The crime team quickly found the landlord, Mrs. Liu, and the so-called Sister Kang. Their statements were consistent with what Tian Ling said.
The crime team applied for a search warrant again and searched Tian Ling's residence. Indeed, no shoes with the same pattern as the crime scene were found. At this point in the case, the clues were completely interrupted again.
On Monday afternoon, Yue Chen went home from get off work early to cook for Liu Yingying.
"What? No appetite?" Yue Chen saw Liu Yingying looking worried.
"Did we miss something?" Liu Yingying slowly picked up a mouthful of celery and put it into her mouth.
"Let's talk about work after dinner. Didn't Aunt Mo tell us not to tighten the string too tightly?" Yue Chen picked up a piece of hairtail and put it into Liu Yingying's bowl.
"What I'm worried about is that there were omissions in our investigation." Liu Yingying simply put down her chopsticks.
"Come, let's have a good meal first. Maybe the suspect is not among those five people?" Yue Chen filled another bowl of yam and pork ribs soup and placed it in front of Liu Yingying.
"Can you analyze it for me?" Liu Yingying pouted and picked up the spoon.
"I still think our analysis is correct. The suspects should still be concentrated between Tian Ling and Han Wenting." Yue Chen frowned. In fact, Yue Chen has been thinking about whether there is any link in this in the past few days.
Something went wrong.
"But these two people don't have time to commit crimes?" Liu Yingying was a little impatient.
"Someone can prove that they were playing mahjong that night, or even prove it to each other, but is it possible that there was a time difference between them?" Yue Chen's eyes narrowed.
"Time difference?" Liu Yingying also opened her eyes a little wider.
"They just said they would play mahjong after dinner. Is there any specific time?" Yue Chen confirmed.
"I read the transcript, and they all just said that after dinner, they didn't care about the specific time." Liu Yingying's eyes became clear.
"The time of the crime was around 7:40, so it is entirely possible that the suspect went to play mahjong after committing the crime and created an alibi, but this alibi itself may not be established." Yue Chen nodded.
"But the search result of Tian Ling's house did not yield anything. Is it really Han Wenying?" Liu Yingying also began to question her previous sixth sense.
"Didn't Tian Ling suspect that she was looking for Tang Wenshan to make a fuss about the circuit? Let's see if there is anything fishy." Yue Chen gave an investigation direction.
It was only now that Liu Yingying finally gained an appetite and started to feast. Yue Chen smiled helplessly on the other side. Liu Yingying was still Liu Yingying after all, and work would always come first to her.
The next day, Liu Yingying found Xiaozhi. Although she didn't know why, Xiaozhi still checked the utility bill of the dry goods store for her at Liu Yingying's request. There was really something wrong with this check.
Throughout July, the water bill for Han Wenying's dry goods store was only 17 yuan, but for a dry goods store, it was barely acceptable.
But the dry goods store, which is fully air-conditioned and open every day, has an electricity bill of less than fifty yuan for the entire month of July. Liu Yingying looked at this data and fell into thinking.
"Less than fifty yuan? According to the unit price of one yuan and two, it only has 40 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Her method of turning on the air conditioner only lasts two or three days." Xiaozhi said while looking at the bill.
"Hey~ Liu'er? What are you thinking about? Ah hey~" Xiaozhi raised his hand and waved it in front of Liu Yingying's eyes behind him.
"Ah? I was wondering where all the electricity she used went?" Liu Yingying came back to her senses.
"This is simple. There are basically only two methods. The first is to steal electricity and connect it before the fire meter. In this way, the electricity you use will not pass through the fire meter, and naturally it will not be billed."
"However, this kind of operation is very difficult. If you are not rushing to work during a power outage, then you are working while the power is on, which is very dangerous!" Xiaozhi explained to Liu Yingying.
"Another way is to borrow electricity. Just like cutting a wall to borrow light, connect a wire from a nearby neighbor to 'borrow' the electricity." Xiaozhi explained.
"Isn't this still stealing electricity?" Liu Yingying was a little disdainful.
"Whether it's electricity theft, you'll know after checking." Xiaozhi started tapping on the keyboard again.
"Eh? Isn't that right? The electricity bills of several nearby stores and even the entire Caichang Street are considered normal." Soon Xiaozhi was in trouble.
"If your electricity bill was a thousand yuan more than normal, wouldn't you notice something unusual?" Liu Yingying thought of something.
"One thousand yuan? If it's more than a hundred yuan, I'll ask the power company to find out." Xiaozhi answered without thinking. His stingy look was very much like Yue Chen's.
"So she probably didn't steal the electricity directly, but negotiated with others to pay for it herself," Liu Yingying said.
"Since I still have to pay for it myself, what's the point?" Xiaozhi couldn't figure it out.
"But commercial electricity can be replaced by private electricity. Pull a line from a nearby residential building. Residential electricity is half cheaper than commercial electricity. Plus, half price at night, it can indeed save more than 60% of the electricity bill." Liu Ying
The shadow points out the key.
"That makes sense, let me check to see if there are any residents nearby with outrageously high electricity bills." Xiaozhi started typing on the keyboard again.
"Found it!" Xiaozhi quickly found the resident whose bill last month was several hundred higher than that of his nearby neighbors.
"Where is this address?" Liu Yingying pointed to the address on the screen.
"This... seems to be the location of the first scene?" Xiaozhi also rubbed his eyes.
"Report to the captain." Liu Yingying said.
Seeing the new clues sent by Liu Yingying and Xiaozhi, Wang Yuanhe immediately decided to go to this resident's house to ask about the situation.
Half an hour later, Wang Yuanhe took Liu Yingying to the fifth floor where the crime first occurred.
"The footprints were found here." When passing by the decorative platform, Wang Yuanhe pointed out the corridor window.
Liu Yingying stood at the window and looked outside. She could indeed see the dry goods store at the end of Caichang Street. And there were indeed many intricate wires at the end of Caichang Street.
"503, right?" Wang Yuanhe didn't stop and knocked on 503's door.
"Who is it?" After several minutes, a man wearing only shorts opened the door.
When the man saw two policemen, a man and a woman, standing at the door, he immediately folded his arms in front of his chest and asked: "Comrade police, are you looking for me?"
"We are from the Criminal Police Team of the Municipal Bureau, and we would like to find out a little bit about the situation from you." Wang Yuanhe went straight to the point and introduced himself.
"Can you wait for me to change clothes?" the man asked angrily.
"You two, please come in." After a few minutes, the man opened the door and let the two of them into the room.
It is now eleven o'clock at noon, but the curtains in the room are tightly closed, and no sunlight can penetrate the whole room. The room is still filled with a strange smell. It seems that the man has just been woken up.
"Ahem..." Liu Yingying couldn't help coughing twice.
"Oh oh oh, I'm sorry, I just got up and haven't opened the window for ventilation yet." The man said, opening all the windows in the living room and closing the bedroom door to prevent the messy bedroom from appearing in front of the two of them.
"We want to find out about the situation from you. Do you know Han Wenying?" Wang Yuanhe began to ask.