Chapter 265: Wumiao Street Murder Case (Part 2)
Qiu Yunfei really did not brag. In less than half an hour, he found the restaurant that Pan Youan had visited last night - of course, the price he paid was that most of Wumiao Street was in chaos and filled with wailing.
Stop talking nonsense.
Pan Youan had been to a restaurant called Huiyunlou, which was about a hundred feet away from the crime scene.
After listening to the report, Sun Shaozong walked and stopped to carefully screen the surrounding environment before entering the restaurant.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw the mess of smashed cups and plates inside. The shop owner and his employees were kneeling on the ground, and each of them had two or three whip marks on their faces.
Sun Shaozong frowned when he saw this: "Does every family ask questions like this?"
"Of course not."
Zhao Wuwei came over and explained: "Inspector Qiu confirmed that they had lied before, so he gave them a small punishment."
Since they are not smashing and looting houses one by one, but are targeting specific places, there will be no problem - these days, beating and kicking suspects can be said to be legal and reasonable, and even in the public opinion circle, it can be considered politically correct.
Sun Shaozong found a stool and sat down, then asked the wealthy middle-aged man kneeling in the front, "Are you the shopkeeper here?"
The wealthy middle-aged man quickly knelt down, kowtowed to Sun Shaozong, and said in a trembling voice: "I am the shopkeeper of Huiyun Tower. If I knew that this case was investigated by the judge, I would never dare to deceive you even if I had ten heads!"
As he said this, he began to kowtow loudly: "Master, please forgive me this time. I will never dare to do it again, never again..."
It seems that in addition to Qiu Yunfei's intimidation, Sun Shaozong's reputation also played a significant role.
But Sun Shaozong didn't have the patience to argue with him.
He immediately said in a deep voice: "Don't say any more nonsense. Whether I will hold you accountable for deceiving the government depends on whether you cooperate with the investigation."
"I will definitely cooperate, I will definitely cooperate !"
"I'm asking you."
Sun Shaozong stared at the shopkeeper's face and asked, "When did the deceased come? Was he alone or did he have an appointment with someone else? When did he leave? Was there anyone else with him when he left?"
"Reporting to the Master."
The shopkeeper had already prepared for these questions. When Sun Shaozong asked, he immediately answered, "The gentleman came to our store alone at about 2:30 pm. During that time, the waiter went to order more food and drinks several times, and there was no one else with him."
"He probably came here to drown his sorrows in wine. He drank until almost four o'clock in the morning. The guys urged him to leave several times before they finally asked him to leave."
" When he left, there were no other customers in the store, so as soon as he left, we hurriedly closed the store and didn't know what happened next."
Qiu Yunfei had already heard it once before, so after the shopkeeper finished speaking, he spread his hands and said, "Well, I spent so much time trying, but in the end I didn't find out anything!"
Sun Shaozong ignored him, tilted his head slightly to the left, stared at a waiter for a while, and suddenly asked, "You hesitated several times just now, do you have anything to add?"
Everyone's eyes immediately fell on the waiter, who was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Master, I...I...I..."
He said "villain" three times in a row, but was unable to utter a complete sentence.
The shopkeeper next to him saw that Qiu Yunfei was getting impatient and was swinging his whip as if he might whip him at any time. He hurriedly said, "Master, Liu Tiezhu is only responsible for the guests on the second floor. The guest who was killed booked a private room, and the private room has always been the responsibility of Xu Shengli. If you have any questions, just ask Xu Shengli..."
"Shut up!"
Before he could finish, Zhao Wuwei scolded him angrily, "The master wants to ask someone, and you, a dog, can make the decision?!"
The shopkeeper shrank his neck in fear and dared not say anything more.
But Liu Tiezhu was also frightened. He was originally a dull and tongue-tied person, and after this fright he stammered and could not explain anything.
"What on earth do you want to say when you're talking so much?!"
Qiu Yunfei, who was standing next to him, became angry and picked up the whip to whip him on the head.
