Tong Ruide nodded: "I know, I will try my best to complete the task."
Xiao Hui added: "If you complete this task well, I will find a way to transfer you and promote you to the deputy director of the county party committee office in the future."
"Thank you so much, Secretary Xiao." Tong Ruide said excitedly.
Xiao Hui patted Tong Ruide on the back with his warm hands.
5
On the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, people ate Lantern Festival at home and sat in front of the TV to watch the Lantern Festival party. Xu Chuan took this opportunity to take action again. He came to the County Commerce Bureau building and climbed up the rainwater barrel to the director's office on the third floor. He climbed to the second floor and was suddenly hit by a stone on his buttocks, which made him tremble with pain. He looked down and saw a sturdy man waving to him, asking him to come down. He thought it was broken and someone discovered it.
The person below is Tong Ruide. He guessed that the thief who had stolen Secretary Xiao's office might be out during the Lantern Festival, so he ordered a dozen apprentices to join him in monitoring some major office buildings in the county in the middle of the night. He was very good at martial arts and practiced martial arts every day. Some students and young people in the county worshiped him as their teacher and learned martial arts from him. When they heard that they were going to help the master catch the thief, the apprentices were very excited and eager to go into battle.
In the middle of the night, an apprentice discovered the whereabouts of a thief in front of the County Commercial Bureau. He immediately sent a text message quietly to report the situation to his master. This is Tong Ruide's order. If you find a thief, don't capture him yourself. You must report him immediately. The county town is not big, and he has a car, so he will arrive soon. This order was firstly to prevent the young apprentice from being harmed, and secondly, to prevent the secrets that Secretary Xiao wanted to keep from being leaked.
After receiving the report from his apprentice, Tong Ruide immediately drove to the office building of the Bureau of Commerce, stopped the car quietly, and walked into the courtyard quietly. Following the instructions of his apprentice, he saw the thief climbing upstairs, so he picked up a stone and hit the thief in the butt.
Xu Chuan had no other choice but to follow Tong Ruide's gesture and climb down. Tong Ruide escorted him into the car, and then said to his apprentice: "It's very late, you should go home and sleep."
After the apprentice left, Tong Ruide turned to Xu Chuan and said, "Where do you live?"
Xu Chuan hesitated and said, "It's not far from here."
Tong Ruide said: "Take me to your home."
Xu Chuan hesitated again.
Tong Ruide pushed him and said sternly: "Go!"
Xu Chuan had no choice but to get out of the car and lead Tong Ruide forward. Tong Ruide held him with a wrench in her hand.
In front of him was the wall of a warehouse. Xu Chuan suddenly pointed to the side and said, "There are dogs over there!"
Tong Ruide subconsciously turned around to look, but Xu Chuan took the opportunity to run to the courtyard wall to climb over the wall and escape. Tong Ruide threw out the wrench in his hand angrily. The wrench was originally aimed at Xu Chuan's back, trying to knock him off the wall. Unexpectedly, Xu Chuan's foot on the wall slipped and his body fell. The flying wrench hit him on the back of the head, and he fell to the ground.
Tong Ruide ran to him and saw that he twitched a few times and then stopped moving. Tong Ruide touched his nose and found that he had completely expired! Tong Ruide shouted in his heart: "You are so unlucky!" He took off his clothes and wrapped his head tightly to stop the bleeding. Then they carried him to the car and searched his pockets and trouser pockets. Fortunately, I found a courier receipt in my trouser pocket with his name and address written on it. His house keys were also found.
Tong Ruide drove to a secluded place in the suburbs and threw Xu Chuan's body into a sewer. Then he drove near Xu Chuan's house, turned off the engine and got out of the car with a flashlight. He quietly walked to the door of Xu Chuan's house and opened the door with the key.
Tong Ruide put on gloves and searched the room with a flashlight. He found a small iron box under the bed. When he opened it, he found that it contained jewelry and a gold pen box. He opened the gold pen box and saw a memory card inside. He thought that this was the memory card that Secretary Xiao had lost. He put the computer hard drive, U disk, CD and mobile phone in the room into a small iron box, then left Xiao Hui's house with the small iron box and locked the door.
The next day, Tong Ruide made a report to Xiao Hui when he drove him to work.
"Secretary Xiao, the thief was caught and the memory card was taken back. I also took back all the storage devices in his home, including computer hard drives, USB flash drives, CDs, and mobile phones."
