Chapter 216 Police Officer's Suspect
Qiu Huo issued an order and asked people to rush to this location.
He didn't alert the enemy and just stood at the door waiting.
Xiao Zheng, who had just thought he could leave work early and was very happy for a few minutes, rushed back immediately after hearing the phone call.
Xiao Zheng was guarding the stairs next to the elevator, while Qiu Huo was standing in front of the door of 604 and sending a message to Lin Zhi, asking him not to open the door if he heard any noise.
After seeing the news, Lin Zhi understood what was going on. It seemed that the police had already obtained some evidence.
However, before receiving this message from Qiu Huo, he had already determined that the couple next door were related to the floating corpse case.
It was not based on previous speculation, but... Lin Zhi set his eyes on the coffee table.
In front of him was a palm-sized gift box, which was delivered by someone knocking on the door an hour ago.
When Lin Zhi took the gift box, she felt it was very light, so light that there seemed to be nothing inside.
He asked 01 to check it out, and after making sure there was no danger, he opened the box.
Inside was a movie ticket for June 14th. It was not a ticket stub left for customers, but a complete ticket that had not been verified by the cinema. The cinema that issued the ticket was located in the nearest movie theater nearby.
The name of the movie is a comedy that is currently in theaters. Now, just over a week has passed, and Lin Zhi checked and found that it is still being shown in theaters, with a fairly high screening rate.
Under the movie ticket, there is a small piece of paper with the words printed on it from a computer.
[Thank you for letting me watch a hilarious performance. Although it is full of loopholes, it is still a good show. In return, I recommend this movie to you. 】
There are three black vertical lines forming an inverted triangle at the signature area in the lower right corner of the paper.
In fact, even if it was not signed, Lin Zhi knew who sent it, but the other party still added his exclusive mark, just like the mark he left on the chests of the two victims.
Lin Zhi looked at the things in the box calmly, lowering his eyes to guess the murderer's thoughts.
The arrest operation next door seemed to have begun, and there was a loud noise.
The harsh noise made Lin Zhi's eyebrows twitch slightly, and his emotions fluctuated a little.
"Just take him away! It's all his fault! It's all his fault!"
The voice of the lady next door is so sharp that it seems to pierce people's eardrums even through the wall.
Lin Zhi held the edge of the sofa armrest and adjusted his breathing.
Outside the door, Qiu Huo looked at the couple who were being held down and asked Wei Yunjun to take them away.
When the police knocked on the door and questioned him, Zhang Liansheng remained calm. However, his wife Xu Gaolan was very agitated and unwilling to face the accusation of murder. When she saw that Zhang Liansheng was also going to be taken away, she cried and laughed, but did not resist.
Qiu Huo walked around the house and soon found the murder weapon that matched the marks on the back of the victim's head, a spherical glass trophy with a line of words engraved on the base - Champion of the 11th Modern Poetry Competition.
The elevator could only accommodate a limited number of people, and the police took the stairs for fear of scaring other residents.
After Qiu Huo and others walked into the stairwell and opened the door of 604, he did not go in, but just stood at the door.
"We found a key piece of evidence. I need you to go to the bureau and make a statement."
In this case, Lin Zhi is a key witness. He can provide evidence of the time of the 603 murder and the murderer's presence.
Lin Zhi nodded, but didn't rush to mention the gift.
Lin Zhi changed her shoes and went out, following Qiu Huo up the stairs.
The hurried footsteps of the police team were still echoing in the stairwell. Lin Zhi did not rush down, but instead held Qiu Huo's hand.
Qiu Huo looked down at him with some confusion. Lin Zhi smiled and said, "I'm afraid I need some tranquilizers."
He hooked Qiu Huo's collar and led him to lower his head.
A minute or two later, Lin Zhi licked her slightly red lips and followed Qiu Huo out of the apartment.
Everyone else had already gone back to the bureau, Xiao Zheng was still waiting, and he wasn't surprised to see Lin Zhi coming down, because on the day the murder happened he had received a message from Captain Qiu and had gone up there, so he could sense the connection.
Although he was following to protect the witness, Xiao Zheng didn't see Lin Zhi's face very often, because he had to follow at a distance and certainly couldn't get too close to the person.
Seeing it so suddenly and up close, he couldn't help but take a few more glances because it was really beautiful.
Xiao Zheng, a rough man, didn't know how to describe it, but even a grown man like him couldn't help but take a few more glances at her beauty. He felt a little envious. Such a face must be very popular, at least he would have no trouble finding a girlfriend.
