More than an hour later, He Yu took Wang Mingxia back to the city bureau.
Wang Mingxia was placed in the interrogation room, and Xu Mingzhi took the transcript himself.
Wang Mingxia was very frightened about being suddenly taken to the police station. When she sat opposite Xu Mingzhi, her face was full of confusion and nervousness.
Xu Mingzhi asked a few irrelevant questions first, and then got to the point: "Does your family have a small courtyard in Huangli Village?"
Wang Mingxia nodded: "Yes, there is one." After saying that, she looked at Xu Mingzhi who was lowering his head to record, and immediately added: "However, we rented it to a young girl before. She said that our small courtyard is in a good location and has a good view. , so I want to rent it as a B&B, is there anything wrong with the house?”
Hearing this, Xu Mingzhi looked up at her and asked, "Did you rent it to a little girl? Not a boy?"
Wang Mingxia's eyes widened slightly: "It's a woman, not a man."
"Then how do you say it's a man in your village?" Xu Mingzhi asked again.
Wang Mingxia's face was full of confusion, and it was obvious that what she said was not a lie.
Seeing this, Xu Mingzhi skipped the question and asked, "Did you sign the contract?"
Wang Mingxia replied: "I haven't signed it yet. She said she still had to discuss it with others, but she paid three months' rent first and said she would keep the courtyard and not rent it to others. I agreed."
"Then have you seen this woman?" Xu Mingzhi asked again.
Wang Mingxia shook her head: "I haven't met. We are all in contact by phone."
Xu Mingzhi couldn't help but frown slightly.
When Wang Mingxia saw it, she immediately said: "But I have her WeChat account, and her profile picture seems to be hers." After saying that, she was about to touch her cell phone, but when she touched her pocket, she remembered that her cell phone had been collected before she came in here. Woke up.
Xu Mingzhi glanced at her after hearing this, then took out his mobile phone, pulled out the victim's photo of the deceased and handed it over: "Look, is it this person?"
Wang Mingxia lowered her head and glanced, her expression suddenly changed.
"This...is this a dead person?" Wang Mingxia's face was full of panic: "She...she died in our house?"
Xu Mingzhi looked at her and said expressionlessly: "I'm not sure yet. Take another look to make sure it's this person?"
Wang Mingxia suppressed her fear and forced herself to lower her head and look at the phone screen again. After a second, she quickly looked away, took a deep breath, and then said: "I'm not sure, I didn't pay close attention to her profile picture either." I've seen it..." She seemed afraid that Xu Mingzhi wouldn't believe it, and emphasized again: "I'm really not sure."
Xu Mingzhi thought for a while, got up, walked outside, and had someone take her mobile phone over. Then he returned to the interrogation room and handed the mobile phone to Wang Mingxia, saying, "Find her WeChat account."
Wang Mingxia hurriedly took the phone, her hands shaking as she operated it. After a while, she found the girl's WeChat account and handed it to Xu Mingzhi. Xu Mingzhi took a look at the WeChat profile picture. It was a headshot, but it was just a side face. From the profile, they look a bit similar.
"I want to send your mobile phone to the technical department and let them compare this photo with the deceased. Do you agree?" Xu Mingzhi asked.
Wang Mingxia didn't dare to object, so she nodded hastily: "I agree."
Seeing this, Xu Mingzhi gave the phone away again and asked someone to send it to the technical department for comparison.
Then, he came back and asked Wang Mingxia: "Have you had any contact recently?"
Wang Mingxia shook her head and said: "After she paid the money, we have not contacted each other. I am usually very busy at work and have to take care of the elderly and children, so I can't take care of this at all. If you don't believe it, you can check my mobile phone."
Xu Mingzhi looked at her and nodded, saying, "I believe it."
After Wang Mingxia saw it, she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"Does your house in the courtyard have a freezer?" Xu Mingzhi asked again.
Wang Mingxia was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, there is also a refrigerator. My parents have a tea garden, right next to the house. The tea leaves that cannot be sold are made into dry tea and stored in the freezer. They also raise chickens. I will help them sell them, and they will kill them first and freeze them in the freezer, waiting for me to pick them up on the weekend."
"Are these still in that house?" Xu Mingzhi asked, feeling a little convinced at Yu Guang's heart. Wang Mingxia's answer, as well as the head portrait that closely resembled the deceased, were enough to show that Yu Guang's inference was most likely correct. And Yu Guang was able to infer the scene of the first crime just based on the murderer's behavior of cleaning up the body and the choice of burial place, which is unconvincing.
Seeing Wang Mingxia nodding, he became more determined to make Yu Guang supernumerary.
"We may go to that small courtyard to search tonight. Do you agree?" Xu Mingzhi asked again.
Wang Mingxia naturally did not dare to object.
After Xu Mingzhi got the affirmative answer, he told her not to disclose the matter to anyone today. After getting the guarantee, the interrogation was considered over. Xu Mingzhi took Wang Mingxia out and asked He Yu to arrange for someone to take her back.
After that, he went to the forensic center again and talked to Director Yuan. He told him that the corpse sinking case in the reservoir and the corpse burial case in Miaoshan Village were probably done by the same person, and asked him to do the autopsy. Pay attention when talking and see if you can find common ground.
After hearing this, Director Yuan was not too surprised. In fact, he had already vaguely felt this way when he completed the preliminary examination of the body at the crime scene last night. It was too arbitrary to make this conclusion based solely on the fact that the body was naked, so he did not follow. Xu Mingzhi mentioned.
But he didn't expect that Xu Mingzhi would connect the two cases so quickly. He asked Xu Mingzhi curiously: "How did you connect these two cases together?"
Everything is still undecided. Xu Mingzhi doesn't want to involve Yu Guang for the time being. If they infer that they are wrong, then telling Yu Guang first may have an impact on the subsequent matter where he wants to make Yu Guang supernumerary.
So, he said: "Intuition, so I want you to verify it."
Director Yuan didn't think much about it.
After coming out of the forensic center, Xu Mingzhi found He Yu and told him to keep an eye on Liu Jinye's car. Then he drove out of the city bureau and went straight to Huangli Village.
Halfway through the drive, Lao Wang called, and the visit to Huangli Village paid off. Lao Wang and the others asked for clues at a B&B called Homecoming.
On the phone, Xu Mingzhi didn't ask any questions and just asked Lao Wang and the others to wait for him to come over.
In the Yeshe Resort, Yu Guang went to the room to sleep after completing the formalities at the front desk. He basically didn't sleep last night. He came to Huangli Village early this morning. He walked around the village all morning and didn't eat lunch. He was already exhausted.
However, not long after he fell asleep, Xu Mingzhi's call came.
He has arrived.
