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After Ren Erdong finished his statement to Deng Yujie, he walked out of the No. [-] interrogation room with seven large pages of transcripts. Just as he closed the door, the door of the opposite interrogation room was also opened, and a woman's delicate crying came out.

Ren Erdong was amazed: "Is Yu Jiao still crying?"

Lou Yue closed the door with a cold face, nodded, and glanced at the interrogation room behind him: "Deng Yujie finished explaining?"

Ren Erdong shook the record in his hand: "It's all here."

The two of them went to the technical team first, and then went upstairs to the office to find Xia Bingyang, but there was only one police officer in the office sorting out the filing cabinets.

The police officer said, "Captain Xia went to the forensic room to look for forensic doctor Lu."

Ren Erdong and Lou Yue went downstairs again non-stop, and when they passed the interrogation room, they still heard Yu Jiao's persistent crying for three days.

Xia Bingyang was playing chess with the old forensic doctor in the forensic room. He originally planned to have a face-to-face three-person interrogation for Yu Jiao and Deng Yujie, but when Yu Jiao saw him, she hugged his arm and cried. Threats and persuasion were useless. Answer the questions I was also whimpering and sobbing.It was the first time in Xia Bingyang's life that he heard such a dense and turbulent cry from a woman, as if a grenade had been stuffed into his head, ready to explode at any moment.

He escaped from the office before his ears were bled, and assigned Yu Jiao and Deng Yujie to Lou Yue and Ren Erdong respectively, and hid himself in the forensic room.

When he came to the door, the old forensic doctor Lu was also free and was playing chess with him, so Xia Bingyang became his temporary chess friend.

In the palm-sized space in front of the dissection table in the forensic room, there was a low table that Forensic Lu usually used to eat. Xia Bingyang and Forensic Lu sat at both ends of the low table. After half a cup of tea, the tea was too rich in dark brown.

Xia Bingyang held a few elephant chess and cards in his left hand, and a card in his right hand kept switching positions with the top card in his left hand, and the two cards "slapped" sounded continuously when they were drawn.

Xia Bingyang: "Pao. You don't have much money left. Ether?"

Old forensic doctor: "Balanced power, your ninth house should be guarded. Yes, ether residues were found in the deceased's respiratory tract and gastric juice."

"...Oh, no wonder Yujiao didn't allow us to do an autopsy on his dead husband. Hey, why did you take it away after it was already left behind? Put it back."

"Who is here? I was about to drop when you started yelling. General, General! I just heard people upstairs crying all the time?"

"Your general is also here to give away the head. Jiang Zhinan's mistress and wife are crying about their bad luck and losing everything."

Xia Bingyang raised his head and smiled at Forensic Doctor Lu: "Just like your old man."

Lu Fayi ate one of his 'soldiers' forcefully: "Young man, you don't know how to be humble."

"I'm going to win, no matter how humble I am, it's hypocrisy."

"Who said you were going to win? Even power."

"Put on your reading glasses and see clearly, you are four dollars less than me, and you can't even hold the base camp—"

Before Xia Bingyang had finished provoking the old forensic doctor, the door of the forensic room was pushed open, and Ren Erdong and Lou Yue walked in.

Xia Bingyang glanced at them, and continued to mop up Forensic Lu's remnants, sighing at Forensic Lu.

Lou Yue saw that he seemed to be concentrating on deciding the outcome with Lu Forensic on the chessboard, and left all the business on his heels, so she set up a low stool from the corner and sat beside Xia Bingyang, holding up the notes in her hand to block in front of him. : "Interrogation records, read or not."

Xia Bingyang turned his face away from the back of the document, staring at the chessboard: "You conclude, I'm listening."

Lou Yue glared at him, and said, "Yu Jiao doesn't admit Deng Yujie's accusation against her, and also said that she has evidence that Deng Yujie contacted her and kidnapped Jiang Zhinan."

"What evidence?"

"Yu Jiao said that Deng Yujie sent her a mobile phone and a letter for contacting her on the special line. Deng Yujie left a series of numbers in the letter, and Yu Jiao used that number to contact her later."

"What about the phone and letters?"

"I have asked Xiao Zhi to take Yu Jiao home to pick it up."

Xia Bingyang put all the captives on the table, took a sip of the strong tea from his teacup, and felt his mouth was full of bitterness. The tip of his tongue was numb, and he frowned: "What else? Yu Jiao didn't tell Jiang Zhinan what happened dead?"

