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Chapter 6 Life and Death Express (1)
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This is a five-storey tube building built 30 years ago, with a corridor leading from north to south. On one side of the corridor, there are seven or eight cramped houses.

This building was bought by someone a few years ago, and after a little renovation, it became a rental building specially for foreigners.

This morning, A Ling, a working girl who lives in Room 302 on the third floor, knocked on the door of the next room with a book in her hand. She knocked for a long time, but no one answered the door. She pushed it lightly with her hand, and the door was locked. .

She felt a little strange, so she put her hand in through the open window, lifted the corner of the curtain, and took a closer look, only to see a woman lying on the floor of the room with a dagger stuck in her chest, blood flowing all over the floor...

A Ling's scream woke up the few tenants in the building.

Several police cars rushed to the scene, and the leader of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Fan Zetian, led the team to the scene.

The murder happened in room 301 on the third floor next to the stairwell. It was the neighbor of the deceased, A Ling, who called the police. At the same time, A Ling also called the landlord He Hongxiang.

He Hongxiang, who lives nearby, arrived one step ahead of the police.

However, after Room 301 was rented, the tenant had already replaced the door lock by himself, and the landlord could not open the door even if he had the key.

Fan Zetian had no choice but to ask someone to break into the door.

This is a small apartment with one bedroom and one living room. A young woman is lying on her back on the floor of the living room with a dagger stuck in her chest, and the blood flowing out has long since solidified.There is a desk in the corner of the living room, some books are piled on the desk, and there is also a laptop computer that is turned on and in the screen saver state.

The landlord, He Hongxiang, approached the deceased to have a look, and said with certainty, "That's right, she is the tenant of this house."

He took out from his purse a copy of the ID card that the deceased had used when he came to rent the house three years ago and showed it to the police.

Fan Zetian looked at it. The name of the deceased was Huo Yujia, a 27-year-old from outside the city.

Fan Zetian asked his assistant Xiao Li to find a way to contact the deceased's family, and asked the landlord about the deceased's situation. However, He Hongxiang said that he had not had much contact with the deceased except for collecting rent, so he could not provide more information.

Fan Zetian turned to ask the reporter, A Ling.

A Ling said that she worked as a foreman in a nearby hotel. She usually leaves early and returns late. She didn't have much contact with the deceased. She only knew that the deceased was an Internet writer who typed on the computer all day long. Sometimes it was rare to see her downstairs once a week.

Fan Zetian frowned and asked, "Don't go downstairs for a week? Then how does she live?"

A Ling said: "She is a senior house girl. Whether it is food, drink, or clothing, everything is settled on Taobao. Even the fast food noodles for three meals a day are also purchased online, so I often see her. until the courier knocks on her door."

Fan Zetian asked, "Then how did you find out that she was dead?"

A Ling said: "I usually like to read after work. It happens that she has a lot of books at home, so I occasionally ask her to borrow books to read. A few days ago, I asked her to borrow a novel called "Criminal Investigation Files". It's over, I wanted to return it to her before going to work this morning, but I knocked on the door for a long time and there was no response, I thought she was sleeping late, so I wanted to put the book in through the window, but when I lifted the curtain, I saw..."

Fan Zetian asked, "Does she have a boyfriend?"

A Ling shook her head and said, "Probably not. I asked her last time I chatted, and she said that she would never fall in love until she became an internet master."

Fan Zetian asked: "What kind of people usually come to her?"

A Ling said: "I don't know much about this, because I work during the day. In my impression, except for the courier who often appears at the door of her room, only the landlord comes to collect the rent every month. Other than that, there is really no one. I saw someone came looking for her."

At this time, the forensic doctor Lao Cao came to report that the deceased was pierced by a dagger in the heart and died of excessive blood loss. The time of death was between 12:2 noon and [-]:[-] pm yesterday.

The trace inspection personnel reported that no fingerprints of the murderer were extracted from the murder weapon, and there were no footprints left by the murderer at the scene. It seems that the murderer cleaned up the scene after committing the crime.

There were no traces of tampering in the house, and the deceased's wallet, mobile phone and platinum necklace were all on his body, which basically ruled out the possibility of murder.

On the computer on the desk, after turning off the screen saver, there is an open document on the desktop, which should be a manuscript that the deceased was writing, and the last time it was manually saved was 12:22 noon yesterday.

There are not many tenants in this building. There are only three tenants on the third floor. In addition to A Ling and the deceased Huo Yujia, there is also a middle-aged couple renting room 308 at the other end of the corridor.

The man in this family is a pickup truck driver, who does transportation every day, and the woman is Aunt Zhang, a housewife.

Aunt Zhang provided a clue to the police, saying that yesterday at noon, when she went out to take out the trash, she saw a courier knocking on the door of room 301. Because Huo Yujia often received couriers, she didn't pay much attention.Fan Zetian asked, when was that time?Aunt Zhang thought for a while and said, "I was waiting for my husband to come home from get off work for dinner, and I checked my watch. It was around 12:20."

