As he watched, Xun Mu's eyebrows gradually tightened.

Soon, he quickly read through the case file, put it aside, and pulled out another one.

In fact, this case file is not too large. After all, it really doesn't have much significance in investigation. It's just that it's been a long time, and some have been added from time to time, so I have accumulated a few copies.

As the squadron leader said, there are not many valuable clues. Every time Wang Hai comes to the police station, it is not because he has made new discoveries, but simply because he is unwilling to do so.

Later, the police records began to become perfunctory, but this was inevitable. Xun Mu also understood them and said nothing more.

Ah Xian and another criminal police officer also followed suit and looked through the case files.

After a short moment of silence, the squadron leader spoke again. He said: "That's what happened. I feel that Wang Hai and his uncle did not commit the crime, and the old people at our police station did not feel sorry for him."

Xun Mu nodded lightly, read the two case files, and made a rough judgment.

The conclusion is very similar to that of the squadron leader.

After a few more minutes, Ah Xian put down the case file and said somewhat speechlessly: "How can such a paranoid or even extreme person survive until now without any disaster? It is strange that he has not been beaten to death."

"Yes." Xun Mu also supported his view and said with a grin: "For someone to bury a hatred deeply for twenty years and then finally become unbearable and kill someone in anger is already an exaggeration, but it is still understandable, but he...

…

I have clearly told him clearly that his uncle has no conditions to commit the crime, yet he insists that it was his uncle who killed him, ugh!"

Ah Xian thought for a while and then asked: "By the way, Captain Xun, on the way here, didn't you say that Wang Hai might not be the direct murderer? What's going on?"

"The conclusion is drawn based on the autopsy," Xun Mu raised his hand and nodded his forehead, sorting out his thoughts and said: "Judging from the direction of the force applied to the scars on the victim's body, the heights of the perpetrators should be different from the victim.

Not big.

Of course, it is difficult to judge how much this "not big" actually is. The error is very large. It may reach ten centimeters or even twenty centimeters, but it will never reach the exaggerated difference of nearly half a meter.

The cause of Huan Haiyi’s death is now basically confirmed. He was beaten to death, and Wang Hai, who did not participate in the beating, has been ruled out as a direct suspect."

"Oh?" The squadron leader, with thick eyebrows slightly raised, wondered: "It's not him? Have we misunderstood him?"

"It's hard to say," Xun Mu shook his head: "But even if he didn't kill anyone, he was definitely involved in this case. At least the one who moved the victim's body to the construction site was probably him."

After a pause, Xun Mu asked: "His uncle...does he have many enemies?"

"I don't know much about that." The squadron leader shook his head and said, "Looking at the files, I did investigate Wang Peng in 2001 - well, Wang Peng was the name of Wang Hai's uncle, and he married Wang Peng when his biological mother married him.

He changed his surname after his grandfather Hai."

Xun Mu waved his hand, and then continued: "Wang Peng was almost forty years old at that time, I remember? There is some information in the case file that he was in business, wholesale of pipes, he paid attention to being friendly and making money, being kind to others, and he didn't have any enemies.

However, the investigation at that time focused on the conflict between him and his brother and sister-in-law, and did not go too far in this area. Moreover, nineteen years have passed, and the exact situation is still unclear."

"Huh?" Xun Mu frowned.

"What's wrong?" the squadron leader asked.

"There seems to be something wrong..." Xun Mu rubbed his eyebrows, thought for a moment, then called back to the detachment and asked someone to turn out the case file and take a picture of it for him to see.

After a while, he received the message, twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Wrong."

"What?"

"The victim is about forty years old." Xun Mu said. As he spoke, he took out Tu Zhongxin's mobile phone number, dialed it, and continued:

"Wang Peng was forty years old a year ago, and now Wang Hai is thirty-two years old... The corpse that was obviously hung up was not Wang Peng. Tsk, I kept forgetting it on the way here. Got this detail.”

"Is it possible that he looks younger?" the squadron leader asked: "For individual men, if they pay attention to exercise and care, the shelf life can be very long. If they are forty or sixty years old, they may not be able to tell the difference very well."

"It's not impossible." Ah Xian said, "*** is already sixty-seven years old. He looks younger than Lao Hai."

Xun Mu glanced at him sideways: "Are you comparing Wang Peng to Dada?"

"Ahem," Ah Xian coughed twice, and then said: "Then Captain Su is in his fifties, and he looks about thirty-seven or eighty-years-old, with muscles all over his body..."

At this time, Tu Zhongxin finally answered the phone, and Xun Mu waved his hand to signal them to stop talking. Then he put the phone to his ear and said: "Hey, Lao Tu... um, we just started the dissection? It's okay, no. No need to worry, I just want to ask, can the age of the victim be determined?"

