It was already late at night, and the moon and stars were scarce in the sky. Lu Junchi walked quickly into an old community near Wanhu City.
Although it is also within the scope of Wanhu City, the environment is better than those of unfinished buildings and shanty towns, but the streets are still a bit narrow, the houses are old, the lighting is average, at least the smell of decay is no longer floating in the air. .
As soon as Lu Junchi walked into the corridor, he saw Su Hui standing against the wall.
The corridor was dark. Su Hui leaned against the wall with a cane in his hand. When he saw someone coming in, he raised his eyes.
Lu Junchi saw him and nodded lightly at him.
It's only been a few hours that they haven't seen each other, and they haven't cut off the call and contact, but it was not until Lu Junchi saw Su Hui that his heart fell.
The lights in the hallway were broken several floors. The two walked upstairs in a hurry, Lu Junchi took off a coat hanging in his arms: "It's a little cold tonight, I just brought it for you from the car."
At night in Wanhucheng, the night dew was very heavy. Even if Su Hui was in the car most of the time, his trousers would inevitably get wet. His shirt was very thin and he had a low fever. Bring a piece of clothing.
"Aren't you... Aren't you cold?" Su Hui looked at Lu Junchi, he didn't wear much clothes, and he had been hurrying at night.
Lu Jun said lately: "I wear less clothes, and I won't catch a cold. But you... don't get sick."
Only then did Su Hui take the clothes from his hand and put them on his body.
This dress is bigger than he usually wears. He buried his face in the collar and felt a little warmer. He asked Lu Junchi, "Which floor is it?"
Lu Jun said lately: "Room 302, the detective from the sub-bureau should already be there."
Now, Tao Yingxu's body has been transported back to the General Administration. The criminal police from the Wanhu Police Station has negotiated with the family members and has signed them for an autopsy.
They hurry up and go upstairs. When Lu Junchi and Su Hui walked inside, there were two detectives in the house. Only Tao Yingxu's mother Wang Yaxiu was at home.
The two detectives saw them coming and gave them chairs to sit on.
Su Hui sat opposite Wang Yaxiu, and Lu Junchi also sat down with the table. After running all night, his legs were sore and swollen by now.
Su Hui looked at the person in front of her. It was a middle-aged woman in her forties. Her hands were full of calluses, and she looked honest and loyal.
She had just experienced the pain of losing her child, with tears in the corners of her eyes, she said vaguely: "... The only new mobile phone in our family was bought for the child. I haven't seen the live broadcast until now... How did this happen? It's the same thing..."
Lu Jun said lately, "Auntie, we are also investigating. Someone will explain the whole process to you later."
Wang Yaxiu lowered her head and cried so hard that she couldn't help herself, still muttering: "The child's father died so early, I never imagined that such a thing would happen... Comrade police, I... I don't know why my son brought up that matter, This can't be organized by my son... Is there something wrong?"
Because of work, Lu Junchi has seen too many people who have lost loved ones. Wang Yaxiu is relatively stable, with clear regulations and very reasonable.
Lu Junchi had some sympathy for her, and hurriedly comforted her: "please have your condolences, we are still verifying the truth about tonight. In addition, we are also trying to find the murderer of your son. Time is running out, I want to ask Tao Yingxu. Haven't had any unusual behavior recently, or have I mentioned anything to you?"
Wang Yaxiu shook his head and wiped his tears with a tissue: "He never told me that he always likes to participate in various social activities, some to help friends, some to help teachers. As for this matter... I even know a little bit about it. Wouldn't let him do that..."
Lu Jun didn't give up, and continued to ask: "Auntie, I want to ask if Tao Yingxu has any relatives or friends, he is a boy, under the age of 20, he looks about as tall, short, fat and thin as him. The two have a good relationship and often get together... "
If there is such a person in Tao Yingxu's life, his mother may know about it.
Su Hui also silently greeted her, hoping that she could give some clues that would help the investigation.
"Such a person..." Wang Yaxiu lowered her head and thought. Then she raised her head and said, "Is there such a person, does he… Yingxu's death has something to do with him?"
But then she shook her head again: "No... Impossible, my family's Yingxu has such a good relationship with him, and I almost take him as my own son, he can't do such a thing... "
Hearing what she said, Lu Junchi had a hunch in her heart that the person she was talking about might be the murderer of Tao Yingxu. , which makes it more difficult to guard against.
He hurriedly asked: "Auntie, don't worry, please tell me what his name is, and we will check it right away."
"He, his name is Qin Ange, he is the son of my former client... The two of them have a very good relationship... I have known each other since childhood... Later, Qin Ange moved in and Yingxu often ran to him, almost every day after school... "
Lu Junchi listened to the description and looked at Su Hui. The two looked at each other for a moment. Su Hui nodded lightly, which sounded in line with his profile.
Lu Junchi continued to ask: "Aunt Wang, please tell me the relevant situation in detail."
