dead innocent

First-degree murder refers to the unlawful act of homicide with both "intent to kill" and "premeditated planning" - "Interpretation of Terms in American Criminal Law".

Feng Jingcheng was shot six times, one shot hit his right shoulder, and the rest of the bullets were concentrated in his chest. Su Wan glanced roughly and said, "Too dead."

He could imagine He Cheng's determination and hatred when he shot the gun, it was not enough to kill him, whipping the corpse could dispel Er San's hatred.

Feng Jingcheng's body went through a procedure and was temporarily stored in the city bureau's autopsy room.

As for Gao Yuannan, Chu Xingyun has a headache.

Judging from the bullet holes on Feng Jingcheng's body, one shot was shot from the back into the shoulder, and five shots were shot into the chest from the front. The gunshot wounds on Feng Jingcheng's body were obviously caused by two people.

He asked Gao Yuannan if he shot Feng Jingcheng.

Gao Yuannan just folded his arms and lowered his head, glanced at him lightly, and said, "No."

This is a lie.

Chu Xingyun saw it through at a glance, but he didn't point it out.He could think of why her gun appeared in He Cheng's hands at the end. He Cheng was the victim with the highest status in this kidnapping case. Even if he shot and killed Feng Jingcheng, he could still escape legal punishment on the grounds of self-defense. .Even though He Cheng was suspected of being overly defensive, it was easy for him to get rid of this accusation in his capacity.

As for Gao Yuannan, she is the adopted daughter of 'Gao Jing'. Even if it is finally confirmed that she is Chen Yunan, but Feng Jingcheng is dead, and there is no proof of her death, so her victim status cannot be established.Her identity as a victim cannot be established, so her attack on Feng Jingcheng was a deliberate murder.

Perhaps He Cheng also thought of this, so he shot Feng Jingcheng's body a few times out of selfishness.

The heavy rain that had been falling until the early hours of the morning finally had a tendency to subside at this time, and the overcast clouds over the city dissipated, revealing the belated sky.

Gao Yuannan sat in the lobby on the first floor of the police station, on the bench facing the door, hugging his arms tightly as if afraid of the cold, staring in the direction of the door in a daze.

Chu Xingyun sat next to her and looked at her silently.

More than an hour passed, and she sat there after recording the statement, motionless.She looked outside the door, but she didn't know where her eyes fell.

She was like a little girl who had lost her way and was brought back by the police, as if she didn't know where she was, and there was only a layer of confusion and trance in her eyes.

She should see a psychiatrist. Chu Xingyun looked at her indifferent and beautiful profile, and saw He Cheng's unmistakable look on her face when he returned home after being rescued.During the 13 years in captivity, her nature was completely worn out, and she was fabricated by Feng Jingcheng into a monster who didn't know the warmth and coldness of human feelings. Feng Jingcheng was like her owner.When she is capable and consciously wants to be free, she will kill her owner without hesitation. Maybe she still doesn't understand what it means to cause Feng Jingcheng's bloodshed and death. She only knows one thing , that is, only one can survive between her and the owner.

Just like the natural world without humanity and love, there is no shortage of low-level creatures that cannibalize their mothers and fathers after they grow up.The difference between humans and other species, apart from genes, is 'education' and 'domestication'.What kind of environment breeds what kind of personality.Gao Yuannan was imprisoned and grew up without a trace of love. Who has the right to ask her to keep kindness and warmth in her heart?

She just wants to live, and she will not hesitate to destroy the owner's life.

If He Cheng had not been rescued, then the 'monster' sitting next to him at this time was He Cheng.

"Team Chu."

Suddenly, he heard Gao Yuannan speak, this young girl was not affected by the loss of a life, she blocked herself behind an invisible barrier, even in the crowd, she still hid in the corner, Take root in the dark night.

"It seems the rain is about to stop."

she says.

Chu Xingyun looked at the sky outside the glass door, the rain did stop soon, the rain was much lighter, the torrential rain turned into a misty drizzle, and the raindrops became cotton threads, which were swayed and tilted by the remaining breeze .

"Well, it's almost over."

Chu Xingyun looked at the door and let out a sigh of relief, squeezed his stiff and cold fingers, and asked: "What are your plans? After the rain stops."

Gao Yuannan blinked his eyes, and the corners of his lips curled into an inconspicuous arc: "Let's go for a walk, it seems——it's been a long time since I saw the sun."

