Chapter 328 Xia Yu's Analysis

Leaving Huang Yanli's house, in the car, Zhou Yi asked, "Officer Xia, how is it? Any ideas?"

Xia Yu, who was driving, said seriously, "Officer Zhou, I really want to take you as a role model in the future. I feel that you solve cases so calmly, just like when I was working with our Captain Pan."

Zhou Yi knew that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly said: "I mean the case, do you have any ideas?"

"My job is to help the team, look up information and so on. I have too little experience..." Xia Yu said embarrassedly.

Zhou Yi frowned slightly. He didn't know whether this was the custom in Anyuan or Pan Hongjie's personal style.

But this is obviously not possible. Since he is a criminal policeman, he cannot be used as an assistant. This will easily turn Xia Yu into a person without his own opinions and lack of independent thinking ability.

By then, even if his qualifications have improved, it will be difficult for him to become an independent criminal policeman, but just an experienced soldier.

On the contrary, Wu Yongcheng did very well in this regard.

Apart from himself as a "special case" who is particularly valued by him, he treats everyone else equally. Everyone has a lot of responsibilities, and he will arrange work according to their individual circumstances.

Pan Hongjie's way of leading troops is too conservative and old-fashioned.

No wonder Xia Yu always gives people a feeling of lack of confidence and has to ask Pan Hongjie for everything.

"Officer Xia, you're wrong. We're criminal police. Our job is to solve cases, not to assist. Besides, solving cases depends on experience, talent, and individual logic. Being older doesn't necessarily mean you're better, and being younger doesn't necessarily mean you're incompetent. Young criminal police shouldn't underestimate themselves because of this."

Zhou Yi's heartfelt words surprised Xia Yu very much, because no one had ever said these words to him.

He nodded somewhat excitedly.

"Officer Zhou, thank you for saying that. You are truly a role model for our age."

Zhou Yi smiled and asked, "Then tell me, what do you think about this case?"

"Okay. I think Huang Yanli is lying."

"Why?"

"Because she's distanced herself too much. Even if she and Zheng Guangming are in a relationship that seems to be on good terms but not on good terms, it doesn't make sense for them not to contact each other for so long. Even if he doesn't contact her, he'll definitely contact the child. She just said that Zheng Guangming spoiled their youngest son, which means that Zheng Guangming and Zheng Tianyu have a very good relationship. How could he not call his youngest son for so long?"

Zhou Yi nodded: "Continue."

"There's another strange thing. She said Zheng Guangming left on March 16th. According to her, Zheng Guangming would have arrived in the provincial capital late at night, and the next day he would have flown to Haicheng and then left the country from Haicheng. In other words, according to Zheng Guangming's itinerary, he would have stayed in China for at least three more days."

"If she's out of the country, she could use some excuse to say she hasn't contacted me for various reasons, but there haven't been any calls in the past three days. It's so abnormal."

"Besides, Zheng Guangming has been traveling almost all the time these past three days. Planes and trains are all public places. He can't be fooling around with women all the time and not even have time to make a phone call."

"Although Huang Yanli found various excuses to shift the blame for the lack of contact to Zheng Guangming, it felt to me like she was desperately trying to emphasize that they hadn't had any contact since March 16th, thus justifying her decision not to report her husband's disappearance for so long."

Xia Yu said solemnly, "But I think it's more likely that she already knew that Zheng Guangming died on March 16th, and she's afraid that if she reveals their connection, she won't be able to explain it later, which would arouse the police's suspicion."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but give a thumbs-up and said, "Officer Xia, that's amazing. You're right. Huang Yanli's actions are very much a cover-up. Just like you said, she's looking for all kinds of excuses to make her reasons seem reasonable. Her logic is like working backwards from Zheng Guangming's death on March 16th."

Xia Yu nodded excitedly. "Do you feel the same way? I also think there's something amiss with Zheng Guangming's eldest son, Zheng Tianlan. He's the general manager of the company. Huang Yanli said one of the reasons Zheng Tianlan and his family moved out of the villa was because Zheng Guangming was too involved. And what about the company? Did he just leave it to Zheng Tianlan for over a month for a so-called overseas inspection? That's a logical inconsistency."

"Yes, you're absolutely right. Besides, Anyuan's investment promotion conference is coming up soon. Zheng Guangming, as an industry representative, definitely has to attend. Logically, Zheng Tianlan should be terribly anxious."

Among the information Xia Yu collected yesterday, there was corporate information about Zheng Guangming.

The business under Zheng Guangming’s name is actually not as simple as a few chicken farms and two pig farms.

Instead, it has built a complete commercial industry chain with chicken farms and pig farms as the core, including breeding, slaughtering, transportation and wholesale.

That is to say, Zheng Guangming raises chickens and pigs, kills them himself, and then sells them wholesale through cold chain transportation to all parts of the province. Distributors then sell them to retailers, and finally they end up on the dining tables of thousands of households.

Although Zheng Guangming’s chicken farm is not the only one in Anyuan, it is undoubtedly the largest and best developed.

