Escape From the Library

【Death of a Lawyer-18】

Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen came to Xinghe Building to investigate. It was already seven o'clock in the evening. They found the security captain and asked about Zhao Cheng's situation.

The captain said: "Lao Zhao came to our Xinghe Building as a security guard in March this year. He usually talks very little, has an introverted personality, and looks quite honest. He seldom talks about family affairs with others. I don't know about his family's situation." .”

Jiang Pingce asked him to bring over the schedule, and the captain enthusiastically introduced: "Our security team has a total of ten people, responsible for the security work of the Xinghe Building and the Xinghe Apartment, and there is a night shift every three days. Since the Xinghe Building will be closed at ten o'clock in the evening , Only one person needs to stay on the night shift to lock the door on time, and there are usually three people staying in the apartment.”

Galaxy Building and Galaxy Apartment belong to Galaxy Group.

The apartment is 33 stories high, with more than a dozen rooms on each floor. There are those who bought the apartment to live in, some who rent it for a long time like Yue Xingwen, and some temporary residents like X-New Concept Hotel.The apartment building is full of people, so it is more reasonable to leave three security guards on the night shift. However, the office building of Xinghe Building will lock the door on time at 3 p.m., so only one security guard is left on the night shift.

This gave Zhao Cheng the best chance to make a move.

Yue Xingwen asked, "Where is Zhao Cheng?"

The captain said: "Today is not his night shift, he went home at 6 o'clock."

Jiang Pingce dialed Qin Shiyin's mobile phone, wanting to ask if her father was home, but he kept repeating "I'm sorry, the number you dialed was not answered".

Jiang Pingce frowned: "She won't commit suicide, right?"

Yue Xingwen remembered the scar on Qin Shiyin's wrist when he poured water for them today, and immediately said: "Go to her house to see!"

In order to save time, the two took a taxi directly and asked the driver to speed up to Xiushui Garden Community.

After entering the complex, the two went straight to Room 4, Unit 2, Building 601, and knocked on the door. After knocking for half a minute, the girl came out to open the door. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and said in confusion, "Two police officers, why are you looking for me so late?" something?"

She didn't kill herself.

Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "Why didn't you answer the call?"

The girl froze for a moment, turned around and picked up the phone, and smiled apologetically: "I was sleeping just now, and I muted the phone, sorry. I have a messy schedule recently, and fell asleep sitting on the sofa in the afternoon, and I have been asleep since then .”

Jiang Pingce immediately asked, "Where's your father?"

The girl said: "He said, go out for a sports car tonight and come back later."

Come back later?But just now the security captain clearly said that Zhao Cheng got off work and went home at 06:30 in the evening.

Yue Xingwen suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. He looked at Qin Shiyin and asked, "Your father used to be called Zhao Jianming. When did you change your name to Zhao Cheng?"

Qin Shiyin thought for a while, and said: "At the beginning of this year, he said that he found a fortune teller to do a fortune-telling calculation, and felt that his previous name did not match his horoscope, and it would be more auspicious to change his name to Zhao Cheng. My father is superstitious and insists on changing it. Did not persuade him."

I'm afraid the fortune teller is fake, but the truth is that he had contact with Liu Lan.He changed his name just to find a chance to kill Lawyer Zhou and avenge his wife and daughter, right?

Then, Zhang Ronghua, who killed his wife... is still living in Xinghai Apartment!

Thinking of this, Jiang Pingce immediately took out his mobile phone and called Ke Shaobin: "Go to Xinghai Apartment immediately, room 3007, hurry up!"

Before Ke Shaobin could react, Xin Yan took the phone from him and asked, "Do you doubt that Zhao Cheng will do anything to Zhang Ronghua?"

Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, "Yes, go and have a look."

Xin Yan: "Understood."

After hanging up the phone, looking at the puzzled girl in front of him, Yue Xingwen felt complicated.

If Zhao Cheng was really the murderer, maybe he would try every means to hide it from his daughter so as not to let her get hurt again, so Qin Shiyin really didn't know about it, right?Otherwise, she will join hands with her father to help him make an alibi.

