Chapter 84 Rainy Night
◎This case will be solved after more than 20 years◎
Jiang Tinglan's voice was trembling: "Xiang Wan, I'm so scared. Wen Qianyu, Wen Qianyu was harmed by someone."
Murdered? Zhao Xiangwan's eyebrows wrinkled.
Wen Qianyu, she had heard Jiang Tinglan mention this name.
She was a junior majoring in international trade. She lived in the same dormitory with Jiang Tinglan and they had a very good relationship. After the news of Jiang Tinglan's kidnapping spread in the school, there were some unpleasant discussions behind her, but Wen Qianyu sympathized with Jiang Tinglan, cared for her tenderly, and stood firmly on her side.
Jiang Tinglan once told Zhao Xiangwan that one time when she came back from fetching hot water with a thermos, before she even opened the dormitory door, she heard Wen Qianyu's voice inside: "It's not Jiang Tinglan's fault that she was abducted. Why do you want to exclude her?"
Roommate Tong Ling grumbled, "We didn't reject her, but we heard that she was pregnant and committed suicide. We felt that she was much more mature than us. We couldn't get along at all."
Another roommate, Liu Jiashun, explained weakly: "I didn't say anything, I just felt...she had a lot of experience, I didn't really want to be friends with her. She was really something, why did she live with us when she didn't live in another dormitory?"
Hearing this, Jiang Tinglan wanted to find a corner to hide.
She was originally an accounting student majoring in grade 1989. Because she was abducted, she did not study for a year. When she returned to school, she could only stay in one grade and enter grade 90. There are five girls in the 1989 accounting major. Previously, Jiang Tinglan shared a dormitory with other majors and had a normal relationship with the other four girls. After returning to school, the dormitory where I originally lived was already occupied, so I moved into the dormitory of the 90-level international trade majoring girls.
The students from Class 89 have become unfamiliar with each other because they haven't seen each other for a year, and the students from Class 90 have just started to get to know each other and are not familiar with each other.
——Hearing her classmates' comments behind her back, Jiang Tinglan felt a sense of sorrow that “the world is so big, but there is no place for me to stay.”
The conversation in the dormitory continued.
Wen Qianyu said unhappily, "What do you mean by mature? Jiang Tinglan is only one year older than us, how can she be mature? There are only three girls in our 90s International Trade major, and there is just one vacant bed. If she doesn't live here, where can she live? Besides, she has suffered so much, how pitiful. We are all girls, in the same grade and in the same dormitory, we should understand and care about her more."
Hearing this, Jiang Tinglan was extremely grateful. From then on, she and Wen Qianyu went in and out together and formed a deep friendship.
Who would have thought that after entering school in February and only being friends for one semester, Wen Qianyu was harmed in October?
Zhao Xiangwan asked: "Is the person still alive?"
There is more than one type of victim. Maybe the person is still alive. I hope the person is still alive.
Jiang Tinglan could no longer control her emotions and burst into tears on the other end of the phone: "No, no, the police have found her body. She's dead! She's dead..."
Zhao Xiangwan felt very unhappy.
Jiang Tinglan is an introvert, and she is even less talkative after experiencing the pain of being kidnapped. She only has one true friend at Kyoto University of Economics and Business, Wen Qianyu, so how could she have an accident?
How could a 20-year-old girl die?
Zhao Xiangwan sighed softly: "Don't cry, tell me slowly. How did Wen Qianyu die? What did the police say? Has the murderer been caught?"
Jiang Tinglan cried as she spoke, and because of her unstable emotions, her words were a little incoherent, but with Zhao Xiangwan's patient listening and questioning, she slowly sorted out what had happened.
Jiang Tinglan and Wen Qianyu both study very hard.
Jiang Tinglan was abducted to the mountains. After experiencing domestic violence, pregnancy, suicide, and miscarriage, her body has not fully recovered and her memory has obviously declined. In addition, she has not touched a book for a year, and she has forgotten a lot of basic professional knowledge. Even if she started to read again in her sophomore year, she still found it difficult to pick up the knowledge, so she worked very hard and went to the study room every day to study until the lights went out.
