The greed of evil people in human nature can never be satisfied

Human greed can never be satisfied.

In half a year, Wang Jian took more than one million yuan, while Qiu Pengfei only took 400,000 yuan. If it weren't for Wang Jian, all the money would have belonged to him alone.

Qiu Pengfei was afraid but also excited, but since he had taken the remaining 200,000 yuan, he had to do the job for others.

If it were someone else, Qiu Pengfei might be timid or ashamed, but what kind of person was Wang Jian? A gambler! A scoundrel! A murderer!

It was the most just thing for him to "deal with" Wang Jian and avenge Wu Dayong.

Qiu Pengfei made some preparations, but he was still conflicted and kept putting it off until last winter.

Before New Year's Eve, Wang Jian called him and said that the porcelain had been discovered and he had to turn back and take the goods back.

The sudden change prompted Qiu Pengfei to kill. He quarreled with Wang Jian and provoked him to anger, then removed the warning sign and put all the blame on an accident.

From the perspective of those behind the scenes, this method is not foolproof, but it is effective. As long as no one goes beyond the police and continues to investigate, the case will eventually come to nothing.

Another surprise this accident brought him was that Jiang Yunli was also in the truck. One plan solved two problems, and he even breathed a sigh of relief.

But Jiang Yunli is not dead. Although he has become a vegetable, who knows if he will suddenly wake up one day?

Moreover, his two apprentices always suspected that the truck falling off the cliff was not an accident, and they repeatedly asked him if there was any other hidden secret?

He made an exception and promoted Cheng Sizhou to deputy director, giving him a bright future, and also comforted him, telling him to turn back in time when he hit a wall, but the young man was extremely stubborn. He wanted nothing but the truth.

When he was planning further plans, Yu Ming resigned and returned to his hometown. Cheng Sizhou's sexual orientation was exposed and he was diagnosed with severe depression and precursors of schizophrenia.

The two young men were unable to continue the investigation, and then Mr. Jiang also passed away. Only then did he finally put his mind at ease and feel at ease.

But before the summer was over, Cheng Sizhou suddenly went to Longji Mountain.

He and Qiu Pengfei did not get through on the phone, so they could only contact each other through letters again. This time, he gritted his teeth and promised Qiu Pengfei one million, asking him to deal with Cheng Sizhou.

Along with the letter came Cheng Sizhou's ID photo, sufficient poison and a bomb for directional blasting.

Time was short, so Qiu Pengfei was inevitably nervous when preparing. Besides, Cheng Sizhou looked like a college student, not a bad guy.

Dealing with Wang Jian previously could be considered revenge for Lao Mo. Now how could he convince himself to attack a college student he had never met?

Before Qiu Pengfei could make his plans, there was a knock on the door of the cabin.

A younger child, tears in his eyes, stood at the door carrying a frail middle-aged woman on his back. "Is that Uncle Mo? Can you save Aunt Lin?"

From then on, Qiu Pengfei's plan was thrown into chaos.

He saw that Lin Hanzhen's face was full of death. If he saved her, he might lose the opportunity because of the delay; if he didn't save her, it would easily arouse suspicion.

Unable to think of a solution for the moment, he had to make excuses and delay. During the conversation, he accidentally learned that there was a group of people behind Xu Jiaxuan, and Cheng Sizhou should be among them.

Qiu Pengfei saw that Xu Jiaxuan was young and was not on guard against him. However, when he was washing his feet, Xu Jiaxuan found out that his identity as a forest ranger was a fake.

Once you tell a lie, you have to cover it up with more lies.

At this point, he had no choice but to hide Lin Hanzhen and Xu Jiaxuan in the cave and wait for the real "prey" to fall into the net.

From receiving the mission to executing it, Qiu Pengfei did not have enough time to plan. He and his employer miscalculated many details, such as the wild dogs trained by Xiao Liang could find the hostages by scent; Cheng Sizhou's team was well-equipped and even had two experienced criminal police officers; and Cheng Sizhou himself bypassed the accident site and did not show up at the first time.

The bomb provided by his employer was originally intended for him to place in the cave. If the situation changed, the cave would collapse after the explosion, burying the goods and destroying the evidence.

The cave was not too far from the cabin, and Qiu Pengfei actually didn't know whether detonating the bomb would affect him.

