Chapter 46 Rope Murder Case (8) Hu Die
Following Sang Luo's instructions, after Yuan Xiaohu sent Lan Yue back to the class, he went to the teacher's office to find Lan Yue's head teacher and asked about Lan Yue's whereabouts on the 7th.
Lan Yue's head teacher was a white-haired old lady who spoke very harshly and had a voice that sounded a bit like a man's. After hearing Yuan Xiaohu's question, she immediately said:
"Of course she was in school that day. Lan Yue is the best student in our class. She has always been very well behaved. Why, do you doubt her?"
"No, we just need to find out the whereabouts of the relevant personnel on the night of the incident," Yuan Xiaohu said tentatively, "As far as I know, high school students have evening self-study after dinner. Were you in charge of the evening self-study sessions on the 7th?"
"Yes, I am the one who watches them during their evening self-study every day!" The head teacher raised his head proudly, "I know what you want to ask. Don't worry, there will never be people in my class who climb over the wall to skip class. It's not like in some classes where half of the class is not in their seats. In my class, if anyone dares to skip class, I will break his legs!"
Yuan Xiaohu nodded. He understood that there was a reason why the head teacher gave such a special explanation. After all, the atmosphere in No. 3 Middle School was notoriously bad, and skipping classes and fighting were commonplace.
"You guys get out of school at 10pm?" Yuan Xiaohu confirmed again.
The head teacher nodded: "Yes, I can confirm that Lan Yue was in the class before ten o'clock and never left. Her deskmate, the desks in front and behind her, and I can all serve as witnesses! And she also left with her classmates after school. If you don't believe me, go ask!"
It seems that the head teacher is very protective of this top student. Yuan Xiaohu wrote down these words and asked several of Lan Yue's classmates. Their statements were consistent with the head teacher's, and they all said that Lan Yue was studying in class that day.
Yuan Xiaohu closed the notebook and ended the questioning. In fact, he had never doubted Lan Yue, and he didn't understand why Sang Luo asked him to ask this. Could it be that his daughter would kill her own father?
After Sang Luo and Yuan Xiaohu separated, they took the initiative to find their master to reunite. Master and Xie Ling'er also gained a lot that afternoon.
The two of them came to Hu Maoshan's home. Since Hu Maoshan was listed as a suspect, they obtained a search warrant. However, Ma Shi Tu did not rush to search. Instead, he first visited and inquired about Hu Maoshan's living habits.
Ma Shi Tu went to the meat stall in the vegetable market where Hu Maoshan usually supplied goods. The owner of the stall said that Hu Maoshan always rode his electric tricycle to deliver pork. The pork was piled on the carriage of the tricycle. After the pork was delivered, he and Hu Maoshan worked together to lift it down, and they never used a rope.
The focus of Ma Shi Tu's investigation was who could access the rope. Since the owner of the meat stall couldn't access it, the only ones left were Hu Maoshan and his daughter and the neighbor next door. He usually did not sell pork to individual buyers, so no other stranger would walk into this compound.
Hu Maoshan lived in a bungalow with a large courtyard. There were neighbors on both sides of the bungalow. Ma Shi Tu first went to the left to take a look. Through the window, he could see that the house on the left had been emptied. The furniture inside was covered with a thick layer of dust. It looked like no one had lived there for a long time.
Then he went to look at the house on the right. This house also had a yard. The yard gate was open and a thick cotton curtain was hung in front of the door.
Ma Shi Tu and Xie Ling'er knocked on the door and explained their purpose. The family was initially very defensive, but they immediately relaxed when they saw the clothes on Ma Shi Tu. They also cordially pulled Ma Shi Tu to sit down and stuffed melon seeds into his arms.
Ma Shi Tu waved his hands repeatedly and said that he came because of Hu Maoshan's matter. Upon hearing this, the family members were like seeing a savior. They rushed to pull Ma Shi Tu to complain, and tears were about to fall.
"Officer, you're finally here, sir, please help us! Can you tell me how miserable our lives are? We finally managed to get a house from the factory, and they allocated us a big house with a yard, but who would have thought that there would be such a bastard living next door!"
"He kills pigs every day, and the pigs howl like ghosts every time. My mother is over 80 years old and has heart disease. She can faint from him three times a day! If the government doesn't take care of him, my mother will be scared to death by him!"
"That's right. Tell me, this house is a place for people to live, but he actually used it to slaughter pigs. Would the government allow this?"
"That's not the worst. The worst thing is that he doesn't care about hygiene! Every time he catches a live pig, he doesn't deal with the pig feces and urine. He just buries it with dirt, scoops it up with a shovel, and throws it directly into our yard! Tell me, is there anyone who bullies people like this?"
"My husband went to the neighbor to persuade him, but he not only refused to listen, but also threatened my husband with a butcher knife, saying that the knife could be used to kill pigs, and it could also be used to kill him! My husband was so scared that his legs went limp and he almost got sick!"
"One time, he brought a piece of tenderloin to us for no reason, saying it was an apology. I thought he had changed his ways, but we ate that piece of meat and had diarrhea for three days and three nights. We even had a fight over where to use the toilet! Later, I went out to ask around and found out that he had accidentally collected a sick pig from the countryside, and the pork shop didn't want it, so he gave it away to his neighbors. Do you think he is immoral?"