Wen Qianyu is a local. Her parents both work in the petrochemical industry and her family is well off. She wants to study abroad, but her English scores are not up to the requirements. Therefore, in addition to her professional courses, she needs to spend more time learning English. She goes to evening self-study classes with Wen Qianyu every day, puts a Walkman in her pocket and headphones in her ears, and seizes every opportunity to practice listening.
October 17, 1992, Saturday, rain.
Jiang Tinglan and Wen Qianyu got their meals from the cafeteria and ate in the dormitory. After eating, they went to the study room on the first floor of the teaching building to study.
At nine o'clock, Jiang Tinglan felt a little cold. She wore a short-sleeved shirt when she went out, so she didn't feel it at the time, but the coldness was a little unbearable at night. Jiang Tinglan looked up and found that only she and Wen Qianyu were left in the classroom, so she suggested going home.
Wen Qianyu still had a hearing test to complete, so she asked Jiang Tinglan to go back first and said that she would go home directly and not return to the dormitory.
Wen Qianyu is from Kyoto and occasionally goes home on weekends. After Jiang Tinglan reminded her to be careful, she returned to the dormitory with an umbrella.
By Monday morning, Wen Qianyu had not returned to the dormitory yet, and Jiang Tinglan became a little anxious.
Tong Ling and Liu Jiashun, who shared the same dormitory, didn't care. They said that Wen Qianyu was so old and a local, so what could happen? She was probably just sleeping at home and wanted to skip classes.
There were four accounting classes on Monday morning, and Jiang Tinglan sat in the classroom feeling restless.
Jiang Tinglan was particularly sensitive to these things because she had experienced kidnapping. After finally finishing four classes, Jiang Tinglan asked about Wen Qianyu's absence from the International Trade Class. She hurried back to the dormitory, found the phone book, went downstairs, and called Wen Qianyu's home phone while standing in the dormitory management office on the first floor.
Wen Qianyu is an only child. Her family is well-off. Her father is the chief of the infrastructure department of the Kyoto Petrochemical General Plant, and her mother is a clerk in the finance department of the petrochemical general plant. telephone.
Jiang Tinglan knew Wen Qianyu's home phone number, but it was only written in a palm-sized phone book and she had never called it.
The person who answered the phone was Wen Qianyu's mother, Rao Xiang.
"Hello."
Jiang Tinglan asked politely, "Excuse me, are you Wen Qianyu's family?"
"Yes you are?"
"Hello, Auntie. I'm Wen Qianyu's roommate. My name is Jiang Tinglan."
Rao Xiang's voice was gentle: "Ah, Jiang Tinglan, I know you, you are Qianqian's good friend. What can I do for you?"
Jiang Tinglan asked: "Auntie, may I ask why Wen Qianyu didn't go back to school today? She didn't come to any of the four classes this morning."
Rao Xiang suddenly became nervous: "Isn't Qianqian in school? Why isn't she attending class?"
Jiang Tinglan was a little panicked: "Wen Qianyu went home the night before yesterday, shouldn't she be at home now?"
Rao Qian also began to panic: "No, Qian Qian didn't go home on Saturday. I called her at noon and she said she wasn't going home."
Jiang Tinglan's voice was trembling a little: "The night before yesterday, Wen Qianyu and I had evening self-study together. I left at nine o'clock. She said she had a listening test to finish. She would go home after finishing it in about ten minutes. She often goes home on weekends, so I didn't care. She didn't return to the dormitory on Saturday night, and she was not there all day on Sunday. She didn't come to class today, so I called to ask you."
Rao Qian felt something was wrong, so she hung up the phone and ran to school.
Jiang Tinglan quickly reported the incident to the counselor, and the school took it very seriously. After Rao Qian arrived, they asked all the classmates and teachers, but they all said they had not seen Wen Qianyu, so they immediately called the police.
As the incident involved a missing female college student, the Xishan District Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it and immediately filed a case and sent investigators into the school to conduct visits and investigations.
Kyoto University of International Business and Economics is backed by the West Mountain, with an elegant environment, but it is far from the city center. If Wen Qianyu takes the bus home after 9 o'clock in the evening, she should go out along the cement road in front of the main building, and go to the East Gate along Xiangzhang Road. After the East Gate, there is a bus station, take bus No. 25 or No. 510, get off at the Petrochemical Community Station after ten stops, and walk about five minutes to get home.
