Chapter 12 Chapter 12
Sure enough, she should go check her out.
Suddenly, Lu Jianing asked, "Jiang Yubai, what are our plans for the afternoon?"
Jiang Yubai, who was eating noodles, raised his head and asked, "Ah?"
arrange?
Is investigating a case considered an arrangement?
Jiang Yubai's brain was spinning rapidly: "Boss Xiaolu, you need to go to the Oil Beauty Salon on the main street of Hongsi for skin care at 2 pm."
"There's still an hour left." Lu Jianing glanced at his watch and responded sullenly.
Jiang Yubai: ...
She was pushing him.
Jiang Yubai answered tacitly: "Give me five minutes."
Lu Jianing urged reluctantly: "No hurry, eat slowly."
After saying that, Lu Jianing habitually turned the position of the surface.
"Damn, Patek Philippe!" Bai Yunan, who happened to raise his head from the bowl of noodles, exclaimed in surprise.
Lu Jianing asked calmly, "Is there any problem with me wearing this watch?"
"No problem," Bai Yunan gave a thumbs up, "It fits Mr. Xiaolu's temperament very well."
Lu Jianing: “Yeah.”
As if observing something strange, Bai Yunan stared at the surface and asked, "But... why are there scratches on it?"
Lu Jianing subconsciously covered up the surface: "Nothing, just an accidental scratch."
Bai Yunan: "The surfaces of these high-end watches are made of special materials and are not easily scratched."
"What did you do to it to make the scratch so deep?"
"Nothing." Lu Jianing answered in a low voice, "I was just kidnapped a few years ago and got scratched when I fell from a height."
"Oh my god, the business war in the old domineering president novels?" Bai Yunan said.
In an instant, the atmosphere at the dinner table fell to freezing point. Realizing that he had asked a question that he shouldn't have asked, Bai Yunan quickly shut up.
Jiang Xingye changed the subject: "Secretary Jiang, I heard that you are from the imperial capital, why did you suddenly come to Linjiang?"
"Boss Lao Lu asked Boss Xiao Lu to arrange a business marriage, but Boss Xiao Lu thought it was old-fashioned and ran away from home." Jiang Yubai observed He Qifeng's expression, "The marriage partner is the He family in the imperial capital."
As soon as Jiang Yubai finished speaking, he was kicked by Lu Jianing under the table as expected.
"Doesn't that mean..." Bai Yunan turned his head to look at He Qifeng.
"You've got the wrong person." He Qifeng said calmly.
"Puchi——" Jiang Yubai sneered as he succeeded in his prank.
He immediately explained: "It's okay, it's okay, Captain He, don't take it seriously, I was just kidding."
Feeling Lu Jianing's resentful gaze behind him, Jiang Yubai's hair stood on end: "Boss, why are you looking at me like that?"
"You seem to be eating with relish." Lu Jianing sighed.
Jiang Yubai's heart skipped a beat, and he explained feebly, "I didn't."
Lu Jianing stood up and said, "Since you are full, let's go."
Jiang Yubai looked at the bowl of noodles in front of him: "Ah? Boss, I haven't finished eating yet."
"Then take your time eating." Lu Jianing stood up and patted his shoulder, warning him, "I'll wait for you in the car."
"No, I'll go with you." Jiang Yubai stood up and explained, "Sorry, Captain He, our Xiaolu has to go for a beauty treatment. Let's talk next time... Boss, wait for me."
Watching the two of them leave, Bai Yunan was so shocked that he almost dropped his chopsticks on the table: "Are all rich people so emotionally unstable?"
"I have to rush to get a beauty treatment halfway through my meal."
Jiang Xingye seemed to have a different attitude towards this. He slowly withdrew his gaze and shook his head helplessly: "There are so many dramas."
"Um."
Noticing that someone next to him responded to him, Jiang Xingye's hand holding the chopsticks paused for a second. He turned his head and looked over, and as expected, met He Qifeng's gaze.
