Chapter Seventy-Three Exclude Doubts

  "What? You think there's something wrong?" Deng Xiancheng thought carefully, seeing Yang Jie's face change after hearing these few names, and asked in a low voice.

  They were all retired veterans, about the same age as my father, and had all participated in the Vietnam War. So when my dad knew they were having a hard time living and didn't have jobs, he invited them to come work at the winery as drivers.

  Dai Xiaoqiang once taught me how to drive, he's my coach, I'm very familiar with them, I think this thing is a bit fishy, they have no reason to kill Wang Guixi for the sake of shares." Yang Jie's face was filled with gloom, he never thought that this matter would be related to these six people.

  Deng Xiancheng was not familiar with the situation of these people, and seeing Yang Jie so certain, he said seriously: "If Wang Guixi's death is really related to that share allocation, then the six people who are not on the list now have a motive for murder. In any case, we will investigate their whereabouts last night."

  Yang Jie heard Deng Xiancheng say this, frowned and said: "Deng's investigation is a matter of duty, and it is not unreasonable to investigate him. Yang Jie will not interfere or obstruct, but I would like to ask Deng to listen to my personal opinion."

  "Go ahead!"

  Deng Xiancheng had seen Yang Jie's accuracy in deducing the case when he was in Yang Xin Hua's office, and now it basically matches Yang Jie's previous deduction, so he wanted to hear Yang Jie's opinion.

  "I believe Comrade Deng also knew about the Yanhe River Winery. The predecessor of the Yanhe River Winery was a collective enterprise in Yangjiacun Village, but it was on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor management. At that time, my father had just returned from his job transfer and used his disability pension to take over the winery."

  The legal representative of the winery has been changed to my father's name, but the winery still needs to pay a contract fee to the village every year. Jimmy invested in the winery and co-founded Wuyang Wine Industry with my father. This winery, which is worth around 20 million yuan, naturally had to be converted from a collective ownership system to a private enterprise, so that it could become a fixed asset of Wuyang Wine Industry and be incorporated into it.

  "My father gave 2% of the shares of Wuyang Wine Industry to the workers in the winery and the villagers, not forgetting our neighbors. Another reason is that he hoped to exchange the shares for ownership of the winery. With shares worth over 20 million, he exchanged them for a small factory with total assets of less than 2 million. It's reasonable to say so." Yang Jie's words made Deng Xiancheng nod in agreement.

  Yang Xinhua contracted this small factory, with total assets of around 2 million yuan. The contract period still has ten years left. Yang Xinhua gave 1% of the shares to all the employees in the factory and 1% of the shares to the village. From any perspective, both the winery workers and the village are beneficiaries.

  Zhang Bo, Yuan Qiuhua, Dai Xiaoqiang, Zhao Huaiyuan, Ma Dajun, Wang Cheng and others, they are just drivers hired by the winery, neither are they original employees of the winery nor are they from Yangjiacun Village. It's not a problem that Wang Guixi didn't give them shares.

  Moreover, although Dai Xiaoqiang's family conditions were not good, they were very loyal and righteous. The winery treated them well, my father treated them well, how could they possibly do such a thing?

  Besides, Zhang Bo and others are all experienced scouts. Even if they knew the share allocation table, how could they leave such a big clue for us in the share list with so many confusing clues around the murder case?!" After Yang Jie finished expressing his opinion, Deng Xiancheng also fell into deep thought.

  If it was indeed these six people who did it, then they knew about the shareholder allocation list. After killing him, they had ample time to go to Wang Gui Xi's office and destroy that shareholder allocation list which only lacked their six names.

  However, Deng Xiancheng, who handled things tightly, still decided to contact the six people first. Regardless of whether they were involved in the matter or not, they all had a high degree of suspicion at present, and this suspicion would not be reduced due to Yang Jie's few words.

  "Comrade Yang, we've already grasped the situation you mentioned. During our investigation, we'll pay attention to our methods and won't wrong a good person or let a bad one go. Thank you for your support of our detective work. If there's nothing else, I'll get busy now!" Deng Xiancheng said as he shook hands with Yang Jie, then led the two detectives behind him towards Yangjia Village.

  Watching Deng Xiancheng and others leave, Yang Jie touched his protesting stomach, didn't look for clues again, turned around and walked back to Yang Xinhuas office, accompanied Yang Xinhua to the winery canteen to eat this lunch that can be called afternoon tea.

  At around four o'clock in the afternoon, County Bureau Director Yang Hua and Secretary Zhou's secretary Jiang Yi arrived at the Yuehe River Winery in two separate cars.

