conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 34
Chen Zhonghe saw that his surname was Zhao on the work card on his chest, so he tipped him 20 yuan and asked, "Xiao Zhao, do you know Mickey?"

Xiao Zhao nodded and said, "I know him. But I haven't seen him for several days. I heard that something happened to him outside and he was killed."

Chen Zhonghe asked again: "How long has Mickey been working here?"

Xiao Zhao said: "I just came here not long ago, so I don't know the exact time. But I heard that he has worked here for several years, and he is considered an old employee."

Chen Zhonghe asked, "How is your relationship with him?"

Xiao Zhao said: "Our place is open from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] am, usually in the middle of the night, and he and I take turns on duty. Because the jobs are the same, we have a good relationship."

Chen Zhonghe showed him Xiong Yan's photo, and asked him, "Have you ever seen the person in the photo come to Mickey?"

Xiao Zhao shook his head and said no.Chen Zhonghe asked again: "What do you think of Mickey?"

Xiao Zhao said: "He seems rather boring. He doesn't talk much at ordinary times, and he doesn't like to socialize very much. He has worked here for several years and has no friends. When he is at work, whenever he is free, he likes to take out his mobile phone and secretly log on to QQ. Chatting with people. After work, go to 'Good Zai Lai' to gamble."

Chen Zhonghe knew that the "come again" he said was actually a small restaurant on the old street in the west of the city.This restaurant has a two-story building on the ground for serious business, and there are two basement floors below the ground. It is an underground casino, and it is quite famous in the gambling circle of Qingyang.He didn't expect Mickey to be a gambler.

"Has anyone been here lately looking for Mickey?"

"No."

"Recently, has Mickey behaved abnormally?"

"Well, it doesn't seem to be... Oh, by the way, a few months ago, when he was at work, a customer said he stole something and slapped him. But later it became clear that it was just a misunderstanding, the customer And apologized to him."

Chen Zhonghe said: "Oh, if there is such a thing, then tell me about it."

Xiao Zhao said: "About a few months ago, Mickey was on duty in the locker room, and a guest came here to play. He just changed his clothes and went in to play for less than 10 minutes, when he suddenly remembered that there were important things to do, so he He came out immediately, put on his clothes, took his own driver's car and left. But when he returned home, he found that the key hanging on his waistband was missing, so he ran to our place and made a big fuss, saying that someone had stolen his key. The key. Only Mickey was on duty in the locker room, so he became the main suspect. The guest was very angry and slapped Mickey. Later, the security guard opened the locker he used and found the key dropped in the corner. It turned out that he was in a hurry and left the key behind. Later, the guest apologized to Mickey and gave him a tip of [-] yuan. But Mickey threw the [-]-dollar bill back to him and said: Who wants yours? Stinky money, if you ask me to slap me, the matter will be evened out. Otherwise, I will call the police. In the end, the guest really slapped him, and this matter will be over. The brothers all said that Mickey did it for us The wage earners have grown their ambitions."

After hearing this, Chen Zhonghe frowned and asked, "Do you know who the beating guest is?"

Xiao Zhao thought for a while and said, "His surname is Yu, his name is Yu Dongsheng, and he is the owner of Dongsheng Lighting Equipment Factory."

Chen Zhonghe said: "This person has met me once." So he called Dongsheng Lighting, asked for Yu Dongsheng's mobile phone number, called and asked, and such a thing really happened.Then ask him if anything happened at home after this incident happened?Like being stolen or something.Yu Dongsheng said no.

Chen Zhonghe hung up the phone, frowning even more tightly, searching the four walls with his eyes, and asked, "Why is there no window in this locker room?"

Xiao Zhao said: "Because outside the wall is Qingyang Mountain. In order to prevent theft, there are no windows on the outer wall, and there are exhaust fans on the ceiling, so it doesn't look stuffy."

Chen Zhonghe nodded, and walked around in the dressing room for a long time, his eyes kept on looking at the wall, as if he wanted to dig a hole out of the bare wall.I asked other waiters to find out about the situation, and saw that the number of guests in the entertainment city was gradually increasing, so I limped away.

6
Two days later, there was a cold air going south, and there was a sudden chill between the sky and the earth.

Chen Zhonghe went to the detention center to give some clothes to his daughter. On the way back, he happened to meet Nan Kedao.

Nan Kedao handed him a cigarette and asked, "Old Chen, how is your daughter's case going? Is there any progress?"

"There hasn't been much progress yet, but—" Chen Zhonghe took a puff on his cigarette, and said, "I went to the casino of 'Good Come Again' yesterday to inquire, and Mickey is indeed a frequent visitor there. However, he used to be a kid Gambling, but since two years ago, he has suddenly become rich, and the bets are very large. In the past two years, he has lost at least 50 million in the casino."

"50 million?" Nan Kedao was taken aback, "He's a wage earner, where did he get so much money?"

Chen Zhonghe frowned, exhaled smoke rings and said, "That's what I find strange." After a moment of silence, he suddenly changed the subject, looked at Nan Ke and asked, "If you had 50 yuan, what would you do? "

"If I had 50, I wouldn't be as stupid as him and lose in a casino." Nan Kedao had a melancholy expression on his face, "If I had 50, I would buy a house in the countryside , live in a quiet place, have no worries about food and clothing, and no one disturbs, then I can calm down and write some works I want to write."

"What do you want to write?"

"Yes, I was born in pure literature, and I published novels in "People's Literature" before. I always believe that only pure literature is pure literature, elegant literature, and the only ones that can last forever. In the literature that has been circulated, only writers who write such works are real writers. But the fee for writing such novels is very low, and I can’t support myself at all, so I have to rewrite those popular novels that can sell for a good price. To put it bluntly, It’s fast food novels, which are novels that you read today and forget tomorrow. My dream is to write the words I want to write wholeheartedly after I make some money writing mystery novels and don’t have to worry about making a living any more. The real novel that put my name in the annals of literature."

