Chapter 98 Chapter 98 Finding the Dead Man's Sister
After receiving the ring she handed over, Ji Mingcheng looked at the fingers of the corpse and found a women's ring on her ring finger that matched the men's diamond ring on her hand.
Taking all the evidence into consideration, it is hard not to suspect that the owner of this men's ring is the murderer.
"Wow, this murderer must have been committing a crime for the first time. He was so flustered when he left, leaving us with so many clues. Finally, we don't have to search for a needle in a haystack."
Although I was unlucky enough to encounter another murder today, I still feel good to see such great progress.
Maybe if they act faster, they can solve this murder case before Brother Chen and his team close it.
The reason why Deng Xingwang immediately determined that this case was a homicide was because there were too many traces left at the scene, which made people suspect whether it was intentional killing.
Even if it's not the case, there is definitely something fishy about the person who ran away in panic, and he must be found and questioned.
Now they are waiting for the deceased's sister to come, hoping that she can provide them with some clues about the man.
While they were discussing, Qiu Jiang kept moving closer and farther away, back and forth three or five times, but the black shadow that was supposed to appear did not appear.
Although she was not tortured by abdominal pain this time, she was still very surprised that even the black shadow disappeared so suddenly.
She stared at the dead woman intently. She was struggling with the rope with both hands. Even though she was dead, her face was full of pain, which made people feel shocked.
Qiu Jiang had seen too many dead people before, so she was not afraid of her dead appearance. She was just wondering why the black shadow did not appear this time.
Was she finally free from the torment of abdominal pain, or...
She took a deep look at the deceased's face, with so many confusions in her heart.
Until Ji Mingcheng called her.
"Qiu Jiang, take Xingwang and ask the person in charge of the scenic area here if anyone has any memory of the deceased."
He handed her the photo she had just returned.
Qiu Jiang immediately said, "I understand. I'll go right away."
When Deng Xingwang heard someone calling him, he hurriedly handed the notebook to other colleagues, walked quickly to Qiu Jiang, and walked down the mountain with her.
This is a very old mountain climbing scenic spot in Anxi City. Except in winter, there are quite a lot of people coming here to climb the mountain and worship Buddha. However, it is too cold in winter, so people don’t like to come here. Whenever the winter tourism off-season comes, the scenic spot begins a long paid vacation.
Of course, there will be rotations on duty to ensure that services are provided when a few tourists come. In addition, sanitation workers are also needed to clean the roads.
When they arrived at the ticket office at the foot of the mountain, they saw a building every five steps and a pavilion every ten steps. The green and red interwoven pavilions had occasional peeling paint on the walls, and some places were dull in color, losing their original color, but it did not detract from its beauty, but added a touch of ancient atmosphere.
Qiu Jiang had no impression of this place, but she thought the scenery here was beautiful, especially when she looked up and could see the gurgling river. Once she stepped in, it was as if she could travel through the quiet years and return to those ancient times.
Seeing her admiration, Deng Xingwang introduced her, "This is called Wujiaoting Park. It was built around the founding of the People's Republic of China. If you come in May or June, it will be packed with people. It's really lively then."
"Not surprising."
Any normal person who can appreciate beauty would not want to miss such a place after knowing about it.
It is such a beautiful place, but now a murder has occurred.
Someone sighed softly, then quickly composed himself, lifted the door curtain and walked into the duty room.
Upon seeing them, the anxious old man who had been on the phone lowered his voice, quickly hung up, and without them having to say anything, asked directly, "Are you here to ask about the dead?"
Qiu Jiang nodded, "Uncle, may I ask if you have any impression of this person?"
The old man narrowed his eyes after seeing the photo, then picked up the reading glasses on the table and looked at it carefully.
"Yes," he said without hesitation, explaining, "Spring hasn't even arrived yet, and there aren't many people coming to this mountain. A few dozen a day is good, and the girl was pretty, and she happened to be holding hands with a man who was probably around 40, a generation older than her, yet she called him darling. Tell me, how could I not remember this vividly?"
Although he knew there was a murder on the mountain, he had never been there and had no idea what the deceased looked like. When he saw them holding the girl's photo and asking, his hands trembled, "The one who died... was this little girl?"
"yes."
Qiu Jiang's affirmative answer made him scared. He quickly returned the photo to her and picked up the rusty teacup on the table and took two gulps of water.
After recovering from his shock, he immediately identified the murderer with great certainty, "It must have been that man who did it."
Without waiting for her to ask, he continued rapidly, "When he came yesterday, he looked very reluctant and clearly didn't want to come. If it weren't for this little girl pulling him back, he would have turned around and left immediately. Maybe they had some conflict, and the man killed her in a rage."
The old man's ability to associate ideas is quite good, but this only proves that the man has been here, and it cannot prove that the man is definitely the murderer.
