142.
The report said: On the morning of the 13th, the Dongjiao Huimin Road Police Station received a lost handbag. It was picked up by a little girl in the fifth grade of primary school when she passed by a coal storage yard near Huimin Road. The handbag is leather, square and black, and contains a wallet, cigarettes, lighter, toilet paper and other items. The wallet was empty and no business card was found. The police at the police station thought that the handbag had nothing to do with the case and did not report it to the criminal police detachment. This was asked by a criminal policeman when he came to the Huimin Road Police Station to investigate the situation at the coal storage yard.
The serious crime team immediately brought the handbag and sent Meng Xiangyu's wife to identify the handbag.
"It is indeed my husband's." Meng Xiangyu's wife affirmed.
"Does your husband have any connections around Huimin Road?"
The woman shook her head: "No."
Tian Chunda led his men to the coal storage yard near Huimin Road. A policeman was waiting there with the little girl who had found the handbag and the girl's mother.
"Kid, where did you pick it up?" Tian Chunda asked.
The little girl pointed with her hand and said, "It's right there."
The handbag had been left beside the fence of the coal yard. The little girl was walking on this road and discovered it when she passed by. There was a lot of coal dust scattered there.
Tian Chunda and his men stood motionless and looked around. The crane is loading coal onto the truck.
"Team leader, by late night, all these noises will disappear!" Hao Dong said.
"Yeah, I'm thinking about this issue too."
Tian Chunda walked back and forth near where the girl had picked up her handbag, looking around. After a while, he stopped about ten steps away from where the handbag was lost.
"Hao Dong, look!" He pointed at the ground and shouted.
It turned out that the collapsed coal pile overflowed from the fence and covered the ground. Part of it seemed to have been smoothed by someone, but traces of messiness could still be seen.
"It has been five days since the case occurred. Maybe the original scene has been destroyed." Tian Chunda said. He came to the office on the left side of the warehouse inside the fence and knocked on the glass window. There were three staff members chatting there, and they all turned around when they heard the noise.
Tian Chunda showed them his ID and asked: "On the morning of the 13th, was there any change in this area? For example, were there any traces of fighting?"
When he asked if anyone had fought, the other person immediately replied as if he had remembered something: "When you said that, I remembered it. Well, it must have been that morning! We came to work around 8:30 to have a look , the coal there is a mess."
The "there" mentioned is the place Tian Chunda was referring to. The other party recalled the scene at that time and said: "Look at that, it seems like it was done by a man and a woman when they were flirting. Wang Shi here felt disgusted when he saw it, so he used a broom to scatter the things. All the coal and dirt from the ground were swept away."
After hearing this, Tian Chunda complained in his heart: It's really unnecessary. However, things were irreversible, so they were not blamed. Just hearing what happened at the scene should be satisfying.
Tian Chunda turned around and walked towards the car waiting outside. He found that the girl who had found the handbag and her mother were still standing there. He seemed to suddenly remember something. He quickly walked to the girl, stroked her head and asked, "Oh, by the way. My little friend, you found it." Is the handbag wet when you carry it?”
"No, it's not wet!"
The girl raised her little face, looked at the sky in awe, and answered clearly with a thoughtful look.
"Oh, if you think about it again, are you really not wet?" Tian Chunda asked again.
"It's not wet! When I went to the police station, I held the bag with both hands."
The girl's answer showed that it was because she was not wet that she went to the police station with her bag in her arms.
As soon as Tian Chunda got into the car, he ordered Hao Dong: "Take the shortest road from here to the woods where the body was found."
Hao Dong tilted his head and thought for a moment, then immediately turned the steering wheel. At this time, Tian Chunda looked at his watch.
Tian Chunda looked at the passing scenery outside the car and said to Hao Dong, who was sitting next to him: "You should know the scene of the crime this time!"
"Are you sure?"
In fact, Hao Dong himself thought the same way, but he just wanted to find out what the team leader was thinking, so he asked this question. The team leader took out a bulging envelope from his pocket and handed it to Hatanaka to look at. At some unknown time, the team leader put an envelope of coal slag and coal dust from the scene.
"You see, everything is decided by it." A smile appeared on the corner of the team leader's mouth.
The car turned left and right for a long winding road, then turned onto the main road. The road suddenly became flat and wide, and the car sped forward in a straight line.
The team leader looked at the speedometer in front of him. The needle was swinging up and down in front of the fifty kilometers number.
The car drove into the woods in the eastern suburbs. Team leader Tian Chunda ordered the car to stop where Meng Xiangyu's body was found, and immediately checked his watch. Said: "It took fifty-six minutes to get here from the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard. It is daytime now. If it is at night, a taxi or motorcycle can travel at a speed of about 60 kilometers per hour. Well... it takes about four Fifteen minutes!"
Tian Chunda was referring to the time it took for the prisoner to transport the body here after he killed Meng Xiangyu at the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard.
Tian Chunda and Hao Dong got out of the car. Both opened their arms and greedily breathed in the crisp fresh air of the woods.
After Tian Chunda returned to the serious crime team, he immediately ordered his subordinates to conduct two investigations.
The first is to go to the meteorological observatory to verify what time the rainfall starts and ends in the eastern suburbs on the morning of the 13th.
The second is to entrust a geological laboratory of a university to conduct carbon tests on the coal dust from the Huimin Road coal storage yard that was returned in the envelope.
After the arrangement was completed, Tian Chunda returned to the office, lit a cigarette and meditated. After a while, he picked up a pencil and started writing something on the paper on the table.
At this time, Hao Dong walked in. When he saw the team leader's appearance, he immediately stopped and asked, "Is the team leader busy?"
"Oh, it doesn't matter. Come in!" Tian Chunda said, but his writing hand did not stop. Hao Dong sat on the chair on the side.
"Team leader, until now, we have not discovered the motive for this crime."
Hao Dong looked at the team leader's hand holding a pencil and waving it.
"Yeah, what's the motive?" Tian Chunda muttered, but he still didn't stop waving the pencil.
"Is it theft? I'm afraid there's no such possibility, right?"
"Well, I think so too." Tian Chunda murmured again: "Is it revenge due to resentment or emotional conflict? But I asked the criminal police to investigate, and this possibility is not very likely. Meng Xiangyu does not seem to have an extramarital affair, and his wife is A woman with a very gentle and honest personality. There is nothing unclear about the relationship between men and women. Therefore, it is unlikely to be a love killing. I have not heard that the couple had any enemies. However, this case was committed by someone known to the victim. , This is so unpredictable." Tian Chunda expressed his thoughts in one breath. He looked up. Rather than saying that he was doing it to clarify his own opinions, it would be better to say that he was doing it because he had finished writing something.
"Ah, the motive is unclear. We can only use actual materials to sort out this mess. There is no other way. Come on, take a look at this first." With that said, Tian Chunda handed the paper on which he had just written something to Hao Dong. Hao Dong unfolded the paper with both hands and read it: This was something like a list, with densely written words on it:
(1) Meng Xiangyu. Around 4 pm on the 12th, I went out shortly after receiving a call from someone. His whereabouts remained unknown for 14 hours until his body was discovered on the morning of the 13th. An autopsy revealed that Meng Xiangyu was killed between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Assuming that the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard was the scene of the crime, the situation would be as follows: Meng Xiangyu left home around 4 pm on the 12th, and his whereabouts were unknown for about 7 hours after that. Meng Xiangyu was killed between 10 pm and 1 pm. The whereabouts of the body remained unknown for the next six hours. During this time, the criminals moved the body. At 6:30 in the morning on the 13th, the victim's body was found in the woods in the eastern suburbs.
