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Of course, he also had to make sure that a person had not been there on the night of the 13th. That person was the fruit shop owner who had been in contact with Ah Shuang before she died.

Ding Wei decided to investigate the fruit shop owner first.

According to Shen Yuan's information on insects and Ding Wei's information, the police sent people to search the address of the victim again. Sure enough, two boxes of wild apples were found in the storage room on the first floor of the victim's house. Apples look ugly, and most of them are already resident in moths. And the wild apple source has been confirmed by relevant agricultural experts to be from the Xinjiang region. Police believe the victim's cell phone may have provided some information about the victim at the time of the crime, but no phone was seen from the first search of the site to the subsequent search of the building where the victim lived. The search by the police now extended to the area around the building where the victim lived. Ding Wei speculated that the phone had probably been taken away or destroyed by the killer.

Ding Wei then began to investigate the origins of wild apples. After a day of investigation, it was found that besides a few wild apples retail in the supermarket, two or three fruit shops were available in Changsha. The difference is that fruit stores store large quantities of wild apples and sell them in a conceptual way. That is to say, wild apples grow in high altitude, sufficient sunshine, away from the city, pollution-free, original ecology. For now, however, 'wild apples' should be planted to the end without any artificial factors, including the use of phosphorus, potassium and pesticides. In other words, insects have a high chance of surviving in such apples, which directly leads to a higher rate of broken apples. Therefore, it is unlikely that pure, wild apples that meet these criteria will emerge in large numbers in the market. In addition, the standard wild apple would be sour and unsightly.

Further investigation found that the fruit shop's market sales of wild apples from the source of the source of Zhaotong, Yunnan. The wild apples in Xinjiang are sold only in small quantities in supermarkets, and there is no other fruit shop. So, what kind of fruit store gift is the Xinjiang wild apple that Ai Shuang eats?

In the course of the investigation, a fruit shop owner named Zhu Youcai caught Ding Wei's attention. Zhu Youcai's fruit business was exceptionally large. There were eight chain stores in Changsha, and ten chain stores in the surrounding area outside Changsha. But none of the fruit shops run in Changsha sell wild apples.

In any case, Ding Wei decided to go and see Zhu Youcai.

When Ding Wei found Zhu Youcai, he was washing his BMW in front of his own fruit store.

"I'm sent by the police. There's something I need to check with you. I hope you can answer truthfully." Ding Wei went straight to the point. He knew in his heart that he did not need to play tricks on such people. As long as the words he said made him feel a certain amount of weight, he would be able to take into consideration their interests. At least, he would not be perfunctory in answering the questions.

Zhu Youcai immediately stopped washing the car, pointed to an open space on the opposite side of the road, and said, "Let's talk over there."

When the two of them reached the open space, Ding Wei asked, "Do you know a woman named Ah Shuang?"

"Hmm …"

"Do you know him or not?" Ding Wei raised his voice.

"I do." Zhu Youcai's voice was as quiet as a mosquito's.

"How did you know him?"

"Yes …" Zhu You Cai Cai was about to speak, but stopped.

"If you don't clarify now, then when the trouble comes to you and you want me to help you, I might not be able to."

"Fine, fine," I said. One day, when Ah Shuang was pestering a good friend of mine, she said that my brother had had one with her at Laoshan Hotel a few years ago, and she got pregnant, and she had the baby, and asked what to do about it. My brother had a good family. He was so scared by Ah Shuang that he couldn't speak, so he came to me, hoping that I could help him deal with this matter. I gave Ah Shuang twenty thousand yuan and told her not to come here and cause trouble in the future, or else I would be rude to her. Initially, I thought that this matter would just end here. Unexpectedly, after chatting with her for a bit, I fell in love with her. I later learned that as long as I was really good to her, she wouldn't do anything to me. If I really played with her for a bit and then ignored her, then I would attract her revenge. Her revenge was strange, and sometimes she talked about having a baby. Sometimes they follow you to your home or to your unit, and you have to pay for it. I asked her why she was so happy that you weren't short on money. She said she was very happy to see the gentlemen who were so high and mighty humbly begging her in front of her. "

"What does your buddy do?"

"Does it have anything to do with this case?"

"By the way."

"The Bureau of Land Control." Zhu added, "He had a colleague in charge of land survey who seemed to have been approached by Ah Shuang once. I don't know if he's been tricked, but I don't want to bother him anymore. "

"Do you know? Ah Shuang was killed on the 13th of this month. "

"Ha?" Zhu Youcai's face twitched and his body trembled.

"The police are trying to find out who killed Ah Shuang."

"I'm not the murderer. I'm not the murderer." Zhu Youcai took a few steps back.

"It is not up to you to decide whether or not you are the murderer." "But you have to make it clear. What is your relationship with Ah Shuang?"

"Friendship. That kind of ordinary friendship." Zhu Youcai emphasized the word 'average'.

"Let me confirm to you one thing. Did you send her two boxes of wild apples?"

"Yes, I sent two boxes. No, four boxes." After hearing from a fruit merchant from Xinjiang that eating wild apples has many benefits, she insisted that I find a way to get a few boxes for her. "

"We only found two boxes in her house. What about the other two?"

"In accordance with Ah Shuang's instructions, we sent two boxes to her mother in the town of Jizhou in Lai City."

"So, where did you get the apple?"

"Our fruit shop has its own long-distance truck, which we brought back from Xinjiang. As our fruit business in Xinjiang is relatively large, they sent us four boxes of fresh wild apples. This kind of wild apple is expensive, looks bad, easy to rot, so our shop generally does not do this kind of business. "

"Do you have regular correspondence with the victim?"

"Nope."

"No?" Are you sure the victim's phone directory doesn't have a list of your calls? Should I give it a try? " Ding Wei cheated.

"Ah, no, no, no, I admit that there is a telephone connection between us."

"So, where were you on the 13th this month?"

"I remember that day very clearly. The sales clerk on duty at the fruit store on Shaoxing Road got sick and another one went to the hospital to have a baby. The store was short of staff for a while, so I stood at the counter of the fruit shop for a day.

"What about tonight?"

"My wife hired a temporary worker to replace me at 5 pm, so I didn't stay the night. I went to a friend's house to play. My friend played mahjong all night, so I curled up on his sofa and spent the night there."

"Did the victim speak to you that night?"

"Yes, I've called several times."

"About what time?"

"Well -- I think -- I remember, about 10 o'clock, I called Ah Shuang and asked her how the apple taste, she said it was a little sour. At 11: 40 she called me from the bedroom on the second floor and asked me to tell her a yellow story, but before I could say anything, I heard her say, Wait a minute, if there's any noise downstairs, I'll go and have a look. Then he went downstairs. I waited for a long time and didn't hear her call back, so I called her back and twice she didn't answer. "

"Do you remember when the victim didn't answer the phone?"

"It should be about 12: 15. I'm sitting on the opposite wall where I can see the quartz clock. I remember looking at the minute hand on the quartz clock while I was on the phone. "

No doubt the victim was killed at that time. Ding Wei thought.

"Later on, you …"

"My wife is here. Please don't say any more about this." Zhu Youcai said as he quickly walked away.

Ding Wei looked in the direction where Zhu Youcai had left and saw a woman in a light yellow sweater standing next to the car, carrying a green bag, staring at them.