Lou Yue said solemnly: "Yu Jiao said that she didn't know who the man who stunned Jiang Zhinan in the haunted house that day, and later pretended to be Jiang Zhinan and walked out of the haunted house with her. Although she participated in the plan, she was not the mastermind. She just followed Deng Yujie's instructions. Ordered to persuade Jiang Zhinan and her to go to the playground with the reason of celebrating her daughter's birthday on August [-]th, and just entered the haunted house. It was Deng Yujie who told her that they had a helper who would ambush in the haunted house in advance, and asked her to cooperate with that 'helper' .Don’t worry about anything else, don’t ask anything.”

Holding the hot teacup, Xia Bingyang looked down at the small arrow-like tea leaves standing upright in the tea coin, and said, "She pushes it backwards cleanly."

Ren Erdong leaned on the edge of the desk, and said, "Deng Yujie also pushed everything clean."

When Xia Bingyang heard the words, he first picked out a smile, and looked at Ren Erdong with interest: "What did she say?"

"Deng Yujie said that it was Yu Jiao who took the initiative to contact her and persuaded her to conspire to kidnap Jiang Zhinan for a sum of money, and then we all flew away separately. She didn't know who replaced Jiang Zhinan in the haunted house, and said that everything was arranged by Yu Jiao. It's just that she was asked to change into the clothes Yu Jiao specified on the morning of August [-]th. And she also has evidence to prove that Yu Jiao is the mastermind."

"What evidence?"

"Yu Jiao asked her to meet at the art museum, and when she talked about the plan with her, Deng Yujie was worried that if the plan failed, Yu Jiao would blame her, so she secretly recorded the conversation with Yu Jiao."

Xia Bingyang's eyes sparkled, and the smile on his face grew stronger: "Recording?"

Ren Erdong shook his head: "Video."

"Video is good, where is it?"

"She saved it on my computer, and I asked Xiao Chen'er to bring someone to pick it up. There is also the mobile phone she and Yu Jiao used to communicate."

"Then bring back all the physical evidence first, and the primary and secondary contradictions will be clear."

Although Xia Bingyang said so, he didn't think so. The evidence for Deng Yujie and Yu Jiao to accuse each other was a bit easy, and it could even be said... a bit deliberate.

He walked away for a while, and found that forensic doctor Lu had put the chessboard into an endgame again, and it was exactly the same as the endgame that the old forensic doctor himself had made when he entered the door.

Forensic Lu smiled and said, "Xiao Xia, let's play another game."

Xia Bingyang picked up the two cans of Lapsang Souchong at his feet, and smiled annoyedly: "I won't come with you, I will take it when I know how to do it." As he spoke, he shook the tea pot in his hand: "Thank you Mr. Lu .I'll treat you to tea another day."

After winning away the last inventory of Forensic Lu, Xia Bingyang led Ren Erdong and Lou Yue away.

Lu Fayi shouted behind him heartbroken: "You don't like drinking tea!"

Xia Bingyang's answer made him even more distressed: "I use it to cook tea eggs."

Yu Jiao and Deng Yujie were taken home by the police to obtain the evidence they said could prove their accusations against each other. Xia Bingyang returned to the office and discussed Jiang Zhinan's death with Ren Erdong and Lou Yue.

Xia Bingyang slumped on the chair, raised his legs on the edge of the table, stretched first, and then said: "Mr. Lu told me just now that Jiang Zhinan's cause of death was hemorrhagic shock, and residual blood was detected in Jiang Zhinan's respiratory tract and gastric juice. Ether. Now use your imagination and tell me how Jiang Zhinan died."

Ren Erdong said: "Ether? That is the one who was first stunned by the murderer, then taken away by the murderer, and finally died in a car accident caused by the murderer."

Xia Bingyang rested his hands on his pillow and raised his chin towards the whiteboard in front of the conference table: "It's useless to just talk, draw the timeline."

Ren Erdong walked to the half-whiteboard, wiped the whiteboard clean, and then held the marker pen in a daze. Soon, he turned his head and looked at Xia Bingyang: "Damn it, that's right, how do you draw the timeline?"

Xia Bingyang smiled lazily with slanted lips, and looked at Lou Yue: "Sister Lou?"

Lou Yue glanced at him, walked over and took the marker pen from Ren Erdong, wrote down the day everything happened on the whiteboard—August 8th, and then drew an arrow before August 9th, with the tail of the arrow Towards August 8th, before August 8th.

Lou Yue closed her pen, turned around to look at Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong, and said, "At present, we can conclude that the man hiding in the haunted house replaced and took Jiang Zhinan away, right?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Yes."

