Chapter 17
After all the trouble, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening when Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen returned to the police station.
Due to the lack of key evidence, it could not be directly determined that Tang Shuang was murdered, so the police officers on duty left after get off work.
Even Xi Zixuan was released because his alibi was found.
Everything is back to the starting point.
Jiang Aichen did not make things difficult for Lin Anyu because of what happened during the day. He just told her to come early tomorrow and then let her go home.
It's eight o'clock in the morning again.
Lin Anyu bit into the scallion pancake again and punched in for work at the last minute.
"Beep—8:00, Lin Anyu successfully clocked in. I have to work hard today too."
Hearing the familiar yet annoying clock-in reminder tone, Lin Anyu breathed a sigh of relief.
At least I wasn’t late.
She straightened her appearance and was about to walk into the criminal police office when suddenly a woman's voice rang out throughout the lobby of the police station.
Lin Anyu looked over in the direction of the sound and saw a video playing on the big screen in the lobby of the police station.
In the video, a figure hides behind some leaves. The camera focuses on the leaves and blurs the figure behind. From the video, we can only vaguely make out that there is a person hiding behind the leaves, and he is talking.
Her voice is firm and powerful, and she speaks eloquently when answered questions.
"The duty of the police has never been to punish evil and promote good, that is what the court needs to do. As police officers, what we have to do is to abandon all personal emotions, use all the knowledge and skills we have learned fairly and impartially, send criminals to the court for interrogation, and make all crimes disappear without a trace."
"We have never been judges, we are protectors, and what we protect is this country."
"Ah? My wish..." The man chuckled and replied, "May the justice of heaven prevail and all justice stand in the sunshine."
Lin Anyu: ...
I don’t know why, the person who was speaking was someone I didn’t know and had nothing to do with me.
But at this moment, her toes were twisted into a ball, as if she was ready to carve out a three-bedroom apartment at any time.
The people who read this passage are not embarrassed at all, so why should she, a passerby, feel embarrassed for others?
"How about it? Are you inspired by this passage?" Jiang Nan, who appeared next to Lin Anyu at some point, said.
Lin Anyu glanced sideways, then laughed dryly a few times and replied, "No."
Instead, I feel quite embarrassed.
"You know nothing," Jiang Nan replied without hesitation, and then he said sarcastically, "That's right, an ordinary criminal police officer like you, how can you possibly understand the thoughts and awareness of a high-level criminal police officer like my goddess?"
I thought Lin Anyu would be angry when she realized what was going on, but I didn't expect that she not only didn't take his words to heart, but instead focused on something else: "Are you saying that the person in the video said that Song Luo is not dead?"
Jiang Nan used his arm to hold her neck and pulled her tightly to his chest, warning her: "You are the one who died, what nonsense are you talking about? My goddess is alive and well, how could she be dead?"
Lin Anyu didn't know whether she was pretending or was really in great pain from being strangled by him. She slapped the arm that was clamping her vigorously: "Strangle him to death!"
"Don't talk nonsense." Jiang Nan let her go.
"Cough, cough, cough——" Lin Anyu bent over and coughed.
"Are you okay?" Jiang Nan asked. "How come you, as a criminal police officer on duty, don't have any skills to save your life? Lao Meng, a civilian who stays in the office all year round, was able to fight back when I clamped her down. How come you are so weak?"
The Old Meng that Jiang Nan mentioned naturally refers to Meng Qirang.
"If Rang Qirang hears you calling her Lao Meng again, be careful or she might slap you to death." Lin Anyu threatened while coughing.
"You still have the mind to scare me," Jiang Nan said, "You should take care of yourself."
Lin Anyu calmed down a lot: "Why should I care about myself?"
"You don't know yet, didn't I tell you yesterday that our police force is going to have a criminal psychologist?"
"Yeah," Lin Anyu nodded, "I know."
"Many years ago, he was my goddess' teammate, a very loyal teammate," Jiang Nan said, "When he comes, he might be even stricter than Captain Jiang, so you should be prepared."
Lin Anyu felt guilty:...
You really need to be prepared.
After all, Song Luo rushed into the fire to save her.
