Chapter 138 Who is it?
The answer is obvious
Hearing this, Cao Guang felt that he was almost defeated by Jun Yuyi, the graduate student.
"Is this the man? The one sitting next to you is the one in the portrait? He said he would help you kill someone, and you let him do it?"
Jun Yuyi's head was drooping, and he obviously thought that this was all too absurd. "I was drunk at the time, and I was a little confused. I sat at the bar and drank one cup after another, and I didn't care who was sitting next to me. Anyway, this person was dragged by me and poured out a lot of bitter water. I just remember that he smelled like disinfectant, as if he had just come out of the hospital."
"Later, when I heard him suggest killing Wei Lan, I looked up at him. He was a little drunk at the time, and the lights in the bar were flashing, so I couldn't see his face clearly. I only remember that he had short hair, a deep voice, broad shoulders, and sat at the bar with a casual attitude."
Cao Guang asked: "Then what? Then you planned to kill someone?"
Jun Yuyi's shoulders slumped, and he placed his hands neatly on his knees, nodding obediently like a scolded child: "Yes, I was drunk and had water in my brain. When he asked me if I wanted to kill her, I definitely said yes. Then I said that I had never even entered the kitchen since I was a child, and I had never held a knife. I dare not kill anyone."
Having said this, Jun Yuyi raised his head and looked at Cao Guang.
"Then, he leaned close to my ear and said, 'Then I'll help you kill her?'"
"My mind went blank and I nodded and said, 'Okay.'"
"He said, one thousand dollars, no bargaining."
"I said yes, took out my wallet and gave him one thousand yuan."
"He took the money, got up and left without saying a word to me. But I remember his back, which was exactly the same as the one you drew. He had a chivalrous spirit. When I saw his back, I thought, is the bearded man, one of the three heroes of the Tang Dynasty, a man like him? He came and went without a trace, and took people's heads from thousands of miles away."
Cao Guang was so angry that he slammed the table and cursed in a low voice: "Idiot!"
Jun Yuyi's eyes revealed confusion and helplessness: "Comrade police, I had forgotten about this matter. One thousand yuan is not too much or too little for me. When I woke up yesterday morning, I was confused for a moment. I saw that there was less money in my wallet, and then I realized that everything that happened in the bar that night was true. I laughed at myself for being cheated out of one thousand yuan. How could someone in the world so easily accept a murder business in a bar? But... Wei Lan was really killed!"
"I really didn't expect that Wei Lan would die."
"I didn't take the bar incident seriously at all. I just thought of it as a joke for a thousand dollars."
"Wei Lan has a twisted personality. She is always picky, vain and jealous. She is also an underground lover with Shu Nai. I also heard that she bought another house in Kyoto and took her sister, whose face was disfigured by the fire, to live there. She is imprisoned there like a prisoner. Moreover, after she got married, her relationship with my father was not very good. She fights for fame and fortune all day long. There are so many people in the Writers Association who don't like her. Who knows who killed her."
"But today, when I saw you police officers coming over with the portrait, I recognized this faceless figure right away. It was the man I met at the bar the night before. Although I was drunk and the lights were blinding, the man's back left a very deep impression on me. That's the feeling. A person's appearance may be changed through makeup, but the aura he carries cannot be changed no matter where he goes."
After hearing this, everyone in the interrogation room understood.
Cao Guang and Zhao Xiangwan present were both experienced criminal police, but this was the first time they had seen such a hasty hiring of a killer to kill someone.
Jun Yuyi blamed himself and tried to repent: "Comrade police, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have said nonsense in the bar, and I shouldn't have thought of hiring a killer. Did I break the law? I turn myself in, I plead guilty, I will be punished. I only ask you... don't tell my grandparents, they are old and can't stand the torture."
Very strange.
I originally thought that Luo Yihui hired a killer to kill someone, but I didn't expect Jun Yuyi to jump out first.
Cao Guang rubbed his hands and looked at Zhao Xiangwan: "Just like that, have you found the clue?" Jun Yuyi had a motive to kill and also confessed the process of hiring a killer. Although buying a life for one thousand yuan seems a bit ridiculous, as long as the killer is found, the case will be solved.
