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【Death of a Lawyer-06】

Liu Lan's calm performance made Jiang Pingce very puzzled - the deceased was her husband, and she didn't even bother to pretend to be sad. From beginning to end, her expression seemed to be helping a stranger go through the formalities.

Her psychological quality must be very good, and most people can't be so calm in the face of her husband's death. It is normal for couples who are in a good relationship to break down and cry; for those who are in a relationship, they either pretend to be sad or can't hide their joy.

But she just looked calm, looking at the dead person pushed out of the freezer, like looking at an ant on the ground.

Team Lin called Liu Lan to the interrogation room alone, and asked her some questions: "Have you been married to Zhou Ziyang for 8 years? There is also a 7-year-old son. He died, are you not sad at all?"

Liu Lan's face was cold: "Why should I be sad? The relationship between us is long gone. We have been separated for more than a year. I just feel strange when I look at him."

Jiang Pingce said: "Has the branch signed the "Divorce Agreement" before?"

Liu Lan raised her head to look at Jiang Pingce, and said lightly: "I haven't seen the divorce agreement. We haven't officially talked about divorce, because my son has just started elementary school, and the school needs parents to participate in organizing activities. We occasionally We also have to play a loving couple. We plan to wait for our son to grow up a bit and get used to the environment of the new school before getting a divorce.”

For the sake of their children, both parents may be excused for delaying the divorce. But has Liu Lan really never seen the agreement that let her "leave the house clean"? If she separates before divorce, she is not afraid that her lawyer husband will transfer the property after marriage?

Team Lin turned the pen in his hand and said, "Where were you from 10:00 to 12:00 last night?"

Liu Lan said: "Last night I tutored my son with his homework. After my son fell asleep, I went back to my room to watch TV and went to bed at 12:30. I have never left the Jinzuo Community. You can go to the property to check the monitoring of the community. "

Judging from the agreement, Zhou Ziyang bought three houses, 33-01, 33-02, and 33-03 on the 33rd floor of Unit 1, Building A, Jinzuo. Jiang Pingce asked, "Which one do you live in Jinzuo Jiayuan? suite?"

Liu Lan said: "The partition wall between 3301 and 3302 was opened up and renovated into a large suite. My son and I are currently living here; 3303 is a two-bedroom, one-hall suite. His parents lived there before, and Zhou Ziyang is currently living there. Here. When my son asked, he explained that he was busy with work and needed to work overtime, worried that it would affect our rest."

That is to say, the two are separated in name, but they actually live in different rooms in the same building and on the same floor.

Jiang Pingce and Lin Dui looked at each other, and the latter continued to ask, "Has there been anything unusual about Zhou Ziyang recently? Do you know if he has offended anyone in the lawsuit he has handled before?"

Liu Lan laughed self-deprecatingly: "I have been separated from him for a long time. Although he occasionally returns to my place to accompany his son to dinner, he will go to his own room after eating. What he has been doing recently, who has offended him, I do not agree. Not knowing."

Team Lin said, "Is the reason why you separated from him because he cheated?"

Liu Lan nodded: "Yes. Women's intuition is more sensitive. For a period of time last year, unfamiliar perfumes frequently appeared on him. I felt something was wrong. One weekend, he was wearing sports clothes and said he was going to exercise, and I secretly followed him. Saw him dating a woman with curly hair in the Galaxy Building's office."

The curly-haired woman is naturally the designer Chen Yueqin on the 39th floor.

A trace of pain flashed in Liu Lan's eyes, and he lowered his head and said, "I was very sad at the time, but I didn't want to make myself so embarrassed by being caught in bed. After I went back, I thought about it carefully. Since he is no longer loyal to me, I will be reluctant. After saving him, he will still cheat when he encounters young and beautiful girls in a few years. It's better to let yourself be free."

Jiang Pingce said: "So you took the initiative to propose separation?"

"I showed him the intimacy video I took at the time. He knelt in front of me begging for forgiveness, and said that he would cut off contact with Chen Yueqin immediately. But I was firm and moved out that night." She pulled the corners of her lips contemptuously. , said: "It turns out that my decision was right. While he begged me for forgiveness, he continued to fight with Chen Yueqin."

Jiang Pingce: "..."

It is wishful thinking for a man who is stealing to return to the family honestly. Liu Lan is undoubtedly decisive and wise in handling this matter. However, such a smart and calm woman, didn't she realize that all the properties owned by the two were bought by Zhou Ziyang before marriage? Once divorced, she will be at a great disadvantage in property distribution.

Is she indifferent to property? Or does she have other plans?

Team Lin asked, "Don't you hate your husband for cheating?"

Liu Lan's eyes were frank: "Of course I hate it, I wish he died immediately. But so what? He made the mistake, not me. I don't need to delay my life for his mistakes. Even if he is sorry for me, I will not Might kill him and make my son a fatherless orphan."

Team Lin stared at her thoughtfully, as if trying to analyze the authenticity of her testimony from her expression.

Liu Lan's expression was calm, and there was no sign of a guilty conscience.

After a while, she suddenly remembered something, turned on her mobile phone, and handed it to Jiang Pingce: "By the way, around 11:30 last night, Zhou Ziyang called me suddenly, and I recorded it."

Hearing this key, Jiang Pingce immediately sat up straight and took the phone from her hand.

In the call records of the mobile phone, there was a call from Zhou Ziyang at 23:30 last night. The call time was about 3 minutes. Jiang Pingce pressed the play button and listened only to the phone. A man said drunkenly: "Alan, I'm sorry for you... If I say, I regret it, I want to go home, I want to be with you and my son... What do you think?"

Liu Lan said coldly, "Are you drunk?"

