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Things were much more serious than Jin Zhou imagined.

Liu Qian did not clarify the cause and effect on the phone. The arrest of Liu Yongchang in her mouth was not carried out by the police for interrogation, but by the procuratorate with the approval of the arrest—as a murderer who has been on the run for 17 years.

After spending a day going through various procedures and another day waiting in line, Jin Zhou finally met Liu Yongchang who had kept him awake at night in the detention center.

"I have countless questions for you right now."

Spreading the copied files on the table, Jin Zhou stared at Liu Yongchang sitting opposite him with a tense face.

The arrest means that the public security organs have basically confirmed the facts of the crime, and the file in his hand is also telling Jin Zhou that Liu Yongchang killed a poker player in a neighboring village 17 years ago and fled overnight.

However, Liu Yongchang's reaction was not as flustered as Jin Zhou imagined.

He glanced at the dossier in front of Jin Zhou, tapped the table with his index finger and said, "It doesn't matter if you believe me or not, I don't know about it at all."

There was repressed resentment and grievance in his tone, as well as the calmness and composure of a person who has experienced storms.

Jin Zhou turned the dossier to the evidence page, pointed to half of the bloody footprints on the picture and asked, "Your footprints were left on the courtyard wall when you fled the scene. You said you didn't know about it at all?"

The case has entered the review and prosecution stage, and lawyers can verify the relevant evidence with the suspect, so the contents of the dossier do not need to be concealed from Liu Yongchang.

"I mean, I didn't know that I was wanted." Liu Yongchang should have been interrogated, and he was not surprised by the bloody footprints, "I did go to Wang Wu's house that night, but he was dead when I went .”

"So you ran away with Sister Liu?" Jin Zhou leaned forward and asked aggressively, "Why did you run away when you didn't kill someone?"

"That's not running away at all!" Liu Yongchang obviously didn't like Jin Zhou talking to him in the tone of a prisoner. "Your sister Liu and I planned to leave the village the next day and go to the coast to do business, so that night I..."

Speaking of this, Liu Yongchang put away his momentum, turned his face away slightly, did not look at Jin Zhou, looked at the corner of the wall and said: "That's why I went to Wang Wu's house to steal things."

Stealing things is not an honorable thing. Liu Yongchang did not call the police when he found out that Wang Wu died, probably because he was afraid of being troubled by the police.

"But why did you change your name?" This is what Jin Zhou couldn't figure out the most. Why he didn't know he was wanted, and why he was about to leave, couldn't explain why Liu Yongchang changed his identity to live. "You used to be called Liu Yougen."

"That's because I've been losing money in business!" Liu Yongchang was furious at Jin Zhou's suspicion, and suddenly lost his temper, "You know how much I pay attention to Feng Shui, what did I lose in the two years I went to the coast, and I changed my name later Your fortune has improved, you can check when I changed my name, it was two or three years after I went to the coast, if I am really a murderer, why did it take me so long to change my name?"

This point is quite convincing, and Jin Zhou was slightly shaken.

At that time, the second-generation ID cards were not yet popular, and it was not difficult for wanted criminals to change their names.However, Liu Yongchang did not change his name immediately after absconding, but waited until two or three years later, which shows that he did not know that he was wanted.

"Also," Liu Yongchang tapped the table again with his index finger, "Think about it carefully, if I really knew that I was a fugitive, why did I come back here? Didn't I throw myself into a trap?"

The reason why Liu Yongchang was captured by the police was that he was recognized by people from the same village when he was eating in a restaurant a few days ago.

"After you left the village," Jin Zhou asked again, "Have no neighbors contacted you?"

"We didn't have mobile phones at that time, and we didn't know how to surf the Internet. We left as soon as we left. Who would still contact you?" Liu Yongchang said, "If that small village hadn't become the big city now, I wouldn't have revisited Come back here."

This is also where Jin Zhou has doubts. If Liu Yongchang really killed someone, how much courage would he have to dare to return to this place?

"Brother Liu, let me ask you one last question." Jin Zhou put down his questioning attitude and looked straight at Liu Yongchang.

"I didn't kill anyone." Liu Yongchang had obviously guessed Jin Zhou's question, and he took the initiative to answer without waiting for him to ask.

