Long Xinyu was about to defend himself when Rao Xian waved his hand to stop him. He said sternly to Min Bocai, “Mr. Min, hello, my name is Rao Xian, and I am the police officer in charge of this case. Regarding the death of your son, we have already verified that Min Jun was attacked in the hotel parking lot. At the same time, Long Xinyu was in the banquet hall. He is not the murderer.”
Hearing this, Long Xinyu interjected confidently, “Old man Min, did you hear that? Officer Rao said that it wasn’t this young master who attacked Min Jun. You should investigate clearly before barking, don’t put everything on this young master.”
Min Bocai glared at him, “Long Xinyu, whether you did it or not, you caused Min Jun’s death. If it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t have gone to the parking lot at that time.”
Long Xinyu tilted his head, “Then why did Min Jun go to the parking lot at that time?”
Before Min Bocai could answer, Long Xinyu answered for him, “He wanted to retaliate against me because he was being handsy and harassing someone’s artist, and this young master kicked him. He was not happy about it. The hotel is yours, and my car key is with the waiter, which is the same as being in his hands. He definitely wouldn’t have good intentions if he found someone to drive my car to a hidden place, but he didn’t expect to be killed himself, and then thrown into my car by the murderer. So, people, you can’t have bad intentions. If Min Jun hadn’t wanted to do bad things, the murderer might not have had the chance to attack him.”
Min Bocai gritted his teeth, “Long—Xin—Yu—”
Long Xinyu was not afraid of him at all, “Min Bocai, old man Min, put your hand on your chest and ask yourself, don’t you know what kind of person Min Jun is? Has he done fewer outrageous things all these years? You, as his father, didn’t educate him well, so he was bound to get into trouble sooner or later. He’s dead, don’t blame this young master, blame yourself for not teaching your son well, which caused him to attract misfortune!”
Long Xinyu intuitively thought that Min Jun’s death was related to his usual behavior, and because Long Xinyu had been drinking all night and had been tossed around like this today, his temper had reached the breaking point, and he didn’t hold back at all.
Min Bocai was so stimulated by him that his chest rose and fell sharply, and he couldn’t speak. A young man nearby came over to help him, patting his chest to help him catch his breath.
“Xinyu, say a few words less, look at how angry you’ve made the old man,” Li Guang, who hadn’t spoken all this time, patted Long Xinyu casually, then turned to Min Bocai and said, “Mr. Min, Min Jun was murdered in the parking lot of my hotel. I’ve seen the hotel surveillance, and it should be clear that the murderer is not Xinyu. Min Jun’s death has nothing to do with us. It’s meaningless to shout that Xinyu is the murderer here. Instead of yelling at us, why don’t you carefully investigate what ‘bad things’ Min Jun did that made someone want to kill him!”
Li Guang also felt that Min Jun’s murder was a disaster he brought upon himself, so his words were not light either.
Min Bocai was already emotionally agitated, and after being rebuffed by Li Guang, he couldn’t speak even more.
Rao Xian rubbed his forehead. What Long Xinyu and Li Guang said was the truth, but it was too blunt. After all, Min Bocai had just lost his son. He was afraid that these two “young masters” would anger Min Bocai to death if they continued to speak, so he tried to ease the situation and change the subject, “Mr. Min, we have clues about the murderer, but we need to ask you some questions. If we continue to entangle with irrelevant people, we may miss the opportunity to find the real murderer. Why don’t you stop entangling with irrelevant people and come to the reception room to chat with me?”
Rao Xian’s words shifted Min Bocai’s attention. Seeing this, Rao Xian winked, signaling other police officers to take Long Xinyu and others away, while he took Min Bocai to the reception room. After entering the reception room, Rao Xian invited Min Bocai to sit down.
After Min Bocai sat down, he said impolitely, “Officer Rao, right? Ask whatever questions you have!”
Rao Xian didn’t care about his attitude and asked, “Mr. Min, did Min Jun have the habit of wearing a wristwatch?”
Min Bocai nodded, a wristwatch is a basic accessory for men’s attire, and Min Jun liked them very much.