Zhao Xiangwan was very calm.
Facing Jun Yuyi who was deeply remorseful, Zhao Xiangwan bowed and spoke slowly: "Jun Yuyi, don't rush to confess. I still have a few questions to ask."
Jun Yuyi looked at her with deep despair in his eyes: "What can I do if I don't plead guilty? Although I hate Weilan, I have never thought of finding someone to kill her. But this happened. I did give the money and did say I wanted to kill her. Since I was a child, my family taught me to be a person who dares to take responsibility. It's my fault, I admit it."
Zhao Xiangwan was not bothered by his self-blame and asked the first question directly: "You smelled a strong smell of disinfectant on the other person, didn't you?"
Jun Yuyi nodded: "Yes! The bar was filled with the smell of cigarettes and alcohol, and the smell of disinfectant seemed very fresh. Maybe it was because of this smell that I kept chattering beside him. My mother is a doctor, and she always has this faint smell on her body. I feel at ease when I smell it."
Zhao Xiangwan asked: "Is there a smell of gasoline?"
Jun Yuyi suddenly realized: "Yes! Now that you mention it, I remember that he smelled of gasoline."
Zhao Xiangwan fell into deep thought.
At eight o'clock last night, when Zhou Haoman was in the stairwell, he smelled a mixture of disinfectant and gasoline on the killer's body. Jun Yuyi also smelled gasoline at ten o'clock the night before yesterday.
The smell of gasoline on his body suggests that the killer had driven a car, or ridden in a car, or repaired a car. In short, he had been in contact with cars for a long time and had no chance to take a shower and clean himself.
What does this mean?
The first possibility is that the killer is not a native of Luo County, but his permanent residence is not far from Luo County, and he travels back and forth between the two places. He came to scout the area the day before yesterday and sat in a bar at night. He came to kill someone yesterday and left after the killing.
The second possibility is that the killer is a native of Luo County and works in auto repair. Because of his work, he deals with cars for a long time, so there is a smell of gasoline on his body.
Why does the killer smell like disinfectant?
Was the killer hospitalized? However, both Zhou Haoman and Jun Yuyi mentioned that the killer looked fierce, energetic, and quick. Such a person should not be sick and hospitalized.
There is only one possibility left: the killer has a relative who is hospitalized for a long time, so he has been staying in the hospital to take care of him.
Anyone who stays in the hospital for a long time will be contaminated by the lingering smell of disinfectant.
Of course, there is another possibility, that the other party is a doctor. However... a doctor acting as a killer? Killing people for a thousand dollars as a joke? This possibility seems to be relatively small.
After sorting out his thoughts, Zhao Xiangwan asked Jun Yuyi again: "Is Wei Lan usually very casual? Will she open the door whenever someone knocks?"
Jun Yuyi shook his head: "No! This woman is as cunning as a rabbit. She hates meeting readers. Only a few people in the Writers Association know that she lives in 301. Unless you make an appointment with her in advance, she will never open the door. If someone knocks on the door too hard, she will call the front desk to complain."
After saying this, Jun Yuyi was so happy that he stared at Zhao Xiangwan in a daze. A second later, he seemed to come alive and suddenly became excited: "Yes! If it was someone I hired to kill her, I didn't tell him where Wei Lan lived, nor did I arrange a time to meet her. How did he get to the Furong Hotel, knock on the door at 8 o'clock, and kill Wei Lan?"
Jun Yuyi became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice became louder: "So, I didn't hire the killer, right? It was someone else who should have killed Wei Lan. I just happened to meet him the night before yesterday, and he happened to be going to kill someone, so he asked me for money, right?"
I have to say, Jun Yuyi is actually quite smart.
Just now, Zhao Xiangwan felt that there was clear stupidity in his eyes, and he could take back what he said.