If Wen Qianyu left the classroom at around 9:10, she should be able to take the bus before 9:30 and get home around 10:00. Wen Qianyu was very familiar with this route, and the university campus was relatively simple, so no one thought it would be dangerous.
The day she went missing was a Saturday, and there were many recreational activities for college students. There was a dance party in Jiawei Garden on campus, a basketball game in the lighted court, a movie in the small auditorium, and a row of restaurants, video halls, and karaoke halls on the street near the east gate. It was very lively. Even if it rained, it couldn't stop young people from having fun.
How could a living person just disappear?
Wen Qianyu walked out of the teaching building at around 9:10. Where did she go? Did she go directly to the East Gate bus station to catch a bus, or did she go somewhere else on impulse?
From 21:00 on Saturday to 13:00 on Monday when the case was reported, 37 hours had passed since the disappearance. Kyoto University of Economics and Trade has a total of more than 6,000 teachers and students, covering an area of about 400,000 square meters. The family area and the teaching area are separated by Xiangzhang East Road and Bishuigou, which has brought great difficulties to the investigation.
The police took Wen Qianyu's photo and began to trace the case one by one.
The first thing is to determine whether Wen Qianyu has left the campus.
The east gate is a small open gate that closes on time at 11 o'clock. There is no security guard on duty. The fruit vendor at the gate said that there are many people coming in and out on weekends, but he didn't notice whether Wen Qianyu was there.
The bus driver shook his head after seeing the photo, saying that there were many people getting on and off the bus at the University of Economics and Business on weekend nights, and the driver and the conductor couldn't remember whether they had picked up such a girl after 9 o'clock in the evening.
I asked grocery store owners, small restaurant waiters, stall vendors, and even residents of the Petrochemical Community near the bus station, and they all said that they did not see Wen Qianyu between 9 and 11 o'clock.
The bus line back to the Petrochemical District is disconnected.
This means that the search area is very large. From campus to bus station, petrochemical community, accidents may happen everywhere along the way.
Wen Qianyu's parents were filled with remorse. They usually trusted their daughter very much and thought that she would go abroad in the future and needed her to train her independence. In addition, there was only one phone in the dormitory management office on the first floor of the girls' dormitory. If they needed to find Wen Qianyu, the dormitory management aunt had to go to the fifth floor to find her. Therefore, although there was a phone at home, they did not contact her frequently.
When Wen Qianyu's parents wanted to look for their daughter, they would usually call her at noon or 6 p.m. Wen Qianyu had already told her mother on Saturday noon that she would not go home, but for some reason she suddenly felt like going home in the evening. As fate would have it, this is what happened.
The police were not discouraged and planned to conduct a carpet search starting from the Bishop's School Building.
Kyoto University of International Business and Economics has three teaching buildings in total. One of the six-story buildings is the main learning building, which is usually used very frequently. After two days, there was no trace left in the first-floor classroom where Wen Qianyu had evening self-study. Her schoolbag and umbrella were also gone.
The study room on the first floor of the teaching building is open to the public at night and the lights are turned off at 10 o'clock. There is only one security guard on duty in the security room. His name is Feng and he is in his thirties.
According to Feng Baoan, on the evening of the 17th, the school auditorium showed the Hong Kong film "Police Story", which attracted many students to watch. The study room was sparsely populated, with only 20 to 30 people studying. It was raining a bit outside, so he didn't pay much attention to the students coming in and out.
The police asked him if he had noticed anything unusual. He first said that nothing happened, everything was fine, and he went home after get off work when the lights went out at 10 o'clock. Later, when he was pressed, he said that when he went to the toilet at around 9 o'clock, he met a tall man standing by the toilet sink and didn't know what he was doing. Security guard Feng saw that he didn't look like a student, so he asked who he was, and the other person ran away in a panic.
After hearing this, the police felt uneasy and started searching around the teaching building with their police dogs.