Zhou Ziyang's voice was indeed a little drunk, it sounded like he was crying and he was laughing, he mumbled for a moment before he said, "I just play with Chen Yueqin, I never thought of marrying her... you know. Right? Men, sometimes they can't help themselves... That kind of romantic woman is not suitable for marrying into the family..."

He did drink and said something incoherent afterward.

Liu Lan was silent for a moment, and then said unbearably, "Zhou Ziyang, you make me feel sick."

She simply hung up the phone, and the recording stopped abruptly at this moment.

Team Lin looked at her with arms crossed: "Do you record every time you call your husband?"

Liu Lan said: "This is what he taught me. You must leave evidence for everything. How can you say it with your mouth?"

Team Lin scratched the back of his head, stood up, stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, thank you for cooperating with the investigation. If there is any problem, we will contact you again."

Liu Lan got up and shook hands with him politely, then turned to leave. The woman in the linen dress has a thin back, but her walking posture is very straight, and her tall figure and elegant temperament are also very outstanding in the crowd.

A colleague next to him sighed in a low voice: "Having such a beautiful wife, and even going outside to steal fish, this Zhou Ziyang is really in the midst of happiness and does not know his happiness..."

Team Lin turned around and asked, "Xiao Jiang, do you think Chen Yueqin and Liu Lan might be the murderers?"

Jiang Pingce thought about it carefully and said, "Chen Yueqin is very suspicious. Not only did she stay in the Xinghe Building with Zhou Ziyang last night, but she also had her necklace on the rooftop, and Zhou Ziyang's fingernails had pieces of her skin. In the recording of Liu Lan's call, Zhou Ziyang clearly stated that he wanted to return to the family and was just playing with Chen Yueqin. Assuming that Chen Yueqin heard this conversation afterwards, of course, he might become angry and feel that Zhou Ziyang was deceiving her feelings, so he was impulsive. Kill Zhou Ziyang."

Team Lin nodded: "Well, she has the time and motive for committing the crime. What about Liu Lan?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and said, "I always feel that I can't understand Liu Lan. Maybe it's because she has depression. She seems to close her heart and doesn't reveal her emotions."

No matter what question she asks, she can answer fluently, calmly as if telling someone else's story.

This woman is a bit strange, but she said that she will not make her own life because of other people's mistakes, and she will not make her son an orphan... This is a very good reason. Because once she kills Zhou Ziyang, she will be sentenced to death, and the two of them will have no one to take care of their children, which is not worth it.

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "She took Zhou Ziyang's call at 11:30 last night, but Zhou Ziyang died around 12:00 in the morning, and her suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, but I don't think she looks like a murderer. From a mother's point of view, killing her husband and orphaning her children doesn't fit her calm personality."

Team Lin agreed: "Well, I think so too. We still have to find the cell phone of the deceased."

Jiang Pingce put forward a suggestion: "The deceased called his wife Liu Lan at 23:30 last night, indicating that the mobile phone was always by his side, that is to say, if his mobile phone was not taken away by the murderer, it might still be in the Galaxy Building. somewhere in the corner."

Team Lin waved his hand and said, "Team A of the field team conducts a carpet-like search of the Galaxy Building to find the cell phone of the deceased as soon as possible!"

At the same time, Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo also quietly launched investigations at Minghui Law Firm.

Zhou Ziyang was dead, and everyone in the law firm was talking about it. Some interns didn't dare to talk nonsense when facing the police, but a lot of news broke out in private chats——

"Lawyer Zhou must have an affair with the beautiful girl downstairs. I went back to the law firm to pick up things that weekend and saw them making out in the bathroom, so I was scared and ran away."

"Chen Yueqin really looks beautiful, and her sister is also very beautiful."

"By the way, her sister came to Lawyer Zhou every day for a while. The two locked the door in the office and talked about things for several hours. Her divorce lawsuit was filed by Lawyer Zhou. As a result, she got a value of tens of millions The house, the custody of the child was awarded to her husband, she doesn't seem to be convinced?"

Yue Xingwen heard the key revelation of "intimacy in the bathroom", and pretended to go to the bathroom, wanting to check if there were any clues.

The entire floor of the 40th floor is Minghui Law Firm, and the toilet is located in the corner of the corridor.

Yue Xingwen pushed the door and went in, and the whole bathroom was very luxuriously decorated, which was no less than that of a five-star hotel. The men's restroom has five compartments, all doors are open, clean and nothing special. Yue Xingwen didn't want to rush into the women's restroom, so she let Senior Sister Lan and Senior Sister Lin go in and have a look.

Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo entered the door together. There were also five compartments, four of which were open, and the one in the far corner was left open. The two looked at each other, and Lin Manluo reached out and gently pushed the door—

There was no one in the bathroom, but there was a mobile phone on the platform where the paper was placed next to!

Lan Yarong immediately took out the phone and said, "Xingwen, found a phone!"

Yue Xingwen looked down—the phone with a black casing was exactly the same as the phone that Zhou Ziyang used when he saw Zhou Ziyang in the stairwell yesterday, and it was turned off at this time.

Yue Xingwen looked serious: "Senior Sister Lan, can you ask if anyone has lost their mobile phone in the law firm?"

Lan Yarong took out her mobile phone and asked in the office group of "Minghui Law Firm", "Has a colleague lost his mobile phone?" Everyone said "No".

The three looked at each other and said in unison, "Is this Zhou Ziyang's phone?"

However, Zhou Ziyang, a man, how could his mobile phone appear in the women's toilet? He was so confused when he went to the toilet that he didn't see the male and female signs? Or was it left by the murderer?

In any case, finding the phone is a big step. Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message to Jiang Pingce: "We found the mobile phone of the deceased Zhou Ziyang in the women's toilet on the 40th floor."