The two looked at each other for a while, and there was no guilt in Liu Yongchang's eyes. After a while, Jin Zhou let out a long sigh of relief and said, "I believe in you."

Jin Zhou knows Liu Yongchang's character very well. He is basically responsible for Hu Zima's operation expenses, and he takes care of the other brothers as much as he can. And Jin Zhou pressed Liu Yongchang just now because he was eager to find out the situation.

"I swear I didn't kill anyone." Liu Yongchang said earnestly, "You can ask your sister Liu, I only went out for about ten minutes that night, I just touched his house, and came back quickly when I saw someone dead. That much time to kill?"

"Sister Liu is your wife, and her testimony will most likely not be accepted." Jin Zhou frowned and said with a headache, "There are indeed footprints of several people at the crime scene, but only yours are bloody footprints, which are best identified. The police followed the footprints all the way to your home, found that you had left with Sister Liu, and immediately decided that you were murdered and absconded."

"I'm really wronged. That Wang Wu only won me a few hundred yuan. How much hatred can there be?" Liu Yongchang said up to this point, and asked, "When the police interrogated me, they said it was premeditated murder. What the hell is going on? Premeditated law?"

"Wang Wu was hacked to death with a kitchen knife, but his kitchen knife was in the kitchen, and the edge of the knife didn't match." Jin Zhou said, "This shows that the murderer brought his own weapon, that is, premeditated murder."

"Then my kitchen knife is also at home?" Liu Yongchang had an absurd expression on his face, "I went to the coast with your sister Liu to do business, but I didn't take the kitchen knife with me. Have they checked that the edge of the knife matches?"

"It doesn't match." Jin Zhou looked at the file and shook his head, "But it doesn't rule out that you have another kitchen knife at home."

"Fart, I only have a kitchen knife at home." Liu Yongchang seemed to get more and more angry, "These police officers arrested me without saying a word, saying that I killed someone more than ten years ago. What about the evidence? Just the footprints?"

Jin Zhou looked at the picture of the bloody footprints again, and saw half a footprint of his right forefoot on the yellow rammed earth courtyard wall. It should be that when Liu Yongchang climbed over the courtyard wall, he didn't know that he stepped on the bloodstain, which caused him to leave behind. This obvious footprint.

But other than that, Jin Zhou didn't see any photos of footprints around the deceased.

Logically speaking, if Liu Yongchang is really the murderer, then his hands and feet should be stained with blood, why is there only his right foot?

And judging from the footprints, Liu Yongchang left in a hurry. If he was really premeditated, how could he step on his bloody shoes and go home without finding it?

This case is indeed full of doubts, but Jin Zhou has never taken over a murder case, so he is somewhat uncertain.

What if Liu Yongchang was unjustly imprisoned because of his negligence...not only would he not be able to explain to himself, he would also be unable to explain to Hu Zi and his brothers.

"Some hit."

Sitting on the sofa, Yang Shiyu put down his thick file, took off his gold-rimmed glasses and rubbed between his brows: "The police have never found the murder weapon."

"Is the chain of evidence not complete?" Jin Zhou sat cross-legged beside Yang Shiyu, waiting anxiously for the judge to finally finish reading the file.

"The murder weapon is an important part of conviction." Yang Shiyu put on his glasses again and turned his head to look at Jin Zhou. "If Liu Yongchang hadn't left, based on these evidence alone, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been convicted back then. But he brought His wife 'absconded', but it turned out that he was the murderer."

"But there is a reason for him to leave, and there are legitimate reasons for him to change his name and come back again." Jin Zhou said.

"So there are a lot of doubts in this case." Yang Shiyu said, "You should take the initiative to contact the prosecutor now and discuss your ideas with him. It is best to let the procuratorate make a decision not to prosecute."

This is the best result.

If the procuratorate decides not to prosecute Liu Yongchang, he will be able to leave the detention center within a month.

But once he enters the trial process, he is likely to spend a year or two in the detention center.

"Okay." Jin Zhou nodded, took the file from Yang Shiyu, and got up to go to the dining table to continue preparing his defense.

However, Yang Shiyu suddenly grabbed his wrist, interrupting his movement of getting up.

"In the past few days," Yang Shiyu said after a pause, "all your attention is on Liu Yongchang."

