dead dog

Chapter 58 Darkroom

A car accident occurred at the Erdaokou of Shilin Road. A Dongfeng vehicle hit a red light and collided head-on with a taxi. Dongfeng was fully responsible.

The taxi driver was slightly injured, Dongfeng owner Deng Weiqiang was cut on his arm by the broken windshield, and Wang Shiwen in the back seat hit his forehead, bleeding from the corner of his forehead, and fell into a coma.

The scene of the accident was chaotic.

A police car arrived at the scene before the patrolling police officers. Haiyang jumped out of the car before the car came to a complete stop, pulled open the deformed car door, put his knee on Deng Weiqiang's back, and pressed him on the car seat , Cursed: "Good guy, you are looking for death! Xiao Tao, look at the child!"

Xiao Tao carried Wang Shiwen out of the car and said, "Captain Hai, the child has passed out."

Haiyang: "Send it to the hospital!"

Xiao Tao: "Then can you do it yourself?"

Haiyang: "Hurry up and send the child to the hospital!"

With his face pressed against the car seat, Deng Weiqiang was still roaring: "Shiwen, Shiwen!"

Haiyang pinched his neck and pressed down hard: "If you don't drive fast, the child can get hurt!"

Xiaotao took Wang Shiwen to the hospital in a police car. The police from the nearby police station rushed to the scene of the accident, helped Haiyang to handcuff Deng Weiqiang, and sent a police car to send Haiyang back to the squadron.

Haiyang and Deng Weiqiang were sitting in the back seat. Haiyang wanted to interrogate Deng Weiqiang, so he slapped Deng Weiqiang sideways, but Deng Weiqiang pretended to be dead as soon as he got in the car, panting with his head down, like a big ox with its tongue cut off.

Until the police car drove into the police compound, Deng Weiqiang was dragged out of the car by Haiyang, looking at the dusty office building with a police badge in front of him, he suddenly seemed to be hit on the head with a stick, The back that had been stiff all the way just now collapsed in an instant, and said, "I want to hire a lawyer."

Haiyang sneered: "So you can talk."

"Lawyers don't speak until they arrive" is just a beautiful vision. The fact is that very few suspects can confront the police in the interrogation room for more than two hours.Deng Weiqiang looked tall and powerful, but he was actually a wimp, and confessed Zhang Min in less than half an hour.

"Zhang Min asked me to do it."

Haiyang asked: "Be clear, what do you want to do?"

Deng Weiqiang said: "Zhang Min asked me to pry into that old man's safe."

Haiyang scolded: "Bullshit, the safe is fine, our people pried it open. You pry it a ghost."

Deng Weiqiang lowered his head, rubbed the black mud in his palm back and forth, and said, "What you pried is fake."

Haiyang: "What the hell?"

Deng Weiqiang said: "Zhang Min bought a new safe and replaced the old man's safe."

Haiyang: "...Let me go, you mean you got a safe and used it to replace Duan Boshan's safe?"

Deng Weiqiang said: "Zhang Min didn't know the password, so he could only pry open the safe, but there would be some movement in the old man's house, and the old man touched the safe every day. If the safe was gone or broken, the old man would know. So Zhang Min stole the safe. gone."

Haiyang: "How did you steal it? Tell me about your crime process in detail."

Deng Weiqiang: "Last month—"

Haiyang: "What last month and next month! Haven't you been in a game yet? Tell me the exact date!"

Deng Weiqiang's dark face changed color, the black was sallow, and he murmured: "On the morning of August No. 13, Zhang Min asked me to go to the old man's house to change the gas pipe. That day the old man was not at home, so I took the safe Got it out."

Haiyang: "A safe that weighs tens of kilograms, you can get it out as soon as you say? Don't have a few accomplices to help you?"

Deng Weiqiang said submissively: "I practiced snatch before, and the highest record was 94 kilograms. Last year, I won the car rally competition. I carried a safe of about [-] kilograms and left. At that time, I went to the old man's house to change the gas pipe and carried it on my back. With a big tool box, I emptied the tools and put the safe in it, and no one knew what I was carrying."

Hai Yang was dumbfounded when he heard that, and glanced at his thick trunk several times, but he didn't expect that the person sitting in front of him was actually a strong man.

The clerk next to Haiyang said, "Hey, this is an Olympic athlete."

Hai Yang glared at him to tell him to shut up, and said, "Go on, where did you get the safe?"

Deng Weiqiang: "I was dragged to the electric welding factory and asked my buddies to saw open the box, but there was nothing at all, just a silver ring and a stack of money, which added up to less than 5000. We just bought a safe and spent a lot of money. We paid more than 1000, except for manual labor and risks, as well as my buddy who helped saw the box, we didn’t make any money at all on this trip.”

