I never expected that Officer Yang's efficiency was so high that he found the mysterious butcher in just one day. I immediately became alert and stood up from my chair and said, "What are we waiting for? Hurry up and catch him and interrogate him!"
Officer Yang could hardly hide his excitement. He took a few sips of the teacup on the table to refresh himself, then said, "Don't panic. I have already sent someone to secretly deploy. Once everything is ready, we will go and catch this suspect!"
In fact, the reason why I was happy was not because I thought the butcher was the murderer, because from all the signs, the butcher should have no connection with the deceased, and if it was really the butcher who killed the person, he would not take the deceased's meat and sell it everywhere unless he was a psychopath.
The reason I was happy was that as long as I could find the butcher, I would know the source of the meat. Even if the butcher was just an unlicensed private business owner, he would not dare to sell the meat he got casually everywhere. So I was sure that this meat must have been sold to the butcher by someone.
At this point, I still felt that the person who could have committed this horrific murder should be the deceased Xiaomei's ex-boyfriend, so I asked Officer Yang: "Officer Yang, have you investigated everything I asked you to investigate before?"
Officer Yang nodded and said, "Well, I think it is necessary to investigate the doubts you raised to me before. I have sent someone to inquire today. It seems that the deceased Xiaomei did not have a boyfriend when she worked at the Red Star Hotel."
"You don't have a boyfriend? No way?"
I will never believe this answer. Such a young and beautiful girl doesn’t have a boyfriend. Are all men blind
Officer Yang said helplessly: "This is the fact. We have asked many of the deceased's colleagues, and they all said that the deceased did not have a boyfriend. Although there were many men pursuing the deceased, the deceased had no interest in them."
After hearing what Officer Yang said, I could kind of understand it. After all, my current opinion of the deceased is that she only liked rich men, and naturally she would not look at those poor suitors in the eye.
Officer Yang continued, "As for whether the deceased had a boyfriend in Changsha, I don't know, but I have already notified the deceased's family. I estimate that they will be able to come and claim the body the day after tomorrow at the latest. We can then ask them."
Officer Yang looked at the time and asked the police officer beside him and Xiao Zhang to ask if the scene arrangement for arresting the butcher was ready. Then he continued, "There is also the surveillance video of XX community. The surveillance equipment in this community is very advanced, the picture is very clear, and it can also save the video for 30 days. However, there is a fashion designer living in the apartment building where the deceased lives. Many people in strange costumes come in and out every day. So we took a rough look and couldn't tell who killed the deceased a week ago. As for the familiar back figure you saw..."
At this point, Officer Yang suddenly looked at me with a puzzled look and said, "Are you sure you really saw it? We checked all the surveillance videos in the community at that time, and we didn't find the back figure you mentioned."
"Didn't notice? How is that possible! Although I didn't see it clearly at the time, I am sure that I did see a person, and Diandian was also screaming at that person at the time. You don't believe my eyes, but you also don't believe Diandian's nose?"
Indeed, Diandian had done a great job this time. Officer Yang would never doubt the sensitivity of Diandian's nose again. Officer Yang sighed, took out a cigarette and handed it to me, then lit it himself and said, "If there really was someone there at the time, why didn't the surveillance camera capture any footage? Did he escape invisibly?"
"What do you mean by invisible? In my opinion, there are only two possibilities. Either the man heard Diandian's cry, realized that he was exposed, and quietly hid himself. Or the man is very familiar with the location and blind spots of the surveillance cameras in the community, and has been walking in the blind spots to avoid the surveillance equipment. No matter which possibility it is, this person has a guilty conscience. In my opinion, the real number one suspect should be this person!"
After hearing this, Officer Yang frowned and said, "Then do you think this person could be Qiongqi?"
When I mentioned Qiongqi again, I couldn't help but feel a chill down my spine. I shook my head and said, "The possibility is almost zero. I've said it before, Qiongqi has completely lost interest in me, so the possibility of him being involved in this case is very small."
Having lost such an important clue, I was immediately annoyed, and Officer Yang stood up, patted my shoulder and said, "There is always a way out. Don't think too much about it. Let's go and catch the butcher first!"
Officer Yang and I walked out of the office. Xiao Zhang and two other police officers were already waiting outside the door. I turned around and saw that the young female police officers in the police station were very fond of Diandian. They surrounded Diandian, feeding her and caressing her. It seemed that there was no problem for Diandian to stay here. Then we got in Officer Yang's police car and rushed to the butcher's residence to arrest him.
