Mingtang took out the recording pen and put it on the table, opened his notebook, and nodded to Qiu Shaoyang.

Qiu Shaoyang cleared his throat, "Old Wei, let's start when you're ready?"

Wei Hai nodded.

Qiu Shaoyang began to ask, "You have been the factory manager of the slaughterhouse for many years. During your work, have you ever had any conflicts with the slaughterhouse? For example, dissatisfaction with the slaughterhouse system."

Wei Hai awakened the memory that had been dormant for many years, and began to think about what happened in the slaughterhouse. After a while, he said, "Yes."

"In the town 30 years ago, pig killing was not as modern as it is now. Our general process is to go one day in advance to bring the pigs to be slaughtered back to the factory and put them in the pigsty. The pigs are injected with phenobar/bital sodium. Anesthesia and hypnotic drugs are slaughtered by special personnel after they arrive early the next morning, and then transported into the workshop for cutting and subcontracting according to customer requirements. Theft of phenobar/bital sodium occurs from time to time in the factory , so we took some measures to catch the stolen employees and send them to the Public Security Bureau.” Speaking of the events of that year, Wei Hai was a little emotional.

Qiu Shaoyang asked: "What's the name of the fired employee?"

Wei Haidao: "Yang Tao."

"Are there any other things?" Qiu Shaoyang asked.

"He is the one who is serious." Wei Hai said, "Other minor incidents, occasionally stealing one or two, don't cost much, and we won't get too deep into it."

"Has there ever been a work-related injury that has not been properly resolved?"

Wei Hai thought about it carefully, and nodded, "There are so many cases. After all, we are a big factory, and most of the knives in the slaughterhouse are sharp. There was once a vicious knife-wielding accident. The person with the knife was Fang. Qun is a distant relative of the proprietress Liu Xiaojuan. The injured person is called Qu Shihao, who is the cousin of Zhang Yian’s brother, Zhang Yilian’s wife. Qu Shihao’s left arm was chopped off to the bone, and his left hand was basically useless. gone."

"Then how was this matter resolved? Did you call the police?" Qiu Shaoyang asked.

Wei Hai sighed, "Did not call the police. Fang Qun's family didn't want Fang Qun to go to jail, so they asked Fang Qun to come to apologize. Qu's family didn't want to, so Fang's family begged Zhang Yilian and his wife. People with soft ears can deal with it. Zhang Yilian's wife, Zhao Wan, couldn't stand the offensive from her husband's family, so she helped them speak well to the Qu family, but her mother's family scolded her. The Qu family asked Fang Qun to pay him 10 yuan, at least I don’t pay a penny. You must know that in the 80s, 10 yuan for us rural people might not see that much money for half a lifetime, and people from my husband’s family blamed Zhao Wan for being useless. In the end, She didn't please either side."

"Then what happened next?"

Wei Hai sighed, "Zhao Wan's younger sister married better. The couple made money after going to Nanyang to pan for gold. Zhao Wan's younger sister returned to China and opened a small trading company in the city, exporting our tea to In Nanyang, the couple went to the city to join their younger sister and helped pour tea. As the business of the slaughterhouse was getting better and better, but there were not enough drivers who could drive large trucks, Zhang Yian went to lobby Zhang Yilian, and the two old people in the family also helped to speak good words , Zhang Yilian was soft-hearted, so he went back to the town and worked as a freight driver for the slaughterhouse."

"However, Zhang Yi'an is still good to his brother. The red envelopes given at the end of each year are quite generous, definitely more than what he got as a freight driver for sister Zhao Wan in the city."

"How did Zhang Yilian's leg break?"

Thinking back, Wei Hai shook his head again and again, "At that time, there was a batch of meat that got the wrong time and was not delivered to the customer according to the stipulated time. Zhang Yilian had to deliver the goods overnight. It rained too much that night, so he ran into the car at night. The landslide, the car overturned, the leg was stuck for a long time and the blood could not circulate normally, leading to necrosis, and the limb had to be amputated to save life."

"Then what was Zhao Wan's reaction?" Qiu Shaoyang asked.

"Then the reaction at that time was really big, because Qu Shihao was angry at both sides, and the man broke a leg because he helped Zhang Yi'an deliver the goods. At that time, the relationship between the two families was very tense."

This is different from the survey results back then. Qiu Shaoyang asked, "Didn't the neighbors say that they have a good relationship?"

Wei Hai waved his hand, "That was all later. I don't know whether it was Zhao Wan who figured it out or because of Zhang Yi'an's attitude. The relationship between the two families gradually eased. Zhang Yi'an paid Zhang Yilian to install the best Although the prosthetic limbs are not as convenient as before, they are able to walk at least. Zhang Yilian also started to help out in the factory to help out. He can't do complicated tasks, such as the simple handover of goods in and out, and he can still help. made."