"Brother Liu is kind to me, I must help him." Jin Zhou said, pulling his wrist away from Yang Shiyu's hand, and went to the dining table without looking back, his eyes darkened uncomfortably after not seeing the glasses.

The cases that Jin Zhou takes over usually have entered the trial stage, and he has never been in the review and prosecution stage before he starts to rush around for the case.

Yang Shiyu pointed out a clear way for him-to contact the prosecutor proactively.

After Jin Zhou found the procuratorate, he discovered that the prosecutor in charge of Liu Yongchang's case was actually Xie Yao.

"Are you Liu Yongchang's defense lawyer?" Xie Yao was quite surprised when he saw Jin Zhou.

"Aren't you in charge of the serial murder case?" Jin Zhou asked.

"Several suspects have been identified over there, and they are under interrogation." Xie Yao said, "What do you want to know today? Liu Yongchang's case is not easy to overturn. He has been absconded for 17 years, and the possibility of getting away with the crime is very small. .”

"I was just about to tell you about absconding. Judging from the current evidence, it is hard for you to think that he is absconding." Jin Zhou said.

"Are you trying to say that he came back here again? Some criminals have the guts to think that it's normal to dare to come back after not being caught for so many years."

"but he……"

Jin Zhou and Xie Yao discussed for a long time, and before they knew it, it was almost noon.

Xie Yao is a very responsible prosecutor, and Jin Zhou saw that he also likes to debate, as if he wanted to persuade Jin Zhou, he looked at the time and said to Jin Zhou: "Well, since you still have such If you have any doubts, let’s find a place to eat and continue talking.”

"Okay." Jin Zhou said.

The procuratorate is not far from the court, all in one area.

Jin Zhou originally wanted to find a restaurant with a small family so that it would be convenient for the two of them to talk, but he didn't expect Xie Yao to take him to that mutton and rice noodle shop.

"The rice noodles in this store are excellent," Xie Yao said, "You must try it."

"My car repair shop is nearby, why haven't I tried it?" Jin Zhou asked, "Do you often eat at this shop? Why have I never met you?"

"It's not very often. Occasionally, I get tired of eating in the cafeteria and come over to eat." Xie Yao said, "You must try putting mint in the soup."

"That must be." Jin Zhou rarely met his confidant, "And it must be three pieces, no more, no less."

"Really?" Xie Yao smiled, "I always put a spoonful, this time I will try to put three slices."

The boss quickly served two bowls of mutton and rice noodles. Jin Zhou helped Xie Yao put away the ingredients and said, "Try."

"Then you should try my recipe too." Xie Yao put mint leaves, sweet radish and other accessories in Jin Zhou's bowl. Each ingredient was not too much, just a spoonful, just like his rigorous style, "I call this recipe Family Portrait."

"Isn't it all?" Jin Zhou thought it was funny, but he still picked up a chopstick and took a quick bite.

The taste is still the same, but the layers are indeed richer.

Jin Zhou buried his head in another mouthful, and at this moment he only heard Xie Yao from the opposite side say: "Eat slowly, I have a lot of time, so don't worry."

He raised his head subconsciously, but saw Xie Yao suddenly took out a tissue, pressed it to the corner of his mouth and said, "You're stained with oil."

Jin Zhou was stunned, did he know Xie Yao so well?

However, before he could react, Xie Yao withdrew his hand again and said to the direction behind him: "Judge Yang, what a coincidence?"

Jin Zhou turned his back to the store door, so he couldn't see anyone walking in the store.

But based on the address Xie Yao said and the low air pressure faintly coming from behind him, he felt that something was wrong.

Turning around, as expected, I saw Yang Shiyu standing behind him, staring blankly at the napkin in his hand pressing the corner of his mouth.

"Judge Yang, Judge Yang?" Jin Zhou swallowed, and didn't dare to call too close to Xie Yao, "You come to eat noodles too..."

"Sit together?" Xie Yao moved aside, "We just started eating."

"No." Yang Shiyu glanced at the three mint leaves and a spoonful of sauerkraut in Xie Yao's bowl, and then at the mess of accessories in Jin Zhou's bowl, and said to the shop owner, "Boss, pack. "