Fan Zetian asked: "The courier is a man? Also, how do you know he is a courier?"

Aunt Zhang said: "It's a man, wearing the blue overalls of an ordinary courier, wearing a peaked cap, and holding a courier package in his hand. It looks like he is delivering a courier. But the name of the courier company written on the clothes I didn't take a closer look."

She still wanted to say something, but when she saw the landlord He Hongxiang approaching, she hesitated to speak, and found an excuse to walk away.

Fan Zetian asked policewoman Wen Li to check with the courier company immediately.

There are five courier companies in the city, including EMS. Wen Li called to check one by one, and they all said that there was no courier delivered to Huo Yujia in Room 301 of this building yesterday, and the courier company said that their couriers were average. Will not wear peaked caps to door-to-door delivery, because some elderly customers who are highly vigilant will not open the door to strangers wearing peaked caps knocking on the door.

Fan Zetian thought about it and said, "So, someone knocked on Huo Yujia's door pretending to be a courier, and the time was just after 12 noon yesterday. It seems that this fake courier is suspected of committing a major crime."

Wen Li nodded, and deduced: "The deceased was writing on the computer at noon yesterday, when someone knocked on the door looking for her, she saved the document and got up to open the door, but she didn't expect that what was waiting for her outside the door was the call of death. "

Fan Zetian suddenly thought of something, called Aunt Zhang aside, and asked her, "I thought you had something to say just now, but when you saw the landlord coming, you didn't say anything. Do you think this case has something to do with the landlord?"

Aunt Zhang shook her head and said, "No, no."

Fan Zetian said: "You have to know that concealing the clues to solve the case from the police is called not reporting what you know, and it is also against the law."

Aunt Zhang said: "Actually, I also heard from a tenant who moved out from the third floor. She said that Huo Yujia, who sat at home and played computer all day, had no financial income. Every time the landlord came to collect the rent, she took If you don’t pay, you can go to bed with the landlord once. Playing once is equivalent to one month’s rent. I didn’t believe it at first, but then once the landlord came to collect the rent, the door slammed shut as soon as I entered Room 301. I learned from her Passing by the window, I really heard an unbearable sound coming from inside..."

Fan Zetian said: "Oh, there is such a thing? You suspect that Huo Yujia's death has something to do with He Hongxiang?"

Aunt Zhang looked around and saw that He Hongxiang was not there, so she whispered: "Although He Hongxiang is lustful, he is very timid. If you lend him the courage, he would not dare to kill people. I am talking about his wife."

Fan Zetian asked, "What happened to his wife?"

Aunt Zhang said: "His wife is a well-known tigress. Once she found out that He Hongxiang was having an affair with a girl from out of town, and she even asked two natal brothers to break the girl's leg alive, and finally lost money."

Fan Zetian said: "Are you suspecting that his wife knew that He Hongxiang had an affair with Huo Yujia, so she asked someone to kill Huo Yujia?"

Aunt Zhang hurriedly waved her hand and said, "You said that, but I didn't say it. You just said that you are guilty if you don't report it, so I can only talk about it. Whether his wife is a murderer or not depends on you who are policemen." Check, it doesn’t count if we ordinary people say it.”

Fan Zetian couldn't help laughing. He told Wen Li about the situation and asked her to focus on He Hongxiang's wife.

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In the afternoon, Wen Li returned to the bureau and reported to Fan Zetian that she had investigated He Hongxiang's wife in detail. This woman traveled abroad last month and spent half a month in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. I have been lying in the hospital for more than a month, and I am still sometimes awake and sometimes in a coma.Her two brothers went to Xiamen to work three months ago and never came back.Therefore, the possibility of this woman and her brother cooperating to commit the crime is basically ruled out.

Fan Zetian frowned while listening, the only clue of this case was interrupted here.

The police conducted an intensive investigation for another three days, but still made no progress.

When the case was at an impasse, Interpol Xiao Li unexpectedly obtained a useful clue by visiting the deceased's neighbor A Ling again.

A Ling told the police that not long ago, Huo Yujia received a lump of poop from a Taobao shop.

The reason is that Huo Yujia bought a piece of clothing from this online store, felt dissatisfied, and gave it a bad review.

The shop owner called and asked her to change it to a good review, but Huo Yujia refused, and finally annoyed the shop owner, so he sent her a pile of shit to vent his anger.

Fan Zetian said: "I've seen this kind of thing on the TV news, but it's still true."

Xiao Li said: "I heard that Huo Yujia was furious after receiving the poop package, and immediately bought two small accessories for a few yuan from this online store with a small account, and immediately gave two negative reviews after receiving the goods."

Fan Zetian said puzzled, "Is the bad review really that terrible?"

