Age: Passionate youth, starting from graduation assignment

Chapter 118
"You say."

"Well, the situation is like this. There was a theft in the canteen of our factory a few days ago, and two catties of cabbage were lost."

"The factory traced this matter back and found that the canteen had probably been stolen since two or three years ago, and it was only discovered today."

"Comrades from other departments searched for a long time, but they didn't find any clues. You are a capable person in our department, so I want to ask you today if you are willing to take over this case."

"How much is the case worth?"

"Is the case worth it? The part that has been identified so far is 200 yuan, and it is not ruled out that there will be more."

"The leader in charge of the factory took this case very seriously after learning about it, saying that whoever solves the case will be credited once."

"200 yuan...the number is not small."

Xu Jichang took a deep breath and said.

Stealing public property is a taboo in this day and age.

If the figure of 200 yuan is placed on the employees, they will definitely be fired from their jobs.If it is placed on an outsider, it will be directly turned over to the public security organ for sentencing.

As for why employees are not necessarily sentenced to prison... It's still the same sentence, family scandals should not be exposed.When each unit encounters a crime committed by its factory employees, it is often still willing to choose to deal with it by itself.

Xu Jichang thought and thought, and finally decided to continue this case.

The immediate superiors and leaders have already sought their opinions face to face, so it is best not to shirk.

Of course, the most important thing is the reward for successfully solving the case.

Recording merit is a very important thing in this era.

"Leader, I'll take this case."

After a moment of silence, Xu Jichang stated, "But I can't guarantee the time to solve the case."

Director Qian showed an approving smile on his face: "Okay, it would be the best if you are willing to take it. I believe in your ability."

"Okay, please cooperate with other comrades later and hand over all the results of the preliminary survey to me."

"Okay, I'll let them know..."

Xu Jichang and Director Qian ended the meeting in a pleasant atmosphere.

……

After a while, the preliminary investigation file of the canteen theft was sent to Xu Jichang's desk.

Next to him, Du Xiaojing noticed the dossier on his desk, and while writing his homework, he asked curiously: "Is there a case?"

"There is a case."

When Xu Jichang was speaking, he opened the front page of the dossier and began to learn more about the case and the preliminary investigation.

The department that was stolen was a cafeteria of the Dongfang Chemical Fertilizer Factory. It was a cafeteria for grassroots cadres and employees. It was exclusively for department-level cadres and ordinary employees of the factory.

The contents of the stolen items were basically vegetables, meat, etc., and just like Director Qian said, the theft lasted for an extremely long time.

Seeing this, Xu Jichang silently wrote down a suspicious point.

There are many types of supplies in the cafeteria. It is understandable for the thief to steal food alone, but why does the other party only steal vegetables and meat, and never steal food?

You must know that food is much more scarce than vegetables at the moment. Normally, since even cheaper vegetables are stolen, why just let go of food? There may be something tricky here.

Keep looking down.

Xu Jichang turned to the next page of the dossier, and saw that other cadres and workers of the security department had taken footprints after the incident, but no clues of footprints were found on the doors and windows.

Not through the door, not through the window.Where can that be?Digging a tunnel?
Xu Jichang once again marked a doubt in his heart.

After reading all the content, he closed the entire file, put it in a cabinet and locked it, and set off for a cafeteria.

"Huh... I'm starting to write your 4000 words."

At this time, Du Xiaojing said behind him.

"Come on, it's up to you."

Xu Jichang said without looking back, pushed open the office door and walked forward.

The canteen is located on the northernmost side of the unit, avoiding the location of all production workshops, thus ensuring the cleanliness and pollution-free food for employees, which is very reasonable in terms of layout.

When Xu Jichang walked outside the cafeteria, he did not approach it immediately, but first carefully observed the structure of the cafeteria.

Yi canteen is a building facing north and south, with a red brick structure, the front door and rear windows are transparent from north to south, and some slogans in red letters on a white background are painted on the waist of the wall. It looks no different from other canteens in this era.

If you had to look for the difference, it would probably be that the canteen was larger, far better than the canteens of other factories, because Dongfang Chemical Fertilizer Factory itself is also a big factory.

