Escape From the Library

【Death of a Lawyer-11】

Jiang Pingce could see Building A diagonally opposite from the balcony. He roughly calculated the distance and angle, and then asked Zhang Xiaonian: "Do you have the internal structure diagram of Building A? How are the three rooms on each floor distributed?"

If you don't calculate the exact distance, it would be embarrassing to meet Liu Lan and her son face-to-face if Qin Lu's board shifted and moved to the wrong place and entered Room 3301.

Zhang Xiaonian participated in the architectural design of the community, and immediately took out the design drawings from the bookshelf and handed them to Jiang Pingce: "Unit 1 and Unit 2 have three rooms on each floor, and rooms 3 and 02 in each unit have two bedrooms and one living room. It is a small apartment, and Room 03 is a large apartment with three bedrooms and two halls, and this building is a full-screen apartment that is transparent from the north to the south."

Jiang Pingce looked at the drawings carefully, and then stood in front of the window to check the positions of several rooms in the opposite building, and said: "To change the position of the board to go to Zhou Ziyang's residence, you need to tilt 45 degrees to the right horizontally, and the distance is 38 meters. Come back At the same time, the reverse tilt is 45 degrees, and the distance remains the same."

The plate transposition of the geography department needs to specify the angle and coordinates on the globe. With Jiang Pingce's data, Qin Lu can teleport directly from Zhang Xiaonian's room to Zhou Ziyang's room in Building A opposite at any time.

When the time came to 20:30 in the evening, Yue Xingwen said: "Get ready for action."

It was already dark outside, and the street lights were turned on in the community.

Xin Yan said: "I'll go too, to help you illuminate. Zhou Ziyang is dead, and the lights in his room suddenly turned on. If the neighbors in the front and rear buildings see it, it's hard to explain."

Yue Xingwen thought about it too, and said with a smile: "Okay, Xin Yan will go with us."

The other teammates stepped aside consciously. Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Xin Yan came to Qin Lu's side. Qin Lu summoned the familiar globe with his right hand, tapped it twice quickly with his fingertips, and said softly: "Move Transformation!"

The scene in front of him suddenly changed, and the four of them appeared at Zhou Ziyang's residence.

Yue Xingwen walked quickly to the balcony, drew the blackout curtains, and then turned to Xin Yan and said, "Lighting."

Xin Yan summoned the alcohol lamp, and everyone took a look through the faint light of the alcohol lamp—a lot of mahogany furniture was used in the living room and dining room, the color of the floor was beige, the door was dark red, and the decoration style was more Chinese.

Qin Lu looked around and asked in confusion, "How could Lawyer Zhou's house be decorated like this? Does he like this kind of old solid wood furniture with red paint?"

Yue Xingwen recalled Liu Lan's confession that Ping Ce told him, and explained: "This house was originally bought by Zhou Ziyang for his parents to live in, so the decoration is also in the style that the old man prefers, and the furniture is all Mahogany carved furniture. Zhou Ziyang moved here only after his parents passed away and their husband and wife separated."

Qin Lu suddenly realized: "It turned out to be his parents' house, and there are indeed more elderly people who like this style."

Yue Xingwen said: "Hurry up and search separately, Xin Yan, give me your alcohol lamp."

Xin Yan summoned three more alcohol lamps, one for each to illuminate.Yue Xingwen took out disposable plastic gloves for barbecue from his pocket, and sent a pair to each of them: "Wear gloves, be careful not to leave fingerprints."

No wonder when Yue Xingwen came out of the restaurant just now, he asked the waiter for a pair of gloves, which were used to search for evidence.

While wearing gloves, Lan Yarong praised: "Xingwen is quite professional."

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "I'm just in case. If the criminal police re-investigate the case and search the deceased's house and find our fingerprints, it will be difficult to explain."

Qin Lu agreed: "That's right, be careful with the Wannian Ship."

The four quickly put on their gloves, and Yue Xingwen began to assign tasks: "Senior Sister Lan and I searched the study room, Qin Lu and Xin Yan searched the bedroom, focusing on evidence such as paper documents and photo albums, and took photos with mobile phones to keep evidence after seeing them." .”

Everyone split up.

Yue Xingwen and Lan Yarong came to the study room. There was a mahogany desk and leather boss chair in the study room. The whole wall of mahogany bookcases looked very grand.The bookcase is composed of upper and lower parts. The lower layer is a storage space with doors, and the upper layer is five neatly arranged bookshelves filled with books.

