Escape From the Library

【Death of a Lawyer 07】

After Jiang Pingce received the news, he immediately informed the captain of the criminal police, Lin Wei.

Team Lin called a few people to come to Xinghe Building again, and Lan Yarong explained: "When Man Luo and I went to the toilet together just now, we found that the door of the women's toilet was open, and the mobile phone was placed on the paper towel holder next to it. Asked In a circle, none of the colleagues in the law firm lost their mobile phones, and we suspected that it belonged to Lawyer Zhou, so we called the police.”

Lin Wei took the phone and asked the people in the technical department to unlock it as soon as possible. He himself went to the compartment where the phone was found in the women's bathroom, and asked his colleagues to collect evidence at the scene.There were a few balls of paper in the trash can, some strange liquid traces on the ground, and many fingerprints were collected on the walls, all of which had to be taken back for identification.

Yue Xingwen didn't show up from the beginning to the end, and Senior Sister Lan and Senior Sister Lin took care of handing over the mobile phone.At this time, Yue Xingwen was watching the surveillance with Zhuo Feng and Zhang Xiaonian in the Jinzuo Jiayuan community.

Zhang Xiaonian is the owner of the community. Using "my dog ​​is lost" as an excuse, he went to the property to check the monitoring of last night.

Zhuo Feng's identity is a property employee, responsible for the maintenance of water and electricity in the community. He happened to be on duty last night, so he could easily bring Zhang Xiaonian and Yue Xingwen to the property monitoring.

The three of them sat in the monitoring room, Yue Xingwen said: "Let's start watching at 06:30 last night."

At 06:30 last night, lawyer Zhou Ziyang and Yue Xingwen took the same elevator down the stairs and out of Xinghe Building.His home is in the Jinzuo community opposite the Xinghe Building. If he returns home on time, he will soon appear on the surveillance of the community.

Zhuo Feng turned on the monitor.At 18:35 in the evening, Zhou Ziyang was photographed at the gate of the community, and around 18:40, Zhou Ziyang appeared at the gate of Unit 1, Building A.The man was carrying a briefcase, wearing a suit and leather shoes, with a smile on his face, and greeted the neighbors he met in the lobby. Then he took the elevator No. 1 to the 33rd floor on the top floor, and unlocked the room with his fingerprint at the door of room 33-03.

He got off work at 18:30 and returned home at 18:40. It seems that he crossed the road directly after get off work and went home without going anywhere else.

Yue Xingwen said: "Continue to see when Liu Lan came back."

The three of them stared at the monitor together. At 19 o'clock in the evening, Liu Lan brought a 7-year-old boy home together. The little boy was very excited, holding a box of toys in his hand, which should have been bought by Liu Lan just now. People talked and laughed and entered door 33-01. Although the family of three lived on the same floor, they were in different rooms.

As for what happened after they returned home, no one knows.At around 21:30 in the evening, a man came out of room 33-03. It was Zhou Ziyang who had changed into a black sportswear. At this time, he was carrying a black suitcase in his hand.

Zhuo Feng paused and zoomed in on the screen, Yue Xingwen took a closer look, and said, "It's the same as when he died, and his box should be full of cash now."

Zhang Xiaonian said: "That is to say, he took the cash from home?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Well, if you go to the bank, the bank has already closed at this time. It means that he left a lot of cash at home in advance, and suddenly brought it out last night."

Zhuo Feng tracked and monitored all the way, and found that Zhou Ziyang dragged his suitcase out of the gate of the community at 21:45.

Yue Xingwen looked at the monitoring time thoughtfully, and analyzed: "He left the community at 21:45 last night, and appeared in the monitoring of Xinghe Building at 21:50. Judging from the time, he should have passed by immediately after he left the community. Crossed the road, came to Xinghe Building, did not go anywhere else."

Zhang Xiaonian wondered: "Didn't Brother Xin Yan say that the autopsy found that he drank a lot of wine and ate beef before he died, but he hadn't digested it yet? I thought he had a date with his lover, had dinner, and then went back to the building to have an affair. .”

Yue Xingwen said: "According to the monitoring, he didn't have time to go out to eat with Chen Yueqin, maybe he ate at Xinghe Building."

Zhuo Feng said: "What did he suddenly bring so much cash to Xinghe Building?"