  Yang Jie listened to the telephone recording intercepted by Xiao Liu, and after listening to Yang Hua's call to Deng Xiancheng, he knew they were almost at the winery, so he returned to the winery from the village.

  Jiang Yi didn't get out of the Santana from the county committee office, but instead got out of a 212 Jeep. Looking at Jiang Yi getting out of the jeep, Yang Jie smiled and walked up to him, "Brother Jiang, what brings you here?"

  "I've been transferred to Huanghe Township as the Party Secretary, and Director Luo from the Organization Department personally escorted me here this afternoon. I heard that something happened at the winery, so after the welcoming ceremony, he came with Director Yang. What's the situation? Are there any leads?" Jiang Yi's eyes sparkled with energy, and his entire being seemed to be bursting with vigor.

  It seems that Secretary Zhou is about to leave and has already started arranging for personnel around him.

  "The case is still under investigation, and we have already grasped some clues. I believe that we will be able to catch the suspect soon. Thank you, Secretary Jiang, for your concern about the winery. As soon as Secretary Jiang arrived in Xunhe Township, he came to inspect the winery. Yang Jie represented all the cadres and workers of the factory to thank Secretary Jiang for his attention to the work of the winery and welcome him to visit the winery." Yang Jie's words made both Jiang Yi and Yang Hua burst out laughing.

  Looking at the serious Yang Jie, Yang Hua standing beside him said: "Young Yang, we are all our own people, why be so polite? The wine factory has had such an incident, no one wants to see it happen. Our public security organs will certainly make their greatest efforts to solve the case as soon as possible and give justice to the dead."

  "Yang, you're too distant! Just because I'm no longer Secretary Zhou's secretary, you won't even call me 'big brother' anymore?" Although Jiang Yi was pleased that Yang Jie addressed him as "Secretary", he also knew that after Secretary Zhou's promotion, his backing in the county would be gone.

  Yang Jie's family has a close relationship with Secretary Zhou, and the Huanghe Wine Factory is highly regarded in Huanghe Township. The Yang family village is also very famous in Huanghe Township. As soon as he arrived in Huanghe, he urgently needed the support of local people, so after taking office, he came to Yangjia Village for the first time, which shows his emphasis on the wine factory and Yangjia Village.

  "Brother Jiang, in private settings, it doesn't matter what we call each other. Now that you're the leader from the countryside visiting our winery for inspection, of course, I should address you as Secretary Jiang, Director Yang, don't you think this is right?"

  Yang Hua did not expect Yang Jie to ask him, but he was also a versatile person. Upon hearing this, he nodded and said: "Little Yang is right, how we address each other in private doesn't matter, but in public, we still need to pay attention to the impact. After all, Brother Yang is also within the system, and we can't let him give others an impression of being disrespectful to leadership."

  Yang Jie used the detective auxiliary system to analyze micro-expressions and found that Jiang Yili's visit to the winery was not purely out of concern for the case. However, Yang Jie wouldn't say anything about it. After exchanging a few pleasantries with the three people in the parking lot, Yang Jie took them to the office to meet Yang Xinhua.

  Deng Xiancheng rushed to the winery with two detectives as soon as he learned that Yang Hua had arrived, and they hurried back to the winery from Yangjia Village. After arriving at Yang Xinhua's office, they briefed Yang Hua on the basic situation of the case.

  The criminal police detachment did not find any useful clues in the winery or Yangjia Village. The workers at the winery and the villagers of Yangjia Village all had a good impression of Wang Guixi, who was never quarrelsome and was considered a kind person. Everyone couldn't understand why someone would kill Wang Guixi.

  Last night, the workers on the late shift at the winery were also investigated. They all had someone to vouch for them and were not present at the scene of the crime when it occurred. The six people whose names were left out on the list were also questioned by Deng Xiancheng one by one. Last night, three of them went to deliver goods to Fuxin Tungsten Mine and only returned this afternoon, so they didn't have time to commit the crime.

  As for the other three people, there are also witnesses who can prove that they were resting in the dormitory at the time of the incident and did not go out, thus excluding the possibility of them committing the crime.

  The investigation has now reached a deadlock, all leads have been cut off, and all suspects have been ruled out. Currently, the only way to investigate is to search for a needle in the ocean, investigating recent veterans who came to Tonghe Township, as well as conducting an in-depth investigation into whether Wang Guixi had any past feuds with others. Deng Xiancheng hopes to go to Wang Guixi's hometown to understand the situation.

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