But he definitely knew what was going on.
Maybe she could contact him first to confirm the situation. Thinking of this, Qiu Jiang asked him if he knew the man's contact information.
"I know, I know. They are all registered in the book. Let me take a look." He lowered his head and flipped through the book, starting from the back and working his way to the front.
Just as he said, not many people came recently, so it was very difficult to flip through the pages. But after turning two pages, he pointed to a name and said to her, "This is this person. Their names are next to each other. The woman's name is Yan Yao, and the man's name is Ye Huaiqing."
"Ye Huaiqing?" Deng Xingwang called out the name upon hearing it, which aroused Qiu Jiang's curiosity.
"Do you know him?"
"I don't know him, but I know there's a big boss in Anxi with this name. He used to run a factory in the development zone. I met him twice when I was following Brother Chen. He's a sea turtle, looks gentle, and seems to be about the same age..."
"He's also around forty." Deng Xingwang was immediately shocked. "Fuck, it can't be him."
To confirm whether this was the man, Deng Xingwang asked the officer on duty, "Uncle, is that the man wearing rimless gold-rimmed glasses? He speaks very kindly and looks quite wealthy. Oh, and does he have a mole on his forehead, just above his eyebrow?"
He described it in great detail, but the old man was dumbfounded and looked embarrassed. "He is a very handsome man, but I can't see whether there is a mole on his eyebrow. I am old and my eyes are blurry. I really don't know this."
"But he must be very rich. The watch he's wearing looks very expensive. Besides, who would be willing to hook up with such a young girl without some money?"
Originally, Deng Xingwang had just made a random guess and had no hope at all. However, now he actually felt that the Ye Huaiqing they were looking for might be the one he knew.
He has handled quite a few murders since he started working, but this is the first time he has encountered a situation where the murderer might be someone he knows, and he was a little at a loss for a moment.
He scratched his head and said, "Why don't we tell Captain Ji about this? If I need to ask, I can also ask Brother Chen where he lives. Brother Chen should know."
Qiu Jiang also had the same idea.
"Then let's go back and ask."
The two of them asked the old man again if it was possible that any sanitation workers could see what was happening on the mountain while cleaning, but the old man waved his hands and said it was impossible.
After all, it's dark after six o'clock, so how could there still be sanitation workers cleaning? Moreover, their scenic spot stipulates that they have to work early in the morning and rest early in the afternoon.
If there was any garbage, it would have been cleaned up the next morning. But this time, before they had finished cleaning up, a tourist called the police. Otherwise, the area would have been cleaned up long ago. If that had been the case, the first person to discover the body might have been someone from their unit.
Qiu Jiang and the others were mentally prepared, so they were not very disappointed after hearing this. After expressing their gratitude, they went back up the mountain along the same route.
As soon as I turned the corner, I saw Wang Li holding his cell phone and talking on the phone, with an indescribable look of annoyance on his face.
Others were also talking about it, feeling a little impatient.
Qiu Jiang and the other person didn't know the details of the situation, they just felt it was quite strange, so they quickened their pace and ran back, asking their colleagues in a low voice what was going on.
"I can't contact Yan Ye. I have a bad feeling." Ji Mingcheng stroked his forehead with a hint of annoyance on his face.
Because Yan Yao's address book was very simple, it only had communication records with two people. One of them could not be reached, and the other was her sister Yan Ye. As a result, after waiting for a long time, even Yan Ye could not be contacted. There was no one who knew about Yan Yao's situation. So it was probably necessary to investigate the identity of the deceased first.
Things that you thought you didn't have to do are now right in front of you. No matter who encounters this, they will be troubled for a while.
Seeing them, Ji Mingcheng suddenly put down his hands and asked, "What progress have you made?"
"Team Ji, you actually made a discovery."
Qiu Jiang started the conversation, and Deng Xingwang quickly followed up, asking, "Captain Ji, should we go and try asking?"
After listening to this, Ji Mingcheng thought for a while, his brows suddenly relaxed, and he directly called out "Wang Li".
"Give me your phone."
Wang Li quickly gave it to him.
Ji Mingcheng took out his cell phone, entered the number and continued calling.
After the ringtone rang a few times, the sound from the other end was no longer a mechanical electronic sound, but a very attractive male voice.
"Excuse me, who is this?"
Got it?
They all looked over.
"Is this Mr. Ye from Tianyin Music?" Ji Mingcheng asked in a deep voice.
The other side quickly responded, "I am."
The sound of the cell phone was not small, and Qiu Jiang and Deng Xingwang obviously heard it. At this moment, both of them had indescribable expressions.
It really is him.
After Ji Mingcheng revealed his identity, he asked him to tell him an address so that they could meet. Just as the other party hesitantly told him an address, they suddenly heard a painful cry from him.
"ah--"
Everyone's heart tightened.
"What's going on?"
