Chapter 175.

Keiko admitted that she was the one who saw her Persian cat fall into the water tank and drown, when she had the chance to reach out and save it.

But then she remembered what was going on upstairs between Ha Ran and her husband, so she moved on to something else.

And just like that, the pet Persian cat that had been with her for over a year died.

The cat was also a birthday present bought for her by her husband, Nojiri Taro, when she first came to China. She loved cats when she was in Japan, so her husband bought her one at the pet market.

She used the pet cat thing to drive away Xia Ran upstairs, and thought that her husband could come back to her, but she didn’t realize that he actually still couldn’t let go of that woman.

She all knew that the few times her husband came back late, he went to find Xia Ran.

But she also figured out that as long as it was out of sight, out of mind, she would just pretend that she didn’t know, for the sake of the children, this family always had to live on.

“Mrs. Keiko, why did you lie and say that you said on the phone that Mr. Nojiri would go to Apricot Flower House to buy you dim sum?” Cheng Mo asked.

“That’s what I said to the child, I was afraid that if you guys asked, the child would say that, so I made the mistake ……”

“You should know that your husband died an unnatural death, we will definitely investigate his track of action before his death, he did not go to the Apricot Flower House this situation we are sure to be able to find out, but still want to lie?”

“I was panicked at the time and said so, I wanted to correct myself afterward, but I was afraid that you guys would suspect me.” Huizi was so nervous that she didn’t even dare to look up at Cheng Mo’s eyes.

“You are bringing trouble to yourself by doing this, do you know that?”

Keiko shook her head, obviously not sure what kind of trouble spreading this lie would bring to herself, her expression was innocent.

“What kind of knife do you use to cook at home?”

“Just one of those ordinary kitchen knives ……”

“Bring it to me.” Cheng Mo commanded, and Keiko got up and went to the kitchen to fetch a kitchen knife, handing it over.

Cheng Mo reached out and took it, taking a closer look at it, basically dismissing the possibility that it was the murder weapon.

“Aren’t there any other knives in the house?”

“Again, do scissors count?”

“Bring it over and I’ll take a look.” Cheng Mo nodded, although it was unlikely that it was scissors, but to look, naturally, he couldn’t let go of any clues.

The scissors were fetched, they were also very ordinary scissors made of iron, the handle part was still a bit rusty, and it was wrapped with strips of earth cloth, and it was a bit more comfortable to hold in the hand.

“Is there any more?”

“No more.” Keiko shook her head.

Cheng Mo said, “Can you show me your room?”

Keiko froze for a moment, “Of course, Inspector Cheng please.”

Led by Huizi, Cheng Mo walked into Huizi’s room, and sure enough, it was very neatly cleaned up, everything was placed extremely neatly, and the desktop was even more spotless, just as if it was obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Seeing the artistic flower arrangement in the vase on the windowsill, Cheng Mo casually asked, “Mrs. Keiko also loves flower arrangement?”

“That was given to me by a friend of mine.” Keiko busily said, “Besides liking to keep cats, I just keep some flowers and plants.”

Cheng Mo saw it, there were indeed quite a few altar jars on the windowsill, and there were quite a few flowers and plants planted in them, which were all very well taken care of, and at a glance, it was a love of life.

A woman who loved life would only like to raise these flowers and plants, because she liked these colorful ones.

“Mrs. Keiko, thank you for your cooperation, regarding the case of Mr. Nojiri’s murder, before the inspector’s office investigation comes to a conclusion, please do not freely express your personal opinions to the public, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.” Cheng Mo gave a reminder.

“I understand, Inspector Cheng.”

“Alright, then I’ll take my leave first.” Cheng Mo nodded.

Cheng Mo returned to the arrest room and began to study the case file of “Nojiri’s” murder once again, except for acquaintances, the possibility of a love murder was extremely small.

In particular, “Nojiri” died shortly after the destruction of the “dog team”, which made him think that Inoue Nikiaki had killed him.

His side did not disclose information about Nojiri to the military intelligence Hutt District, and Shen Mo also found the new deputy director of the Hutt District Qi Qingbin, Nojiri’s death has nothing to do with the Hutt District. How could the Hutt District not take credit for the death of a Japanese agent, given the nature of the Hutt District?

There’s no relevant information coming back from the Bureau Headquarters side either.

Therefore, he is basically sure that this is the Japanese special organs to kill and kill, and then ready to plant evidence to the “military intelligence”, piggybacking on the intervention in the affairs of the Ministry of Public Works Bureau to find an excuse.

However, these are his analysis and speculation, about Nojiri and the “dog team” relationship should be erased by Inoue Nishiaki, Nojiri’s wife Keiko know what her husband in the end, this is also to play a question mark, at least so far he did not find what she has a crack.

The British also suspected that Nojiri’s identity, but they do not want this is the “military junta” to do, if it can be found out is an ordinary criminal case that is the best, if it is really the “military junta” or other spontaneous anti-Japanese organization, such as the Iron Blood Hoeing Group and so on do If it is really the “military intelligence” or some other spontaneous anti-Japanese organization, such as the Iron Blood Raiders, or something like that, then push back Nojiri’s identity, and also make the Japanese can not find an excuse.

If the “Blue Coat Society” intentionally targeted the assassination of ordinary Japanese living in the Concession, that would be different.

Obviously, the Japanese are now building public opinion, already in this area of the rhythm.