The two looked at each other for a few seconds.
Bai Yunan: "Forensic Doctor Jiang, what are you talking about?"
Jiang Xingye quickly regained his composure: "Nothing, I just feel that rich people are hard to serve. Fortunately, I was not arranged to be a secretary for a rich man."
"What are you talking about, Forensic Doctor Jiang," Bai Yunan felt that his words were like a joke, "You are a forensic doctor, let alone whether your major is suitable. You are a secretary to Ms. Xiaolu, what can your profession do for Ms. Xiaolu? Are you going to dissect the medium-rare steak in front of her along the grain while she is eating it?"
After saying this, Bai Yunan seemed unable to hold back and sneered out loud.
Jiang Xingye calmly stirred the noodles: "Do you think she can't do it?"
Bai Yunan: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Xingye didn't want to continue the previous topic: "Nothing, let's eat. We have a tough battle to fight in the afternoon."
Bai Yunan: "Oh."
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Lu Jianing and Jiang Yubai drove to Liu Hongmin's residential area.
Lu Jianing put on her high heels and was about to get up when she suddenly thought of something.
Lu Jianing: "Have you checked the clues of Zhao Qian's mother's death?"
Jiang Yubai, who was about to unbuckle his seat belt, turned over and took out a stack of file bags from the back seat: "This is the information sent from the foreign criminal police team this morning. I haven't had time to read it yet."
Lu Jianing took it and glanced at the autopsy report casually.
Lu Jianing frowned: "Cardiac arrest?"
Jiang Yubai: "Same as Zhao Mogan's ex-wife?"
Lu Jianing continued to look down: "An overdose of promethazine in the blood? Zhao Qian's mother has depression?"
Jiang Yubai analyzed: "Promethazine has an impact on the heart muscle. Generally, no doctor would prescribe this medicine for common depression."
"Go check the doctor who prescribed the medicine," Lu Jianing pointed to the name on the report and said, "Judging from the handwriting, he shouldn't be a foreigner."
Jiang Yubai: "Okay."
After Jiang Yubai walked away, Lu Jianing looked at the file carefully again.
After a long time, she made a phone call.
Soon the other end picked up the phone: "Uncle, you finally got around to calling me?"
Lu Jianing was not polite at all: "Jiang Xingye, help me get a death report of Zhao Mogan's ex-wife."
Jiang Xingye on the other side was not panicked at all: "Okay, I'll give it to you later."
"As soon as possible." Lu Jianing urged.
"Okay," Jiang Xingye teased, "Who made me a lazy donkey who works diligently and conscientiously?"
"How's the thing I asked you to test at noon?" Lu Jianing continued to look through the files.
"I thought you wouldn't ask anymore." Jiang Xingye said slowly.
"Don't keep us in suspense," Lu Jianing said.
"Okay," Jiang Xingye said in a serious tone, "As you expected, Zhao Qian's fingerprints are exactly the same as the fingerprints on the murder weapon."
Lu Jianing: "I already knew this."
Jiang Xingye continued, "Just as you expected, the biological information left on the murder weapon is not exactly the same as Zhao Qian's biological information."
Lu Jianing: “But.”
Jiang Xingye: "However, I have confirmed through the Y chromosome STR test that the two people have the same father."
Lu Jianing frowned: "Y chromosome? Both are male?"
Jiang Xingye answered affirmatively: "Yes."
"Okay, I got it." Lu Jianing hung up the phone without any hesitation.
Lu Jianing hesitated for a moment in the car, then quickly put away the file and walked out of the car.
She walked around into a small building.
Boom boom boom——
She knocked several times on a red wooden door.
"Who is it?" A soft female voice sounded.
Lu Jianing said nothing.
It was not until the wooden door was pushed open that the woman asked again in confusion: "Mr. Xiaolu?"
"I didn't expect that you would remember me after we only met once." Lu Jianing said indifferently.
Liu Hongmin was alert: "What do you want to see me for?"