Wen Li, a policewoman beside her, couldn't help laughing, and said, "Team Fan, you haven't bought anything on Taobao, so you don't know the rules of the game. People who buy things on Taobao, if they see that your online store has a lot of bad reviews, they will You will have doubts about your reputation, and naturally you will not buy your things. Bad reviews will affect the overall favorable rate of an online store, and if there are too many negative reviews, the store will be upgraded slowly, which can be said to directly affect the store's business .Several bad reviews in a row can destroy an online store.”

Fan Zetian said: "It turns out that the water here is so deep. I think this is a clue. Hurry up and take Huo Yujia's computer to the technical department, and find out which online store sent Huo Yujia's poop."

Huo Yujia set the Taobao page on the computer to remember the password and automatically log in. The police quickly entered her Taobao account. After careful searching, they found that the company that she had given negative reviews three times in a row was a clothing company named "Shui Yiyi". shop, the owner is a man named Chen Ting, judging from the delivery address, this online shop is located in Kangcheng, a neighboring province.

It is nearly [-] kilometers from Kangcheng to Qingyang City where Fan Zetian is located. Could it be that this Taobao shopkeeper really killed people across provinces?
Fan Zetian immediately sent an investigation fax to the Cannes police, asking the local police to investigate the situation of Chen Ting, the owner of the "Shui Yiyi" online store, especially to investigate Chen Ting's whereabouts on July 7, the day Huo Yujia was killed.

At noon the next day, Cannes police sent back news that Chen Ting was 34 years old and divorced. He had been imprisoned for two years for intentional injury and was released three years ago. shop.After investigation, Chen Ting went to Guangzhou to purchase goods on July 7.Because there is no train from Cannes to Guangzhou, he took a long-distance bus, departing from Cannes at 5 am and arriving in Guangzhou at 9:8 pm. On July 7th and 6th, I spent two days looking at the goods in the Baima clothing market in Guangzhou. On July 7th, I took the goods back from Guangzhou by car.

Fan Zetian took out a map and looked at it, and found that Qingyang City was the only way to go from Kangcheng to Guangzhou, whether it was taking the expressway or the national road.

With a thought in his heart, Fan Zetian drew the route from Kangcheng to Guangzhou on the map, and made a circle where he passed through Qingyang City.

Wen Li asked puzzledly: "Captain Fan, do you suspect that Chen Ting killed Huo Yujia on the way to Guangzhou to buy goods?"

Fan Zetian said: "The date he purchased the goods was July 7th, and the date Huo Yujia was killed was also July 5th. I calculated the time when the long-distance bus passed through Qingyang City, and it was around 7 noon. Huo Yujia died at this time. .Do you think these are just coincidences?"

Wen Li said: "I don't know if it's a coincidence, but no matter how capable this Chen Ting is, it is impossible for a long-distance bus full of passengers to stop on a certain road in Qingyang City, and wait for him to get off and kill someone before sitting on the bus." Get in the car and continue driving to Guangzhou?"

Fan Zetian said: "If you don't investigate, you have no right to speak. We have to go to Cannes to see if this guy named Chen Ting really sits on a long-distance bus all day."

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Chen Ting, 1.7 meters five, with a purple face and dark skin, at first glance, gives people a strong and simple feeling.

However, Fan Zetian brought Wen Li and Xiao Li to Cannes. Under the leadership of the local police, when he saw the Taobao shopkeeper, the first impression that flashed in his mind was that this man could open a shop selling women's clothing on the Internet, which meant that He has a delicate mind and is by no means as simple as it appears on the surface.

"That woman did give me a bad review. I was angry for a while, and I did send her a pile of poop, but I didn't kill anyone." Fan Zetian straight to the point, Chen Ting seemed a little excited, and said, "July 7th , I was on the long-distance bus to Guangzhou all day long, and in the words of your police, it is impossible to have time to commit crimes.”

Chen Ting told the police that because Guangzhou's clothes are trendy and easy to sell online, most of the clothes in his online store are purchased from Guangzhou. At 7 a.m. on July 5, he boarded a long-distance bus from Cannes to Guangzhou.It was a sleeper car with two layers of berths, and he slept in the upper berth at the back.At about 9:12 noon, the bus stops at Qingyang City for lunch, at about 6:8 pm for dinner in Fogang County, Guangdong, and arrives at Guangzhou at about [-]:[-] pm.As soon as he got off the bus, he found a hotel to stay in.

Fan Zetian asked: "How long did your car stop in Qingyang City for lunch? Where did you dine?"

Chen Ting said: "I didn't pay attention to the specific restaurant. I only know that it is a roadside restaurant by the national highway. There are not enough stools in the restaurant. Many people buy a boxed lunch and squat on the side of the road to solve it. The parking time is about Like 15 to 20 minutes."

Fan Zetian said: "After the bus left Qingyang City, did any interesting things happen in the car? You can pick one or two and tell me about it."

(End of this chapter)