Qiu Shaoyang nodded clearly.

"Then how is the relationship between Zhao Wan and Zhang Yilian?" He remembered what Zhao Fan said, the two often quarreled.

"I don't know about that." Wei Hai is not a gossip person either.

Qiu Shaoyang continued to ask: "In addition to Zhang Yilian's accident, are there any other similar accidents?"

Wei Hai nodded, "Yes, but they are not too serious. In the end, it was settled with money."

"Is there anyone who has a bad relationship with Zhang Yian, such as Zhang Yian's partner, or Zhang Yian's business, has he sinned against anyone? But he himself doesn't know."

"I'm mainly in charge of the operation of the factory. Generally, I don't care about business matters. If you want to ask me about the factory, I can still help you, but if you want to ask about business, then I really can't help you. .”

Qiu Shaoyang ended the conversation and left Wei Hai with Mingtang's contact information, "If you think of anything else recently, please call this number. Just do it."

Wei Hai sent them out, "Then I hope you can solve the case as soon as possible. It can be regarded as an explanation to Zhang Yi'an's family."

Sitting in the car, Mingtang didn't rush to start the car, but put his gaze on Qiu Shaoyang, "What do you think?"

Qiu Shaoyang thought for a while, and confessed his thoughts, "First of all, I think Zhang Yilian and Zhao Wan both had motives for committing crimes. After all, they were both hurt indirectly because of Zhang Yian."

"But Zhao Wan has an alibi." Ming Tang said.

Qiu Shaoyang shrugged, "Alibi proves that this thing can be faked. I remember that she was working the night shift in the factory at the time of the incident. There was indeed a record of her in the check-in records that day, and someone did indeed see her that night. , so her alibi is very convincing, and she has all the witnesses and material evidence, so he was excluded as a suspect by the police."

Physical evidence can be falsified, and of course personal evidence can also be falsified.

Moreover, Yu Zhixuan and Zhao Wan are aunts. Yu Zhixuan knew who the murderer was 30 years ago, but he didn't want to tell them, so it can be explained.

Mingtang still felt that there was something wrong, "Even if Zhao Wan's alibi proved to be a problem, it would be very difficult for her to kill Zhang Yi'an's family."

"She can't do it alone, but if he has helpers, it's not impossible." Qiu Shaoyang said.

"There is no evidence." Mingtang felt that it was too far-fetched, everything was just Qiu Shaoyang's imagination.

Qiu Shaoyang just smiled, "If Zhao Wan is really the murderer, there must be something wrong with his alibi, and careful investigation will definitely find it out."

Mingtang started the car, "Then what role did Zhang Yilian play in this murder? Could it be that the husband and wife planned this murder?"

Qiu Shaoyang shook his head, "We can only rely on investigation."

Qiu Shaoyang and Mingtang went to visit a local police officer who participated in the investigation of the case. If it is said that in this case, apart from Zhao Tongfeng and the others who knew the real situation best, then only the local police officers who participated in the investigation of the case remained.

The old policeman is Zheng Wen. He is 63 years old and has just retired a few years ago.

When Qiu Shaoyang and the others went, Zheng Wen was playing with flowers and plants on the balcony, and it was Zheng Wen's wife Su Xia who opened the door for them.

Su Xia is a retired doctor. She used to be a doctor in a clinic in the town, and now she is also retired at home.

Su Xia was very kind. After welcoming the two of them through the door, he prepared fruits for them, "Old Zheng is very happy to hear that you are coming."

Zheng Wen was sitting on the sofa opposite them, and he looked quite energetic, "I used to listen to people explain how the son of the Ju family is, but seeing him today, he really lives up to his reputation."

Mingtang smiled modestly.

Qiu Shaoyang has not been in the country these years, nor has he been a policeman, so what he knows about Mingtang is limited to what Tang Yan said, and what he saw on Mingtang recently.

Whether it is the leader of the Zeyang City Bureau or the retired old policeman in front of him, they seem to be polite to Ming Tang.

Zheng Wen's gaze shifted from Mingtang to Qiu Shaoyang, looked Qiu Shaoyang up and down, and smiled slightly at him.

In the few months since Qiu Shaoyang returned to China, many local news have reported on him, including the case of Qiu Ziyu being poisoned. Qiu Shaoyang can be said to be on the cusp of the storm. Zheng Wen reads newspapers every day, so naturally he has a strong impression of this young man.

Qiu Shaoyang's career as a policeman was very short, but his relationship with the policeman was not short at all. He had a famous uncle, and he himself was a well-known figure in the police circle. There are many big cases.

In the entire public security system, even if the older policemen had never met Qiu Shaoyang, they would more or less know that such a person existed.

