Solving the case: Wu Song travels back 97 years and becomes a detective

Chapter 70 Finally Found You

After finishing his investigation at the police station of the last prefecture-level city in Canglan Province, Wu Song boarded the green train back to Gaotan. Looking out the window, he felt melancholy. He finished one cigarette and lit another.

After finishing one, there's another one.

"Haha, apprentice, feeling down?" Cao Dahua smiled as he handed Wu Song a peeled orange. "Stop smoking, it's affecting the air quality in the carriage. Have this, I just bought it before boarding the train, it's very sweet."

As he spoke, Cao Dahua peeled another one for himself, muttering to himself as he peeled it, "You know, things have just gone too smoothly for you since you started in our line of work."

He can solve any case quickly and easily, and can pinpoint the culprit as soon as he sees them.

In less than six months, one person received a second-class merit award and another a first-class merit award. Goodness, I've never even heard of such a thing.

Actually?

Solving cases is never that easy.

Finding a needle in a haystack is the norm!

Especially back in those years, good heavens, we didn't even have DNA technology. I had a lot of unsolved cases, but many of them were eventually closed because the guy committed another crime, or because he was arrested for other cases, and then my case was solved along with him.

"Apprentice, take it easy. You can't maintain a 100% crime-solving rate in your entire life. Don't set a cage for yourself and then walk into it."

"Don't worry, I haven't trapped myself." Wu Song smiled, popped the sentence into his mouth, and chewed it in a few bites. "I just want to get the answer. I think my judgment is correct. If we follow this line of thought, we should be able to find the real culprit who exchanged murders with Qian Hao."

"That's settled then, let's go find them!" Cao Dahua chuckled. "If there's a murder in Gaotan, we'll solve the Gaotan case first. If there's no murder in Gaotan, then we'll go to other provinces to look for people, one province after another, searching the whole country. I don't believe we won't find them. Of course, I'm afraid Master can't do this with you anymore. In that case, Lao Ma and Lao Xu will go instead."

"What's wrong, Master? Is your body not keeping up?"

"What are you talking about?" Cao Dahua glared at Wu Song. "My physique is better than many strong young men. Except for night shifts in wind and rain, I run five kilometers every day. You think I'm joking?"

"Is your wife angry?"

"Bullshit! She dares to be angry with me?" Cao Dahua's face hardened, then he chuckled and said, "It's mainly my daughter. She's about to take the college entrance exam, right? After the summer break, I might not be able to see her often anymore. After this summer, I'll go with you and we'll search the whole country for her!"

"Master, aren't you worried that if I go with others to look for him, we'll find that person right away?"

"Oh!" Cao Dahua ate an orange to calm his nerves. "Then I'll accompany you to find another province, but I definitely won't be able to be with you around July 7th."

"OK!"

……

After resting for a week in Gaotan, Wu Song and Cao Dahua boarded the train again.

Heading south to Nanjing!

After leaving the train station, I took a taxi straight to the Jinling Municipal Public Security Bureau. After handing over the relevant documents, I had just stepped out when several police officers walked towards me.

The leader was a refined-looking, even somewhat handsome, third-level police superintendent.

White shirt.

"You must be the comrades from Gaotan, right? I'm Qi Wei, the head of the Criminal Investigation Division of our city." The other party took the initiative to extend his hand.

"Hello, Qi Zhi!" Cao Dahua immediately shook hands with him. "Cao Dahua is the deputy captain of the Third Criminal Investigation Team of the North Branch of Gaotan City. This is team member Wu Song."

"Wow!" Qi Wei looked up at Wu Song. "This young comrade is really strong!"

"All is well."

"Yes!" Qi Wei nodded with a smile. "Do you know why I dropped everything and came over immediately as soon as I heard you were coming?"

Do you have any cases that meet the criteria?

Wu Song and Cao Dahua exchanged a glance, both secretly delighted!

Perhaps, we really are about to find it.

At the very least, Qi Zhi on the other side believed that there was a high probability that this case matched up.

"have!"

What was the time of the victim's death?

"January 18th, 1 AM!"

Wu Song immediately took out his notebook, which contained Qian Hao's timeline.

January 18th is a Sunday.

Qian Hao had no teaching duties, so he had plenty of time to come to Jinling to commit crimes.

Moreover, according to his parents-in-law, the couple usually stayed at his house on Saturdays and Sundays, but on this particular day, Qian Hao had gone to Jiangsu Province, specifically Jinzhou, because he had taken on a case.

"Qi Zhi, how far is Jinzhou from your Jinling?"

"A little over 100 kilometers."

"Can we take a look at the case file?" Wu Song subconsciously clenched his fist.

"Haha, it seems you think there's hope. Come with me, the case file is in my office right now, I just looked at it again."

Following Qi Zhi to his office, he handed the case files directly to the two men.

"Please sit down and watch from here. I'll give you a brief overview of this case."

"This is not a simple murder case; it can be described as a family annihilation tragedy."

"Around 1 a.m. on January 18, the 27-year-old victim, Xin Nana, along with her parents and her four-year-old son, were robbed in their villa. Xin Nana and her parents were all killed, and their valuables were stolen. Only her four-year-old son survived."

The deceased's parents owned a factory, a garment factory, and were quite wealthy. Her parents died early, and Xin Nana was their only daughter.

With their deaths, all the family property went to their son-in-law and their grandson who had miraculously survived.

Based on the principle that whoever benefits the most is the most suspicious, we targeted Xin Nana's husband, Liu Xiaodong, when the case occurred. However, he had a very solid alibi. At the time, he was singing with clients at a KTV to discuss business, and the party didn't end until 4 a.m. There were at least a dozen people who could provide him with an alibi.

The scene did indeed resemble a theft that had been discovered and then turned into a robbery and murder.

In addition, after a thorough examination of the scene, we found no useful evidence such as DNA or fingerprints. We only found half a footprint on the windowsill. Having exhausted all leads, we temporarily shelved the case.

"That footprint?"

"Size 41 sneakers, but according to a footprint expert from the provincial department, the murderer probably deliberately wore two sizes too small; his feet should be size 43."

"Size 43?" Wu Song and Cao Dahua couldn't help but exchange another glance. "That matches up, Qian Hao's shoes are size 43."

"Really?" Qi Wei breathed a sigh of relief, his voice carrying a hint of joy. "There's hope! It wasn't for nothing that as soon as I heard the department received a request for assistance from another province to investigate a murderer in an exchange, I carefully reviewed the letter you sent and then sent you to our city first. Alright, I won't bother you any longer, continue watching."

"I've finished watching!"

After an unknown amount of time, Wu Song closed the case file and asked, "Chief Qi, could you take us to see this Liu Xiaodong?"

"No problem! I'll arrange for someone to take you there!"

Qi Wei arranged for a police officer surnamed Chen from the "January 18th Family Annihilation Case" task force to lead the master and apprentice to the villa area in the east of the city.

When Wu Song rang the doorbell, a handsome man in his early thirties, about 1.8 meters tall, appeared, and Wu Song felt a wave of dizziness.

But I couldn't help feeling a little overjoyed.

He is shrouded in black mist and has personally killed people!

However, there was no time to commit the crime in the January 18th family annihilation case.

The exact same situation as Qian Hao.

"Hehehe, after running around for almost a month, I've finally found you!"