Street Hustler and His Policewoman Wife

Chapter 488: Chapter 488: Everything Begins With Profit!

Pay attention to the car tracks!

Notice the environment!

This message, Lin Xi knew it was sent to her by Zhang Xian.

But Zhang Xian had not been to the scene.

Of course, Zhang Xian should have already reviewed the scene images footage by now.

However, Lin Xi felt that this message was probably relayed to Zhang Xian by Chen Xiao after he met him.

But who discovered it first, it’s not important now.

The phrase "pay attention to the car tracks," made Lin Xi have the same thought as Chen Xiao after seeing no brake marks at the scene.

When Zuo Shu was killed, the vehicle might have been stationary!

Yet in the text message, there were four more words: Notice the environment!

Niu Shou Mountain is less than three kilometers away from Songshanping.

And Songshanping is the closest village to Niu Shou Mountain.

After Zuo Shu left the Chen Family, logically, he shouldn’t take long to drive out of Niu Shou Mountain’s area.

But last night, Chen Xiao and Zuo Shu drank until nearly 10 PM.

Zuo Shu’s time of death was between 11 PM and midnight.

Which means, Zuo Shu drove three kilometers for more than an hour?

This is impossible.

There’s almost not a bit of possibility!

So, Zuo Shu’s car should have been parked here the whole time.

Why did he stop?

Why did he stop for an hour?

He must have been waiting for someone.

Waiting for whom?

This question Lin Xi couldn’t figure out, and she thought Chen Xiao wouldn’t know who it was either.

But this someone must definitely be the first issue investigative police should consider.

This person in Lin Xi’s mind certainly wouldn’t be Chen Xiao.

Thinking from any aspect, Lin Xi wouldn’t believe it was Chen Xiao.

She felt that as a wife and even as a police officer, she wouldn’t consider this.

Because Chen Xiao hasn’t committed any major crime.

Not committing a crime means Chen Xiao wouldn’t have any weaknesses.

Since there are no weaknesses, Chen Xiao and Zuo Shu’s interactions have no reason to result in murder.

But why did Chen Xiao remind her to pay attention to the environment?

Apart from a road, there’s just a mountain around here.

The mountain isn’t high, but the vegetation is lush in this season.

Liu Dayou and Xiaoji Knife Man saw Lin Xi climbing towards the mountain, exchanged a glance, and followed her forward.

Lin Xi picked up a tree branch, combing through the surrounding shrubs as she walked.

Liu Dayou and Xiaoji Knife Man followed suit.

Even though they didn’t know what Lin Xi was searching for, nor what she was thinking.

But as time passed, Liu Dayou, while rummaging through a patch of thorns, suddenly found something on a thorny tip.

"Sis!"

Liu Dayou immediately called out.

Lin Xi responded and came over: "What’s wrong?"

"Look, there’s a piece of fabric here, like it’s torn off from clothes."

Lin Xi immediately looked in the direction Liu Dayou pointed at.

As soon as she saw the torn-off piece of fabric, Lin Xi’s gaze instantly froze.

"Sure enough, there’s a fallback plan! I’m sure this piece of cloth is from Chen Xiao’s clothes. This fabric and the torn-off pattern, I clearly remember buying him one."

"How can this be! Brother Chen’s clothes were worn on him, he couldn’t have come to this mountain." Liu Dayou said subconsciously.

Lin Xi looked somber: "Of course, I know he couldn’t have come to this mountain. He hasn’t worn this outfit recently, only last time he went home."

"Then how did the clothes get torn here?" Xiaoji Knife Man followed up, then abruptly exclaimed:

"Damn, could someone have stolen Brother Chen’s clothes from home?"

Lin Xi nodded: "You might actually be right."

"They are truly trying to ruin Brother Chen, first having had a conflict with Zuo Shu, now there’s torn fabric from Chen Chen’s clothes on this mountain! The most crucial thing is this fabric is indeed Brother Chen’s!"

"And those previously mentioned hair, if it’s also Brother Chen’s, wouldn’t it be mud in your pants, even if it’s not poop, it’s still poop!"

Lin Xi remained silent, just staring dazed at the fabric.

Liu Dayou also fell silent, contemplating seriously for a while:

"Sis, you said to wait twelve hours before. There’s now less than five hours left till the twelve-hour deadline. Things unfavorable to Brother Chen include the conflict with the deceased last night, which could be assumed as Brother Chen’s motive to kill."

"If hair analysis proves it’s Brother Chen’s, it implies the first evidence appeared."

"Adding this piece of fabric now completes the evidence chain further!"

"Having witnessed many cases with Brother Chen, now I can identify some clues. The person setting up Brother Chen likely isn’t using shocking tactics to instantly frame Brother Chen for murder but rather uses a ’boiling frog in warm water’ approach!"

Hearing Liu Dayou mention "boiling frog in warm water," Lin Xi’s eyes lit up:

"What you said might be very possible. Today I was thinking about what strategy they could use to shake us. But now it seems, he’s likely to use one tactic stacking upon another to wear Chen Xiao out in resolving them one by one."

Liu Dayou nodded: "Then what should we do now?"

"At the twelve-hour checkpoint there will definitely be pointers to Brother Chen’s guilt. And since they found clothing fabric, it means he might have infiltrated Brother Chen’s life."

Lin Xi said, then looked down the hill and added:

"Zuo Shu didn’t brake but waited here all along, which especially provides another hypothesis—that Zuo Shu knew he was going to die, he may willingly have embraced death!"

"Before dying, he visited most places your Brother Chen did, and he was once a police officer. He knew making a mistake could risk losing everything!"

"Thus, solving this case isn’t about who killed Zuo Shu, but what mistake Zuo Shu committed making him willingly die, resulting in trapping Brother Chen."

Lin Xi’s words prompted Liu Dayou to say: "Previously, I went to Shencheng with Brother Chen, heard President Guo say that Zuo Shu’s newfound entrepreneurship stemmed from backing by his father-in-law’s family."

"And the sole conflict between Zuo Shu and Brother Chen is about the land at Yang Lake. It seems money moves people’s hearts, if Brother Chen is exposed as a murderer, then Dragon Cauldron faces severe public backlash."

"How could a renowned detective for solving wrongful death end up a murderer, letting himself represent a company trusted by Shencheng people? Yet the land is already under development, so if Dragon Cauldron is stripped of qualifications, the only successor company would be Zuo Shu’s!"

If Chen Xiao were here listening to Liu Dayou’s analysis, he’d surely lavish praise on him.

Because Dayou has indeed progressed quite a bit!

However, Chen Xiao was still in the interrogation room, while Lin Xi was the one investigating this matter.

Liu Dayou could think of this point, and Lin Xi could too.

And having thought of it, she had to act upon it.

At this moment, Lin Xi took out her phone, but as she did, she received another text message.

On it was a prominent number, with a surname note beside it: Hu.

This Hu was indeed Hu Yue’s contact from Qingxi!