Chapter 94 Chapter 94 The Third Drawing
Cao Tian cursed: "This old woman is really sick in the brain. Shuangshuang and I are getting along well, but this old woman insisted on breaking up with me."
Pei Qing asked: "Why does Chu Ping want Chu Shuang to break up with you?"
Cao Tian gritted his teeth and said, "Who knows what this old woman is thinking! Fortunately, both of us in my family supported me and did not listen to her."
Pei Qing: "There must be a reason why she doesn't like you. According to what you said, Chu Ping killed Qin Man and put the blame on you. Why? She just wanted to go to jail herself."
Cao Tian looked at the ceiling and still insisted on his own explanation: "It was Chu Ping who did it. She doesn't like me or Qin Man. This old woman is a psychopath. I was discussing business with a client before, and this old woman actually came to follow me. I was having dinner with someone in the private room, and she ran outside the room and pretended to be a waiter. Tsk!"
Cao Tian: "Does she think I'm blind? Can't find her?"
Pei Qing and Xu An will verify Cao Tian's statement later.
The problem now is that Chu Ping said that it was Cao Tian who beat Qin Man to death and asked her to hide the body, while Cao Tian said that Chu Ping was secretly dissatisfied with both Cao Tian and Qin Man, so Chu Ping killed Qin Man herself and put the blame on him.
Xu An glanced at Pei Qingji's notes.
He asked Cao Tian: "Chu Ping killed Qin Man and put the blame on you, what about Chu Shuang? Does she know about this?"
Cao Tian paused for a moment, but soon he made a choice: "They all know! It must be Chu Shuang who secretly opened the door for Chu Ping and let Chu Ping in."
Cao Tian spoke more and more fluently: "It must be Chu Ping. She and her daughter conspired to frame me for this."
Pei Qing glanced at Cao Tian. She certainly had no good feelings towards this man who wanted to get promoted and get rich in exchange for his wife. But Cao Tian pushed the matter to Chu Ping and Chu Shuang so smoothly without any hesitation. Pei Qing still cursed him in her heart.
Men really think they are the most important.
Xu An asked Cao Tian again: "What were you doing on the night of the 14th?"
What Cao Tian said was consistent with what was seen in the surveillance video.
"On the evening of the 14th, I took Chu Shuangxian to a restaurant for dinner. The restaurant was too crowded and noisy, so we didn't eat in. We took some food back to the villa in the suburbs. I drank some wine during the meal, and I drank too much and fell asleep."
Cao Tian leaned against the chair and said, "It must be Chu Shuang and Chu Ping. They killed Qin Man while I was asleep and wanted to put the blame on me!"
Pei Qing rolled his eyes.
Xu An didn't believe it either.
Cao Tian was anxious: "Why would I kill Qin Man? It was Chu Ping who did it!"
Forced into a corner, Cao Tian told the truth.
"When Qin Man and I were looking for a lady, Chu Ping found us. The old woman was dissatisfied with us at that time! She did it on purpose! She has been a widow for so many years, and she still wants to control us!"
*
The interrogation of Cao Tian has come to a temporary end.
Xu An and Pei Qing went to find Chu Shuang again.
Pei Qing first showed Chu Shuang the contents of Cao Tian’s transcript.
Chu Shuang took a look, his eyes slightly red, choked up, and lowered his head again.
A few strands of her hair hung down from her head, looking exceptionally smooth.
Pei Qing said to Chu Shuang: "You have to think carefully. If your testimony is consistent with Cao Tian, then your mother and you will become serious criminals. It's not worth it for someone like Cao Tian."
Chu Shuang: "Can you let me think about it alone?"
Pei Qing looked at Xu An. Xu An did not refuse, but nodded to Chu Shuang.
"Then think about it, think carefully."
He took Pei Qing out of the interrogation room.
The case is currently at a stalemate, with Chu Ping accusing Cao Tian of beating Qin Man to death, while Cao Tian claims that Chu Ping and Chu Shuang conspired to kill Qin Man and then pinned the blame on him.
Each party has its own opinion, and evidence is needed next.
*
Xu An asked his colleagues from the trace inspection department to go to Cao An's suburban villa.
The trace detection department will conduct a carpet search of the suburban villa to see if there are any traces left by Qin Man inside or outside the villa.
Their work was very tedious and they couldn't get any results for a while, so Xu An and Pei Qing returned to the interrogation room again.
Chu Shuang calmed down and explained to Xu An and Pei Qing: "It was Cao Tian. Cao Tian forced me to do this."
There was a faint cry in her voice.
"Cao Tian accidentally beat Qin Man to death, and then he remembered that my mother used to be a nurse, and she must know how to clean up the mess, so I called my mother over, and you all know what happened afterwards."
Chu Shuang's testimony was consistent with Chu Ping's, but completely opposite to Cao Tian's testimony.
The case remains at a stalemate.
Xu An, Pei Qing and Yang Xingping discussed in the office for a while. Putting aside any subjective feelings, they believed that what the three suspects said was not credible and that effective evidence was needed to prove who was responsible for Qin Man's death.
The trace inspection department conducted a carpet search of Cao An's suburban villa based on the inspection results of the trace inspection personnel.
Xu An, Pei Qing and Yang Xingping interrogated Cao Tian, Chu Shuang and Chu Ping respectively.
Cao Tian's words were the same as before, without changing a single word.
According to him, he ate, drank, went to bed and fell asleep, and he had no idea what happened afterwards.
No matter how Xu An asked, he insisted on this statement.
Chu Shuang and Chu Ping said the same thing.
