Chapter 24 Chapter 24
Is she not worthy of him?
Who is not worthy of whom?
The detectives who were gathered together gossiping looked at each other in bewilderment.
In the end, Bai Yunan still felt that Jiang Xingye would not favor an outsider. He looked at Jiang Xingye's back and said solemnly, "Although Jiang's attitude towards our Captain He is usually not obvious, in fact, he really supports our Captain He when something happens."
As expected of him.
Someone in the corner asked in confusion, "Why do I feel like Forensic Doctor Jiang is a little angry?"
Another person quickly responded: "This further proves that Forensic Doctor Jiang deeply admires our Captain He."
Bai Yunan, who was still sighing, regained his composure and said, "Hmm? Admiration?"
Tang Wan seemed to have grasped the point. Her eyes lit up and she turned around to hold the man's hand: "Could it be that you are also a Seven Star Couple?"
The young detective who was held nodded frantically, his frequency comparable to pounding garlic.
Bai Yunan was puzzled: "Wait a minute, what are you talking about? Seven Stars? What seven stars?"
"Tsk, that's the couple name of He Qifeng and Jiang Xingye." Tang Wan explained to him impatiently, "Let me tell you, although they don't talk much in the police station, they are the only pair of good-looking detectives in our police station."
"Those idiots in our police station have already arranged everything for them."
"What do you call this? This means that as long as we can use our imagination, our couple will be together forever."
Bai Yunan twitched his lips awkwardly: "Don't let Captain He know about your abnormal imagination, or you will be punished for your self-review."
Tang Wan waved her hands and said nonchalantly, "We are not that brave. If we dance in front of the real master, will we die?"
Tang Wan added: "Besides, that's Captain He. Who dares to act unruly in front of him? Do you still want to stay in the Linjiang Criminal Police Team?"
As soon as she said this, there was a burst of agreement from all around.
After a while, someone weakly expressed his opinion: "But... don't you really think that our Captain He and that Lu Jianing seem to have a good understanding?"
It's like the two of them have known each other for a long time.
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Lu Jianing and He Qifeng came to the observation room next to the interrogation room.
The person sitting in the one-way perspective was none other than Wang Peishen.
He was the bartender of the Zuimeng Bar and also the secret boyfriend of the deceased.
At this time, he was sitting opposite the interrogation table, with his hands crossed on the table.
I don't know what he was thinking, but he looked a little anxious.
He Qifeng: "What do you want to ask him?"
"It's not a big deal. You'll know in a moment," Lu Jianing said mysteriously. "By the way, how are those girls in the Drunken Dream Bar?"
"We found ten girls in the dormitory of Zuimeng Bar overnight yesterday," He Qifeng said. "After interrogation, we found that they were all trafficked here. Last night we hired a psychologist to help them with psychological counseling. Now we are working hard to create a file to help them find their families."
"Where is Liu Ru, the roommate of the deceased?" Lu Jianing continued to ask.
"She didn't say anything. Bai Yunan asked her if she knew that she was abducted, but she didn't say anything." He Qifeng stated.
Lu Jianing frowned as she digested the information provided by He Qifeng. Finally, she freed her mind and asked, "Captain He, what did Zhang Zongqiao say?"
He Qifeng did not hide anything and continued, "Zhang Zongqiao insisted that he knew nothing and that the person was introduced to him by someone else. He also provided the corresponding chat records."
"Bai Yunan is investigating and will notify us as soon as there is any news."
After roughly understanding the current progress of solving the case, Lu Jianing tilted his head and said, "Okay, leave the rest to me."
He Qifeng didn't understand what she meant. He stood there with his arms folded, and only after he watched Lu Jianing walk out of the observation room did he retract his gaze and look back to the interrogation room opposite.
Lu Jianing opened the door and walked into the interrogation room.
Wang Peishen looked up when he heard the sound and was stunned for a moment when he saw her: "Lu Jianing?"
After trying to accept the current situation for a moment, he asked uncertainly, "Why are you here?"
Lu Jianing sat opposite Wang Peishen: "I came here, of course, to ask you something."
"You called me here?" Wang Peishen seemed a little angry. "Those cops actually listened to you? They are really a bunch of commercial policemen."
"Hey..." Lu Jianing crossed his legs slowly, "Don't be so harsh, I didn't blame you and Meng Yuan for planning to kidnap me, but you are blaming me first."
