Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen came to the Xinghai Building to investigate, and the time was already 7:00 pm in the evening, and the two found the security captain and asked about Zhao Cheng.
The captain said, “Old Zhao came to our Xinghai Building as a security guard in March this year. He usually talks a little bit, has an introverted personality, and looks quite honest. He rarely talks to people about his family, and I don’t know the situation of his family.”
Jiang Pingce asked him to bring the shift schedule, and the captain enthusiastically introduced, “Our security team has a total of ten people, responsible for the security of Xinghai Building and Xinghai Apartment, and we replace the night shift every three days. Since the Xinghai Building closes at 10 pm at night, only one person needs to be left for the night shift to lock the door on time, and there are usually three people left on the apartment side.”
Xinghai Building and Xinghai Apartment belonged to Xinghai Group.
The apartment was 33 floors high, with more than a dozen rooms on each floor. There were those who had bought apartments for their own residence, those who rented them for a long time like Yue Xingwen, and those who had temporary residents like X-New Concept Hotel. The apartment building was crowded with people, and it was reasonable to leave three security guards on the night shift, while the office building of Xinghai Building that locked the door on time at 10 pm, leaving only one security guard on night shift.
This gave Zhao Cheng the best opportunity to move.
Yue Xingwen asked, “Where’s Zhao Cheng and the others?”
The captain said, “Today is not his night shift, he went home at 6 pm.”
Jiang Pingce dialed Qin Shiyin’s mobile phone to ask if her father had arrived home yet, however, ‘Sorry, the number you have dialed is unanswered’ kept repeating in his ear.
Jiang Pingce frowned, “She shouldn’t commit suicide, right?”
Yue Xingwen remembered the scars on Qin Shiyin’s wrists when she poured water for them today, and immediately said, “Go to her house and take a look!”
In order to save time, both of them directly hailed a taxi and asked the driver to speed up and go to the Xiushui Garden Community.
After entering the community, both of them went straight to the 4th building, unit 2, room 601 and knocked on the door. They knocked for a full half minute before the girl came out and opened the door, rubbing her sleepy eyes and saying suspiciously, “Two officers, what do you want me to do so late?”
She didn’t commit suicide.
Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief and asked, “Why didn’t you answer the phone when we called you?”
The girl was stunned for a moment, turned around and picked up her mobile phone, smiling apologetically, “I just slept and muted my phone, I’m sorry. I recently had a messy routine and fell asleep on the couch in the afternoon and slept until now.”
Jiang Pingce immediately asked, “Where is your father?”
The girl said, “He said that he was on the job tonight and would be back a little late.”
Coming back a little late? But just now, the security captain clearly said that Zhao Cheng went home from work at 6:30 pm.
Yue Xingwen suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and he looked at Qin Shiyin and asked, “Your father used to be called Zhao Jianming, when did he change his name to Zhao Cheng?”
Qin Shiyin thought for a while and said, “At the beginning of this year, he said that he found a fortune teller to calculate his fate, and felt that his previous name did not match his eight character, and changing his name to Zhao Cheng would be more auspicious. My dad was superstitious and insisted on changing it, and I didn’t persuade him.”
He was afraid that the fortune teller was fake, and his contact with Liu Lan was the truth. He changed his name to find an opportunity to kill Lawyer Zhou and avenge his wife and daughter, right?
Then, Zhang Ronghua, who killed his wife in the first place… Now, he is still living in the Xinghai Apartment!
Thinking of this, Jiang Pingce immediately took out his mobile phone and called Ke Shaobin, “Go to the Xinghai Apartment immediately, room 30-07, hurry up!”
Before Ke Shaobin’s brain could react, Xin Yan took the mobile phone from his hand and asked, “Do you suspect that Zhao Cheng will do something to Zhang Ronghua?”
Jiang Pingce said with a deep voice, “Yes, go and see.”
Xin Yan: “Understood.”
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After hanging up the phone, looking at the girl with a puzzled look in front of him, Yue Xingwen had a complicated mood.
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Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce left Xiushui Garden. Both of them took a taxi and hurried back, and within a few minutes on the road, Ke Shaobin called. Jiang Pingce picked up the phone, only to hear Ke Shaobin’s voice tremble slightly and said, “Zhang Ronghua, he is… dead.”