Both of them said that Cao Tian brought Qin Man into the villa, and then the two had an argument in the living room.
Cao Tian took a tennis bat and hit Qin Man on the ground repeatedly, causing Qin Man's death.
Xu An looked at the trace inspection personnel's findings and asked Chu Ping first: "Where was Qin Man in the villa when you arrived? Draw it!"
Chu Ping took the pen handed to her by Xu An and drew circles on a three-dimensional picture.
Pei Qing stared at her and found that Chu Ping's hands were shaking a little.
"Are you nervous?"
Chu Ping didn't answer, but after finishing the painting, she returned the drawing to Xu An.
A new picture was handed to Chu Shuang, and the position of Chu Shuang's drawing was the same as Chu Ping's.
After coming out of the interrogation room, Xu An discussed the matter with the people from the trace examination department.
A colleague from the Trace Inspection Department said seriously, "I still stick to my point of view. The marks on the floor of Cao'an Villa are not splattered blood, and do not meet the conditions given by the forensic doctor for blunt force trauma. We searched the yard inside the villa and found no traces of blood on the soil or the ground. If the deceased was really carried from the villa to the car, he might have been wrapped in something. Have you found similar materials?"
Yang Xingping: "No. Neither in the house where the body was found nor in the Mercedes-Benz."
Xu An: "Where is the car? Could you please do a blood analysis on the back seat?"
The trace inspection personnel worked tirelessly to check the car. If the trunk of the car was stained with blood, it would be difficult to clean it.
Trace examiners did find bloodstains in the back seat of the car, but based on analysis of the remaining bloodstains, the bloodstains in the back seat did not meet the conditions for death from hemorrhage.
Moreover, the bloodstains are complete and there are no signs of obstruction.
In other words, Qin Man, who was in the trunk at the time, was not wrapped by anything. He might not be dead, but just unconscious.
The trace detection personnel and the forensic department discussed and concluded that the villa was not the primary crime scene.
Then the testimonies of Chu Shuang and Chu Ping are very suspicious.
It was already September 26th. With the help of the trace examination and forensic departments, Pei Qing, Xu An and Yang Xingping shifted the focus of the case to Chu Shuang and Chu Ping.
"Chu Shuang and Chu Ping are lying. Why?"
Pei Qing looked at the very detailed report given by the trace inspection department and scratched his head, very puzzled.
"Why did Chu Ping and Chu Shuang go to such great lengths to frame Cao Tian? Do they really think they can succeed? Modern criminal investigation technology is constantly developing. This is not the 1950s or 1960s."
Yang Xingping: "Look for the motive. There must be a motive. Is it for money?"
Xu An: "We haven't even got the marriage certificate, what's the point of trying to get rich!"
Yang Xingping: "So it's a relationship issue? They've been dating for several years but they're not getting married. Chu Shuang is not happy about that?"
Pei Qing: "Not really. If this man is not good enough, just change him."
The three men couldn't figure out the motive for the crime and headed towards the interrogation room again.
Before he even reached the interrogation room, a policeman came towards Xu An carrying a bag of cell phones.
"Brother Xu, there's a cell phone inside that keeps ringing. I think it's the cell phone of the man you arrested."
Before he could finish his words, a black cell phone rang again.
Xu An took out his cell phone and looked at the caller ID.
"Mother."
The phone kept ringing, and Xu An answered it.
"Hello, Municipal Public Security Bureau..." Before Xu An finished his words, the sound of a woman crying came from the phone.
"Lao Cao, come here quickly, our son——"
The woman cried miserably.
"Our son——"
She choked several times before she spoke.
"Our son is gone, those little beasts should all die—"
A sharp voice cut her throat. Xu An communicated with her repeatedly several times before the woman understood the situation.
At the same time, Xu An also understood the whole story from the woman's stumbling words.
Cao Shuilian, the son of Cao Tian and his ex-wife, went swimming in the wild with a few dropouts and unfortunately drowned.
*
Pei Qing and Xu An arrived at Changze Lake.
Lake Changze is an artificial lake. At this time, the sky is clear and the air is fresh. A weak autumn breeze blows on the surface of the lake, creating layer upon layer of ripples.
Pei Qing first looked at the yellow sign standing by the lake.
"The lake is deep, wild swimming is prohibited."
In addition to this yellow sign, every 200 meters along the lake, there is a loudspeaker shouting:
"The lake is deep, and wild swimming is prohibited. As of September 1, 2015, the death toll from wild swimming this year has reached 78. We declare again that wild swimming is dangerous. For the sake of your own life and health safety, wild swimming is prohibited. Violators will be fined..."
The loudspeaker kept repeating, Pei Qing kept walking inside and heard a woman's crying.
"Son, son——"
The cries of the mother who had lost her son were heartbreaking, and some of the onlookers who couldn't bear it paced outside.
Pei Qing sighed.
Yang Xingping stayed in the police station. The phone was connected at this time, and he could also hear the voice coming from the headphones.
"Was it an accident?"
Pei Qing watched Xu An weaving through the crowd and blocking two children with colorfully dyed hair.
The two children were held back and couldn't leave.
Pei Qing said to Yang Xingping: "It looks like they came out for a wild swim together. We're not sure if it was an accident."
Yang Xingping: “The drowning prevention education was in vain.”
Pei Qing watched Xu An lecturing a few children. Some of the children argued anxiously, but were scolded back by Xu An.
Pei Qing walked to Cao Tian’s ex-wife, her throat was hoarse from crying.
She heard people around her say, "What a pity! We raised such a big child, and now he's gone."
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