In order to confirm his inference, Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce did an experiment.
Both of them took the elevator that had originally stopped on the 1st floor to the 33rd floor, waited for the No. 1 elevator to go down, and then pressed the down button, and sure enough, the No. 2 elevator that was closer and stopped on the 17th floor came to pick them up.
They took the elevator down to the 1st floor, and after about a minute, No. 2 elevator returned to the 17th floor on standby according to the set program.
Last night, when Yue Xinwen went out, he saw No. 2 elevator stuck on the 1st floor, which meant that someone had just used this elevator to reach the 1st floor lobby within 1 minute before he went out.
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen looked at each other and said, “I’ll go to the security guard to monitor and see who came downstairs in the middle of the night last night.”
Both of them came to the security room on the side of the hall side by side. Jiang Pingce took out the police card from his pocket and said, “Hello, I’m Jiang Pingce, a police officer of the Qingtang District Criminal Police Force. We are investigating a case, please adjust the monitoring in the No. 2 elevator of the apartment and the lobby at about 00:00 am last night.”
When the security guard saw the police card, his attitude was very respectful, and he immediately operated it on the computer and called up last night’s monitoring.
Jiang Pingce and Yue XIngwen started at 11:30 pm.
There weren’t many people in the apartment building late at night. At 11:30 pm, two girls carrying a bunch of shopping bags walked into the lobby with a smile, took No. 1 elevator to the 27th floor, and No. 1 elevator descended back to the 1st floor.
Then no one appeared in the lobby until 11:57 pm, when the No. 2 elevator, which stopped on the 17th floor, suddenly began to ascend.
Jiang Pingce immediately became alert, saw the elevator all the way up, and finally stopped on the 30th floor. A tall man wearing a black trench coat, holding a briefcase in his left hand, holding a mobile phone in his right hand, lowered his head and looked at the mobile phone while entering the elevator.
The monitoring did not capture his face clearly, nor could they see what information was on the mobile phone screen.
The elevator descended all the way to the 1st floor. The man stuffed the mobile phone back into his pocket, quickly walked out of the elevator. When he came to the door of the apartment, he took out an umbrella from his briefcase, held the umbrella out of the door, and disappeared from the monitoring.
At this time, No. 2 elevator stopped on the 1st floor.
Immediately after it began to go up again, Yue Xingwen took a look at the monitoring display time—— 00:00 am, it was the moment when he went out.
Sure enough, the No. 2 elevator kept rising and stopped on the 33rd floor of the top floor. Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo walked in side by side, and the three people looked anxious. They rushed out of the door quickly after coming to the hall.
This was the reason why at that time Yue Xingwen was on the top floor and saw that both elevators were stopped on the 1st floor.
Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “It’s still you who are attentive, otherwise, we could have missed very important clues.”
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Jiang Pingce followed the security guard and said, “Call up the monitoring in the corridor on the 30th floor.”
The security guard cooperated and took out the monitoring on the 30th floor. Jiang Pingce traced backwards, and soon locked up and they saw the man from the 30-07 went out. He took out the USB flash drive he brought from the police force, turned back to the security guard and said, “Trouble you copying all the monitoring yesterday. I will take it back to the criminal police force to study carefully.”
The security guard smiled and said, “Okay, no problem.”
Jiang Pingce copied the monitoring and asked the security guard along the way, “Is there any information on the resident of 30-07?”
The security guard said, “The 25th to 30th floors of this building are apartment hotels, and if you want to check the information of residents, you have to go to the front desk of the hotel! We only register the information of regular owners and tenants here, and hotel guests change every day, so we don’t know.”
Apartment hotels had become more popular in recent years, and on the 25th to 30th floors of the Xinghai Apartment was a hotel called ‘X-New Concept’. The two of them went to the front desk of the hotel and asked the staff on duty for a list of guests who were at the hotel last night.
The resident of 30-07, named Zhang Ronghua, was 28 years old.
Yue Xingwen took Jiang Pingce back to his residence on the 33rd floor, opened the door and entered the house, and then instructed, “You sleep first, I will go back to Jinzuo Garden to find everyone to check this person together.”
Jiang Pingce said, “I’ll also go over…”
Yue Xingwen interrupted him, “Don’t be stubborn, you haven’t slept for more than 30 hours. Go sleep immediately and recuperate. Tomorrow you may have to use your police identity to find a new suspect.”
The corner of Jiang Pignce’s mouth gently lifted when he met Yue Xingwen’s gaze, who could not be denied. He found that the way Xingwen seriously managed his work and rest, especially like his ‘family’.
Xingwen urged him to sleep, Jiang Pingce did not dare not obey, and said happily, “Okay, then I’ll go to sleep first, don’t stay up too late, you must come back before 3:00 am, do you hear me?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “En, I try my best.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Don’t go alone, I’m not comfortable for you to act alone in the middle of the night, let Qin Lu come to pick you up.” After he said that, he took out his mobile phone and sent the data to Qin Lu: “@QinLu, tilt 50 degrees to the left and 115 meters away to pick up Xingwen.”
In the next second, Qin Lu teleported and appeared in the room, wondering, “What happened to Xingwen?”
“Let’s talk about it along the way.” Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce and patiently instructed, “There is shampoo and shower gel in the bathroom. If you don’t mind, just use mine, and sleep directly on my bed.”
Jiang Pingce’s gaze aws gentle and replied, “Got it, don’t worry.”
Yue Xingwen followed Qin Lu and teleported to Zhang Xiaonian’s residence.
