Chapter 23 Section 1

Li Dazui was detained this morning. He and his wife were sleeping soundly in a hotel in Luoyang when a few armed special policemen rushed in through the door, pinned him under the covers, twisted his arms and handcuffed him, causing him to cry out in pain.Then, even his wife and nephew who lived in the next room were taken on the plane together.When we arrived at the provincial capital, several police cars drove into the airport, threw the man into the car, and sent him to Hulingzi Township. Deputy Director Wang gave two instructions on the phone: one is to call Chu Tianying back immediately to preside over the interrogation; the other is to prevent the three of Li Dazui from having time to think about countermeasures or colluding confessions along the way, even on the plane. Whether it is by car, they are separated, and several pre-examiners conduct repeated surprise trials like a wheel battle.

Therefore, when Chu Tianying walked into the interrogation room of the township police station, she saw Li Dazui sitting on a wooden chair without a backrest, with his head drooping, his fat lips drooping, and he looked exhausted. The deputy examiner and the clerk were already seated behind a table, Chu Tianying walked between them, and lifted the lamp on the table, the dazzling light hit Li Dazui's face, Shocked, he raised his head, blocked the light with his hands, and twisted the corners of his mouth painfully. Seeing that his body was no longer stooped, Chu Tianying put away the desk lamp, sat down, flipped through the pre-examination materials that he had already known by heart, and suddenly asked: "Name?"

"Li...Li Cunfu." "Native place?" "Report...the government, I have explained it several times..." "Let you just say it! Where is there so much nonsense?!" Li Dazui had no choice but to honestly answer questions about his hometown, address, occupation, family members and so on.The deputy interrogator said: "Li Cunfu, you are very dishonest. We have done a lot of ideological work for you all the way from Luoyang to here, and we have repeatedly explained the policy to you, but you still do not honestly confess your crimes. I think you won't cry until you see the coffin!"

"The government... I was wronged, I really didn't do anything!" Li Dazui knew that among the three criminal policemen on the opposite side, Chu Tianying was the biggest official, so he pleaded to him, "I have been here since I was a child. Big, I didn’t steal, I didn’t rob, I didn’t set fire, I didn’t kill anyone, at most, when I was doing business, I pulled the abacus beads to myself a few more times, if it’s not worth it, just grab me like a little chicken!” The assistant judge said angrily, "You didn't do anything wrong, why did you run away?!" Chu Tianying immediately kicked him under the table.

An interrogation is like a game of cards. The police draw good cards and the suspect draws bad cards. However, if you draw a handful of bad cards, you will not necessarily lose. The key depends on how much you know about the opponent's cards.Therefore, the police should prevent the suspect from knowing how much they know about the case and what evidence they have, and wait until the critical moment before throwing a good card, which will play a critical role. From the time Li Dazui was detained until now, the interrogation has not stopped for a moment, but the main thing is to let him speak for himself. Regarding the case of Hupanlou, the police have not said a word.And Li Dazui even revealed all the scandals such as peeping at girls going to the bathroom when he was in elementary school, but he didn't mention the lakeside building murder. He was either innocent or cunning.In this case, we must pay more attention to confidentiality, so what the assistant judge said just now is suspected of revealing the bottom line.

However, Li Dazui didn't seem to notice this at all, and he spread his hands and said bitterly: "I didn't run away, I just took my wife and nephew to Henan for a trip, is this also against the law?" "Is it okay to go to Henan?" Chu Tianying said suddenly. Everyone in the interrogation room was stunned, especially Li Dazui, who blinked his small eyes, not knowing what the official wanted to say. Chu Tianying tilted her head and said to the assistant judge, "Go, get Lao Li a glass of water." The deputy interrogator poured a glass of water to Li Dazui reluctantly. At this moment, Li Dazui felt his throat was on fire, and he drank it up in two or three gulps. When he wanted another glass, Chu Tianying After talking, "Old Li, tell me, how was your trip to Henan?"