An SUV slowly stopped at the gate of the police station. Xiao Shu opened the door and got down from the driver's seat. He held up an umbrella and opened the rear door. A sad, gentle and sad mother followed.

Holding the umbrella, Xiao Shu almost couldn't keep up with Chen Jing's footsteps, and hurried all the way to the office building.

Chu Xingyun got up and walked to the door, pushed open the glass door, and Chen Jing's thin figure passed by him and walked into the lobby.

"Is He Cheng awake?"

He stopped Xiao Shu and asked.

Xiao Shu closed the umbrella, stood at the door shaking the raindrops on the umbrella cover, and said, "You should be awake by now."

Chu Xingyun didn't say anything, took the car key in his hand and walked towards the gate.

When he walked out of the building, he heard a woman's sad and happy crying from behind him.

His whole body was completely drenched by the rain. At this time, in order to resist the damp and cold wind after the rain, he borrowed Zhao Feng's coat.When he arrived at the hospital parking lot, he got out of the car, wrapped his coat tightly and walked quickly to the inpatient department building.

Outside a single ward on the seventh floor, before he could go in, he heard chatter and laughter coming from inside.

He was very familiar with the voices of the two, they were Fu Yi and He Cheng.

He stood at the door, holding the doorknob and stood quietly for a moment, as if infected by the relaxed and hearty laughter, he slightly raised the corners of his lips, pushed open the door and walked in.

"Brother Fu."

He closed the door behind his back, greeted Fu Yi, and then looked at He Cheng on the hospital bed.

He Cheng was leaning against the bed and was getting an IV drip. Although his face was tired, his eyes were clear and bright, and there was still a little sporadic smile on the corners of his lips. Seeing Chu Xingyun's appearance, the corners of his lips curled up, and the look in his eyes became brighter .

As a wounded patient, Fu Yi heard that He Cheng was hospitalized, and came to visit him when he was upstairs. Because his right leg was stitched and wrapped in gauze, it was inconvenient to move, so he leaned on a crutch.

He was sitting on a chair next to the bed, peeling an apple.

"We were still discussing just now, do you have time to come over today?"

Fu Yi gave him a rough look, then lowered his head and continued to turn the fruit knife in his hand, laughing.

Chu Xingyun walked over slowly, stopped at the end of the bed, looked at He Cheng and said: "It didn't exist at first, but it will be squeezed."

Just at this time, the fruit knife in Fu Yi's hand also turned the apple for the last time. He took off a complete peel, then put the fruit knife and the peeled apple into the fruit plate, picked up the crutch leaning against the table, Get up and walk to the door: "You talk."

Captain Fu, who has a wink and a high EQ, does good deeds without leaving a name, and even closes the door for them.

Chu Xingyun sat by the bed, glanced at the drip stand, and asked, "What liquid was infused?"

"glucose."

He Cheng lazily leaned against the head of the bed, looked at him, with a clear and gentle smile on his lips: "The doctor said he was just a little dehydrated."

Chu Xingyun lifted the quilt on him, lifted his hospital gown, and saw a piece of gauze on his right abdomen.

He Cheng suddenly gave a low laugh, straightened his clothes, and said, "Are you sure you want to touch me here?"

"...Is it my fault?"

Chu Xingyun ignored his joke, looked into his eyes and asked seriously.

The smile on He Cheng's face restrained slightly, he looked at him extremely calmly, and asked, "What's your fault?"

"This time, I almost lost you again."

He Cheng looked at him in silence for a moment, his eyes were a little dazed, as if he had thought of a lot in a flash, his tone suddenly became cold: "Why do you think I will blame you, because you regard me as your own responsibility?"

Sometimes, Chu Xingyun was amazed at his keen insight, or in front of He Cheng, he was always so easily seen through.

He Cheng was right, so he had nothing to say for a while.

He Cheng looked at his dodging eyes and said, "You know very well that I didn't blame you, you are the only one who blames you. I don't want you to take me as your own responsibility, it will make you tired and it will be unfair to you. I need you to care about me, I want you to love me, but I don't want to take advantage of your sense of responsibility. You say you love me, I believe it, but I hope you can think clearly, what is the reason for your love me? Responsibility, or—”

"Still want to make up for you?"

Chu Xingyun suddenly raised his eyes to point at him, frowned slightly, and helped him make up the last sentence.

He Cheng slightly pursed the corners of his lips, but remained silent.