But the moment the pawn was taken away, he understood everything. The employer only cared about burying the evidence. As for the life or death of him, it didn't matter at all.

For the employer, if the bomb exploded, the cave collapsed, and everyone died, he could destroy the evidence and save the one million yuan in compensation; if the bomb did not explode, the "fake Lao Mo" would be caught and could take the blame for him.

At the end of the interrogation, Qiu Pengfei burst into tears: "From the beginning to the end, I only wanted to make money. I never thought about taking anyone's life, nor did I think about fighting to the death."

Cheng Sizhou clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his flesh.

The truth behind this series of strange cases has been revealed. The person behind the scenes took advantage of the greed of Wu Dayong, Wang Jian and Qiu Pengfei to destroy evidence and cover up the truth in order to hide his transaction with Destin and the truth that he, as a cultural relic worker, embezzled for fame and fortune.

"Brother Zhou, are the letters that Qiu Pengfei received still there?" he asked.

"Qiu Pengfei burned them. However, to show they were from the same person, the letters were signed with the character 'Xiang'." Zhou Han flipped through the notes. "Yes, it was 'Xiang'. Qiu Pengfei didn't understand either. He thought the other party was trying to convince him."

"Then where does the phrase 'drive the tiger to devour the wolf' come from?"

"Qiu Pengfei heard it from Wang Jian. He saw that Wang Jian had only been educated for a few days, but he used a very cultured word. It made a deep impression on him, so he remembered it."

Wen Zichuan said: "This is quite consistent with the behavior habits of actors. When we encounter difficult lines, we will write them down and recite them several times to deepen our memory."

Cheng Sizhou frowned and shook his head: "He was too arrogant. He knew Wang Jian didn't understand, so he just casually threw out the word. He made Wang Jian think that killing Wu Dayong was like a tiger devouring a wolf. Wang Jian didn't know until his death that he was controlled by others the whole time."

Zhou Han spread his hands. "How could he have committed such a high-IQ crime without some education? Furthermore, he's so secretive, never committing crimes himself. If we were to convict him now, the only charge would be abetting a crime."

Cheng Sizhou understood that "driving the tiger to devour the wolf" allowed the person behind the scenes to avoid the crime of murder to a great extent. Now, if he wanted to bring him down in one fell swoop, he must find evidence that he had joined forces with foreign forces to steal and resell cultural relics, causing the outflow of cultural relics.

"There are only a few people in the archaeological team," Wen Zichuan asked, "so you suspected it was the director of the Lantern Museum early on?"

"I suspected it before, but now I'm certain." Cheng Sizhou said solemnly, "Last summer, even after Master retired, he still came to the company to talk to Zhang Hongliang. I suspect Master caught him off guard and told him about the progress of the investigation. Otherwise, why would Wang Jian run a single order before New Year's Eve? Wang Jian can't just sell those porcelains whenever he wants. He must have received orders from Zhang Hongliang and deliberately revealed a flaw to Master."

Wen Zichuan heard him mention that his master Jiang Yunli and the museum director Zhang Hongliang were old friends for many years.

He understood best what it felt like to be backstabbed by a friend. Moreover, Zhang Hongliang not only backstabbed Mr. Jiang, he also deliberately plotted to take his friend's life.

Cheng Sizhou's profile was thin, and Wen Zichuan looked at him, feeling an indescribable heartache.

Since he met Cheng Sizhou, although he deliberately acted magnanimous, everyone has selfish motives, and he secretly resented that Cheng Sizhou cared too much about his family, causing him to suffer a lot of grievances.

Now it seems that maybe it was just that he was born lacking in love, which is why he complained that Cheng Sizhou did not give him enough love when he was moving forward with a heavy soul.

"What should we do next?" Wen Zichuan asked Zhou Han.

"Our investigation isn't over yet," Zhou Han said, his gaze sweeping from Wen Zichuan to Cheng Sizhou. "Study the evidence and protect the witness."

Needless to say, there are more than a dozen boxes of porcelain hidden in the cave, but further clarification is needed to determine whether they are ordinary persimmon-colored porcelain or mixed with sacrificial vessels and burial objects looted from ancient tombs.

As for the witness, Wen Zichuan and Cheng Sizhou looked at each other again: "Xiao Liang."

