Chapter 51

The weather has been dry recently, and it hasn't rained. The soil is dry and hard, and it's hard to leave footprints. But the soil near the tree roots is softer. The man probably didn't notice when he was watching, and stepped on it.

The forest became quiet. When Yan Yong was there, he didn't notice the noise. Now that he ran away, the breathing of another person could be clearly heard.

Chen Pu squatted and turned his head.

Li Qingyao stood behind him, wearing the same gloves and foot covers, with his arms folded across his chest, staring down at the footprint.

The breeze blew gently through the forest, and the two of them stood and squatted like this, motionless. He looked at her, but her eyes were like a vernier caliper, and she definitely didn't touch him at all.

Chen Pu patted his hands that were covered in mud, lowered his head and smiled, then stood up, stepped aside, and said, "Come here and see it more clearly."

Li Qingyao didn't laugh at all. He took a step forward as he was told, squatted down, and used his hands and feet like him to get closer to look at the footprints. He said, "The length is indeed similar to the bloody footprints."

Chen Pu said "hmm" behind her.

She stood up and stepped aside. There was a distance of one meter between the two of them, and they just stood there, waiting for Yan Yong to bring people.

Chen Pu spoke first: "What I said just now is that we should put ourselves in the other person's shoes, reconstruct the course of the crime in our minds, and sort out all the details and logic. Did you hear me?"

She also said "hmm".

"Then... tell me about it?" He immediately added, "Newcomers need to practice and think a lot. A good detective will automatically have an image in his mind when he arrives at the scene."

Li Qingyao lowered his eyes, carefully removing the leaves and dirt from his gloves, and answered, "Before committing the crime, the murderer must have visited the place several times to understand the villa owner's living habits, identity and financial resources, and master the location of the surveillance and network cables. So we not only need to check the surveillance on the day of the crime, but also check the surveillance for ten days before;
The crime must have occurred late at night, when the deceased and everyone around him were fast asleep.

The murderer first destroyed the peripheral network cable to disable the surveillance, and then destroyed the window on the first floor. If he entered from the outside, his soles would have left traces of dirt and gravel on the ground, but we didn't find any - so he took off his shoes or wore shoe covers.

He first went to the kitchen to look for the murder weapon, then went straight to the master bedroom and restrained the deceased with a cuff, which must have been done very gently so as not to wake the deceased, which was relatively easy to do. Then he woke the deceased, put a dagger to the deceased's neck, beat the deceased, and forced the deceased to tell him the password to the safe. It is very likely that at this time, he had stabbed the deceased once or twice, leaving him unable to call for help.

After getting the password, he opened the safe, took out the valuables, and then killed the victim. He stabbed the victim six times, with different depths and angles, indicating that he was not very skilled in killing.

Judging from the amount of blood and wounds at the scene, the murderer must have had a lot of blood on his body. But except for the bedside of the master bedroom, we did not find any dripping blood anywhere else. So, after killing the person, the murderer carefully changed his clothes and then fled downstairs with his belongings. He must have also carried a bag.

He took off his bloody shoe covers near the window sill, so there were two small pools of blood near the wall. There were no bloody palm prints or fingerprints left in the whole house, so the murderer must have worn gloves.

Therefore, this was a murderer who was meticulous, careful, had strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, and was ruthless. From the very beginning, he had no intention of leaving the deceased alive.”

Chen Pu raised his eyebrows and looked at her. The case seemed relatively simple at the moment, but for a newcomer, it was rare to be able to take all aspects into consideration and to sort out the case so smoothly in such a short time. However, it was not surprising that this happened to Li Congming.

Chen Pu coughed lightly, and just as he was about to compliment her reluctantly, she turned around and said calmly, "Captain Chen, if there's nothing else, I'll go take care of something else first."

At this time, Yan Yong also came over with the camera crew. Chen Pu glanced at Li Qingyao's back and turned to talk to them.

——Not long after, the victim’s family arrived.

According to the cleaning lady, she used to come to clean the house once a week, or when Luo Hongmin came to the villa and needed her to do hourly work, she would come. Sometimes Mrs. Luo would directly bring a live-in nanny from the city to cook and clean.

This morning, the cleaning lady arrived at the villa and spent half a day cleaning the yard. As soon as she entered the house, she smelled a foul odor coming from upstairs. She went upstairs and was scared to death. The cleaning lady was very legal-minded. She first called the police, then called Mrs. Luo, but Mrs. Luo didn't answer the phone. She called their daughter, and then notified the family.

At this moment, Chen Pu had returned to the master bedroom on the second floor to investigate. Hearing that the victim's family was in the living room, he took off his gloves, thought for a moment and said, "The family members are all women. Li Qingyao, come with me."

Li Qingyao answered yes, took off his gloves, and followed him downstairs.

In addition to a policeman accompanying them, there were three other people standing in the living room, two women and one man. The two women were crying, and the man stood silently by, neither comforting nor approaching.

Hearing someone coming down the stairs, the three of them looked up.

Li Qingyao was stunned when he saw Xiang Siling, whose eyes were red and looked pitiful.

When he saw the beautiful middle-aged woman next to her who was also wearing jewels, although she looked very different from before, Li Qingyao recognized her at a glance. She was Xiang Siling's mother, Li Meiling, who accused Luo Huaizheng of murder.

Luo Huaizheng, wearing a silver-grey shirt and black trousers, was very thin and straight, and was also standing downstairs. He put one hand in his trouser pocket, raised his head, and saw Li Qingyao at a glance, his eyes moved slightly, deep and unfathomable.

The police officer said: "These two are the victim's wife Li Meiling and daughter Xiang Siling. This gentleman is Luo Huaizheng, a friend of Xiang Siling, who came with her."

If Chen Pu hadn't remembered where he had seen Luo Hongmin before, he would have remembered it all at once when Luo Huaizheng and Xiang Siling, two equally outstanding faces, came into his sight.

The photos of Luo Huaizheng and Xiang Siling are all in the big box where he keeps his documents.

Luo Hongmin is also there.

It’s just that at that time, Luo Hongmin had very distant and unimportant relationship with the Luo Huaizheng case. He was just an indirect figure in the background and was collected by him, so he didn’t have a deep impression of him and didn’t match him up with the person at the first time.

The house that the Xiang family rented was owned by Luo Hongmin. He owned more than 50 properties at the time, most of which were rented out. The Xiang family was just one of the most ordinary households.

Now seven years have passed, and it turns out that this rich man married the widowed Li Meiling and became Xiang Siling's stepfather.

Chen Pu glanced at Li Qingyao and saw that she was standing still at the stairs. He whispered, "Follow me." Then he showed a heavy expression on his face and walked over to them and said, "I am Chen Pu, the criminal police officer in charge of the investigation of this case. Please accept my condolences."

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