Chapter 139 Murder in Sleep: The Landlord Behind the Scenes

The landlord of the house, Wang Dadong, did not answer the phone. After Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang visited his home, they learned from his wife that he was arrested by the police and put in a detention center during a crackdown on prostitution.

Xiao Zhang was speechless and said, "We looked for him everywhere, but he had already fallen into the trap."

Wang Dadong is 13 years old this year. He has no fixed job and lives in a shabby rental house in a village in the city. He also has a son who is in junior high school. The family of three squeezes into a one-bedroom and one-living room house. His son can only live in a room separated from the living room. Their life is quite embarrassing.

His wife is not tall, fat, and looks very fierce. She complained: "Dongzi, this damn man, can't have money. As soon as he has a little money, he goes out to do this and that. When he gets out, I must break his legs!"

"Didn't Xiaoqian just sell a house?" Xiao Zhang asked puzzled. "What do you mean he sold

a house? How is that possible? Where did he get the house? If he had a house, could our family of three squeeze into this rental house?" Wang Dadong's wife was furious. She picked up the mop by the door and planned to go to the detention center to beat her husband, but was stopped by Xiao Zhang.

"You don't know about this," Fang Rui handed her the house purchase contract, "but his name is written on the property certificate."

"This... his name and ID card are both his, and he even put his fingerprints on it... He can't be kept by a rich woman? A social scum like him definitely can't afford to buy a house!" Wang Dadong's wife collapsed. She had been thrifty for so many years, but her husband actually had a house and had been hiding it from her. She covered her face and cried bitterly.

Her marriage was so aggrieved!

Xiao Zhang glanced at the photo on Wang Dadong's ID card, and he felt that this possibility was unlikely.

"Boss, why do I feel that the house doesn't look like Wang Dadong's?" Xiao Zhang said.

"It shouldn't be his." But Fang Rui was puzzled. If the murderer had kept the house uninhabited, wouldn't no one have ever found the body? Why did he rent out the house before, and why did he suddenly want to sell it?

After leaving Wang Dadong's house, Fang Rui and others went to the detention center to find him again. When

Wang Dadong saw them, he complained: "Comrade police, I have already pleaded guilty, why are you still interrogating me? I really didn't do anything else illegal. I only made transactions with Jiaojiao, and I don't know other women, and I didn't make transactions with them."

"Wang Dadong, did you sell a house some time ago?"

"What house? Where can I get a house to sell!" Wang Dadong said with a grin, but he suddenly thought of something and quickly changed his words, "Yes, I sold a house. I sold it for more than one million."

"Why doesn't your wife know about this?" Xiao Zhang asked.

"Do I need to tell an old woman about men's affairs? I can make the decision myself, why should I tell her?"

Fang Rui took out a photo and put it in front of Wang Dadong, "We found a body in the second bedroom of that house."

The photo showed that the window sill of the bay window was pried open, revealing the body inside.

"Comrade Corpse Police, you are kidding me, how can there be a body in my house?" Wang Dadong's face turned pale, "And I have already sold this house to Zhang Mingli, if there is anything, you should go to her."

"This body is from more than ten years ago. You are the former owner, so we can only come to you."

Wang Dadong saw that the house was involved in the murder case, and he hurried to distance himself from it.

"Comrade police, this house is not mine, I am just a nominal owner. The house belongs to my cousin Wang Yuanfang. She wanted to buy a second house at that time, and she didn't want to waste the down payment quota, so she registered it in my name. She gave me tens of thousands of yuan, and I agreed. I haven't been to the house much. I couldn't have killed the person, comrade police, I am innocent."

"We didn't say you killed the person, why are you so excited?"

"My cousin must have killed the person. She is a very vicious person, and she didn't even support her own parents. I said she gave me a large sum of money and registered the house in my name, but it turned out that this is a haunted house!" Wang Dadong spat, and anger surged in his heart. After his cousin became rich, she became more and more powerful. It's okay that she ordered him around, but she even cheated him, an honest man!

"Do you have your cousin's home address and contact information?" Fang Rui asked.

"Yes."

"What does your cousin do?"

"She is a high school Chinese teacher. But don't underestimate her because she is a teacher. After making a little money, she forgot all the moral principles. Her old mother was seriously ill in bed, and she actually said, 'Why hasn't this old man died yet?' Do you think such a person can be a good thing?"

"When did she get rich? How did she get rich?"

"About 20 years ago, she suddenly had money to buy a house and a car, and no one knew where the money came from. Her husband is also a high school teacher. He was extremely poor and couldn't even support his children. He often asked us to borrow money. Later, I don't know how he became rich. I guess he embezzled public funds."

"Is her husband's name Zhang Taotao?" Fang Rui asked.

"Yes! Her name is Zhang Taotao. Police comrades, how did you know?" Wang Dadong gloated, "The murderer couldn't be her husband, right? Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that Teacher Zhang, who looked like a decent man, was actually a murderer. Hahaha, my cousin will be the wife of a murderer in the future. Let's see how she will show off in the future."

Fang Rui suspected that Zhang Taotao's money might have belonged to Zhang Mingli's mother. He saw that Zhang Mingli's mother was crazy and Zhang Mingli had lost her memory, so he embezzled their property and sent Zhang Mingli to her aunt for adoption.

In this case, the deceased might really be the father listed in Zhang Mingli's household registration.

"Don't talk nonsense. Reform yourself in there. It's not easy for your wife to manage the household." Xiao Zhang interrupted him and couldn't help but persuade him, "After you get out, find a job. Now that you have children, you can earn money to support the family."

"What family to support? If you have a wife like that, would you still want to go home? If the children don't recognize me, there's no point in going back. You might as well stay here."

"..." Xiao Zhang tried hard to resist the urge to curse.