Below the rest platform at the entrance of the stairs is a tool room for cleaning tools. The ceiling is about two meters high, and usually only cleaning staff store mops, buckets and other sundries there. When they opened the door, they found Wen Qianyu's coat inside, crumpled into a ball and stuffed between several mops. If it weren't for the police dog's sharp nose, it would have been impossible to find it.
Then the police dog went around the wall and barked wildly at a sewer.
The Bishop's School building is U-shaped, with a sewer in the recessed area on the north side. Usually, few people come here, and the place is overgrown with weeds and looks a bit desolate.
The police lifted the manhole cover and found Wen Qianyu's body in the sewer. Her head was stuffed into the sewer, her shirt was taken off, and she was only wearing a small vest. There was semen in her body, and there were bruises all over her body. There were strangulation marks on her neck, indicating that she had been beaten before her death.
The most horrifying thing is that after forensic examination, it was found that Wen Qianyu died of drowning.
This means that she was still alive before she was stuffed into the sewer.
At this point, Jiang Tinglan cried out of breath: "Xiang Wan, Wen Qianyu was drowned by the stinking water in the sewer. She was drowned! How scared she was at that time. If the security guard could check the utility room, he would have found her and saved her. Even if she was raped by that man, as long as she was alive, there was hope, right? But... she was unconscious and no one found her. I shouldn't have left early, I should have waited for her, sent her to the bus stop and then returned to the dormitory. Our school was very lively that weekend, with a lot of people, but there were few people in the study room of the teaching building."
Zhao Xiangwan sighed again: "What did the police say? Can they be sure that the man the security guard saw was the murderer? Can anyone recognize that man? Is he a school employee or a student? Have they found any footprints? Are there any forensic portraits?"
Jiang Tinglan cried and said, "Xiang Wan, I don't understand these. You are a criminal investigation professional, right? Can you help? The comrades from the Xishan District Public Security Bureau said that they have sorted out Wen Qianyu's social relationships and carried out DNA testing. They will try their best to catch the murderer. But... today is the third day, and there is still no result."
Zhao Xiangwan asked: "What can I do?"
Jiang Tinglan said, "Doesn't Ji Zhao know how to draw portraits? I want him to help draw the person the security guard saw. The Xishan District Public Security Bureau also said they would draw a portrait, but they are definitely not as good as Ji Zhao."
Portrait? It seems the police also suspect the man who appeared in the toilet on the first floor at around 9 o'clock.
However, we cannot rule out the possibility that the crime was committed by teachers or students of the school.
The panicked man might just be an outsider who accidentally walked into the campus and came to use the toilet.
The gate of Kyoto University of Economics and Business is guarded by security guards 24 hours a day, but entry and exit are free, and no one will question you unless you encounter someone acting suspiciously.
Zhao Xiangwan hesitated for a moment and did not respond immediately.
Since the Xishan District Public Security Bureau wanted to draw a portrait, it meant that they had a dedicated criminal portrait artist in the bureau. I didn't know if they would welcome Ji Zhao and I to go there without hesitation. Generally, the police have their own procedures and methods for handling cases, and they are not willing to let unrelated people interfere or intervene.
Jiang Tinglan knew that Zhao Xiangwan was a man of his own ideas, so she didn't say much. Before hanging up the phone, she choked up and said, "Xiangwan, thank you for listening to me for so long. Now I can only hope that the police will catch the murderer as soon as possible."
Zhao Xiangwan felt heavy in his heart.
Safety management on university campuses has always been a problem.
Unlike the strict access control management of the People's Public Security University, many universities are open to the public, with teaching areas and family areas mixed, and outsiders can enter and exit freely.
The accident happened in the study room on a rainy night, which was entirely due to a loophole in safety management.
There is only one security guard who usually stays in the security room in the lobby and rarely patrols. If something happens, the security guard will have no idea.
If they are school teachers, students or family members, they are all careful about their reputation and generally would not commit such brutal murders.
But what if you are an idle person outside the school? You wander into the campus out of curiosity, and when you see no one around, you look through the glass window and see a young girl sitting in a brightly lit classroom. What should you do if you suddenly have evil thoughts?
Among homicides, the most difficult to track down are those that occur in the heat of the moment.