Jun Yuyi has a strong sense of morality and responsibility. Now that he knows that the killer actually already has an employer and has arranged to meet with Wei Lan at 8 o'clock the next evening, asking him for 1,000 yuan is just a matter of convenience. He breathes a sigh of relief, and the heavy stone pressing on his chest falls off at once, and he breathes a long sigh of relief.
"Officer, you are truly a detective with a keen eye. You were able to deduce the whole picture from just this one detail. It's amazing!"
Zhao Xiangwan was not impressed by such praise. There was another detail in Jun Yuyi's statement that made her think deeply: "You just said that Wei Lan bought another house in Kyoto and took her sister, whose face was disfigured by the fire, to live there and imprisoned her like a prisoner. Is this true?"
I can tell you."
Zhao Xiangwan said: "Okay, then please send us the address of the property."
Li Yangming was a little suspicious: "How do you know she was imprisoned? Wei Lan only has two sisters. After her parents died, she took her sister to live with her. Isn't this because they have a good relationship? Her sister is disfigured and doesn't want to see outsiders. Isn't it normal?"
Jun Yuyi snorted, "Forget it. Wei Lan is a woman who doesn't do anything without profit. How could she be so kind? The private detective told me that he once tried to approach the villa, but as soon as he approached, bodyguards came to drive him away. He used a telescope to observe the movements inside the villa. Wei Qingfang basically never went out. Occasionally, when she took a walk in the yard, there would be a nanny following her and watching her closely."
An idea flashed through Zhao Xiangwan's mind.
——Could it be that the blue gunner is her biological sister?
Because she is a relative and because she has been disfigured, I have been writing one touching work after another for her without any regrets, and that is why she has never been discovered by the public.
After Jun Yuyi was taken away, other police officers came back to report.
The first group reports the results of the investigation into Wei Lan's personal belongings.
In the blue suitcase was a black briefcase containing some important documents and three letters from readers, one of which was sent from Zhu City, and the sender's address was the Jinbihuihuang Nightclub.
This also means that the letter will first reach the hands of the boss Luo Yihui, and then be transferred to Luo Yihui's girlfriend Zhao Chenyang.
Zhao Xiangwan opened the letter and read it carefully.
This should be the first time Zhao Chenyang wrote to Wei Lan. He presented a story outline to Wei Lan. The general idea is that a female police officer in the 1990s traveled back to the early Ming Dynasty by chance during a chase of a tomb robber and fell in love with Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di respectively. There are royal family struggles and power calculations; there is also a collision of modern and ancient ideas, but more importantly, there are strange and moving love and hatred caused by the intersection of time and space.
After reading it, Zhao Xiangwan finally understood why Wei Lan was determined to break up with Yu Huimin.
If Zhao Chenyang's story were really written into a novel or made into a TV series, it would definitely cause a sensation.
——It’s really fresh and interesting!
Modern people travel back to ancient times and fall in love with the ancients?
Two emperors were obsessed with the heroine?
The succession of imperial power in a dynasty was actually dominated by love?
No matter which point you go, it will make you dazzled.
The key point is that Zhao Chenyang also said in the letter that she has many similar stories in her mind and hopes to work with Wei Lan to write the stories into books and make them into TV series.
In the 1990s, people's concepts were relatively traditional, and TV dramas tended to be realistic and orthodox. It was the first time that Wei Lan, a senior author who has been working in the field of romance novels for many years, saw such a "mixed" story. She quickly realized the value of Zhao Chenyang.
Perhaps because this letter was the most valuable, Wei Lan was worried that it would be seen by others, so she carried it with her.
Logically, Zhao Chenyang and Wei Lan should have had other correspondences, but Wei Lan only kept this one and brought it over.
There was nothing special about the other two letters from readers. They were full of compliments, which showed that Wei Lan, who had always used her sister as a gunman, needed these compliments to fill her empty heart.
The second group reported the call records of the Blue phone.
It has been verified that Wei Lan had spoken with Yu Huimin, Yuan Kan, the nerd, and the villa manager.
Among the strange phone calls, there was a call from Zhu City on the day before Wei Lan was killed. It was understood to be a public phone.
