When Lan Yarong and Yue Xingwen left, Zhu Xiaoting’s mood had improved a lot.
Waiting for the verdict alone and having a lawyer to help were two completely different experiences. The unlucky girl’s mentality was stable, at least she would not have an emotional breakdown and confess to the police. As long as she insisted that she did not kill, things would turn around.
After returning to Minghui Law Firm, Lan Yarong and Yue Xingwen went to find Lin Manluo as soon as possible.
Today, the whole team went out to investigate, only senior sister Manluo stayed in the Law Firm to do the data summary. Everyone would send her all the results of the investigation. When Yue Xingwen saw her, Lin Manluo had already sorted out a detailed form.
Yue Xingwen asked, “Senior sister, has everyone found anything new?”
Lin Manluo said, “Xin Yan went to the Chemistry Department to investigate and found that there was potassium cyanide in the laboratory of the Chemistry Department, but this drug is a high-risk drug, locked in a cabinet and it’s difficult for students to get it, unless someone secretly dispenses the key to the cabinet. Xin Yan suspected that the class monitor and the school committee of the Chemistry Department might have a private key to the laboratory in their hands.”
Yue Xingwen thought carefully and nodded. “Xin Yan’s speculation is very reasonable, it’s impossible to buy potassium cyanide directly on the market, which is highly toxic, and the laboratory of the Chemistry Department should be the source of potassium cyanide that poisoned Liu Jiajia.”
He asked the group: “@XinYan, is there any monitoring in the laboratory building of the Chemistry Department?”
Xin Yan replied: “There is monitoring in each corridor, and it’s almost impossible for the murderer to avoid the monitoring to steal the drug. I think the murderer was a student of the Chemistry Department. After a certain experiment, when he was on duty, he secretly opened the cabinet and took the drug while the other students were away. Or the murderer was a class officer with a key in their hand and went to the laboratory to get the drug before the experiment started.”
The murderer must have been familiar with the Chemistry Department’s laboratory and knew in which cabinet potassium cyanide was stored. Taking the medicine in the preparation stage before the start of the experiment, or after the students left after the experiment, when they were on duty, would not be captured by the monitoring in the corridor, and it was not easy to arouse suspicion.
Since a very small amount of potassium cyanide could be lethal, perhaps the teacher would not find that the drug in the bottle was missing a few grams?
Ke Shaobin was puzzled: “Shouldn’t this kind of poison be controlled? Isn’t it dangerous for students to get it?”
Xin Yan said: “In the Chemistry Department of our school, the drugs are stored in the pharmacy room, which is managed by a special pharmacy teacher. Every time the students do the experiment, they need to take the experimental application form and go to the pharmacy to receive the materials needed for the class, so there will be no situation where students take dangerous items privately. But Beishan University is different, this school has a pharmacy cabinet in the Chemistry Laboratory, which is locked. If the teacher is more comfortable with the students, they give the key to the student, and ask them to prepare the experimental materials. It may lead to the situation of privately distributing the key or stealing the drugs.”
Yue Xingwen said: “All the class officers, students on duty, and people who have touched the key to the laboratory in the Chemistry Department are suspected, and we must find people who know Liu Jiajia and came to the beach yesterday as soon as possible to further narrow the scope.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Qin Lu said: “Yesterday, the people who came to the beach barbecue store had a list of registered guests, I took a photo with my phone.” She posted a photo to the group, which showed the names of the guests who had made reservations, as well as a list of guests who had arrived on short notice yesterday.
Wlc Tjc mbcalcefv: “P kjca ab olcv j kjs ab ufa atf ilra bo atf Jtfwlrags Gfqjgawfca, jcv mbwqjgf la klat atf ilra bo uefrar, jcv P mjc olcv atf raevfcar bo atf Jtfwlrags Gfqjgawfca ktb jqqfjgfv bc atf yfjmt sfrafgvjs.”
Coafg tjnlcu lvfjr, atf rmbqf bo atf lcnfralujalbc kbeiv yf oegatfg cjggbkfv.