"Okay, you did a good job!" Xiao Hui patted Tong Ruide on the back excitedly.
"That thief will never speak again." Tong Ruide added.
"Oh." Xiao Hui nodded and said nothing more. But he felt more relieved.
6
A week later, a sewer plumber reported to the county 110 alarm center: "A body was found in a sewer well in the suburbs."
Xue Zhicheng, captain of the county criminal police brigade, led several criminal police officers to the scene.
The criminal police retrieved the body from the manhole. It was a male body. Because of the cold weather, the body was only slightly decomposed, and nothing was found from him that could prove his identity. A wound was found on the back of his head where he had been hit by a hard object, and it could be concluded that it was homicide.
Xiping County is under the jurisdiction of Nanshan City, and the County Public Security Bureau reported the murder to the Municipal Public Security Bureau. The Nanshan City Public Security Bureau dispatched a serious case team from the Criminal Investigation Detachment to Xiping County to participate in solving the case.
After arriving in Xiping County, Tian Chunda, captain of the criminal investigation detachment and head of the serious crime team, requested that the photo of the deceased be released on TV to identify the deceased as soon as possible.
The day after the photo of the corpse was released on TV, a middle-aged man came to the county public security bureau to report that the deceased was a tenant of his house named Xu Chuan.
Tian Chunda asked Xu Chuan what he did for a living.
The middle-aged man said that he did not have a regular job and only worked odd jobs, but he never owed rent.
Tian Chunda then asked the middle-aged man what social relationships the deceased had, whether he had any enemies, and whether there had been anything unusual recently.
The middle-aged man said that Xu Chuan lived alone and rarely interacted with others. He did not know what relatives or friends he had or what enemies he had. He had not found anything unusual about him recently.
Tian Chunda asked the middle-aged man to lead the criminal police to Xuchuan's residence.
The criminal police opened the door of Xu Chuan's house with a master key. When he went in, he found that the house was very messy and some things were scattered on the ground. The cabinets and drawers were also open, and the house had evidently been searched.
The criminal police found more than a dozen bottles of Maotai, Wuliangye and other fine wines and a dozen of Da Zhonghua and other fine cigarettes in the kitchen cabinet. An Apple tablet protective case was also found on the cabinet in the living room, with three wiped words faintly visible on it. Tian Chunda took out a magnifying glass and looked carefully, and recognized the words "Liu Yingxiang".
Xue Zhicheng said that Liu Yingxiang was the director of the County Health Bureau. His office was stolen a month ago, and this tablet should belong to him. Now that the tablet is sold, the protective case with the words on it is left. He also told Tian Chunda that the offices of several leaders in our county have been stolen recently, including the director of health and the director of taxation. He heard that the office of county party secretary Xiao Hui was also stolen. But Secretary Xiao did not report the crime. This came from the mouth of a sweeper in the county party committee office building.
After the search, Tian Chunda said: "It can be concluded that Xu Chuan is a thief. His death is probably related to the theft. His home was rummaged through. It may be that the owner wanted to retrieve something important that was stolen. The result was that Xu Chuan was a thief." A conflict occurred, resulting in his death. We will start from these theft cases to find the suspect who killed Xu Chuan."
All the detectives present nodded in agreement.
7
According to Tian Chunda's arrangement, the city and county criminal police involved in the case were divided into three groups to find the suspects who killed Xu Chuan from the three office building thefts.
It was Sunday. Tian Chunda, Xue Zhicheng and Hao Dong, a member of the serious crime team of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment, went to Tong Ruide to investigate and understand the situation.
In the police car, Xue Zhicheng introduced Tong Ruide's situation. He said that Tong Ruide had been a scout, was very good at martial arts, was famous in the county, and had some apprentices. His special skill is to hit rabbits with flying rocks, and he can hit hares within thirty meters with perfect accuracy. Xue Zhicheng once went hunting with him in the countryside and saw it with his own eyes.
After listening to Xue Zhicheng's introduction, Tian Chunda's heart moved. He carefully examined Xu Chuan's body and saw that the fatal wound on the back of his head looked like it was caused by a flying monkey wrench. The wounds caused by holding a wrench and striking with a wrench are very different. Tong Ruide had the unique skill of throwing rocks at rabbits, so was it him who threw the wrench and hit Xu Chuan in the back of the head to death?
