Chapter 174.

“Mr. Barrett, yes, yes, I understand, three days to solve the case.” The case analysis meeting was suddenly suspended and Cheng Mo was picked up on a phone call.

The call was from Old Ba, the head of the police department of the Ministry of Public Works Bureau, limiting him to solving the case within three days.

The reason was self-explanatory, the higher-ups had pressurized Old Ba.

But Cheng Mo also knew that if this was a dead Japanese, it was estimated that the higher-ups would not be in a hurry to order him to solve the case, and it was also estimated that it was still the Japanese side that was messing things up.

“Three days, this is almost two days, Cheng Tan, you are also promising too hastily!” Lin Huarong all think Cheng Mo is not too eager to get credit, three days to solve the case, if this can not be solved, we can all be implicated.

“When a murder case is solved, forty-eight hours is the golden period, more than three days, the chance of solving the case is very small.” Cheng Mo explained, “This is the deadline given by Mr. Ba, I can’t do anything if I don’t agree.”

“Then it’s good to give two more days.”

“I also want to ask for two more days, the problem is, Mr. Ba won’t give it, he is also under pressure from the top.” Cheng Mo said, “Alright, don’t complain, three days, if we solve the case, I’ll treat everyone to a big meal.”

“Chief Cheng is not bad!”

“Love murder is a direction, this I also agree, as far as I know, Nojiri Taro’s wife Keiko had a conflict with the upstairs neighbor before, and finally forced the other party to move out, and the night of the accident, Nojiri Taro had been to that original neighbor’s house, and that’s how the fresh sperm stains staining the underwear he was wearing came about… …”

“Detective Cheng actually knew this already.” Lin Hua Rong gave a surprised cry.

“I’ve dealt with Nojiri Taro’s wife Keiko before, so I know something about it, but the thing is, that neighbor of Nojiri Taro’s, Miss Natsu, although there’s no shortage of men she likes around her, there’s no fervent suitor, and it wasn’t the first day that Nojiri Taro was having an inappropriate relationship with her, so if he really wanted to kill someone, he wouldn’t have had to wait until now, and, based on the analysis that we’ve done so far , the person who killed Nojiri Taro is most likely an acquaintance he knew, this acquaintance also includes Miss Natsu and his wife’s Keiko ……”

“Detective Cheng suspects Nojiri’s wife Keiko?”

“She personally drowned her own pet Persian cat before, framing Miss Xia upstairs and forcing Miss Xia away, and I was the one who handled this case.” Cheng Mo said, “At that time, I was able to see the relationship between the three of them, that’s why I didn’t pick the matter apart, but instead persuaded Miss Xia to move away to put the matter to rest, after all, if this matter spreads out, it’s going to hurt Miss Xia a bit more, but I didn’t expect that this Nojiri Taro would continue to pester Miss Xia, so we had to ask Mrs. Keiko to come over to be interrogated. ”

“She was the one who reported the case, she killed someone and then reported it herself, it doesn’t make sense ah!” Xu Qinghe said, “According to common sense, she can completely not need to report the case, although there are not many people walking in that alley, as long as the day breaks, it is inevitable that she will be discovered, and at that time, someone will naturally report the case.”

“Let’s rule out Keiko’s murder suspicion first.”

“Good.”

“Still split into two groups, one group will go to check Miss Xia’s male-female relationship, Xu Qinghe, you go, you know Miss Xia and are familiar with the situation.”

“Old Lin, you go to find the murder weapon, I’ll give you the information about the murder weapon later.” Cheng Mo assigned tasks, “In a while, I’ll talk to Keiko again to see what she was doing the night Nojiri Taro died.”

“Yes.”

The case investigation until now, Cheng Mo is deliberately avoiding the identity of Nojiri Taro as a Japanese secret agent, he knows, but now he can only pretend not to know.

It was just treated as an ordinary criminal homicide case, except that the dead were Japanese expatriates.

The Japanese side is not going to take the initiative to reveal the identity of Nojiri Taro, then they themselves are first unreasonable, want to put pressure on the Bureau of Public Works can not find justification.

But they are sure to want to Nojiri Taro was killed to the “anti-Japanese” patriots head, such as the Blue Coat Society’s hijacking team or civil spontaneous anti-Japanese organizations.

As long as an ordinary Japanese expatriate died in the hands of the “Blue Coat Society” or anti-Japanese organizations, they could pressure the Bureau of Public Works to intensify the crackdown on the Blue Coat Society and anti-Japanese organizations, and even obtain special permission to enter the Concession to carry out related activities.

As a matter of fact, despite the suppression of the anti-Japanese movement by the authorities of the Concession, they still retained some leeway for their activities, at least the activities within the Concession were at most outlawed, and even if they were to make arrests, there was still room for them to do so.

If this had fallen into the hands of the Japanese, it would have been either death or mutilation.

The Japanese are trying to further squeeze the living space of the Junta as well as the civil anti-Japanese patriots in the Concession, and this is their usual purpose.

We can’t let the Japanese have their way, so he kept this case in the category of ordinary criminal cases, then solved the case and caught the murderer, so the other side couldn’t find an excuse.

