Chapter 206: Never Lose
The next time they saw Xu Nian and the others was at 10 a.m. Because Li Feng was difficult to deal with and the progress at the forensic department was slow, Guan Xia and Pang Le simply returned to Lijia Village to see if they could help in any way.
Wang Yu stayed at the police station, following the situation there and keeping in touch with them at any time.
It has only been two days since I last came to Lijia Village, but my mood has changed a lot, and the atmosphere is also very different.
The village was still the same village, and the scenery was still as beautiful, but the villagers had lost their leisurely mood, and the tourists had lost interest in continuing their vacation. When Guan Xia came back by bus, she saw that everyone was in a hurry. The villagers were asking around for news about Li Feng and his daughter. The tourists were curious and worried about this sudden change, and many of them simply checked out and left.
Guan Xia and Pang Le both saw several groups of people carrying suitcases hurriedly getting into cars and leaving the holiday villa where they had stayed before.
When they entered the villa where Li Feng and Li Miao lived, Xu Nian and the local police technical team had not finished their work, but the corpse had been completely taken out of the wall and had been sent to the local police station when Guan Xia arrived.
The technical team dispersed throughout the villa to search for evidence. It took Guan Xia and Pang Le some time to find Xu Nian's people.
He was in Li Feng's study, searching inside and out with his gloves on. He heard the two men's footsteps, looked back, then stood up and asked, "Are you back? What was the result of Li Miao's interrogation?"
Guan Xia recounted last night's interrogation with a headache.
Xu Nian didn't immediately analyze the case. Instead, he took off his gloves, pulled out two candies from his pocket, and handed one to Guan Xia and Pang Le. Then he said, "Actually, the situation isn't that bad. Although we don't have clear evidence, we have Li Miao's confession and the recording of Li Feng while drunk, which can't be counted as evidence. So, we can at least bring Wu Yang in to the police station to cooperate with the investigation."
Guan Xia's brows didn't relax as she looked at him and asked, "And then what? Conduct a fruitless interrogation and then let him walk out of the police station unharmed? What impact will this have? Will it affect his company's stock price?"
Guan Xia was not angry with Xu Nian. She was trying to find joy in the midst of hardship and followed Xu Nian's words to be optimistic.
Pang Le was eating candy with a puzzled expression.
Xu Nian smiled and said, "Then we can obtain Wu Yang's fingerprints and DNA information very reasonably and naturally."
Guan Xia hadn't expected this and was startled. "You mean..."
Xu Nian said: "So far, all the clues we have about this case show that we have not found the first crime committed by Wu Yang. Perhaps Wu Yang was also involved in the murder of Li Song, but based on the existing clues, I guess that Wu Yang was at best the person who made the decision, not the one who did it. So even if we try our best to track him down, we can only prove Li Feng's guilt. Looking at Li Feng's personality and behavior, he obviously won't give Wu Yang away. So what we can do is to get Li Feng's confession and hand over this case to the people from the special task force as soon as possible. We will continue to hurry up and find the first case."
Guan Xia was stunned again when she heard this. She didn't expect that during the time when she was interrogating Li Miao, Xu Nian had made the next plan so decisively.
However, this point coincided with Guan Xia's. When she was interrogating Li Miao, she felt that the investigation did not meet their expectations and that staying would be a waste of time. That was why the first question she asked Wang Yu after walking out of the interrogation room was when the task force would arrive.
Guan Xia inexplicably felt that she and Xu Nian were becoming more and more in sync with each other in certain aspects. She nodded and said, "Okay, Wang Yu told me that the fastest batch of people organized by the special task force will arrive at noon, which means we can set off at noon. How should we investigate the next case and where should we investigate? Do you have any ideas?"
Xu Nian replied, "Do you remember the information we discussed in the meeting in Yongquan City? There was a case that happened when Wu Yang was in high school?"
Guan Xia nodded again, "Do you suspect that Wu Yang was responsible for this case?"