Yue Xingwen sighed, and said softly, "Take a good rest. If you're bored by yourself, watch some variety shows or TV series. Don't mute your phone."

Qin Shiyin nodded: "Understood."

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce left Xiushui Garden, and they took a taxi back. After walking for a few minutes, Ke Shaobin called. Jiang Pingce answered the phone, only to hear Ke Shaobin's trembling voice say: "Zhang Ronghua, he... died."

Jiang Pingce frowned, Yue Xingwen saw his expression, and knew that the news from Ke Shaobin must not be good news.

Sure enough, Jiang Pingce lowered his voice: "What's going on?"

Xin Yan took the phone and said calmly: "I came to Xinghai Apartment with Ke Shaobin and Qin Miao. I went to Room 3007 to find Zhang Ronghua. No one opened the door. Ke Shaobin took out his police ID and asked the hotel staff to open the door. When we entered the room, Zhang Ronghua was found dead in the bathtub, his right wrist was cut, and the bathtub was full of blood."

It is conceivable that the scene, Ke Shaobin's visual impact was too great, and his voice trembled when he spoke.

Jiang Pingce was silent for a few seconds, and said in a low voice, "Did you call the police?" Xin Yan: "I have called 110 and sealed off the scene."

Jiang Pingce: "Where's Zhao Cheng?"

Xin Yan: "We asked the security guards on the night shift today in the lobby on the first floor, and a middle-aged man surnamed Zhang said that it was originally arranged that Lao Xu and Lao Qin were on duty with him tonight, but it turned out that there was something wrong with Lao Xu's family. I changed shifts with Zhao Cheng privately."

This is also the reason why the security captain said that Zhao Cheng was not assigned to be on duty tonight, but Zhao Cheng did not go home - he changed shifts with the security guard on night shift in Xinghe Building, and wanted to find a chance to kill Zhang Ronghua who lived in 3007.

Zhang Ronghua died in the hotel room, and only the hotel staff could enter the hotel room.

Because the security guard has worked in Xinghe Building and Xinghe Apartment for a long time, he must be very familiar with the hotel staff. He should be able to get the universal key card used by the cleaner aunt to clean the house, open the door of 3007, and do it while Zhang Ronghua is taking a shower. .

Jiang Pingce said in a low voice: "Let everyone go to Zhao Cheng, Xingwen and I will be right back."

Xin Yan hummed and hung up the phone.

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce's serious face and didn't know what to say for a moment.

They just deduced that Zhao Cheng was the murderer, but Zhao Cheng killed Zhang Ronghua again, which turned into a serial murder case.

If they hadn't noticed the details of the elevator and surveillance, and hadn't figured it out by now, the case would have become more complicated.However, because they deduced the murderer first, Zhao Ronghua's death seemed to confirm their speculation.

The people who killed Zhou Ziyang and Zhang Ronghua in succession could only be the family members of the innocent deceased Qin Xiumei.

Jiang Pingce sent a message to Ke Shaobin's mobile phone: "How about checking Qin Shiyin's brother's information?"

Ke Shaobin said: "It has been found out. Her brother Zhao Jiarui works in a real estate company in Anming City. He is currently the company's chief financial officer. The boss of that company is Shen Haibin!"

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Jiang Pingce looked at Xingwen and said, "Her brother should also take action."

Yue Xingwen said with a sullen face: "Shen Haibin has been missing for a week, maybe something happened."

***

When the two arrived at the scene, the police had already blocked the corridor on the 30th floor of the Xinghe Building. Jiang Pingce saw that Team Lin was talking to witnesses such as Ke Shaobin and Xin Yan. Jiang Pingce stepped forward, and Team Lin turned to look at him and said: "Xiao Jiang, I heard from Xiao Ke that you have been investigating Zhou Ziyang's fall from a building in the past few days, and you happened to find out that Zhang Ronghua was related to Zhou Ziyang?"

Jiang Pingce briefly described the results of the investigation, and Team Lin nodded as he listened to the ins and outs of the case.After Jiang Pingce finished speaking, Team Lin whispered to the colleagues around him: "Immediately search the whole city for Zhao Cheng, and also invite Ms. Liu Lan back to the police force to have a detailed chat!"