Chu Xingyun rubbed his eyebrows and sighed a little irritably, with a helpless smile on his face: "Do you think I would care about him so much and want to protect him so much if I were any other person? I do have a responsibility to you , since I was a child, because I am older than you, and you still call me brother, I have the responsibility to take care of you. Do you want to get rid of your previous relationship with me just because our relationship has added another layer? Are you afraid that I have only responsibility for you? Even if I only have responsibility for you, so what? As long as this sense of responsibility belongs to you alone, I am willing to bear it for the rest of my life, is it wrong for me to do so?"

He breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand to caress He Cheng's face, looked into his eyes and continued: "You said so many things just now, only one thing was right. I really want to make up for you. I am also compensating myself. I do regard you as my responsibility, but you are not as simple as my responsibility."

"for example?"

He Cheng looked at him earnestly and asked.

Chu Xingyun put his hands on the bed beside him, leaned close to him, stopped on his lips and whispered: "For example, you are still my life."

The last word disappears between breaths and murmurs.

Chu Xingyun's lips were warm and dry, and there was a very faint smell of tobacco between his lips and teeth. He Cheng felt that his lips were grinding back and forth on his lips carefully and gently, like a long stream flowing in the forest, meandering circulation.

He Cheng was stunned for a while, then closed his eyes, supported his waist, and responded to his kiss with the same slow and soft rhythm.

Nothing to do with lust, just wanting to be close.

Before the kiss was over, there was a sudden knock on the door of the ward.

Chu Xingyun let go of his lips, pulled back a little distance, rubbed his thumb lightly against his bright red lower lip, and raised the corner of his lips and asked, "Tell me first, has my technique improved?"

He Cheng smiled, pulled his hand down and held it, and said, "Maybe it's too shallow, I didn't feel it."

Chu Xingyun raised his eyes and looked at him, and also smiled: "Then next time you come to an in-depth one, do you feel it well?"

He Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Okay, I have no objection."

Chu Xingyun glanced at him helplessly, got up to open the door, and let in Qiao Shishi who was standing outside the door.

Qiao Shishi stood at the door and glanced inside first, making sure that there was nothing mysterious about the atmosphere in the ward, then closed the door and walked in.

"Oh, how is Mr. He?"

She rushed to He Cheng's bed, out of pity for the beauty, she said with sincere concern.

He Cheng pointed to the chair beside the bed: "I'm fine, please sit down."

Qiao Shishi didn't sit down, but took out two documents from his carry-on document bag and handed them to Chu Xingyun: "You left too quickly, so I brought you the things."

Chu Xingyun took two documents and sat down on a group of sofas in front of the window, opened one of them, and raised his eyebrows when he saw the first page: "The identity of the old man has been found out?"

Qiao Shishi walked over and knelt down in front of him carelessly: "You turn around and look at his family members."

The 'professor' who practiced poison was called He Jianfeng, a native of S City, born in 1967, with an ordinary bachelor's degree, and once worked as a high school chemistry professor in a school in S City.This person has a criminal record. When he was teaching, he was jointly reported by several female students that he had sexually harassed him, and he was soon expelled from the school.Since then, his work record has not been included in the file.Maybe after he was expelled from the school, he used his knowledge about extraction to change his career to practice drugs.

In 2002, He Jianfeng was expelled from the school. In October of the same year, his wife divorced him.His wife, Zhang Li, also has a criminal record. She was caught with a client in a hotel during an anti-pornography operation. She was a long-term sex worker when the transaction was in progress.

In short, the combination of these two people is hard to describe in words. He Jianfeng has a daughter. After his wife divorced him, he raised her daughter. At that time, the daughter was 14 years old. It can be said that she is a young girl and the youngest age.

Chu Xingyun was very curious about how such a pair of parents, such a family environment, and their daughter would be raised. However, when he saw the names of the children, he was really stunned.

He Yunshu?

Seeing the word He Yunshu, he immediately thought of He Cheng's assistant, He Yunshu, that beautiful and intelligent woman.

He Yunshu's file is attached to the back of the file. Although the two-inch photo in the upper right corner has been around for a few years, the beautiful face that is unforgettable and the temperament of a white swan are still very easy. It was obvious at a glance that she was He Yunshu, just the He Yunshu when she was in college.

There are only a few words in the records. He Yunshu grew up with He Jianfeng, and was admitted to a university in Yinjiang in 2006. After graduation, he stayed in Yinjiang to work.And her father disappeared as early as the year of her college entrance examination, and there was no trace of him in the public security system.

