The next day, Tian Chunda came to Kuwahara's house. He knocked on the door at the entrance, and a woman in her thirties came out to answer the door. After Tian Chunda introduced himself, he expressed that he wanted to meet Investigator Kuwahara.
"No, my husband is not a private investigator." The woman denied it, and her short words seemed to show that she was very aggressive.
"No?" I always thought that Sang Yuan was a private investigator, but he said that he was not. This was really surprising. Since he was not a private investigator, why did he go all the way to Kanazawa to confirm Xiao Long’s alibi? "Your husband is in Kanazawa and claims to be a private investigator investigating the matter." Tian Chunda said reluctantly and calmly. He didn't want to leave a bad impression on Kuwahara's wife and make enemies for him.
"He is a headline news reporter. So for the convenience of work, he will call himself a private investigator according to the situation." His wife's tone seemed to have known that Kuwahara was working under the false identity.
Since Kuwahara is a headline news reporter, it can be speculated that he visited Ren Zhengfu's house to investigate Xiao Long's actions, maybe because he was skeptical of Xiao Long's actions, right? Otherwise, the editorial department was suspicious of Xiao Long's surroundings and entrusted him with a business trip to Kanazawa. So, whether it is Kuwahara or the media's editorial department, what is the reason why they want to investigate Xiao Long's actions? Tian Chunda really wanted to find out the news and couldn't wait to see Sang Yuan immediately. "So, which media company does he work for?"
"He works at Starlight News Agency."
Tian Chunda reflexively looked at his left wrist. It was shortly after eight-thirty. "If I go now, can I see him?"
"No, there's no point in going." The woman seemed to be very nervous, and she had a habit of tightening her lips every time she spoke. "Because he went on a business trip yesterday."
"That's really nerve-wracking. I have something I want to ask him about. Where is his business trip?"
"In Dongyang City. But I will stay in Dongyang tonight and tomorrow night, and then I will go to the provincial capital. Is there anything urgent?" His wife felt that the other party was pitiful and frowned.
"Do you know the hotel where he stayed in Dongyang?"
"I know, it's the 'Happiness' Hotel he often goes to. It's located behind the Jinchi bus stop in the city."
Tian Chunda asked Kuwahara's phone number again. Mrs. Kuwabara told him. After leaving Kuwahara's house, Tian Chunda called Kuwahara.
"I'm Kuwahara," the other party said.
"Are you Mr. Kuwahara? I am a police officer from Nanguang City. You visited Mr. Ren Zhengfu in Kanazawa not long ago, right?"
The other party didn't answer immediately.
Tian Chunda said quickly: "I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I am the police officer in charge of He Chun's case. Let me get to the point quickly. You seem to be very interested in Mr. Xiao Long's actions on the night of September 8th. Can you please tell us Reason?"
Laughter rang in Tian Chunda's ears. It can be imagined that Kuwahara on the other end has a look of no worries, opening his mouth wide and showing his white teeth.
"Well, that's nothing. On the 19th of this month, I saw the Dune Murder Case published. The police authorities seem to be continuing the investigation. Maybe it's my intuition in this business. I feel that if my fiancé Xiao Long If he is a prisoner, it would be very interesting. No, interesting may not be appropriate, but in short, if he is a prisoner, this will be my exclusive news. So I went to Kanazawa Ren Masao's house to inquire about the situation."
As soon as Tian Chunda finished listening to his explanation, his tense mood relaxed. It turned out that Xiao Long had a secret motive for killing He Chun, and he had been running around since morning in order to know this. Even so, once I figured out the reason, I realized that it was just a simple curiosity born from the nature of a headline news reporter.
While he breathed a sigh of relief, the police officer gradually became angry.
"Are you just curious? Or is there another reason why you think Mr. Xiao Long is suspicious?"
"No, not really. But what you said about curiosity makes me want to refute it. I hope you can say that this is my excellent headline news journalist spirit, ah, ha, ha."
