Hearing this, we immediately stopped and looked towards the two women. The two women had a haughty attitude on their faces. They were eating melon seeds and looking at us with disdain. Seeing their looks and expressions made me want to go up and slap each of them.
Because they were women, I couldn't get angry. Just as I was about to step forward to ask, Bai Longfei took the lead and stood in front of the two women, saying viciously: "What did you say just now? Speak carefully!"
Bai Longfei looked very scary when he got angry. The two women were also shocked by his aura. They stopped eating melon seeds instantly. The woman who had spoken before stammered, "We didn't... we didn't say anything."
I stepped forward and asked Bai Longfei to step back a little, then said with a smile: "Ladies, we are investigating a case. If you have any clues, please tell us. Otherwise, we can arrest you for obstructing public service."
Bai Longfei and I played the good cop and the bad cop respectively, and the woman finally stopped being so arrogant towards us. She nodded and told us everything she knew.
This female colleague is named Zhou Jingyi. She has also worked in this newspaper for two years. The reason why she said that it was the ghost of the old office director who came to seek revenge was because of an accident that happened not long ago.
It is said that at that time their newspaper was going to the countryside to interview a university graduate who stayed in the countryside to work as a teacher. The people who went there that day included the old office director, the current office director, Zhou Jingyi in front of us, the deceased Ma Jie, and Li Gang who worked in the monitoring room.
The weather was originally very good that day, but when they finished the interview and were ready to leave, the weather suddenly changed. A strong wind suddenly blew, followed by heavy rain. Their car could not drive out of the village at all. In desperation, everyone had to choose to stay in the village overnight.
The people in the village received everyone warmly. The village chief and the college student who taught there arranged for five families to accommodate the five people from the newspaper, and they tidied up the guest rooms so that everyone could stay comfortably.
The next morning, when Zhou Jingyi got up, the weather had cleared up. Although the ground was still muddy, it did not affect their departure. But at this moment, a piece of bad news came.
The old office director is dead!
After hearing the news, Zhou Jingyi felt very shocked and sad, because the old office director was a very good person and cared a lot about his subordinates. Now that such a thing has happened, it is really hard for her to accept it.
Regardless of the muddy road that had soiled her clothes, she immediately came to the house where the old office director lived. She saw that other colleagues and some people from the village had already arrived. Only after Zhou Jingyi walked into the room where the old office director lived did she find out how the old office director died.
It turned out that the old office director was hit to death by a thick piece of wood from the beam!
Because it was very windy and rainy that night, and the bungalows here were all very old and dilapidated, a thick piece of wood above the old office director's head happened to become loose due to the wind and rain, and fell from a high altitude, hitting the old office director's head directly, smashing it to pieces on the spot.
The police quickly arrived at the village and after some investigation, they determined that the old office director had died in an accident. Naturally, the newspaper compensated the old office director's family for this incident and held a grand memorial service and funeral, which was the last thing they could do for the old office director.
After the old office director died, the current office director took over his position. However, since Zhou Jingyi and others missed the old office director very much, they were not very fond of the current office director and often had disagreements with him. It was for this reason that Zhou Jingyi said what he said just now.
Because she always felt that the old office director definitely did not die in an accident, but was killed by the current office director! And the purpose of the current office director killing people is to get this position now.
After hearing this unknown past story, Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue were silent. Indeed, if it was really as Zhou Jingyi said, the office director was indeed a big suspect. Moreover, the office director just said that he was also on the tenth floor between six and seven in the morning!
Bai Longfei whispered in my ear: "Ji Wen, this office director is indeed suspicious. Do you want me to take him out and beat him up so that he can tell the truth?"
I immediately rolled my eyes at him and said, "Don't be so violent all the time. Before the matter is clarified, the office director can only be a suspect. However, it seems that this person is the most suspicious now."
After that, I turned to Zhou Jingyi and asked, "You just said that the old office director was killed by a thick piece of wood that fell from the beam? The deceased in this case, Ma Jie, was also stabbed to death by a thick piece of wood. Are these two pieces of wood the same?"