Yesterday, Area A and B of the beach barbecue area were booked in advance by Law Department’s students. The Law Department wanted to come out to eat barbecue collectively, and students from other schools must have heard about it, such as Zhu Xiaoting, a Translation Department’s student, who was brought over by her friend Liu Jiajia. Other students might also bring their girlfriends and buddies out to play.
In addition, the seats in Area C were all individual passerby, and the murderer might also be mixed among the passerby in Area C.
In any case, since Liu Jiajia died at about 4:30 am in the morning, the murderer must have been on the beach yesterday, and lurked in the camp last night. After Zhu Xiaoting left, the murderer immediately acted.
Familiar with the Chemistry Laboratory, had access to potassium cyanide, knew Liu Jiajia, appeared on the beach yesterday—— Those who met these four characteristics were Liu Jiajia’s murderer!
They had a rough idea about Liu Jiajia’s case. Yue Xingwen followed up to ask about the progress of Xie Xiangqin’s case: “What about the girls’ dormitory?”
Qin Miao, who stayed in the girls’ dormitory said: “There are more than forty girls who know Zhu Xiaoting in the girls’ dormitory on the 8th to 10th floors, and more than 30 of them are classmates of the same class of their Translation Department. There are about 10 people who have dealt with Zhu Xiaoting in the Medical Department, and Zhao Jianan, mentioned by Zhu Xiaoting, I privately asked her roommate and learned that she was not in the dormitory last night and was interning in the hospital.”
Zhu Xiaoting suspected that it was possible for Zhao Jianan to kill Xie Xiangqin and then framed her because the deceased Xie Xiangqin had snatched her boyfriend, she and Zhu Xiaoting also a high school classmate.
Her boyfriend was robbed, she held grudges and had the motivation to commit the crime. She knew Zhu Xiaoting and also knew that Zhu Xiaoting bought a fruit knife. There were conditions of framing, and this girl was also quite suspicious in Yue Xingwen’s eyes.
But the result of Qin Miao’s investigation was that she was not present last night?
Yue Xingwen frowned: “Senior brother Liu, can you find out if Zhao Jianan was in an internship in the hospital last night?”
Liu Zhaoqing immediately called back to the hospital and asked his colleagues to check which department Zhao Jianan, an intern, was in. A colleague from the hospital said, “Dr. Liu, Zhao Jianan is an intern in our emergency department, and she was on the night shift in the emergency ward last night.”
Liu Zhaoqing thought carefully and said, “Last night was my night shift. There was indeed an intern with pigtails helping in the emergency ward, looking quite serious. Everyone called her ‘Xiao Zhao’, that Xiao Zhao is Beishan University, Medicine Department Zhao Jianan?”
The colleague: “Yes!”
Yue Xingwen asked softly, “Will she leave the hospital privately at 5:00 am?”
Liu Zhaoqing hung up the phone and shook his head, “Probably not, the doctor’s duty room is connected to the on-duty room where the intern was sleeping. I woke up at 4 am in the morning, I didn’t hear someone next door push the door out. Xiao Zhao seemed to wake up after 7 o’clock, and greeted me.”
Unexpectedly, senior brother Liu actually became a witness and provided an alibi for this classmate Zhao Jianan. Since Zhao Jianan stayed in the hospital last night, it was impossible for her to go back to school to kill Xie Xiangqin, and the murderer was someone else.
Who would it be?
Yue Xingwen said, “Senior brother Liu, please check with the hospital. These Medical students who know the deceased, who was on the night shift in the hospital last night, and who went back to school to sleep. We have to narrow down the scope of suspects as much as possible.”
Liu Zhaoqing nodded and called his colleague at the hospital to help investigate.
Soon he found out the results and screened out a list of 5 people and sent it to the group: “These 5 Medical Department’s girls all went back to the dormitory last night, of which, 3 people live in dormitory 811, 2 people live in 812, Qin Miao, you go and ask.”
Qin Miao’s dormitory was on the 8th floor. After seeing the list, she took a water cup to knock on the door of dormitory 811, pretending to borrow water, and find these girls to set up a conversation. The four people of 811 were in the dormitory last night, and Qin Miao asked, “What time did you get up today ah? I was woken up early in the morning by the screams downstairs, it seems that something happened in 703 dormitory, do you know what happened?”
