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Yue Xingwen once again sorted through the clues.
Workers’ unpaid wages. This kind of phenomenon was not uncommon in the process of construction.
Assuming that the workers’ unpaid wages and Zhao Dayong’s death was unrelated, then the cause of Zhao Dayong’s death was still a ‘personal grudge’ and it needed to continue to be investigated from the four suspects and expand the scope to see if there were any other people who had privately intersected with Zhao Dayong.
If the workers’ unpaid wages were related to Zhao Dayong’s death, then it was possible that someone killed Zhao Dayong to deliberately put pressure on the construction unit and delay the progress of the project; Or maybe, Zhao Dayong knew something and was silenced by the high-level.
Yue Xingwen looked at his watch, it was 10:00am now, so he quickly arranged, “Let’s do it like this, we will first start the investigation with the two clues of Zhao Dayong’s personal grudge and the workers’ unpaid wages, and find the workers to set up a conversation. Today, there is chaos in the construction site and the workers are depressed, so please be careful not to use the tone of a police interrogating a prisoner when investigating, but use some simple chat and gossip. Our identity is also workers, and they are comrades in arms in the same unit, they will be willing to tell the truth to everyone.”
He looked around and said, “Qin Lu and senior sister Manluo in one group; Senior brother Zhuo with senior brother Xu; senior brother Liu with Zhang Xiaonian; I’ll be with Pingce. Qin Miao and Xin Yan, both of you aren’t good at chatting with strangers, I’m giving you other tasks.”
Qin Miao, who had a cold personality, really did not like to talk to people to probe about something. Xin Yan was the same, and he said lightly, “You can arrange it.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Qin Miao, Xin Yan, Ke Shaobin, you three go to the underground parking lot to go around and simulate the murderer’s movement trajectory. Young Ke can use Xiao Tu to scan the scene and build a model of the best path for the murderer to kill and escape. Investigate along the way to see if there are any clues left by the murderer.”
Even if these three people encountered danger, Qin Miao had a skill to disarm and Xin Yan had strong acid in his hand, so they would definitely have no problem protecting themselves.
Ke Shaobin immediately nodded, “Okay, we’re going to the underground parking lot.”
Yue Xingwen’s arrangement was very reasonable, everyone did not complain, and they split up to investigate.
After going out, they found seven or eight workers squatting in the corner to smoke. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other and walked over quickly. Those people were talking about what to do if they couldn’t get paid: “Ugh, my family will make a fuss!”
“My family too, and I haven’t paid the tuition for my children.”
Yue Xingwen found a vacant seat and squeezed in, sighed, and naturally answered, “My brother was diagnosed with liver cancer last year, the doctor said that he needs an operation. Our family can’t get the money, I’m still waiting for the wages to provide for the operation…”
Xingwen was an only child and had no brother at all.
Jiang Pingce had seen this guy’s ability to ‘talk like a person when seeing a person, and talk like a ghost when seeing a ghost’ for a long time. Therefore, listening to Xingwen’s story, Jiang Pingce’s expression was calm and he casually asked, “Is your brother’s condition serious?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The doctor said that it was early stage liver cancer, there is still hope if we do the operation. I’ve borrowed from all the relatives in the family, but it’s still not enough for the operation’s fee, so I’m waiting for my wages to be paid, but the result, the wages haven’t been paid yet…”
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The young worker on Yue Xingwen’s right side lowered his voice and gossiped. “The developer of the Xinyue Plaza project is Dexin Group, and the boss is called Jiang Dexin. I heard he also had a piece of land in B city to start some high-end residential area, and the funds are being diverted there, so they’re dragging out our wages here.”
The smoking old man said, “Is there still a law of the land!”
The workers were in an uproar and started to curse the developer. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other and tried to turn the topic towards Zhao Dayong. “By the way, in Zhao Dayong’s case, it’s a work injury, right? Shouldn’t they pay for it?”
The young worker who just gossiped said, “The money must be compensated, but unfortunately Zhao Dayong hasn’t married, Zhao Liang is the only family he has, an 18-year-old child can understand a fart! I reckon that Director Zhang will just give him a few tens of thousands of yuan and casually send him off.”
Jiang Pingce asked in a low voice, “Is there not a single relative left in Zhao Dayong’s family? Aunt, uncle, and so on, when it comes to this kind of thing, the family doesn’t come to the construction site and make a scene?” Yue Xingwen immediately nodded and agreed. “That’s right, if more family members come, maybe Director Zhang will give them some more compensation in order to calm things down?”
The young worker said, “All of their family members are dead.”