Xu Nian said, "A violent father, a weak mother, and students who were forced to drop out of school because they couldn't take the college entrance exam—these points are too similar to the cases of Zhang Weiyan, Wang Huiqin, and Yao Qingyan. Even if it's not the first case, it's very likely that Wu Yang personally committed the crime and left behind clues."
Pang Le suddenly said while eating candy, "Although the deceased's daughter didn't know Wu Yang and wasn't even in the same class, neither Zhang Weiyan nor Wang Huiqin, the murderer nor the deceased, knew each other. This one point in common alone makes me think it's worth the trip."
Guan Xia only thought about it for two seconds before nodding, "In that case, let's investigate the case next. If we leave at noon, then we have to cancel our stay first."
Xu Nian said: "Don't worry about this, someone will help us deal with it. Aren't you curious whether there is any murder evidence left by Li Feng in this house?"
Guan Xia was immediately attracted by Xu Nian's words. She was indeed curious, otherwise she would not have come back.
So the three people who had just gathered together separated again. Xu Nian still stayed in the study, while Guan Xia and Pang Le went to Li Miao's bedroom on the second floor.
Because the fire was put out in time, the second floor was not seriously affected.
As soon as she entered the bedroom, Guan Xia saw the dressing table that had been moved aside. A small hole had been dug out in the wall next to the dressing table with a tool. It was obvious that the technical team had found the recorder containing Li Feng's important testimony after drinking based on Li Miao's confession and sent it back to the local police station.
After taking a quick glance and looking away, Guan Xia began to look around the very large bedroom.
Putting aside the twisted family affection and deep hatred between Li Feng and Li Miao, just looking at the material aspects, it can be seen that Li Feng cares about Li Miao. Whether it is a bed with very high-end workmanship and materials, or a soft carpet covering the entire floor of the room, if it were placed in an ordinary family, it can indeed illustrate the love of parents for their children, but for Li Feng, money is the thing he has the most and the thing he cherishes the least.
While Guan Xia was observing, Pang Le had already put on gloves and started groping on the wall. Perhaps for convenience, Pang Le simply found a box made of a harder material and kept knocking on the wall.
Guan Xia could tell without guessing that it must be Li Feng and Li Miao's habit of hiding things that gave Pang Le the inspiration to think that there was something else in the wall.
But unfortunately, Pang Le knocked on almost every wall in the bedroom, but found nothing. However, Guan Xia found several notebooks taped to the back of Li Miao's bed.
When Guan Xia pulled the things out from under the bed, Pang Le said in surprise, "There are still people writing diaries these days. Isn't Li Miao afraid that Li Feng will find out and silence her?"
Guan Xia's first reaction when she saw the notebook was that Li Miao used it to write a diary, but when she opened it, she realized that it was actually a series of paintings. From the lines and painting style that gradually transitioned from immature to skilled, it was clear that this was a habit Li Miao had maintained for many years.
Guan Xia flipped through the pages, becoming increasingly silent as she read. Pang Le was also a little taken aback and said, "These paintings are all of Lü Xiangmei."
Guan Xia sighed.
It is indeed as Pang Le said, in so many notebooks, every page is about Lv Xiangmei. At the beginning, there were Lv Xiangmei in different scenes, with different expressions and different clothes, but as time passed, there gradually became only one scene.
Guan Xia guessed that this should be the last meeting between Li Miao and her mother that left a deep impression on her. In the painting, Lv Xiangmei was wearing a loose red skirt, but she looked slender, with a gentle smile on her face. Through Li Miao's increasingly mature painting style, one can also see that the pair of eyes drawn with lines are full of love for Li Miao.
Just looking at this painting, no one would believe that a mother who looks at her child with such loving eyes would one day abandon her child.
Guan Xia couldn't help but think in her heart that it was no wonder that Li Miao was so painful and resentful after being brainwashed by Li Feng and then waking up. Because during the years when Li Miao was brainwashed by Li Feng, in Li Miao's subconscious, she knew that her mother had always loved her, and she had always loved her mother, otherwise she would not have painted one painting after another. It was just a pity that she had received the most passionate and unrequited love in the world, but was eventually forced to lose it.
