Original sin

In the shantytown of the Lincheng Tire Factory, in a four-story tube building, Fu Hong and Huang Meng came to the door of a room on the second floor under the leadership of the Pian'er police.

There were some sundries piled up at the door, and the water that was boiling on an old briquette stove had already boiled, and water vapor came out of the kettle.

"There are still three households living in this building, one on the first floor, one on the second floor, and one on the third floor. Only Du Zhongping is an old resident, and those on the first and third floors came after the people in the building moved out. , isn’t this place about to be demolished? Some scavengers and homeless people live here, and no one will collect their rent anyway. The scavengers on the first floor are an old man in his 50s, a man from other provinces, who is almost absent during the day , I came back very late. The homeless man on the third floor is a beggar. He begs in Shixi Commercial Street every day, and he works until late at night. In fact, most of the tire factory dormitories are like this now, and it has become a law and order situation. , Hygienic blind spot. But the city has already said that it will be completely demolished in two months, and it will be fine by then." Xiao Liu, a film policeman, introduced the situation embarrassingly.

Huang Meng tucked his handbag under his arm, and knocked on the door that was already open.

In fact, there was no need to knock on the door, because they had already seen Du Zhongping sitting on a small bench eating noodles in the room.

Du Zhongping was still eating his noodles, and only squinted at the three people in front of him with a pair of eyes.

Police officer Xiao Liu stepped forward with a smile on his face: "Old Du, do you still recognize me?"

Du Zhongping nodded, but he didn't stop talking, he was devouring his food, as if he was afraid that someone would snatch it from him.

Xiao Liu introduced: "These two comrades are from the criminal police team of the Municipal Bureau. I want to ask you for some information."

Du Zhongping narrowed his eyes, and his expression became a little cautious, but he still didn't put down the bowl in his hand, and looked at Huang Meng and Fu Hong while eating.

Seeing that Du Zhongping was not conscious of receiving guests, Xiao Liu had to move two small stools by himself: "Captain Fu, you can just sit down, this is the only one at the top of his room."

The three of them sat down opposite Du Zhongping, and Du Zhongping ate the noodles even faster. He swallowed a large bowl of noodles, and then raised his hand and wiped it on his mouth with his sleeve. Twice, put down the bowl, he fumbled in his pocket, probably trying to get a cigarette.

Fu Hong handed over one, but he didn't reach out to take it, but continued to pick his pocket, took out a crumpled cigarette, and lit it himself.

Just as Xiao Liu was about to say something, Fu Hong waved his hand, and then smiled at Du Zhongping: "Master Du, I am Fu Hong from the Criminal Police Team of the City Bureau, and this is Huang Meng from our team. We are here today to learn something from you. situation."

Du Zhongping pursed his lips: "What's the situation?"

Fu Hong said: "Do you still remember the conflict between you and a young man named Huo Weibing at the gate of a chess and card room on Feishan Street last month?"

Du Zhongping snorted coldly: "Of course I remember."

"Then can you tell us carefully about the process of your conflict?" Fu Hong kept a smile on his face.

Du Zhongping frowned, squinting his eyes as if thinking about it.

"I went to collect the trash that day, and when I was done, I put the trash can back to its original location, which is not far from the door of their chess and card room. Our trash can has always been there. I don't know why they went crazy that day. I put the trash can back where it was, and forced me to move the floor, so what happened? It’s not up to me to decide where to put the stuff.”

Du Zhongping got a little excited when he said that.

Fu Hong hurriedly handed over a cigarette, this time Du Zhongping took it, and he looked at it: "Follow it, it's a good cigarette, 26 a box." Fu Hong smiled wryly, this cigarette is not a good one, but in Du Zhongping's eyes are different.

Du Zhongping went on to say: "I started arguing with them, they are not good people, four or five young people surrounded me and wanted to do something, I am not afraid, I am not reasonable, besides, although I am a garbage collector , but not everyone can bully, if they want to do it, I will do it with them! But then they didn't dare to do it, so I didn't bother anymore."

When he said this, he looked up at Fu Hong: "The Huo Hebing you mentioned should be their leader. That guy looks like a rotten bastard to me. Do you know what he told me? He said If it weren’t for my age, I must make me look good. I’m not scared, I’m crippled, I’m not afraid of anything, but if they really annoy me, I can kill them all.”

"Brother Du, what are you talking about? Talk about things seriously, don't talk about what you have and what you don't have." Xiao Liu Sheng was afraid that Du Zhongping's words would cause trouble, so he shouted.

Du Zhongping's own cigarette was about to run out, so he lit the butt of the cigarette that Fu Hong gave him, then put out the butt on the ground, and crushed it twice with his foot.

"What are you afraid of?" Du Zhongping looked indifferent.

Fu Hong thought to himself, this doesn't seem like a real murder, on the contrary, Du Zhongping seems to be unaware of the fact that Huo Weibing is dead.Is he acting?That's too similar to the acting, it can almost win an Oscar statuette.

Huang Meng was about to tell about Huo Weibing's death, but Fu Hong stopped him. Fu Hong then asked, "Master Du, you went to Guanhu District a while ago, and you also went to see a new building there, right?"

Du Zhongping's expression was a bit strange: "Are you investigating me?"