This worker was obviously from the Zhao family village as well, and Yue Xingwen pricked up his ears to hear him tell a story——
“Both of Zhao Dayong’s parents died of liver cancer, and he was raised by his brother. His brother Zhao Dacheng was 10 years older than him, was the best carpenter in our village and later married a wife and gave birth to Zhao Liang. The couple worked in other places for many years, and the child was left to Zhao Dayong, as an uncle to take care of.”
“Originally, the money the couple earned in the previous few years was okay, and their life was getting better and better. But later, when Zhao Dacheng renovated a house, because the balcony guardrail of the house was loose, he accidentally fell from the upstairs and fell to his death on the spot. His wife went to the family to ask for an explanation, accidentally hit by a car on the way and died… Alas, it’s a pity for Zhao Liang, this child was still in junior high school. Originally, he had a very good grade, but this matter hit him too hard. From the top of the class to the bottom, he didn’t enter a good high school and wasn’t admitted into the university.”
Speaking of this past, the young worker had a heavy expression and sighed with regret.
Someone next to him gossiped, “You are also from Zhao Village? There are so many people who come out of your village?”
The young worker smiled bitterly and said, “I can’t help it, the village is too remote, so if I don’t work, I can’t feed my family just by farming.”
Yue Xingwen pondered over this passage carefully—— the accidental death of his parents caused Zhao Liang’s grades to fall? Or maybe that was not the only reason for his falling grades, but also the bullying he received from his uncle?
The possibility of ‘Zhao Liang was molested by his uncle since he was a child and killed him in retaliation’ proposed by Ke Shaobin could not be completely ruled out.
Zhao Dayong was Zhao Liang ‘guardian’. Once he died in an accident at the construction site, Zhao Liang was the only family and property heir. The compensation money given to the deceased worker at the construction site would be handed over to Zhao Liang. So, this Zhao Liang seemed to have sufficient motive to commit the crime?
Yue Xingwen pretended to gossip. “Zhao Dayong hasn’t married yet, with a nephew this big, does both of them have a good relationship? Doesn’t Zhao Dayong feel that Zhao Liang is like a child from a previous marriage?”
The young worker said, “Usually Zhao Dayong works outside and sends living expenses to A-Liang every month. He is very attentive to this nephew, and will buy some clothes and snacks to send back during the New Year’s holidays.”
Jiang Pingce seized the key point. “Zhao Liang is studying alone in his hometown and Zhao Dayong is out working. They don’t spend a lot of time together?”
The young worker said, “That’s right. Zhao Liang, this child’s grades are getting worse and worse also because of this reason. His uncle doesn’t have time to manage him, he and a group of punks were in the Internet cafe everyday. Alas, such a good seedling is wasted…”
Yue Xingwen then asked, “By the way, why doesn’t Zhao Liang live in the dormitory and run inside the building to sleep on the floor?”
The worker said mysteriously. “When this child came to the construction site, there was only one empty dormitory, and it was occupied by Yan Kai, who was in charge of the warehouse. The logistics team leader arranged for him to live with Yan Kai. A-Liang was bullied by Yan Kai every day, probably couldn’t stand it, and simply moved out to sleep on the floor. Anyway, the weather is hot now, and it’s still cool to sleep in the building.”
As soon as he said this, the worker suddenly closed his mouth as if he saw the ghost.
Yue Xingwen turned his head to see a man wearing a blue technician’s hat passing through from a distance. The man was tall and had a long leg, with a tattoo on his arm, slightly sunken eye sockets, and eyes as sharp as hawks. At the first glance, he wasn’t a person to be provoked with.
The worker lowered his voice, “This Yan Kai is backed up by Director Zhang, and his temper is particularly bad.”
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen exchanged a look—— It seemed that Zhao Liang was not lying when he told Jiang Pingce that ‘the dormitory’s bed is occupied, and he can only sleep on the floor’. It was no secret that this warehouse manager surnamed Yan was bullying others at the construction site because he had some relations with Director Zhang.
Both of them talked to the workers until lunchtime before turning around and returning to the dormitory.
The construction site was closed today, no one was making lunch, and there were a number of buckets of instant noodles in the room. Yue Xingwen told everyone to make their own noodles to solve their lunch, and then gathered in the corner of the construction site to summarize the clues.
