Crime Hunt Files: Bloody Angel

"Grapevine...grapevine...where is the grapevine?"

Bai Ji'an flipped through the book he had brought from He Wei's office and said intently: "You drive, just drive, hum."

"Isn't this boring?" He Wei stretched his neck and looked around, fearing that he might miss the target accidentally, "You said you have been reading since you got in the car. Is it so good? Aren't you sleepy?"

Bai Ji'an snorted lightly, "You are the only one who gets sleepy while reading."

"Hey, you're wrong about that. Many people get sleepy when reading, and I'm no exception." Suddenly, He Wei's eyes lit up. He stepped on the brakes and pointed to the right, outside Bai Ji'an's window, "Found it , Grapevine!”

Bai Ji'an glanced sideways, "That's a loofah vine!"

"Oh. They all look almost the same."

"Everywhere is the same, but the leaves are different."

"Just, they're all climbing up and down."

Bai Ji'an shook his head helplessly and finally put down the book. He really didn't dare to leave the matter of finding the way to the detective captain who couldn't even tell the difference between a grape and a loofah.

The two walked around the village for a while. Bai Ji'an narrowed his eyes and said, "Stop the car."

He Wei ordered and stepped on the brakes. He was about to ask Bai Ji'an if he had arrived, but when he looked up, he saw that the person had already walked in front of his car.

"get off."

He Wei followed Bai Ji'an. There was a house next to it. The brown-red door was closed tightly, and it was impossible to tell whether anyone was home.

Howie crossed his arms and looked around. On the wall on the right, there are several slender branches with large green leaves, which are about to slowly crawl out of the courtyard. Under the wall, there was a pool of splashing water that had not dried thoroughly.

"It's obviously pretty much the same."

While He Wei was standing behind his brother muttering, the door had already been knocked open by Bai Ji'an.

A woman looked at them in surprise and half-closed the originally wide door, "Who are you looking for?"

"Is this Zhang Minghua's home?"

The woman nodded, "Yes, he is not at home. Who are you?"

"I know he's not here." He Wei took out his ID from his inner pocket and said, "Who are you from Zhang Minghua?"

The woman was stunned for a moment when she saw the police ID. She looked at them warily, as if she had doubts about the authenticity of the ID.

"What's the matter with you?"

"It's true that I came here only if something happened. Can you go in and talk?"

"I am Zhang Minghua's wife. But I am a woman at home, and it is inconvenient to ask two strange men to come into the house. If you are really the police, go to the village committee and ask the village chief to come with you."

Seeing that the woman was about to close the door after finishing speaking, He Wei took a step forward and blocked the door.

The woman was startled and shouted: "What are you doing!"

"I see your village is not big, so you don't have the village chief's phone number."

The woman glared at He Wei angrily and took out her mobile phone from her loose linen trouser pocket. At the same time, Howie's phone rang.

"what happened?"

Chen Zeyang's voice sounded quite confused, "Captain He, are you here yet? Which one is Zhang Minghua's home? Sister Siwen only gave us the location of the village. Which household doesn't know?"

"Enter from the east entrance of the village and keep going straight ahead. The house with the grape vines on the wall."

"Grapevine..." Chen Zeyang was silent for a moment and muttered: "Is that right?"

"seems not."

It was Han Yang's voice.

"Drive well and I'll take another look. No, the grape vines don't look like this, they're loofah vines."

……

When He Wei raised his eyes, Bai Ji'an was holding back a smile with his face turned sideways, obviously hearing Chen Zeyang's words.

He Wei curled his lips and left angrily, "Drive forward, we'll be there soon." Then he pressed the phone hard.

"Comrade police, comrade police. I, I'm here."

In the distance, the village chief was running panting in their direction.

As soon as she saw the village chief coming, the woman immediately opened the door and walked out, "Village Chief."

"Guilan, why don't you let people in?"

"I didn't commit any crime, and I don't even know them. Minghua and Ah Cheng are both working in the city. There are so many liars and bad people now, how dare I, a woman, let them in."

"Okay, it's a good thing you have this awareness." The village chief wiped the sweat on his head and bowed apologetically to He Wei, "Comrade police, this is the situation, and there is no malice. Please forgive me."

"Can we go in and talk now?"