These books are nothing special, but Yue Xingwen saw a photo frame on the bookshelf, which was a photo of Zhou Ziyang and his son.He took a photo and sent it to the group: "@江平恩, the photo frame you said was taken from the deceased's office, is it that big?"

Jiang Pingce thought carefully about the traces on the bookshelf, and said, "The traces with a length of 20cm and a width of 3cm are consistent with this photo frame."

Yue Xingwen guessed: "Maybe he once went to take a family portrait with his wife and children, and the photo studio gave him a few photo frames. He put one of them on the bookshelf in the office. Later, his relationship with his wife broke down, so he put the frame Take it away?"

As if to confirm Yue Xingwen's words, Lan Yarong quickly said, "Is there a photo frame in the drawer of the desk?" She opened the drawer, and found a similar photo frame in the drawer upside down.

When I opened it, I saw an intimate photo of him holding hands with his wife.

Yue Xingwen took a photo and posted it to the group: "It might be this. He wanted to have an affair with his lover in the office, so he took a photo of himself and his wife home and put it away."

This kind of explanation makes sense, otherwise, the photos that were well placed on the bookshelf would be suddenly taken away for no reason.

Yue Xingwen continued to look through the bookcase. Under the bookcase was a storage compartment with a height of about 60cm. He squatted down to open the storage space and found a whole row of safes!

Three safes, all set with six-digit passwords.

Yue Xingwen asked in the group: "Do you know the password of his safe?"

Ke Shaobin quickly replied: "It's probably the same password as his office drawer, try 768315."

Yue Xingwen entered the password, and with a ding, the box opened.

Then, he and Lan Yarong froze at the same time——

I saw a large amount of gold bars stored in the safe on the far left. Under the illumination of the alcohol lamp, the gold bars in the box are dazzling. So much gold can be sold for tens of millions of RMB.The second safe is full of neat RMB, estimated to be in the millions.The third safe was empty, the money in it should have been taken away by Zhou Ziyang in a box.

While taking pictures, Yue Xingwen discussed with Lan Yarong in a low voice: "It seems that his gray income is far beyond our imagination."

Lan Yarong frowned and said, "An ordinary couple's divorce case should not send so much money to the lawyer privately; the cases he has handled, we have to go through them carefully after we go back."

Yue Xingwen thought that Zhou Ziyang had snatched away an important client from Lawyer Qi - Jinxing Group.This is a well-known leading Internet company in the local area, and Zhou Ziyang is currently also the legal advisor of Jinxing Group.Could it be that there is something wrong with the Jinxing Group, and they secretly paid him for hush money?

Yue Xingwen temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and continued to search the bookcase.

Lan Yarong opened all the drawers of the desk and took photos of all the documents in the drawers as evidence.

To her surprise, there were various medical insurance and commercial insurance contracts in the drawer, but she did not find a paper version of the divorce agreement.It seems that Zhou Ziyang just wrote the agreement on the computer, and he hasn't had time to print and sign it to formally go through the divorce procedure with his wife. He may be hesitating, so he called his wife after drinking, hoping to get back together.

An unprinted and unsigned divorce agreement has no legal effect at all.

So legally speaking, his spouse, Liu Lan, is still Zhou Ziyang's first heir to the property after his death.

Lan Yarong turned to the last drawer. Suddenly, Xin Yan's voice came from the next bedroom: "I found a business card box in the drawer of the bedside table in the bedroom. I took a photo and posted it on the group."

They can't take away the evidence in the deceased's room for the time being. If the police come to collect evidence later, the evidence will be missing. Therefore, Yue Xingwen's strategy is: only take pictures, take the pictures back for analysis, and do not move the evidence.

Seeing the photo of the business card case in the group, Ke Shaobin searched it on the computer immediately, and quickly came to the conclusion: "The business card case is full of contact information of customers who have business dealings with him, but there is a business card, I can't find the information in the computer .”

Ke Shaobin’s computer has information on all the cases that Zhou Ziyang has handled in the past few years. He also compiled a "client information sheet" for the cases that Zhou Ziyang handled, which is very convenient for inquiries.

The name of this unsearchable person was Li Decheng. Attorney Zhou had never helped him with any cases, but Li Decheng's business card was found at home.He kept this business card, he must have had a private contact with the other party, otherwise, there is no need to take the unused business card home and put it in the business card box, most people would just throw it away.

Ke Shaobin immediately went online to search for Li Decheng's information, but the result surprised him: "Li Decheng is Chen Xueqin's ex-husband, a very wealthy businessman!"