Thinking of this, Xiao Zheng suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck. He raised his hand and touched his neck, somewhat confused as to why there was such a cold wind in this summer.
"You want to walk back to the station?"
Qiu Huo looked at Xiao Zheng expressionlessly, twirling the car keys in his hand, and threw him at Xiao Zheng.
"Of course not."
Xiao Zheng took the keys from Qiu Huo's hand in a panic. Although he didn't know why he was driving, he didn't doubt his boss's order and opened the driver's door quickly.
Qiu Huo followed Lin Zhi to the back seat. Xiao Zheng looked in the rearview mirror and met Qiu Huo's gaze. He smiled foolishly and muttered to himself why he felt that Captain Qiu was in a bad mood. Wasn't it a good thing to catch the murderer?
If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it. Officer Zheng was concentrating on driving, and had no idea that Captain Qiu in the back seat was touching the beautiful hand of the suspect in the unsolved case right under his nose.
Qiu Huo looked at the wrist in his palm. Even though he went to cook for others at noon every day and kept warm for a few days, the young man still had no flesh on his body and his wrist was thin. It was no problem for him to hold both wrists with one hand.
Lin Zhi's skin was still pale from not seeing the sun for a long time, and the blue blood vessels were very obvious. The small mole in the center of her wrist was also conspicuous. Qiu Huo didn't know why he was attracted by the small mole and his thumb unconsciously rubbed it.
The young man's skin was so white that it looked like a poke would leave a mark. If it was a kiss or a bite mark, it would definitely be more obvious.
Qiu Huo's teeth touched each other lightly, resisting the urge to do so now, but he would have to do so sooner or later, in order to prevent someone with bad intentions from not knowing that Lin Zhi already had a crush on someone.
Yes, Qiu Huo temporarily defined the relationship between him and Lin Zhi in his heart in this way.
It's not that he wants to go to sleep and forget about anyone. Although he hasn't swallowed it completely, it's almost there. But it depends on whether Lin Zhi wants to play with him or wants something else.
Thinking of the latter possibility, Qiu Huo frowned unconsciously.
They arrived at the police station quickly. Qiu Huo asked Wei Yunjun to take Lin Zhi's statement, and he went into Zhang Liansheng's interrogation room.
Zhang Liansheng closed his eyes and his back was slightly hunched.
After Qiu Huo came in, Zhang Liansheng opened his eyes.
He saw Qiu Huo when he was arrested, but even though he knew his identity, he still said nothing.
Qiu Huo sat on the chair and pushed the documents on the table upwards. Zhou Erhe understood and started asking questions.
"At 2:47 a.m. on the 21st, you rode your electric bike with the victim to Baiyang Street. The victim died between 10:30 and 11 p.m. on the 20th, so you took his body to the river to dispose of it at that time. The above evidence is irrefutable and you don't need to argue. Confess and you will be treated leniently. Resist and you will be treated severely. Speak now."
Zhang Liansheng looked at them in silence, pushed up his glasses, and said, "I once wanted to divorce her and give her everything I had, but she didn't want to, saying I had no conscience."
Zhou Erhe said: "And then?"
"I really have no conscience. This happened because of me."
Zhang Liansheng took off his glasses but said nothing more.
He seemed to have suddenly turned into a sawtooth gourd and refused to speak no matter how the police asked him.
His behavior was both irritating and disgusting. Zhou Erhe suddenly understood why the woman became crazy and hysterical. This man was a teacher with a good reputation outside. You can't judge a person by his appearance.
Qiu Huo didn't plan to waste any more words on him. He went out to the monitoring room and watched the footage from another interrogation room.
Unlike Zhang Liansheng who remained silent, Xu Gaolan just poured out everything.
She fiddled with the gold bracelet on her hand and said, "It's really beautiful, but I couldn't afford to buy it before. I felt that my family had no money. In order to change places to avoid those rotten things that hurt people's hearts, we bought a new house. With even less savings, I went to work in the food factory. Even though it was more tiring, the salary was higher. I endured the fishy smell and worked hard to clean the fish. But that beast actually hid half a million behind my back."
"Five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, three years, three years, and he didn't even give me a clue! He didn't give me the money, but he wanted to use it to buy my life!"
