Escape From the Library

【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 the beginning to the end, her expression seemed to be helping a stranger to go through the formalities.

Her psychological quality must be excellent, and most people can't be so calm in the face of her husband's death.It's normal for couples in a good relationship to break down and cry; for those in a broken relationship, they either pretend to be sad, or they 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? You also have a 7-year-old son. Are you not sad at all when he died?"

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 indifferently: "I haven't seen the divorce agreement. We haven't formally discussed the divorce, because our son has just entered primary school, and parents are required to participate in school activities. We have to act as a loving couple. We plan to wait until our son grows up and adapts to the new school environment before we divorce."

Both parents are justifiable for delaying divorce for the sake of their children.But has Liu Lan really never seen the agreement that allowed her to "clean herself out of the house"?If she separated before getting divorced, she wouldn't be afraid that her lawyer husband would transfer the property after marriage?

Team Lin twirled the pen in his hand and said, "Where were you from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock last night?"

Liu Lan said: "Last night I helped my son with his homework at home. After my son fell asleep, I went back to my room and watched TV for a while, and I didn't go to bed until 12:30. I have never left the Jinzuo community. You can go to the property to check the monitoring of the community."

从协议书来看，周子扬买下了金座A栋1单元33楼的33-01、33-02、33-03三套房子，江平策问道：“你住在金座佳苑哪一套房？”

Liu Lan said: "The partition wall between 3301 and 3302 has been opened up, and it has been renovated into a large apartment. My son and I are currently living here; 3303 is a two-bedroom apartment. His parents used to live there when they came over. Zhou Ziyang currently lives in Here. When my son asked about it, he explained that he was busy with work and needed to work overtime, and worried that it would affect our rest.”

That is to say, the two lived apart in name, but they actually lived in different rooms on the same building and on the same floor. On the surface, they also pretended to be in harmony with each other, so as not to make their son suspicious.

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

Liu Lan smiled self-deprecatingly: "I have been separated from him for a long time. Although he occasionally returns to my place to accompany his son for dinner, he will go to his own room after dinner. I don't know what he is doing recently or who he has offended. I don't know."

Team Lin said: "Is it because he cheated on you that you separated from him?"

Liu Lan nodded: "Yes. Women's intuition is sharper. For a period of time last year, he frequently smelled strange perfumes. I felt something was wrong. One weekend, he was wearing sportswear and said he was going to the gym. I followed him secretly. Saw him dating a woman with curly hair at his office in Galaxy Tower."

The woman with curly hair is naturally Chen Yueqin, the designer on the 39th floor.

There was a flash of pain 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 catching the rape in bed. After I went back, I thought about it carefully, since he is no longer loyal to me, I can barely After saving him, he will still cheat when he meets a young and beautiful girl in a few years. Why don't you let yourself be free."

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

"I showed him the intimate video I took at that time, and 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 twitched the corners of her mouth contemptuously , said: "Facts have proved that my decision was correct. He begged for my forgiveness while continuing to have a heated fight with Chen Yueqin."

Jiang Pingce: "..."

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

Was she indifferent to property?Or, does she have other plans?

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

Liu Lan looked frankly: "Of course I hate it, I wish he would die immediately. But so what? It was he who made the mistake, not me. I don't need to delay my life because of his mistakes. Even if he feels sorry for me, I won't Possibly kill him and leave my son an orphan without father or mother."

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, without any sign of guilt.

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 the audio."

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

In the phone's call log, there was indeed a call from Zhou Ziyang at 23:30 last night. The call lasted about 3 minutes. Jiang Pingce pressed the play button and only listened to the other side of 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...you, 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 or laughing, and after muttering for a moment, he said: "I was just playing with Chen Yueqin, I never thought of marrying her... you know Right? Men, sometimes they can't help themselves... Such a coquettish woman is not suitable to marry into the family..."

He did drink, and he was a little incoherent after speaking.

Liu Lan was silent for a moment before she couldn't bear it and said, "Zhou Ziyang, you make me feel sick."

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

Team Lin folded his arms and looked at her: "Do you record every time you call your husband?"

Liu Lan said: "This is what he taught me. Evidence should be left behind for everything. How can you tell 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 you have any questions, we will contact you again."

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

A colleague next to him sighed with emotion in a low voice: "Having such a beautiful wife, and going out to steal food, this Zhou Ziyang really does not know how to be blessed..."

Team Lin turned back 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 Xinghe Building with Zhou Ziyang to have an affair last night, but also there was her necklace on the roof of the building, and there were pieces of her skin under Zhou Ziyang's nails. In Liu Lan’s call recording, Zhou Ziyang clearly stated that he wanted to return to his family and that he was just having fun with Chen Yueqin. If Chen Yueqin heard this conversation afterwards, of course he might become angry and think that Zhou Ziyang was cheating her feelings, so he acted impulsively. Kill Zhou Ziyang."

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

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and said: "I always feel that I can't see through Liu Lan. It may be because of her depression. She seems to have closed her heart and never showed her emotions."

No matter what questions you ask her, she can answer them fluently, as calmly as if she was telling someone else's story.

This woman is a bit strange, but she said that she will not take her own life because of other people's mistakes, and will not let her son become an orphan... There is a good reason for this.Because once she kills Zhou Ziyang, she will be sentenced to death, and there will be no one to take care of their children, which is not worthwhile.

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "She answered Zhou Ziyang's call at 11:30 last night, but Zhou Ziyang died around [-] o'clock in the morning, and her suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, but I don't think she looks like a murderer. From From the point of view of a mother who kills her husband and orphans her children doesn't quite fit her calm personality."

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

Jiang Pingce made 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 Xinghe Building somewhere in the corner."

Team Lin waved his hand and said, "The field team A will conduct a sweeping search of the Xinghe Building, and find the deceased's cell phone as soon as possible!"

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

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

"Lawyer Zhou must have been having an affair with that beautiful woman downstairs. That weekend when I went back to the law firm to get things, I saw them making out in the bathroom, and I was so scared that I ran away."

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

"By the way, her sister came to see Attorney Zhou every day for a while, and the two of them locked the door in the office to discuss matters. They talked for several hours. Lawyer Zhou helped her with the divorce lawsuit. The house, the custody of the child was awarded to the husband, she seems not convinced?"

Yue Xingwen heard the key revelation of "making out in the bathroom", and pretended to go to the bathroom, trying to find out if there were any clues.

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

Yue Xingwen opened the door and walked in. The entire bathroom was decorated very luxuriously, not inferior to that of a five-star hotel.There are five stalls in the men's restroom, all the doors are open, they are cleaned and nothing special is found.Yue Xingwen couldn't go in rashly in the women's restroom, so I asked Senior Sister Lan and Senior Sister Lin to 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 door at the farthest corner was ajar.

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

Lan Yarong immediately took out the phone and said, "Xing Wen, I 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 calling in the stairwell yesterday, and it was turned off at this time.

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

Lan Yarong took out her mobile phone and asked in the office group of "Minghui Law Firm", "Did any colleague lose their mobile phone?" Everyone said "no".

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

However, Zhou Ziyang is a man, how could his mobile phone appear in the women's restroom?When he went to the toilet, he was so confused that he didn't see the signs of men and women clearly?Or is it left behind by the murderer?

Regardless, finding the phone was a big step forward.Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message to Jiang Pingce: "We found Zhou Ziyang's mobile phone in the women's toilet on the 40th floor."