The long-haired girl looked nervous and said, “It seems to be a dead person, it is Xie Xiangqin who died, it’s terrible! I heard that she was stabbed to death by Zhu Xiaoting.”
Another girl with short hair said, “I didn’t hear the screams, I was too tired from the night shift a few days ago, I slept deeply and today is a rare day off, I slept until 10:00 am. Xu Youyou told me about this matter at lunchtime.”
The long-haired girl said, “I also heard from Youyou. At that time, I was so sleepy. I heard the screams in a daze, rolled over and continued to sleep, and when I woke up, I learned that something had happened downstairs.”
Qin Miao asked, “You both were sleeping this morning? Only Xu Youyou went out?”
The short-haired girl nodded and replied, “En. Youyou is a light sleeper, she has the habit of running every morning, and her work and rest are very regular. Maybe she was woken up by the screaming, and went out to have a look.”
Qin Miao pondered and said, “Does Xu Youyou know Xie Xiangqin and Zhu Xiaoting?”
The girl said, “She and Zhu Xiaoting used to work and study together. They worked as assistants in the Academic Affairs Office, so they should know each other. However, Youyou has a cold personality and usually doesn’t like to talk to people.”
Qin Miao chatted with the two girls for a while, and then went to the 812 dormitory to chat about what happened in the morning.
The dormitory leader of dormitory 812 said, “I don’t know, I was on night shift last night, and it was already noon when I came back from the night shift. By the way, Zhang Ning and Wang Xiaolu should have been there last night, right?”
Another roommate said, “Zhang Ning went home last night, Xiao Lu was here. However, when I asked her at noon, Xiao Lu said that she didn’t know what happened. Early in the morning someone screamed, and then the police came, and when she went downstairs, the police were already gone.”
Qin Miao quickly sorted out the results of the investigation and sent them to the group: “In dormitory 811, the two girls were sleeping when the crime occurred, only Xu Youyou went out, and knew that Xie Xiangqin was dead; The dormitory 812, Zhang Ning is a local and went home to live last night, and the other two roommates were on night shift last night, only Wang Xiaolu was alone in the dormitory.”
Lin Manluo immediately marked the two names in red on the form: “Xu Youyou, who went out of 811, and Wang Xiaolu, who lived alone last night in 812, are both Medical students, and no one can provide them with an alibi.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said, “These two should be investigated.”
Jiang Pingce followed closely and said: “We checked the deceased’s boyfriend, Zou Yijia, who played a game with his roommate last night, playing until 4:00 am to sleep. It’s said that the entire dormitory people sleep upside down until 1:00 pm in the afternoon before waking up. After knowing that Xie Xiangqin had an accident, he had a little emotional breakdown, and when I went over, several roommates were consoling him.”
Yue Xingwen said: “Does he have an impression of Zhu Xiaoting?”
Jiang Pingce said, “I know. They are all from the Translation Department, but he doesn’t seem to know that Zhu Xiaoting has a secret crush on him. By the way, he is currently in his junior year, and he’s in love with the deceased Xie Xiangqin.”
It seemed that the biggest suspect was the female students in the Medical Department. After all, only someone who knew the structure of the human body very well could stab Xie Xiangqin to death accurately.
Yue Xingwen raised a doubt: “Xie Xiangqin died at about about 5:30 am on Saturday morning in the girls’ dormitory 703. The girl will definitely lock the door when she sleeps, and if the murderer wants to enter her room, either knock on the door and enter, or have the key to the dormitory 703 in their hand. If it is a knock on the door to enter, Xie Xiangqin may not open it if she is sleeping at the time when someone knocks on the door early in the morning, and knocking on the door loudly can attract the attention of the dormitory next door. Therefore, I prefer that the murderer has the key to dormitory 703 in hand.”
If there was a key, in addition to the three roommates, it was possible that someone who was closer to the roommate had a private key.
Yue Xingwen said decisively, “Everyone print out all the photos of these suspects, go check the hardware stores near the school that make keys, and see who has made keys recently!”
Smart decision!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Lock the door when sleeping? Then why do I remember being told to leave the door unlocked in case of a fire??