He Yunshu turned out to be He Jianfeng's daughter, which surprised him even more. Qiao Shishi added: "The portrait in Lu Xia's family is also He Yunshu."

Chu Xingyun suddenly raised his head and looked at her, with thick fog rolling in his eyes.

When He Cheng heard He Yunshu's name, he got out of bed and pushed the IV stand to the sofa, sat beside Chu Xingyun, took the information from him and asked while reading, "What's wrong with Secretary He?"

Qiao Shishi glanced at Chu Xingyun, seeing that Chu Xingyun was concentrating and silent, seemingly thinking about something, so he replied on his behalf: "He Yunshu is related to a case."

He Cheng glanced through the information hastily, and keenly grasped the key person: "Her father?"

Qiao Shishi nodded: "Well, he's dead."

He Cheng frowned: "How did you die?"

"Killed by a painter who had a crush on her."

Although Qiao Shishi's statement is simple and rude, but it can accurately summarize the relationship between He Jianfeng, He Yunshu and Lu Xia, the premise is to find a relationship between the three of them.

Suddenly, Chu Xingyun pulled his mind back to his eyes and asked Qiao Shishi: "Have you found the art exhibition that Lu Xia said?"

Qiao Shishi said: "The art exhibition was indeed held a year ago, but the list of people who came and went and participated cannot be counted. We can't find evidence to prove that what Lu Xia said is true, and we can't find evidence that what he said is true. Fake."

At this point, Chu Xingyun discovered the loopholes in Lu Xia's confession. He said that he had met Zhou Shiyang and He Jianfeng at the exhibition held a year ago. Give exact answers.Following this line of thought, the motive for the murder provided by Lu Xia cannot be verified.

"Is He Yunshu still working in Swan City?"

He asked He Cheng.

He Cheng put down the document in his hand, and said, "Of course, but she has asked for leave and is planning to get married."

"marry?"

"Ah."

"Who is the target?"

He Cheng had a face of 'You ask me, who should I ask? ' expression: "How do I know, I only heard Xiao Shu say once that her fiancé seems to be a very ordinary man."

He Yunshu's marriage partner was put aside for the time being, doubtful.

Chu Xingyun picked up the document he put down, and quickly found a suspicious point hidden between the lines: "Is she an ordinary undergraduate degree?"

The object of his inquiry is still He Cheng: "Isn't the minimum threshold for you to recruit employees a graduate student from a key university?"

He Cheng glanced at him, with a playful smile on the corner of his lips: "Do you want to ask? Then let me tell you, I have three secretaries who were admitted 'exceptionally'."

Chu Xingyun looked at him and said seriously: "Say clearly."

He Cheng quickly said: "They are beautiful, and they can drink well, so they can easily gain the upper hand in negotiations. This is their strength."

"That's all? I mean He Yunshu."

He Cheng thought about it for a while, and said, "Secretary He is a little different from them. She is a favor I sold to Qin Xiao."

Hearing Qin Xiao's name, Chu Xingyun immediately grasped the clue: "Go ahead."

"About two years ago, at a reception, He Yunshu appeared as Qin Xiao's girlfriend. At that time, He Yunshu graduated from university and was looking for a job. Qin Xiao introduced her to me. I saw that she was very beautiful and very capable. Yes, you can accompany me to any occasion, so I sold Qin Xiao a favor, and He Yunshu went to work in the Ark Building the next day."

"What's the relationship between her and Qin Xiao?"

He Cheng glanced at him again, and smiled neither salty nor weak: "Tan Xiao is flirtatious and has many ways to pick up girls. It's not difficult for him to have sex with anyone, and there are also people who are willing to have sex with him."

Chu Xingyun extracted the central thought in his words: "Has she ever been with Qin Xiao?"

He Cheng squeezed his chin, and said seriously: "You can't say that. The only girlfriend and boyfriend that Qin Xiao has never admitted is the son of Director Yang's family. As for the others, even if they have something to do with him, I think it's just a spring breeze. Dewy marriage."

Chu Xingyun raised his eyebrows and remained silent. He Cheng's words reminded him of the rule that Qin Xiao lived in the Shu Palace...

Although he was unwilling to speculate on He Yunshu with such reputation-destroying malice, at this moment he had to speculate whether He Yunshu was one of Qin Xiao's "dewy marriages", and whether she had been brought into the Shu Palace by Qin Xiao?Does she know the rules of Qin Xiao's stay in Shu Palace?