Lou Yue said: "Then I will call the man hiding in the haunted house the murderer first. The murderer wore the same clothes as Jiang Zhinan's accident day, and entered the haunted house before Jiang Zhinan and Yu Jiao. His way of entering the haunted house may be to pretend to be an ordinary tourist. The difference from ordinary tourists is that he didn't leave the haunted house, but stayed in the haunted house." Lou Yue looked at Xia Bingyang and said, "As Captain Xia said, the murderer is hiding on the bed where the fake dead are parked. The murderer entered the haunted house The time should be before August 8th, more precisely, it should be August 9th."

Ren Erdong clicked his tongue: "He lay on that bed all night?"

Lou Yue ignored his emotional question and continued: "The murderer waited until Jiang Zhinan, stunned Jiang Zhinan with ether, put Jiang Zhinan on the bed he was lying on before, and walked out of the haunted house pretending to be Jiang Zhinan and Yu Jiao. After being photographed by the Jockey Plaza, he left the playground. The point here is that the murderer disguised himself as Jiang Zhinan and drove Jiang Zhinan’s car to leave the playground, but reappeared in the surveillance video of the Jockey Plaza half an hour later. Jiang Zhinan in a coma. Obviously, his purpose is to bring Jiang Zhinan out of the haunted house, otherwise Jiang Zhinan will be found by the playground staff soon. I suspect that the murderer pretended to be Jiang Zhinan for the first time and went around the street after leaving the playground I went back to the playground again, and then took Jiang Zhinan out of the haunted house, put him in the car, and drove away from the playground again. The video of Jiang Zhinan going out of the city that we found later should be the clues left by the murderer deliberately, in order for us to find the car accident. The road section and Jiang Zhinan’s car that fell from Panshan Road. This plan seems complicated, but it is easy to operate, and it can be completed by one person.”

After Lou Yue finished speaking, she paused and added: "Of course, the premise is that the murderer cooperates with someone close to Jiang Zhinan."

Xia Bingyang was playing with the tea pot in his hand, and pressed the raised lid on the top of the tea pot with a 'creak' sound: "What kind of person?"

Lou Yue pulled out a chair from under the conference table and sat down, saying: "A person who can be brought back to the Butterfly Valley Villa by Jiang Zhinan. Now it has been verified that Deng Yujie's phone recording was not what Jiang Zhinan said at the scene of the car accident, but Jiang Zhinan was playing in the villa." Said it during a racing game. The person who had the opportunity to record what Jiang Zhinan said and disguised it as Jiang Zhinan's last words is very likely to be the person Jiang Zhinan brought to the villa."

Ren Erdong: "For example, Deng Yujie?"

Lou Yuedao: "I'm only talking about people who have the opportunity to be brought to the villa by Jiang Zhinan and recorded. Deng Yujie is not the only one who meets this condition."

Ren Erdong: "Well... and Yu Jiao?"

Lou Yue shook her head, directly gave up explaining to Ren Erdong, looked at Xia Bingyang and said, "I'm done."

Xia Bingyang crossed his arms, raised his head and looked at the ceiling thoughtfully, and murmured: "Butterfly Valley Villa... It is estimated that Jiang Zhinan brought in hundreds or dozens of people... "He paused, lowered his eyes suddenly, and looked at Lou Yue quietly: "What is the origin of that game console?"

Lou Yue was startled, and then she had a feeling of clarity: "That's right, why did I ignore the game console." Before she finished speaking, she left in a hurry.

Ten minutes later, Lou Yue came back, followed by Lang Xixi. Lang Xixi was holding a laptop, with some unbearable excitement on his face, and went straight to Xia Bingyang: "Captain Xia, I found out that the game console is not Jiang Zhinan himself. I bought it as a gift from his company's partner."

Xia Bingyang helped her open the chair beside her: "Which partner?"

Lang Xixi sat beside him with a computer: "Your family."

Xia Bingyang's quiet eyes suddenly flickered: "Huh?"

Lou Yue smiled slightly and said, "Wanheng Group, your father gave it to you."

Xia Bingyang slowly raised his eyes to look at her, then shifted his calm gaze to Lang Xixi's face, straightened a strand of curled up hair in Lang Xixi's bangs, and said with a smile: "Do you still want to tell me, responsible Liang Xiaotong was the one who gave the game console to Jiang Zhinan and helped him move to the villa?"

Lang Xixi nodded again and again: "Yes, I checked with the Wanheng Group just now. The person responsible for moving the game console to Jiang Zhinan was Secretary Liang who was here last time. Secretary Liang moved the game console to Jiang Zhinan's villa. The time is July 7th. Deng Yujie said that Yu Jiao asked her to meet at the art museum on July 14th, so the time is right."

