Sha Zhu's three rooms are the main rooms of the compound, and their location is definitely the best in the compound.
Wang Dabao lived in the back room. Even though his uncle bought a room from the deaf old lady and combined it with the other rooms, it was still not as spacious as Sha Zhu's three large rooms.
The house was a bit messy because of Sha Zhu's mess. He Yushui used to come over occasionally to help tidy it up, wiping and cleaning, washing clothes and socks, and so on.
However, the siblings have been having a fight recently, and since Sha Zhu's hand is not convenient, he can only do what is necessary, leaving dirty clothes and other things piled up haphazardly to the side.
The stove that used to be at the door has been moved inside, and there are still unwashed bowls and chopsticks on the table.
“Everyone, look at all this broken glass on my bed. Tell me, isn’t this person despicable? Coming over in the middle of the night to smash my windows. People like this will have nowhere to be buried when they die.”
Sha Zhu led everyone into the inner room, pointed to the scene on the bed, and then picked up half a brick from the ground. "Luckily, I slept with my head facing the window, otherwise I would have lost my life on this half brick. This is murder!"
Yi Zhonghai took the brick from Sha Zhu's hand and examined it twice.
“Everyone can see that the broken edge of this brick is still very fresh. It doesn’t look like the criminal picked it up casually. It’s more like he deliberately broke a whole brick, then picked up half of it that was easy to hold, and then used it to smash the window of Zhu’s house.”
After saying this, Yi Zhonghai handed the brick to Yan Bugui, who was standing next to him.
Yan Bugui adjusted his glasses and took a closer look. "Oh my, it's pretty much what Lao Yi said. It seems this person has been planning this for a long time and has disliked Sha Zhu for a long time."
Liu Haizhong turned his gaze to Wang Dabao again: "Brother Dabao, what do you think about this?"
Wang Dabao and Xu Damao weren't focused on analyzing the evidence at all; they were currently searching for something.
Startled by Liu Haizhong's call, Wang Dabao had no choice but to turn his searching gaze to Yan Bugui: "Old Yan, is the gate to the courtyard closed?"
"Of course, I'll check it again after I close it."
Yan Bugui nodded, then exclaimed in surprise, "Dabao, you mean this person is from our compound?!"
Sha Zhu looked at Yan Bugui with disdain: "I say, Uncle San, have you gone crazy from teaching? Isn't it obvious? This guy managed to escape from this compound. I don't have any grudges against anyone."
"That's not necessarily true."
Yan Bugui snorted, "Silly Zhu, with your temper, you've offended someone. Maybe they'll climb over the wall and smash your windows."
Liu Haizhong waved his hand and said, "Alright, let Brother Dabao continue."
Wang Dabao cleared his throat: "If I remember correctly, there's a pile of bricks right by the moon gate in the middle courtyard. Why don't we send someone over to take a look? Maybe we can find the remaining half."
"Guangtian, go."
Liu Haizhong handed the flashlight in his hand to his son.
In just two minutes, Liu Guangtian returned with half a brick.
Yan Bugui took it and combined it with the half piece in his hand, making it a complete piece.
Now we've finally found the source of the brick.
Even Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu couldn't help but think more highly of Wang Dabao. No wonder Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui said that Wang Dabao was smart; he had found the source of the murder weapon in such a short time.
"The criminal's purpose is obvious, isn't it? Smashing windows is just to disgust people. If he really had some deep hatred for Sha Zhu, he probably wouldn't have brought in bricks, but a kitchen knife."
Wang Dabao continued his analysis, "Next, let's analyze the routes the criminals took to commit their crimes and escape."
Why did the criminal choose to retrieve the bricks near the moon gate leading from the front yard to the middle yard?
"The first possibility is that the criminal came from the front yard. All of you residents of the middle and back yards, we all pass through the front yard on our way home. You should know that there are no bricks in the front yard for the criminal to use."
“There is another possibility: the criminal is from the middle courtyard. After all, there are bricks south of Xu Damao’s house in the backyard. The criminal would definitely be on edge when doing such petty theft. He would not want to take the risk of walking more steps if he could avoid walking a few more. Most importantly, if the criminal is from the backyard, he could have just smashed the back window of Sha Zhu’s house. Why would he go through the trouble of going around to the front to smash it?”
Xu Damao watched Wang Dabao fooling everyone, his eyes crinkling with laughter.
Yi Zhonghai, Sha Zhu, and the others initially thought Wang Dabao's words made sense, but the more they thought about it, the more something seemed off.
“Wang Dabao, your analysis is unfair. You live in the backyard, so you’re excluding the people in the backyard first.”
Sha Zhu was the first to quit.
Wang Dabao shrugged: "I kindly analyzed the criminal for you, but you suspect me of having ulterior motives. You're really not a decent person, Sha Zhu."
“What Wang Dabao said was indeed logical, but what Zhu Zi said wasn’t entirely unreasonable either.”
Yi Zhonghai stepped forward and said, "If this criminal is from the backyard, he could easily have gone around to the middle courtyard to smash the windows in order to conceal his identity as someone from the backyard."
Wang Dabao smiled and nodded: "Actually, this is what I'm going to talk about next. Why didn't the criminals choose to smash the back window of Sha Zhu's house? If it were someone from the backyard who went to the central court to smash it, and then ran back around afterward, the risk of being exposed would be too great. If it were me, I wouldn't go to the central court."
"Also, people from the front yard and the middle yard can come to the back yard and smash things, then frame the people in the back yard."
"If that's the case, why did this person choose to make their move in the Intermediate People's Court?!"
Wang Dabao's speech was completely nonsensical; he talked for a long time but said nothing at all, which confused Sha Zhu, Liu Haizhong, and the others.
Sha Zhu frowned, looking thoughtful: "Wait a minute, let me sort this out."
"No need to sort it out."
Wang Dabao interrupted Sha Zhu directly, "I'll give you the answer: 35% of these people are from the front yard, 15% are from the back yard, and 50% are from the middle yard. Everyone, do you think that's the case?"
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