Yesterday, after returning home, she was so anxious to find clues in the Tang Shuang case that she even forgot to ask her parents about the truth of the matter.
Now, both she and Jiang Aichen feel that Song Luo’s death is related to her.
If she hadn't lost her memory, she might have known more details. The key is that she has lost her memory now and can't remember anything.
Lin Anyu asked tentatively: "How loyal are you?"
Jiang Nan smiled and said, "If you curse at Song Luo, I can paralyze you on the spot."
Lin Anyu: ...
Although Lin Anyu knew that Jiang Nan's words were a bit exaggerated, it was not difficult to see how good the relationship between this upcoming criminal psychologist and Song Luo was.
If he knew that Song Luo saved her, but she turned against him by tearing off his face and sticking it on her own, wouldn't he eat her up in the conference room?
Lin Anyu couldn't help but imagine a demon eating her alive.
She shuddered.
This criminal psychologist is indeed more than a little dangerous.
She clasped her hands together and said, "Deputy Captain Jiang, I cannot meet this expert for personal reasons before I have made clear inquiries. If he comes to work, please let me know in advance. My life is in your hands. Thank you."
Jiang Nan took it for granted that his threat had worked. He held Lin Anyu's shoulders, smiled, and said, "You're welcome, little sister. He'll be here in about half an hour."
Lin Anyu: ...
Lin Anyu clasped his fists and said, "I'm going on a field trip, Deputy Captain Jiang, please ask for leave for me."
Without waiting for Jiang Nan to react, Kong Er ran out quickly.
"Hey, where are you going? You have a meeting later." Jiang Nan shouted at Lin Anyu's back, "I'm just scaring you. That expert isn't that scary."
"Then please ask for leave for me," Lin Anyu replied, "Just say I have a stomachache and need to be hospitalized. I'll give you the medical bill tomorrow."
After Lin Anyu finished speaking, he was about to turn his head when he bumped into two people head-on.
Lin Anyu turned around instinctively, and at the moment when he was about to be hit, he dodged to the side.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the moment she turned around, she met a pair of light brown eyes.
Those eyes were calm and bright, and in the moment their eyes met, Lin Anyu could vaguely see his own panic in them.
She quickly looked away and ran out of the police station.
Staring at her back as she gradually disappeared around the corner, Gu Beizhi withdrew his gaze.
"Captain Jiang." Jiang Nan hurried out of the house, walked up to the two people in the yard, and said.
"Where is she going?" Jiang Aichen asked.
"She has a stomachache and went to the hospital to get medicine. She will be back in an hour." Jiang Nan added, "She asked for leave from me. I will sign it and put it on your desk later."
Jiang Aichen: “Yeah.”
Just now, Jiang Nan noticed the person next to Jiang Aichen, and he asked: "Who is this..."
"A consultant invited by the branch." Jiang Aichen said in a cold voice, as if introducing an unimportant person.
"Hello, hello, my name is Jiang Nan, and I'm the deputy captain of the criminal police team of Beihai Branch." Jiang Nan introduced himself excitedly.
"Hello," Gu Beizhi stretched out his hand, "Gu Beizhi, majoring in criminal psychology."
Jiang Nan took the opportunity to shake it: "I have heard a lot about you, a lot about you."
Gu Beizhi took his hand back and asked, "When I came here just now, I saw you chatting with the female detective who just left. What were you talking about?"
Jiang Nan didn't expect that the first thing the new consultant did when he arrived at the police station was to chat with him. He was not arrogant at all. He said truthfully: "Captain Song's propaganda video has been sent to all branches for study. This is what we just talked about."
"The General Administration is very efficient. They were able to find a video from three years ago," Gu Beizhi said calmly, making it hard to tell if he was deliberately mocking or just narrating an ordinary event. "Right, Captain Jiang."
"I don't know about the leader's decision." Jiang Aichen didn't respond, he replied casually.
"Yeah, that's right." Gu Beizhi responded casually.
"Wait," Jiang Nan suddenly interrupted the conversation between Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi, "Video from three years ago?"
"Yeah." Gu Beizhi replied dully.