Jiang Pingce frowned, and once Yue Xingwen took a look at his expression, he knew that what Ke Shaobin told him was not good news.
Sure enough, Jiang Pingce lowered his voice, “What’s going on?”
Xin Yan took the mobile phone and said calmly, “I came to Xinghai Apartment with Ke Shaobin and Qin Miao, went to room 30-07 to find Zhang Ronghua. We knocked on the door and no one opened it. Ke Shaobin took out the police card and asked the hotel staff to open the door. When we entered the room, we found Zhang Ronghua dead in the bathtub, the wrist of his right hand was cut, and the bathtub was full of blood.”
The scene could be imagined, Ke Shaobin was visually affected too much, and his voice would tremble when he spoke.
Jiang Pingce was silent for a few seconds, and said in a low voice, “Did you call the police?”
Xin Yan, “I already called 110 and sealed off the scene.”
Jiang Pingce asked, “What about Zhao Cheng?”
Xin Yan said, “We asked the security guards on the night shift today in the 1st floor lobby. One of the middle-aged men surnamed Zhang said, originally Lao Xu and Lao Qin were to be on duty with him tonight, but as a result, Lao Xu’s family had something to do and changed shifts with Zhao Cheng in private.”
This was also the reason why the security captain said that Zhao Cheng was not scheduled to be on duty tonight, but Zhao Cheng did not go home—— He changed shifts with the security guard on the night shift at Xinghai Apartement, looking for an opportunity to kill Zhang Ronghua, who lived in 30-07.
Zhang Ronghua died in the hotel room, and only hotel staff could enter the hotel room.
Because the security guard had been working in Xinghai Building and Xinghai Apartment for a long time, he must be familiar with the hotel staff, and he should be able to get the universal key card used by the cleaner’s aunt for cleaning, swiping the door of 30-07, and took advantage of Zhang Ronghua’s bath time.
Jiang Pingce whispered, “Let everyone go to Zhao Cheng, I will come back with Xingwen immediately.”
Xin Yan hummed, and hung up the phone.
Yue Xinwen looked at Jiang Pingce’s serious face, and didn’t know what to say for a while.
They had just deduced that Zhao Cheng was the murderer, and as a result, Zhao Cheng killed Zhang Ronghua, turning it into a serial murder case.
If they didn’t pay attention to the details of the elevator and monitoring, and still didn’t have a clue, the case would become more complicated. However, because they deduced the murderer first, Zhao Ronghua’s death seemed to confirm their speculation.
The person who killed Zhou Ziyang and Zhang Ronghua in a row could only be the family of Qin Xiumei, the innocent deceased back then.
Jiang Pingce sent a message to Ke Shaobin’s mobile phone: “How is the information of Qin Shiyin’s older brother?”
Ke Shaobin said, “I have found out that her older brother Zhao Jiarui, who works in a real estate company in Anming City, is currently the company’s financial director, and the boss of that company is Shen Haibin!”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
Jiang Pingce looked at Xingwen, saying, “Her older brother should also take action.”
Yue Xingwen calmly said, “Shen Haibin’s whereabouts are unknown for a week, maybe something happened.”
When the two came to the scene, the police had blocked the corridor on the 30th floor of the Xinghai Apartment. Jiang Pingce saw that captain Lin was talking to Ke Shaobin, Xin Yan and other witnesses. Jiang Pingce stepped forward, captain Lin turned to look at him and said, “Xiao Jiang, listening to Xiao Ke, you have investigated the case of Zhou ZIyang’s fall in the past few days, and just found out that Zhang Ronghua and Zhou Ziyang have a relationship?”
Jiang Pingce briefly described the results of the investigation, and captain Lin listened to him about the ins and outs of the case, nodding while listening. After Jiang Pingce finished speaking, captain Lin whispered to his colleagues next to him, “Immediately search for Zhao Cheng in the whole city, in addition invite Ms. Liu Lan back to the police force to talk in detail!”
That night, a police car looked for Zhao Cheng throughout the city, and some police officers stood guard in Building 4 of Xiushui Garden, intending to arrest him as soon as he returned home. However, Zhao Cheng used to work as a taxi driver, and he was very familiar with the roads of the entire city. They didn’t know where he went, and they couldn’t find him for a while.
