Xiong Zheng was really too confident. Tao Mu felt that even if Xiong Zheng really did it, he was probably very confident that he had thoroughly cleaned up his mess and would not let anyone find out what was going on.
The police comrades probably thought so too. So he put Xiong Zheng, who came to report, aside and began to interrogate Yu Mei.
Yu Mei was very excited. When recording his statement, he kept accusing Xiong Zheng, saying with certainty: "Comrade police, you must believe me. Gou Rixin's accident must have something to do with him. When he heard from me that Gou Rixin was going to audition for the second male lead of Director Xiang Cheng, he was particularly concerned about this matter. He kept asking about it. I heard that he even asked around about this matter, and finally used his connections to get into the same crew as Gou Rixin. The night before Gou Rixin's accident, he even called and wanted to treat Gou Rixin to a drink. As a result, Gou Rixin got into trouble the next day. He had planned it all."
It was Officer Yao who was responsible for recording Yu Mei's confession. Because of the pyramid scheme and trafficking case that he had uncovered previously, Officer Yao had a very good impression of Gou Rixin. So he is also very concerned about this case.
"You said Xiong Zheng deliberately framed Gou Rixin for something. Do you have any evidence?"
Yu Mei choked when she heard this. She just said this, and she has always been suspicious about this matter. But as for evidence, she really doesn't have it.
But she was unwilling to be fooled by Xiong Zheng. If Xiong Zheng hadn't been constantly instigating her, she and Gou Rixin might not have ended up in this situation today. Now that she has been caught by the police, why can Xiong Zheng still be so prosperous and even replace Gou Rixin's role?
Yu Mei was full of resentment, and she had to drag that bastard Xiong Zheng into the water.
"I remember now." Yu Mei's eyes suddenly lit up, she sat up straight and said, "I remember that on the day Gou Rixin got into trouble, Da Luo and the others were not on the set. It was because they drank too much the night before and were drunk by Xiong Zheng, so they didn't get up the next day. Xiong Zheng must have done this to get Gou Rixin's brothers away so that he could do something. Maybe he bribed the prop master who was checking the wire work that day."
However, the insurance company had already confirmed it during the accident inspection. Gou Rixin's intimidation accident was an accident caused by the old wire rope tripping, and there was no sign of any human error.
"Then maybe it was Xiong Zheng who did it. Xiong Zheng could have bribed the prop master and deliberately asked him to get the old wire for Gou Rixin." Yu Mei racked her brain and made specious arguments.
However, the people from the insurance company also said that the models of wire ropes rented by the crew were similar. They were purchased from the same batch. Unless Xiong Zheng was able to predict and knew that something would happen to Weiyayi that day, there is no way to explain this matter.
Officer Yao was not going to dwell on this matter, and asked Yu Mei again: "How did you withdraw the one million in just one day? As far as we know, you did not make an appointment with the bank in advance. You withdrew the one million on the same day."
Yu Mei forced herself to cheer up: "I know a deputy manager of a bank. I greeted him on the day Gou Rixin got into trouble. At that time, Da Luo called Gou Rixin's mother to come from the Northeast. I knew they were worried about me, so they wanted to ask the old lady to come and take care of Gou Rixin and keep an eye on me. I was not convinced, and I was also afraid that the old lady would calculate the money from me. So I thought about getting all the money first. I really didn't think so much at the time-"
Yu Mei looked at Officer Yao with tears in her eyes, "Comrade Police, you must believe me. I don't know what happened, I just had a brain twitch at that time. It's all Xiong Zheng's fault. He kept telling me to break up with Gou Rixin and be with him. He also said he was willing to support me. That's why I got confused. Comrade Police, I didn't touch a single cent of the 1 million. Can you please forgive me for this matter?"
The female police officer who was recording the confession with Officer Yao couldn't stand it anymore: "You didn't touch a penny? I don't think you have a chance to do so. I tell you, your criminal act of absconding with a huge sum of money is an established fact. Don't hold on to any unnecessary fantasies, confess and tell the truth, and strive for leniency."
"Okay, okay, okay, I will definitely try my best." Yu Mei's eye makeup was smudged from crying, and she nodded repeatedly: "Whatever you want to ask, I will definitely explain it."