Xiao Liang is still recovering in the hospital. He can already recall the scene of Destin stealing cultural relics. If Zhang Hongliang was present at the time, his identification would undoubtedly be conclusive.

"The hospital is under surveillance and there are surveillance cameras everywhere. It should be safe, right?" Wen Zichuan pinched his right hand with his left hand, and then pinched his left hand with his right hand. A hospital is good in every way, but it is only two streets away from Dengbo, which is too close.

"The hospital has security, but I don't feel comfortable leaving it entirely to others. I'll figure out a way to deal with this matter. I'll try my best to take care of Xiao Liang." Cheng Sizhou said firmly.

After the case was reviewed, it was almost midnight.

On the way to send the two out, Zhou Han also informed them of the result of Wu Si's murder case.

The lawyer hired by Cheng Sizhou was very capable. She decisively seized on the detail that Wu Si took poisonous herbs and had a miscarriage, indicating that she did not recognize her de facto marriage with the son of the Ke family.

When the Ke family failed to force her, they resorted to violence, resulting in her death. They also attempted to interfere with the judiciary and let Ke's mother take the blame alone.

The final verdict was that Ke's father was sentenced to death, Ke's mother was sentenced to life imprisonment with a two-year reprieve, and Ke's son who had polio would also face a prison sentence of more than eight years.

"There's another thing. The test results on Wu Si's hair showed she had a toxin in her body that's basically the same as what was found in Tong Chunyang." Zhou Han discussed this with the forensic doctor several times. "But... the dosage in Tong Chunyang's system and the symptoms he ultimately displayed were much more serious than Wu Si's."

Wen Zichuan asked in surprise, "How could that be? Tong Chunyang is a member of the archaeological team, and the Wu Clan is the one they want to deal with."

Zhou Han paused for a moment before saying, "We suspect that Tong Chunyang was against them harming the Wu Clan, so he was pulled out and tested with the medicine."

Cheng Sizhou forced himself to remain calm: "What kind of medicine did they use?"

Zhou Han shook his head: "There is no such drug in the country. Even if there is, it is a controlled drug and will never be abused like this."

After leaving the Public Security Bureau, Wen Zichuan and Cheng Sizhou walked to the curb together and hailed a taxi in silence.

The review of the case heard tonight was too shocking. They never overestimated human nature, but they also did not expect that human nature could be so evil.

Cheng Sizhou's blood was boiling. He had heard of Zhang Hongliang's name from his master when he was a child. After graduation, he entered the Lantern Festival and admired and respected him as a subordinate looks up to his superior.

When Mr. Jiang was seriously injured, he was the last one to arrive at the hospital. Everyone blamed him, but only Zhang Hongliang spoke for him and defended him in front of Dr. Cheng.

He was grateful and felt guilty, but now when he thought that it was just his "performance" and a way to appease people, Cheng Sizhou felt nauseous.

Wen Zichuan returned to Tianchen Lake and headed south; Cheng Sizhou returned to the prop factory and headed north.

They waited under the same streetlight, wanting to say something to each other, but no one spoke first.

Wen Zichuan brewed a few words of comfort. He thought that he should maintain his magnanimity and share some of Cheng Sizhou's burden.

But just when he was about to speak, Cheng Sizhou made a phone call.

The call was to Yu Ming. He said that if the porcelain in the cave was transported to Dengyuan, it would have to go through the Cultural Relics Bureau and the Dengyuan Museum. He wanted to ask Yu Ming to go to Huaili to verify their initial guess.

After the call was hung up, the taxi Cheng Sizhou took arrived.

Looking at his back as he was about to leave, Wen Zichuan's heart was filled with regret and loss. He should have spoken earlier. If he didn't say some things, no one would ever say them to Cheng Sizhou again.

He lowered his head and looked at the shadow on the ground, but the next second, he fell into a warm embrace.

Cheng Sizhou leaned over to his ear and whispered affectionately, "Merry Christmas."

Wen Zichuan felt a sour taste in his nose: "Well, Merry Christmas."

After a brief hug, the two parted ways.

On the way back, Wen Zichuan touched the remaining heat on his coat, thinking about what else he could do, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong.

Xiao Liang certainly needs protection as a key witness, but don’t forget that Qiu Pengfei’s mission is to “deal with Cheng Sizhou.”

Cheng Sizhou already has all the evidence chains. Isn't he the person who should be protected the most now?