FBH Chapter 14

Wu Zhi was also very surprised. He stretched his head to look into the room, and a chaotic scene strongly impacted his visual senses—although he was accustomed to all kinds of murder scenes, the bloody scene in front of him was so tragic that he couldn’t help but be shocked.

Wu Shuqi and Wu Zhi put on shoe covers and carefully entered the room to check the situation. They found that the victim had no vital signs and appeared to have been dead for a long time. It could be seen that the victim had multiple knife wounds, with the fatal wounds on her chest and neck. There were a large number of spattered bloodstains on the ground, which were shocking.

Wu Shuqi and Wu Zhi believed that this was a major criminal case, so the two immediately divided their work: one reported the police situation to the Municipal Bureau, and the other reported the situation to the Branch Bureau Command Center.

After reporting the police situation, the two continued to investigate the scene.

This is a two-bedroom apartment. They searched all around the living room for half a day and did not see any suspected tools for the crime.

Wu Shuqi walked to the bedroom door, pushed open the half-closed coffee-colored wooden door, and immediately smelled the lavender scent mixed with the bloody smell. She turned on the light and looked inside, seeing a single bed with the quilt folded neatly, and a dressing table next to the bedside table, decorated with plastic green leaves around the dressing table. She searched carefully for a long time, but did not see any suspected tools for the crime.

Another bedroom contained a solid wood double bed, with a few old newspapers spread under the bed frame. Apart from that, the entire room contained no other items. Wu Zhi carefully checked this room and did not see any suspected tools for the crime either.

They also went to the kitchen and bathroom to search, but found no suspected murder weapon.

They guessed that the tools for the crime had probably been taken away by the murderer.

Wu Shuqi felt that it didn’t make much sense to make a judgment now: “This requires further investigation to reach a conclusion.”

Wu Shuqi and Wu Zhi walked out of the room and happened to see the owner of the opposite house closing the door and going out. The old lady did not know that a murder had occurred here, and looked surprised when she saw the blue shoe covers on Wu Shuqi and Wu Zhi’s feet.

“What did you say?” the old woman asked, tilting her ear.

Wu Shuqi thought to herself that she forgot that she was hard of hearing, and repeated what she had just said loudly.

“About nine o’clock.”

“Did she have any knives?”

“I didn’t see her with a knife, I only saw her carrying a white backpack.”

“Thank you.”

Wu Shuqi retrieved the surveillance video of the area where the incident occurred, and after being identified by the old woman, she locked onto the criminal suspect. The suspect was seen entering the area from the outside on the surveillance video at 8:51 last night. The surveillance video showed that the suspect left at 1:07 in the morning.

The suspect was in a hurry, with a black cloth strip wrapped around his wrist—he did not have a cloth strip wrapped around his wrist when he entered the community, nor was there any sign of injury. If the suspect used the cloth strip to wrap the wound, then he was likely injured during the murder.

Wu Shuqi then asked Cheng Ling to identify the suspect’s identity information, and she immediately recognized that the suspect was Cao Huailiang.

Cao Huailiang is a major suspect.

Cheng Ling was very sad about Chen Qian’s tragic death. She said that the manager was a good person. Ten days ago, her mother in her hometown was ill and needed a major surgery. She didn’t have money to treat her mother. The manager knew about her difficulties and lent her two thousand yuan without saying a word; she also said that if Cao Huailiang killed the manager, Cao Huailiang had serious psychological problems, belonging to the kind of person who was very suspicious and extremely selfish. He couldn’t stand the manager being on good terms with other men, and once he found out, he would severely warn her, and even insult her with vulgar language.

“What wrong thing did she do?” Wu Shuqi wanted to know the exact answer, so that she could provide assistance for the next investigation.

Cheng Ling wiped her moist eyes with her arm: “I don’t know; my colleagues and I are all very curious, we asked her what it was, she just smiled bitterly, but didn’t tell us the inside story. She seemed to say that unintentionally.”

Then, Cheng Ling said with great regret: “After the two boys who shared the rent with the manager moved away half a month ago, my colleagues and I all advised the manager to move in with us, but she said that her mother was going to bring her son over next month… if she had moved in with us, maybe she wouldn’t have been killed.”

Due to the needs of the investigation, Wu Shuqi asked Cheng Ling to talk in detail about the contradictions between Chen Qian and Cao Huailiang. Cheng Ling said that she had only been working in the beauty salon for two months and did not know much or in detail about their contradictions, and asked Wu Shuqi to ask the old employees in the store or her boss, Miss Qin. She said that Miss Qin and Chen Qian were friends for many years, and Chen Qian should have told Miss Qin her private matters.

Wu Shuqi came to the beauty salon, and Miss Qin happened to be there. She learned from Miss Qin these important situations: Chen Qian, from Bijie, Guizhou, 28 years old, divorced, with a four-year-old son. The court awarded her custody of the son when she divorced, and the child was usually taken care of by her mother in her hometown;

She and the suspect Cao Huailiang were fellow villagers. Her daughter had an illness a year ago that required surgery, and she accepted Cao Huailiang’s initiative to send her 20,000 yuan in assistance;

Wu Shuqi asked Miss Qin when Chen Qian returned the money to Cao Huailiang. Miss Qin thought for a while and said it was a month ago.

Wu Shuqi was very excited, as if she saw the dawn of solving the “7.18” poisoning case. She organically connected the following things: Cao Huailiang illegally stored sodium cyanide, Cao Huailiang said he wanted to retaliate against Li Yuehua, Chen Qian had access to Li Yuehua’s house key, Ning Yaohong and her son and others died of cyanide poisoning, Chen Qian said she did something she regretted very much, and Chen Qian was inexplicably killed in the rented house, and analyzed:

Wu Shuqi believed that Cao Huailiang should belong to a paranoid personality type. This is a very dangerous personality type, characterized by suspicion and paranoia. People with this personality disorder are prone to falling into their own subjective emotions, often act impulsively, and do not consider the consequences.

She said angrily in her heart: “The wicked do evil, and the law cannot tolerate it. I, Wu Shuqi, swear that I will definitely bring the criminal suspect to justice!”

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