Haiyang was so angry that he wanted to laugh: "Then you make a list of the cost, and we will reimburse you."

Deng Weiqiang: "Don't dare."

Haiyang asked Deng Weiqiang for the identity of the buddy who helped saw the box, and asked his subordinates to contact this person, and said: "Go on, what are you doing?"

Deng Weiqiang: "Then there was nothing to do. We moved the new box to the old man's bedroom. The old man was blind and couldn't open the safe. He didn't know the safe was changed until he died."

Speaking of this, Deng Weiqiang's face was apprehensive, as if he had said something wrong.

Haiyang sneered: "As you said, he did not know the box was changed until he died. You and Zhang Min just stole Duan Boshan's safe? Duan Boshan's death has nothing to do with you?"

Deng Weiqiang hurriedly said: "No, let's take him 5000 yuan, and for this 5000 yuan, we won't kill anyone!"

Haiyang called one of his subordinates in to interrogate Deng Weiqiang. He went to the upstairs interrogation room alone. In the upstairs interrogation room were Zhang Min and two policemen. With smooth and tender skin and fine wrinkles around her eyes, she can still maintain her charm, and her appearance without makeup is more beautiful than that of makeup.

She held her breath, straightened her back, tensed her nerves, with a stubborn look that would never compromise with anyone.

Haiyang read through the notes made by the clerk, and found that her account was roughly the same as that of Deng Weiqiang. She only mentioned the theft of Duan Boshan's safe, but did not mention Duan Boshan's death.

Haiyang drove the clerk away, sat on the clerk's seat, and said, "Zhang Min, you don't want to talk about Duan Boshan?"

Zhang Min said with a cold face: "He is dead, it has nothing to do with me."

Haiyang smiled and said: "But you are the most suspicious. You are his nanny and know his living habits very well. It is easy for you to poison him. Moreover, the time when you left Duan Boshan to ask for leave and return to your hometown is too strange. Just after he left, his hind feet were poisoned, so it’s hard not to make people suspect that you poisoned the milk he drank in advance, and deliberately created an alibi for yourself.”

Zhang Min sneered: "You police can't catch the murderer, it seems that everyone is suspicious."

Haiyang: "You mean I wronged you?"

Zhang Min: "I have acted properly, and I have done nothing unconscionable."

Haiyang smiled: "Did you do the right thing? Are you the one who stole Duan Boshan's safe?"

Zhang Min turned pale: "There is not much money in Insurance Alley, I will return it to Duan's family when I go out."

Haiyang: "Let's not talk about repaying the money, let's talk about Duan Boshan. You can steal the safe under Duan Boshan's nose. You are really brave. On this basis, I suspect that you have the motive to kill Duan Boshan."

Zhang Min sneered: "Comrade policeman, what is my motive? Is it because I am worried that he will find out that I stole 5000 yuan from him?"

Haiyang smiled and said: "As far as I know, it seems to be more than 5000 yuan. Duan Xiaoyun, Duan Boshan's nephew, paid you 3 yuan a month. And you paid in advance the salary for the next six months before Duan Boshan died. You borrowed [-] from Duan Boshan privately, and you owe Duan Boshan more than [-] in total."

Zhang Min said angrily, "For those tens of thousands of dollars, am I going to kill someone?"

Haiyang calmly said: "I did a serial murder case last year. The murderer was a nanny, and the victim was an old man who was about the same age as Duan Boshan. The nanny killed her employer just to get a month's salary. She committed five crimes in total. Killed five old people and got a total of more than 5000 yuan in stolen money. So do you understand what I mean? In my eyes, it is entirely possible for you to kill people for more than 3 yuan. There is no limit to the evil people."

Zhang Min's face was pale, trembling all over: "But I didn't, I didn't kill anyone!"

Haiyang said: "If you kill Duan Boshan, you don't have to pay back the money, and you can leave early before the labor contract with Duan Boshan is terminated. Both things are good things for you."

Zhang Min was hysterical: "I didn't! I wouldn't kill someone for a mere tens of thousands of dollars! I don't have any motive at all!"

Haiyang let out a cadence, and said with a smile: "You keep emphasizing that you have no motive to kill, but you don't refute that you want to kill Duan Boshan. It makes me suspect that you have the intention to kill, but we haven't discovered your motive for killing. "

Zhang Min pointed at him angrily: "Nonsense! You police wronged people!"

Haiyang stared at her for a few seconds, and said, "Okay, since you don't want to tell me, then I'll look for it myself."

He stood up and dusted off his collar, and said lightly, "I want to inform you that your daughter was injured and is now lying in the hospital with no one to take care of her."

