"Wang Wei likes to drink very much. Our investigation found that he bought all his wine from you." Wei Boyan said.
"Yes." Huang Qi did not deny it.
"You two know each other?"
"We've known each other more than ten years ago."
"Do you recognize these people?"
Lu Wen gave a projection.
On the projection were photos of the previous deceased.
Huang Qi just glanced at the projection and lowered his head, "I know... I know them all."
"You worked at Desheng Company sixteen years ago and were responsible for guiding tourists to their chartered boats. Am I right?" Lu Wen looked at him.
"That's right." Huang Qi lowered his head.
"Did you notice a very strange phenomenon when you were working?" Lu Wen withdrew the projection, "Although other companies occasionally have ship capsizing accidents, they rarely attract sharks, but Desheng Company is different. "
This company has almost as many capsizes as all other companies combined.
And their company's boats seem to attract sharks.
Many tourists have good water skills, otherwise they would not dare to drive their own boats to deep water areas. However, after the boat capsized, they were surrounded by sharks before they had time to wait for the rescue team.
This is unusual.
The sharks here are not interested in humans.
Unless something is artificially placed on the boat to attract sharks, such as fish blood or something more secret.
"It stands to reason that Desheng Company, which was more than ten years ago, has already been a large company for twenty years. It should not have made so many mistakes. So, can I make a bold assumption? Assume..."
"Sir, I want to smoke a cigarette." Huang Qi suddenly spoke, planning Lu Wen's words.
"Okay, smoke it."
Huang Qi took a pack of cigarettes from his container and lit one.
Lu Wen noticed that Huang Qi's cigarette lighting hand was trembling slightly.
"Some people have died in the past two days." He said to Huang Qi: "The first deceased, Lu Lin, was doing hull cleaning work at Desheng Company sixteen years ago, and the third deceased, Lin Ziqiang, was responsible for inspecting the ships that went out to sea every day. Is there any safety hazard? The fourth deceased, Wang Wei, who you are very familiar with..."
Wang Wei was not in Desheng Company at the time.
He is responsible for quality inspection in a shipyard.
After the accident at Desheng Company, Wang Wei and another colleague were sent to inspect the ship because the ship was custom-made at that shipyard.
"He finally concluded that all the ships involved had no problems before the incident."
A very definite conclusion.
As a person from the shipyard, his words are more credible.
And he also showed the certificate given by the shipyard.
So when public opinion surged, people could only blame Desheng Company for the problem.
"All four of you have access to Desheng Company's ships through your work, especially you. You are responsible for guiding tourists to their respective ships, so I can assume this."
"It is assumed that Lulin placed certain substances on a specific boat that could attract sharks during the cleaning of the hull. It may even damage some structures of the hull and cause a capsizing accident."
Lu Wen thought about Lu Lin's miserable situation.
Among the current dead, Lu Lin was the worst. His head was poured with hot oil and burned to charcoal.
"Lin Ziqiang deliberately ignored those ships with problems during his daily routine hull inspections."
"And you, you are responsible for directing tourists who want to drive themselves to deep water to the boat in question."
"In the end, Wang Wei and his colleagues chose to turn a blind eye and told the outside world that there was no problem with the hull in advance and that all the damage was caused by sharks."
It was impossible for the Executive Directorate at that time to ignore such a big matter.
Especially when it comes to public opinion.
"So Du Changqing, the director of the Executive Bureau of the 15th District at the time, personally investigated. Maybe he had found out the problem, but just before he wanted to disclose it... a bundle of cash was placed on his desk."
Lu Wen finished.
He looked at Huang Qi who was smoking quietly and did not rush to urge him.
A cigarette doesn't last long.
Huang Qi slowly blew out wisps of white smoke and put out the cigarette butt in his hand.
He was silent for a moment, as if he was recalling something, and finally spoke.
"At that time... Lao Lin and I were both short of money. Lao Lin's daughter had cancer, and someone in my family also got sick and needed money urgently. As for Wang Wei, his family was pressing for marriage at that time, but he had no car or house. So I want to make some money to buy a house and marry a wife.”
Perhaps it was time that made this middle-aged man feel regretful.
Or maybe he knew he couldn't escape, so Huang Qi chose to confess.
"And Lu Lin... Lu Lin was the one who was most in need of money at that time. His eldest son was gambling outside and lost everything the family could lose. He also owed a lot of debt. People who wanted money blocked them every day. My family is really so poor that they even thought of selling their organs.”
Such four people, plus Du Changqing, who is greedy for money.
No... there's a sixth person.
A colleague who went with Wang Wei to inspect the ship that capsized.
"That person came to us and gave everyone a lot of money to bring down Desheng."
Huang Qi sighed.
Reminiscing about past events can be difficult.
He took out a cigarette with slightly trembling hands and lit it again.
"Lü Lin took the largest amount of money. He said he could just do the unscrupulous things. He had damaged the hull of the boat in advance and he had also put in the things that attracted sharks."
White smoke spread inside this small canteen.
Things that happened sixteen years ago slowly became clear in the smoke.
"Which company is it?" Lu Wen asked.
"Hanjiang."
Huang Qi named the company.
It was this company that found them privately and gave them a sum of money.
"The person said that this was not the first time they had done this. The two companies had always been in a competitive relationship. When Desheng Company was first established, they had done it. However, they had just done a few ship capsizing accidents and were banned at that time. The Executive Directorate was on the lookout, but the director-general at the time was out of luck, so they didn’t dare to take action again.”
Put it this way.
More than thirty years ago, when Desheng Company was first established, the shipwreck accident that occurred was actually caused by Hanjiang Company secretly.
compete…
Victory in competition at the expense of countless lives.
Hanjiang Company got what it wanted and allowed its old rival to go bankrupt.
Lu Wen checked the information and found that Hanjiang was developing very smoothly more than ten years ago.
"Is there anything unfinished?" Lu Wen looked at Huang Qi, "You should spend the rest of your life in prison. If you still have any regrets, you can finish it first."
"No, thank you two officers... After I said it, I felt much better. No matter how I am judged later, I deserve it."
Huang Qi smoked his last cigarette.
Today's prisons are more humane and prisoners can smoke appropriately, so he has nothing to miss.
"By the way, have you committed any serious crimes in these years?" Lu Wen suddenly asked.
"No." Huang Qi shook his head.
"No wonder the murderer didn't attack you. Maybe it wasn't your turn yet, or maybe he let you go. So what's left now... Wang Wei's colleagues and people from Hanjiang Company."
"Sir, Wang Wei's colleague is called Hu Qian. If I remember correctly, he committed a crime a few years ago and is still in prison." Huang Qi said.
"prison?"
Lu Wen was stunned.
He looked at Wei Boyan, who was also looking at him.
There won't be another prison burning.
"I'll ask Feng Fugui which prison Hu Qian is in."
Wei Boyan took out his cell phone and was about to call Feng Fugui when his cell phone buzzed and vibrated.
The caller was none other than Feng Fugui.
Wei Boyan pressed the answer button.
"What's up?"
"oh… "
"Understood, I'll be there soon."
Very simple, just over twenty seconds.
He hung up the phone, looked at Lu Wen, and said, "The prison fire is coming again."
"Then go and have a look."
Lu Wen looked into the distance.
The Fifteenth District is huge, and the prison where the fire broke out is twenty minutes away.
He had a hunch that the murderer seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.
…
Good night, fellow book friends!
(End of chapter)