It was hard to say whether they would make up and direct some of the events that followed, which was why Cheng Mo had to call Tony Kai Ziwei and remind him to pay attention to this.

The first anniversary of August 13th is coming up, the Japanese are counting on the Junta to attack important Japanese facilities and sabotage them during this period of time, and then they will string this case together, and under the pretext of protecting Japanese civilians and fighting against “anti-Japanese” extremist atrocities, they can force the top brass of the Bureau of Public Works to accede to many of their unreasonable demands! The case must be resolved on August 13th.

The case must be solved before the first anniversary of 8-13 to not give them the opportunity to do so, which is the reason why Cheng Mo made a “three-day” warrant to solve the case.

This is the reason why Cheng Mo made the “three-day” order to solve the case. This is the kind of thing that no one will know if you do it, and it won’t even be recorded in the history books, but you have to do it.

Not for the sake of the interests of the Ministry of Public Works of the Concession, but for the sake of all compatriots in the Concession who are still fighting for the war, in order to give everyone more room to maneuver.

It’s not easy to stick to fighting on an isolated island.

Finding the murder weapon is not far from finding the murderer, but where is it? A knife to cut the neck artery and throat, the requirements of the killer is extremely high, must hand, eye, wrist in one fell swoop, as well as the strength requirements, adult men if not through special training is not able to do this step, but also very high psychological quality to do.

Killing is not as easy as talking, the scene has not left any traces, this is enough to show that the other party is an expert.

“Inspector Cheng.” Lin Huarong pushed the door in.

“What have you found?”

“I just came over from the fingerprint trace inspection team, on the briefcase of Nojiri Taro that was sent for inspection, other than his own fingerprints, no other people’s fingerprints were found, and inside were just some cargo lists as well as blank papers, nothing particularly valuable.”

“Old Lin, have you ever wondered if Nojiri Taro’s briefcase, which was left at the foreign bank, could have already been cleaned up?”

“Does Inspector Cheng mean that the people at the Tong Yuan foreign bank didn’t want the inspectorate to know the true identity of Nojiri Taro and cleaned out his briefcase in advance?”

“Nojiri Taro always brings his briefcase with him wherever he goes, why did he go back that night, but left his briefcase in the office of the foreign bank, and, as far as I understand, when he went to Ms. Xia’s house on the night of his murder, his emotional state was very poor, which means that something must have happened to him before that, being scolded by his superiors or ordered to be dismissed, all of these we don’t seem to have grasped .” Cheng Mo said.

“When you say this, it is really possible, Nojiri Taro has a bad temperament, so he went to look for Ms. Xia, but encountered a murderer on the way home, and was introduced into the alley and killed ……”

“The murderer killed someone, took away the murder weapon, and his clothes were splattered with blood, if he disposed of both of these things, it will be much harder for us to solve the case.”

Lin Huarong sniffed and was also a bit deflated, this case so far, it seems that there are quite a few clues, but none of them directly point to the murderer.

How can this be investigated? There is only one day left, to be exact, there is still a whole day plus one night, but now even the murderer has not touched a single hair.

Cheng Mo very much miss the later life of the street surveillance, there is surveillance, even if the murderer deliberately avoided, but as many as hairy cameras, it is impossible to hide all over, there will always be one or two will be photographed, and now, there is nothing.

“Is Lao Xu back yet, have a meeting.”

“Okay.”

“We’ve been running around for two days, mainly from the two directions of love killing and homicide, mainly investigating the victim’s behavioral trajectory and social relations, and now we’ve touched almost everything, but it seems that it doesn’t have much effect on solving the case, I’d like to change my mindset, and dig deeper into the research directly from the murderer’s characteristics.”

Cheng Mo summoned everyone to his office, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he clarified his next idea.

“Firstly, the murderer’s height is roughly equal to Nojiri Taro’s height, and he is very powerful, tentatively male, but we can’t rule out a well-trained female, secondly, acquaintance, this is the most crucial, if not an acquaintance, Nojiri Taro wouldn’t have walked into that severed alley with him, and from the scene, there are no traces of a struggle to corroborate this, thirdly, the murderer shouldn’t be a smoker, and there are no cigarette butts or cigarette ashes left at the scene. did not leave cigarette butts or ashes or anything like that, and Nojiri Taro did not smoke, fourth, judging from the wound on Nojiri Taro’s neck and the traces on the ground, at that time, the two should have been standing face to face, and the murderer suddenly swung the knife, which should have been hidden in his hand, so that the murdered person did not have any chance to react, between the situation at that time, even if the murdered person could have made a sound, it was estimated that no one had heard it, and after eight o’clock, the Even if someone passes by outside the alley, it’s seldom too much to stop and walk in to have a look, Fifth, after the murder, the murderer left calmly, and also took away the murder weapon, but he should have been splattered with blood, so I presume that he wore a dark-colored jacket when he committed the murder, So, tonight, let’s go to the place of the crime and visit it, especially the stores that were still open nearby at the time of the murder as well as passers-by going back home, Perhaps. it’s not certain that they saw or ran into the murderer. ”

“Isn’t this like looking for a needle in a haystack?”

“It’s just like fishing for a needle in a haystack, you have to fish for it, just in case there are clues, don’t give up on any method that might solve the case.” Cheng Mo said, “I’ll treat everyone to dinner tonight.”

“Cheng head has said so, then what’s the problem, just investigate!”