Xu Jichang looked at the cafeteria for a long time, and finally fixed his eyes on the chimney.

Since the thief does not enter through doors and windows, there is only one last method left...

chimney!

This is a possibility that was previously ignored by all the investigators!
Before Xu Jichang crossed over, when he was a child, he would often sneak into the house through the chimney with his companions when he was playing.

And he is very clear that generally only children can enter and exit through this kind of ordinary chimney, and adults with relatively large skeletons cannot.

Good guy, two clues to the crime have been locked at once: the thief entered the cafeteria through the chimney, and he must be a child.

After confirming these two points, Xu Jichang walked into the cafeteria and began to check with a blank expression.

The cafeteria has been frequented by the security office recently, and the employees are not surprised by his appearance. Those who should wash vegetables, and those who should cook, have no expression on their faces.

On the contrary, the chubby cafeteria director greeted him with a smile: "Mr. Xu, let's solve the case."

"Well, let's go out together and have a chat."

Xu Jichang nodded and said, turned around and walked towards the entrance of the cafeteria. The fat director quickly followed.

"Section Chief Xu, what do you want to ask?"

After leaving the cafeteria gate, the fat director asked Xu Jichang respectfully.

There was a theft in the department, and it lasted for a long time. In a big way, he, as the director, also has leadership responsibilities.

So now when he saw the people from the security department, he felt very guilty.

"Tell me about the division of labor and responsibilities of your canteen staff."

Xu Jichang suspected that this case was related to internal employees, so he asked.

"Okay Section Chief Xu. The division of labor in our cafeteria is like this. The person responsible for keeping food, meat and vegetables is Hu Tianming. He is over 40, and he is a drunk..."

"The one in charge is Yu Xianglian..."

……

The fat director said as he walked, and introduced everything in detail for a long time, until he came to a secluded corner next to the factory.

Xu Jichang listened patiently by the side, and didn't ask a question until he finished speaking.

"Tell me about Yu Xianglian's situation."

"Okay, Yu Xianglian's family situation is like this..."

"Her husband passed away in the early years. It's not easy to take care of the two children, one son and one daughter, all the time. But that boy in her family is also a mischievous one. She doesn't let her worry all day long."

"Naughty? How naughty exactly?"

"It's just that I usually like to fight, and I usually steal some small things... Of course, Section Chief Xu, I understand what you mean. To be honest, I think her child dares to steal things in the neighborhood. They must not dare to stretch their claws on public property."

Children dare not steal things from the public house?
That's not necessarily true.

On the contrary, sometimes children are much more courageous than adults. To put it bluntly, they just don't know the severity.Many things that adults dare not do, children may do it as soon as they think of it.

What's more, in this case, Xu Jichang was 100% sure that a child was responsible for the crime.

Xu Jichang thought, but on the surface, he still has to deal with the fat director, after all, he has no evidence yet,
"Oh, let me just ask, don't think too much yourself."

"You go back now and call Yu Xianglian over."

"Okay Section Chief Xu, I'll let her come over right now."

The fat director left in a hurry, Xu Jichang looked at his back and fell into deep thought.

After a while, the fat director came over with a rather attractive middle-aged woman in a flowered jacket, and introduced to Xu Jichang that this was Yu Xianglian.

As a woman, she actually became the chef of the cafeteria.Hehe, there are really some meanings.

"Hello, Chief Xu."

After Director Fat's introduction, Yu Xianglian stretched out her hand to say hello, "Do you want to ask me a question?"

Xu Jichang didn't answer for a while, and waited for the fat director to leave before speaking: "Yes, I have some questions for you about the theft."

"You ask."

Yu Xianglian said lightly, there was no clue on her face.

"Forget it, I can't even ask you."

Xu Jichang smiled coldly, "Call your son over, I'll ask him face to face."

Just now, he had concluded that the theft must have been done by Yu Xianglian's son.

Meat and vegetables have been stolen for several years, how can Yu Xianglian not notice it?There must be some other reason that forced her to keep the situation a secret.

The reason why the security department failed to find clues when handling the case before was because they all focused on physical evidence such as damage marks on doors and windows, footprints, etc., and ignored the key point of the chimney.

