Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

There was really nothing to ask from Xu Jianguo's mouth, so Xia Yi could only ask Zhao Chunhua.

Zhao Chunhua is in her early thirties, short in stature but strong in limbs, with thick black hair coiled behind her head.She used to be a nurse at the Luhuawan Nursing Home for the Elderly. After being hired by a wealthy family, she started nursing at home.After the old man passed away, Zhao Chunhua transferred to take care of Mr. Xu a year ago.

"The old man is not in my care on weekends. Their son is coming back, and they can't see outsiders living together, so I left on Friday afternoon, around four or five o'clock." Zhao Chunhua's voice was born with a cracked hoarseness, which always made people It sounded uncomfortable, "Go back to the house again, after receiving the old man's emergency call for help this morning, it will be around eleven o'clock this morning."

"Then yesterday Saturday, where were you in the afternoon and evening?"

"at home!"

"Can anyone prove that you are at home?"

Zhao Chunhua rolled her eyes: "I came out to work alone, who can prove it?"

Judging by the accent, she should be from the inland countryside of the South.Zhao Chunhua claimed to rent a house in Luhuawan Town by herself, her husband was working in Yan'an City, and she had a seven-year-old son who was raised by her grandparents in her hometown.

Just at this time, the monitoring team came back with the person in charge of the property.Li Fu and Xia Yi confirmed: "We checked the property monitoring, and the time was correct. Zhao Chunhua did leave on Friday afternoon and came here on Sunday morning. The vehicle was a battery car. That is to say, from Friday to today, surveillance cameras did not capture her going in and out."

"The guard also confirmed with us that in the past year, Zhao Chunhua has been so sympathetic almost every weekend, and she doesn't live in Xu's residence on weekends. It seems that she is not lying."

However, the person in charge of the property pointed out that this does not rule out Zhao Chunhua's alibi.

Xicheng Huajin is a luxury community and should be equipped with top-level property facilities.However, the overall construction of the park has not yet been completed, and the access control is not perfect.The person in charge of the property said that there is a small gate in the backyard of Xu's house, from which you can go directly into the mountain, and you can go out of the park by coming down from the fork in the mountain, and there are no surveillance cameras in the wilderness.

The person in charge took Xia Yi and others to step on it. The mountain road is quite hidden, and unless you are very familiar with the workers and properties in the park, you can hardly get out.In other words, if someone wants to go this way, then this person must be familiar with the park, know that the Xu family has a barbecue plan that night, and have the key to the Xu family's backyard.

Zhao Chunhua happened to have all three.

"So, you mean, it's possible for her to come from the alley on Saturday and then go back to the alley?"

"There is a possibility. She claims to live alone in Luhuawan Town, but no one can prove that she has been staying there."

There are no steps on the mountain road, it is purely because the migrant workers on the construction site have walked a lot and stepped on a small path.Unfortunately, it happened that there was heavy rain in Luhua Bay last night, and the mountain soil turned into soft brick-red mud. New footprints and old footprints were mixed together and deformed, and then washed away by the stagnant water flowing down from the mountain, it was completely impossible to extract. information.

Xia Yi asked: "Yesterday, when did it start to rain here?"

The property owner replied: "It started to fall at seven or eight o'clock in the morning. It has been down for a whole day, and it probably didn't stop until early in the morning?"

Shao Lin looked at the muddy water mixture on the mountain road and thought, no wonder it wasn't dry yet.Wearing gloves, he picked up a pinch of mud and twisted it at his fingertips. There were many fine particles in it. Compared with ordinary soil, the color of this soil was particularly red.It was probably when the house was built that year that all kinds of construction waste and extra bricks were thrown on the mountain, which formed the different colors.

"That is to say, if someone comes in from this path, this kind of brick-red soil will definitely stick to their shoes." Xia Yi turned her head and looked at the backyard of Xu's house.

The backyard is divided into two parts - a well-groomed inner courtyard with a flat concrete floor, but there is an outer courtyard with a larger area and some vegetables randomly planted around it, with a bluestone road in the middle.The soil in the outer courtyard is the most common kind of earthy brown, which is completely different from the brick red on the mountain.

