Chapter 33 Captain Wu's Secret

"Cancer?" Zhou Yi and Wu Yongcheng were shocked.

"This is just our preliminary judgment at the moment. To determine whether it is gastric cancer or not, and whether it is in the early or late stages, we still need to do a biopsy and test. Everything is subject to the pathology report." The doctor knew the particularity of this patient, and this kind of thing was nothing new to the hospital. After all, when a patient was sent in in handcuffs, everyone knew what was going on.

"Comrade police officer, I suggest you notify the family as soon as possible."

Wu Yongcheng nodded, and Zhou Yi asked, "Doctor, how is the patient now? Can I ask him a question?"

The doctor nodded: "Just don't let her get too emotional."

"Thank you, doctor."

After the doctor left, Zhou Yi asked, "Captain Wu, I didn't expect this case to end like this."

Wu Yongcheng suddenly let out a long sigh: "Maybe God didn't want these two children to come into this world and suffer."

This sentence made Zhou Yi keenly aware that Wu Yongcheng's previous abnormality might be related to the child.

He swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. "Captain Wu, how about Sister Qiao and I go ask Zhang Xinli? In this situation, a female police officer might make her feel more secure."

Wu Yongcheng nodded: "Go ahead."

Zhou Yi turned around and exchanged glances with Qiao Jiali who was standing not far away.

Just as the two were about to leave, Wu Yongcheng called out from behind, "Zhou Yi."

"What's wrong, Captain Wu?"

"I'm a little tired and want to go back and take a nap. I'm sorry to trouble you guys with the things here."

Seeing the tired look on Wu Yongcheng's face, Zhou Yi nodded: "Don't worry, Captain Wu, we are here for you."

After watching Wu Yongcheng leave, Zhou Yi finally asked, "Sister Qiao, Captain Wu suddenly acted a little strange today. Did he suffer from any psychological trauma?"

Unexpectedly, when hearing this question, Qiao Jiali also sighed heavily.

"Zhou Yi, our Captain Wu has a hard life."

"Captain Wu got married very young but never had children. To have a child, the couple traveled all over the country to hospitals and suffered a lot. Six years ago, they finally conceived twins through in vitro fertilization."

The three words "twins" made Zhou Yi's nerves jump, and an ominous premonition came to his heart.

"At that time, I had just joined the Third Brigade and was still a newcomer. After my sister-in-law became pregnant, Captain Wu became very cheerful and friendly to everyone."

"But when my sister-in-law was more than five months pregnant, something unfortunate happened. A gang of motorcycle thieves robbed her bag on the road. Because of the bag strap, my sister-in-law was dragged for more than ten meters and suffered a miscarriage. Not only did she lose the baby, but she also suffered intrauterine bleeding, and my sister-in-law will never be able to get pregnant again."

Qiao Jiali's eyes reddened. "Later, the motorcycle gang was arrested, and the man who robbed my sister-in-law was sentenced to seven years. But my sister-in-law and Captain Wu divorced, and from then on, Captain Wu started smoking every day."

"Zhou Yi, in the Third Brigade, only Biaozi and I know about this. Chen Yan doesn't know either. Don't mention this in front of Captain Wu." Qiao Jiali raised her hand and wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes.

Zhou Yi nodded heavily.

"Sister Qiao, thank you for telling me."

…

On the hospital bed, one of Zhang Xinli's hands was hooked to an IV drip, while the other hand was handcuffed to the metal railing beside the bed.

She is now a criminal suspect and must be detained.

"Comrade police officer." When Zhang Xinli saw Zhou Yi coming over, she immediately struggled to sit up.

"No need to get up, just lie down."

Zhang Xinli nodded gratefully: "Comrade police officer, is my child okay?"

"The child is currently in good condition," Qiao Jiali comforted.

Zhang Xinli naturally knew this female police officer and asked, "My husband...how is he?"

Qiao Jiali and Zhou Yi exchanged glances and said, "Wang Youfu's vital signs are currently stable and he's not in danger, but he hasn't woken up yet."

"That's good, that's good." Zhang Xinli murmured.

Zhou Yi asked, "Zhang Xinli, how long have you had stomach problems?"

"Stomach problems? It's been two years now. We nurses don't eat regularly, so it's easy for us to get stomach problems."

"Have you checked it out? Are you sure it's a stomach problem?"

Zhang Xinli was stunned, feeling something was amiss. "About a year ago, I had a gastroscopy and found a severe stomach ulcer."

"Have you received any treatment in the past six months? Or taken any special medicine?"

"Medicine?" Zhang Xinli thought for a moment. "About two months ago, Zhu Xuejun gave me a box of medicine. He said it was a special medicine he brought back from the United States. The packaging was all in English, and I couldn't understand it."

Found it!

That's it!

"Where is this medicine?" Zhou Yi asked hurriedly.

"It's in the first drawer of my chest of drawers at home. Police officer, what's going on?" Zhang Xinli asked nervously.

"Zhang Xinli, you have a tumor in your stomach. It might be malignant."

"What?" Zhang Xinli was stunned. "How is this possible? I..."

"I don't have any evidence yet, but it's very likely that Zhu Xuejun planned your murder of Du Xiaolin!"

"What?"

This time, not only Zhang Xinli but also Qiao Jiali was shocked.

Zhou Yi always makes shocking statements. If what he says is really true, the whole case will turn from a homicide case into a case of incitement to murder.

"Not only that, the tumor in your stomach might also be his work. He wants to use cancer to silence people!"

Zhou Yi’s words immediately made Zhang Xinli shudder.

"Sister Qiao, I'm going to Zhang Xinli's house. Please stay here and watch over me."

As Zhou Yi walked out of the hospital, he ran into Chen Yan.

"Brother Yan, it's great. Come with me to Zhang Xinli's house."

"Going to Zhang Xinli's house? What for? Haven't we already searched it?"

"They said on the way that it was an emergency."

"Where's Captain Wu? I need to consult him on something."

"Captain Wu went home to rest. What happened?"

"We've been summoning Zhu Xuejun for over twelve hours, and he's now clamoring for us to release him, and he's even hired a lawyer."

Zhou Yi immediately said, "We can't let him go! He's very likely a serious murder suspect!"

"What?" Chen Yan thought he had misheard.

"Let's talk on the way. Let's drive first."

"Okay!" Chen Yan stepped on the accelerator without hesitation.

On the way, Zhou Yi briefly recounted the questions he had raised during the interrogation of Zhang Xinli and Zhang Xinli's suspected stomach cancer.

After listening to this, Chen Yan also felt that it was indeed a bit strange. Zhu Xuejun, who had been very cold towards Zhang Xinli, suddenly became nice to Zhang Xinli, which was very suspicious.

"Zhou Yi, my dad once told me that when things are out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on!"

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Yan, to be honest, I really hope I'm right. Because in all these years, this is the first time I'm really looking forward to bringing someone to justice!"

Chen Yan thought he had misheard, "So many years?"