"I don't know where he found that person from. He suddenly attacked me. When I was young, I would definitely not be able to beat him. But I moved 10 to 20 kilograms of goods at a time in the factory every day. He didn't succeed in his attack. Instead, I knocked him down. He died not long after."
"When he was choking me, he said that it was that beast who came after him. It was thanks to him that he wanted me to be an innocent ghost. Otherwise, where would I get the strength to do it? When I think that if that beast died, I could live happily, I feel sorry for myself."
Xu Gaolan untied the silk scarf around her neck, and the bruises caused by her fingers were clearly visible.
What happened next is what the police know. After Zhang Liansheng returned home and faced his furious wife, he chose to help her dispose of the body.
"I really wanted to kill him with a knife, but why couldn't I do it?"
Xu Gaolan murmured: "Why can't I do it?"
Perhaps it was because her husband took her out of that poor mountain village when they were young, and even when she was diagnosed with infertility, he took the responsibility on himself. He never looked for anyone outside for all these years and never yelled at her.
"When he said he wanted to divorce me, I thought he had someone else outside, but he didn't. He said he was just tired of me and didn't like me anymore. We have been married for so many years, how can we separate just because we are tired of each other?"
Xu Gaolan looked at the police with inquiring eyes, as if seeking answers from someone she believed to be an authority.
She lowered her head and fiddled with her bracelet and said, "Maybe we still don't have a child."
Zhu Changdong was speechless. Sometimes the methods used by murderers in many cases were very clumsy, but the motives behind them were hard to describe.
Xu Gaolan touched the gold bracelet on her hand. Even though she had washed her hands, her old, fat and loose skin still had a lingering fishy smell, which seemed to make the bracelet smell fishy as well.
After Lin Zhi finished taking notes, Wei Yunjun said, "I'll let Xiao Zheng take you back."
Qiu Huo, who just came out from Xu Gaolan's place, said, "No need, I'll take him back later."
Wei Yunjun thought it was just right and nodded, but after taking two steps back he realized something was wrong.
He could understand the boss going to follow her, after all, this case was very important, but was it necessary to ask Lin Zhi to wait at the police station just to send her back personally?
And Lin Zhi also agreed?
Wei Yunjun looked back and saw Lin Zhi sitting at his workstation holding the hot water poured by Captain Qiu. The air conditioning in the office was turned on high and Captain Qiu even put his coat on him.
If something was just a little wrong just now, then something is extremely wrong now, right?
When Captain Qiu looked over, Wei Yunjun pretended he saw nothing and walked away.
Based on Xu Gaolan's words, they checked Zhang Liansheng's account and discovered that he had won a welfare lottery two years ago. The money had never been touched until it was spent in a gold shop in the past two days.
If Xu Gaolan did not lie, the situation was already very clear. Zhang Liansheng used the money to hire Ma Xide, who was in urgent need of surgery fees, to kill someone. However, he did not expect that Ma Xide died at the hands of his wife. Perhaps he was afraid that his wife would be destroyed, so he went out and abandoned the body.
Qiu Huo had someone check and found that there was no insurance policy with Zhang Liansheng as the beneficiary under Xu Gaolan's name, which ruled out the possibility that Zhang Liansheng hired someone to defraud the insurance. He simply hired someone to kill someone.
Even though they have been married for many years and have no conflict of interest, they can still go to the extent of wanting each other to die.
Lin Zhi didn't have to wait long. Qiu Huo came out in less than twenty minutes.
On the way back to Lin Zhi's apartment, Qiu Huo took the initiative to talk about the case.
"Zhang Liansheng confessed to the crime of hiring a killer, but when asked about his motives..."
Thinking of Zhang Liansheng's words, Qiu Huo's expression suddenly became a little strange: "He answered us like this. He said, my wife is a stick of chewing gum."
This metaphor is so weird that it gives me goosebumps.
My wife is a stick of chewing gum. I watched her skin turn from snow-white and soft to yellow and wrinkled, and then be chewed into a sticky, rotten, and finally dry piece that is unbearable to face.
Lin Zhi didn't say anything, but the mockery between his eyebrows showed his attitude.
In his opinion, such people are not worth his time talking about, just like the stinking garbage on the roadside that thinks it is a high-end commodity.
It is indeed a disgusting and absurd drama, no wonder it seems like a farce to the serial killer.
"But Zhang Liansheng said that he tied a big rock to the body when he threw it down, and tied it very tightly."
Qiu Huo and Lin Zhi looked at each other. It was obvious who had brought this case to light, and there was no need to say more.
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