A group of people walked back and forth several times, took a few footprints in the outer courtyard for trace inspection, but found no trace of brick red at all.Xia Yi didn't give up, and went to look at Zhao Chunhua's small battery again. The place where the foot was scratched was also clean, so he had to give up for the time being.

"No one else has been in or out of the surveillance?"

Jiang Mo replied: "It's true that I didn't go out. If I came in, I only had Xu Heguang's Audi."

And now, the black Audi A7 is quietly parked in Xu's garage.

"This license plate has been registered at the property, and it will be released directly after scanning it. The car glass can be seen on one side, and it is impossible to determine whether there is only Xu Heguang in it, or whether it is carrying someone..."

Xia Yi thought for a while: "Assuming that there was a fourth person at the barbecue scene, unless that person came in from the mountain road in the backyard in the rain and changed his shoes in front of the backyard tactfully, this person most likely came in with Xu Heguang. In this way , it’s easy to check.”

Professional trace inspectors turned Xu Heguang's car over and over and sifted aside, collecting all shoe prints, fingerprints, and possible biological information.

Over there, Lao Wang was still taking notes.

"When you left on Friday night, how many people were there?"

"Just the old man, Mr. Yuan, Mr. Xu. Mr. Xu just arrived, I'm leaving."

"Do Xu Huahao and Xu Heguang come to the house often? Have you ever had barbecue at home before? Do you know who they plan to have dinner with this weekend?"

"President Xu often comes here, and their second son occasionally comes to eat on weekends, just to see the old man. That grandson doesn't come often. Oh, by the way, occasionally Mr. Yuan's wife and friends will come to have afternoon tea." Zhao Chunhua After a pause, they continued, "They have always liked barbecue. They used to go out to eat. Later, Teacher Yuan felt that the barbecue outside was unhealthy, so he spent thousands of dollars to buy a grill from South Korea. It costs a month. Eat it once or twice."

"But..." Zhao Chunhua frowned suddenly as she spoke, and stopped talking.

"but what?"

"They used to use electricity instead of charcoal for indoor barbecues." Zhao Chunhua muttered, "They still go to the store to eat charcoal."

"It's broken, it's broken!" At this moment, Yan Jingjing, who had been squatting in a corner to flash her phone all afternoon, suddenly came back to life with full blood.She pulled the Android phone out of the interface, and rushed over like a whirlwind: "I found a super invincible and important clue!!!"

Everyone quickly surrounded the past.

Don't look at Yan Jingjing, a short, flat-chested girl, she is a good hacker in the team, and it is said that she even won the upstairs online detective in the programming marathon.

"Yuan Yongfang's mobile phone is an Apple, so there's nothing I can do for the time being. Xu Huahao and Xu Heguang both use Android, and it was broken. Last night at 7:34, Xu Heguang sent his wife a photo of a barbecue!"

The perspective of the photo is taken from top to bottom, including a whole square mahogany table.Same as today's scene, there are three sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table, a glass of beer is placed on the upper and lower seats, and some unfinished ingredients are placed on the right.The grill is full of garlic lobster, scallops, pork belly, and cumin lamb skewers, and the charcoal fire underneath is red.

After Xu Heguang showed off the photo, he also sent a message to Ji Tong: [/着牙][/着牙][/着牙]

About an hour and a half later, it was Ji Tong's reply: I haven't finished the plan[/crying loudly]

Yan Jingjing uploaded the photo to the computer, enlarged it and shared it with everyone.Li Fu frowned in disappointment: "Looks like, these three people were really the only ones eating barbecue last night, maybe they really blinded themselves to death like this..."

"This location matches the scene. Here are Xu Huahao and Xu Heguang sitting face to face drinking beer, and Yuan Yongfang is on the left. This should have just eaten a round. The three people at the table also drank some peanut milk. This picture But not in the photo. The news was distributed at 7:34 in the evening, which means that nothing happened at that time..."

Shao Lin, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly pointed to a corner of the photo: "Where did Yuan Yongfang's bracelet go?"

Xia Yi cursed: "Teacher Shao, you have sharp eyes!"

In the lower left corner of the photo, by chance, Yuan Yongfang's right hand was photographed, which happened to be an action of "putting chopsticks".The woman's nails are newly made light cherry pink, matching the size of the corpse, but in the photo, she still wears a transparent white jade bracelet on her wrist.

