Chapter 2963-2975 [Adventure of Corpse]
Several clues were investigated simultaneously, and finally the buyer's neighbor who lived nearby got the first result - there were not many residents in this building, and only two households could hear the noise from the buyer's home, one of which was on a business trip. Soon, the police invited the sofa buyer's only neighbor to come over.
This is a middle-aged man wearing glasses. He walks and speaks slowly, and has a half-dead and sticky feeling.
He followed the young policeman downstairs and looked around: "What happened? Why is there a person lying here?"
Officer Gao Mu showed him the seriousness of the matter so that he would cooperate seriously: "There is a fresh body hidden in the sofa purchased by your neighbor - where were you between 2 and 3 this afternoon? Did you hear any special noises?"
The neighbor stared at the sofa and the dead body for a long time, and finally digested this shocking fact. He thought for a while: "2 to 3 pm... I am usually at home at this time, because I work at night and have to catch up on sleep at home during the day."
"Today's words..."
He seemed to remember something and said uncertainly: "So, I did wake up earlier than usual today. Thinking about it carefully, I should have been woken up by the quarrel next door."
"Dispute?" Officer Gao Mu's eyes lit up. "What exactly did they argue about? Are there any characteristics in the voices of the two quarreling parties?"
The neighbor tried to recall and shook his head: "I could only hear that there were two women, but I couldn't hear anything more specific."
Officer Takagi wrote furiously, carefully recording all the doubts.
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After telling what he knew, the neighbor slowly went back upstairs.
In front of the building, Suzuki Sonoko rubbed her chin like Jiang Xia did, feeling that she had discovered the truth: "The sofa buyer clearly said that she was watching a movie at two or three in the afternoon, but in fact she was arguing with another woman in the house... The body on the sofa happened to be an old woman, and she was in a hurry to buy the sofa - I understand everything, she is the murderer!"
After saying that, she looked at Hashimoto Maya, the nominal assistant to Jiang Xia, raised her chin slightly, and showed pride on her face.
Hashimoto Maya's eyes twitched: "..." You have the money and you still come to me to file a case, you shameless file king...
"How is it, how is it?" Suzuki Sonoko did not receive any looks such as "envy", "admiration", "willing to give up the position" from Hashimoto Maya. She scratched her hairpin in boredom and had to turn her head to look at Jiang Xia again.
Jiang Xia scooped a spoonful of the ice cream that Suzuki Sonoko brought, and neither agreed nor denied: "Don't worry, there should be new clues on the way. It won't be too late to solve the case after hearing everything."
A few steps away, Hashimoto Maya looked at Suzuki Sonoko who was listening and nodding, and her eyes twitched slightly: "..." This cunning woman might have already known the murderer from Lord Usa, but she didn't say it. Instead, she used this method to get close to Jiang Xia - hum, so shameless.
...I'll learn it next time.
Just as I was thinking about this quietly, a young policeman came over with a man with a broad chin wearing the uniform of a second-hand furniture store employee.
The manager of the furniture store recognized the man immediately upon seeing him. He introduced him to Jiang Xia and Officer Gao Mu, "This is the clerk who took over this second-hand sofa. Just ask him where he bought it from, and the truth will surely come to light."
As he spoke, he looked towards his employees, hoping to quickly wrap up this case and get back to work.
However, under his gaze, the clerk's face became paler and paler, and his eyes drooped guiltily, looking like someone who had done something bad and was caught.
The store manager was stunned for a moment, thinking something was wrong: "No way, you hid the body?!"
“…Ah? No! How could it be me!” The clerk came to his senses and quickly denied it.
Suddenly, he was accused of such a big crime, and suddenly all the other bad things he did were not so difficult to talk about. The clerk no longer hesitated like when he first came. He closed his eyes and said bluntly:
"Actually, this sofa was not purchased from anyone else. I picked it up!"
"You found it?" The store manager was stunned. "Didn't you say that its original owner was planning to move overseas and thought it was too troublesome to deal with the furniture, so he gave it to you for free?"
The clerk shook his head and sighed, "Actually, this is what happened. This afternoon, I went to the city to buy a lot of second-hand furniture, and on the way back... around 4 o'clock, I suddenly saw a very clean and beautiful fabric sofa placed at a garbage recycling point."
"Such a nice sofa was thrown away like this. I couldn't bear to see it, so I stopped the car and moved it to the car with my colleagues.
"When I returned to the store to unload the goods, the buyer took a liking to the sofa at first sight. I was very pleased and was happy about it all night. But who would have thought... Alas, no wonder such a new sofa was thrown away. Who on earth hid a corpse in it?"
After saying that, the clerk looked at his store manager and apologized, "I'm really sorry, I violated the store rules. But such a nice sofa, I really can't bear to see it being treated as garbage."
The store manager was a little angry at first, but now he put himself in her shoes and said helplessly: "That's right, I got into this business because I hated waste - no need to apologize, you did the right thing!"
"Manager..." The big clerk looked moved.
The two held hands tightly and looked at each other as if they were close friends. Jiang Xia watched for a while and interrupted their deep love for master and servant: "Let's talk about the recycling concept later. Where did you pick up this sofa?"
The big clerk thought for a moment and said, "It's on Street 3 in Shuguang Town."
As he was talking, he suddenly realized something and looked around in the dim night: "Wait, it seems to be this area!"
"..."Everyone, "?!"
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Looking closely, there was actually a garbage station less than 10 meters away from where the sofa fell.
Judging from its location, it is the garbage recycling point for the apartment building in front of us.
"That is to say, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the old man was killed and put into the sofa by the murderer, and then the sofa was moved to this garbage station.
"Two hours later, at 4 p.m., the body left with the sofa and arrived at the second-hand furniture store.
"Another hour passed... the body followed the furniture store's transport truck back to its starting point."
"this……"
Officer Takagi was speechless when he saw the corpse moving back and forth on the ground: As a corpse, the amount of movement was really not small.
But one thing is certain - this body must be related to this residential area.
(End of this chapter)
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