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Wang Peishen was immediately shocked for a second, and his voice lost its previous tone: "What are you talking about?"
"Don't you know what I'm talking about?" Lu Jianing asked back, "I advise you to confess before I blame you, otherwise I don't know what we at Feiyu Technology Group can do to you."
"This is the police station. How can you threaten people like this?" Wang Peishen said.
"I know this is the police station," Lu Jianing did not hide her intentions. She smiled slightly, her eyes full of warnings, "If He Qifeng hadn't insisted on calling you here to confront me, I would have made sure your whole family couldn't stay in Linjiang just because I suspected you and Meng Yuan had teamed up to knock me out. How could I let you bargain with me here?"
Wang Peishen said nothing.
Lu Jianing continued to add: "Meng Yuan is an orphan, you are not... You also have a younger sister? Is she in high school?"
There were gradual changes on Wang Peishen's calm face. His eyes were evasive and he was obviously a little panicked.
Lu Jianing smiled calmly: "I heard that he is doing well in studies, but..."
"Lu Jianin!"
Wang Peishen slammed the table and stood up. Maybe his desk and chair were reinforced. As soon as he stood up, he fell back heavily because there was no space to stand.
"Don't be like this—" Lu Jianing waved his hand downwards, signaling him to calm down, "If you do this, I will think that you are angry because of shame."
"What exactly do you want to know?" Wang Peishen calmed himself down and said.
Lu Jianing said, “I want to know what happened that night.”
Wang Peishen: “I don’t know.”
Lu Jianing: "You really don't know? Then I'll give you another chance. Tell the truth, and I promise not to hurt your family. Otherwise... I don't know what our group will do for me as the group's president."
Noticing Wang Peishen's indifference, Lu Jianing added, "By the way, I think I need to analyze the pros and cons for you. What you and Meng Yuan did is at most attempted crime, and minus the sentence for turning yourself in, it shouldn't be too severe."
"But if you deny it, then I, as the victim, will appeal. With our family's financial resources, I will definitely hire the best lawyers in the country to help me with the case."
"At that time, not only will your sentence be increased, but I will also ask your parents and your sister to give me financial compensation."
Lu Jianing slowly analyzed the pros and cons for Wang Peishen: "Besides, you hid what happened that night from us just to protect Meng Yuan, but now Meng Yuan is dead. Your concealment now will only result in a heavier sentence and help the murderer of Meng Yuan go unpunished. It has no meaning at all."
"Also, as a party involved, I am questioning you, which is considered as surrendering yourself. When He Qifeng and the others find evidence based on the clues I provided, then you will be arrested for refusing to plead guilty. Also, let me kindly remind you that if the person who directly executed the crime refuses to admit the facts of the crime, the sentence will be increased."
As if moved by Lu Jianing's threatening yet "sincere" words, Wang Peishen lowered his head, his voice losing its previous momentum. He said, "Since those policemen can investigate on their own, why are you asking me?"
"Because I think it's troublesome," Lu Jianing said frankly, "I provide clues, and the police look for evidence. Doesn't that require manpower, material resources and time? Instead of having them go to Feiyu Technology again and again to make appointments with me, it's better for me to spend a few hours to clean up everything."
"I prefer to work efficiently. If you waste one minute of my time, do you know that you will delay me from making hundreds of millions of dollars?"
Wang Peishen said nothing.
Lu Jianing glanced at his watch: "I'll give you three minutes to waste and think clearly."
After saying that, she stood up and prepared to leave.
As a result, as soon as she stood up, Wang Peishen, who was sitting at the interrogation table, suddenly said, "Wait a minute."
Lu Jianing: "Are you going to tell it?"
Wang Peishen lowered his head and responded in a depressed tone.
Lu Jianing sat back down, crossed her legs, and leaned her back against the chair, looking relaxed and unfocused.
Wang Peishen hesitated and said, "Meng Yuan and I met at the Zuimeng Bar, and I fell in love with her at first sight. She was a wine hostess at the time, serving and delivering wine to wealthy people."
Lu Jianing interrupted him and asked carefully, "Speak clearly, what service?"
As if it was difficult to say, Wang Peishen hesitated again and again: "At first I thought it was an ordinary wine tout."
"What's behind?" Lu Jianing said.