The murderer did not know the victim at all. He killed the victim and left without anyone noticing at a time unknown to anyone. Especially on rainy nights, the rain washed away all traces. The body was hidden in the sewer and was not discovered for a while. Even if there were fingerprints, footprints, or DNA, what would it be of any use?
As long as the other party does not commit crimes again, there is no way to track him down.
You can't just grab anyone and ask them to do fingerprint, footprint or DNA testing, right?
In the murder case committed by Fan Hongwei, half a fingerprint was left at the scene, but so what? Gu Wenjiao waited for ten years, but still could not find the real murderer. If Zhao Xiangwan had not suddenly decided to investigate Fan Hongwei, this case would probably have been buried in the sea until no one remembered it.
To be honest, after listening to Jiang Tinglan's words, Zhao Xiangwan was more inclined to believe that this case was a murder in passion.
It is possible that there were angry, jealous, and dissatisfied men among Jiang Tinglan's social connections, but judging from the scene, leaving clothes in the utility room, cleaning the body in the toilet, and stuffing the body into the sewer... none of these are signs of premeditated murder. The murderer was brutal, impulsive, and strong, and the man Feng Baoan encountered, whether in terms of time, stature, or behavior, also fits this inference.
In an instant, Zhao Xiangwan thought of a lot of things, but he also felt that it was extremely difficult.
First, Zhao Xiangwan was just a student at the People's Public Security University and had never met Wen Qianyu before. In what capacity did he intervene in the case?
Second, Ji Zhao was just a non-staff member of the Municipal Bureau. Although his ability in portrait painting was outstanding, he faced the same problem as Zhao Xiangwan: in what capacity did he participate in the investigation of the case?
Kyoto's level is higher than Xing City. The staff and criminal investigation technology of a district's public security bureau can surpass that of Xing City. Although Zhao Xiangwan has a say in Xing City's public security bureau, the Xishan District Public Security Bureau in Kyoto? If she goes there like this, it's not certain that anyone will pay attention to her.
Back in the dormitory, Zhang Yalan saw that Zhao Xiangwan was in a low mood and asked him with concern.
Zhao Xiangwan told him the truth.
As soon as he finished speaking, the other three girls became angry and started cursing and analyzing.
"Damn it! Wen Qianyu was murdered in school like this? Are the school security guards idiots?"
"There was a coat in the utility room, which means the first crime scene was there. He probably dragged Wen Qianyu in and raped her, then fainted and came out to the toilet to wash. That's not right. If the murderer ran away in a hurry, why would Wen Qianyu's body be thrown into the sewer?"
"I'm afraid the murderer left and felt uneasy, so he came back to deal with the body and stuffed her into the sewer when no one was around. She went in and out of the teaching building twice. The school security is really... Sigh!"
"Did the murderer think Wen Qianyu was dead? Oh! Whenever I think of Wen Qianyu drowning, I feel cold all over."
"Xiang Wan, if it was a crime of passion, I'm really worried that we won't be able to find the murderer. Think about it, the murderer committed the murder on the 17th and was not discovered until the 19th. In such a long time, the murderer would have already escaped. He moved to another city and started a new life. Who could find him?"
Everyone was a student majoring in criminal investigation, so they discussed the case in an orderly manner. What everyone was worried about was also what Zhao Xiangwan was worried about.
Many cases of passion-related murders always end in failure. There seems to be a lot of evidence, but the perpetrators cannot be found.
The biggest advantage of this case is that the security guard saw the suspicious man.
However, the profession of criminal portrait painter has just emerged, and the domestic criminal investigation field does not attach much importance to portraits. After all, a black and white portrait is somewhat specious and looks like anyone. It is really difficult to accurately find a person in a crowd of people through a portrait.
After discussing for a whole night, everyone scolded the school security guard, but still couldn't come up with a perfect solution.
The next day, Zhao Xiangwan encountered something that prompted her to make up her mind.
Mei Qingxi called at noon and talked about the progress of the real estate company. His tone was very excited. He had a very pleasant cooperation with Gu Zhixing and had already taken over the construction project of the dormitory building for the city bureau cadres and was ready to make great plans.
Mei Qingxi was talking nonstop on the other end of the phone, but Zhao Xiangwan's thoughts were somehow far away. She was wondering what was happening to Zhao Chenyang, Mei Qingxi's former fiancée and the reborn person, now?