"stop."
Sun Shaozong hurriedly stopped him, softened his tone, and said with a warm smile: "Liu Tiezhu, although Xu Shengli is in charge of the private rooms, he has to take care of every private room, and he may not be as clear as you about the situation on the entire second floor, right?"
Liu Tiezhu worked much harder than Xu Shengli, but his monthly salary was less than half of Xu Shengli's, so he had accumulated a lot of resentment.
Hearing the words of the great judge, Liu Tiezhu immediately perked up and untied his tongue. He patted his chest and said, "Of course! He was trying to please the guests in Room A at the time. There were several walls between him and Room D, so he naturally couldn't hear the noise of the quarrel inside!"
The sound of a quarrel?!
Sun Shaozong was moved and was about to continue asking questions, but Qiu Yunfei beside him got angry again and waved his whip and scolded: "You blind thing, when I was asking questions just now, why didn't you say that the dead ghost had quarreled with others?!"
As he said that, he whipped Liu Tiezhu on the forehead with a whip, causing the rough man to scream in pain. He grinned and said, "Master, please spare me. I only heard the sound of quarreling at that time, and didn't see anyone coming in or out. I can't be sure that the noise came from the T-shaped private room, so I didn't dare to say anything just now."
After hearing this, Sun Shaozong once again shouted Qiu Yunfei away and asked, "When did you hear the quarrel? How many people were there? Did you hear clearly what they were arguing about?"
"this……"
Liu Tiezhu covered the wound on his forehead and thought for a long time with a grin. Then he said with certainty: "It should be around 9 o'clock in the evening. At that time, most of the first batch of guests had left, and a few new guests had just come in."
"There should be only two people quarreling, as for what they are quarreling about..."
"I only heard two words clearly: 'lick the butt crack' and 'you want me'. Just then a new customer ordered some food and drinks, so I went downstairs to the kitchen."
"When I came back, there was no movement inside."
Licking the crack? You want me?
Could it be that these are two gay guys arguing?
Moreover, did the person who quarreled with Pan Youan make an appointment here in advance, or did they have a sudden conflict?
It is really difficult to judge based on this ambiguous statement alone.
Sun Shaozong then asked Liu Tiezhu to recall it carefully to see if there were any other details.
But Liu Tiezhu scratched his head for a long time and couldn't think of anything else.
Helplessly, Sun Shaozong had to let him think slowly while he called Xu Shengli to his side and asked if there were any guests in the private room next to the Dingzihao around 11:00 am.
"There was no one in the C-shaped private room at the time!" Xu Shengli insisted, "The deceased guest had just ordered the food and drinks, and the guests next door settled their bills and left. It was not until after the second watch (2:45 pm, 9:30 pm) that two guests came to dine in the C-shaped private room."
In this case, the probability that Liu Tiezhu heard it wrong was extremely small, and it seemed that the quarrel must have really happened.
only……
This is still too few clues.
Sun Shaozong hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Around midnight yesterday, were there any familiar customers on the second floor? The kind of familiar customers who know the person well and can find him."
The waiter was busy and might not have noticed it, but the guests dining on the second floor might have been curious when they heard the quarrel, so Sun Shaozong asked this question.
Unfortunately, this idea was immediately rejected by the two waiters.
Because there were indeed two regular customers on the second floor at that time, but unfortunately they were both dining in the A-shaped private room. It was because Xu Shengli chatted with them for a few more words that he did not hear the quarrel in the D-shaped private room.
After being stopped twice, Qiu Yunfei had been holding back until this moment, and finally couldn't help complaining again: "These two damn words are just bullshit, and there's not even a ghost in sight. How investigate?!"
Sun Shaozong glanced at him and said, "You don't know how to check it, it's just because you don't have patience and are not careful enough."
As he spoke, he stood up and walked towards the stairs, saying, "Bring Liu Tiezhu and Xu Shengli up, and ask a few more yamen runners to go upstairs. Let's try to reconstruct what happened around midnight last night."