Rao Xian understood and asked Shao Hui to bring the computer over. He had Shao Hui pull up the image of Min Jun pressing the elevator button outside the elevator and paused it for Min Bocai to see, “This is Min Jun’s image outside the elevator. At this time, he is wearing a watch on his hand. However, I just checked the evidence list. Min Jun’s personal belongings, such as his mobile phone, brooch, and tie clip, are all there, except for this watch. It is very likely that the perpetrator took the watch before committing the crime. Is there anything special about this watch?”
Min Bocai’s face was gloomy, staring at the computer screen and saying, “This wristwatch is a high-end European fashion, a collector’s item.”
“Is it very expensive?” Rao Xian asked.
Min Bocai said a brand name. Shao Hui searched it, and there was a string of zeros after the same model, enough to buy a small villa, Shao Hui clicked his tongue.
Rao Xian understood and turned to ask Min Bocai, “Mr. Min, this wristwatch is so expensive, it may be the perpetrator’s motive. The hotel is your family’s business, and the video from your police is also provided by the hotel. Presumably, you have also seen it and should know that Long Xinyu does not have the time to murder Min Jun. The person in the hoodie in the video is the perpetrator. But just now, why did you insist that Long Xinyu was the murderer?”
Min Bocai said as a matter of course, “Long Xinyu and those guys have been at odds with Min Jun since they were young. It was he who kicked Min Jun in the corridor, otherwise Min Jun wouldn’t have gone to the parking lot alone. If he hadn’t gone to the parking lot, he wouldn’t have been murdered. Long Xinyu is the indirect murderer who killed Min Jun!”
Min Bocai knew that when Min Jun had an accident and the police asked the hotel for the video, he had watched the video first, and of course, he also saw Long Xinyu kicking Min Jun. Min Bocai speculated based on Min Jun’s temper that Min Jun came to the parking lot very likely to retaliate against Long Xinyu, but he didn’t expect to be killed himself, so the culprit was Long Xinyu.
Rao Xian and Shao Hui were a little speechless. They had never seen someone like Min Bocai before. This person didn’t blame his son for his bad behavior and harassing Luo Pingping, but instead blamed Long Xinyu. According to his theory, everything was Long Xinyu’s fault for not kicking Min Jun?
No wonder Long Xinyu said that Min Bocai didn’t teach his son well. With Min Bocai protecting his shortcomings like this, it would be difficult for his son not to go astray!
However, Rao Xian would not comment on how Min Bocai taught his son. He asked Shao Hui to rewind the video and freeze it on the image of the hoodie person in the elevator, pointing it to Min Bocai, “This person took the hotel’s staff elevator. He is holding Long Xinyu’s car key and drove the car behind a pillar that the video couldn’t capture. Min Jun came out of the elevator and went straight to the pillar. So, Min Jun is likely to know this person. This person may even be from the hotel. Mr. Min, do you have any impression of this person?”
Min Bocai shook his head. When he watched the video, he had already confirmed that he didn’t recognize this person.
Rao Xian asked again, “Then does Mr. Min know if Min Jun has any enemies or grudges with anyone?”
“What do you mean?” Min Bocai’s tone was rush, and he quickly realized that his tone was inappropriate. He suppressed it before saying, “You know a lot. Min Jun is so big, he has his own opinions,” and then turned his head to ask a young man standing respectfully in front of him, “Jiang Mo, has Min Jun had any recent grudges with anyone?”
The young man named Jiang Mo respectfully replied, “No, young master has been going to and from work very regularly recently.”
Min Bocai turned to look at Rao Xian, as if to say, look, your son doesn’t have any grudges with anyone.
Rao Xian smiled politely and asked a few more routine questions before pulling up the photo of the crushed diamond on his phone to show Min Bocai, “This is the crushed diamond that the forensic doctor found in the wound on Min Jun’s head. It is a real diamond. It is speculated that it fell off the murder weapon. Does Mr. Min know anything about this?”
Min Bocai took the phone to look at the photo and carefully identified it. Then he trembled very slightly and quickly returned to normal. But it was this subtle reaction that made Rao Xian realize Min Bocai’s emotional fluctuation—Min Bocai knew the history of this crushed diamond, or knew what the murder weapon was—Rao Xian was sure.
However, Min Bocai handed the phone back to Rao Xian, saying that he didn’t know anything about it.
