Escape the Library

【Death of a Lawyer-18】

Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen came to the Xinghe Building to investigate. It was already seven o'clock in the evening. The two 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 speaks very little, is introverted, and looks very honest. He rarely talks to people about family affairs, and I don't know the situation of his family. ."

Jiang Pingce asked him to bring the shift schedule, and the captain introduced enthusiastically: "Our security team has a total of ten people, responsible for the security of the Galaxy Building and the Galaxy Apartment, and night shifts once every three days. Because the Galaxy Building will be closed at ten o'clock in the evening. , the night shift only needs to leave one person to lock the door on time, and there are usually three people left 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 people who buy the apartment for self-occupation, long-term renters like Yuexingwen, and temporary residents like X-New Concept Hotel. The apartment building is cluttered, and it is more reasonable to leave three security guards on the night shift. However, because the Xinghe Building office will be locked on time at 10 pm, only one security guard is left on the night shift.

This gave Zhao Cheng the best opportunity to do it.

Yue Xingwen asked, "What about Zhao Cheng's others?"

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

Jiang Pingce dialed Qin Shiyin's cell phone and wanted to ask if her father was home. However, "I'm sorry, the call you dialed was not answered" kept repeating in his ear.

Jiang Pingce frowned: "Shouldn't she kill herself?"

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

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

After entering the community, the two went straight to Room 601, Unit 2, Building 4, 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 doubtfully, "Two police officers, what are you looking for at me so late? Is it the matter?"

She didn't kill herself.

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

The girl was stunned for a moment, then turned to pick up the phone, and smiled apologetically: "I just slept, and the phone was muted, sorry. My work and rest have been quite messy recently. I fell asleep on the sofa in the afternoon, and I have slept until now. ."

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

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

come back later? But the security captain just said clearly that Zhao Cheng went home from get off work at 6:30 in the evening.

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

Qin Shiyin thought about it and said, "At the beginning of this year, he said that he had found a fortune-teller to calculate his fortune, and he felt that his previous name did not match his character, so it would be more auspicious to change his name to Zhao Cheng. My dad was superstitious and insisted on changing it, so I I didn't advise him."

I'm afraid, the fortune teller is fake, and his contact with Liu Lan is the real thing. He changed his name just to find an opportunity 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's mind could react, Xin Yan took the phone from him and asked, "Do you suspect that Zhao Cheng will attack Zhang Ronghua?"

Jiang Pingce said solemnly: "Yes, go and see."

Xin Yan: "Understood."

After hanging up the phone, Yue Xingwen was in a complicated mood, looking at the girl with a puzzled face in front of her.

If Zhao Cheng was really the murderer, maybe he would try to hide it from his daughter and prevent her from getting hurt again, so Qin Shiyin really didn't know it, right? Otherwise, she will definitely join forces with her father to help him prepare an alibi.

Yue Xingwen sighed and said warmly, "Have a good rest. If you are bored alone, just find some variety shows or TV shows, and don't mute your phone."

Qin Shiyin nodded: "I see."

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce left the Xiushui Garden. They took a taxi and drove back. Ke Shaobin called after a few minutes of walking on the road. Jiang Pingce answered the phone, only to hear Ke Shaobin's voice trembling slightly: "Zhang Ronghua, he... died."

Jiang Pingce frowned, Yue Xingwen saw his expression and knew that Ke Shaobin's news 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, and went to room 3007 to find Zhang Ronghua, but no one opened the door. Ke Shaobin took out the police officer's certificate and asked the hotel staff to open the door. Zhang Ronghua was found dead in the bathtub, his right wrist was cut, and the bathtub was full of blood."

The picture can be imagined, Ke Shaobin's visual impact was too great, and his voice trembled when he spoke.

Jiang Pingce was silent for a few seconds, then whispered: "Have you called the police?" Xin Yan: "Called 110 and blocked the scene."

Jiang Pingce: "Where's Zhao Cheng?"

Xin Yan: "We asked the security guard on the night shift today in the lobby on the first floor. One of the middle-aged men surnamed Zhang said that it was originally arranged for Lao Xu and Lao Qin to be on duty with him tonight, but there was something wrong with Lao Xu's family. I changed classes with Zhao Cheng in private."

This is also the reason why the security captain said that Zhao Cheng was not scheduled to be on duty tonight, but Zhao Cheng did not go home - he changed shifts with the security guard on the night shift in the Galaxy Building, and wanted to find an opportunity 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 been working in the 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's aunt to clean up, swipe the door of 3007, and do it while Zhang Ronghua is taking a shower. .

Jiang Pingce whispered: "Let everyone go to Zhao Cheng, and Xingwen and I will be back soon."

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 while.

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

If they hadn't paid attention to the details of the elevator, the surveillance, which they still don't have a clue, the case would have gotten more complicated. However, since they deduced the murderer first, Zhao Ronghua's death seemed to confirm their speculation.

The people who killed Zhou Ziyang and Zhang Ronghua in a row could only be the family of Qin Xiumei, the innocent deceased back then.

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

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 financial director. 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 came to the scene, the police had blocked the corridor on the 30th floor of the Galaxy 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, listen to Xiao Ke, you are investigating the case of Zhou Ziyang falling from a building these days, and you just found out that Zhang Ronghua is related to Zhou Ziyang?"