Outside the interrogation room, Tao Mu first called Daluo and asked him to come over to get the money. The police have helped count the large bag of money. A total of 1.26 million. In addition to Gou Rixin’s insurance money, there are also hundreds of thousands of dollars saved by Yu Mei herself. She really planned to take the money and run away. Because he believed Xiong Zheng's sweet words, he was even prepared to let Xiong Zheng run away with him.
Little did he know that Xiong Zheng had just replaced Gou Rixin for the second male lead role, and was dreaming of becoming famous overnight with this movie. How could he be so far away from a woman like Yu Mei just because of a mere one million?
As a result, Xiong Zheng agreed on the surface, but turned around and reported her.
"Good deeds are rewarded!" said an old policeman with emotion. "It's because we found out early that Yu Mei didn't have time to run out of H Town. If she really ran away with the money, even if we could catch her, we wouldn't be sure if we could get the money back."
This kind of thing is actually very common. The criminals ran away with the money, and the victims hurried over to call the police. In the end, the criminals were caught, but the money was gone. If this happens, the police can't do anything.
Tao Mu and others nodded. They also believe that good people will be rewarded - if Gou Rixin hadn't helped investigate the case of Yun Duo and her friends being kidnapped, they wouldn't have met Qin Miaoru and her gang. Without knowing this group of people, when Yu Mei absconded with the money, even if Zhang Fei met Yu Mei by accident, he would not tell Gou Rixin. So in the final analysis, good people really do get rewarded.
Xiong, who was being interrogated at one side, was asking for credit: "Comrade police officer, can this also be considered as my credit for reporting in time?"
"You?" The police officer sneered and said, "We received a report before you came. We went straight to arrest you. When you came, our police officers were already downstairs of your house. You have surrendered at most."
Xiong Zheng was so scared that he trembled: "Comrade police, don't dare to say that. I am not the same as this woman. I didn't break any law."
"Then why did she take the million and go to you instead?" The police officer who was in charge of recording Xiong Zheng's statement tapped the pen and said, "Also, Yu Mei told me that you invited Gou Rixin and his friends to dinner and drinks the night before Gou Rixin got into trouble, and you got all of Gou Rixin's friends drunk. Didn't you say before that your relationship was not good?"
Xiong Zheng smiled shamelessly: "I heard that Gou Rixin got a big director's film and will be rich soon. So I was thinking if I could find a chance to ease our relationship."
"You are quite bold. You slept with someone's girlfriend and you still want to make peace with him over a drink?" Why didn't the police officer believe it?
Xiong Zheng chuckled and said shamelessly: "Comrade police, you don't know. Having affairs is very common in the entertainment industry. Maybe Gou Rixin doesn't care."
The police comrade flipped through the previous transcripts and said, "That's not what you said before." When Xiong was recording his confession, he admitted in person that Gou Rixin was very concerned about Yu Mei fooling around with outsiders.
Xiong Zheng had nothing to say. He started to play dirty: "Then just think of it as me trying to please Gou Rixin, so that he won't embarrass me in the future. Besides, Gou Rixin doesn't know about Yu Mei and I. We kept it a secret pretty well."
What logic?
The police officer frowned, knowing that something was wrong with Xiong. However, they had no evidence. Just as Xiong Zheng said, whether it was inviting Gou Rixin and his friends to drink, or asking around about Gou Rixin's audition, or even finding someone to use their connections to get into the same crew as Gou Rixin, these actions were not illegal.
Even if Xiong Zheng really did something, they lacked the key chain of evidence.
Besides, Xiong Zheng also actively reported Yu Mei who absconded with the money. Moreover, from Yu Mei's confession, we can also learn that Xiong Zheng had nothing to do with Yu Mei's absconding with the money.
The bear in front of him was sitting on the chair fearlessly, with a clear conscience.
Tao Mu glanced at the other person calmly, feeling something was wrong.
Tao Mu thought about it, and moved closer to Zhang Fei: "Didn't you send someone to keep an eye on Yu Mei? Was that person discovered?"
Zhang Fei said carelessly: "What if they find out? Anyway, this little girl will definitely not get away with the money."
