"Xingwang Door Industry? Why open a shop at home?" Wang Youzhi asked curiously, looking at the old sign hanging above the courtyard door.

Su Li explained what she learned: "Xu Xingwang and his father are both carpenters. They started a wooden door business a few years ago. They are well-known for their craftsmanship and have no worries about customers, so they work directly at home."

Wang Youzhi nodded: "That's no wonder."

When several people entered the courtyard, they saw an elderly man lying prone on the ground at the stone steps at the threshold of the main house. The blood all over his body had dried to a dark color. His waist was still inside the door, and his right hand was hanging forward limply on the ground.

Liu Ming took the first step to take out his gloves from his pocket, frowned and went into the room to find his colleagues in the trace department.

The corpse looked really bad. Although the weather was in early April, it was already a bit warm. Two days had passed since the incident, and not to mention the external condition of the corpse, there were just endless flies flying around the room.

The feeling of nausea is extremely strong.

Fang Shunliang couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose: "This smell... how much blood must have been shed..."

He looked inside the house and felt a chill. The busy figures of his colleagues in the police station did not dissipate the ghostly and lifeless atmosphere of the small building.

The courtyard of this house is large but very messy. There are unswept sawdust and piles of wood boards everywhere. On the left side of the courtyard is a workshop built with equipment and equipment in it.

Several people entered the main room on the first floor, and there were no other traces except a bloodstain extending to the feet of the deceased.

Su Li walked to the stairs and looked up: "This should be Xu Xiaofeng's grandfather. He was injured on the second floor and climbed to the first floor to ask for help."

Xiao Zhuo glanced at the deceased: "There are no traces of last stabbing on the back."

Su Li: "The murderer has already left at this time, otherwise he would not have been allowed to crawl here."

Xiao Zhuo nodded and said: "The murderer committed a crime for the first time."

Gao Jinbao listened to the two people's words and asked in confusion: "Why?"

"Because he didn't even confirm whether the victim was really dead, he... was in a panic."

Su Li answered his question while walking upstairs. There were a few scratch-like blood stains left on the wall of the stairs. The fishy smell became stronger as she went up. She stopped and slowed down before putting on a mask.

Xiao Zhuo turned around and said to Shunliang: "Brother Fang, take Jinbao to visit the nearby villagers, learn more about this family's situation, and ask if anything happened recently and if you heard any sounds on the night of the crime?"

Fang Shunliang responded and turned around and walked out with Gao Jinbao.

Wang Youzhi looked around the room and suggested, "I'll follow and ask about the situation. There are already a lot of comrades busy upstairs and downstairs."

After Xiao Zhuo nodded in agreement, he also followed out the door.

In addition to the crawling blood stains, there were a few drops of blood at the stairwell on the second floor. Su Li pictured the images of these traces in her mind.

The nervous and panicked murderer walked quickly downstairs holding a bloody knife. In the darkness, he stepped down the stairs and left traces on the wall.

Follow the crawling blood trail to the first room on the second floor. There is an elderly female deceased lying on the inside of the bed. This is the room of Xu Xiaofeng's grandparents.

Su Li saw Xiao Zhuo walking to the west of the corridor, so he walked towards the room at the east end.

Liu Ming was also here at this time. When he saw her, he said: "I found two footprints on the door. The length of the shoes is 25cm and 28cm respectively. The door frame is seriously damaged."

Su Li: "Did the murderer kick open the door and force his way into the room?"

Liu Ming nodded, and at this time Xiao Zhuo also came from the opposite side: "The deceased over there are Xu Xiaofeng's mother and son."

As he said that, he looked around the room. It was a mess, but it didn't look like it was caused by a fierce fight.

Xiao Zhuo: "What did you find?"

Liu Ming shook his head: "The room is very messy, there should be traces of rummaging."

"Looking for money? Money to kill?"

"But here..." Liu Ming pointed to a mahogany chair in the room: "There was three hundred yuan in cash in the pocket of the coat draped on the chair, and there was eight hundred yuan in cash under the pillow on the couple's bed."

The total amount of these two sums of money is relatively large. At least in this era, many families cannot earn this amount throughout the year. If the murderer was after money, how could he not take these two sums?

Su Li opened the drawer on the left side of the bedside table, which contained some odds and ends, and then opened the drawer on the right. In addition to miscellaneous items, there was also a notebook.

Xiao Zhuo: "There were basically only one or two wounds on the other corpses, but Xu Xingwang's body was stabbed several times, as if the murderer had great hatred for him."

Liu Ming: "Is there any possibility of a vendetta?"

"Is there any other place where cash was found?" Su Li suddenly asked.

Liu Ming looked at his colleagues in the trace department, and they all shook their heads: "No."

Su Li turned around and handed the notebook to Xiao Zhuo: "The possibility of financial murder cannot be completely eliminated."

He continued: "This is the account book of Xu Xingwang and his wife, which records the daily income and expenditure. I just did a rough calculation, and there is still a difference of nearly 500 yuan between the amount and the cash found so far."

"Five hundred yuan is quite a lot. It's almost half a year's salary." A colleague from the trace inspection department next to me sighed softly.

Another colleague was holding a small black bag and suddenly said: "I found something here. There is a business card with bloody fingerprints in the secret pocket of the wallet."