Jiang Pingce briefly recounted the results of the investigation. Team Lin listened to him telling the story of the case, and nodded as he listened. After Jiang Pingce finished speaking, Team Lin whispered to the colleagues around him: "Immediately arrest Zhao Cheng in the whole city. In addition, please invite Ms. Liu Lan back to the police force to talk in detail!"

That night, police cars searched the city for Zhao Cheng, and there were also police officers in Building No. 4 of Silk Garden, who planned 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 in the whole city. He didn't know where he went, so he couldn't find him for a while.

Liu Lan still looked indifferent, with a look that had nothing to do with him. Team Lin asked her to stay in the interrogation room for a few hours. She was very strict. She only said that she didn't know Qin Shiyin, Zhao Cheng, or what case her husband handled ten years ago.

The police had no choice but to detain her without evidence, so they had to put her back.

In the early morning of the next day, the news suddenly broke the hot search - Shen Haibin, the owner of Binhe Group in Anming City, was arrested and jailed. It turned out that Shen Haibin disappeared during this period because his company was under investigation. It is said that someone collected a lot of evidence to report it. Shen Haibin, Shen Haibin illegally embezzled public funds, evaded taxes, and helped people make fake accounts to launder money.

Seeing the hot search, Yue Xingwen said confidently, "This is Brother Qin Shiyin's handwriting!"

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 could not avenge themselves, so they went to extremes...

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

Just as the police were searching for Zhao Cheng all over the city, the traffic police suddenly called. At 5 am this morning, a taxi fell from the viaduct and the car crashed. After confirmation, the deceased was Zhao Cheng.

The police force's public mailbox received a scheduled email.

Zhao Cheng confessed to his crime. He sent the uncut video to the police, and said that the reason why the police did not suspect him was to buy time and kill Zhang Ronghua.

The email did not mention Liu Lan's name at all.

He said he was not sorry for the killing of lawyer Zhou and Zhang Ronghua. Over the years, his wife's death and the humiliation his daughter has endured have been tormenting him. As a husband, he believed in the words of the villain and wrote a letter of understanding to let Zhang Ronghua escape punishment; 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: "Please don't let my daughter see this letter. She has depression. I'm worried that she will have a nervous breakdown when she finds out, so she thinks that her father has an accident and is going to reunite with her mother in the sky. I Please ask my son to help me with the funeral and the procedures related to the case. My son has a strong psychological quality and should be able to understand what I am doing.”

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

Jiang Pingce was in a complicated mood after reading the email.

Team Lin lit a cigarette and said, "Xiao Jiang, you are quite efficient in investigating cases."

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

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 reading the surveillance and coming to a conclusion, they immediately went to the Xinghe Building to find Zhao Cheng. The security captain told them that Zhao Cheng was off work...

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

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

But what's the use of stopping it?

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

Jiang Pingce didn't know for a while whether this was the best ending? Zhao Cheng killed the culprit who killed his wife and the lawyer who helped the culprit; Qin Shiyin's elder brother personally sent the scum who bullied his sister to prison...

With their father dying to free them, can their 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, the police could not arrest Liu Lan directly, and there was no evidence to prove that she was an accomplice.

Attorney Zhou has spent his whole life planning carefully and doing all the bad things, but he didn't count the person next to him, the student of Beijiang University of Political Science and Law, who has a double degree, is better than him, farther than him!

***

On the fifth day of the exam, Qin Shiyin's brother Zhao Jiarui received a call from the police and came 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 beginning to end, he signed where it should have been signed, and then took his father's body back for cremation.

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 lightly: "I will take my sister abroad and stay away from here, maybe her heart knot can be untied."

As the company's financial officer, he reported the boss Shen Haibin with his real name. If the insider knew about this, he would really be difficult to get along with in China, and going abroad would be 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 a few days later.

Liu Lan sorted and handed over all the income that Zhou Ziyang obtained illegally, including gold bars and cash in the safe. The legally acquired real estate was sold by an intermediary company. She helped her son go through the school dropout procedures and planned to take his son to study abroad.

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

Yue Xingwen said: "Liu Lan and Qin Shiyin definitely 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 was on the rooftop at 23:01 in the evening, but Lawyer Zhou did not. It's the rooftop that only went to 23:50, Zhao Cheng doesn't have the ability to predict, right?"

Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully, and said, "The video can be edited, and the call record can of course be."

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 a few minutes of chatting. 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 it was raining heavily outside, he climbed up to the rooftop with his mobile phone and found that it was raining, he should have returned immediately, but he was lying there a long time ago. Zhao Cheng, who was there, controlled him and pushed him downstairs."

Ke Shaobin followed this speculation and said: "Then, Zhao Cheng picked up his mobile phone, deleted the call records that were unfavorable to Liu Lan, and put the phone back in the women's toilet. Liu Lan also deleted the second call record, Only keep the first recording to prove your 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 prosecute Liu Lan.

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

Qin Shiyin's family, her mother died early, 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 about to end, but Yue Xingwen's mood is very complicated.

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

Lawyer Zhou's death is like a wake-up call that hangs over the heads of the law school students at all times.

Perhaps, this is the purpose of the library's "Death of a Lawyer" class.