Zhao Xiangwan looked at the phone record and nodded. Isn't Zhu City the city where Luo Yihui is located?
All the clues are gathered, and the next step is to meet with Zhao Chenyang.
It was five o'clock in the afternoon on the twenty-fifth of Latvia, seven hours had passed since the summons.
Fourth trial: Zhao Chenyang.
Zhao Chenyang looked very terrified.
Zhao Chenyang stayed alone in the call room for seven hours. Her boyfriend Luo Yihui was not by her side. There was only a female police officer standing by her side with an expressionless face. She ignored everything she said, which made Zhao Chenyang feel more and more psychologically stressed.
Where did the mistake go?
Why did Wei Lan die?
Who killed her?
Did the police suspect her or Luo Yihui? Otherwise, why did they take them to the Public Security Bureau?
He waited anxiously for such a long time. Although he had food and drink and could go to the restroom whenever he wanted, he was not free to move around. There were people watching him wherever he went, which made Zhao Chenyang feel increasingly fearful.
When he was taken to the interrogation room and sat on the cold iron chair, the eight big characters on the snow-white wall opposite him, "Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist", were so serious that Zhao Chenyang's heart sank and he even had difficulty breathing.
In front of the iron chair, there is a rectangular iron table.
The door opened and several uniformed police officers walked in.
The only one wearing a light grey woolen coat was Zhao Xiangwan, whose face was snow-white and looked cold and unapproachable.
Zhao Chenyang stared at Zhao Xiangwan closely, as if he didn't know him.
This is the first time the real and fake daughters meet in the interrogation room.
Zhao Chenyang is the suspect, and Zhao Xiangwan is the police officer in charge of the interrogation.
Compared to usual, Zhao Xiangwan felt more oppressive at this moment, which made Zhao Chenyang look up to him.
When Cao Guangyu asked Zhao Chenyang for some personal information in a stern tone, Zhao Chenyang became more and more nervous.
From the location, uniforms, to the interrogation methods and attitudes...
This is the kind of atmosphere created in the interrogation room of the Public Security Bureau.
Shock criminals and make them panic.
A rookie like Zhao Chenyang, who had never stepped into a public security bureau before, would collapse at any moment.
Sure enough, when he asked the question "What is your relationship with Weilan?", Zhao Chenyang couldn't stand the pressure and started crying with his face covered.
"I have never met Wei Lan. I have only read her novels, found out her contact information, and wrote her two letters."
"I really only exchanged letters with her and never even met her in person. I have a story in my mind, but I don't have the writing skills, so I want to find Wei Lan to work with."
"I had an appointment with her to meet today, but she died! Police comrades, you are not suspicious of me, are you? I was planning to collaborate with her to write a novel and make money, how could you kill her without even meeting her?"
Cao Guang and Li Mingyang exchanged glances and looked at Zhao Xiangwan.
Since it was Zhao Xiangwan who discovered the clue, why not let Zhao Xiangwan take the lead himself.
They also want to see how the mind-reading detective Zhao Xiangwan, the first person to introduce micro-expression behavior into the field of criminal investigation, would interrogate Zhao Chenyang and Luo Yihui.
Zhao Xiangwan picked up an envelope and handed it to Zhao Chenyang: "This is the letter you sent to Weilan, right?"
Zhao Chenyang only took one look at the envelope and stamp and knew it was from him: "Yes, yes, it was from me."
Zhao Chenyang's fear of the police reached its peak at this moment, and he asked cautiously, "How did you get this letter?" Wasn't this the letter she sent to Wei Lan? How did it end up in the hands of the police?
Zhao Xiangwan said sternly: "We have every letter you have."
Zhao Chenyang had no doubts: "I sent her three letters in total, and she replied to me three times."
Zhao Xiangwan said calmly: "What did you say?"