There was a company that was bigger than Zheng Guangming. It was the one the restaurant owner had mentioned. Unfortunately, after his death, there was serious infighting within the family over the fight for property, which led to the business plummeting and was overtaken by Zheng Guangming.

Therefore, at Anyuan's investment promotion conference, Zheng Guangming's status should be the level of sitting on the rostrum.

How could he have gone abroad for so long without any news when he knew about this incident? This investment promotion conference was officially initiated and was one of the important measures taken by the local government of Anyuan to promote economic development.

This is also why the pressure was passed down from one level to another, and Pan Hongjie was given a deadline to solve the case.

Zheng Guangming might not be a good person, but he could be so successful in business that he couldn't be a fool. Businessmen, the most important thing they want to curry favor with is those in high positions. How could he not know what's more important?

Xia Yu mentioned some more doubts, which were basically what Zhou Yi had already discovered, but Zhou Yi was still surprised that he could point out the logical problems in it.

"Officer Xia, don't do backroom work anymore. You're an expert at criminal investigation. Experience can be gained slowly, but this kind of logical thinking ability and keen observation are hard to come by." Zhou Yi patted his shoulder and said, "Don't waste your talent."

Xia Yu looked back at Zhou Yi gratefully.

"Officer Zhou, I have a question I don't quite understand and would like to ask you."

"you say."

"Zheng Guangming is so rich, why should he listen to Huang Yanli? Huang Yanli is obviously not a strong woman, and her family doesn't have any background. Zheng Guangming can do whatever he wants, right? But judging from what Huang Yanli said, Zheng Guangming is subject to the bottom line she set when it comes to playing with women."

Zhou Yi stretched lazily. It was not Xia Yu’s fault that he did not know the answer to this question, because some things had not yet been formed in the small cities in the 1990s.

"Because he was afraid that if they divorced, Huang Yanli would take away some of his property."

"Huang Yanli has said before that Zheng Guangming was rich when he pursued her, but not as rich as he is now. And their youngest son is already five years old. In other words, Zheng Guangming's career continued to rise steadily after marrying Huang Yanli, so his money is not his own money, but the common property of the couple."

"I suspect Zheng Guangming and Huang Yanli didn't sign a prenuptial agreement when they got married. Perhaps they were afraid Huang Yanli would refuse to marry them if they signed it, as Huang Yanli is quite shrewd. Of course, I'm more inclined to believe that Zheng Guangming didn't understand the law, so he didn't even have such an idea at the time."

This is the difference between nouveau riche and capitalists. Nouveau riche are a group of people who originally had little education but suddenly became rich and possessed wealth beyond their cognition, so they started to make all kinds of waves and naturally did not understand property protection.

Capitalists are either the chosen ones who graduated from prestigious universities and finally made a way out of the ups and downs in the business world, or they are people who have wealth since they were born. This kind of people is not comparable to nouveau riche. They will use legal terms that ordinary people cannot understand at all to protect themselves and their money.

Even if there is no prenuptial agreement, there are 800 ways to ensure that the woman does not get a penny in the divorce, or even has to pay out of her own pocket.

Zheng Guangming must belong to the former, so he is subject to Huang Yanli's control over the matter of the illegitimate child.

Otherwise, according to his preference, he might have planted the seeds all over the ground like raising piglets.

"So Huang Yanli keeps saying she wants to protect her own rights. She's not afraid of Zheng Guangming divorcing her, she's afraid of her illegitimate child fighting with her son for his property."

After all, the inheritance law promulgated in 1985 stipulates that illegitimate children also have legal inheritance rights, but they need to provide proof of parent-child relationship.

It was difficult to do in the past, but now with DNA technology, it is very easy to confirm. Rich people can just go to Hong Kong Island or go abroad for identification.

"Oh, how come there is no love at all in the marriage between these two people? It's all calculation." Xia Yu sighed.

Zhou Yi smiled helplessly, "You won't find it strange after you see it more often. The world is full of things that destroy your worldview."

The place they drove to was the headquarters of Guangming Trading Co., Ltd. located in Anyuan City. After leaving Huang Yanli's house, Zhou Yi called Zheng Tianlan, and Zheng Tianlan said that he was now in the company.

When they arrived at Guangming Trading, the two showed their IDs to the front desk, who immediately called "Mr. Zheng".

Soon a man in a suit ran down in a hurry. When he saw the two of them, he came up to shake hands with them enthusiastically, then invited them to his office to chat, and asked the front desk to brew the best tea and bring it up.

Zhou Yi had looked at Zheng Tianlan's household registration information and knew that he had an ordinary appearance and was not tall. He was the type that would be hard to find in a crowd.

Zheng Tianlan pushed open the door to his office and said enthusiastically, "Please take a seat, officers! Are you here for next month's investment promotion conference? Hey, my dad called me from abroad a few days ago and said he broke his leg over there and might not be able to come back for a while, so he asked me to attend the conference in his place."

"What?" His words shocked Xia Yu.