The clues to the beach murder case were snapped at the moment of laughter.
Four young tourists opened a hut in the mountains.
As soon as the door opened, a strange smell wafted from the dark interior of the cabin. The hut had been sealed for a year, and the young man thought it was because of the lack of air circulation.
"It's too dark to see."
"Open the window."
He heard the person behind him say this and was about to take two or three steps forward when he tripped over something and fell forward. There seemed to be something lying on the cold dirt floor.
"Wow!"
"What's wrong?"
"Dead, someone is dead."
He screamed and ran out. The expressions of the other three people also changed drastically. Then they felt more and more scared and wanted to see more. They stood at the door and peeked inside.
That is indeed a person. He was wearing a gorgeous gray and black windbreaker, with his feet sticking out from the hem towards the door. Although the upper body is not clearly visible, the general impression is that of a middle-aged man. The sound of crickets chirping from the corner of the hut was still coming, but in the excited ears of the four people, they could no longer hear anything. As soon as one man left the hut, the others followed him.
"Hey, what should we do?" someone stopped and said.
"That shouldn't be someone from the village, right?"
"We have to go and notify the police station."
"Yingliang and Zuo Wu, you go, Liu Heng and I stay here."
After discussing and reaching a consensus, they split into two groups. As the footsteps going down the mountain faded away, the feeling of silence suddenly came over heavily. The men left behind said nothing and just squatted on the ground. They even forgot to regret that the long-awaited banquet had failed, and they just sat there like a pair of decorations.
The patrol officers from the police station arrived before four o'clock, and the two criminal police officers from the local branch came up at half past four. They saw the body and concluded it was a homicide.
The post-mortem examination was conducted in the hut. It was estimated that the man was 32 or 33 years old. The cause of death was strangulation. Someone pinched the deceased's neck with the fingers of both hands from behind. In this way, the neck bones will be broken, and there is almost no sign of resistance. It is speculated that the prisoner should be a man.
The victim was wearing gray clothes under his coat and black leather shoes. It had been about a week since his death, so not only his skin color was darkened, but his face was also swollen. Because the changes in appearance were so drastic, it was difficult to imagine his face during his lifetime.
His clothes and shoes were of the highest quality, and the name Kuwabara was embroidered on the inside of his windbreaker. A pair of transparent, thick-framed glasses fell by his feet. I don’t know if they belonged to the victim or the prisoner. The glasses seemed to have been stepped on, and the lenses were very cracked. The items he carried included cigarettes, a comb, change, a wallet containing 700 yen, ballpoint pens, red pencils, and notes. Others found a handkerchief and a ZIPPO lighter in the pocket of the windbreaker, while toilet paper and a mobile phone were found in the other pocket. I opened the text message on my phone and saw the words "I never want to see your face again" written on it.
The identity of the victim is Kuwahara. Because his wife had submitted an application to the local police station to search for her husband as early as four days ago on October 29th.
The next day, on the morning of November 4th, Captain Tian Chunda led Detective Anyi to visit the Kuwahara family.
There were two women nearby who looked like housewives. They seemed to have known about the death of the Kuwahara family master, so they came to mourn together and were about to go home.
After sitting down in the living room, Officer Tian Chunda asked Mrs. Kuwahara: "When did your husband go out?"
"October 26th."
"Have you not come back since that day?"
"Yes, since he went on a business trip around ten o'clock on the 26th, he never came back. Because he often stayed out overnight, so I wasn't particularly worried at that time. By the afternoon of the 27th the next day, I received a text message from him saying he would be back tonight. I also prepared dinner and waited for him to come back. However, he did not come back. The next night, and the next night. I called his workplace. , only then did I find out that he had not gone to work since he left the unit on the evening of Wednesday the 26th. Because he had never stayed out overnight for three or four consecutive days without notice before. These signs made me very uneasy. Twenty-nine Finally, I went to report it to the police.”