Wang Yaxiu was still a little excited: "Qin Ange... He is different from the aborigines like us. He came here because of the poor family. I used to be a nanny in a wealthy family, and Qin Ange was the son of that family. , their family used to run a construction company, and they are very rich."
Lu Junchi frowned and asked, "Which one is it?"
"His father's name is Qin Chengsheng, and that's the one... Dingsheng Wanjia International, it turned out to be his family, Boss Qin... He also went out from this Wanhu city in the earliest days, working as a worker on the construction site, and bit by bit as a packager The foreman, and later started recruiting and starting a construction company, he had been busy with his career before, and he only had a son in his thirties."
Lu Junchi didn't know many construction companies, but he knew this one. They had been running around in that unfinished building just now, and these words were posted on the door of every building...
There are so many buildings, from those signs, you can know the prosperity of this company in its heyday, but all the projects suddenly stopped overnight, which also heralded the fall of that dynasty.
He knows that there is another reason for this developer, which is that this construction company has a bad reputation, poor construction quality, arrears in project payment, many construction site problems, and delayed delivery of houses...
In the end, the entire group's capital chain was broken, and all projects were forced to stop. Their boss was cornered by debt collectors, suffered a heart attack, and died suddenly.
There are many versions of this story, and Lu Junchi never thought that he would meet the witnesses in these stories today.
Wang Yaxiu cried again when he said this: "However, I still don't think Qin Ange did it. The two of them have a very good relationship. Yingxu often brings the dumplings I made to them, and the fruits are often used. I think of him for every good thing... The school issued an extra movie ticket, and they all wanted to take Qin Ange to go. People are human, Yingxu is so kind to him, I... I don't believe that he killed Yingxu."
Su Hui listened quietly. This was a sign of intimacy between the children, but Tao Yingxu took the initiative to do so. The relationship between the two children may not be so intimate.
Lu Junchi continued to ask, "Is there another girl beside Qin Ange?"
"Yes, it's the girl adopted by the Qin family, her name is Li Xiaonan. It was a construction site accident. Her father was killed by a falling object, leaving the girl as an orphan. Boss Qin felt sorry for her at that time, so he He adopted the girl. At that time, he placed the girl near here, and the house was written in the girl's name, so that she could study in Wanhu No. 1 Middle School. Later, the Qin family had an accident, and Boss Qin had a heart attack, and Qin Ange went with his family. My mother moved here too."
It was precisely because the property was in the name of the girl that it was not confiscated by the bank. After the Qin family went bankrupt, they also had a place to live.
One of Boss Qin's actions back then inadvertently left a way out for his family.
Falling objects from the sky, killing construction workers, this matter is in line with the previous investigation results of Long Xiaochen.
Lu Junchi hurriedly sent these two names to the group, asking Qu Ming and the others to check, and he asked Wang Yaxiu, "Do you have the contact information for Qin Ange and Li Xiaonan?"
Wang Yaxiu gave him his phone number.
Lu Junchi tried to make a call, but both numbers were turned off.
Wang Yaxiu wanted to show them the way: "They lived in 504, Unit 2, before."
Lu Junchi asked Wang Yaxiu some other things, but she couldn't say anything.
He looked at the time, it was already 10:50, and the next live broadcast was only ten minutes away.
Instructing the two detectives to continue to understand the situation with Wang Yaxiu and to appease her, Lu Jun pulled Su Hui out late and went to 504 next door.
It was late at night now, Su Hui could hardly see the road and walked a little slowly, Lu Junchi suddenly turned around, took his hand, and dragged him forward.
In the cold night, Lu Junchi's hands were warm, and his steps were fast and steady.
Su Hui didn't even bother to use the cane, so he kept pulling him and entered the second unit next to him, burying his chin even lower.
In the past, even if Su Hui was leaning on the ground with a cane, he would always worry that the road would be uneven, but now he was pulled by Lu Junchi and walked fast, everything in front of him was blurry, but his heart was peaceful.
The fifth floor soon arrived, and Su Hui only reacted: "Do we have to call someone to unlock the lock?"
Lu Junchi said, "No, special circumstances require special solutions."
As he spoke, he identified the keyhole. Naturally, an old-fashioned residential building could not be a high-end lock.
Lu Junchi took out a small tool box from his pocket, picked out an iron wire inside, and inserted the iron wire into the keyhole. After half a minute, he heard a click and the lock opened.
Su Hui looked at him with admiration: "I didn't expect you to hide this hidden skill..."
Lu Jun said lately: "I have learned that every time I act, I have to ask someone to unlock the lock. This is really inefficient."
Time is tight tonight, and they don't even have time to apply for a search warrant and go through the search procedures. They can only do special things.
The room was dark, and Lu Junchi turned on the light. It was an old two-bedroom apartment with almost no living room. There was not much furniture in the room. There was a big bed in one room and a small room in the other. bed.
Lu Junchi took a closer look and saw that there were some girls' clothes in the big room. It may be that Qin Ange's mother lived with Li Xiaonan before.