Yue Xingwen frowned and thought about it, and said: "There are three possibilities. One is that he secretly took cash and hid it, and transferred the joint property of the husband and wife, so that Liu Lan could share less when they divorced; second, he was threatened. , needs cash transactions to stop the mouths of those who threaten him; thirdly, this money is illegal income from bribes given to him. That money becomes legitimate income."

Zhuo Feng and Zhang Xiaonian looked at each other and agreed with Xingwen's analysis.Whether he withdrew the money himself or was bribed by others, we will not know until the results of the bank statement come out.

The three of them continued to watch the monitor. At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Liu Lan went downstairs once. She changed into loose home clothes and carried a bag of garbage, including the toy box she bought for her son.After she threw away the garbage at the door of the unit, she went back, and the surveillance tracked her until she opened the door of Room 33 on the 01rd floor.

She didn't go out until 12 o'clock in the morning.

Yue Xingwen said: "During Zhou Ziyang's death last night, she never went downstairs, and she didn't have time to commit crimes."

Zhuo Feng analyzed: "The relationship between her and her son seems to be very good. The mother and son are talking and laughing. If she kills Zhou Ziyang with her own hands, her son's life will be ruined in the future. Mother kills father. Such a blow is a small one. It is absolutely impossible for the child to bear it. So, if she is still sensible, I don't think she will do such crazy things as killing people."

Yue Xingwen looked at the thin back of the woman in the surveillance, and said, "Liu Lan is the most motivated one. Zhou Ziyang cheated, and the two may divorce at any time. As a lawyer, Zhou Ziyang is proficient in marriage law. If divorced, Liu Lan If you can't get a house, you can't get child custody, you will have nothing. On the contrary, when Zhou Ziyang died, all the real estate and cash under his name belonged to her and her son. She was the person who benefited the most from Zhou Ziyang's death. , but she does have an alibi... Could it be that she didn't do it herself, but she guided it all?"

Zhuo Feng stroked his chin and said, "Is it the mastermind behind the scenes?"

Yue Xingwen said: "I have a feeling that this woman still has a secret."

Zhang Xiaonian said positively: "The course arranges that we live in the Jinzuo community. Do you want to check all the residents in the Jinzuo community to see if there are any strange people? I live in Building C, maybe there is something wrong with Building C?"

Xiaonian's reminder happened to be exactly what Yue Xingwen was thinking: "Let's check it out."

Zhuo Feng quickly retrieved the resident registration form from the property computer.Yue Xingwen discovered unexpectedly——Qi Zhao, Liu Minghui, these two people also live in Jinzuo Jiayuan.

Qi Zhao had a business conflict with the deceased, and was robbed of a major client by the deceased. He had a dispute with the deceased and is currently one of the suspects. He lives on the 33rd floor of Building C, just opposite to Zhang Xiaonian's house!

Liu Minghui is the boss of Minghui Law Firm. He lives on the 2rd floor of Unit 33 in Building A. Building A is the king of the complex. The downstairs is facing the Fountain Square.

They all work in the office building of Xinghe Building opposite, so it is reasonable to buy a house in the nearest residential area.This is the downtown area, and housing prices are extremely high, but for several well-paid lawyers, buying a house here does not constitute financial pressure.

Zhuo Feng began to check the monitoring of Unit 2 of Building A and Unit 1 of Building C last night, and found that the boss Liu Minghui took the child home at around 7 o'clock last night, and had never been out, but Qi Zhao did not go home at all last night—Building C He was not found in the monitoring!

Yue Xingwen remembered that Qi Zhao told the police: "I went home to sleep after get off work last night."

He is lying.

Yue Xingwen said: "I'm going to the hospital now to see how the results of Liu Lan's investigation are going. You stay in the Jinzuo community. The police will definitely come to adjust the surveillance later."

Zhuo Feng nodded: "Okay, be careful by yourself."

Yue Xingwen took a taxi to the Municipal People's Hospital. Liu Zhaoqing, Xu Yishen and Qin Lu were supposed to be off the night shift today, but they did not leave tacitly. They met at the flower bed of the hospital. It was kept confidential, Qin Lu sneaked in during the lunch break and found Liu Lan's medical records."