Because the Junta has a private and secret agreement with the Bureau of Public Works, overreaching things, such as assassination operations against the Japanese, the Junta and the Bureau of Public Works have a tacit agreement not to carry them out in the Concession.

In exchange, the Junta receives a certain amount of shelter for its activities within the Concession, which, of course, cannot be publicized.

Even if it is publicized, no one will believe it. There is no black and white paper in existence, and when the time comes, anyone can deny it.

The actual situation is also the same, the military junta in Shanghai assassination mostly against traitors and traitors, except for the area outside the lease.

The sabotage operations of the Junta in Shanghai were also all in the Japanese-controlled areas of Zhabei, Nanshi, and Huxi, but of course, there were few other worthy targets for the Junta in the Concession, except for traitors.

They would definitely render the identity of Nojiri Taro as a civilian, and then create public opinion so that the Japanese military would have more excuses to meddle in the affairs of the Concession and even interfere with the investigation of the case.

If the case could not be solved in three days, the Bureau of Public Works might have to be forced to agree to some conditions from the Japanese side, and as to what those conditions would be, Cheng Mo did not know yet.

But once the Japanese intervene in the investigation of the case, they will definitely steer the case in the direction they want.

Cheng Mo drives along to meet Nojiri Taro’s wife Keiko.

Keiko and the child are at home. The child doesn’t seem to know what it means that his father is dead and is playing in the yard, while Keiko is at home packing and organizing some items that look like they belong to Nojiri Taro, preparing for his funeral, I guess.

Just at present Nojiri Taro’s body is still in the funeral parlor, the case is still under investigation, and it is not known when the body can be returned, so when the funeral will be held also does not have an exact date.

Someone from the family had visited, Cheng Mo saw the gift box placed on the table, it was some food, left for the orphans and widows.

“Mrs. Keiko, I’m here again.” Cheng Mo reached out and knocked on the door frame.

“Ah, Detective Cheng, please come in.” Keiko wiped the corners of her eyes and hurriedly came forward, bending slightly and respectfully.

“Thank you.”

“Ms. Keiko, coming here today, I still have some information to learn from you.” Cheng Mo said.

“You say.”

“The afternoon before your husband, Mr. Nojiri, died, you said you called him once, what was the content remember?”

“Yes, I remember, I was asking him when he was coming back and if I should save dinner for him, he said he was coming back for dinner and said he was going to the Apricot House to get me some snacks.”

“He did not come back all night, you are not worried, did not go out to look for it?”

“I was worried, but I’m a woman with a child, and I didn’t dare to go out at night until after dawn.” Keiko explained.

This explanation didn’t have any problem, at night, a young woman really didn’t dare to go out easily either, in case she bumped into a bad guy that would be troublesome, especially if there was a child at home.

“So you were at home the whole time that night.”

“All the time.”

“When did the child fall asleep?”

“I took him to the playground that day, and he was quite tired from playing, and he said he would wait for his father to come back together for dinner, but he fell asleep without waiting.” Keiko said.

“That means no one can prove that you stayed home the whole time after the kid fell asleep?”

“I just stayed home the whole time, how does that still need to be proven?” Keiko asked in surprised innocence.

“Well, let’s leave this issue aside for now.” Cheng Mo forked the topic and said, “Mrs. Keiko, regarding the fact that your husband has been maintaining an inappropriate male-female relationship with Ms. Xia Ran, you are aware of it, right?”

Keiko’s gaze averted up, “Detective Cheng, what are you saying, I don’t understand.”

“You used to live upstairs and downstairs, and this house is not very soundproof, your husband went upstairs to look for Ms. Xia Ran, and then the two of them …… you dare to say you didn’t hear it?”

“I don’t know, Inspector Cheng, if you don’t have anything else, please go back, I still have to cook for the child.” Keiko directly got up and assumed a posture of sending off.

“Mrs. Keiko, the bruise on your neck is from your husband, right?” Cheng Mo asked directly.

“No, I accidentally hit it ……”

“Bumping can hit the position of the collarbone?”

“Inspector Cheng, this has nothing to do with my husband’s case, right?” Keiko gathered her collar and gave a very disgruntled questioning cry.

“Mrs. Keiko, anger and jealousy can make people lose their minds, you were subjected to prolonged domestic violence and endured your own husband cheating on you, anyone would be disgruntled.” Cheng Mo said, “Hatred accumulates to a certain level, then you will be motivated to kill, you can’t prove that you had been at home after eight o’clock that night, then you also had the time and motive to kill.”

“That was my husband, why would I kill him?”

“Betrayal and prolonged beatings, abuse, is enough to make a person lose his mind and kill.” Cheng Mo stared at the other party and said.

“No, no, I don’t dare to kill …… anyone.”

“You dared to hold down the pet Persian cat you raised and drowned it in a water tank with your own hands, what else would you not dare to do, or maybe, you originally wanted to drown Mr. Nojiri in that water tank in the yard, right, and take a cat as a test first?” Cheng Mo asked with oppressive eyes.

“I didn’t, that was just an accident, I didn’t kill the cat, it drowned when it fell by itself and got entangled in the water plants in the tank.”

“But you didn’t save it, did you?”

“I, I ……” Keiko cried out, covering her face.