10.4
The two of them quarreled again, but there was still no result. In the end, Fang Xiaohui still chose to compromise. Wei Chen still came over from time to time to eat and chat. Their lives went back to the beginning, and they still got along in the way that they thought they were good friends.
"Xiao Hui, let's go. We're going to the scene. Xiao Wei, you're going too.”Wei Chen rushed out of his office.
"Where are we going?" Fang Xiaohui asked as she walked out.
"Graveyard." Wei Chen did not even turn his head.
"Graveyard?" Fang Xiaohui and Xiao Wei looked at each other.
"North Mountain Cemetery reported that more than a dozen urns were stolen and extorted from their families.”Wei Chen opened the car door, smiled, and got in.
"Heh, there are all kinds of things. You even stole the ashes of a dead person.”Xiao Wei shook his head with a smile and quickly got into the car.
"I really don't like going to the cemetery. It's eerie.”Fang Xiaohui pouted.
"Why don't you not go and change to Wu Hao?”Wei Chen turned his head to look at Fang Xiaohui.
"Oh, no need. I was just saying. Let's go.”Fang Xiaohui knew that she couldn't shirk her job, so she still braced herself and went. In fact, she really didn't want to go to that kind of place. People said that that place was too yin and was not good for a girl's body.
Wei Chen didn't think too much about it, because the chief kept urging him, so he drove away.
Many years ago, there had been cases of ashes being stolen from graveyards. It was also to extort money. Some family members chose to pay up, while others simply refused. Only a small number of people chose to call the police. In the past, the cemetery management system was relatively simple. There was no monitoring equipment, so the grave robbers had no way to find them. Now that their surveillance equipment was fully installed, they would probably be able to find out something, Wei Chen thought.
"Guards, do you think robbing tombs and extorting people is such an unlucky thing? If he was willing to do this, must he be crazy about money?”Xiao Wei looked at him with disdain.
"What can't this person do now?”Fang Xiaohui expressed her understanding.
"If there isn't a single bad person in a stable and harmonious society, we will also be laid off.”Wei Chen shook his head.
"That's true." Xiao Wei also laughed.
"It's good to be laid off. Everyone hopes for social stability and unity, right?”Fang Xiaohui said with a smile.
"That's true. If there are really no bad guys, I'll change my job. I think I can sell insurance.”Wei Chen also smiled.
"Selling insurance is all based on deception. I think you're really good.”Fang Xiaohui nodded.
Xiao Wei secretly laughed.
"Who did I fool? Is that the impression I give you?" Wei Chen pursed his lips.
"What do you think?" Fang Xiaohui also pouted.
The car soon arrived at the cemetery management area. The row of houses looked quite stylish. Wei Chen stopped the car and the leader quickly went up to him.
"Aiyo, it's been hard on you." The leader was polite.
"How was it? How much did you steal?”Wei Chen got out of the car and went straight to the point without any small talk.
"There are a total of eighteen of them, eighteen of them. Their family members are not doing anything. They come to our office every day to cause trouble.”The leader was anxious.
"How can they not be anxious when their family's ashes are lost? Take us to the surveillance cameras." Wei Chen brought Xiao Wei and Fang Xiaohui into the office building.
In the monitoring room, he said,"How about this? You copy all the videos from the past few days for us. We'll go back and study them."”Wei Chen pointed at the computer screen.
"Alright, alright." The leader nodded in agreement.
"Tell me, have you seen anything unusual in the past few days?”Wei Chen asked.
"I don't think so." The leader pondered for a long time, but there was no result.
"Did all the family members come to you for the ashes? All of them?" Fang Xiaohui asked.
"A few families didn't come." The leader answered truthfully.
"How about this, you take us to the cemetery to take a look.”Wei Chen said. "Um, Xiao Hui, don't go. Go ask the family members in the meeting room.”Wei Chen intentionally or unintentionally took care of Fang Xiaohui and did not let her go to the cemetery.
Xiao Wei followed Wei Chen and Fang Xiaohui was brought to the meeting room by their staff.
There were more than twenty people in the meeting room. It seemed that each family had more than one family member.
"Send a representative from each of your families to tell me what happened. The rest of you wait outside for a while.”Fang Xiaohui took out her notebook and pen and placed them on the table in the conference room before sitting down.
"Alright, alright." Everyone discussed who should stay, and then they started to make noise again.
Fang Xiaohui frowned." Don't shout anymore. Hurry up. One family, one person. Sit here. I have a question to ask you."”Fang Xiaohui stood up and shouted loudly to maintain order.
Everyone was probably frightened by the policewoman's aura. They quickly left or stayed. No one made any more noise. They sat down quietly and waited for her to ask questions.
"Which one of you received the blackmail call first?”Fang Xiaohui asked.
"Me, it's me." A woman in her fifties spoke.
"Big Sister, who are the ashes that were lost in your house?”Fang Xiaohui asked.
"It's my father's." the woman said.
"What did that person say on the phone?”Fang Xiaohui asked while taking notes.
"At first, he told me to come to the cemetery to take a look and then call me. I thought that it might be time to renew the fees, so I came over. I didn't expect that I would find out that they had stolen my father's ashes. What kind of people are they? They even want to steal the ashes of the deceased.”The woman was a little agitated.
"Did he say how much he wanted?" Fang Xiaohui asked.
"I said, I want 100,000." The woman wiped her tears.
"How much do you guys want?" Fang Xiaohui asked.
"Eighty thousand…"
"100,000…"
"150,000…"
Although the prices were different, the same thing was that every family was told to pay and hand over the ashes. If they did not pay, the ashes would be thrown away.
Fang Xiaohui shook her head. This case was really strange. There was actually someone so bold to do such a thing. They were using the family members 'feelings for their deceased relatives.
Wei Chen and the others had also made some discoveries in the cemetery. The stolen ashes were all concentrated in high-end cemetery areas. It seemed that they had done some work. The families who bought high-end cemetery areas were generally well-off, and it might be easier to get money.
For this case, the surveillance video was still an important clue. Wei Chen and the others brought the surveillance video back to the team and planned to study it carefully. This job was handed over to Fang Xiaohui. A woman's carefulness might be more suitable for this kind of work.
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