Li Dazui started from leaving Hulingzi Township with his family on the morning of October 23. He first went to Anyang to see the Yin Ruins and Hongqi Canal, then went to Zhengzhou for a day’s rest, then went to Kaifeng to see the Iron Tower and Daxiangguo Temple, and finally arrived in Luoyang. , I went to Longmen Grottoes for a day yesterday, and when I got back to the hotel, I was so tired that I fell asleep, "As a result, I was caught by you early in the morning." "Didn't you plan to go to Shanxi? Why did you change to Henan?" Chu Tianying asked. This problem has caused great trouble to the police.After the incident, Li Dazui's mother was investigated and said that her son and his wife had traveled to Shanxi.For this reason, Shanxi dispatched a large number of police forces to search, but to no avail. In the end, it was found in the surveillance video of the train station that Li Dazui's family was on a train bound for Henan.

Li Dazui said embarrassingly: "Hey, I just wanted to take advantage of it. Didn't someone give us money to go on a trip? He even gave us a lot of money. He said that we could go anywhere, and that if we exceeded the budget It doesn't matter, I will reimburse the train tickets and park tickets when I come back. After my wife and I made up our minds, we might as well go farther away, so we changed it to Henan." "Oh?" Chu Tianying's eyes lit up, "Who gave you money to let you go on a trip?" "Jianyi Company!" Li Dazui said, "They sent someone to say that they would hold an annual meeting by the Lake of Tears to discuss the improvement of the Five Elements Yin and Yang Mirror. They booked the lakeside building for ten days. They gave me a big Money for me to take the whole family out - my mum has used their products and it's good, so I'm relieved. What's wrong, is there something wrong?"

In Chu Tianying's ears, these words were really upright and full of confidence, and there was nothing to choose from.He thought for a while, then asked: "So, what kind of person did they send?" "My surname is Meng, I didn't say my specific name. I have a beard, a pair of big sunglasses, and a hat on my head. I came on the night of October 20th and paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan. On the night of October 22nd Came again, gave me 30,000 yuan, and said that I would pay another 10,000 yuan when I come back—now is the off-season for tourism, and I can earn 50,000 yuan at once, so I am very happy. What did they say? That's what it is."

Surname Meng?Could it be Mengruhu?Anyway, it couldn't be Meng Jianyi who came all the way to this backcountry alone, or his younger brother Meng Kangyi?However, the biggest possibility is that this person reported a false surname to confuse the police's attention.Chu Tianying asked again: "Did he give you the money by transfer, check or cash?" "Cash." Li Dazui said. It is difficult to deal with cash. If you transfer money or a check, you can go to the bank to track down the account holder. "Did he make any special requests?" Chu Tianying asked. "He said not to come back within ten days, and asked me to keep it a secret, and put up the sign of the closure, saying that he was afraid that commercial competitors would find out and destroy it..."

