives now."
After walking out of the village chief's house, Yang Xingping tugged at his collar, expressing his dissatisfaction with Pei Qing and Xu An for pulling him together.
"Why are you pulling me?"
Pei Qing: "I just want to save you some energy so that you can find someone easier."
Yang Xingping: "You just speak nicely. This Wu Xinglin is a serious suspect!"
Xu An: "Well, I'll ask the forensic doctor and the trace investigator to go to Wu Xinglin's fish pond to see if they can detect anything useful. We should still focus on Liu Xing and Wu Xinglin. They must be together now."
Pei Qing: "That's hard to say, will Wu Xinglin let Liu Xing go?"
Yang Xingping also said: "Maybe once the two meet, Liu Xing will be killed by Wu Xinglin."
Xu An was speechless: "Let's go, let's check the surveillance and Wu Xinglin's spending records over the past few days. There's nothing else to do, let's preset the results here, let's go!"
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When the three of them were sore from checking the surveillance footage, the Forensic Office quickly sent them the results.
The old forensic doctor spent a long time on this terrible corpse and really wanted to get the case over with, so the result came out very quickly.
Samples of some sparse bones found at the bottom of the fish pond were taken, and the results of the samples matched the DNA of the two deceased.
At this point in the case, the three of them only had to consider one thing.
Where are Wu Xinglin and Liu Xing now?
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