As for the people in the cafeteria, according to the case file, they also asked, but they didn't get any results from Yu Xianglian.

This is also very simple, Yu Xianglian seems to be a good psychological quality.Coupled with the bonus points that there is a widow pulling the child alone, the cadres and workers in the cafeteria probably will cover for her consciously or unconsciously, but they just fooled it.

Beside Xu Jichang, Yu Xianglian's expression moved slightly when she heard his very direct words, but she quickly regained her composure: "Chief Xu, my child has nothing to do with the theft case, why call him over."

Xu Jichang glanced at her lightly: "I think your son is probably not here anymore."

"Section Chief Xu, I don't quite understand what you are saying."

"Stop pretending, you have exposed the truth just now."

"Exposed? Facts? Chief Xu, I can't understand a single word you said."

"Oh, your psychological quality is very good. But you forgot that truly innocent people are very excited when they encounter doubts. You were so calm just now, but it shows the problem."

"The person in the entire cafeteria who has the best chance of discovering that there is something wrong with the quantity of supplies is the chef who is in charge of the spoon, except for the custodian. Your custodian is an idiot, and you may not be able to find things if you lose them. But why are you, the chef, equally ignorant? Not to mention that your son himself likes to steal things. Who else can steal things from the cafeteria for two years without anyone noticing?"

"As for how he stole it, I also have a clear idea."

When Xu Jichang said this, he pointed to the chimney of the cafeteria in the distance.

Yu Xianglian looked in the direction of his fingers, and her expression changed.

Does this young section chief know how to read minds?
How did he know that his son went down the chimney?

As Yu Xianglian thought about it, her psychological defense suddenly collapsed, and fear appeared on her pretty face.

"Chief Xu, I... Please, I..."

Under extreme panic, she couldn't even speak coherently, "I...my son hasn't graduated from elementary school yet, please can you..."

Xu Jichang was unmoved: "Be honest, where is he now?"

"No, I can't tell you. Please let... let us go..."

As Yu Xianglian spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.

Xu Jichang still looked cold, staring at her and waiting for her to explain his son's whereabouts.

Yu Xianglian just shook her head desperately, tears gradually overflowed, and her eyes were full of begging for Xu Jichang.

"Chief Xu, just... as long as you are willing to let my son go, I will do anything for you..."

Yu Xianglian choked and said, after scanning the surroundings to make sure that no one was passing by, she quickly grabbed Xu Jichang's hand and pressed it against her body forcibly.

"What are you doing!"

Xu Jichang quickly withdrew his hand, "If you go on like this, I'll take you to the interrogation room!"

"Don't you understand that your only way out now is to tell the truth!"

She left it alone to handle the case, and she actually wanted to corrupt herself in this way?

If he really coveted her lust and caused the case to end, how should he draw conclusions on the case?

Could it be that those meat dishes were blown away by the wind?

Facing Xu Jichang's firm attitude and stern warning, Yu Xianglian shuddered in fright: if she really entered the interrogation room, the situation would be even more serious.

"I... my son is at his grandma's house in the countryside."

"Which village?"

"Jiuli Township Commune Zhou's Shack Squad. And Section Chief Xu, please, I am willing to be your cow or horse. I can do whatever you want... I just ask you to come to my son when you catch him Let me take it easy..."

"Your son is not light, you should think about yourself."

"Now you go with me to the place where the prisoners are held by the security department. You don't have to be locked in the house, but you have to wait in the corridor outside. When your son is brought back, you can leave."

Xu Jichang said coldly.

Yu Xianglian lowered her head, trembling in her heart, and followed Xu Jichang obediently.

Originally, when Yu Xianglian heard that her son could not be taken lightly, she felt all hopeless for a while, wishing to seek death on the spot.

But when she thought that there was still a daughter waiting to be fed at home, she still chose to obey the order.

Xu Jichang took Yu Xianglian to the place where the prisoners were being held, briefly explained to the security officers at the scene, and asked them to keep Xianglian under strict supervision. Then he found Director Qian and reported the situation to him.

"Very good, have you solved the case so quickly? Then you will lead the team and go arrest it immediately!"

Director Qian said excitedly.

(End of this chapter)