That night, police cars searched for Zhao Cheng across the city, and some policemen were waiting in Building No. 4 of Xiushui Garden, planning to arrest him as soon as he returned home.However, Zhao Cheng used to be a taxi driver and was very familiar with the roads of the whole city. He didn't know where he went, and he couldn't be found for a while.

Liu Lan still looked indifferent, as if she had nothing to do with herself.Team Lin asked her to stay in the interrogation room for a few hours. She spoke very strictly, and only said that she didn't know Qin Shiyin, Zhao Cheng, and didn't know what cases her husband had handled ten years ago.

The police had nothing to do with her, and it was difficult to detain her without evidence, so they had to release her back.

In the early morning of the next day, the news suddenly broke out in hot searches - Shen Haibin, the owner of Binhe Group in Anming City, was arrested and imprisoned. It turned out that Shen Haibin disappeared during this period because his company was investigated. It is said that someone collected a lot of evidence and reported it. Shen Haibin, Shen Haibin illegally embezzled public funds, evaded taxes, and helped others to make false accounts to launder money. A lot of crimes are enough for him to drink a pot.

Yue Xingwen saw the hot search, and said firmly: "This is the handwriting of brother Qin Shiyin!"

Jiang Pingce nodded in agreement: "Her brother is the chief financial officer of the company. He must have found out a lot of secrets and reported Shen Haibin with his real name. Compared with her father's extreme methods of murder and revenge, her brother's approach is more rational."

This family has been hurt too much, and when they met a scum like Lawyer Zhou, they couldn't avenge themselves, so they went to extremes...

If Qin Shiyin knew that her father was going to kill someone, her depression might be even worse.How will Zhao Cheng deal with the aftermath of his actions?Where did he escape?

While the police were searching for Zhao Cheng all over the city, the traffic police suddenly called. At 5 o'clock in the morning today, a taxi fell from the viaduct, the car crashed and people were killed. It was confirmed that the deceased was Zhao Cheng.

A regular email was received in the police force's public mailbox.

Zhao Cheng confessed to his crime. He sent the uncensored video to the police, and said that the reason why he deleted the video so that the police would not suspect him was just to buy time before killing Zhang Ronghua.

The name Liu Lan was not mentioned at all in the email.

He said that he was not sorry for killing lawyer Zhou and Zhang Ronghua.Over the years, the death of his wife and the humiliation suffered by his daughter have always caused him torment in his heart.As a husband, he believed the villain's words and wrote a letter of understanding to let Zhang Ronghua escape from sanctions; as a father, he could not protect his daughter, he was a loser.

So he decided to take up arms and seek justice for his wife and daughter with his own hands.

He finally pleaded: "This letter, please don't let my daughter see it. She has depression. I worry that she will have a nervous breakdown after knowing it. Let her think that Dad had an accident and went to reunite with Mom in heaven. I Please ask my son to help with the funeral and case-related procedures. My son has a strong psychological quality and should be able to understand my approach."

"Please tell him, let him protect my sister, let them forget the past and start over."

After reading the email, Jiang Pingce felt complicated.

Team Lin lit a cigarette and said while smoking, "Xiao Jiang, your investigation is quite efficient."

Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, "Unfortunately, it's still a step too late."

The time of Zhang Ronghua's death was at 7 o'clock last night. At that time, they were still watching the surveillance at Zhang Xiaonian's place. After watching the surveillance and drawing conclusions, they immediately went to Xinghe Building to find Zhao Cheng. The security captain told them that Zhao Cheng had left work...

In fact, at that time, Zhao Cheng had already changed shifts and killed Zhang Ronghua.

They didn't have time to prevent Zhao Cheng's second murder, nor did they prevent Zhao Cheng from driving himself into the river and committing suicide.

But what's the use of stopping it?

Zhao Cheng will still be sentenced to death for the crime of intentional homicide.

For a moment, Jiang Pingce didn't know if this was the best ending?Zhao Cheng killed the culprit who killed his wife, and the lawyer who helped the culprit; Qin Shiyin's brother personally sent the scumbag who bullied his sister to prison...