Some people are fed by God, and they are born to eat this bowl of rice.

Some people have been policemen for a lifetime, and perhaps they don't have the achievements of Qiu Shaoyang in the short few years.

Although Mingtang has not been in the police force of Shicheng in the past few years, Shicheng and Chuncheng are two adjacent cities, and he is the son of Ming Bureau. The police in Shicheng still know something about what he has done in Chuncheng in the past few years. of.

Maybe the case back then could really be solved.

Zheng Wen couldn't help being a little emotional.

He has been in the police force for 40 years. They were very poor at that time. It is a good thing to have books to study. The police academy is free. The profession of a policeman is an iron rice bowl. His original intention of becoming a policeman was just to support himself.

After graduating, he joined the police station in the town. At that time, he didn't have a car, and he had to walk on two legs to handle cases. Later, the situation improved and he started to have a car. In the 90s, when I went out to handle cases, I always rode bicycles.

The case of hanging corpses in a slaughterhouse is the biggest case he has handled in his 40 years of police career, and it is also the worst case, but it is also his biggest regret in his police career.

He still can't forget that morning, just as he went to work at the police station, someone rushed into the police station to report that someone had died in the town's slaughterhouse.

At that time, he didn't know what he was about to face.

When he arrived, a large crowd of people had already gathered at the scene, and the crime scene had already been destroyed.

He managed to squeeze into the crowd, and what he saw made him spit out all the food he had eaten overnight.

In the workshop of the slaughterhouse, meat is hung on the hooks in front of each workstation.

There are hands, feet, and legs.

This is the first time he has intuitively realized what kind of situation it is to dismember a corpse. In the past, it was only heard from other people's mouths.

Looking back on it to this day, it's still creepy.

The traffic back then was very inconvenient. There was a road in their town leading to the city, but at that time the roads were all dug by hand. I don’t want to think that all the roads are now cement roads. At that time, the roads were dirt roads. Driving from the city to their town It will take more than three hours.

Including him, there were only ten policemen from the police station. They are used to handling such cases and they have no way at all. In addition, the people in the town like to join in the fun, which caused serious damage to the crime scene and contaminated evidence. Many evidences were lost. method, and the criminal investigation technology of the year was very limited, so the case was finally suspended somewhere, and it became an old case that could not be solved.

Not to mention them, most of the policemen back then were the same as them. Even Zhao Tongfeng, the leader of the special case team in charge of the case, handled the case based on his past experience.Unlike the current police, the overall professional level has improved, and the technical level is also very advanced.If the case of that year happened now, it would not become an unsolved unsolved case.

Zheng Wen asked the two, "What do you want to know about me when you came here this time?"

Mingtang said: "A case happened recently, which is somewhat related to the case 30 years ago, so we want to come to you to understand our own situation back then."

Zheng Wen expressed his understanding, "You can ask whatever you want, I was the first person to arrive at the scene that year."

It was precisely because of this that Mingtang and Qiu Shaoyang chose to visit him.

When Zhao Tongfeng and the others arrived, the crime scene was almost destroyed, and the so-called evidence was actually of little reference value.

Mingtang asked: "When you came to the scene, were there many people watching?"

Zheng Wendao: "At least there are hundreds of people. Although it was a town back then, it is a rural area after all. Most of the people have no higher education and don't understand what sabotage is. They think they are just joining in the fun. Especially Almost all the police officers who participated in the investigation of the case were drawn from the city. The people in the town were very xenophobic. Therefore, when the police visited and investigated, they were quite uncooperative. Some even had personal grievances. Indiscriminately accusing others of crimes, let alone how chaotic the situation is."

Thinking of all that happened at that time, Zheng Wen felt tired.

It is said that troublesome people come out of green mountains and bad waters, which is not false at all.

有挨揍热闹的,有爱造谣生事的,也有事不关己高高挂起的,甚至还有串通做伪证的。

There was no monitoring back then, and it was all based on word of mouth and mutual testimony. The credibility of the testimony was actually not very high.But in such a big environment, you can't help but believe it, not to mention that there are so many people involved in the case, many policemen were pissed off by the townspeople in the early stage of the investigation, and it was inconvenient to come and go. Almost all the policemen lived in the town. Some children in the village were too naughty, or they were instigated by adults, and they often found trouble for these policemen.

Everyone was holding their breath to investigate the case, plus they couldn't go home for a few months, so the subsequent investigation can be said to be very perfunctory.

It took almost three months, and there was really no evidence to be found. Even if everyone knew something, they were unwilling to say it, so they had no choice but to withdraw from the town.

After the transferees were withdrawn, the gossip about Zhang Yi'an's family continued, but most of them were fabricated.

After the slaughterhouse closed down, most of the young people in the town went to work or went to other provinces, and the case of Zhang Yi'an's family was buried as time went by.

