Shi Ran responded: "It's very strange. He clearly has a very sufficient alibi, why should he hide it?"
Ling Qian put a question mark on the small notebook she carried with her.
Shi Ran looked at the time on his watch. The whole morning had passed like this, and it was now lunch time.
After having a casual lunch, the two came to the factory where Tang Hanliang worked.
After stating their intention, the security guard led the two people to the workshop where Tang Hanliang was located.
The workshop was filled with noisy machines and a strong smell of rust and plastic that made people dizzy.
Each worker is at his or her own position, completing his or her work quickly, each action being mechanically unified and repeated continuously.
They first found the workshop director and checked the clock-in records for the day.
8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Shi Ran looked at the busy workshop, with the machines and workers in constant operation.
In other words, Tang Hanliang also has a very sufficient alibi.
Shi Ran frowned. All three suspects had strong alibi. So who is the murderer?
What was the real reason for the conflict between Xu Cheng and the deceased, and what did the deceased say to Yang Rong that would make him rich soon?
Why didn’t the deceased’s father want the deceased to go to college?
Doubts swirled in the minds of Shi Ran and Ling Qian, and they were so complicated that people couldn't figure them out.
"Tang Hanliang, you won't get off work until eight o'clock this Friday?" Ling Qian asked the workshop director. According to the clock-in record, Tang Hanliang has only had a few days off in the past few months.
The workshop director rubbed his head and recalled for a while before he said with certainty: "Yes, our workshop management is very strict. Everyone must be in the workshop during the clock-in time. There has never been a late arrival or early leave."
Shi Ran nodded and said, "Please inform Tang Hanliang to come over, and we will talk to him alone."
"good."
The workshop director went out, and within a minute, a young man over 1.7 meters tall with slightly short hair came in.
After the office door was closed, the mechanical sound was blocked outside the door and became much quieter.
Ling Qian took out the voice recorder as usual, and Tang Han nodded and expressed no objection.
Tang Hanliang behaved very calmly, unlike Xu Cheng's caution, nor like Yang Rong's anxiety.
"The two police officers are here for Qian Junyao's matter. If you want to ask anything, just ask. I will tell you what I know." Tang Hanliang said first.
"Then let's get straight to the point." Shi Ran and Ling Qian looked at each other and asked, "Where are you this Friday?"
"When I go to work, I arrive before eight o'clock in the morning. I don't go home until I clock in at eight o'clock in the evening. After I get home, I go to bed after eating." Tang Hanliang said while opening his own water cup to drink water.
His alibi was already very clear, and there was no point in asking further questions. Shi Ran changed the direction of the question to understanding the circumstances of the deceased's life, hoping to get a glimpse of the murderer.
"Did the deceased have any grudges with anyone during his lifetime?" Shi Ran asked, tapping the pen in his hand with his index finger.
Tang Hanliang lowered his eyes and thought for a while before saying: "He told me two months ago that his father would not give him money to go to college, so he planned to borrow loan sharks to go to school."
"Loan shark?" Shi Ran and Ling Qian looked at each other and asked questions at the same time.
"He just mentioned it once, but I never heard him say it again. I thought he didn't borrow it before. Now, he died inexplicably. Maybe he borrowed a loan shark and couldn't repay it, so he was killed by debt collectors. Maybe, isn’t that how things are played on TV?”
Tang Hanliang continued to talk, but it sounded like he was not sure whether the deceased had borrowed loan sharks during his lifetime. He was just guessing.
Shi Ran wrote down the words "loan shark" in his notebook and asked, "He told you that he was going to borrow loan shark money at usury. Did he tell you how he planned to repay it?"
Tang Hanliang drank another drink of water from the cup and continued: "Since everyone else is dead, I am not afraid to tell you that he was admitted to a first-class university in the capital, but his father did not allow him to go and did not give him money. To pay the tuition, some of us who were good friends didn’t have much money to lend him, so he thought of borrowing money from a loan shark. He told us at that time that he would leave here after taking the money and let the debt collectors go to his father to ask for the money. .”
"Oh, didn't he mention the loan sharking thing to you later?"
"No more. It's just that he is still borrowing money from a few of us who are good friends. He probably still wants to go to college."
"So you don't know whether he took out a loan shark or not?"
"I don't know. I thought I didn't borrow it. Now that he's dead, it's hard to tell."
It is a mystery whether the deceased borrowed money from usury.
The deceased had a bad relationship with his father because of going to college.
"Did the deceased ever mention to you the contact information of the loan shark he was planning to borrow?"
Hearing this, Tang Hanliang took out a piece of white paper with irregular edges from the pocket of his jeans, with a phone number written on it.
"I knew you would ask for it a long time ago. I put it in my pocket early in the morning. I heard that the moneylender's name is Brother Wang."
After getting the contact information of the loan shark, Shi Ran and Ling Qian left the factory and returned to the car.
They listened to the recorded conversations with Xu Cheng, Yang Rong, and Tang Hanliang several times to ensure that no detail was missed.
The phone number of the loan shark has also been sent back to the bureau for investigation. It should not take long for the information to be fed back.
After listening to the recording, the two analyzed the known information.
"The deceased Qian Junyao was admitted to a first-class university. He wanted to go to school but was blocked by his father. He threatened his friends to borrow loan sharks. He died in an abandoned factory this Friday." Shi Ran said, putting the notebook on Qian Junyao's desk. The name is circled.
"Qian Wei, the father of the deceased, knew that his son had good grades, but he did not want his son to go to college. He did not pay the deceased's college tuition and forced him to stay with him," Ling Qian said.
"Xu Cheng, a friend of the deceased, had a fight with the deceased. The record said it was because the deceased repeatedly borrowed money from him."
"Did you have conflicts after borrowing money repeatedly? I feel like it shouldn't be the case." Ling Qian asked, there must be something else behind this.
"Is it because of my girlfriend?" Shi Ran thought of the photo in Xu Cheng's room, buried under layers of test papers.
In adolescence, who doesn't have a crush on the opposite sex? Is it possible that they fight over the girl?
But I haven't heard the deceased's father or these friends mention that the deceased had a girlfriend. If he had a girlfriend, they would not hide it. I guess there is no such thing.
However, it does not rule out the possibility that they have a crush on a certain girl, which can be used as an investigation direction, and it does not rule out the possibility of killing others for love.