Since it concerns his idol, Jiang Nan dare not neglect it. He does not care whether he will leave a bad impression on the new leader.
He asked, of course, “Why not shoot a new one?”
Gu Beizhi did not answer him directly. Instead, he calmly turned his head to look at Jiang Aichen beside him: "The confidentiality work is very good."
"He doesn't need to know."
Gu Beizhi smiled slightly and sighed: "Being his apprentice, I really learned a lot about temper."
After saying that, he did not forget to conclude: "They are all equally unpleasant."
Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi had a strange tacit understanding between them. The two of them asked and answered each other without any preface or conclusion, which directly confused Jiang Nan.
Jiang Nan: "What are you talking about?"
Gu Beizhi: "Nothing, this matter is not a secret. You didn't hear about it because you are too far away from the Imperial Capital Headquarters."
"I will answer your questions one by one now," Gu Beizhi said, "First of all, the first question is why didn't the headquarters ask Song Luo to shoot a new promotional video?"
"Yeah." Jiang Nan responded and motioned for him to continue.
"Because she disappeared," Gu Beizhi said, "Three years ago, she took a year-end leave from the General Administration, drove away from the capital in her own car, and there has been no news since then."
His voice was smooth, without any ups and downs, and his tone was so relaxed that it seemed as if he was saying "he ate a bun in the morning."
"Missing?" Jiang Nan felt like his brain was about to explode!
How is that possible.
That's Song Luo.
When he was in the police academy, he was a famous figure in all major police academies across the country. How could he disappear?
"Yes," Gu Beizhi said in detail, "half a year after she disappeared, our police station found her car in a reservoir in Zecheng. The car was completely flooded and buried deep in the mud under the reservoir. However, we searched near the reservoir for a full half month, but we couldn't find the body anyway."
Jiang Nan couldn't believe it and grasped the last straw: "But, shouldn't the national branch network be connected for missing cases? Why didn't our branch receive the news of Song Luo's disappearance?"
"Because no one reported it," Gu Beizhi said as if he was gossiping about an ordinary person. "As a police officer, you should know that in order for the police to file a missing person case, a direct relative or an interested party must apply to the court, and the person must have been missing for at least two years before they can be reported missing."
"If the employer wants to report a person missing, they also need to contact the immediate family members and have them report the missing person."
"But Song Luo's parents are both dead, and her only brother also died a few years ago. So she doesn't have any direct relatives in this world."
"Naturally no one reported her missing."
"But aren't you an expert?" Jiang Nan said, "Can't you go find her?"
"I'm sorry, my Interpol contract hadn't expired yet, and I hadn't returned to China yet, so I don't know much about what's going on in China," Gu Beizhi gestured to Jiang Aichen next to him, "But he should know."
Jiang Nan looked at Jiang Aichen for help.
Jiang Aichen's face showed no emotion. He replied, "These things have nothing to do with the case. We'll talk about it after the case is closed. Let's gather in the conference room now to discuss the next steps."
Gu Beizhi: "Okay, let's solve the case first."
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The news that Gu Beizhi brought was like a bolt from the blue to Jiang Nan.
He always had the illusion that his spiritual support was collapsing.
He was somewhat depressed until he arrived at the meeting room.
Meng Qirang sat down next to him and noticed that something was wrong with him. She asked, "What happened? Were you struck by lightning?"
"No, we'll talk about it after the case is closed." Jiang Nan replied.
Knowing that Jiang Nan was in a bad mood, Meng Qirang didn't say much. She sat up straight silently and opened her notes.
After a long while, Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi came over from the door.
Jiang Aichen sat at the head of the conference room, taking charge of the overall situation.
Gu Beizhi sat next to him, looking at everyone in the meeting room.
Jiang Aichen briefly introduced: "This is the criminal psychology expert sent by the General Administration. His name is Gu Beizhi."
As soon as his name was heard, a noisy discussion broke out from the audience.
"I know him, Gu Beizhi, the country's top criminal psychologist. He used to be with Interpol, but later returned to China and became a professor at the Imperial Capital Police Academy. His usual job is to teach at the academy and give speeches all over the country."