"He Yunshu is getting married?"

Chu Xingyun lowered his eyes and asked in a deep voice.

"Ah."

He Cheng replied.

"Is she still in Yinjiang now?"

"I don't know, she asked for leave yesterday."

Chu Xingyun took out his mobile phone and handed it to him: "Contact her and ask if she is still in Yinjiang."

If He Yunshu was really involved in the case, it would not be alarming if He Cheng came forward to ask her whereabouts.

If his mobile phone hadn't been taken away by the police as evidence, He Cheng would not have used his broken mobile phone that had been dismembered and reassembled many times.

He Cheng pressed He Yunshu's mobile phone number on the dial pad with a look of disgust, and only pressed four digits, then suddenly frowned and stopped.

"You saved He Yunshu's phone number?"

Chu Xingyun was still thinking, and suddenly heard him say that, wondering: "Huh?"

He Cheng glanced at him, and held up the phone screen in front of him with a cold face: "You have dialed her number, and there is a call record."

Chu Xingyun took the phone back and looked at the line of call records that automatically recognized the dialed number and jumped out. He was also very puzzled, but when he saw the date of the call, his eyes suddenly darkened, his pupils brightened, and his sharpness burst out.

If it is said that his suspicion of He Yunshu just now was groundless, then the clues left in his mobile phone at this moment are ironclad evidence of his suspicion of He Yunshu's identity. A layer of unknown identity.If his deduction is true, then Lu Xia is not the most important person in the case, he is just a fog, and He Yunshu is the biggest loophole in the two seemingly unrelated but actually connected cases!

However, the confession provided by Lu Xia is complete and reasonable. If he wants to overturn Lu Xia's confession and verify the loopholes in his heart, he must find bigger loopholes in Lu Xia's confession.

"When you interrogated Lu Xia, was there anything suspicious about his behavior, his attitude, and every word he said?"

Hearing his question, Qiao Shishi bit his fingernails and thought about it seriously, and said: "His confession is very complete, there are no loopholes, I interrupted the timeline to set him up, and he didn't say anything contradictory. , seems to have made sufficient preparations, but—although there are no loopholes, there is one doubt."

"What doubt?"

"Zhao Feng checked the monitoring at the entrance of the villa area and found that September No. 15 was the day we found He Jianfeng's body at Lu Xia's home. Lu Xia appeared in the fast food restaurant near the entrance of the villa area at around five o'clock in the evening. We arrived seven or eight hours early. I asked him why he was there, and he said he wanted to wait until the dead of night to act. Although this statement was true, it was a bit far-fetched. There were not many people coming and going in and out of their neighborhood during the day. There will be a lot of people at night, but he has been staying in the fast food restaurant, like—"

Chu Xingyun raised his eyes and looked at her leisurely, and added for her calmly: "It's like waiting to throw himself into the trap." After a while, he hooked the corner of his lips, and said with a smile that was not a smile: " You were guarded by him, and we were all wiped out by him."

Now, he can finally confirm that Lu Xia is lying.Ever since Lu Xia returned to the scene of the crime, he has been lying——

He packed up the documents and rolled them up in his hands, stood up and gathered his coat, and said to He Cheng, "I'm leaving."

As an outsider, He Cheng didn't understand a word of what he said, and he was still in a state of confusion.I didn't understand what he was talking about until I heard him say 'I'm leaving'.

Chu Xingyun regards him as a transfer station, and he doesn't plan to stay for a minute.

He Cheng looked at him coldly and remained silent, only thinking that the words Qiao Shishi said from his mouth before he came were all ivory spit out of a dog's mouth.

Chu Xingyun smiled, looked at him in a good mood and said: "You have helped me a lot again, young master, eh? How do you say that word?"

He furrowed his brows as if he was thinking about something, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, snapped his fingers, raised his hand and hooked his chin: "Wanve."

He Cheng: ...

Chu Xingyun walked out of the ward with strides, and closed the door with a whimper.

Qiao Shishi stared at the door panel for a while with indescribable eyes, then squinted at He Cheng: "Our boss has always been like this?"

What she asked was: He has been teasing Sao to death in such a shameless way?

He Cheng lowered his eyes and curled his lips, resentfully: "Well, it's always like this."

He Cheng's answer was: He always abandons me when he disagrees with me like this.

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Regarding the fact that Chu Xingyun has He Yunshu’s phone number, please go back to Chapter 10, Young Blood [9].