The business card was printed with Changming Lamps - Chang Pingshan and a string of addresses. There were a lot of business cards in the small bag, but only this one had bloody fingerprints on it.

Xiao Zhuo handed the business card to Liu Ming: "To verify whose fingerprint this belongs to, I'll go to Changming Lighting."

He walked to the door and turned back to Su Li: "Are you going?"

Seeing that there was nothing else going on here, Su Li followed him to the lighting store.

On the way, Xiao Zhuo asked casually: "Do you think this trip will be fruitful?"

Su Li was silent for a few seconds, and then asked, "Do you want to hear the truth?"

Xiao Zhuo was startled and then laughed: "What do you think?"

"Since you ask this question, it means that you know that you may not necessarily gain anything, but you still have to take this trip."

Xiao Zhuo: "That's right, after all, there are some things that may not have results if you do them, but there will definitely be no results if you don't do them."

Changming Lighting's store is located in a large building materials market, relatively close to the center.

Xiao Zhuo parked his car outside the street and walked into the market with Su Li. He followed the street numbers of the market shops until he saw the billboard for Changming Lighting.

There was a pile of cardboard boxes at the entrance of the store, with various lamps piled on them. A middle-aged man squatted there with a socket, testing the lamps one by one to see if they were useful.

Su Li: "Master, could I please ask if Changping Mountain is here?"

The man's hand that was plugging in the cord paused. He looked up and saw Su Li leaning over to ask, with a puzzled look on his face: "I am Chang Pingshan, what can I do?"

Su Li took out her ID and looked at him, then said: "We are from the city's criminal police team, and we want to ask you about something."

Chang Pingshan's eyes turned back and forth between the certificate and Su Li's face several times, and he asked in surprise: "Are you a policeman?"

Su Li nodded and asked, "Do you know Xu Xingwang of Xingwang Family?"

Chang Pingshan still didn't come back to his senses. He was still looking at Su Li in surprise. He couldn't believe that the person with such a beautiful face in front of him was actually a policeman or a criminal police officer!

Xiao Zhuo frowned and walked forward, missing Su Li standing in front of Chang Pingshan. His tone was slightly cold and he repeated the question: "Do you know Xu Xingwang?"

"Ah? We know each other!" Chang Pingshan looked at Xiao Zhuo's expressionless face, swallowed nervously and replied repeatedly.

Su Li was blocked by Xiao Zhuo and looked at his back and raised her eyebrows.

Xiao Zhuo continued to ask: "How did you meet him?"

Chang Pingshan scratched his head: "We have some business dealings, and we usually recommend clients to each other."

"When was the last time you saw him?"

Chang Pingshan recalled for a moment: "It seemed to be the end of last month! Did something happen to the police officer?"

"You only need to answer my question. No need to ask any other questions. What were you doing on the night of April 9th?"

"No. 9? Isn't it just two days ago? I was staying in the store at that time!"

"In the store all night?"

Chang Pingshan sighed: "Yes, well, look at this row of shops, mine is the lowest location. It flooded when it rained heavily around Qingming Festival, and most of the lamps were soaked by me."

"It took several days to clean up. On the 9th, I spent the whole night in the store checking the damaged lamps."

Xiao Zhuo nodded and asked, "Are you the only one in the store?"

"My wife was there at first, but she cleaned up for a while and then went home to be with the kids."

"About what time did she return?"

"What time? It's... around eight or nine o'clock. I really didn't notice the time, but the child basically goes to bed at that time."

"You'll be in the store by yourself all night after that?"

Chang Pingshan felt a little panicked when he was asked: "Yes! But officer, what happened?"

Xiao Zhuo looked into his eyes and said: "Xu Xingwang is dead, he was harmed!"

Chang Pingshan looked shocked when he heard this, his mouth opened wide and his lips trembled slightly: "Dead...dead?"

Xiao Zhuo looked back: "Yeah."

"He, how could he be dead? He was still murdered..."

"We are also investigating this. If you have any information that you find useful, you can contact us. Thank you for your cooperation. You can go ahead and go."

Chang Pingshan was still in shock: "Oh, okay, okay."

The two of them turned around and walked back. Xiao Zhuo said, "It doesn't look like he's lying. The look on his face really looks like he just learned about Xu Xingwang's death."

Su Li: "Well, I can't tell from his expression and body language that he is lying, but I can't tell. What if his acting skills are superb?"

Xiao Zhuo smiled and said: "You are so skilled in acting, can't you tell?"

Su Li shrugged and said slowly: "There is a world outside the sky, and there are people outside the world. Aren't there lies that even a lie detector can't detect?"

Xiao Zhuo said nothing more and nodded with a smile, which seemed a bit perfunctory no matter how he looked at it.

Su Li: "..."

Without waiting for Su Li to say anything, he walked into a store, spoke a few words to the boss inside and walked out.

"What's wrong?"

"I asked the boss just now, and it turned out that it was indeed flooded. Several shops in the back were flooded, but the lighting fixtures that were always on were the worst."

Su Li nodded: "Well, what about now? Where else are you going now?"

Xiao Zhuo shook the BB camera in his hand: "Go back to the station first, they have already gone back."
Chapter completed!