The days in winter are always short. When we walked out of the police station, it was completely dark. Officer Yang drove all the way north. The divisions of Zhongwei city are very obvious. The railway is the dividing line in the north. The south of the railway is the urban area, and the north is the suburbs.
After crossing the railway, we arrived at the suburbs in the north of the city. Officer Yang did not turn on the siren. From a distance, I saw several police cars parked at the intersection ahead. Some police officers were gathered there smoking, talking and laughing.
Seeing Officer Yang's car coming, the police officers immediately adjusted their positions. Officer Yang got out of the car park and asked, "Is everything ready?"
One of them said, "According to your instructions, we have surrounded the suspect's house. There is absolutely no way the suspect can escape!"
Officer Yang nodded, waved to the crowd, and ordered: "Start arresting!"
After receiving the order, this group of people immediately led us into an alley in this suburban village. They walked to the deepest part of the alley and stopped at a house.
The houses here all have a small yard. A police officer knocked on the door, then hid by the wall with a gun and waited quietly.
At this moment, I looked at the atmosphere on the scene and felt a little nervous in my heart. Not long after, a woman's voice was heard in the yard.
"Who is it?"
Officer Yang then said, "We are the police. We need your cooperation in some matters. Please open the door."
Hearing that we were police officers, the woman seemed to panic a little, and said in a trembling voice: "Don't lie, we haven't broken any law, why are you looking for me?"
Officer Yang said impatiently, "I advise you to open the door quickly, otherwise we will break in and you will be responsible for all the consequences! One! Two!"
As soon as Officer Yang counted to two, I saw the wooden door in front of me slowly open. A middle-aged woman dressed a little rustic saw us and immediately waved her hand and said, "It's none of my business. My man did everything. Don't come looking for me."
Hearing the middle-aged woman say this, I roughly understood that this woman was the butcher's wife, but what she said clearly sounded like a confession.
Officer Yang waved his hand, and a large group of police officers immediately rushed into the family's house, and Officer Yang asked, "Where is Wang Dong?"
This Wang Dong should be the name of the butcher. The middle-aged woman said nervously, "I don't know either. He went out this morning and never came back. Did he commit a crime and get caught by you?"
"Stop talking nonsense! Let me ask you, you just said that everything was done by your man, what did he do? What do you know?" At this time, Officer Yang seemed like a man-eating tiger, his voice was loud and sharp, and I was startled even though I was standing aside.
It was obvious that the middle-aged woman was also frightened by Officer Yang, and she hurriedly said, "I don't know, I really don't know! I really didn't participate in his reselling of unlicensed beef these days. I have advised him many times, but he just wouldn't listen. Please don't arrest me."
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman was afraid of Wang Dong selling unlicensed beef, which made Officer Yang completely lose his temper. He said coldly: "That's not what I'm asking. Wang Dong killed someone. Did you know that?"
"Ah?? I don't know! When did it happen? This damn Wang Dong, I was wondering why he disappeared when I went out this morning. It turns out he killed someone and hid away. How can I live like this!"
The middle-aged woman then realized the purpose of our visit. Apparently she was unaware of the situation either, and she immediately sat on the ground and burst into tears, as if she was throwing a tantrum.
At this time, the police officer who had entered the house to search in advance came out and said, "Captain, no suspect was found. He is not here!"
Officer Yang frowned and continued to ask the middle-aged woman, "When you last saw Wang Dong this morning, what was he doing? Was he doing anything suspicious? Did he tell her what he was doing?"
The middle-aged woman seemed to realize that her throwing a tantrum in front of Officer Yang had no effect at all, so she stopped crying and wiped her tears while crying, "Wang Dong got up this morning and said he was going to buy some goods, then he drove away on his tricycle and didn't come back all day. I thought he made money and went gambling, so I didn't ask any more questions. Before you came, I was going to call him to ask him to come back for dinner, but he didn't answer my call, so I really don't know anything."
Officer Yang was about to speak, but I asked first, "Did he often not come home or answer the phone like this before?"
"No, although Wang Dong likes to gamble, even if he doesn't go home, he will call me and tell me that he won't have dinner tonight."
I asked again: "When Wang Dong left, did he leave any words or do anything unusual?"
The middle-aged woman thought about it carefully and said, "No, he left just like usual. Oh, he seemed to have come back once in the afternoon!"
The middle-aged woman seemed to have remembered something important, and said excitedly: "Yes, he must have come back in the afternoon! Because I go out to play mahjong from noon to afternoon every day. When I come back from playing mahjong in the afternoon, I find a bowl of his favorite sweet and sour pork ribs in the kitchen at home!"