Qin Lu took out her mobile phone and showed Yue Xingwen the case record secretly taken: "She has been suffering from depression for a year and a half. A year and a half ago, she had an operation for an ectopic pregnancy. According to the analysis of the psychologist, it may be because of the operation. It made her psychologically traumatized, which led to mild depression. She always wanted to have a second child and give birth to a daughter."

ectopic pregnancy?It seems that she and Zhou Ziyang had a good relationship at that time, and she was pregnant with a second child, but unfortunately it was an ectopic pregnancy, and the child was not kept, which made her depressed.Zhou Ziyang cheated a year ago, shortly after his wife's surgery.

Yue Xingwen asked: "Any other discoveries?"

Qin Lu said: "We have checked, and there is no record of her visits to other departments except the Department of Psychology and Obstetrics and Gynecology. However, she took the child to see the Pediatric Department several times, and they were all minor illnesses such as colds and fevers."

Yue Xingwen texted the results of the investigation to Jiang Pingce, asking about the progress of the police force.

Jiang Pingce replied quickly: "Zhou Ziyang's cell phone has been unlocked, and three suspicious call records were found."

"The most recent call was to his wife Liu Lan at 23:30, which was consistent with Liu Lan's recording. Team Lin also went to the community to check the monitoring. Liu Lan's suspicion can be ruled out for the time being."

"The second call was at 21:00. He answered the call from his lover Chen Yueqin. We asked Chen Yueqin. Chen was detained for a few hours and his mental state was a little broken. We all recruited. It turned out that yesterday was her birthday. She hoped that Zhou Zi Yang stayed with her, so he bought cakes, wine, steak and other suppers, called Zhou Ziyang, and the two met to have an affair in the office building."

"Colleagues from the field team found discarded cake boxes, wine bottles, and unfinished beef in the public trash can on the 39th floor. The necklace found on the rooftop was a gift from Zhou Ziyang for her birthday last year. When the two were making love that night, Zhou Ziyang took off the necklace and stuffed it into his pocket, gave her a new one, and said that he would give her a new necklace every birthday."

"The place where the two had an affair was in the women's restroom. She said it was Zhou Ziyang's special hobby, and she found it particularly exciting to be in the women's restroom. The results of the evidence brought back by the colleagues in the appraisal department for testing also came out, and there was a lot left in the women's restroom. Zhou Ziyang's and Chen Yueqin's fingerprints, the wastebasket balls, and the liquid samples on the ground all tested Zhou Ziyang's genes."

Not to mention cheating, but also running to the women's bathroom with his lover in the middle of the night to make out, Zhou Ziyang's hobbies are quite special.Yue Xingwen asked: "So, the skin and blood under Zhou Ziyang's nails were left when the two of them did it too intensely?"

Jiang Pingce: "Theoretically, there are scratches on Chen Yueqin's back. She said they were left by the fierceness last night. But these are all Chen Yueqin's one-sided words, and the credibility must be compromised."

Yue Xingwen thought for a while, and said, "Chen Yueqin's confession matches the current chain of evidence. She should not be the murderer, otherwise it would be too simple."

Jiang Pingce agreed: "Yes."

For Chen Yueqin's birthday, she bought a cake and asked Zhou Ziyang to have an affair. Zhou Ziyang ate beef and drank alcohol, which was consistent with the autopsy results. The birthday cake was indeed found in the trash can, which proved that she was not lying; Looking for excitement in the restroom, the semen found in the women's restroom belonged to Zhou Ziyang, and their fingerprints also matched.

Chen Yueqin and Zhou Ziyang's intimacy ended at around 23:39, and she said that she went back to the 23th floor and went to sleep after it was over.However, Zhou Ziyang did not go back to sleep. Liu Lan received a call from him at 30:[-]. He was probably still in the bathroom at that time. He called his wife Liu Lan, and then left his mobile phone behind because of drunkenness. There?

If so, the present evidence could be plausibly interpreted.

Zhou Ziyang's mentality is not normal. He just finished making out with his lover, and then called his wife and said, "I'm just playing with her, I still want to go back to you and the child", typical of two boats, and want to Both are required.

Yue Xingwen sent a message asking: "Three suspicious call records, who is the third?"

Jiang Pingce said: "The call time was around 18:30 in the evening. It should be the call you heard from him in the stairwell. The caller ID is Chen Xueqin, Chen Yueqin's sister."

That is, the client in the "marital divorce case" that lawyer Zhou once took over.I remember that at that time, Attorney Zhou said impatiently, "If you are not satisfied, you can appeal." It seems that Chen Xueqin is not satisfied with the verdict of this divorce case.