Police station archivist Zhou Yi is reborn back to 1997, just when he joined the police force. Dismemberment cases, arson cases, shooting cases... the cold case files he meticulously studied in his...
Chapter 350: Rebellion
When Huang Yanli heard this, her heart sank. She never expected that she and her son were only worth 30,000 yuan in Zheng Guangming's heart.
But before she could say anything, the man holding a knife beside her angrily cursed, "Fu Daqing, didn't you say that the other party would give you 20,000 yuan and we would each take half? You bastard, you still want to cheat me like this?"
Yes, the man holding the hammer is Fu Daqing, whom the police have been looking for for a long time.
The man holding the knife was naturally Li Youqiang, who was killed by Jiang Wei.
That knife is the key evidence in this case, the hidden knife.
Fu Daqing was embarrassed and angry when he saw his name was exposed. He could only say to Li Youqiang, "Brother Youqiang, it was indeed 20,000 at the beginning. Later, I forced the other party to add 10,000. Didn't I forget to tell you?"
Huang Yanli was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, as there were only 20,000 at the beginning.
She quickly shouted, "Sixty thousand! I can give you sixty thousand! If you help me kill Zheng Guangming, I will give you the full sixty thousand."
Fu Daqing stared at her and asked, "How are you going to pay for this?"
Huang Yanli had already made up her mind that she could not say that there was too much money at home, otherwise the other party would be tempted by the money and would kill her and her son and take the money, and then everything would be over.
But they can't say that they don't have a penny. If the other party doesn't accept it, the mother and child will still die.
She said, "We only have 10,000 yuan in cash at home, which can be used as a deposit. You should kill Zheng Guangming tonight. I will go to the bank to withdraw the remaining 50,000 yuan tomorrow morning and give it to you."
Fu Daqing touched his chin and said, "Ten thousand, that's a little..."
Huang Yanli couldn't wait to say, "I have a few pieces of gold jewelry on the dressing table upstairs. They're worth at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. I'll give them to you as a bonus. Is that okay?"
Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang looked at each other and nodded with satisfaction.
Huang Yanli asked timidly, "Can you help me untie it first?"
Fu Daqing gave Li Youqiang a look, and Li Youqiang put away the knife in his hand and untied Huang Yanli.
When he untied her, he took the opportunity to touch her a few times. Huang Yanli did not dare to resist at all, for fear of angering him by accident.
Li Youqiang put away the rope with a chuckle, and Huang Yanli quickly wrapped her nightgown tightly around herself.
Fu Daqing picked up the hammer in his hand and gestured, saying, "You'd better not play tricks on us, and don't even think about calling the police, or we'll kill you at any time!"
Huang Yanli cried and shook her head repeatedly: "I would never call the police even if you kill me. I'm the main culprit in the murder. I'm more afraid of calling the police than you are. Please believe me."
Fu Daqing nodded with satisfaction, and then Li Youqiang drew his knife again and went straight upstairs.
Huang Yanli was startled and rushed over to ask, "Where are you going?"
Li Youqiang said indifferently, "Didn't you ask us to kill Zheng Guangming? I'll kill him right now."
Huang Yanli was stunned by this. She felt confused. "Zheng Guangming is not at home."
As soon as these words were spoken, Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing looked at each other.
Li Youqiang frowned and asked, "Who's upstairs?"
"My...my son, he's only five years old, please don't scare him."
Fu Daqing also came over and asked, "So where is Zheng Guangming now?"
"It's a small villa at No. 68 Chennan Road. He is with a woman named Bai Xiu Xiu." Huang Yanli admitted to Qiao Jiali that she had actually known for a long time that Zheng Guangming had settled Bai Xiu Xiu there. She found out after giving some benefits to the driver Feng Qiang.
Then she said to Li Youqiang, "That bitch named Bai Xiuxiu is younger and prettier than me, and she has big breasts. I believe you will like her."
Li Youqiang laughed immediately. Although she couldn't see the other person's face, the sudden frown at the corners of his eyes showed that his words hit the mark.
Then the two followed her upstairs and searched the villa, confirming that apart from Huang Yanli, the only person there was her son sleeping soundly.
Huang Yanli gave them 10,000 yuan and all her gold jewelry.
Now, she wants to survive, but she also wants to see Zheng Guangming and Bai Xiuxiu, the couple, die.
Fear and hatred intertwined together, making her mind distorted.
But Fu Daqing was obviously a more cautious person. In order to prevent Huang Yanli from denying the debt later, he forced her to write a letter of employment for murder and also put her fingerprints on it.
After doing all this, Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang told her that they would give her a proof after killing someone.
Then he asked her if she wanted Zheng Guangming's finger or something else?
This scared Huang Yanli, and she quickly said, "Don't point your finger, just take his ID card back."
Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang looked at each other and said something that made her feel very strange.
Fu Daqing said: Change something.
Huang Yanli didn't know what he meant, but she did it anyway and said that she just needed to take back his mobile phone, because he was a businessman and never left his phone, and he would not allow anyone to touch it.
