mijobooks What exactly happened in Chapter 30?
What exactly happened in Chapter 30?
Over the next three days, Wu Song and Cao Dahua met with all of Liu Jianshe's cronies.
The number of people on the list keeps increasing.
Most of these people were within the Gotham City area. Fortunately, I managed to meet them all once in two days by motorcycle.
Two of them were in the provincial capital, so the master and apprentice made another trip to the provincial capital.
These two individuals were cleared of suspicion after meeting them once.
Finally, there's one person left, Li Xin, whom I haven't met yet.
This person was Liu Jianshe's junior high school classmate. They were from the same town, and their villages were about ten miles apart.
When Wu Song and Cao Dahua went to his home, they learned from his parents that Li Xin had gone south to Guangzhou to work ten days earlier.
They can't contact them either; usually, it's the children who contact them after they find jobs.
The master and apprentice didn't have any good solutions to this.
You can't expect your sister companies in Guangzhou to find someone for you, can you?
If we can confirm his suspicion of murder, that would be good; otherwise, it's just wishful thinking.
So all they could do was leave Li Xin's parents a phone number, so that they could inform them immediately if they received a call from their son.
At the same time, to prevent the parents from covering it up, we made it very clear to them that we had already caught one of the criminals who recruited the criminals, but we needed to ask some questions indirectly and see if we could get some evidence from Li Xin to completely pinpoint the main culprit.
"Master, do you think it could have been done by Li Xin, whom we've never met before?" Sitting on the bus back to Gaotan, Wu Song looked out the window and muttered to himself.
"I think it's unlikely. If Li Xin left Gaotan a month or a month and a half ago, then we could suspect that he was afraid after committing the murder and chose to flee to avoid punishment. But ten days ago, Li Ailian had been dead for over a month. Isn't it a bit too late for him to leave now?"
"I also think the probability is not high, but let's go back and test Liu Jianshe first, and see if Liu Jianshe hired Li Xin to kill the person."
"Well, that's the only way."
……
This time, Wu Song, Cao Dahua, and the pre-trial team interrogated Liu Jianshe together.
As soon as he sat down inside, Wu Song slammed his hand on the table. "Liu Jianshe, Li Xin has confessed that you ordered him to kill Li Ailian. What do you have to say?"
"Who is Li Xin?" Liu Jianshe raised his head blankly.
"Your junior high classmate! What's wrong? You're pretending not to know him?"
"No, when did I order him to kill someone?" Liu Jianshe became anxious again, but then a deep sense of helplessness appeared on his face. "What else do you want me to say!"
I really didn't kill my wife. You guys say she hit her head on the coffee table or something, I really don't know. I also don't know how she ended up in my family's ancestral grave. I really don't know.
If I did the killing, I'll admit it; I'll take responsibility for my actions.
If this case were minor, I would accept it even if I didn't do it, but this is a murder case! I'll be shot! I can't take such a huge responsibility!
Please investigate again. It's definitely because Li Xin wanted a reduced sentence and deliberately dragged me into this mess.
Honestly, if you hadn't found the body, I wouldn't have known my wife was dead.
"Liu Jianshe, the evidence is irrefutable, how dare you still try to deny it?" Cao Dahua shouted sternly.
"I don't know if the evidence is irrefutable, I just keep saying I fucking didn't kill anyone. Your evidence is definitely not that irrefutable, anyway I didn't kill anyone, I really didn't kill anyone."
……
After the interrogation ended and he returned to his office, Wu Song's mind was filled with Liu Jianshe's behavior during the interrogation and Liu Jianshe's words, "I really didn't kill anyone."
There was no black mist on him.
Wu Song increasingly felt that the case was shrouded in mystery.
"Master! I'm increasingly convinced that there's something wrong with this case."
"Hey, that's what they call being blinded by the situation while the bystander sees clearly." Ma Xiaowu turned around and said after hearing Wu Song's words, "It's just that you used to rely on the murderer's murderous aura to identify the killer, and you were right every time. But this time you ran into a good actor who fooled you."
Think about it, his wife went missing for more than a month without being reported, the results of the autopsy at the scene of the crime matched his wife's, and she was even buried in his family's ancestral grave. Afterwards, he replaced the glass on the coffee table, and he also frequently abused his wife.
Oh, right, didn't you also say that he said while drinking with his friends that he would kill Li Ailian sooner or later?
"Clap!" Ma Xiaowu clapped his hands excitedly. "All the evidence matches! If it wasn't him, who else could it be?"
"Yeah, didn't you say it yourself? Apart from that guy I've never seen before named Li Xin, none of the others showed any murderous intent. If he didn't kill them, then who did?" Ma Dazhi said. "Xiao Song, you're just making things harder for yourself."
"This case is a bit too simple!" Lin Wenshu clicked his tongue. "It's not even the kind of case that fits into a detective novel. Wu Song, are you overcomplicating it? Or have you been too busy lately? Why don't you take a couple of days off to rest? You need to balance work and rest."
Liu Shutong also glanced at Wu Song with some concern.
"I have reservations!" Wu Song closed his eyes.
Who actually committed this crime?
Could it really be Li Xin, the one we just happened to miss?
……
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Wu Song was sitting in the office of the Third Squadron when the squadron's phone rang.
Ma Dazhi, who was closest to the phone, answered it. After listening for a while, he immediately waved to Wu Song, "He said it's Li Xin's father. His son is back?"
"Hello!" Wu Song immediately stood up and answered the phone. "Hello, is your son Li Xin back?"
"Yes, I lost my finger to a machine while working in a factory in Guangzhou. I had surgery, received workers' compensation, and went back to recover. I don't know if my finger will ever recover."
"He'll definitely recover. Let your son stay home! We'll go see him right away."
Wu Song called Cao Dahua, and they left the branch office again on a sidecar motorcycle.
When Wu Song arrived at Li Xin's house and saw Li Xin sitting on the bed, he sighed again.
There was no black mist on him!
He didn't kill anyone?
Have I truly lost my ability to judge whether someone has killed someone based on the black mist?
That's impossible. I just went to see Wang Zhiqiang yesterday, and he still had black mist around him.
My abilities are absolutely not a problem.
But if that's the case, then it means that Liu Jianshe and all those who were acquainted with him didn't kill Li Ailian.
Did he pay a large sum of money to hire someone else to kill the person?
However, he and his master had checked Liu Jianshe's account before, and he had not made any large expenditures in the past year.
Liu Jianshe even had to ask his father for money to drink from time to time. Where would he get the money to do something like hiring a murderer?
Furthermore, who would hire a murderer to kill their wife in their own home and then bury her in the ancestral grave?
Isn't this a classic case of protesting too much?
"So what exactly happened?" Wu Song frowned deeply. "Who would kill Li Ailian at Liu Jianshe's house and then go to such lengths to bury her in Liu Jianshe's ancestral grave?"
If what Liu Jianshe said is true—that he saw Li Ailian the night before she disappeared after drinking and returning home—then let's assume he was telling the truth. That means someone went in at night, smashed Li Ailian's head on the coffee table, and then took her to the orchard to dump her body.
How much did Liu Jianshe drink that night? Didn't you hear anything?