Why didn't he punish her when he exposed her secret of rebirth in Zhao Jiagou last time? Because he thought she would be useful to him.
Time is a one-way street that cannot be turned back.
However, Zhao Chenyang broke this law and was reborn.
No matter whether she is stupid or bad, at least she has more experience than anyone else. No matter how much information she has, at least it is more accurate than others.
Even the best police officers have unsolved cases. But what if we extend the timeline to ten or twenty years later? By then, the criminal investigation methods will be more advanced, and the technical means will be more advanced. Maybe these unsolved cases have been solved, adapted into movies or TV series, and known to Zhao Chenyang?
Thinking of this, Zhao Xiangwan hung up the phone in a hurry, asked for leave from Teacher Zhou, went to Hunan Finance School, and found Zhao Chenyang who was studying in college.
Zhao Chenyang has been in a bad mood recently.
The marriage that she thought was perfect had a flaw. Her favorite son-in-law, Xu Qingxi, went to the police station and changed his last name to Mei Qingxi. Xu Juncai was taken away by the police and sentenced for bribery. Xu's construction company fell apart.
After Mei Qingxi returned from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, he was busy splitting up Xu's Construction Company and reorganizing his own real estate company. While his career was flourishing, he once again proposed to break off the engagement.
Things are different now. Zhao Qingyun also realized that Mei Qingxi was not an ordinary person, so he did not bother with the marriage anymore. He canceled the engagement cleanly and the two got married and had nothing to do with each other from then on.
In the previous life, Xu Juncai and Zhou Jingrong were a loving couple, Xu's construction company developed into a group enterprise, becoming bigger and stronger, Mei Qingxi and Zhao Xiangwan were in love, and they successfully started a business with the support of Xu's group and became star entrepreneurs. How did it become like this in this life?
Zhao Chenyang was terrified. He felt as if he had been reborn and nothing had changed.
Oh, no, it has changed a lot.
Zhao Xiangwan did not get into Kyoto University, and did not marry Mei Qingxi to start a business together. Instead, she studied at the People's Public Security University, and it is said that she helped the police solve many cases, including putting Zhou Jingrong in prison.
He was getting worse and worse, but his life was getting more and more exciting as time went by. Besides, he didn't know what to do after breaking off the engagement. Zhao Chenyang had no motivation to do anything. He didn't study hard in college, just dealt with his homework casually and often skipped classes.
Hearing that a young girl was looking for him, Zhao Chenyang, who was lazily reading a novel in the dormitory, packed up his things and went downstairs.
Zhao Chenyang was so frightened when he saw Zhao Xiangwan. Why did this evil spirit come here?
Zhao Chenyang's first reaction was: What did I do? I obviously did nothing. Mei Qingxi wanted to break off the engagement, but I did. I have nothing to do with it. If you want to fall in love and get married, that's up to you! Anyway, you were a couple in your previous life, and you started a business together and made a fortune together.
Zhao Xiangwan heard what she was thinking and looked at Zhao Chenyang with a smile.
Thinking about the bad results that he had faced several times, and that his biggest secret had been discovered by Zhao Xiangwan, Zhao Chenyang felt guilty and stammered, "You, why are you here?"
Zhao Xiangwan didn't waste time talking to her and went straight to the point: "I have something to ask you."
Zhao Chenyang was extremely nervous, not knowing what Zhao Xiangwan was going to ask. She looked around and saw that the girls' dormitory was busy downstairs, so it was not suitable for a conversation. As for going back to the dormitory, she never cleaned up her room, so the mess was embarrassing.
After thinking about it, Zhao Chenyang looked at Zhao Xiangwan's face carefully and said, "How about I walk with you to the playground?" In an open space, no one would hear Zhao Xiangwan even if he asked some deadly questions. Besides, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and there should be no one walking in the playground except for the students who were taking physical education classes.
Zhao Xiangwan nodded: "Okay."
The real and fake daughter was able to be calm for once. She walked out of the dormitory and onto the 400-meter track in the playground.
Hunan Finance School is very small. The dormitories, playground and cafeteria are all in the same area. Looking around, only the playground is slightly more spacious.