Lu Jianing glanced inconspicuously at the large-sized sneakers placed on the floor at the entrance.
She said, "Is it convenient for us to go in and talk?"
Liu Hongmin nodded, then made way for him: "Please come in."
Lu Jianing walked in without any hesitation.
Liu Hongmin's house is not big, but fortunately it is kept clean.
The south-facing windows let in direct light.
Lu Jianing looked around, then sat on the sofa and saw two cups of water on the table.
Lu Jianing: "Are there guests?"
"No, someone came to see me a few days ago, and I forgot to put it away," Liu Hongmin slowly took back a cup of water, "I'll pour you a glass of water."
“No need.”
Lu Jianing touched the outer wall of the water glass on the table and asked casually, "Is he still here?"
"No one is here." Liu Hongmin denied it flatly.
Lu Jianing said bluntly: "Don't hide, Zhao Qian, I know you are here."
"Don't wait for me to go to the bedroom and pull you out."
Lu Jianing said, "Also, the white shoes at the door, they are yours, right?"
"You can't hide from me."
"What are you talking about?"
Liu Hongmin wanted to continue denying it, but just as she finished speaking, someone walked out of the bedroom.
Lu Jianing raised his eyes and glanced at her, then smiled slightly: "You are hiding in the bedroom as expected."
Liu Hongmin scolded: "Why did you come out!"
Zhao Qian ignored her and asked bluntly, "Boss Xiaolu, who are you? When you came to me this morning, I knew you definitely didn't just want to discuss cooperation."
"She came to your house to look for you?" Liu Hongmin asked in shock.
Zhao Qian nodded weakly.
Liu Hongmin: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Zhao Qian: "I didn't expect..."
"Don't quarrel," Lu Jianing said nonchalantly, "Come sit down and let's talk."
Zhao Qian sat opposite Lu Jianing.
Noticing that Liu Hongmin was still looking at him warily, Lu Jianing also said, "You sit down too."
Seeing Liu Hongmin sitting next to Zhao Qian, Lu Jianing came to a conclusion: "Liu Hongmin, you are Zhao Qian's half brother, right?"
Zhao Qian and Liu Hongmin were both stunned.
After a while, Liu Hongmin relaxed her vigilance immediately. She said awkwardly: "Boss Xiaolu, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand? In fact, the young master of the Zhao family came to me today because he cares about his subordinates..."
"I didn't come here to listen to your lies." Lu Jianing interrupted her. She carefully observed the expressions of the two people opposite her. "Besides, I never make inferences without evidence."
"You should understand what this means."
What I mean is that I have evidence that you are brothers.
Noticing the silence of the two people opposite him, Lu Jianing continued, "Now that the conversation has been opened, I won't hide anything. I will directly tell you how you committed the crime."
"In fact, this case may seem complicated, but the key to solving it is very simple. It only requires one sentence."
"That would be misleading the police, making them think that the murderer was Zhao Qian who was being interviewed downstairs."
Lu Jianing continued to analyze: "For this method of killing to work properly, it must be based on two points. That is, the murderer must have the same fingerprints as Zhao Qian, and at the same time have DNA information that is extremely similar to Zhao Mogan."
"As long as a murderer who meets both of these requirements kills Zhao Mogan in place of Zhao Qian, the police can be completely confused."
The other side still didn't say a word.
"To put it simply, Zhao Qian is responsible for creating an alibi downstairs," Lu Jianing pointed at Liu Hongmin, "and you are responsible for killing people upstairs."
"And because you are all Zhao Mogan's children, your parentage to him is very high, which will mislead the police into thinking that the murderer is the same person as Zhao Qian, who has an alibi downstairs."
"In fact, if we compare the DN signature on the murder weapon with Zhao Qian's DN signature, we can find that the two are not the same person at all."
"You have completed the first step of your plan. The second step is that you need to make your fingerprints exactly the same as Zhao Qian's."