After saying that, he thought for a moment, put down the phone again, and turned on the speakerphone.

Tu Zhongxin's voice came from it: "Didn't I say that on the spot?"

"I didn't go to the scene."

Tu Zhongxin:……

After a while, he said: "Judging from the degree of tooth wear, he is about thirty years old, no more than thirty-five, but his face looks older, he must be forty. We will have to do an autopsy to know the details."

"Yeah, it's even 'smaller' again." Xun Mu curled his lips.

"What? Haven't you already identified the victim?"

"The identity we determined is that of a middle-aged and elderly man in his fifties and almost sixty years old."

Tu Zhongxin:……

The squadron leader scratched his head: "You can't blame me, it's this guy too, he looks so much like the one in the photo, he's almost carved out of the same mold...

Oh wait, could it be Wang Peng's son? The ages match up really well. Even though Wang Peng is one year younger than Wang Hai's father, he got married two years earlier, and the baby is two years older than Wang Hai. I’m thirty-four this year.”

"Give me your address later, and I'll ask you at your door." Xun Mu said, then he raised the phone and pointed his mouth at the butt of the phone and said, "By the way, Lao Tu, I have to ask you something again."

"you say."

"Before I left the detachment, I pulled up Xiao Qi's law enforcement recorder and looked at the online video."

"Why do you feel that what you said is a bit awkward...and then what?"

"Then I saw the conclusions you made during the on-site autopsy." Xun Mu said, "I wanted to ask you before in the detachment, but my train of thought was suddenly interrupted by Wang Hai and Wang Peng's incident...

That is, didn't you say that there was a relatively fierce struggle between the murderer and the victim? But you later said that the victim was attacked by a sneak attack, hit in the back of the head with a brick, fainted, and then his hands and feet were tied up and covered with sheets. A violent beating...isn’t this contradictory?”

Tu Zhongxin was silent for two or three seconds.

Then I heard him say:

"The first sentence is a miscarriage of justice - because the gaps between his fingernails were deliberately cleaned by the murderer, and there were a lot of injuries on his body, including scratches, and several buttons on his clothes were torn, I subconsciously came to this conclusion.

.But after detailed inspection, I found that I was wrong, so I didn’t mention it again.

Are there any other questions?"

"So that's it." Xun Mu suddenly realized, and then hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, you go ahead and hang up!"

Putting away his mobile phone, Xun Mu looked at them and said: "You have also heard that the victim's age is no more than 35. Judging the age by the degree of tooth wear, although there is a certain error, it will not be too big. No matter how well maintained it is, the age of five

The teeth of a sixty-year-old are incomparable to those of a thirty-year-old."

The squadron leader immediately rummaged around and took out a file and said, "The specific address of Wang Peng's family is registered here, but it's been a few years and I don't know if he has moved."

"Do you have contact information?" Xun Mu asked: "For businessmen like them, if they haven't moved to another place to work, they probably won't change their mobile phone numbers easily."

"Yes." The squadron leader handed him the case file directly.

Xun Mu took it, then took out his mobile phone again and dialed the number.

After a while, the call was connected.

"Way?" a voice came out.

"Hello, Yuqiao Public Security Criminal Investigation Detachment."

"Dudududu."

Xun Mu twitched the corner of his mouth and hit him again.

This time, it took a while before the call came through: "Are you going out into the wild, Lei? Get out of here!"

Yes, I was treated as a liar again.

"Mr. Wang Peng, is that right? Is it convenient for you to come to Fenghe Police Station now? Or you can give me the address and I can go there." Xun Mu said immediately.

"What?" the other person asked, but he seemed a little "shaken". After hesitating for a while, he reported his current address in Cantonese.

It is a well-known building materials wholesale market, about five kilometers away from Fenghe Police Station.

Xun Mu immediately said: "Please stay where you are and we will go there. There is a case that requires your cooperation."

He was even more confused: "Really a policeman?"

"Of course," Xun Mu smiled: "Which scammer is so bold as to ask you to meet offline? Please wait, we will be there in fifteen minutes."

With that said, he hung up the phone and looked at Ah Xian and the others: "Let's go together?"

Ah Xian and the other criminal police officer naturally had no objection, but the squadron leader hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Me too?"

"Just one piece."

"become."

…

On the way, the squadron leader continued to introduce: "Speaking of this Wang Peng, it is a coincidence. Wang Hai is sure that there is an important so-called 'basis' for his murder. As mentioned just now, just a year after Wang Hai's parents died, he succeeded.

He became prosperous, so Wang Hai was sure that he had obtained huge benefits from his parents.

How should I put it? You already know that Wang Peng has been doing business, and it has always been in the building materials business, but the scale was relatively small at the time. He lived in a rental house as a warehouse, bought a taxi, and delivered goods by himself every day.

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To be continued...