Liu Lan still looked indifferent, looking like she didn’t care about anything. Captain Lin let her stay in the interrogation room for a few hours, and she was very tight lip, only saying that she didn’t know Qin Shiyin, didn’t know Zhao Cheng, and didn’t know what case her husband handled ten years ago.
The police couldn’t do anything about it, and it was difficult to detain her without evidence, so they had to release her back.
Early the next morning, the news suddenly broke into a hot search—— Shen Haibin, the owner of the Binhai Group of Anming City was arrested and imprisoned, it turned out that Shen Haibin disappeared during this time because his company was being investigated. It was said that someone collected a lot of evidence to report Shen Haibin. Shen Haibin illegally embezzled public funds, evaded taxes, and helped people make false accounts to launder money. A large number of charges was enough for him to drink a pot.
When Yue Xingwen saw the hot search, he said resolutely, “This is the handiwork of Qin Shiyin’s older brother!”
Jiang Pingce nodded in agreement and said, “Her older brother is the company’s financial director, and he must have found a lot of secrets and reported Shen Haibin in his real name. Her older brother’s approach was more rational than her father’s murderous revenge.”
This family had been hurt too much, and when they encountered scum like Lawyer Zhou, they couldn’t vindicate themselves, so they went to extremes…
If Qin Shiyin knew that her father was murdering people, her depression might have worsened. How was Zhao Cheng going to make up for what he did? Where did he escape?
When the police were searching for Zhao Cheng all over the city, the traffic police suddenly called—— At 5 am today, a taxi fell from the viaduct, destroying the car and killing the person inside. After confirmation, the deceased was none other than Zhao Cheng.
The police force’s public mail received an email sent on a regular basis.
Zhao CHeng confessed to his crime, and he sent the undeleted video to the police, saying that the reason why the deleted video made the police not suspect him was just to buy time to kill Zhang Ronghua.
The name Liu Lan was not mentioned in the email at all.
He said he was not sorry for the murder of Lawyer Zhou and Zhang Ronghua. Over the years, the death of his wife and the insults suffered by his daughter had always tormented his heart. As a husband, he originally believed the villain’s words and wrote a letter of understanding to let Zhang Ronghua escape sanctions; As a father, he could not protect his daughter, he was a loser.
So he decided to take up his weapons and get justice for his wife and daughter with his own hands.
He finally pleaded: “Please don’t let my daughter see this letter, she has depression, I’m worried that she will have a nervous breakdown when she finds out, so I let her think that her father has an accident and goes to heaven to reunite with her mother. My follow-up affairs, case-related procedure, please let my son help with it. My son has a strong psychological quality and should be able to understand my approach.”
“Please tell him, let him protect his younger sister, let them forget the past and start over.”
After reading this email, Jiang Pingce was in a complicated mood.
Captain Lin lit a cigarette and said while smoking, “Xiao Jiang, your investigation is quite efficient.”
Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, “It’s a pity that it’s still one step slower.”
Zhang Ronghua’s time of death was at 7 pm yesterday. At that time, they were still watching the monitoring at Zhang Xiaonian’s. After watching the monitoring and concluding it, they immediately went to the Xinghai Building to find Zhao Cheng, and the security captain told them that Zhao Cheng had left work…
In fact, at that time, Zhao Cheng had already changed shifts with someone and killed Zhang Ronghua.
They didn’t have time to stop Zhao Cheng’s second murder, nor did they stop Zhao Cheng from driving to commit suicide.
But even if it was stopped, what was the use?
Zhao Cheng would still be sentenced to death for intentional homicide.
Jiang Pingce didn’t know for a while if this was the best ending? Zhao Cheng killed the culprit who killed his wife and the lawyer who helped the culprit; Qin Shiyin’s older brother personally sent the scum who raped his younger sister to prison…
The father died to free them, could their brother and sister start a new life?
And Liu Lan, how did she contact Zhao Cheng and use Zhao Cheng to kill her husband? With Zhao Cheng’s death, all clues were interrupted, the police could not directly arrest Liu Lan, and there was no evidence that she was an accomplice.