Zhao Chenyang answered honestly: "In the first letter, I sent her a story outline, and she replied that she was very interested and would consider cooperation. I happily wrote a second letter, asking how to cooperate, and I wanted to split the profits with her 50-50. She replied that 50-50 was very difficult, after all, I just provided an idea. She said that we could do it in a buy-and-sell way, and she would buy my idea for one thousand yuan. I definitely wouldn't agree, and then wrote a third letter, saying that I would not accept the buy-and-sell method and insisted on a cooperative profit-sharing. She replied that she would go to Luo County this year to attend the annual meeting of the Writers Association, and hoped to see me on February 13, which is the 25th of the lunar month. She also gave me a phone number and asked me to contact her after I arrived in Luo County."
Zhao Xiangwan asked: "When did you receive the third letter?"
Zhao Chenyang thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be the morning of February 10th."
Zhao Xiangwan curled his lips and said, "Luo Yihui took the letter and gave it to you, right?"
Zhao Chenyang nodded: "Yes, he and I live in a new house in Zhu City. There is no reception room, so the mailing address is the nightclub. Yihui will receive the letter and pass it to me."
Zhao Xiangwan understood: "Have you called Wei Lan?"
Zhao Chenyang shook his head: "I have already made it clear in the letter what I want to say. The rest can only be discussed in person. I don't know what to say on the phone. I plan to contact her after arriving in Luo County today. I haven't called her before."
Zhao Xiangwan picked up a stack of A4 white paper, on which were printed Wei Lan's call records from the past month.
Zhao Xiangwan pointed to the circled phone numbers and said, "Did you see that? On the morning of the 11th, a call was made from Zhushi to contact Wei Lan. The call lasted two minutes. On the evening of the 12th, Wei Lan was killed."
According to Wei Lan's plan, after meeting with the editor of the publishing house on the afternoon of the 12th, there was a preliminary plan to meet with Zhao Chenyang on the 13th. It can be said that Wei Lan attached great importance to Zhao Chenyang and reserved the entire day of the 13th for her.
But someone disrupted Wei Lan's plan.
Who is it?
The answer is obvious.
No matter how dumb Zhao Chenyang was, she realized the problem. Her voice trembled as she stared at Zhao Xiangwan blankly: "Yes, it was Yihui who called? He opened my letter? But... why?"
"What do you think?" A sharp light flashed in Zhao Xiangwan's eyes, causing Zhao Chenyang to close his eyes.
Zhao Chenyang's hands began to tremble.
[Luo Yihui did it! Why did he kill people? ]
[Because I cooperated with Wei Lan? ]
[But he never stopped me. I told him that I was communicating with Wei Lan, and when Wei Lan wrote back to me, he would hug me and praise me for being great. He also took the initiative to help me post and pick up letters, and sent me to see Wei Lan.]
[If he doesn't want me to cooperate with Wei Lan, as long as he tells me, I won't contact Wei Lan. Why is he so stupid that he has to kill people? ]
Zhao Xiangwan heard what she was thinking.
Haha, Luo Yihui didn't want Zhao Chenyang to cooperate with Wei Lan, so he directly begged Zhao Chenyang? This is not Luo Yihui's style.
Zhao Xiangwan stood up and walked in front of Zhao Chenyang. The former pair of sisters, one standing and the other sitting, looked at each other.
Zhao Xiangwan's eyes were cold and stern.
Zhao Chenyang looked away, tears welling up in his eyes.
Zhao Chenyang had to admit that although he was reborn and deliberately snatched Zhao Xiangwan's life, Zhao Xiangwan was tenacious, strong, and hardworking. Even if he changed his life path, he would still live a brilliant life. But what about Zhao Chenyang? Even if he entered the city as he wished, became the daughter of an official, and enjoyed the best resources, he still loved leisure and hated work, was greedy and vain, and lived a poor life.
Zhao Chenyang stammered, "I didn't kill Wei Lan."
Zhao Xiangwan narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Who is that?"
"Maybe... Luo Yihui?"
"Why?"
Zhao Chenyang felt a sharp pain in his heart, so painful that he couldn't breathe: "Because he doesn't want me to cooperate with Wei Lan." He wanted to clip my wings and keep the reborn me by his side forever.
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