Because Zhang's house was the scene of a murder, no one wanted to live in it. Later, a year later, a landslide directly buried it.

Around 00, the town started construction. The old houses and slaughterhouses were pushed down together, and new houses were built. People from ten miles and eight villages began to move into their town. Slowly, the town developed and its scale gradually expanded. , People everywhere have it, and no one brought up the old case 30 years ago.

Even if someone mentions it, it's just a conversation after dinner, and it's over after the talk is over.

Those who haven't seen the scene back then can't feel the atmosphere, so they just listen to it as a story and forget it after listening to it.

Thirty years ago, he was just an ordinary policeman in the township police station. He didn't know exactly how the file was written back then, and he didn't read it.

They were also recorded as major demerits because they were not good at protecting the scene.

If you want to be promoted, you can only have a major meritorious service.After the reform and opening up, coastal cities developed. Some of the police officers in those days reached the age of retirement, and some left the police industry to find another way out because they had no hope of life.He was the only one who really persisted.

When the two heard what Zheng Wen said, they actually already had a rough guess in their hearts. The dossier they saw was investigated under such a situation of demons dancing around, so the credibility is really not high.

For the police who participated in the investigation of the case back then, this case could not be solved, and their careers were not over yet. With the management system not as strict as it is now, it is impossible for them to let this matter become a failure in their careers.

As soon as two, three, five, this case became the version they saw in the end.

This case really needs to be investigated. It can be said that the masses destroyed the scene too thoroughly, or it can be said that the technical level is not enough. In short, various reasons can be found to prevaricate this case.

If the murderer hadn't appeared for the second time 15 years ago, the case might have really sunk.

If this case had not been launched 15 years ago, then the July 30 case 7.13 years later would not have been highly valued, and this case would have really sunk to the bottom.

It can only be a stroke in the history of unsolved cases, submerged in the long river of time.

"Then based on your experience in participating in the investigation of the case, who were actually suspected in those years?" Ming Tang asked.

Zheng Wenchao and the two said: "Wait for me, I'll get you something."

The two were sitting in the living room. Zheng Wen walked into the bedroom and came out after a while, holding a notebook in his hand, the corners of which were severely worn.

Zheng Wen handed the notebook to Mingtang, "Here are some records from when I was handling the case. The policemen at that time were not considered policemen in any serious sense, they could only be called public security management. We had never learned anything at all. Criminal investigation and the like. When there is a really big case, we have to report it to the higher authorities. We just deal with the trivial matters of the ten miles and eight villages. So when we first saw a big case, we thought about following the city. The leaders from inside should learn more, and they won’t be so passive when similar things happen in the future. So I took a lot of notes, and I don’t know if it will be helpful to you.”

Mingtang opened the notebook, the words in it seemed to be old, the paper was starting to turn yellow, maybe a few years later, they won't be able to see this note.

Mingtang said happily: "Old Zheng, this is a very precious thing."

A kind smile appeared on Zheng Wen's face, "Take it, you can keep it with me, it can only be the bottom of the box."

Mingtang handed the notebook to Qiu Shaoyang, "Thank you Mr. Zheng, Mr. Zheng, with your notebook, our odds of winning are one point higher."

"Okay, if you can solve the case, I will have no regrets in my life."

Mingtang said: "Old Zheng, don't worry, the two of us will definitely do our best."

Looking at this precious note, Qiu Shaoyang felt a little sad, "Old Zheng, although you haven't studied systematic criminal investigation, you are a good policeman, and you deserve our respect."

Elder Zheng waved his hand, "What I heard, saw, and guessed back then are basically all in this notebook, as well as gossip I heard later, and some things I have confirmed are all recorded in it."

Mingtang said: "Old Zheng, you have lived in Zeyang for so many years, who do you think is most likely to have done the case back then?"

Zheng Wen hesitated.

"But it doesn't matter." Qiu Shaoyang said firmly: "Since we are here, we will confirm all the questions in this notebook for you, including your guesses. After all, you have lived here for many years. It is someone who directly contacted the suspect back then. Your words are far more powerful to the two of us than Zhao Tongfeng, who was in charge back then."

Zheng Wen never thought that one day he would be touched by the two young men, tears welled up in his eyes, he raised his hand to wipe them away, and said, "Zhang Yi'an's sister-in-law, Zhao Wan, is very suspicious. Someone said It seems that I saw her that night, I asked the person, and the person said that he was not sure because he drank too much that night."

Zheng Wen said: "After the incident with Zhang Yi'an's family, Zhao Wan seldom appeared in the town. At first she still appeared, but then she didn't appear for several years. I heard people gossip that she had someone in the city. She never showed up at Zhang Yilian's funeral. If you go in the opposite direction, you might be able to receive the goods."

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