Ren Erdong was dazed by the sudden turn of the case, supported his head and shouted: "What is the relationship between these people, why is another Liang Xiaotong involved!"

Xia Bingyang remained calm and calm as usual, and even looked in a good mood. He patted Lang Xixi on the shoulder and said, "Find out the traces of Liang Xiaotong's activities on August 8th and 8th."

"Okay, I'll check right now."

Xia Bingyang stood up and kicked the chair back under the table: "Dongzi followed me to find Liang Xiaotong, and Sister Lou stayed in the bureau to verify the evidence brought back by Li Zhiming and Xiao Chen. Contact me as soon as there is any progress."

When they left the police station, it was just in time for the rush hour. The dim yellow light judged that Weining City has entered the night again.

Xia Bingyang sat in the co-pilot and called Liang Xiaotong. Liang Xiaotong was stuck in the road when he received the call. When he learned that the police were coming to the door, he cooperatively gave out his address and said that he would try to get home within 10 minutes. .

Xia Bingyang looked at the crowded traffic in front of the car very calmly, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, we are also stuck in the road. Well, see you later."

Their cars stopped and went in the queue, passed one of the most congested roads in the business district, and then took a long detour to avoid the rush hour. After half an hour, they arrived at the community where Liang Xiaotong bought a house and settled down.

Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong walked into the No. 5 Danyun Building in the community, got out of the elevator on the 9th floor, found Liang Xiaotong's Room 901, and rang the doorbell twice, but no one opened the door.

Xia Bingyang kept pressing the doorbell with his finger, and could hear the continuous ringing of the doorbell through the door panel.

"Captain Xia, Sergeant Ren."

Xia Bingyang turned his head to look in the direction of the elevator, and saw Liang Xiaotong holding a bag of fruit in one hand and his suit jacket in the other, with his tie stuffed into his shirt pocket, walking over steadily and gracefully.

"I bought some fruit in the supermarket downstairs. I'm sorry for the delay."

Liang Xiaotong walked to the door, put the fruit on the ground, and took out the key to open the door.

As he approached, Xia Bingyang saw a layer of sweat dripping from his forehead, so he must have rushed back too.

Xia Bingyang said: "It's okay, we just arrived."

Liang Xiaotong pushed open the door, first helped them find two pairs of slippers, then hung the suit jacket on the hanger, and went to the kitchen with the fruit: "Sit down first, I'll pour you tea."

Xia Bingyang said don't bother, walked inside and looked around; the house is very tidy, it can be seen that the owner cleans it at least once a day, and there is no household garbage accumulated in the trash can.

Ren Erdong lay down next to Xia Bingyang's ear and asked in a low voice, "What are you looking for?"

Xia Bingyang didn't answer, and walked towards the kitchen where Liang Xiaotong was, leaning against the door with folded arms, and said with a smile: "There is no need to cut the fruit, we can't stay for a few minutes."

Liang Xiaotong was picking the elongated mango pits on the chopping board, because he had been busy since he came back, and he hadn't had a chance to wash his face yet. The sweat from his forehead trickled down his temples, and a fine layer of sweat emerged from the tip of his nose. beads.He lowered his head and concentrated on handling the mango, and said with a smile, "It will be ready soon. What do you drink? Is cold brew coffee okay? I made it myself."

"can."

Xia Bingyang picked up a piece of mango he had cut from the chopping board and put it into his mouth. He nodded as if praising the taste, and then chatted with Liang Xiaotong about Xia Hang. The topic smoothly shifted from Xia Hang to Wan Heng in their family. He asked abruptly and naturally: "Do you have any cooperation with Dingsheng Investment?"

Liang Xiaotong finished cutting the mango, washed the knife, and started cutting the peeled dragon fruit again: "Yes, Dingsheng is a long-term partner."

Xia Bingyang watched him skillfully cut the dragon fruit into uniform cubes, and asked casually: "Dingsheng's boss, Jiang Zhinan, has an accident, have you heard?"

Liang Xiaotong smiled: "How could I not know? I have traveled to Dingsheng many times in the past few days to find the right person for the next project."

Xia Bingyang looked up at him and said, "Jiang Zhinan is dead."

The knife in Liang Xiaotong's hand cut through the dragon fruit with a 'da' sound and hit the chopping board. He turned his head to look at Xia Bingyang in a daze, then continued to cut the fruit, but at a much slower speed, and whispered: "Why is it so sudden? .”