"Okay, okay." The village chief took the lead and opened the door, "Guilan, which house is hosting guests? Let people come in and sit."

"follow me."

The two were invited to the room on the west side. The room was about ten square meters. Apart from a double bed, a set of tables and chairs and a wardrobe, there was no other furniture. The only photo frame on the table showed the identity of the owner.

As soon as everyone sat down, the village chief winked at the woman and said, "Guilan, pour some water."

"No need, a lot of time has been wasted. Let's get straight to the point." He Wei looked at the woman and asked, "Name and age."

"Chen Guilan, 49 years old."

"Zhang Minghua's wife?"

"That's right. What happened to Minghua?"

"Do you know what Zhang Minghua is doing?"

Chen Guilan nodded, "Yes, he washes dishes in a restaurant, he told me."

Changing the topic, He Wei asked: "Dou Shuqiang, do you know?"

Chen Guilan and the village chief's faces immediately froze. Then, the village chief swallowed and said, "Comrade police, this thing is banned by the state. It was banned decades ago. How can we..."

He Wei glanced at the village chief who was eager to explain, and said, "I'm asking her and letting her answer."

Everyone's eyes in the room moved to Chen Guilan.

She clasped her hands and shook her head: "I don't know."

He Wei said in a deep voice, "Are you sure?"

This invisible sense of oppression made Chen Guilan not dare to look at him at all. She lowered her eyes and was about to nod when she heard He Wei say again: "You have to understand that there is a difference between voluntarily handing it over and being found by us. Understand?"

Chen Guilan remained silent, making the village chief beside him sweat profusely. "Hurry up and tell me, yes or no!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked through the window and saw Chen Zeyang and Han Yang running in along the straight path in the middle of the yard.

"He team!"

He Wei ignored them. He stared at Chen Guilan for a while and then ordered, "Search."

"Yes."

Chen Zeyang and Han Yang took action immediately, scaring Chen Guilan to the point where her face turned red and white.

The rapidly moving figures of the two unfamiliar policemen at home made Chen Guilan feel palpitations and her shoulders shaking uncontrollably. Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer.

She opened her mouth and admitted softly: "Yes."

He Wei stared at her, "What did you say? Louder."

Chen Guilan clenched her fists and said hoarsely, "Yes! We kept some back then, but we didn't hand them all over."

"How much do you keep?"

"Not much! Just a little, the bottom of a bottle!"

"Why don't you hand it in? What are you going to do?"

Chen Guilan was quite innocent, "Of course it can be used to kill rats. Although this thing is very poisonous, it is very effective! Living in the countryside, rats often swarm the food, and in severe cases, they will bite the chickens to death! Now Rat poison is not strong enough, so it’s very difficult to deal with them.”

He Wei and Bai Ji'an said nothing. On the other hand, the village chief on the side slapped his thigh when he heard this, and kept mumbling about how he could be so confused!

"Guilan, can you hide this just because you say you want to? It will be a crime if you are discovered!"

Chen Guilan never thought that she would go to jail for rat poison, and she was so anxious that she almost cried, "I don't know. I only use it for my own home. I haven't given it to anyone else, and I haven't taken it out. It's just in my own home. Why?" You know it’s a crime. Besides, I don’t know how the police would know about the things I hide in my home!”

"found it!"

Chen Zeyang's voice sounded, and then he walked into the West Room, holding a glass bottle with a washed label in his hand. There is only about 10g of white powder inside.

"Is this it?" Howie asked.

Chen Guilan nodded and admitted with red eyes.

"Anything else?"

"No more, that's all..." Chen Guilan paused while looking at the bottle. She wiped the tears on her cheeks and stared at the remaining poison.

"See it?"

Chen Guilan's expression felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She understood, everything made sense.

Why did the police suddenly come to her? The person they asked was Zhang Minghua. A week ago, she suddenly said that she would go home on vacation to see her husband. The amount of medicine in the bottle was obviously reduced...

"What did he do?" Chen Guilan's voice was trembling to the point of trembling. "He, he harmed someone?"

"Three dead and one wounded."

With a plop, Chen Guilan fell to the ground. She opened her mouth wide and cried silently.

"Who comes outside the door, who leaves outside the door, who sees whom, who kills whom."