"Later... I found out that they were engaging in an illicit transaction," Wang Peishen was visibly agitated when he spoke of this. "I told Meng Yuan that I could support her and asked her not to sell herself out. But she thought I had no money and didn't intend to listen to me."
"Later, there were more and more girls in the bar, and Meng Yuan gradually became a small leader. I thought that after Meng Yuan was promoted, she would no longer have to do her previous job as a bartender. But I don't know from when, Meng Yuan became very abnormal, often beating and scolding those newcomers, and even scratching some of the disobedient ones."
"I couldn't understand why they bullied Meng Yuan. They were obviously working together. They were all wine agents. They were obviously doing it to make money."
"It was not until I saw with my own eyes that Meng Yuan and Liu Ru personally put drugs in a drunken girl's wine that I realized that the increasing number of girls were abducted by Meng Yuan and Liu Ru through various means."
Lu Jianing narrowed his eyes and continued to ask: "Liu Ru is also involved in this matter?"
"Yes," Wang Peishen said, "When you and Captain He appeared in front of me and said that the murderer was not you, I suspected for a while that Meng Yuan was actually killed by Liu Ru."
Lu Jianing added: "So, you took us to Meng Yuan and Liu Ru's dormitory so that Captain He could investigate her?"
Wang Peishen did not intend to continue hiding it and said, "Yes."
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"Later, I quarreled with Meng Yuan every day, hoping that she would stop doing this, but she didn't listen. She even said that she had a boyfriend and hoped that I would stop harassing her." Wang Peishen's voice became lower and lower as time went on. "She said that her boyfriend would misunderstand if he saw it."
"She has a boyfriend?" Lu Jianing seemed to have grasped the key point, "Isn't her boyfriend you?"
"Before me, she had an ex-boyfriend," Wang Peishen continued, "but I have never seen her boyfriend. It is likely that she was in a secret relationship like me."
Wang Pei took a deep breath and said, "After all, she is right. Women in their line of work who are unmarried, childless, and have no boyfriends can attract more customers to spend money on them."
Lu Jianing snorted disdainfully: "Continue."
Wang Peishen: "My relationship with Meng Yuan lasted until half a year ago. That night, both she and I were working the night shift. She suddenly came to the front desk and told me that she wanted to date me. I didn't know if she was lying to me or if she was sincere. Anyway, I was very happy and agreed."
"As a condition, I asked her to stop deceiving people and kidnapping girls."
"She agreed?" After saying that, Lu Jianing felt that it was impossible. She said, "Based on what you said about Meng Yuan's personality, she couldn't possibly agree."
Wang Peishen also said: "Indeed, I felt the same way at the beginning, but she agreed very readily that time, and later she did not carry out the corresponding work as she said."
Lu Jianing seemed to have discovered something. She asked, "Are you sure Meng Yuan has kept her promise in the past six months?"
Wang Peishen hesitated for a moment before finally saying firmly, "I believe her."
Lu Jianing respected his belief and said, "Okay, continue."
Wang Peishen thought for a while and continued, "We have been dating secretly for half a year. During this period, we got along well. Except for not being able to see each other in public, I felt very happy."
"Then, the night before yesterday, she suddenly found me and said that she and Liu Ru had quarreled over the trafficking of girls, and they were discovered by someone in the middle of the quarrel."
Lu Jianing sneered sarcastically.
That person is her.
Wang Peishen did not notice that Lu Jianing was not right. Wang Peishen continued, "In order to prevent that person from telling on her, she knocked him unconscious."
Lu Jianing picked at his fingernails slowly and said, "So, you helped her move me from another toilet to the crime scene?"
"Yes." Wang Peishen said affirmatively.
Lu Jianing: "At the same time, you knew that it was Meng Yuan who knocked me out, so you thought that I might kill her to avenge Meng Yuan after I woke up, right?"
Wang Peishen hesitated and said, "Yes."
"But have you ever thought that Meng Yuan's head was chopped off by a sharp knife? Would I, a newcomer who came to Zuimeng Bar for the first time, carry such a sharp blade with me?" Sister Lu Jianing said.
"I didn't think that much." Wang Peishen said with his head down.
"You didn't think too much about it. You just assumed that I was the murderer and then framed me?" Lu Jianing said.
"Isn't your family very rich?" Wang Peishen became excited again, "What if you hired someone to kill someone?"
“You must have read too many novels about overbearing CEOs.” Lu Jianing retorted bluntly.