Zhou Jingyi nodded immediately and said, "Of course it's the same one! Otherwise why would I say it was the old office director who came for revenge!"
Now, the whole thing finally connected. The prop wood that the office director said he brought back from the mountain must be the wood that killed the old office director! But it was strange, why did the office director just mention this wood so simply and lightly when introducing it? Why did he hide the origin of this wood? Was he really guilty? More importantly, why did he bring this wood back
I immediately asked Zhou Jingyi about this matter, and Zhou Jingyi immediately said disdainfully: "Is there any need to say this? He must be afraid that there is evidence of his murder on the wood, so he brought it back to destroy the evidence! From the moment he brought this piece of wood back, I felt that he must be the murderer who killed the old office director!"
"But even if he really was the murderer who killed the old office director, why didn't the old office director go to him for revenge, but went to Ma Jie instead?"
I followed Zhou Jingyi's train of thought and asked her, but Zhou Jingyi said disdainfully: "You don't know this, right? The new office director and Ma Jie actually have a very ambiguous relationship! Although they usually act very naturally at work, you can tell from the way they look at each other that they are definitely having an affair! This matter is not a secret, and basically everyone in the newspaper knows about it!"
"Perhaps the two of them jointly killed the old office owner, so the old office director first came to seek revenge on that bitch Ma Jie, and then went to find the office director."
The information Zhou Jingyi revealed again was absolutely explosive! I didn't expect that the boyfriend of the deceased Ma Jie, whom we had been looking for, was actually the office director who had always been by our side! If this is the case, combined with our previous findings, we can basically identify him as the real murderer!
After hearing this, Bai Longfei turned around and prepared to arrest the office director, but I immediately stopped him and said, "Don't worry, these information are just speculations now, there is no solid evidence yet. It won't be too late to arrest him after I find solid evidence! Let's go to the scene of the death first, then call him over and ask him to see if he admits these things!"
After thanking Zhou Jingyi, we once again came to the scene of the deceased's death. First, we looked at the location of the camera at the door of the deceased's office and found that the camera was located right in the middle of the two doors of the corridor, and behind the camera was an old rusty nozzle that seemed to be used to spray water during a fire. It seemed that this nozzle was used to fix the fulcrum of the thick wood.
We asked the office director before, and he said that the wood that killed the deceased had been taken away by the police along with the body for investigation, so we can't see the wood for the time being. But I came here this time not to see the wood, but to see something else!
We walked into the room and looked at the bloodstains on the floor. I asked Bai Longfei to determine where the deceased had been standing before his death. Then I took a piece of paper and gently cleaned the bloodstains on the floor. Sure enough, behind the bloodstains, I found a mark made of a white sticker, but the mark had been dyed blood red by the bloodstains. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice it at all.
"It seems that the murderer must have put this mark on the ground in advance and asked the deceased Ma Jie to stand at the position of this mark, so that Ma Jie could be stabbed to death with the wood smoothly. Everything is just as we imagined. Now it depends on whether this office director is the murderer!"
Lin Yingxue, who had been silent the whole time, said at this moment: "I think it's most likely him. He couldn't explain the matter of the wood, and he is also the secret boyfriend of the deceased. All the evidence basically points to him. Besides, don't you find it strange? Such a big thing disappeared in his office, and he didn't even notice it? Don't you find this strange? I think he must be lying!"
I had never thought about Lin Yingxue's discovery before. When I heard what Lin Yingxue said, I suddenly felt that it made sense. I thought about it for a while, and then led them to the office director's office.
At this time, the office director was on the phone in the office. I don't know if he was asking who was on the tenth floor between 6 and 7 today. After he finished the call, he said to us helplessly, "I'm really sorry, but I heard that many colleagues came to work early between 6 and 7 this morning. Because the workload of the entire newspaper was a bit heavy the day before, they all came early to complete the tasks of the previous day, so I really can't find out who is on the tenth floor."
We sat in front of the office director's desk, and then I asked with a smile: "Let's talk about this later. I really want to know, what is your intention in putting that piece of wood in your office? I will only give you one chance, you'd better tell us honestly!"