Previously, Min Bocai didn’t know the answers to Rao Xian’s questions. When Rao Xian wanted to bring the topic back to the crushed diamond, Min Bocai suddenly stood up, “I don’t know anything about this and have no impression. I will trouble Officer Rao to investigate the murderer. I still need to go back and prepare… the funeral arrangements for my son. I hope the police can catch the murderer as soon as possible!” Saying that, he left with his men despite Rao Xian’s attempts to stop him.
Shao Hui, who had been watching from the side and hadn’t said much, approached Rao Xian and leaned over to look at the photo of the crushed diamond on his phone screen, muttering, “That’s not right, Min Bocai was so arrogant just now, how did his attitude completely change after seeing this little crushed diamond? What kind of diamond is this, specially used to treat disobedience?”
He also noticed that Min Bocai’s attitude changed from the moment he saw the crushed diamond.
Rao Xian thought for a moment and instructed Shao Hui, “Find someone to keep an eye on Min Bocai. His eyes were not right when he left just now. He may know some clues.”
“Okay, Captain.” Shao Hui responded and arranged for police officers to keep an eye on Min Bocai.
Rao Xian got up and returned to his office, where he met Sha Rou and Duan Yisong at the door.
These two team members had previously been sent by Rao Xian to do technical exchanges and had just returned.
As soon as they saw Rao Xian, Duan Yisong shouted like he had seen a relative, “Captain, I’m back! Captain, I’m reporting to you, Sha Rou is bullying me.”
Sha Rou pouted, “Where did I bully you? I just asked you to write a few more reports. I’m too embarrassed to complain!”
“A few reports? Each one is tens of thousands of words long. I’m going to become a writer. I don’t care, Captain, you have to uphold justice for me!” Duan Yisong, recalling the painful experience of being forced to write reports by Sha Rou, was very eager to complain to Rao Xian.
Sha Rou didn’t care and said, “You are our team’s flower, will the Captain stand on my side?”
Duan Yisong refused to accept this, “Our captain is not someone who values beauty over team members—right, Captain?”
Rao Xian was used to these two bickering and just smiled, “Stop making trouble. It’s good that you’re back. There’s a new case, you’re both going to be idle.”
Duan Yisong & Sha Rou: “Ah!” The two looked at each other, and their eyes were filled with: As soon as we come back, there’s a case!
Rao Xian pretended not to see the two’s expressions and led them back to the office to explain the case in detail, and then asked the two to watch the video again.
Then he asked them what they thought.
Duan Yisong touched his chin, feeling that revenge or money were both possible, but it was difficult to infer with the limited clues at hand.
Sha Rou asked Rao Xian, “Captain, do you think Min Bocai knows important clues but is unwilling to say them?”
Rao Xian nodded, “Long Xinyu and the others all said that Min Jun has a terrible reputation and made many enemies. He was killed, so it is likely that he was retaliated against by an enemy. So you are considering whether the investigation direction should be inclined towards revenge, but Min Jun’s wristwatch is also missing, and that is a famous watch with a very low value. It cannot be ruled out that the murderer killed him for money, so now we can’t determine the direction of the investigation. You carefully combed through the clues and felt that Min Jun must know this perpetrator. This perpetrator may even be from the hotel. It’s good that you two are back. Go to the hotel with me and do a screening to look for clues.”
“Okay!” Duan Yisong and Sha Rou responded.
Rao Xian took Duan Yisong and Sha Rou to the hotel only to find that the hotel’s parking lot combined the above-ground and underground, and the above-ground parking spaces were more numerous, so most of the cars had to be parked above ground.
Duan Yisong drove the car to the underground parking lot, and the three got out of the car and began to look for the location where Long Xinyu parked last night according to the video, and soon found it.
Parking behind this pillar required some effort, so the parking space was empty. Duan Yisong found a small amount of splashed blood on the ground, which may have been splashed when the murderer hit Min Jun’s head.
“Captain, this is the first scene!” Duan Yisong looked around and confirmed.
Rao Xian nodded, told Duan Yisong to stay behind, and asked the evidence section to wait there to collect evidence.
He took Sha Rou to the hotel to question the hotel staff.