Zhao Xiangwan was thinking about how to interrogate him, and Zhao Chenyang lost his temper first: "You, what do you want to ask? Let me tell you first, although I have been reborn, I don't know much. I don't know everything. If I were so powerful, wouldn't I have made a fortune long ago? Why should I be here to endure your anger, right?"
Zhao Xiangwan nodded, that was indeed the case.
It can be seen that although Zhao Chenyang was reborn, he didn't have much brains. He only knew how to snatch Zhao Xiangwan's life, thinking that he could live exactly the same as her by taking her parents, resources, and fiancé. How naive and ridiculous.
Zhao Chenyang saw Zhao Xiangwan nod, as if encouraged, and began to speak again: "I know, I am sorry for you. I didn't read much in my previous life, and I don't understand many things..."
Zhao Xiangwan interrupted her and asked, "Have you heard about the murder case on a rainy night at Kyoto University of International Business and Economics?"
Zhao Chenyang was still trying to build up his emotions and wanted to win Zhao Xiangwan's favor, but he never expected that the first thing she would ask him was about the case. He suddenly stopped and stood on the runway in a daze.
[Rainy night murder? Has Zhao Xiangwan gone crazy from studying criminal investigation? She keeps talking about murders? Is she trying to threaten me? Will she kill me if I don't listen to her? Oh, she majored in criminal investigation, right? Is it possible that even the police can't find out if she kills someone? Ahhh, this is too scary.]
Zhao Xiangwan frowned: "Have you heard of it? There was a case that happened recently. A female college student was studying on a rainy night. She was raped and killed. She was thrown into the sewer and was not found until a few days later. It is said that the security guard saw the murderer, but the police did not find him."
Zhao Chenyang uttered an “ah” and replied without being sure, “It seems… I’ve heard of it.”
[Are you really asking about the case after all this time? I, my amazing experience of rebirth, are you using me as a crime-solving expert? Damn——]
Zhao Xiangwan ignored Zhao Chenyang's grumbling and asked directly, "Who did it?"
Zhao Chenyang shook his head: "How could I remember this? I was able to hear about this incident because it was not solved until more than 20 years later. At that time, the investigation methods were more advanced. It was said that the murderer's DNA was detected and matched with the database."
Zhao Xiangwan was shocked: "It took more than 20 years to crack the case? Why?"
Seeing that Zhao Xiangwan wanted to ask her for help, Zhao Chenyang immediately changed his face to a mean one: "How would I know? I just accidentally saw a TV interview, but I forgot the specific content. Who knows if it is that case? What school, what case, I don't remember very well, maybe it is, maybe not."
[Why should I explain it so clearly? I have seen that TV interview. It was about a female college student who was murdered on a rainy night. The murderer had met the security guard. The police drew a portrait and published it in the newspapers. A nationwide wanted list was issued, but no one found the murderer. It was not until the murderer's relatives committed a crime and the DNA match was successful that the police were alerted and the murderer, who was already married and had children, was arrested.
The mother of the female college student has been asking for the result for more than 20 years. When the murderer was caught, she was gray-haired and kept saying thank you to the police for their unremitting efforts and 20 years of persistence. Why should I thank them? I would have scolded those policemen who were just eating for free. 】
More than 20 years! This case was not solved until more than 20 years later!
How many twenty years are there in a lifetime? Wen Qianyan's mother waited for more than twenty years before the police caught the murderer!
Zhao Xiangwan couldn't tell what he felt in his heart. He looked up at Zhao Chenyang seriously and asked, "Who is the murderer?"
Zhao Chenyang shook his head: "It was just a TV interview. I took a quick glance at it. The key point was the case. It looked quite scary, so I remember a little bit."
[Humph! You think I'm an expert at solving crimes? I have no merit at all, so why should I tell you?]
There was a frost in Zhao Xiangwan's eyes: "Zhao, Chen, Yang."
Zhao Chenyang was startled by her look and took a step back: "You, what are you doing? I haven't committed any crime, you can't catch me."
Zhao Xiangwan sneered, "You only have this much left. If you don't know how to cherish it, I don't mind telling your secret to more people."