Yue Xingwen briefly summarized the information he heard. “Zhao Liang’s father fell off the building and his mother had a car accident. His uncle went out to work to support him over the years, and there were not many opportunities for the uncle and the nephew to meet. Zhao Liang followed a group of friends to the Internet cafe every day, and did not enter the university, so he was carried to the construction site by his uncle to help and learn.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “We went to talk to Zhao Liang, he was very emotional. His uncle’s death hit him quite hard, and he said that his uncle was his only family. I can’t see if he is just acting or pretending?”
Zhang Xiaonian nodded and said, “His eyes are all swollen from crying, so if he’s the murderer, he’s really good at acting.”
Jiang Pingce asked specifically. “Are there any signs of abuse on his body?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “A few bruises were found.”
Ke Shaobin whispered, “Is it a hickey?”
Xu Yishen looked at him with a smirk, “Junior brother Ke seems to know a lot ah?”
Ke Shaobin’s cheeks flushed, “I just asked. To find the motive for the crime, if A-Liang has strange marks on his body, deducing that his uncle had abused him, and that he killed his uncle to get compensation money and an inheritance of his uncle’s property?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “Judging from the perspective of the medical student, those bruises were from being beaten. He said that the man in his dormitory, surnamed Yan, was grumpy because he woke up the other party by snoring while sleeping. He was punched twice, and he got scared and moved out to sleep.”
Thinking for a moment, Yue Xingwen said, “In that case, Zhao Liang’s appearance in the building would have a reasonable explanation. The person who lives with him was Yan Kai, who claims to know Director Zhang, he is acting like a bully and bullying newcomers at the construction site. A-Liang was beaten, so he moved to the building to sleep on the floor. He probably didn’t know his uncle would fall off the building?”
Jiang Pingce agreed. “Zhao Liang’s suspicions have indeed decreased. Senior brother Liu can continue to contact him to see if he is really sad about his uncle’s death or it’s just an act.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “No problem.”
Yue Xingwen looked at the other teammates and asked, “What did you find?”
Lin Manluo said, “Qin Lu and I asked all the female workers at the construction site, and they all had good opinions of Zhao Xuemei. Zhao Xuemei is 30 years old, unmarried, and she has a sick grandma at home. Her condition is not very good, but she is beautiful, diligent, and good at cooking. It is said that many single men in the construction site are interested in her. She is mainly responsible for cooking for everyone at the construction site.”
Qin Lu added. “It’s not the first time she’s gone out in the middle of the night. Some people say that she’s probably having a private meeting with someone.”
Zhuo Feng said, “We went to check Long Rui. Long Rui is a well-known smoker and he can smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. He went out to smoke at 4:30 in the morning, and no one can confirm it, but there was indeed a lot of ash at the scene. However, we asked his roommate, electricians and cement workers don’t work together, so Long Rui didn’t know Zhao Dayong well at all.”
Xu Yishen said, “Zhao Qiang insisted and said that he went to the toilet, and there was no witness. However, we heard some workers talking privately. Some people saw Zhao Qian and Zhao Dayong chatting alone in the underground parking lot a few days ago, as if they were arguing about something.”
Yue Xingwen sorted out all these clues and looked at Ke Shaobin. “Did you find anything in the underground parking lot?”
Ke Shaobin immediately turned on his laptop and presented a three-dimensional image to everyone.
Xiao Tu scanned the entire underground parking lot and modeled a 3D panorama of the underground parking lot in the laptop, and Ke Shaobin then drew an optimal route to kill and escape based on Jiang Pingce’s analysis in the morning.
Ke Shaobin pointed at the map and explained, “The location of the deceased’s fall is in the area C of the Xinyue Plaza building. If the murderer is not Zhao Liang, but excaped after killing him, he will come down from this staircase, enter the second floor of the underground parking lot, and then take the L-shape to the bottom of the pedestrian street, and then go straight through this area, and finally get out of this manhole cover.”
Jiang Pingce praised, “It is indeed the closest and shortest path to avoid surveillance.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Have you checked along this road?”
Qin Miao replied, “The underground parking lot was dark, Xin Yan used a spirit lamp to illuminate. We did a carpet search and went back and forth several times, no useful clues were found, not even a single hair.”
It seemed that the murderer was very cautious and did not leave any evidence during the operation.
Zhao Xuemei did not have the conditions to commit the crime, she was the one who made the screaming noise to wake everyone up. She did not have enough time to run back and forth twice in the underground passageway and then go to the scene to scream.
Zhao Liang and Zhao Qiang, these two people from Zhao family village, could they be the murderer?
thanks for the chapter <3
The series “Scream” taught me not to underestimate screaming girls
Thank you very much for the translation 🤍🤍🤍
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Woah. Is it an old series?
Not really. It was realised in 2015