No one knows what happened, only that something might have happened to the other party.
Qiu Jiang was suddenly shocked. "Isn't it possible to contact Yan Ye? Could she have gone to find Ye Huaiqing?"
“Oh no—”
Ji Mingcheng's face changed immediately. After asking Wang Li to take the men to stay here, he quickly ran to the side of the road. Qiu Jiang also rushed over there, obviously wanting to follow.
Deng Xingwang couldn't stand it any longer. "Brother Wang, I know the location. I'll lead the way to Captain Ji and the others."
After saying that, he ran without waiting for Wang Li's answer and finally jumped into the car before it started.
In the blink of an eye, the car whirred around, quickly reversed, and sped away.
Only a cloud of yellow dust was left in the air, blocking their vision. Now they could only anxiously wait for news from their side.
Ji Mingcheng's big jeep had plenty of space, but the car was going too fast and had a sharp turn. Fortunately, Qiu Jiang had fastened her seat belt, but Deng Xingwang was in a terrible situation. Even though there was a seat belt in the back, he got in the car too late and had no time to fasten it, so he stumbled and fell in the back seat. He felt that the space was so small that he kept hitting his head everywhere.
Fortunately, he was still young and agile. After bumping and bruising for about ten minutes, he finally fixed himself. He grimaced and made a "hissing" sound, which showed that he was seriously injured.
Ye Huaiqing was in his company in the city, and the situation was in chaos.
The reason was simple: he was attacked with a knife in his own company. At that moment, he was covering his arm with one hand and running away frantically, while trying to persuade the person who attacked him to calm down.
Unfortunately, that person obviously would not listen to him. His eyes were filled with raging anger, and she was so filled with rage that she just wanted to send him to hell.
"Kill you, I'm going to kill you—"
The sharp screams of girls were everywhere. The way she chopped around was almost crazy and terrifying. Everyone who met her in the building ran away in panic, completely ignoring the need to save their boss.
When Ji Mingcheng and the other two arrived here, people kept running out of the store's front door looking for a place to call the police.
Ji Mingcheng walked up the stairs with big strides. The strong wind blew, and the windbreaker on him rustled.
He was fast enough. After seeing the situation in the lobby, he quickly ran towards the girl who was chasing Ye Huaiqing. When she chopped down, he bent his right hand down to relieve her force, and took the opportunity to catch the dagger with his left hand.
Qiu Jiang and Deng Xingwang quickly stepped in and together they managed to control the girl, who was about the same age as them and had shoulder-length hair.
"Yan Ye, calm down."
"The circumstances of this case have not been determined yet. Your sister in heaven would be worried seeing you like this." The two of them held her tightly and advised her.
Yan Ye's tears streamed down her face when she heard this. "Wow, he was the one who killed my sister. He must have not wanted the child, so he killed my sister as well. I want him to pay for it."
She cried and struggled, and her choked cries made Ye Huaiqing stand there in a daze.
"W-what?"
"What did you just say? Who died?"
Ye Huaiqing looked stunned and asked anxiously, as if he really knew nothing.
However, the more he acted like this, the more Yan Ye hated him. She hated that he was a beast in human form and could disguise himself. He didn't even care about his sister who had been with him for so many years and could kill her at will.
That was her only relative.
Just left forever.
"I'm going to kill you, you die—"
"Wuwuwu, don't stop me, I want to avenge my sister--"
She couldn't break free from Miracle and the others' restraints, and was immersed in the pain of losing her loved ones. She suddenly lost her strength and fell to the ground, choking and crying miserably.
It's like a migratory bird that has lost its way and is about to die in the deep forest, wailing miserably.
From then on, the light that was lit for her in the middle of the night would never come back, and she was left alone in this world.
How can she survive?
Ye Huaiqing felt dizzy due to excessive blood loss in his arm and lack of blood in his brain, but he was still eager to know the answer.
"You are the police who communicated with me before, right? What happened to Yaoyao? What Yan Ye just said was a lie, right?"
A piece of his glasses was broken, and his neatly groomed hair was now messy. He just wanted an answer.
An answer completely different from the one he had just heard.
Just like every time before, when Yaoyao was angry, she would joke with him, but this time it was definitely not serious.
Qiu Jiang took in every move of this man from the beginning until now. If he was lying, then how superb his acting skills must be to be able to perform so perfectly.
But what if he really didn't know?
Seeing that he was still asking questions, Ji Mingcheng gave the final answer directly, "I'm sorry, Ms. Yan Yao's body was found on the mountain at 8 o'clock this morning. Please accept my condolences."
Ye Huaiqing's face turned pale. "No, no, no, that's impossible. She was fine when I left, just a little angry. She said she would come down after she thought it over, and asked me not to bother her for the next two days. She is such a tough girl, she won't be depressed."
He suddenly stopped talking and his eyes were blank.