After doing all this, Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang left the Zheng family villa on Shangtang Road.
Huang Yanli seemed to have lost all her strength. She collapsed on the ground and burst into tears.
She cried for a long time until she heard her son crying upstairs. She came to her senses and hugged her son to comfort him and put him to sleep.
Up to this point, if she had called the police immediately after Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang left, then from a legal perspective, she would not have committed the crime of hiring a killer.
Even after the police were called, they arrived at Bai Xiu Xiu's residence a little late, resulting in Zheng Guangming's death.
If she had hired a better lawyer, she would most likely have been acquitted on the grounds of emergency avoidance.
Because under the circumstances at the time, she had no choice but to do so in order to ensure the personal safety of herself and her son, including the written records that Fu Daqing forced her to write, which were completely forced.
As long as she called the police immediately, it would mean that she had no real intention of hiring someone to kill, but did so to protect herself.
And after Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang left, she was fully capable of calling the police, and her personal safety was not still threatened.
But she didn't. She never chose to call the police.
No matter how helpless or compelled she was at the time, the fact and intention of her hiring someone to kill someone was real.
Both Qiao Jiali and Zhou Yi are well aware of this, so even though Huang Yanli confessed, she would not be deemed to have acted in self-defense or emergency avoidance in the subsequent case judgment.
There may not even be a chance for a reduction in sentence.
But the real irony is that if she had called the police on the night of March 16th, she could not only have avoided the risk.
And Zheng Guangming would still die, because the autopsy results showed that Zheng Guangming died of his own illness, not external forces.
Regardless of whether Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang kill Zheng Guangming or not, he is destined to die.
But Huang Yanli didn't have the ability to predict the future, so she didn't know, otherwise she wouldn't have done that.
But Zhou Yi felt that he could actually let her know later.
It's not a matter of murder, but as one of the suspects in this case, she has the right to know the situation.
Even if the police don't tell her, she will still find out through her lawyer during the subsequent legal proceedings.
But by then Zhou Yi wouldn't be able to see her reaction after she knew the truth.
If people don't want to go down the road of crime, they must always maintain the bottom line. Perhaps some unexpected situations will catch people off guard, but as long as they stick to that bottom line in their hearts, the law will give justice to the parties involved.
On the night of March 16th, Huang Yanli was indeed facing a dead end in the villa.
The only way for her to break the impasse was to persuade Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang to rebel and bribe them with money.
Because these two people are not professional killers, but middle-aged people who are living in poverty and have no ambitions. Those who kill for money will of course be bribed to rebel.
Zhou Yi was not surprised by this result. In fact, the fact that Huang Yanli was able to find a way to turn the situation around in that situation was enough to prove that she was not only smart, but also mentally calm.
If it were a woman of the same age, she would have probably shouted for help and then been stabbed to death by Li Youqiang.
But after escaping from danger, her choice ultimately determined her fate.
But there may be a big problem here, that is, whether Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang were hired by Zheng Guangming to kill Huang Yanli and Zheng Tianyu. Zhou Yi holds a negative opinion.
Although Fan Zhongliang has been arrested, the two social relationships of Fu Daqing and Zheng Guangming were connected through Fan Zhongliang.
It is possible that Fan Zhongliang selected Fu Daqing, a foreigner who was short of money, as a killer for Zheng Guangming to kill people.
But from Huang Yanli's own confession, there was a detail that made Zhou Yi feel that the facts might not be so.
After Fu Daqing agreed to Huang Yanli's conditions, Li Youqiang instinctively took a knife and went upstairs to kill someone. The person he wanted to kill at that time was naturally Zheng Guangming.
But in fact, Zheng Guangming was not at home that day, and only Zheng Tianyu was upstairs.
If the two were hired by Zheng Guangming, then Zheng Guangming's absence from home would naturally be the best alibi, avoiding a lot of trouble.
But Huang Yanli said that on March 16th, Zheng Guangming had just returned from a business trip. So why didn't Fu and Li attack him while he was away? This alibi is even more convincing.
Fu and Li had already arrived in Anyuan in February, and the murder had happened before the Chinese New Year.
Why wait so long?
Li Youqiang's reaction just showed that they didn't know that Zheng Guangming was not at home that day.
They thought the person was at home, so after accepting Huang Yanli's conditions, they wanted to go upstairs to complete the task.
In other words, their target when they sneaked into the villa that night was not Huang Yanli, but Zheng Guangming.
Huang Yanli was a person who could be killed or not. The reason why she was originally wanted to be killed was because she discovered the two people who sneaked in.
That's why we need to silence them!
But during this process, there was some deviation in the information. Huang Yanli believed that their target was herself and that someone had paid them to kill her.
Naturally, she thought that Zheng Guangming had hired someone to kill her.
But for Li and the other two, it turned out that they were hired by another person to sneak into the villa and kill Zheng Guangming.
When Li Youqiang said killing one was killing, killing two was also killing, he was probably referring to Zheng Guangming and Huang Yanli.
But to Huang Yanli, the two people were referring to herself and her son Zheng Tianyu.
So all this may be a misunderstanding!