All the gifts bestowed by fate have been secretly marked with a price. (Note 1)
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"Li Jie should have been murdered." In the car, Bai Song stated his reasoning.
"Victimized!" Sun Jie narrowed his eyes, making everyone feel a little scared.
"Was it his wife who harmed him?" Xinqiao asked.
"Yes." Bai Song nodded.
"How did you do it?" Xinqiao asked what everyone wanted to ask.
"This should be a big organization." Bai Song sketched out the outline of an organization in his mind: "I never believe in free lunch. His wife was originally an ordinary person, but she has been to prison. We police officers naturally know that once a person has been in prison for a period of time, he will definitely not be the same as before. After he was released this time, it was like this. It is normal for the wife to have a motive to kill, but she did not dare to do it herself and chose to hire someone to kill. However, now that the police are so strict, it is becoming increasingly difficult to hire someone to kill. After all, the country attaches great importance to homicide cases."
"Well, of course. If there's no life, there's no need to mention anything else." Wang Huadong affirmed.
"Yes, so, if you want to kill someone without being discovered, what is the best way?" Bai Song asked back.
"Don't kill." Xinqiao blinked.
Bai Song was choked, but didn't dare to retort, and then looked at other people.
"Don't look at me, I think your partner is right." Sun Jie said.
"What if we must kill him?" Bai Song asked.
"An accident or a traffic accident?" Liu Shuyuan asked.
"That won't work. It's too easy to investigate now." Sun Jie shook his head. "I think we should find a deep forest or a desert like the one we went to last time to bury the body. If we can't find the body, no matter how good the forensic doctor is, it will be useless."
"That has too many restrictions, and only the closest people can make an appointment at that place, and it will be easier for the police to investigate." Wang Huadong shook his head: "I think it's the case of Tian Huan that Bai Song handled before, where the deceased accidentally killed himself."
"If you can do it, try it." Liu Shuyuan was speechless. "Who has this ability?"
"What is that?" Everyone looked at Bai Song.
“The best way is to stay out of the country.”
Everyone finally came to their senses. Indeed... the surrounding areas are different from us. Not only these places, but also the high seas. What does the missing of one person matter?
"There's nothing wrong with what you said." Sun Jie agreed.
"Look, the Malaysia Airlines incident, an entire plane with more than 200 people on board, disappeared without a trace and is still unsuccessful. I even heard that a company has begun to conduct seabed surveys in the area under the guise of search and rescue." Bai Song said, "This incident actually gave me a great shock and inspiration. I have thought about it several times, but I still don't know how to find it. How do you think we can solve this case if we trick them out?"
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Everyone expressed helplessness.
"The question is," Wang Huadong pointed out the key point: "Why would the victim take the initiative to follow the murderer to go abroad?"
"Isn't this the situation that can be met in this case?" Bai Song said: "If Zhang San wants to harm Li Si, then he should establish a good relationship with Li Si, whether through inducement, seduction, or chance encounter, and become friends. Then, take Li Si to the antique market or something, let Li Si be lucky and find a few cultural relics, and then sell the low-priced cultural relics here, so that Li Si can get the real benefits, and then tell Li Si that Li Si's second cultural relic is a national treasure, and no place in the country dares to accept it, but he has a channel to sell it abroad, and the money is in an anonymous account in Switzerland..."
"Who would believe this?" Wang Huadong complained.
"What I said is definitely very simple. This is what I deduced in the past few minutes. However, if a gang commits a crime, they will definitely design everything very well from beginning to end." Bai Song said: "For ordinary people, this is something that can change a person's life. As long as the things in the front are made realistic enough and the scenes in the back are well acted, this thing will not be difficult."
"That makes sense!" Xin Qiao clapped his hands and said, "For example, those migrant workers are real migrant workers. I guess they have very few roles, such as pretending to be farmers from the mountainous provinces who know nothing and dig treasures out of the ground. Such people are much more credible than the people in the antique city who spread red cloth to sell cultural relics from the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period. And this man dressed as a woman should be a first-class actor."
"If that's the case, then it does fit the owner of this antique shop. Li Jie may have another so-called national treasure. Of course, it's definitely a fake, but he doesn't know it. A Qing Dynasty folk kiln can be sold for 40,000, so another one must be worth tens of millions?" Liu Shuyuan said, "Perhaps Li Jie will pay someone to smuggle him and the item out."
"If that's the case, the 40,000 yuan can still be recovered." Wang Huadong roughly understood what was going on: "In this case, could the antique shop owner be an accomplice?"
Bai Song shook his head: "If we add this boss into the mix, the chances of being exposed will increase. And based on the boss's confession just now, if he is an accomplice, there is no need for him to tell us so much."
"It is possible that the boss is deliberately misleading us in this direction." Wang Huadong entered a cycle of doubt.
"Occam's razor: do not add entities unless necessary." Zhao Xinqiao looked at Wang Huadong.
Huadong was instantly convinced. Indeed, it was unnecessary. The more people there were, the more trouble there would be. At present, it was estimated that the migrant workers were only hired temporarily. They might really think that they were here to secretly sell some cultural relics. For example, the man dressed as a woman, it was estimated that the migrant workers usually interacted with men. When they saw Li Jie and a beautiful woman at the stall, they didn't know that the beautiful woman was actually their leader.
At present, there are probably very few people who truly understand what is going on in this case.
"Can Li Jie's wife afford this price?" Xin Qiao asked Bai Song.
"Li Jie has no other close relatives. Once he dies, his wife can at least get an extra house, which is worth at least 1.5 million yuan on the market. And this woman should be considered to have avenged her husband. Her husband cheated on her, and she cheated the money back from the mistress. In the end, she was sentenced to several years in prison. After he was released, her husband continued to fool around every day, and they were still arguing about this and that during the divorce. She must have a strong desire to kill." Bai Song said, "In recent years, with the rise in housing prices, this has become a sharp social contradiction. Although his wife cannot transfer the money out immediately, I just checked his wife's transfer records and there was no large amount of money transferred out, but such an organization probably is not afraid of Wang Xiuying buying on credit. Moreover, they may have signed some unfair legal contract."
After Bai Song finished saying this, everyone looked at Zhao Xinqiao, as if asking Zhao Xinqiao whether the contract that Bai Song mentioned was possible.
Zhao Xinqiao nodded slightly.
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Note 1: From the book The Queen of the Guillotines by Stefan Zweig, an Austrian writer
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