The small room looked relatively independent and quiet. They walked into the small room. There was a desk in the room, a desktop computer and a laptop beside it.
Although the room is very dilapidated, there are some things in it, which can vaguely be seen as expensive brand-name products.
There is a basketball on the closet with some foreign language signatures on it. There is an astronomical telescope near the window sill, which is already full of dust at this time. There are some clothes stacked on the chairs, and there are also some famous brands inside.
Lu Junchi suddenly discovered that there were several photo frames on the table, which looked like family photos.
There is a frame with a photo of the two boys in it. One of them is Tao Yingxu, and the other is a boy of the same age, who should be Qin Ange.
At that time, the children were still young and seemed to have only elementary school appearances.
It seemed that the two had been friends for many years.
The two children are about the same height and size. In the photo, Tao Yingxu has the red birthmark on his forehead, and his eyes are bent when he smiles. The boy on the side is also handsome and smiling happily.
Su Hui thought, over the years, as the two people's age increased and their identities changed, their relationship may have changed... Among them, the biggest change should be the identity gap of Qin Ange, a rich second-generation doted on by his parents. , Suddenly the family went bankrupt, and he fell from a height.
He reached out and opened the laptop. There was no password set on the commonly used interface of the computer, so he could go in directly.
Su Hui rummaged through it, and from the latest open records, he could identify that those were interview videos of the documentary filming. They really chose the victims through the information in those videos.
Lu Jun searched for a while, and his eyes fell on a hand ledger beside him.
When the book was opened, it was full of news clipped from some newspapers, and Lu Junchi frowned as he watched.
Su Hui couldn't hold back and asked him, what was written on it
Lu Jun said in a deep voice, "It's negative news from Dingsheng Wanjia International."
That book was pasted into a thick one, enough to see the negative news. It was neatly posted on it, and the newspapers in the early years were all yellowed, so it is conceivable that they had been searching and accumulating for a long time.
Su Hui leaned on the chair beside him: "Is it related to those three people?"
Lu Junchi quickly confirmed: "News reports often mention that the construction site is not standardized, resulting in the death of workers, forced demolition and disability, and the construction materials are not up to standard."
Su Hui thought back carefully: "That corresponds to what Long Xiaochen, Lian Chengyan and that Xuehai did. He thinks that his father should not be blamed for these things."
The three of them suddenly had an intersection. They had all cooperated with Dingsheng Wanjia before, but because of the different time and length of cooperation, they were not connected. Dingshengwanjia has too many partners, covering almost half of Huadu's construction industry. Now that they know something, it's much easier to reverse the connections.
Lu Jun turned to look at it and said, "There are so many media news, the press releases are similar, it may be abnormal."
He believes that there may be serious mistakes in the prosperous world, but even if the general media is writing a press release, there will be some differences in wording and sentence making.
The press releases of multiple media are almost the same, covering one thing overwhelmingly, so it is very likely that when Dingsheng Wanjia made an omission, the media collected black money from competitors, the purpose is to bring down the company.
Su Hui shook the cane in his hand and said, "If the murderer is Qin Ange, his next target should be what he thinks is the one who caused the collapse of the prosperous family."
Lu Junchi thought about it sideways: "After the fall of Dingsheng Wanjia, the most famous real estate company in Huadu became Zhongshan International..."
Although he didn't see much gossip in the market, he also heard some rumors that Zhongshan International was able to start so quickly because it devoured the corpses of the prosperous family.
After the accident of Dingsheng Wanjia, many partners of Dingsheng Wanjia directly defected, and buyers who were planning to buy a house in Dingsheng Wanjia also chose Zhongshan International.
The owner of Zhongshan International, Mu Zhenyuan, used to be a senior executive of Wanjia. Later, the two had different ideas and parted ways a few years ago.
Compared with the notorious Hengsheng Wanjia, Zhongshan International is a well-known conscientious developer. The specifications and quality of the houses built are very famous. In just a few years, it surpassed the momentum of the heyday Wanjia and became the No. 1 developer in Huadu. .
As Qin Chengsheng's son, Qin Ange naturally thinks that the decline of his company is related to the rise of Mu Zhenyuan, and he may even have discovered something, believing that Mu Zhenyuan caused the current situation.
This is indeed a revenge.
Those children were treated as innocent pawns.
Lu Junchi turned over the book again and confirmed more and more: "The back of the book also collected news of Zhongshan International, and the last news is that Zhongshan International is about to cooperate and go public."
Su Hui said calmly, "If the murderer is Qin Ange, his next target is likely to be Mu Zhenyuan."
Su Hui can confirm that the last person must be the more important target in the suspect's mind.
Just like when eating, some people put their favorite dishes to the last to taste.
Now, more and more clues are finally connected.
Lu Junchi hurry up and sent the information to the group, they have to start all kinds of preparations in advance.
No matter whether Mu Zhenyuan has done something or not, as the person in charge of a listed company, when his name is called, he must come out to the media and respond.