Wang Peishen said nothing.
Lu Jianing stood up, her back facing him: "I have asked all the questions I should ask. Since you are involved in an attempted crime, you should reflect on your love-mindedness in the police station for the next two days and wait for the court's trial."
Lu Jianing finished speaking and walked out of the door. Coincidentally, He Qifeng also came out from next door.
He handed Lu Jianing a bottle of water and unscrewed it considerately: "Thank you for your hard work."
Lu Jianing took the water and replied, "It's not hard. Isn't that what interrogation is all about?"
She gulped down a few sips of water to moisten her throat, then asked, "Captain He, after listening to the entire conversation just now, what did you find?"
He Qifeng replied calmly: "I only found two points. The first point is that the reason Meng Yuan didn't like Wang Peishen in the beginning was because he was poor, so her ex-boyfriend must be a rich man."
"Secondly, Meng Yuan told Wang Peishen that if the two of them walked too close, her boyfriend would misunderstand them. So, her boyfriend must be a frequent visitor to the Zui Meng Bar, or he must be someone in the Zui Meng Bar."
Lu Jianing thought for a while and said, "According to Jiang Yubai's investigation, the only man with a bit of money in the whole bar, besides the bar owner Ji Yao, is Zhang Zongqiao, who is very close to Ji Yao."
As Lu Jianing spoke, he thought: "So, Meng Yuan's ex-boyfriend is most likely one of the two."
Who is it?
Zhang Zongqiao insisted that he was innocent, and others said that the girls who accompanied the drinking were introduced by Zhang Zongqiao...
Why did Zhang Zongqiao feel so guilty that he wanted to run away when they first met?
Where did Zhang Zongqiao and Ji Yao go during the two days they were missing?
Lu Jianing felt his mind was in a mess as he couldn't find answers to many questions.
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He Qifeng didn't know what he was thinking. He suddenly asked, "Is everything you said in the interrogation room true?"
"Ah?" Lu Jianing was surprised and asked, "What did you say?"
"You said that if Wang Peishen refuses to plead guilty, you will make it impossible for his family to survive in Linjiang," said He Qifeng.
Seeing He Qifeng's serious expression, Lu Jianing burst out laughing: "Captain He, what are you thinking? How could I do that? I'm a people's policeman."
He Qifeng stared at her expression and said nothing.
Lu Jianing continued to explain, "My current identity is not that of a police officer, so I definitely cannot directly tell him the clues I found out from my investigation. Otherwise, his lawyer will accuse me of violating my privacy or illegally hiring a detective to investigate. I won't be able to explain myself in court."
"If it's even more serious, I might even have to pay a fine from the court. Although this amount of money won't have a big impact on me, what if my superiors find out? What if I'm fined to write a self-criticism..."
Thinking of this, Lu Jianing got a little mad. She said, "I am born with poor writing skills. I can't write a self-criticism."
When she was in college, she and Jiang Yubai got into trouble a lot, but every time she was punished, Jiang Yubai and the other two helped her complete the self-criticism.
When I was young, I made mistakes and it didn’t matter.
If she were punished again now... she wouldn't be able to bring herself to ask Jiang Yubai and the others for help.
No matter what, she is now the captain of the Linjiang City Criminal Police Team 2.
Captain, she has to write a self-criticism, so how can she save her reputation?
"So, your performance in there just now was all acting?" He Qifeng asked.
"Yeah, I'm not acting. How could I say something so immature?" Lu Jianing said frankly, "If you offend me, you will not be able to stay in such and such city. If you offend me, such and such group will go bankrupt. Isn't this a common plot in online novels five or six years ago?"
"It's so unfashionable that even novel writers nowadays don't dare to write directly like this."
He Qifeng: “…”
After saying that, Lu Jianing seemed to be shocked by her own rudeness. She shuddered exaggeratedly: "Uncle Master, if you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have known that I had just played such a greasy character. It's really too scary."
Despite such an exaggerated character, she didn't even laugh.
What a strong sense of conviction.
Lu Jianing silently gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.
He Qifeng: “…”
As if he thought his acting skills were amazing, Lu Jianing asked, "Uncle Master, how is it? My acting skills after years of training are not in vain, right?"
Lu Jianing waved her hands in the air a few times, and she said proudly: "I was just acting casually just now, but Wang Peishen actually believed it. What a fool he is."
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