Seeing this message, Yue Xingwen asked Lan Yarong softly: "Senior sister, he has a private relationship with Li Decheng. If he helps Chen Xueqin with a divorce case, but accepts money from Chen Xueqin's husband, and loses the case on purpose, let the court take it Is it possible that the custody of the child is awarded to the other party?"

Lan Yarong frowned: "There is a rule in the lawyer industry that you can't take both. In a divorce case, collecting money from both husband and wife is a big taboo in the industry. If he is found out, he will have his lawyer's license revoked."

Superficially helping Chen Xueqin handle the case, secretly collecting money from her husband, and even helping her husband with ideas and finding evidence...

Once discovered, Zhou Ziyang's career would be over.

That's why he took bribes in private and didn't dare to put the money on the table?

Yue Xingwen thought for a moment, and said, "Continue to look for clues. After searching his house, we will discuss it when we go back."

The four searched Zhou Ziyang's house extensively, but found no new evidence.

But today's harvest is enough, Yue Xingwen brought a lot of photos and asked Qin Lu to switch back.

After returning to Xiaonian's residence, Yue Xingwen asked everyone to gather the photos they took to Ke Shaobin and save them in the laptop. It was already 24 o'clock in the morning, and Yue Xingwen said: "A few of you who worked on the night shift yesterday went to Go to sleep, and continue to analyze the rest of the clues and watch the surveillance." Zhang Xiaonian's residence is a three-bedroom suite in Building C of Jinzuo Jiayuan. One room, take a taxi together at work, and it is also convenient to communicate with teammates at any time.

Lan Yarong's house is a loft apartment with two bedrooms and one living room. It is just across the street from the Xinghe apartment building. Two sisters, Qin Lu and Qin Miao, used to live with her.Zhuo Feng continued to live in the duty room of the property, and Lin Manluo lived alone.

Jiang Pingce didn't like being crowded with too many people, Yue Xingwen decided to take him back to his apartment, and said, "Pingce, you can live with me, my bachelor apartment is quite spacious, I'll take you back to sleep first , you haven't slept for 30 hours."

They are roommates in the library, so Jiang Pingce is naturally willing to live with Xingwen.

After everyone allocated their residences, Yue Xingwen took Jiang Pingce back to bed first.

The two came to the lobby of Xinghai Apartment side by side. The entrance hall was very luxuriously decorated, with a gorgeous crystal chandelier hanging above the head. This is a high-end apartment managed by a hotel, with two elevators and a total floor height of 33 floors. Wen lives on the top floor, and the law firm is really rich and powerful for arranging such good conditions for the interns.

He followed Jiang Pingce to the elevator, pressed the up button, and the elevator door opened. Jiang Pingce walked in, but Yue Xingwen stopped suddenly, as if thinking of something, staring at the elevator next to him intently.

Looking at his face, Jiang Pingce couldn't help wondering: "What's wrong?"

There was no one around, and the hall was empty.

Yue Xingwen said softly, "It's 24 o'clock in the morning. The No. 1 elevator of the apartment stops on the first floor, and the No. 1 elevator stops on the 2th floor. This should be a fixed design to facilitate people going up and down."

In a 33-storey apartment, one of the elevators automatically stops on the first floor for people to go upstairs at any time; the other elevator will automatically return to the 1th floor when no one is using it, so that it is convenient for high-rise residents to go downstairs Spend less time.

Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce: "But last night, I remember very clearly that when Senior Sister Lan and I went out to the scene of the crime, both elevators stopped on the first floor. We waited for several minutes before the elevator arrived. top floor."

Jiang Pingce quickly understood the meaning of Yue Xingwen: "At that time, someone was going out, so the two elevators were on the first floor?"

The same time, 24 o'clock in the morning.

If the apartment sets the elevator to stop on the first floor by default, it should be the same as last night, and both elevators are on the first floor.

However, Yue Xingwen saw that at this moment, the No. 2 elevator stopped motionless on the 17th floor and had no intention of descending at all.That proves that the default setting of the apartment is - the No. 1 elevator automatically returns to the first floor, and the No. 1 elevator automatically stops at the 2th floor!

Just before Yue Xingwen went out last night, someone had just left Xinghai apartment.Moreover, this person must live on or near the 17th floor. Therefore, after he presses the "Down" button, the elevator on the 17th floor will give priority to pick him up because of the "closer distance". Two elevators went downstairs, and the moment Yue Xingwen went out, both elevators stopped on the first floor.

Could this person who went out at midnight be related to Zhou Ziyang's death?