Chen Zhonghe couldn't help being awed, and said, "So you still have such lofty ideals."

The two squatted on the side of the street and smoked for a while, Chen Zhonghe said again: "I always feel that there is something wrong with the men's locker room in Imperial Entertainment City, and I want to go to see it again. Are you going?"

Nan Kedao threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground and said, "Go, of course, I still hope to write your story into a novel to earn some royalties. If I don't go, how can I get it?"

The two hailed a taxi and came to Emgrand Entertainment City again.It was getting late, and the gate of the entertainment city had just opened.Chen Zhonghe didn't go in, he just stood at the door and estimated the location of the men's locker room, then dragged his lame leg and walked back along the outer wall of the entertainment city.

The two came to the outside of the changing room wall at the back of the entertainment city.

Chen Zhonghe took a closer look. The wall looked nothing special. The wall was covered with golden tiles. On a higher place, an external unit of an air conditioner was hung. There was a small hole in the wall, one thick and one thin. The pipe passes through the hole and connects the air conditioner external unit and the indoor main unit.

Outside the wall is the tall Qingyang Mountain. There are large orange trees planted on the hillside, and the trees are covered with golden oranges, which looks like an orchard.Under the wall, because there has been no one for a long time, it is covered with weeds and shrubs.Chen Zhonghe was wandering under the wall when he suddenly saw an old man walking tremblingly carrying a load of freshly picked oranges.Chen Zhonghe saw that he was having a hard time picking, so he stepped aside in a hurry to make way for him.

When the old man passed by him, he saw that he was always staring at the air conditioner on the wall, so he asked, "Why, is the air conditioner broken again?"

Chen Zhonghe was taken aback, and asked, "Old man, what do you say?"

The old man simply put down his burden and said with a sigh of relief: "I contracted the orchard on this mountain. I live in a small shed in the orchard. I often see people repairing the air conditioner with a small wooden ladder. Once I repaired it with him." The master saw me, and I asked him to repair the air conditioner again, but he ignored me. I thought to myself, what kind of broken air conditioner is this? It always needs someone to fix it, so I might as well replace it.”

Chen Zhonghe was taken aback, looked up at the air conditioner, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said: "Old man, please wait for me here for a while, and I will go inside and ask who repaired the air conditioner." He dragged a Lame, just took two steps, suddenly staggered and almost fell.Looking down, it turned out that he had stepped on a loose shoelace.Bending his legs hastily, he tied his shoelaces again with one hand, then supported the wall, and walked towards the gate of the entertainment city step by step.

After entering the entertainment city, I found the supervisor of the maintenance department and asked him if the air conditioner outside the men's locker room was often broken?
The supervisor said no, it has been installed for several years and has never been broken.

Chen Zhonghe's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly borrowed an aluminum alloy ladder from the supervisor, went back to the outside of the dressing room wall, put the ladder against the wall, and limped up to see that the air conditioner was normal.

After careful observation, I found that the hole in the wall for the passage of the air-conditioning pipe was dug a bit too big. After the air-conditioning pipe passed through, there was still a gap the size of an egg.

Chen Zhonghe touched it with his hand, and found that the hole in the wall was very clean, free of dust, and there were scratches on the wall of the hole. It seemed that something often came in and out of it, taking away the dust, and the thing was extremely hard, so Can leave clear scratches on the cave wall.

At this moment, the mobile phone on his waist seemed to vibrate, he opened it, and said to himself, "It's a voice message." He put it to his ear and listened, and then said, "It's the weather forecast."

Panting for breath, he came down from the ladder and asked the old man, "Old man, you said you met the air-conditioning repairman, do you still remember his appearance?"

The old man said, "I should remember."

Chen Zhonghe took out Xiong Yan's photo and asked, "Old man, take a good look, is that person the one in the photo?"

The old man looked at the photo, then glanced at Nan Kedao at the side, and said, "It's him, I remember, it's him."

Chen Zhonghe suddenly became excited, took out his mobile phone and called an old colleague of the criminal investigation brigade, asking him to check all the burglars in the series of burglary cases, who had been burglarized within a few months before their homes were burglarized. , Have you ever been to Emgrand Entertainment City?

Not long after, the other party called back and said, yes, all the victims of the theft had been to Emgrand Entertainment City about one or two months before the incident.

7
Chen Zhonghe hung up the phone and fell to the ground.

Nan Kedao was taken aback, and hurried forward to support him: "Old Chen, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Zhonghe suddenly jumped up from the ground with one foot, laughed and said, "Xiao Jin, I finally understand what's going on. Not only did I investigate to find out that my daughter is innocent, but I also made it clear that the recent incidents that have caused headaches for the police The series of burglaries has also been solved. Haha!"

Nan Kedao was taken aback: "Ah? Really?"

Chen Zhonghe said: "Do you still remember the story that Xiao Zhao told us that Mickey was misunderstood and stole the keys? In fact, others did not misunderstand him. He is indeed a thief who steals guests' keys. He secretly arranged all the locker rooms. The key to the locker, if you see a guest who looks particularly rich, open the locker while the guest is away, steal the key from his belt, and then give it to the accomplice outside the wall to let the accomplice Go to the street stall master who distributes the keys, and copy all the keys on the keychain of the guests. Because once the guests enter the entertainment city, they will play all night, at least for several hours, so they can do this leisurely Just put the key back before the guests come out to change their clothes."

Nan Kedao shook his head and said, "No, there are no windows on the outer wall of the men's locker room. How could Mickey pass the key out in the locker room?"

(End of this chapter)