"I heard that his criminal psychology profiling is the best in the country. He is most famous for solving a case in which he worked with a portrait artist and identified the criminal in less than half a day."
"He's so talented, why doesn't he just stay at school and be a professor? Why does he come to our branch to be a consultant?"
"It's for our Captain Jiang. After all, Captain Jiang is Song Luo's apprentice. Song Luo was also a member of Interpol before, and he was a classmate of Gu Beizhi."
…
There was rustling noise below, but Gu Beizhi didn't care. He asked casually, "There's one person missing."
Jiang Aichen naturally knew who he was referring to, and he also knew why Lin Anyu, who never missed an investigation meeting, was suddenly absent.
It’s just that he and Gu Beizhi met for the first time today, and he didn’t want Gu Beizhi to know what Xu Jinshu told him yesterday too early.
He tried to smooth things over for Lin Anyu: "She's not feeling well and went to the hospital."
Gu Beizhi: "Do you believe it?"
"Yeah." Jiang Aichen said.
"Why do I feel like she is avoiding me?" Gu Beizhi laughed at himself.
"She has no reason to hide from you." Jiang Aichen was unwilling to explain a word more.
Gu Beizhi didn't ask any further questions, but said, "There is a long way to go, there is plenty of time."
"Let the meeting begin. I don't have that much time."
Jiang Aichen casually said, "Jiang Nan."
Jiang Nan quickly adjusted his state of mind. He posted a half-length photo of Yu Anan on the whiteboard and said, "I went to the company where the deceased worked yesterday. Through inquiries, I found that someone had an argument with the deceased during lunch time on the 22nd. I checked the surveillance and can basically conclude that the person who had the argument was the lover of the deceased's boyfriend - Yu Anan."
"Yu Anan's family is in the equipment business. Her father runs a store and her mother is a housewife. When Yu Anan was in college, the family business gradually became prosperous. From then on, the Yu family became the representative of the rich in the eyes of the neighbors."
"Two years ago, Yu Anan met the deceased's boyfriend, Xi Zixuan, in a gym," Jiang Nan said, pointing to Xi Zixuan's photo on the whiteboard. "They quickly developed into a romantic relationship."
"In addition, Yu Anan opened a gym with Xi Zixuan despite her family's opposition, and it is currently in operation."
"According to our understanding, Yu Anan's parents did not agree with the two being together at first, but later, after Yu Anan became pregnant, her parents slightly softened their stance."
Gu Beizhi: "When did you get pregnant?"
Facing the sudden question, Jiang Nan answered calmly: "The physical examination report shows that it was about two months ago."
Jiang Aichen: "Continue."
Jiang Nan answered and continued, "According to Yu Anan, when she was with Xi Zixuan, she didn't know that Xi Zixuan had a girlfriend. By the time she found out, she was already two months pregnant. In order to give birth to the child smoothly, she went to find the deceased at noon on the 22nd, hoping that the deceased could help her and Xi Zixuan be together."
"But who would have known that the deceased would hang herself right after she agreed. In order not to implicate herself, she lied when Captain Jiang first went to question her."
After finishing speaking, Jiang Nan did not forget to conclude: "There is no discrepancy with the results of my investigation. I think she may not have lied this time."
Jiang Aichen: "What did the lumber mill say?"
Tang Jianyue looked at his notebook and read: "When we were investigating the lumber mill, we found a suspect."
Tang Jianyue stood up and followed Jiang Nan's example by pasting a photo on the whiteboard. "This person is called Meng Ke, the deceased's ex-boyfriend. According to colleagues, Meng Ke and the deceased were very affectionate during their relationship and agreed to get married in Beihai a year later. But the day before they were going to buy a house, the deceased broke up with Meng Ke because she fell in love with someone else."
"And that person is the deceased's boyfriend, Xi Zixuan."
Jiang Aichen scribbled a few words on the file he had copied. He occasionally looked up and asked, "When the deceased died, did he bring the wood chips that fell with him?"
"He said no." Tang Jianyue said truthfully.
Gu Beizhi: "He lied, next person."
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