Fu Hong said: "It's just a routine investigation, Master Du, don't think too much about it."

"That's right, I've been there." Du Zhongping answered very simply, Huang Meng said: "You don't think you want to buy a house, do you?"

Perhaps it was Huang Meng's words that made Du Zhongping a little displeased. He widened his eyes: "Why, can't it? Can't I buy a house?" Fu Hong also gave Huang Meng a hard look, and he could see that Du Zhongping Although he is only a sanitation worker, he has a strong self-esteem. He hates others looking down on him the most.

Huang Meng smiled bitterly: "Master Du, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that."

Fu Hong also followed up and said, "Master Du, he's an ignorant kid, so don't worry about it like him."

Huang Meng closed his mouth, and Xiao Liu said, "This place will be demolished in two months. Isn't it normal for Master Du to go to see the house?"

Du Zhongping waved his hand: "I want to buy a house, but not for myself."

When he said this, the three of them all looked at him with incredible expressions on their faces.

Xiao Liu said: "Master Du, I heard that you have always been alone. Didn't you buy this house for yourself?"

Du Zhongping sighed: "I won't talk about this, but you are right, I have indeed been to Jinghu Villa, why do you ask this?"

"We heard that you had a dispute with one of their sales consultants there. Is this true?" Fu Hong was also straightforward. He could see that Du Zhongping was a straight person and he didn't hide anything in his heart. At this moment, he also expressed concern for Wang Lu's That profiling created suspicion, and it seemed like something had gone awry.

"That guy looks down on people. He knows me and knows that I'm a street sweeper. When he sees me, he sneers and ridicules. He speaks harshly like a woman. I was so angry that I slapped him, but I didn't slap him. Their people were pulled away. What happened to the sanitation workers? Sanitation workers are also human beings, and they should have the most basic respect, right? That guy should be beaten, and I will beat him again next time. Comrade policemen, you won’t do it because of this Why don't you come and catch me?"

Xiao Liu coughed lightly, and Fu Hong said, "Both that gangster and this sales consultant are dead."

"Dead?" Du Zhongping was stunned all of a sudden, his expression didn't look like he was lying.

"Why did you die?" Du Zhongping didn't calm down for a while, but he quickly grabbed Fu Hong's sleeve: "Comrade police, do you come to me because you suspect that I killed you?" They? Although I, Cripple Du, have a bad temper and sometimes cause troubles, I absolutely cannot kill people. Killing people is against the law, and I understand the principle of killing with life."

Fu Hong nodded: "Master Du, don't be nervous. We didn't say that their death must have something to do with you. You had a dispute with them before, so we asked you to understand the situation."

Only then did Du Zhongping calm down, and Fu Hong asked again: "I don't know if you know someone else."

"Who is it?" Du Zhongping suddenly became nervous again.

"His name is Liao Zhe. He is the owner of a waste collection station in Xiaohe District. He is on Shengli Road in Xiaohe District." Fu Hong looked at Du Zhongping while speaking. The police have not found any relationship between Du Zhongping and Liao Zhe, so He was also a little nervous. Once Du Zhongping admitted that he knew Liao Zhe, the three deceased would be related to him. Even if he wasn't the murderer, he should have some kind of connection with the murderer.

Du Zhongping licked his lips, then asked Fu Hong for a cigarette to catch the fire: "He won't die too?"

"That's right, he died too." Huang Meng said.

Du Zhongping was taken aback for a moment, then said: "Why is this happening?"

Fu Hong asked: "Do you know him?"

Du Zhongping nodded vigorously, and then puffed on his cigarette. He also felt that this matter was a bit strange. These three people had conflicts with him, at least they had disputes, but now they are all dead. Culture, but he also understands a truth, if the police come to the door, it means that he must not be able to get rid of the suspicion of murder.

Du Zhongping told Fu Hong and the others that every time he sent the garbage to the landfill, he would clean it up, pick out some garbage that could be sold as waste, and then secretly take it to the waste collection station in Xiaohe to exchange Money, this is not allowed by the unit, but no one will take this kind of thing seriously, not just him, several people in their environmental sanitation department do it like this.It's just that everyone is doing it secretly, and no one will open their mouths and talk around.

When Liao Zhe's father was still there, everyone's cooperation was very pleasant. When Liao Zhe was in charge, this guy had a dark heart and kept the price very low. Of course, Du Zhongping and the others had great opinions. Du Zhongping couldn't help it once. So he quarreled with Liao Zhe and said that they would break up. Liao Zhe threatened him that if he really wanted to turn his face, he would tell the leader of the sanitation department about it.

Du Zhongping wanted to mess with him at the time, of course, not to kill him, but to vent his anger, but in the end Du Zhongping endured it, he needed money, and for the sake of money, he had to swallow his anger in the end.

"Master Du, can you tell me who you want to buy the house for?" Fu Hong felt that this question should be very important, perhaps it was the key to the whole case.

Du Zhongping's face blushed slightly, he hesitated for a moment, smoked half a cigarette before he said slowly: "It's a debt I owed when I was young, I just thought that no matter what, I should let those girls live well One thing, I have been reluctant to spend money all these years, and every penny I can save is a penny, just to buy a decent house for them.”

Then Du Zhongping told a story about his youth.