Zhao Chenyang immediately wilted and muttered, "Okay, okay, I'll tell you."
She said reluctantly: "Actually, I only remember that the murderer was a young man who looked very fierce. He left Kyoto the next day after the murder. I think he later opened a pet shop, and something else..."
Zhao Xiangwan asked: "What's his name?"
Zhao Chenyang thought hard for a long time and shook his head: "I don't remember, I only remember that his name has three characters, and his last name is very strange, it's not a name I'm familiar with."
[I'm not kidding you, who would remember the murderer's name? I watched a TV interview ten or twenty years ago, and it only took a blink of an eye for me to come up with this much information, so I have a very good memory.]
Zhao Xiangwan continued to ask: "Why did he kill people?"
Take Zhao Chenyang, for example. He was a gossip lover in his previous life. He had no achievements, so when he was bored, he liked to watch some tragedies in society.
Just like there was a magazine that sold poorly all day long, with a very eye-catching title——
"What can I do to save you? My terminally ill love!"
"My poor sister, your brothers will hold up the sky for you."
"The beautiful lady passed away, why did the innocent boy wait for her so long?"
"Shock on a rainy night! The murderer was finally brought to justice after 20 years of lurking. His motive for committing the crime was actually..."
It is because of this secret hobby that Zhao Chenyang remembers this case.
Because she didn't get into college, the words "female college student murdered on campus" successfully aroused her curiosity. While watching TV, she thought: This university is too scary. Fortunately, I didn't go to school, otherwise I would have been killed at night and thrown into the sewer to drown. Oh, it's really too scary! Thinking this way, she, who originally felt that she didn't get into college and was not as good as Zhao Xiangwan, felt much more balanced.
Zhao Chenyang didn't think she was a good person, otherwise she wouldn't have refused to help after knowing Zhao Qingyao was kidnapped. But today, Zhao Xiangwan's question suddenly made her interested: "Will you help investigate? If I help catch the murderer, what benefits will you give me?"
Zhao Xiangwan asked back: "What benefit do you want?"
Zhao Chenyang's eyes wandered a little: "Please help me persuade Brother Qingxi not to cancel the engagement. I really like him."
Zhao Xiangwan shook his head. Who Mei Qingxi married was his business and had nothing to do with Zhao Xiangwan. Of course, if Mei Qingxi liked Zhao Chenyang and insisted on marrying her, Zhao Xiangwan would not continue to be friends with him.
There are some things Zhao Xiangwan will never forgive.
Zhao Chenyang was a little disappointed: "Well, I helped you, there must be some benefit, right?"
Zhao Xiangwan said calmly: "1, 2..."
Zhao Chenyang was shocked and interrupted her counting: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you. The TV said that the man worked in Kyoto and was bored on the weekend so he wandered into the university. He saw the female college student reading alone in the classroom. There was a Walkman on the desk and a long white headphone cord hanging from her ear. She looked really cute, so he wanted to be friends with her and went in to chat with her. The female college student was not happy and scolded him a few words, then stood up to leave. The man snatched the Walkman and hit her on the back of the head, then dragged her to a place and raped her, strangling her so hard that she choked."
Zhao Xiangwan continued to ask: "Why did you throw her into the sewer?"
Zhao Chenyang said: "The man thought he had killed her, so he put his Walkman and headphones in his pockets. He found blood on his clothes and was afraid of being discovered, so he went to the toilet to clean it up. Unexpectedly, he ran into the security guard who came to question him, so he had to run away. Halfway through, he was afraid that the girl's body would be discovered, so he turned back and dragged it into the sewer we saw earlier."
Zhao Xiangwan asked for more details until he had drained all the memories from Zhao Chenyang's brain, and then left.
——A man who lives nearby and works in another place. His given name consists of three characters and his surname is very rare.
——The day after the incident, he left Kyoto and returned to his hometown.
——I entered the teaching building twice.
——After getting on the bus, he threw Wen Qianyu's schoolbag, walkman, earphones, and umbrella into a pile of weeds in a forest.
Each and every one of them is a detail that is extremely useful for solving the case.
If I hadn't intervened, the case would have been solved twenty years later.
What if Ji Zhao and I intervene?
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