Zhang Min: "Shiwen! What happened to Shiwen? What did you do to Shiwen?!"

Zhang Min was still hysterical, Haiyang meandered out of the interrogation room, and said to his subordinates waiting in the corridor, "Send someone to the hospital to take care of Wang Shiwen, and continue to interrogate Zhang Min. She still has something hidden in her heart."

The subordinate responded and said, "Captain Hai, I checked with Zhang Jian just now, and what he said is consistent with Deng Weiqiang. There are only more than 4000 yuan in cash and a silver ring in the safe."

Haiyang: "Zhang Jian is the friend who helped Deng Weiqiang saw open the safe?"

Subordinate: "Yes. Our people also opened the safe in Duan Boshan's bedroom. It is empty and there is nothing in it."

Haiyang thought for a while, and said: "Find someone to bring back Duan Boshan's original safe, and I'll go to the hospital to see Wang Shiwen."

Wang Shiwen had a slight concussion and needed to be hospitalized for observation. Xiao Tao went through the hospitalization procedures for her after running.Wang Shiwen just woke up when Haiyang arrived at the hospital. He had a brief conversation with Wang Shiwen and explained the car accident she had encountered with a lie.

But Wang Shiwen was more concerned about her lost puppy, and said to Haiyang: "Uncle policeman, I took a photo of Lele with Grandpa Duan's camera, and the photo is at Grandpa Duan's house. Go get the photo and help me find Lele." Are you happy?"

Haiyang couldn't refuse the request of the cute and shy little girl in front of him, so he had to agree: "Okay, I'll go to Duan Boshan's house tomorrow to look for photos."

Wang Shiwen smiled with a pale face: "Thank you, Uncle Policeman."

Haiyang smiled at her first, and then thought of a question: "Did you use Duan Boshan's camera to take pictures of the puppy? Is the photo still in the camera? We haven't found any of Duan Boshan's cameras yet."

Wang Shiwen said: "No, Grandpa Duan developed the photos for me."

Haiyang had a different intuition: "Duan Boshan can edit photos?"

Wang Shiwen said: "Grandpa Duan told me that he used to wash the photos he took by himself. Since he lost his eyesight, he took them outside to have them washed."

Haiyang understood, tucked the quilt for her, and said: "I see, you can close your eyes and rest for a while."

The next day, Haiyang obeyed the agreement and went to Duan Boshan’s house to look for photos, but after entering Duan Boshan’s house, he was the first to look at the broken safe in Duan Boshan’s bedroom. There was only the smell of paint that is characteristic of a new safe.

He began to look for the pictures of the puppies that Wang Shiwen was talking about, but he searched all the drawers and found nothing. He remembered that Wang Shiwen said that Duan Boshan would develop photos by himself before he lost his eyesight, but Duan Boshan’s house did not have a darkroom suitable for developing photos. So where did Duan Boshan develop his photos before?Duan Boshan only has this property, and he has lived in this property for half his life. If he really knows how to develop photos by himself, he will not be too far away from home.

A policeman's occupational disease prompted him to solve it even if he had the slightest doubt, so he called Xiao Tao and asked Xiao Tao to investigate Duan Boshan's house carefully.Soon Xiaotao got something, and told him: "Team Hai, Duan Boshan's house has a basement attached, which is just under the first floor of the apartment building where he lives."

Haiyang went downstairs while listening to the phone. When he reached the first floor, he continued to walk down the stairs. He turned a narrow corner and saw several small doors. This is the basement where the head of the household puts sundries.There are house numbers posted on each of the three basements, and the house number of the one on the far right is the same as that of Duan Boshan's house.

"Okay, I found it."

Haiyang picked up his mobile phone, studied the door lock, and found that the padlock hung on the door was a very old-fashioned padlock, and the padlock had been there for several years. The fist-sized lock head was heavy and worn out, and several pieces of paint had been knocked off.He tugged twice with his hand, but couldn't pull it open, so he looked for a weapon on the ground, and happened to see an old wooden chair in the corner. He broke off a chair leg, and stretched the chair leg into the lock as a The crowbar went to pry the lock, and the padlock was pried open immediately, and fell to the ground with a snap.

Haiyang threw the chair leg, pushed open the silver-gray door in front of him, and saw that his eyes were full of darkness—the basement had no windows, and the air was as black as dripping ink. He used his mobile phone to light the light, and groped around the wall near the door for a while , touched the switch, and the incandescent light snapped on.

Haiyang blocked the glare of the white light with his hands, and walked in after his eyes got used to the strong light in the darkroom; this is indeed a darkroom for developing photos, and there should be an end to the equipment for developing photos, with a camera on the table , the walls are covered with photos.

He stood still by the wall and looked at the wall casually, but his face suddenly turned cold...