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Chapter 204 Mysterious Man
After saying this, Hou Qiang was also stunned. He saw Cheng Feng looking at him with a half-smile, and tried hard to force a fake smile on his face, but because of nervousness, the muscles on his cheeks became very stiff, which made his The expression looks very odd.

"Can you remember Qiao Hong now?" Ma Chunlei asked sharply.

Hou Qiang nodded with a sneer, but remained silent afterwards.

"Don't you want to say something?" Cheng Feng said again: "The initiative is still in your hands now."

"I really want to say something," Hou Qiang rubbed his hands, his eyes flickering: "But I really don't know what to say!"

"Are you a little nervous?" Cheng Feng glanced at the interrogation room: "We have limited conditions here, does this room make you a little depressed?"

"It's really a little bit, sitting in this room for the first time, I feel like I'm losing my mind!" Hou Qiang nodded hastily.

"In this case, how about I help you analyze and analyze the problem?"

"That's daring!"

"Then listen carefully." Cheng Feng was not in a hurry, as if he was just chatting with him: "What is the relationship between you and Qiao Hong? We don't just get the answer from your mouth."

Hou Qiang opened his mouth to say something, Cheng Feng stretched out his hand to signal him to listen to himself quietly: "Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Qiao Hong is now killed, her murder was not an ordinary murder It is a serial murder case, so far, there have been three victims, but the identity of the murderer has not yet been clarified."

"Comrade policeman, this has nothing to do with me, right?" Hou Qiang moved his buttocks on the chair: "Is it not convenient for me to listen to so much inside information? Also, what serial murders are you talking about? Knowing so little from newspapers and TV, I don’t know any of those two women, and I’ve never even met them!”

Cheng Feng ignored him, and went on: "Qiao Hong died in a remote suburb. Except for a road and a few farmlands, there were no fights in the neighboring houses, and your usual address is in the city center, and you suddenly ran to the suburbs. Not to mention, it is also a coincidence to find Qiao Hong who was murdered on the bed in the bedroom. This kind of coincidence is what we are most interested in as policemen. Think about your criminal record, if you want to continue playing riddles, we don’t mind. But you need to think clearly about your relationship with Qiao Hong, what role did you play in Qiao Hong's case, and Qiao Hong and the previous two victims were killed by the same murderer, what's at stake here? , think for yourself, we will never force you."

After all, Cheng Feng stopped talking, and the three of them looked at Hou Qiang silently. Hou Qiang lowered his eyes, but he still saw his eyeballs moving quickly from side to side under his eyelids, obviously he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle.

"Actually, it's not that I don't cooperate. The point is, I don't want to cause trouble for myself. Do you understand?" In the end, Hou Qiang broke the silence first, raised his head, and looked at Cheng Feng pitifully. After the conversation just now, his sense of fear has now shifted from the muscular Ma Chunlei to Cheng Feng.

Cheng Feng understood what he said: "I understand what you mean, but, compared with being involved in a serial murder case, which one do you think is more troublesome?"

"We are the criminal police, the serious crime team, and we don't care about the anti-pornography thing," Ma Chunlei also said in a timely manner: "Let's discuss the matter, what we are investigating now is the case of Qiao Hong's murder, the business you did before, not ours this time The purpose of looking for you."

"I admit that I reported the case, and I also discovered Qiao Hong's body." When mentioning the discovery of Qiao Hong's body, Hou Qiang seemed to recall the situation that day, and couldn't help shivering: "But I found By the time I saw her, she was already completely dead. I couldn’t help but see her die like that, and I almost peed out of fear. I know it’s embarrassing to say it, but I’m a timid person. Don’t dare to kill, let alone people! I dare to swear to God!”

"Where were you from the night before yesterday to yesterday when you found out that Qiao Hong was killed?"

"The night before yesterday I played mahjong at my friend's house. I played all night. Then I fell asleep at their house at dawn. When I woke up in the afternoon, I remembered that Qiao Hong hadn't contacted me for several days, so I went to her house to find her. When I found out that she was not at home, I guessed whether this little girl was taking private work behind my back again, so I ran to the small bungalow she bought in the suburbs to find her. It's over!" Hou Qiang looked dejected.

"Another private job?" Cheng Feng squinted his eyes: "Come on, let's talk about what happened between you and Qiao Hong first!"

"Qiao Hong is my girlfriend." Hou Qiang did not dare to continue to play sloppy eyes with Cheng Feng and the others this time, and replied honestly: "I usually introduce business for her. I found out, I caught it once, and I was scared, and it happened that the house in the suburbs was not in front of the village, and there was no shop in the back, and the price was cheap, so Qiao Hong bought it and took it there regularly from now on.”