If he was just depressed, would Yan Ye come to his house? Would the police want to question him?
Suddenly, a flash of lightning struck his mind, and he asked with difficulty, "She was killed? Do you suspect me?"
Qiu Jiang didn't hide it from him and said directly, "Ms. Yan Yao was hanged, but there were obvious signs of struggle before her death. A men's leather shoe, a ring, and other items were also found at the scene. We can't rule out the possibility that she was murdered and deliberately made to look like a suicide."
She added after she finished speaking.
"Mr. Ye, you may have to accept our questioning."
Of course, the procedures can only be completed later.
But if he is unwilling, then they can only go and complete the formalities before coming over.
That's just too troublesome. If he can cooperate, they can save the trip back and forth.
Ye Huaiqing was completely stunned at this moment, all his strength drained away, his eyes dull as if he were a wandering soul. He stretched out his hand and said, "I'll go with you."
Seeing him like this, Ji Mingcheng frowned, but since he was so cooperative, he didn't say much and just winked at Deng Xingwang.
Deng Xingwang immediately stepped forward and took him away, while Qiu Jiang squatted down and looked at Yan Ye who was still crying seriously.
She took out a pack of tissues from her pocket, put one in her hand, and whispered comfortingly, "My condolences."
Yan Ye was still crying, her face was covered with tear marks. She had been crying for so long that she couldn't even make a sound, so she just opened her mouth and cried silently.
Seeing her like this, Qiu Jiang couldn't bear to say the next words, but...
She squatted down and wiped the tears from her face.
She waited for a while until she calmed down before speaking.
"Unfortunately, because your actions just now are suspected of attempted murder, we need to take you back to the police station for questioning."
Yan Ye closed her eyes, tears streaming from the corners of her eyes again. She slowly stood up with her hands supporting the ground. Her mouth trembled slightly, and her voice was hoarse and weak, almost inaudible.
"I accept all punishments, please take me away."
Qiu Jiang still heard it and took her away in silence.
When they arrived, there were three people in a car.
But when they left, there were two cars and five people.
Ji Mingcheng drove with Ye Huaiqing and Deng Xingwang, while she took a taxi and took Yan Ye to follow behind their team's jeep.
Along the way, she was very concerned about her emotional changes. However, perhaps the greatest sorrow was a dead heart. The pain of losing her sister seemed to have taken over all the emotions of this girl. She leaned against the window without saying a word, letting the cold temperature of the window sweep over her cheeks.
She couldn't help but wonder if her sister was also this cold when she died, so cold that her whole body was shaking and she couldn't breathe at all.
She was clearly still alive, so why couldn't she breathe? It felt like all the air had been taken away from her, the oxygen was becoming increasingly thin, and her body felt incredibly heavy, as if it was about to sink to the bottom of the icy lake.
Never be reborn.
Sister, I really can’t breathe.
She closed her eyes, and warm liquid kept sliding down from the corners of her eyes, slowly flowing down her cheeks and absorbing her body temperature.
Qiu Jiang was always paying attention to her condition, and couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw her like this.
When she arrived at the police station, her heart finally settled down a little.
She asked slowly after getting off the bus.
"Was my sister in pain when she died?"
Qiu Jiang was silent for a while, and finally chose the latter between deceiving her and telling her the truth.
"It probably won't be very pleasant."
Yan Ye was defeated again, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Yes, how can death not be painful?
She had clearly told her yesterday with joy that she was having another baby, but just one day later, her beloved sister was gone.
It’s all Ye Huaiqing’s fault. If it weren’t for him, my sister wouldn’t have died.
Yan Ye's eyes were burning with anger, and her tone was full of determination and desperation. "I admit that I intentionally killed someone, and I take all the responsibility, but I will not let the person who deliberately hurt my sister have an easy time."
"Ye Huaiqing, I want her to be buried with my sister."
She left a few words floating in the air and resolutely stepped into the door of the police station.
There was no turning back.
Qiu Jiang always had a bad feeling, so she quickly chased after him.
As expected, in the lobby of the police station, Yan Ye slammed into Ye Huaiqing and, taking advantage of the pain in his abdomen, pinched his neck.
"I also want you to taste the pain my sister suffered before she died. Go and die—"
Everyone in the lobby was stunned. Ji Mingcheng, who had just parked his car outside, frowned and shouted angrily when he saw the situation.
"What are you waiting for? To break up the fight—"
Only then did everyone wake up from their dream and rush to pull people out.
Qiu Jiang was naturally also in the team that was pulling people away. She and other colleagues pulled Yan Ye back and pressed her against a chair by the wall, leaving her no chance to move.
When she saw Ji Mingcheng rushing towards her angrily, she and Deng Xingwang immediately admitted their mistakes.
"Team Ji, I'm sorry, we didn't look at the right people."
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