Lawyer Zhou had done all the bad things in his life, but he had not calculated that his partner, the flower of Beijiang University of Political Science and Law who got a double degree, was more skilled than him and calculated farther than him!
On the 5th day of the examination, Qin Shiyin’s older brother Zhao Jiarui received a call from the police and rushed to Beishan City to deal with the aftermath of the case.
He was a very calm young man, dressed in a black suit, mature and steady. He had no expression on his face from beginning to end, signed the place of the signature and then brought his father’s body back for cremation.
Jiang Pingce saw him at the entrance of the police station and asked in a low voice, “In the future, what are your plans?”
Zhao Jiarui said lightly, “I will take my younger sister abroad and stay away from here, maybe her heart knot can be untied.”
As the company’s finance director, he reported his boss Shen Haibin in his real name, if this matter was known by insiders, it was really difficult for him to mix in China, and going abroad was a good choice.
Jiang Pingce said, “Take good care of your younger sister.”
Zhao Jiarui nodded and replied, “I will.”
In the afternoon, Ke Shaobin actually found out that Liu Lan had bought a ticket to go abroad a few days later.
Liu Lan sorted out and handed over all the income illegally obtained by Zhou Ziyang, including gold bars and cash in the safe. She sold the legally acquired real estate in an intermediary company, and she helped her son complete the withdrawal procedures and planned to take her son to study abroad.
It couldn’t be a mere coincidence that these people went abroad together.
Yue Xingwen said, “Liu Lan and Qin Shiyin definitely know each other.”
Ke Shaobin scratched his head and said, “I have another question. How did Zhao Cheng determine that Lawyer Zhou would definitely go to the rooftop at that time? The original monitoring showed that Zhao Cheng went to the rooftop at 11:01 pm at night, but Lawyer Zhou went to the rooftop at 11:50 pm. Zhao Cheng didn’t have the ability to predict, right?”
Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully, saying, “The video can be edited, and the call record can certainly be edited too.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up and said, “So, Liu Lan’s phone recording is actually not complete, right?!”
Jiang Pingce said, “The recording proves that Zhou Ziyang called her at 11:30 pm, chatted for a few minutes and hung up, perhaps, she followed and called back to ask Zhou Ziyang to go to the rooftop to chat.”
Yue Xingwen echoed, “Zhou Ziyang was making out with Chen Yueqin in the bathroom at that time. Maybe he didn’t know that it was raining heavily, so he climbed up to the rooftop with his mobile phone and after finding that it was raining, he should have returned immediately, but Zhao Cheng, who had long been in an ambush there, controlled him and pushed him down.”
Ke Shaobin followed this speculation and said, “Then, Zhao Cheng picked up his mobile phone, deleted the call record that was unfavorable to Liu Lan, and put the mobile phone back in the women’s toilet. Liu Lan also deleted the second call record, and only retained the first recording that proved her innocence?”
It was a perfect cooperation.
A behind-the-scenes command, a parent-child action.
With Zhao Cheng’s IQ, he would definitely not be able to commit such a sophisticated crime. But with his death, these theoretical speculations could not be used as evidence to prosecute Liu Lan.
Liu Lan still became the biggest winner. After handing over all her husband’s illegal income, she completely abandoned the ‘cheating husband’ and started a new life with her child.
Qin Shiyin’s family, her mother died early, her father went to find her mother to reunite. Qin Shiyin, who knew nothing about the murder plan, might be able to gradually come out of the haze after going abroad with her older brother?
The course was about to end, but Yue Xingwen’s mood was very complicated.
Lawyers were supposed to be warriors who upheld the fairness of the law, but if, for example, lawyers used legal loopholes to commit crimes, the world would become a much darker place.
Lawyer Zhou’s death was like a wake-up call, hanging over the heads of law students.
Perhaps, this was the purpose of the library to set up the course <The Death of a Lawyer>.
Oooh, what a decisive end to the case.
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Not everything can be perfect, it’s good end for the book
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Huh, the the title fits, not only death in the literal sense, but the death of everything a lawyer stands for,, pluspluss I really like Lui Lan very muchh,,, im glad she didn’t get arrested 🙂🙂