"Because you two are brothers, you have similar facial features. In addition, foreigners have a racial face blindness when looking at us, so in their eyes, people from our country look the same. Strictly speaking, this is called the cross-racial effect."
"So when you take Zhao Qian's ID card to get your fingerprints taken, just tell them it's a photo of your ID card taken when you were a child, and they will believe it."
Lu Jianing observed the expressions of the two brothers opposite her. She continued slowly, "Do you need me to continue with other details?"
"When did you know this?" Liu Hongmin asked suddenly.
"I thought of it when the biological remains of you and Zhao Qian were both on the Y chromosome."
Liu Hongmin raised her head, her eyes bloodshot, and threatened, "Knowing too much is not a good thing."
"It doesn't matter if it's not a good thing," Lu Jianing stared at them and said, "You just need to know that the two of you combined can't beat me."
"Also, I didn't come here today to threaten you at all, so it's useless for you to be ruthless to me."
Liu Hongmin: "Then what are you here for?"
"I advise you to surrender," Lu Jianing said slowly, "some years ago, someone told me that in this world, the law is the last barrier to regulate people's behavior and maintain social order and justice."
"If people feel aggrieved, they can choose to call the police and use legal means to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests."
"Rather than using illegal and criminal means to punish evil and promote good on their own."
"What is raised is not goodness, but the pleasure of satisfying one's own selfish desires for a short time."
Lu Jianing stared at them with burning eyes, and she said word by word: "That is a crime!"
Liu Hongmin was obviously agitated: "What do you know! When Zhao Mogan and Sun Anling killed my mother in order to seize our family's property, did they ever think that it was a crime?"
"When Sun Anling stole my blood sample and ruthlessly threw me abroad to fend for myself, did you ever think that it was a crime?"
"When Sun Anling found out that her husband had an illegitimate child abroad and used drugs to kill Zhao Qian's biological mother, did she ever think that it was a crime?"
"They didn't! They killed whoever they wanted to kill, without any regard for others."
Liu Hongmin's eyes were bloodshot: "Why can they kill whoever they want, but we can't?"
Lu Jianing put the file in his hand on the table: "Here is the file on Zhao Qian's mother that I transferred from abroad. It contains various evidences in detail."
Zhao Qian picked up the file bag from the table and looked at it together with Liu Hongmin.
"If you are willing to believe in our country's laws, then turn yourself in," Lu Jianing said, "and leave it to me to collect evidence and bring Zhao Mogan and Sun Anling to justice."
Just as Zhao Qian was about to speak, Liu Hongmin stopped him and said, "What's the point of bringing them to justice when they're all dead?"
Lu Jianin: "The traces of a person's existence will disappear with death. But the legal judgment will not. Before the case is investigated, he is a suspect. After the case is investigated, he is the murderer. Even if the person is dead, in the hearts of the people, he is a murderer nailed to the pillar of shame by conclusive evidence."
"Should we believe you?" Liu Hongmin softened his attitude.
"You don't have to trust me," Lu Jianing said, "but you have to trust the people's police."
Liu Hongmin was silent for a moment, then replied, "What do you need us to do?"
"The sentences for voluntarily turning yourself in and being caught by the police are different," Lu Jianing said. "I hope you can let go of your hatred and make the right choice for your future."
"You are still young, and everything is still possible."
Liu Hongmin was silent for a moment: "I killed Zhao Mogan with my own hands, and I killed Sun Anling by design. Zhao Qian did nothing in the whole incident. Can the law not take him away?"
Lu Jianin: "It is the judge's duty to judge the case. I have no right to interfere."
"But I can guarantee one thing."
"That is, the law is fair. It will not let you bear more, nor will it let you bear less."
I saw that Liu Hongmin and Zhao Qian were gradually convinced by me.
Lu Jianing stood up, picked up the file on the table, and said, "Also, there is no law in this world that is intended to punish you. It is you, as an adult, who knowingly violated the bottom line of the law with your own selfish desires."
"Then you should be held responsible for your own recklessness."
No matter who you are.
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