Chapter 606: Eating Brains

After Jiang Yuan took on the case, he brought the members of the cold case task force, along with the newly joined Qian Tongyi and others, as well as Liu Cheng and his team from the capital, to go eat hot pot together.

Even an emperor doesn't send hungry soldiers to battle. For the members of the cold case task force who had just finished working through a homicide, it was necessary to clear their heads at the right time.

As for Qian Tongyi, Liu Cheng, and the others, they were purely there as company.

Especially Liu Cheng; he had followed Jiang Yuan all the way from Ningtai County and witnessed the entire process of Jiang Yuan solving this "locked-room murder." It couldn't be called stunning—it could only be called completely devoid of frills.

From the perspective of a professional investigator like Liu Cheng, Jiang Yuan's command in this case was unremarkable. His techniques, to put it nicely, were like lifting a heavy weight as if it were light; to put it bluntly, he was just wielding the banner of technology and smashing it down hard. He used various techniques that sounded like everyone had them but were actually quite formidable, and he solved this pseudo-locked-room murder—which the criminal had covered up with clever thinking—in a posture that could be called incredibly ugly.

However, this was not the selection site for "China's Best Detective."

Looking at this case through the eyes of a criminal police officer, especially a criminal police commander, Liu Cheng found himself captivated by Jiang Yuan at every single moment.

Was there any combat form more dazzling than clever tactics, flexible application, and large-scale maneuvering?

Of course, it was the terror of an overwhelming force.

Liu Cheng dared to say that with Jiang Yuan's technical ability and method of application, he could absolutely solve the vast majority of cases!

Any criminal police officer who saw that kind of Liu Cheng would be bewildered.

Qian Tongyi took a sip of alcohol himself and said, "Qian Heyong was called back by his classmates to start a business, and the funding was mainly composed of investments from classmates and loans from our Shannan Provincial Bank. For a project that started with tens of millions, Qian Heyong himself suddenly disappeared. Honestly, even though it's annoying when people call you, you still feel something is wrong."

Even though Jiang Yuan had no grasslands or mountainous areas, many locals were willing to buy vehicles without proper documentation. But even so, the old man didn't know the buyer of Qian Heyong's car.

At this time, Qian Tongyi had already naturally chatted about the case.

"So our initial direction was to find the car. But you know, we are too close to Jiang Yuan. Pingzhou Yong's car was a Honda CR-V. As long as it went out from the main road and reached Jiang Yuan, it couldn't be found." Qian Tongyi silently took a sip of beer, sighed, and said, "Actually, we initially thought it might be something done by one of his gambling buddies, and we thought that if we found the car, we could identify the person..."

After the waiter finished serving the dishes, Qian Tongyi let him go out first, then got up to close the door tightly before pouring beer for Liu Cheng. He smiled and said, "The pressure on us for this case is actually quite high."

It was to explain some background information about the case.

Liu Cheng shabu-shabu'd half a plate of tripe in one go, took another sip of beer, let out a refreshing "Ah," and cooperated by saying, "In a month's time, what should have been found really should have been found."

The direction for solving a case is often not unique; it can even be said that most cases encountered by criminal police can be solved in more than five ways. Therefore, it is very meaningful to understand a little more during the initial stage of the case.

"Hmm, it feels like they ran away on a mature route," Qian Tongyi said. "The New Construction District is in the east, and Jiang Yuan is in the north. There are only a few roads to take, but it's hard to say. If he drove all the way out from the New Construction District and then left the scope of Changyang City, we wouldn't know at all. The surveillance in the districts and counties below is just like that. If he were to cover up the license plate or something..."

In this day and age, who doesn't have a few cold cases they want to solve?

There's no need to talk about cold cases; if any team could improve their case-solving efficiency and let everyone take their statutory holidays, that would be a great Buddha in the police station.

Things like the victim's personality are useless when they are useless, but some people really do invite disaster because of their personality.

Political Ma Zhengwei recalled, "Pingzhou Yong had an older brother and an older sister. His brother works for a central enterprise and is currently in the Yangtze River Delta. His sister married in this city, and her husband's family is well-off; her husband also works for a monopoly state-owned enterprise... We have basically ruled out the suspicion of Pingzhou Yong's family members. One is the time aspect, and the other is that the merchant's family environment is quite harmonious, there are no economic disputes between them, and there are no accumulated grievances. 'Was nothing found on surveillance?'"

From his tone, Liu Cheng heard a strong bias, pointing directly to a habitual offender.

If every case were solved upon seeing it, who would dare to believe it?

Therefore, although his family was quite busy, after Shang Ge told the leaders what he had seen and heard, he still received a three-day grace period to observe and understand Qian Heyong's new movements.

The people at the table couldn't help but laugh.

But to be fair, based on what he had heard so far, Liu Cheng also tended to think it was a habitual offender. If it were an ordinary person, I'm afraid they wouldn't even know where to sell the stolen goods. Qian Tongyi spread his hands.

Political Ma Zhengwei, who came with Qian Tongyi, ate some meat, put down his chopsticks, and said, "I also chatted with Pingzhou Yong's family. His father is a professor at our Shannan University. An ordinary university professor with three children; Pingzhou Yong is the youngest... Hmm, the old man's mood is very bad, but he is very well-bred. Pingzhou Yong's mother is the same."

Everyone wasn't too familiar with each other; the case was everyone's focus.

Besides, the Jiang Yuan police are not eating for nothing. Every year, large-scale car trafficking groups are wiped out. To say they haven't developed special informants among car dealers, even a dog wouldn't believe it. And the way of survival for special informants is most commonly selling out outsiders.

For criminal suspects involved in homicide cases like this, special informants only need to sell one to have enough for the New Year, and there won't be any aftereffects. Otherwise, the criminal system would have to talk about relationships.

"Put the pig brains in and boil them. Eat some pig brains before thinking about the case." ===== CHAPTER 607 =====