Xia Bingyang raised one corner of his lips slightly, looked at him and asked, "Don't you want to know how he died?"

Liang Xiaotong smiled reluctantly and reservedly, and said, "No, I don't really want to know."

Liang Xiaotong's indifference and calmness were expected by Xia Bingyang, but Xia Bingyang could not see anything from his reaction, so he simply asked, "Secretary Liang, did you give me a call last month?" Jiang Zhinan sent a VR game console?"

Liang Xiaotong took out a fruit plate from the cupboard on the top, put the cut fruits on top, frowned and thought for a while: "Last month... oh, yes, I gave it to him. I bought a game console, but not in my own name, but in the name of the company."

"Is it up to you to decide what gift to give to the partner?"

"Yes, I have always been in charge."

He set out the fruit plate, washed his hands under the faucet of the sink and asked, "What is Captain Xia asking me for?"

Xia Bingyang first said 'nothing', and then said in a tone of 'today's weather is good': "It was this game console that killed Jiang Zhinan."

Liang Xiaotong paused again, looking at Xia Bingyang in astonishment.

Xia Bingyang curled up her fingers, knocked on the refrigerator door calmly, and said, "Didn't you want to invite us to drink the cold brew coffee you made yourself?"

"......OK."

Liang Xiaotong dried his hands, opened the refrigerator and took out a transparent glass jug, which was half filled with coffee.

Xia Bingyang turned around, glanced around the small two-bedroom room, and stopped at the half-open door of the bedroom. Along the crack of the door, he saw a pot of deep purple flowers on the window sill inside, and said: " Have you raised a pot of crocuses?"

Liang Xiaotong looked at him and said, "Yes."

Xia Bingyang smiled and said, "That's really hard to support, can I have a look?"

"Okay, please."

Xia Bingyang entered Liang Xiaotong's bedroom in the name of appreciating flowers. As soon as he entered, he could smell the fresh mint fragrance in the room. In front of the writing desk with a notebook, I opened one of the drawers, only opened halfway, took a rough look inside and closed the drawer, then moved to a wall facing the head of the bed, saw the wall There is a painting hanging on it; it is an oil painting, which depicts the beach and the sea, and there is a date and signature in the lower right corner-05-04-13, Tong.

'Tong' should refer to Liang Xiaotong himself. Xia Bingyang didn't expect Liang Xiaotong to be able to draw, and he did it quite well.

He took a step forward, wanting to take a closer look, when suddenly he stepped on something and made a creaking sound.He bent down and picked it up. It was a piece of transparent acrylic plastic, which was the same as the framed material of the painting in front of him.

Xia Bingyang held the piece of thickened acrylic plastic, and only then did he see that there was a circle around the frame and the broken color of the surrounding white walls, as if a painting that had been hanging here for a long time was suddenly taken down and replaced with a new one. The ones with a slightly smaller sub-area cannot cover the fresh and tender wall color, and the color difference compared with the surrounding walls.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, Xia Bingyang put the piece of plastic into his pants pocket, and saw Liang Xiaotong coming in with a cup of coffee.

"Thank you."

Xia Bingyang took the coffee, took a sip, then looked at the painting on the wall and asked, "Did you draw this?"

Liang Xiaotong was also looking at the painting, and said with a smile, "Draw it casually."

"The painting is very good, not inferior to graduates majoring in fine arts." After finishing speaking, Xia Bingyang paused, gently shook the ice cubes in the coffee cup, and said, "How long has this painting been hanging?"

This time, Liang Xiaotong answered a little late, but his face remained the same: "It's been a long time, since I moved here, I've been hanging on."

Xia Bingyang nodded, stopped asking, walked to the balcony, and looked at the crocus he had just excused to look at.Liang Xiaotong did not follow, but still stood in front of the painting.

The phone rang, it was Lou Yue calling, Xia Bingyang picked it up: "Huh?"

Lou Yue said: "Xiao Zhi and Xiao Chen brought back all the physical evidence."

Xia Bingyang said indifferently: "How is it?"

Lou Yue let out a breath from her nose, and her tone suddenly became cold: "Neither Yu Jiao nor Deng Yujie lied."

Xia Bingyang looked down at the deep purple crocus flowers, and said nothing.

Lou Yue said: "We got the mobile phones that Yu Jiao and Deng Yujie used to communicate, and found the text messages and call records they communicated with each other in their mobile phones."

Xia Bingyang took a sip of coffee silently, and he understood it already.

Sure enough, Lou Yue said: "They are all passive parties, the person they contacted on the mobile phone is not the other party at all! It is the third woman who texted them and called them!"