Father died to set them free. Can the siblings start a new life?

And Liu Lan, how did she contact Zhao Cheng and use Zhao Cheng to kill her husband?With Zhao Cheng's death, all clues were interrupted, and the police could not directly arrest Liu Lan, and there was no evidence to prove that she was an accomplice.

Lawyer Zhou has calculated carefully and done all kinds of bad things in his life, but he didn't count. The person next to him, the belle of Beijiang University of Political Science and Law who won a double degree, is better than him and farther than him!

***

On the fifth day of the exam, Qin Shiyin's brother Zhao Jiarui received a call from the police and rushed to Beishan City to deal with the aftermath of the case.

He was a very calm young man, dressed in a black suit, mature and stable, his face was expressionless from the beginning to the end, he signed where he should sign, and then took his father's body back to be cremated.

Jiang Pingce saw him at the gate of the police station, and asked in a low voice, "What are your plans in the future?" Zhao Jiarui said indifferently, "I will take my sister abroad and stay away from here, maybe her knot can be untied."

As the company's financial manager, he reported the boss Shen Haibin with his real name. If the insiders knew about this, he would indeed be difficult to get along in China. Going abroad is a good choice.

Jiang Pingce said, "Take good care of your sister."

Zhao Jiarui nodded: "I will."

In the afternoon, Ke Shaobin actually found out that Liu Lan had bought a plane ticket to go abroad in a few days.

Liu Lan sorted out and handed in all Zhou Ziyang's illegal income, including the gold bars and cash in the safe.She sold the legally obtained real estate in an intermediary company. She helped her son complete the withdrawal procedures and planned to take her son to study abroad.

It cannot be a mere coincidence that these people went abroad together.

Yue Xingwen said: "Liu Lan and Qin Shiyin must know each other."

Ke Shaobin scratched his head and said, "I still have a question. At that time, how did Zhao Cheng determine that Lawyer Zhou would definitely go to the rooftop? The original surveillance showed that Zhao Cheng went to the rooftop at 23:01 in the evening, but Lawyer Zhou did not." We only went to the rooftop at 23:50, so Zhao Cheng can't possibly have the ability to predict, right?"

Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully, and said, "Videos can be edited, and of course call records can also be recorded."

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "So, Liu Lan's phone recording is not complete, right?!"

Jiang Pingce said: "The recording proves that Zhou Ziyang called her at 23:30, and hung up after chatting for a few minutes. Perhaps, she called back immediately and asked Zhou Ziyang to go to the rooftop to chat."

Yue Xingwen echoed: "Zhou Ziyang was making out with Chen Yueqin in the bathroom at the time, maybe he didn't know that it was raining heavily outside, he climbed up to the rooftop with his mobile phone, and when he found out that it was raining, he should have returned immediately, but he had already ambushed there Zhao Cheng controlled him and pushed him downstairs."

Ke Shaobin followed this speculation and said: "Then, Zhao Cheng picked up his mobile phone, deleted the call record that was not good for Liu Lan, and put the phone back in the women's toilet. Liu Lan also deleted the second call record, Only kept the first recording to prove his innocence?"

Perfect fit.

A behind-the-scenes command, a parent-child action.

With Zhao Cheng's IQ, he would definitely not be able to do such a sophisticated crime.But with his death, these theoretical speculations cannot be used as evidence to sue Liu Lan.

Liu Lan still became the biggest winner. After handing over all her husband's illegal proceeds, she completely abandoned this "cheating husband" and started a new life with her children.

In Qin Shiyin's family, her mother died early, and her father went to reunite with her mother. Qin Shiyin, who knew nothing about the murder plan, might be able to gradually get out of the haze after going abroad with her brother?

The course is coming to an end, but Yue Xingwen's mood is very complicated.

Lawyers are supposed to be fighters who maintain legal fairness, but if lawyers take advantage of legal loopholes to commit crimes, the world will become darker.

Lawyer Zhou's death is like a wake-up call, always hanging over the heads of law school students.

Perhaps, this is the purpose of the library setting up the course "Death of a Lawyer".