Chu Tianying simply brought the chair in front of Li Dazui, and sat down with his knees very close together, "Old Li, think about it again, did you find anything strange at that time?" Li Dazui thought for a while and said: "The strange place... I'm just talking nonsense. You said that there must be a conference room for meetings, and the most important thing is that there must be guest rooms and restaurants? But he walked up and down the entire lakeside building. After looking through it, I didn’t ask about the conference room at all. The guest rooms and restaurants were viewed more casually, but the ktv private room was looked at very carefully. I also tried the stereo and microphone, and the electric box for a long time. Before leaving, I asked When he asked if he wanted to prepare some food, he vaguely said that it’s okay, they will bring their own. I also thought that the big company might just pick and choose, and they didn’t like to eat things from our small place, so they brought their own ingredients to make fresh... ..." Rustle, rustle, the clerk's pen kept writing in the notebook. Chu Tianying didn't stop thinking for a moment.It can be seen from the matter of not wanting food that this bearded man planned to kill the people from Jianyi Company that night from the very beginning, and the ktv room was the murder scene he had chosen long ago.Chu Tianying showed Li Dazui the photos of the seven people (including Si Miao) who were in the lakeside building when the murder happened, and asked him to identify if there was that bearded man. Li Dazui looked again and again, shook his head and said, "I can only confirm that the man is a man. I'm not sure what he really looks like. His beard, sunglasses and hat cover his face too much." At this time, no matter how dull and tired Li Dazui was, he also figured out something, "Yes... Is there something wrong with my lakeside building?" Chu Tianying patted him on the shoulder, "Lao Li, something happened, so don't rush home, and cooperate with us in our investigation. You will be living in this police station for a few days, okay? it is good?" Li Dazui blinked his eyes for a long time, and said helplessly, "Okay, I just want to sleep now." Chu Tianying smiled and said to the assistant judge, "Take Lao Li to have a rest." Li Dazui walked to the door, turned around and added, "Officer, there is someone you need to investigate." "Who?" "Yang Cong, nicknamed Onion Tou, is the owner of the Grassland Inn at the intersection of the township. He hates me for stealing his business. He always made trouble for me in the past." Li Dazui said, "If my lakeside building What happened, he must have done it!" Chu Tianying nodded, "You rest first, you have to believe that we will find out." After the deputy interrogator and Li Dazui left, the clerk also left the interrogation room.Chu Tianying stood by the window, looking at the dark night outside the window and began to think.The reason why he suddenly changed the topic to travel in the middle of the trial was because he had repeatedly interrogated Li Dazui for a day, and he had been using the method of coercion, which needed to be loosened. But the more important reason was that he carefully studied the pre-trial After reading the material, I have a strong intuition - Li Dazui is not the murderer. This point can be proved in many places. For example, Li Dazui answered all questions quickly and unambiguously. There are well-documented key issues, such as taking the train and going to the park. According to the time he provided, Once the surveillance video was adjusted, it was clear.However, real criminals often answer questions in a selective manner during the trial, avoiding the important ones and focusing on the minor ones. When faced with questions such as "what were you doing when the crime happened", they always like to give some content that cannot be verified.Moreover, the answers of Li Dazui's wife and nephew in the pre-trial can also corroborate each other, and finally prove one point - when the murder happened, Li Dazui's family was far away in Henan, and there was no time to commit the crime. Of course, there is another possibility to consider: that is, Li Dazui found a killer in advance and killed him when he was traveling to avoid suspicion, and made preparations for collusion with his wife and nephew in advance.But there are two things that don't make sense: first, from the perspective of Li Dazui's history, he is just a small hotel owner, and he has nothing to do with Jianyi Company except for buying a five-element yin and yang mirror; Money, let alone killing six people, but from the information obtained by the bank, it can be seen that Li Dazui's personal savings has not been withdrawn at all recently. Another conclusion that can be drawn from Li Dazui's testimony is that the bearded man was very cunning. He not only arranged for Li Dazui's family to travel, created a good crime space, but also checked the crime scene in advance.He also grasped Li Dazui's psychology of taking advantage of petty advantages, and asked him to let go of spending, "reimburse with train tickets and park tickets when he comes back", so that Li Dazui's family will inevitably go far away, To play a few more attractions gave him more time to commit crimes.In addition, he has been careful not to reveal his true identity, covering his face from beard to hat to sunglasses, so he should be the number one suspect... While thinking about it, the deputy interrogator, Li Kuohai, director of the County Public Security Bureau, and Carrot, director of the township police station, came in. "How is it?" Li Kuohai asked. Chu Tianying shook her head, "It's not like that at all." Carrot said: "I've already said that, Li Dazui is a shrewd person, but he doesn't have the guts to kill someone." "Last time you said that two days before the accident, you went to the lakeside building to check the passenger's ID card registration status. Li Dazui said that Feng Da advised you not to come here. It seems that you also agreed to the bearded man. During the annual meeting of Jianyi Company Keep it secret and don't let anyone disturb you. If it wasn't for Liu...that white-clothed woman escaped by chance that night, the discovery of the tragedy might have been delayed for a few days. What matters is planning." Chu Tianying said. The deputy interrogator said: "Chu Chu, the onion that Li Dazui mentioned, is it going to be brought up for trial?" "Onion? What's wrong with him?" Carrot asked. The assistant judge repeated what Li Dazui said just before leaving.Carrot's eyes suddenly became a little straight.Chu Tianying noticed, "Old Hu, what's the problem?" Carrot said: "When Li Dazui reminded me so much, I really remembered that the day after the accident, we held a case analysis meeting. Onion kept pestering me for information. I thought it was weird at the time. I met him on the road for a few days, and he kept avoiding me..." Several people in the room looked at each other, Chu Tianying uttered a word, "Catch!"