Tao Mu frowned and was pondering when Daluo, who got the news, hurried over with Gou Rixin's mother. He shook the police's hand and expressed his gratitude: "Thank you so much. Without your help, I would never have recovered the money."
Gou Rixin's mother trembled as she walked to the police, and was about to kneel down in tears, but the police officer held her back and said, "Auntie, please don't do this. This is what we should do."
The policeman waved his hands and patiently advised: "You'd better take the money back quickly. Don't delay your son's treatment."
"Oh! Oh!" Gou Rixin's mother wiped her tears with her palms. He kept repeating, "Thank you. Thank you."
Da Luo knew that Yu Mei had been caught in Xiong Zheng’s rental house. He didn't have a happy face at all when he saw Xiong Zhengshi. He reached out and grabbed Xiong Zheng by the collar and lifted him up, almost starting a fight. Stopped by the police.
Xiong was so scared that he hid behind the police, shouting that there was a fight in the police station. Shouting that Ronaldinho attacked the police. Tao Mu was afraid that Daluo would get into trouble if he continued to stay in the police station, so he quickly asked him to take Aunt Gou back to the hospital with the money. Although Tao Mu was young, he played a great role in this incident. Daluo and the others all admire him very much. After hearing this, they all left in embarrassment.
For fear that something might happen along the way, the police decided to send two auxiliary police officers to accompany Gou Rixin's mother to return the money to the bank and then take the card back to the hospital.
Afterwards, Yu Mei was officially detained. Her act of absconding with a huge sum of money has violated the law. Now that she has been arrested, she will naturally face severe punishment from the law in the future. As for Xiong Zheng, although Yu Mei repeatedly reported that Xiong Zheng was related to Gou Rixin's coercion incident. But Yu Mei did not provide any crucial evidence. The police had no choice but to let Xiong Zheng go.
However, based on the clues provided by Yu Mei, the police still found the crew where Gou Rixin had the accident, as well as the staff of the insurance company responsible for the accident, and asked them in detail about what happened to Gou Rixin. Relevant records were retrieved, including the wire harness costume that Gou Rixin was wearing when the accident occurred, and the prop master who gave the wire harness costume to Gou Rixin, and every link was re-examined.
In the end, nothing was gained.
It was classmate Zhang Fei who went around asking around among his friends. In the end, we got a piece of news that was not really evidence - the batch of wire costumes rented by the crew where Gou Rixin had the accident happened to be the ones used by the crew that Xiong Zheng had worked for before. After the crew finished filming, the props were rented by the next crew.
As a stuntman hired by the previous crew, Xiong Zheng had ample time and opportunities to come into contact with these wire props. We cannot rule out the possibility that some wire props may have been damaged too much.
But even so, no one has any evidence to prove that Xiong Zheng knew that one of the clothes in this batch of wire clothes would definitely have an accident. There is no evidence that Xiong Zheng bribed the prop master and deliberately gave this wire costume to Gou Rixin.
The police were at a loss as to what to do after investigating the matter. After all, the police have to rely on evidence to investigate cases, and they can't just arrest Xiong Zheng based on suspicion and speculation.
Xiong Zheng seemed to understand this as well. He was unusually calm, composed and cooperative during the police investigation. However, Daluo's gang were upset about Xiong Zheng sleeping with Yu Mei, so they found an opportunity to block him in the alley, put him in a sack and beat him up.
The next day, the Xiangcheng director kicked Xiong Zheng out of the crew on the grounds that Xiong Zheng had a facial injury and could not film.
Afterwards, Tao Mu called Director Rong to express his gratitude.
"It's nothing." Director Rong is the Xiangcheng director who was optimistic about Gou Rixin and was going to let him play the second male lead in his new film: "I have worked with Da Gou several times. I still admire him. This time Da Gou had a wire accident, no matter whether it was an accident or man-made. Just based on the fact that Xiong Zheng had interfered with Da Gou and his girlfriend before, now that I know about it, I will not use this person again. I also don't want the crew to suddenly break out a meddling scandal during the filming to distract the audience's attention."
"As for the cooperation plan you mentioned earlier," Director Rong said, and then changed the subject: "I am personally very interested. Why don't we find a time to discuss it?"
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