Chapter 2446: Approaching the Truth

Chapter 2438 Approaching the truth

"When you sold this house, didn't you think about his heirs?" Lin Yi looked at Wang Shengxi and said:

"If anything goes wrong, you could be exposed."

"I also thought about this. He also has a son, but when he collects mountain goods, he will take his son with him, so I thought at the time that something might have happened to them together, but I didn't dare to take action immediately. After waiting for several more months, and more than a year later, no one came back from their home, so I quietly resold their house."

Wang Shengxi sighed, "I was too greedy for this matter. I thought I could hide it from the public, but I was discovered not long after. I stayed there for three years and no longer have a job."

"How were you discovered? Doesn't he have any other relatives?"

"It was a colleague of mine who was also interested in that house, and then I was reported."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment, "You said he has a son, right?"

Wang Shengxi nodded and said, "His son's name is Li Long. The boy is very smart. Just like his father, he seems to be someone who does big things."

"Have you ever inquired about this matter after you were released from prison?" Lin Yi asked:

"Were they really missing, or were they temporarily gone?"

"I guess something happened, otherwise we can't give up the house." Wang Shengxi said:

"After I came out, I heard that the house had been empty. No one had come back for the past four years, and it was finally auctioned."

Lin Yi's expression was deep, and Li Xianggui's condition matched the characteristics of the victim.

He disappeared before Fang Daye and others left the village.

In addition, when collecting mountain goods, he would collect additional old objects, which were valuable things at the time.

From Zhang Wenhua's confession, we learned that Ma Haiqiang personally said that he was going to the town to get something valuable.

Based on Li Hongzhu's confession, he should have brought a lot of money with him when he went to Yanjing.

In the same way, the same is true for Fang Daye and others.

Lin Yi's brain spun rapidly, integrating all the information about the case.

Fang Daye and others most likely learned that Li Xianggui had received a valuable treasure and were going to get it. Then they killed Li Xianggui and ran away with the treasure.

Lin Yi rolled his eyes, as if he thought of something again.

Zhang Wenhua once said that Ma Haiqiang said that he would come back to marry her after getting the money, which meant that they had no intention of killing anyone at that time, and that Li Xianggui's death might have been an accident, which led them to leave the village one after another, and even many years later, they all Don't dare to go back.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi's eyes lit up.

The context of the entire case became clear in an instant.

Li Xianggui was killed, but his son was not necessarily dead!

The murderer is most likely his son Li Long!

"Do you still remember where that house is?" Lin Yi asked.

"There is still some impression."

"Can you come with me? You don't need to do anything. Just follow me to identify the house."

"no problem."

He was a policeman, and Wang Shengxi knew that he had no room to refuse.

"Let's go."

Lin Yi got up, and after Wang Shengxi got dressed, the two took a taxi together and arrived at Yuanbao Town more than an hour later.

Wang Shengxi pointed to a red brick house in the town and said:

"This is the house."

"sure?"

"Sure." Wang Shengxi said with a wry smile:

"I spent three years in jail because of this house, and I still remember this place vividly."

"The house is much better than what I remembered. It doesn't look like a thirty or forty-year-old house at all."

"I heard that someone bought it and renovated it over the years. It looks pretty good."

"If someone really lives there, there shouldn't be weeds in the yard, right?"

"Huh?"

Wang Shengxi was suspicious for a moment, "It's really like this. If someone lived there, they would have tidied up and it wouldn't be like this."

"We'll talk about this later. Once we know the location of the house, the rest will be easy to talk about. I'll ask the driver to take you back."

"Okay, okay."

Afterwards, Lin Yi got out of the car and asked the driver to take Wang Shengxi back and paid the fare at the same time.

According to Lin Yi's guess, the murderer probably didn't know that he was in Yuanbao Town. Taking advantage of this time difference, he could go in and have a look.

After getting off the car, Lin Yi walked around to the side road, then looked around and found that no one had noticed, so he jumped into the yard.

Although the backyard of the yard is covered with a lot of weeds, the front yard looks relatively orderly.

Although it's a bit messy, it doesn't feel deserted.

Everything in front of you feels very old, with a quaint atmosphere of the times.

In the yard, there is a donkey shed with a stone mill next to it.

On the other side, there is a small wooden thatched house, which should be a warehouse for storing sundries.

There was a lot of debris piled up in the corner. Lin Yi walked over and found many things that he couldn't even name.

But it can be seen that they are all old antiques.

Lin Yi looked around, as if he was caught in the vortex of time.

Although this is an economically underdeveloped Yuanbao Town, people's living standards have improved significantly, and many high-tech things can be seen.

But this house looked extremely old.

Everything that can be seen has the flavor of time. Even if it was placed thirty years ago, it would not feel out of place.

Vaguely, Lin Yi also felt that no one would live in this house, because such an environment was completely unacceptable to modern people.

Lin Yi picked up a wooden stick from the ground and gently pushed the door open.

There is a faint musty smell inside the house. The layout is very simple. There is a room on the left and right sides. It is a very old-fashioned layout.

Lin Yi used a small wooden stick to push open the door on the left. There was a double bed inside and a wardrobe next to it, but it was empty without any clothes.

Then, Lin Yi went to the room on the right to take a look. As soon as he entered the door, he stopped dead in his tracks.

There was a red wardrobe in front of Lin Yi, with a photo frame on it, and a black and white photo inside.

In the photo, he is a middle-aged man with a light stubble on his chin. He is wearing what should be a leather jacket. His hair is as frizzy as a chicken coop, but his smile is very confident.

This style of photography was very popular at the time.

There are many such photos at home in Yangcheng. Zhao Quanfu often shows them off and talks about how handsome he was when he was young.

Looking at the person in the photo, Lin Yi had a hunch that this person should be Li Xianggui.

But for some unknown reason, Lin Yi felt that his eyes were very familiar, as if he had seen them before somewhere.

Lin Yi took his cell phone and took a black and white photo, preparing to go back and verify the person's identity.

But just as he was about to exit, something caught his attention...