Chapter 165: Xiao Tan's hospital hasn't confiscated anything in the past two months...
Luo Kaiyang said: "But... why did the murderer want the fetus?"
Shen Qingye looked at him calmly: "There are thousands of reasons for killing people. We are not the murderer, so how can we know her thoughts?"
"But what matters most now is not the motive for the murder, but the fact of the murder."
"We don't need to guess what she was thinking. As long as we find the evidence, the reason why the murderer killed people is just a matter of time."
Zhou Qiming seemed to be thinking: "Work backwards from the results."
Jiang Cheng also nodded: "Bold assumption."
Shen Qingye said: "So far, we have not found any information that Zhou Xiangyun and his wife have ever had any grudges against anyone, nor have they had any emotional entanglements with anyone, and it's not like they are doing it for money... In this case, it's difficult to identify the suspect. It's better to find another way, maybe there will be unexpected gains."
Yue Lingchuan knocked on the table and said, "Xiao Shen is right. The biggest difference between this case and other cases is that the murderer took the fetus away after killing the victim. Normally, the murderer would be eager to distance himself from the victim after committing the crime, fearing that the police would find him. But the murderer took the fetus away in a very abnormal way. Although the crime happened late at night and not many people noticed him, there was still some risk. Why would the murderer take the risk to do this?"
Wei Zhengyi guessed: "This fetus... is useful to him? Maybe it's even very important to him?"
Zhou Qiming said, "Like Xiao Shen said, we normal people cannot guess the murderer's thoughts. Wasn't there someone who killed someone because the flowers she grew were drowned by the water dripping from the clothes drying on the windowsill? The motive can be found out after the murderer is caught and interrogated. What's important now is to identify the suspect first."
Yue Lingchuan sat back in the swivel chair, spinning the black fountain pen under his slender fingertips. He looked up at Shen Qingye and asked, "What do you think, Xiao Shen?"
Shen Qingye cleared his throat and said seriously, "That's what I think."
"We have deduced before that the murderer should be someone Zhou Xiangyun knew. Otherwise, no matter how brave Zhou Xiangyun was, he would not open the door to a stranger in the middle of the night."
"But we asked Ge Weiqing, Zhou Xiangyun's friends and colleagues, and investigated all the people they said Zhou Xiangyun was familiar with and got along well with, but we didn't get anything. So I guess this person should not have known Ge Weiqing for a long time, and she should have consciously not let Zhou Xiangyun's relatives and friends know about her existence."
Zhou Qiming frowned: "So, the other party's actions were premeditated?"
Jiang Cheng said: "If he really came for the child...it's not impossible."
Yue Lingchuan said: "Xiao Shen, please continue."
Shen Qingye continued: "So I think that since the other party wants to get to know Zhou Xiangyun, there must be an opportunity for them to get to know each other."
"But I still say that when Zhou Xiangyun is working, she is at the company with her colleagues; when she is resting, she is at home with her friends and Ge Weiqing. It is very likely that these people do not know who she wants to make friends with. After all, those who can come to her in the middle of the night should be more than just a simple acquaintance."
Wei Zhengyi nodded as he listened: "That's right."
Shen Qingye continued, "So, I'm thinking that the place where the murderer knew Zhou Xiangyun and usually interacted with him, most likely only Zhou Xiangyun would go there."
Yue Lingchuan's eyebrows moved slightly, and he seemed to feel something in his heart.
Shen Qingye asked: "Is there any place where Zhou Xiangyun is most likely the only one going?"
Wei Zhengyi and Luo Kaiyang looked at each other, and Yue Lingchuan calmly uttered two words:
"Hospital."
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"We started preparing for pregnancy at the beginning of the year, so Xiaoyun was very concerned about her physical condition. When she was just over a month pregnant, her usually stable menstruation did not come, and she realized something was wrong. She went to the hospital for a check-up and found out that she was pregnant."
"We were very happy at the time. After all, we had been married for several years. Now everything is right. We have a child and feel that our lives are complete."
"Prenatal checkup? Oh yes, I accompanied her when she went to the hospital for her first checkup. We both had some guesses in mind that time, so we picked a day off and went together."
"Then... she had a routine prenatal checkup, and I wanted to accompany her, but the company was quite busy at that time. I wanted to ask for leave, but she said it was unnecessary, as the pregnancy was still young and she could be alone. She told me to work hard in the company, and it would be easier to ask for leave after the baby was born. If I kept asking for leave from my boss now, it would leave a bad impression on him, which would be bad later..."
"I thought about it and didn't insist..."
Ge Weiqing carefully recalled what happened at that time. Shen Qingye listened and asked again: "How many times has Zhou Xiangyun been to the hospital since she became pregnant?"
Ge Weiqing said without thinking: "Except for the first time we went together, there were two prenatal checkups in total."
"She was alone both times?"
"Yes. I have mentioned before whether to let her mother come to take care of her for a while, but she is very stubborn and thinks it is nothing and doesn't want to trouble the elderly, so she goes by herself."
"So after she came back from those two prenatal checkups, did she mention anyone to you?"
"People?" Ge Weiqing was stunned: "Who?"
Shen Qingye looked at him steadily: "For example, someone she met in the hospital, and you may have never seen this person before, nor have you heard of him from her."
Ge Weiqing frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "As for people... She told me that when she went there for the first time, the doctor was very nice and even let her take a look after taking the ultrasound. But when she went there for the second time, the doctor lost his patience and kept urging her to hurry up. She even complained to me when she came back..."
"And then there are..." He pondered, trying to dig out something from the depths of his memory: "There are also pregnant women who are in poor health. When she went for a prenatal checkup, she met a pregnant woman who was pushed in by a car. She said that she accidentally stretched when hanging clothes, and she had bleeding. At that time, their doctors all ran over... And, and -"
He suddenly thought of something and clapped his hands: "Oh, I remember now!"
"Xiao Yun told me before that when she went for her first prenatal checkup, she met a pregnant woman who, like her, also came alone!"
"The woman seemed to say that her husband was busy and her in-laws didn't take it seriously. Even for prenatal checkups, she had to come alone."
"That woman seemed to be in the same period as Xiaoyun, and they were about the same age. They both came alone, so they had a lot in common. They even chatted for a while while waiting for the examination."
"Oh, by the way, when I went for the prenatal checkup last time, Xiaoyun told me that she saw that pregnant woman again. What a coincidence, they both had their prenatal checkups at the same time!"
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan looked at each other and immediately asked, "What's that person's name?"
Ge Weiqing patted his head and said in annoyance, "I don't know. I haven't asked. Just like, remember Xiaoyun called her... Xiaotan?"
Upon hearing this, Wei Zhengyi immediately went out to make a phone call to check. After a while, he came back with a very grim look on his face:
"Boss, the obstetrics and gynecology department of the First Municipal Hospital replied that during the two days when Zhou Xiangyun had her prenatal checkup, there was no record of a pregnant woman named Xiao Tan visiting the hospital."
"Whether it's a surname or a given name, there's no one named Tan."
"Even in the past two months, their hospital hasn't admitted any pregnant women called Xiao Tan."
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