Guan Xia sighed and roughly flipped through the painting.
Pang Le suddenly said, "Although Li Miao set a fire this time, her original intention was not to hurt anyone. There shouldn't be any serious consequences, right?"
Guan Xia thought about it and shook her head. "Probably not. After all, she set the fire in her own house, and her ultimate goal was to expose Li Feng's murder. Even if it goes to court, the judge will consider it at the trial."
Pang Le breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good. Although we've investigated several cases, I still feel a little sorry for Li Miao. She's been deceived her entire life and has been controlled against her will. Now that I think about it, she's quite amazing. She was only five years old when her mother was murdered, and she was deceived for so many years, yet she always remembered her mother and ultimately went to such lengths to seek justice for her mother."
Guan Xia also said, "Yes, she is really brave. She set fire to her own house and even locked herself in the room and smashed the wall to let her mother's body see the light of day. In fact, if you think about it carefully, if any of these steps had gone wrong, she could easily have died in the fire."
Pang Le was silent for a moment, then continued, "Actually, I have a question I haven't figured out yet. Why was she so anxious? She waited all these years, but why did she tell us that she would set this fire regardless of whether the police came to investigate or not? She also said that Li Feng wouldn't live long. I used to think it was because Li Feng had been arrested. He had killed several people, and he would most likely be sentenced to death. But now that I think about it, I feel like something is wrong."
After hearing what Pang Le said, Guan Xia recalled it and spoke hesitantly, "Actually, I feel the same way. Do you remember what she said when we were interrogating Li Miao? She said that Li Feng thought he could take all the secrets to the grave, but she insisted on revealing everything while he was still alive. She also said that he wanted to die of old age and was dreaming. I always feel that Li Miao's words have meaning."
Guan Xia pondered over this and exchanged glances with Pang Le. After a few seconds, Guan Xia thought of a possibility and said, "Could it be that... Li Feng is sick?"
Pang Le subconsciously said, "Brain disease? After all, judging from the clues we have found, it seems that Li Feng does have some brain problems now."
Guan Xia thought for a second and shook her head, "Probably not. During the interrogation, Li Miao said that the reason Li Feng was so suspicious was because Li Miao had done something in private."
Pang Le also remembered those confessions and fell silent.
Just as the two were deep in thought, Xu Nian walked in with a file bag. The first thing he said was, "I found Li Feng's medical report from two weeks ago. He's sick. He has advanced esophageal cancer."
These five words immediately made some of Li Miao's motives more reasonable. No wonder she had been waiting for several years, but decided to take the risk at this time when everything was not yet fully prepared. It turned out that Li Feng was dying, and Li Miao didn't want him to spend his last period of time comfortably enjoying a good reputation. She wanted him to get the punishment he deserved. She wanted him to die under the judgment of the law, rather than die on a hospital bed where he would be sympathized and pitied. She wanted him to be despised by everyone.
After reading Li Feng's medical report handed over by Xu Nian, Guan Xia said with emotion: "Fortunately, we arrived in time and learned the truth as quickly as possible. Otherwise, if we waited until we received the news and rushed here, I'm afraid Wu Yang would have received it as well. If we were to investigate any clues by then, I'm afraid we would encounter countless obstacles. I have a feeling that our next move will not go smoothly."
Xu Nian took the medical examination report that Guan Xia had handed over after reading it, and put it back into the file bag while saying, "No matter if it goes smoothly or not, I have a feeling that we will eventually find solid evidence and Wu Yang will be brought to justice. After all, there are so many people standing behind us."
Guan Xia also laughed, thinking that what Xu Nian said was right. Although the criminal organization centered on Wu Yang was a behemoth, it was still a villain after all. In this world where criminal investigation and literature were integrated, good would never prevail over evil. She never worried that they would lose.
She always believed that they would win and would never lose.
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