The corpses have been taken away by the forensic team. After all, three autopsies are a big project.Xia Yi dug up the first shot on the scene and found that Yuan Yongfang didn't have any accessories on her body at that time!

Where did that bracelet go?

Shao Lin used Xu Heguang's WeChat account to check his mother's circle of friends.Although Yuan Yongfang is a wealthy wife, she is usually not high-profile. Most of her circle of friends are "time is quiet and good" chicken soup.In the frequent selfies, even if she was having afternoon tea with her girlfriends, she was dressed quite plainly.

Moreover, judging from those selfies, Yuan Yongfang usually does not wear a bracelet, and the only accessory is the pearl necklace around her neck.But now there is neither a bracelet nor a necklace on this corpse.

Shao Lin's gaze fell back to the photo of the dead body at the scene.

Yuan Yongfang scalded her head.Her hair was already thin, and it seemed even less with one curl.Although this hairstyle is not suitable for her, it is quite popular among middle-aged and elderly women.If you look closely, you can see that the curls dyed burgundy are greasy and the shape is quite fixed. They should have been done in the past few days.Similarly, Yuan Yongfang's nail polish was fully applied to the roots, and it should be newly made. In addition, the purple and pink dress, in terms of texture and style, is even more expensive.

Therefore, Shao Lin reasonably speculated that Yuan Yongfang had dressed up carefully for this dinner party.

But, who is she dressing up for?

It seemed... only her husband and son were there?

Is it because you don't see your son often, so you dress up carefully?Or was yesterday a special day worth celebrating?Or - Shao Lin thought of the five catties of charcoal - there were indeed other people present at the barbecue yesterday.

Hearing that the policemen asked about the necklace, the little brother in charge of Xu’s property quickly echoed: “Yes, yes, Teacher Yuan usually wears this necklace and never leaves it! The pearl is very big and has a very good color. It is Xu’s pearl. I always gave it for the 25th anniversary of my marriage, I heard it’s worth 10,000+ yuan!”

"That's right." Shao Lin said, "When Xu Heguang took that photo, Yuan Yongfang was probably still wearing that pearl necklace."

But now, the necklace and bracelet seem to be missing together.

The owner passed away and the jewels were lost—all eyes were once again on the nurse Zhao Chunhua.

"You suspect that I stole it?!" I don't know whether Zhao Chunhua is nervous or angry, and when she gets emotional, she can't help but speak in dialect.Cursing, she handed over her Taobao LV high imitation bag in annoyance, and even found out her pockets: "You search! You search!"

Xia Yi flipped through it, and there were only some common carry-on items inside.

"Aunt Zhao," Shao Lin patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, "Please help us recall—"

He guided the other party into the memory step by step: "At that time, you hurried back here and found that the kitchen door was closed tightly. From a distance, you saw someone collapsed inside... You didn't dare to open the glass door and called the police directly. This At that time, Yuan Yongfang didn't have a bracelet on her hand, right?"

"I, I——" Zhao Chunhua froze, her eyes rolled up, as if recalling, "I didn't look carefully! I was so scared to death at the time, really, I was out of my wits! How can I have time to look at the bracelet?" No bracelets!"

Shao Lin thinks this answer is very good.It would be even more suspicious if Zhao Chunhua insisted that she did not see the bracelet.

"Then take a look." Xia Yi brought the photo, "Is this bracelet Yuan Yongfang's?"

Zhao Chunhua poked her head, pursed her mouth, and said that she had never seen it before, and that Yuan Yongfang usually didn't wear a bracelet at home.

Whether the necklace and bracelet are taken away is of vital significance to the detection of the case.With a wave of Xia Yi's hand, the police officers began to search Xu's house scatteredly, including the bathroom, old man Xu's bedroom, and the nanny's room.

Until Jiang Mo called someone upstairs: "I found it! Come and see if it's this!"

Shao Lin frowned slightly: Yuan Yongfang was still wearing jewelry during the barbecue, but when the body was found, the jewelry was gone.Now, the jewelry miraculously appeared in Yuan Yongfang's bedroom—then, there are only two possibilities...