"By the way, speaking of neighbors, officer, you saw it when you came here just now. All the people next door to him have moved out. They are leaving their perfectly good houses unoccupied. Guess why? It's all because of him!"
"Oh, my family has thought about moving away, but we can't bear to leave this house. If no one takes care of it, we will really have to move away!"
Ma Shi Tu looked at the young couple in front of him and nodded patiently. Although these were not the questions he wanted to know, they could also give him some insight into Hu Maoshan's character. Xie Ling'er took out a notebook and started taking notes in the back.
"He makes a lot of noise when he kills pigs, doesn't pay attention to hygiene, and feeds you sick pork," Ma Shi Tu concluded. "Anything else?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" said the woman in the young couple, "He's an alcoholic! He relies on the money he makes from slaughtering pigs to go out drinking every day and doesn't come back until the middle of the night. He has walked into the wrong house several times, mistaking ours for his own. He bangs on the door and curses us for not opening the door for him. We can't drive him away!"
"Even if he walked into the right house, he would not stop. After returning home, he would curse, throw things, and hit people. He would hit his daughter and she would cry. Our whole family could not sleep because of his noise!"
"Hu Maoshan often beats his daughter?" Ma Shi Tu keenly captured this information.
"Yes!" The woman leaned close to Ma Shi Tu's ear and whispered, "When his wife was around, he beat her every day. Later, his wife couldn't get over it and jumped into the moat outside. Then he started beating his daughter. But if you ask me, his daughter is not a good person either. She dyed her hair yellow at such a young age. Sooner or later, she will become like her father!"
It turned out that Hu Maoshan's wife committed suicide because she could not bear the domestic violence. Xie Ling'er wrote down this important information. The young couple had almost talked enough, and Ma Shi Tu finally asked about the rope.
"Rope, what rope?" The young couple were very confused. They had never seen the rope that Hu Maoshan used to tie pigs. That time when Hu Maoshan came to deliver the sick pork, he carried it directly in his hands.
"So, do you occasionally go into Hu Maoshan's yard?" Ma Shi Tu asked in a different way.
The woman put her hands on her hips and said, "We dare to enter his yard? Officer, you are such a joke. If you don't believe me, go and try. This guy is like a Tibetan mastiff. If anyone dares to get close, he will start barking, for fear that someone will go in and steal his two pieces of pork!"
Ma Shi Tu nodded slowly. There was no need for a rope to deliver the pork, and no one else could enter the yard. It seemed that only Hu Maoshan and his daughter could touch the rope.
After the young couple finished talking, they began to gossip about the case, asking questions openly and covertly: "Officer, what happened? Did that Hu kill someone? I've said it before, with his character, he will become a murderer sooner or later! He doesn't seem to be at home today, and the yard next door is quiet. Did you arrest him? What crime will he be sentenced to death?"
Ma Shi Tu asked back: "You seem to really want him to be sentenced to death?"
The man didn't dare to speak, but the woman nodded honestly: "Of course, I've been looking forward to his death for a long time. If he is really sentenced to death, I will set off firecrackers at the door!"
After leaving the couple's house, Ma Shi Tu felt that they were very suspicious. The two families had deep conflicts with each other as neighbors, and murders due to conflicts between neighbors were not uncommon. Moreover, the young couple admitted that they wanted Hu Maoshan to die.
However, Ma Shi Tu later investigated the young couple's information and found that they had an alibi. The two drove trucks for the factory. They had been out of town on the 7th and 8th and only returned to Baiyun County today. They did not have the time to commit the crime.
The elderly person in their family is paralyzed in bed and has heart disease, so it is even more impossible for him to commit a crime.
After listening to Ma Shi Tu's explanation, Sang Luo nodded. The neighbor has been ruled out. Does that mean that the possibility of frame-up has been ruled out in this case?
Xie Ling'er added: "Not only that, we also made a major discovery this afternoon!"
"What?" Sang Luo asked hurriedly.
Xie Linger took out an evidence bag, which contained a lot of loose change, a large bag full of coins. "Guess where we found these?"
"Hu Maoshan's house?" Sang Luo widened her eyes. She remembered the disappeared "treasure". There was suddenly a large sum of money in Hu Maoshan's house. Maybe he got it from selling the treasure.
"Yes!" Xie Ling'er nodded and said, "But it's not in Hu Maoshan's room, but in his daughter Hu Die's room!"
Under Sang Luo's surprised gaze, Xie Ling'er recounted the details of the afternoon. The two of them entered Hu Maoshan's house with a search warrant and began to search every room. They didn't find anything in Hu Maoshan's house, but they did find a lot in Hu Die's house.
"I saw that most of the textbooks in her room were brand new, and they had never been opened. But that's not the point," Xie Ling'er emphasized. "The point is, there was a stuffed toy next to her bed, which was hollowed out and used as a piggy bank. It was full of change, and I took it out. Look, there were so many!"
"I called a colleague in the bureau and asked Hu Maoshan for help. Hu Maoshan said that he never gave Hu Die pocket money, so -"
The three of them focused their attention on the evidence bag, and Ma Shi Tu said:
"Where did she get all this money from?"
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