"It's no good for you to help her introduce business?" Cheng Feng asked.

"It's impossible, isn't there a common saying, it's too early to get nothing!" Hou Qiang scratched the back of his head and grinned: "One deal, she gets six, I get four. But I don't get it for nothing Yes, I have to be responsible for keeping her safe!"

"Just protect Qiao Hong's safety with your virtue?" Ma Chunlei was amused as he looked at Hou Qiang's shriveled and emaciated body like a skinny monkey.

"I know I'm weak," Ma Chunlei smiled, which made Hou Qiang feel a little hurt: "But the person I find for her, I naturally have to make sure there is no problem, so she has never encountered anything in such a long time. Trouble, isn't it all my credit!"

"Then what's the matter with the private work you just said?" Although Hou Zi and Qiao Hong's activities are shady, what he said just now is not unreasonable. Now that Qiao Hong is killed, it must be what Hou Qiang said. It's about private work.

"It's not that Qiao Hong's woman is too dissatisfied! I have to say that I just take money and don't do anything, and give me so much for nothing, but she is the one who suffers and suffers. I don't know how many times she has quarreled with me because of this matter," Mentioning this incident, Hou Qiang was still a little annoyed: "It's not that we have never broken up before, she knew she couldn't do it alone when she left me, but she couldn't find someone more suitable than me, so she came back Please, but I found out a long time ago that she was secretly taking private jobs behind my back, so that she could get some extra money without sharing the bill with me!"

After talking with Hou Qiang, Cheng Feng asked Ma Chunlei to investigate whether Hou Qiang's alibi was true. On the other side, Qiao Hong's landlord, Sister Zhang, who rented out the house in the city, had also arrived.

"How is it? Are you tired?" Cheng Feng asked Jiayi with concern.

Jiayi shook her head, her head was a little dizzy, but investigating the case with Cheng Feng made her feel very at ease, far better than lying at home alone and thinking wildly.

Leaving the interrogation room and returning to the office of the serious crime team, Qiao Hong's landlord, Sister Zhang, was sitting in the office chatting with Tian Yang and An Changpu. Sister Zhang was about 45 or six years old, with an ordinary appearance, and she looked quite simple. When Cheng Feng walked in, he happened to hear her complaining to Tian Yang and the others.

"I'm really depressed. I only knew that the renter was a young girl, a foreigner, who was not at home very often. She looked pretty and pretty. I always thought she was a student who graduated and stayed in our city C to find a job. , and never thought about it too much, plus the girl paid the rent happily, she always paid the rent on a quarterly basis, and she never defaulted on the rent, and I feel quite satisfied!" Sister Zhang spit out a long mouthful Sulked: "Who would have thought that she would actually be in that line of work! I am a responsible person, and if she messed with me like this, my entire room would be dirty!"

"Sister Zhang, how much contact have you had with Qiao Hong?" Tian Yang asked.

"Not much," Sister Zhang shook her head: "I usually have to go to work, and I live not too close to the rental house, so I won't look for her until the rent is paid."

"Then when was the last time you saw Qiao Hong?" Sister Zhang's answer made Tian Yang and An Changpu somewhat discouraged.

"On Saturday!" Sister Zhang thought for a while.

This answer made several people's eyes brighten, as if they saw a ray of light: "Isn't that the day before yesterday?"

"Yes!" Sister Zhang nodded: "I went to her to collect the rent. After collecting the rent, I met the old neighbor downstairs and chatted there for a while. When I left, I saw that girl walking with a man. Yeah, I thought it was her boyfriend at the time, just now I heard you said that she was in that line of work, oops, maybe it's that kind of relationship... It's really disgusting!"

"Did you see Qiao Hong leaving with a man? What kind of man is it?" An Changpu almost stood up from his chair. According to the examination results of Zhao Hong's forensic doctor, Qiao Hong's murder should have occurred from Saturday night to Sunday During the day, the man who was with Qiao Hong on Saturday afternoon was very suspicious.

Unfortunately, Sister Zhang's answer was not satisfactory: "I don't know, I saw it from the window in the stairwell, and I only saw a back from a distance, but I couldn't see the shape!"

"So, are there any characteristics that you can remember?"

"Let me think about it, let me think about it... that man is pretty tall," Sister Zhang frowned and thought for a long time, then turned around and saw Cheng Feng standing aside: "It's about the same as him, maybe he's taller than him." He's a little taller, neither fat nor thin, with medium-length hair, seems to be quite white, wearing a windbreaker... Oh, that man seems to have a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his face, but I'm not sure."

"What about your age?"

"It's hard to tell, but judging by the gentle dress, it shouldn't be too big!"

(End of this chapter)