Yuan Youchong took out the keys he had collected from Huang Donghua and Mu Jiacun, squatted in front of the roller shutter door, tried one by one, and after about two minutes, he walked to the small door on the side and repeated the test.
"Nope."
He shrugged, "They don't seem to have the keys to this place with them, maybe they're hiding at home or somewhere else."
In fact, it is quite easy to understand, it is likely that there is a hidden device for them to forge lottery tickets, which is ironclad evidence of crime, and they cannot be careful. ” "It looks like we have to find a landlord."
Yu Chen took out his mobile phone and opened the dialing interface, but then he was confused, blinked and asked, "Hey, what is the landlord's number?"
"I don't know."
Yuan You glanced at him and said, "You can ask the colleagues below."
Since they can find out that this shop is rented by the herdsman, they obviously know the contact information of the landlord. ” "Done."
Yu Chen immediately contacted the criminal police up and down, and after a while, a text message was received on his mobile phone, and it was the landlord's phone number.
After dialing the phone and explaining his intentions, the landlord indicated that he would arrive soon, so he put away his mobile phone again, and at the same time sighed: "I have to say, my colleague below really has two brushes, and if I want to investigate and collect such clues, my eyes will be black." ” "That's what they do, they eat this bowl of rice."
Yuan Youchong lit a cigarette and said: "They may still lack the specialization in the art industry, the grasp of the general direction, and the reasoning of the case, but the implementation of specific work and tasks is much more than what we robbed." ” Yu Chen thought so, after all, in terms of employing people, he was much stronger than Yuan Youchong.
Half a cigarette, the landlord rushed over, the corners of his mouth were greasy, he seemed to be eating, and he came in a hurry when he received the call.
He looked a little flustered, obviously, just like the previous landlord, although the police had contacted him before and asked about Mu Jiacun and Huang Donghua, he also didn't take it too seriously, and suddenly learned that they were involved in the case, and his whole heart was raised.
Although Yu Chen did not clearly say what case they were involved in, the news of the murder of He Xiaoping and Qi Hongshan had already spread, and the police came to the door at this time to investigate what they were looking for, and they need to say more Although Yu Chen and the others were not wearing police uniforms, they were there with their temperament, and they were standing at the door, and the landlord immediately guessed their identities, ran up quickly, and said with an apologetic face, "I'm sorry, I just had dinner at a friend's house, that, the key here is still upstairs, you wait a minute, I'll go up and get it." ” Yu Chen nodded, said hello to him, and prompted him to wipe his mouth as if obsessive-compulsive, and then watched him go up to get the key.
Soon, he went and returned, came down with a bunch of keys, opened the small door, and said: "This roller shutter door is electric, the upper keyhole is only used to lock, but it cannot be opened, you have to press the remote control from the inside to open, let's go through the small door." ” Yu Chen didn't care about this kind of thing, nodded, and together with Yuan Youchong, he took the other four criminal policemen and followed the landlord into the shop.
With a click, the landlord turned on the light.
However, the light seemed to have been useless for a long time or for some other reason, and it flickered for a while before it stabilized.
"Yo, they've turned the shop into a warehouse," the landlord was a little surprised, and then realized that he seemed to have lost his words, and immediately added: "That, I told your people before, renting my shop is actually quite free, as long as you don't destroy it, you can use them as a shop, a warehouse, or a garage."
"It's just that the previous tenants were all small shops, or rented and contracted an express outlet or something, and used it as this kind of warehouse, which is really the first one."
Yu Chen's eyes turned around in the small warehouse, and found that it was quite clean, there were two power-on devices in the center that were not too big or small, and at first glance I didn't know what they were used for, and there was an old van parked on the left, and there were a lot of cardboard boxes piled up everywhere, at first glance, there was indeed a warehouse.
But after a closer look, I felt that something was not quite right, compared to the normal warehouse, it was too neat and empty, deducting the space occupied by the van, and the "goods" and equipment piled up in it did not even use one-third of the indoor space.
This is actually a good explanation for the fact that the amount of counterfeit lottery tickets of Mu Jiacun and Huang Donghua is not particularly large, as little as three or four thousand a month, as much as seven or eight thousand, distributed to each day, it is just a few hundred, and naturally there are not many "goods" piled up.
But after thinking about it, there are problems.
Since the workload is not large, why deliberately rent such a shop Judging from the rental situation of the houses in Salt Lake New Village, although the area of this shop is not too large, the rent is definitely not cheap, and the monthly cost of the small single room rented for Huang Donghua is too high.
Coupled with the fact that the amount of tickets they counterfeit is not too large, how much money can be shared after deducting these costs If it's for secrecy, they're not out of options.
Anyway, coating the old lottery ticket will not produce any noise, the size of the equipment is not large, and the layman can't recognize it, it can be stuffed into the small single room where Huang Donghua lives, and it can save at least a few thousand dollars a month.
However, the thoughts in the heart of the crime were not so easy to speculate, God knows what his head thought, and Yu Chen also let go of his doubts.
As for the landlord and tenant's crime, the landlord's failure to report it may indeed constitute the crime of harboring, but if he does not know, he naturally does not need to bear legal responsibility, and he must be investigated, at most it can only be said that he has not fulfilled his obligations and responsibilities of supervision and management.
If there is a lease contract, most of the lease contracts will state that the tenant shall not use the rental in any form to carry out any illegal and criminal activities, and the landlord can be said to have fulfilled the obligation to remind.
Therefore, no matter the previous one or this landlord, Yu Chen didn't want to, and he didn't bother to talk to them about anything, especially if they took the initiative to cooperate.
It's just that the previous landlord would look at the single room when collecting the rent, which made it more responsible.
After everyone was silent for a while, Yuan Youchong suddenly thought of something and asked, "Is this shop or storeroom open often?"
"How is it possible, they have to open the door often, how can I not know what they do" said the landlord: "On the contrary, I pass by here every day, and I have never seen them open the door, not even the lights, the curtains are drawn" "Since it is not open, it is obviously impossible to use it as a shop, it can only be a warehouse."
Yuan You glanced at him: "Then, why were you so surprised just now?"
"I" the landlord choked: "I didn't think about it for a while, who is full of food all day long, how tired it is to live like that."
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