When Long Xinyu, Wenren Ying, and Li Guang came out of the police station, Long Xinyu was full of fire, “Damn it, Min Jun’s body was thrown into my car, I’m more wronged than anyone else, and Min Bocai still said that I killed Min Jun, tsk, a piece of trash like Min Jun, I’d hate to dirty my hands by hitting him, let alone killing someone and throwing them in my car?” At this time, Long Xiaoye, who was complaining, completely forgot how he kicked Min Jun last night.
Seeing that Long Xinyu was scolding and cursing and didn’t look good, and his car had also been impounded, Li Guang asked, “Are you going to send me back, or are you waiting for someone from my family to pick me up?”
Long Xinyu calmed down and said, “Send me back to my place, I sneaked away from my brother’s party yesterday, and if I cause these things again, I’ll be waiting to be scolded, I’m not going back to wait for him to scold me.”
Wenren Ying, who knew Long Xinyu’s brother’s temperament, snorted and laughed before saying, “I’m just afraid of my brother, I should still say hello to my brother about this matter, don’t let old man Min rely on me!”
Long Xinyu curled his lips, “Rely on my ass, I’m just afraid of trouble, I didn’t even call a lawyer when I entered the police station, I didn’t kill anyone, what can old man Min do to me? Also, you’re not allowed to say anything, keep this a secret from my brother first.”
Wenren Ying rubbed his nose, “It’s my business, I’ll make my own decision, you go home and wash up first.” He could no longer stand the smell of alcohol on his body.
Long Xinyu knew Wenren Ying’s cleanliness habit, they were kind enough to endure this alcoholic smell until now, so he nodded and let Wenren Ying go, and he sat in Li Guang’s car and let him send him home.
Before getting out of the car, Li Guang closed the car door while chatting with Long Xinyu, “Xinyu, I’m saying, who killed Min Jun?”
Long Xinyu said unhappily, “Anyone could have, Min Jun has done a lot of evil deeds over the years, maybe he was retaliated against by someone, although this murderer can also be considered to be acting for the heavens, but I still hope that the police will catch the person as soon as possible, MD, you killed Min Jun and threw the body in my car, that’s too much, but speaking of which, what outrageous things did Min Jun do to lose his life?”
“You have to ask him himself, he lost his life, it must not be a good thing,” Li Guang answered, and then he said to Long Xinyu with a serious expression, “Min Bocai is not a kind person, he likes to use dirty tricks and play tricks, Min Jun is dead, just now he was like a Crazy Devil, I’ll be careful, don’t let him find me trouble.”
Long Xinyu disagreed, “I didn’t kill anyone, why would old man Min look for me?”
“If Min Bocai was a reasonable person, he wouldn’t have gone crazy at me just now, and if he hadn’t raised a son like Min Jun, he wouldn’t be able to distinguish between right and wrong, in your house, if you were to commit the same atrocities as Min Jun, you would have been destroyed by your family long ago.” Li Guang thought of his dad with a bit of a toothache, but when he thought of Long Xinyu’s dad and brother, he guessed it wouldn’t be any better.
Long Xinyu originally didn’t think this matter had much to do with him, but Li Guang’s words still made him a little concerned, thinking that he should tell his family.
When it comes to dealing with people, many truths are known for a long time, but they have to be experienced personally before they become clear. At this time, Long Xinyu and Li Guang both thought that they were bystanders who were accidentally involved. No one would have thought that they would fall into a big whirlpool.
Over at the hotel, Rao Xian and Sha Rou were pointing at the hoodie person on their phones and asking the manager if this person was an employee of the hotel. Because the hoodie person was covered too Yan Xu, the manager couldn’t identify him.
Rao Xian wanted a list of staff to compare.
The manager was unusually cooperative and had the back office print out two copies of the staff list from last night and gave one to Rao Xian and Sha Rou.
Rao Xian and Sha Rou were checking the positions of these staff members with the manager when a waiter ran over in a panic, “Manager, manager, ah, manager, it’s not good, in the wine cellar, someone died in the wine cellar!”
The manager’s face changed.
Rao Xian frowned and said to the waiter, “I’m a police officer, speak slowly.”
The waiter was stunned for a moment before saying out of breath, “It’s, it’s that star, Luo Pingping, the one who sings, dances, and acts in movies, she’s dead in the wine cellar!”
Luo Pingping is dead?