Liu Zhaoqing and Xu Yishen, two ‘doctors’ who had the night shift last night, also slept in the next bedroom, and the rest of the people were watching the monitoring. Ke Shaobin’s laptop mainly put the monitoring of the Xinghai Building, and Zhang Xiaonian’s laptop was placed on the monitoring of the Jinzuo Community.
Several people gathered together and looked at it quite seriously.
Yue Xingwen walked over and asked, “Did you find anything?”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and said, “Yesterday afternoon at 2:30 pm, there were three maintenance workers with some tools on the rooftop. It seems that they went to repair the drainage pipe, and it took half an hour for them to come down. I only saw it until 8:00 pm, I haven’t finished watching the rest.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Help me check someone first.”
He handed the USB flash drive to Ke Shaobin, who copied the information into the laptop. Yue Xingwen asked him to open the monitoring at about 11:57 pm last night, find the man who took the elevator downstairs, take a screenshot to keep, and then open the guest list of the X-New Concept Hotel.
“Zhang Ronghua, the guest who stayed in room 30-07 of X-New Concept Hotel last night. I need his details.”
Ke Shaobin immediately began searching on the Internet. Soon, he got the detailed information and said, “He is a rich second generation. His father is the president of a real estate group, his mother is the owner of a jewelry company and he is currently working as a general manager in a real estate company. Usually, he lives in Anming City, he is coming to Beishan City this time, should it be a business trip?”
Xin Yan hit the nail on the head and asked, “Why don’t such a rich second generation stay in a high-end five-star hotel on a business trip, but stay at the X-New Concept Hotel in Xinghai Apartment?”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and said, “From the promotional pictures, X-New Concept hotel decoration style is very distinctive, what mechanical style, metal style suites, as well as esports suites, princess rooms, etc, are more popular with young people. Perhaps, he just thinks that the suites here are more personal?”
Yue Xingwen said, “One more thing, this hotel is the closest to the Law Firm.”
Ke Shaobin looked back at Yue Xingwen and said, “Could it be that he is staying here to make it easier to talk to Lawyer Zhou Ziyang about things?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s quickly go through the monitoring of the apartment to see if Zhou Ziyang has been here.”
Ke Shaobin quickly replayed the apartment’s monitoring. Sure enough, yesterday at 12:30 pm lunch time, Zhou Ziyang came to Xinghai Apartment, took the elevator to the 30th floor. The corridor monitoring showed that he entered room 30-07, the resident of this room was Zhang Ronghua.
The content of their talk in the room was unknown.
But when he went out, Zhou Ziyang had a smile on his face and should be very satisfied with the result of the discussion.
Ke Shaobin speculated and said, “Could it be that there is a gray transaction between these two people?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Yes. Lawyer Zhou’s safe contained so much cash and gold bars, and the source is unknown, apparently not only received Chen Xueqin’s husband’s money. He no longer has the professional ethics of a lawyer, and the number of private transactions with people must be a lot.”
Others heard the conversation between the three of them and joined the discussion.
Lan Yarong said: “Xingwen is right, I just read the trial record of Chen Xueqin’s divorce case in detail. Zhou Ziyang, should eat both ends, collected the woman’s lawyer’s fees, and privately accepted the man’s bribe money, the final verdict of the man will be more satisfying. The woman only gets a villa, the man not only gets custody of the child, but also retains their complete shares in the company and all the bonds invested. Nominally, Zhou Ziyang is helping the woman in a lawsuit, but in fact he is secretly helping the man, and the man, Li Decheng is a big boss. The money given to him must be more than the lawyer’s fee given by the woman.”
Such a lawyer was indeed a black sheep who had no professional integrity and discredited the lawyer profession!
Yue Xingwen looked back at Lan Yarong and said, “Senior sister, in his past case records, is there this Zhang Ronghua?”
Lan Yarong said, “I just focused on the information of Chen Xueqin’s divorce case, and I haven’t checked the others.”
Ke Shaobin said, “Let me search, it will be more convenient to check directly.”
He quickly tapped his fingers on the keyboard and searched through the laptop database, but did not find that Zhang Ronghua and Zhou Ziyang had business exchanges…
Still no gain.
Entering Zhang Ronghua’s information on the Internet was full of photos of him playing everywhere and gossip about changing girlfriends. The rich second generation’s private life seemed to be very rich.
Suddenly, Ke Shaobin stopped the mouse on a photo, “Wait, this person… is it Li Decheng?”
Yue Xingwen took a closer look and said, “Yes, it’s Li Decheng.”
In the photo, Li Decheng, Zhang Ronghua and two men took a group photo. The background was a beautiful island and all four were wearing beach pants and sunglasses, which was a typical vacation photo. Seeing everyone hooking up with each other when taking a group photo, they seem really close, and the relationship between the four of them should be quite good.
Lan Yarong frowned and looked at the photo, “Li Decheng and Zhang Ronghua know each other and have a good relationship?”
Yue Xingwen touched his chin and thought for a moment, and analyzed, “Maybe Lawyer Zhou was the one they introduced to each other. Because Lawyer Zhou helped Li Decheng complete the divorce case, Zhang Ronghua also had a case in his hand that needed Lawyer Zhou’s help. Li Decheng introduced Lawyer Zhou to him, so he came to Beishan City, asked Lawyer Zhou to meet privately, and reached some kind of deal.”
This was the reason why the past cases handled by Lawyer Zhou didn’t have Zhang Ronghua’s information, but the two met in private—— it was before the case had started and was in the negotiation stage when Lawyer Zhou died.
From this photo, maybe they could track something by following the clue, and find out more behind-the-scenes ‘golden master’ of Lawyer Zhou!
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