Fang Yanming acted quickly, and at daybreak he found the small contractor surnamed Lin, named Lin Daqiang. Although he looked honest, his eyes gleamed with shrewdness and shrewdness, full of a businessman's cunning and mercenary nature.
Upon hearing that a murder case was involved, Lin Daqiang was terrified and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "It must be a misunderstanding. My men are all honest and simple migrant workers. How could they possibly commit murder and arson? Absolutely impossible! I swear on my life!"
He made a solemn vow, patting his chest to assure them.
Lin Daqiang wasn't a local; he started as a migrant worker. After making a name for himself, he gathered migrant workers from his hometown and started a construction team. However, because he lacked connections, he could only do small-scale projects and couldn't secure large contracts. But it was still better than working sporadically here and there.
The dozen or so people in the construction team were all from his hometown, and some were even his cousins. They were related by blood and knew each other well, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to bring them out. Lin Daqiang thought it was a huge joke that the police suspected his men of murder.
Lu Mo sized up Lin Daqiang and judged from his eyes and expression that he was not lying, but that did not mean that the construction team members were not suspects.
"Are all your construction team members here?"
Lu Mo looked at the dozen or so people working. Because of the incident at the cultural center, the third floor was sealed off, so the construction team went to work elsewhere. It was a small construction site, and the sounds of machines and clanging were constant, making it very noisy.
"We're all basically here. There are fifteen of us in the construction team, including me," Lin Daqiang said with a smile, wearing work clothes covered in mud. Although he was a foreman, he still had to do the work.
Lin Daqiang cooperated fully, calling all his men over and arranging them in a row, but two were missing.
"There are only thirteen. Where are the other two?" Fang Yanming demanded.
Lin Daqiang frowned, cursing under his breath. The two missing men were his brothers and cousins. They hadn't been working hard lately and were always absent or late. He had been unhappy about it for a long time.
He fired those two lazybones after the New Year, ignoring his aunt's complaints. He doesn't support lazybones.
"Where did Guanghui and Guangzhi go?" Lin Daqiang asked the others in dialect.
These people all live on the construction site, but Lin Daqiang lives in the suburbs. His whole family has come here and rented a house. The family lives together. His wife works in a garment factory, his parents have also found odd jobs, and his child attends a local primary school.
Lin Daqiang was farsighted. He didn't want to stay in that poor mountain village anymore, so he brought his whole family out. The whole family worked and saved money so that they could buy a house in Pingjiang and have a place in this big city.
Not for any other reason than to ensure that children don't lose at the starting line.
Rural teachers can't even speak Mandarin, let alone English. But here, as long as you're willing to pay, you can have foreigners teach your child English. Although Lin Daqiang is reluctant to spend the money, every time he goes back to his hometown and sees his child speaking fluent English and having a completely different demeanor and manner from the other children in the village, he feels it's all worth it!
Everyone else was evasive and unwilling to reveal the whereabouts of the two brothers, which made Lin Daqiang furious. "If you don't tell me, you're all fired! You live together, how could you not know?"
"Brother Qiang, don't be angry. I'll tell you... Both brothers are with Big Head Huang. They didn't want us to talk to you." Finally, someone spoke up.
Lin Daqiang's expression changed drastically. Big Head Huang was no good. He used to work as a bricklayer on construction sites, but he found it too hard and started a small gambling den. Most of the people who went there were construction workers who had worked hard to earn money by carrying bricks, and Big Head Huang had swindled them all.
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