Chapter 39: Young Man’s Lament 17: Innocent
Chapter 17
Liu Wei shook his head gently: "No."
Lu Changfeng asked again: "Then do you know why she didn't take the high school entrance examination?"
Liu Wei shook his head again: "I don't know."
"Do you remember the last time you saw Jiang Yue?"
"It was the day she returned to school to get her transfer certificate, and she went back to the classroom to pack her things."
"Do you remember the exact date?"
"I don't remember, I just remember it was not long after school started. Maybe March or April." Liu Wei gave an approximate date.
He asked, "Is Jiang Yue in trouble?"
Lu Changfeng: "Why do you ask?"
Liu Wei lowered his head and looked at his fingers. "We agreed to keep in touch, but she never contacted me after she left. I thought I would meet her in the county high school, but I didn't. I met her father, and her father said she was studying in the town's high school, but I asked her former classmates, and they said Jiang Yue didn't study in the town."
"Why do you care about her so much?" Lu Changfeng asked.
Liu Wei said: "I was able to get into the town's high school thanks to her unremitting help. She pushed me to study and taught me seriously when I didn't know how to solve a problem. Although her family was not well off, she did not complain about herself. She was like a tough bamboo, breaking through the ground and growing upwards, never giving in. We agreed to work hard together to get into college. She was eager to change her fate with knowledge, but since she left school, I have never heard from her again..."
Lu Changfeng said: "We, the police, have no news about her at the moment."
Liu Wei was a little disappointed, then said, "No news is better than bad news."
Lu Changfeng asked: "Do you know Tang Wenxuan and Ma Shanping?"
He listed the photos of several people and asked Liu Wei to identify them.
Liu Wei said: "Of course I know them. We all live in the same town. The town is not that big. I have to pass by their house every day after school."
Lu Changfeng: "Have they ever bullied anyone?"
Liu Wei did not answer immediately, and his hesitation attracted the attention of Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue.
But he finally chose to say he didn't know.
Lu Changfeng didn't want to force him. Even the teachers avoided him. It was normal for him, a high school student, not to dare to speak.
"Do you know the reason why the teachers in your school resigned en masse?"
Liu Wei still shook his head, "I don't know."
"Then your former class teacher Fang Shengjie suddenly resigned. Do you know the reason for this?"
Liu Wei was silent for a while and still said he didn't know.
After leaving the school, Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue found a restaurant to eat.
Jing Jue sighed, "No matter what we ask, he says he doesn't know. How can we investigate further?"
Lu Changfeng took a sip of tea and refilled Jing Jue's cup. "Drink some water. You are not at the end of your rope yet. Don't get discouraged."
Jing Jue picked up the teacup and drank the water. "Obviously they know everything, but they just won't say it. That's what's annoying."
"With so many people keeping silent, the matter must be serious. It's normal for them to have concerns if their lives are in danger." Lu Changfeng calmed Jing Jue's emotions.
Lu Changfeng thought about how when he was Jing Jue’s age, he followed his master to investigate cases and was also so anxious and wanted to catch the murderer immediately.
After countless years of polishing, he can also be as calm and composed as his master back then.
Jing Jue is young now, full of blood and enthusiasm.
After dinner, the two went to the county public security bureau to meet with the county criminal police.
Jing Jue asked Lu Changfeng: "Do you think I am annoying and impatient?"
Lu Changfeng shook his head: "No, I went through the same thing as you did. This is the only way for a rookie to become a veteran."
He said to Jing Jue: "Don't think there's anything wrong with being like this. To be a police officer, you have to be persistent and have the determination to pursue the truth. If you are indifferent to everything and lack enthusiasm, you can't be a good police officer."
Hearing Lu Changfeng say this, Jing Jue felt warm in his heart.
When the car drove into the county bureau, the captain of the criminal police brigade of the county bureau was already waiting for them in the yard.
After Jing Jue and Lu Changfeng got out of the car, they walked up to shake hands with them.
"I've been waiting for you guys to come."
Lu Changfeng quickly said, "Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
Captain Zhao waved his hand and said, "Let's talk while we walk. We checked based on the clues you gave us, and we did find out something."
"That's great. Maybe what you found is the key to solving the case."
Several people arrived at the meeting room.
After the two parties got to know each other, Captain Zhao began to explain to them what he had found.
"According to our investigation, not only did no one in the Jiang family win the lottery, but the house they live in was not purchased by them. Although the house is registered under their names, they were not the ones who paid for it."
Captain Zhao pulled up the payer's information. "Lou Xingning, 33 years old, president of Lingxing Media Tourism Culture Co., Ltd. in Zhucheng. The funds for the purchase of this house came from his account."
"We went to ask Jiang Yue's father, and he hesitantly said that Lou Xingning gave them the house because Jiang Yue had outstanding academic performance and it was a reward for their family. When we asked about Jiang Yue's residence, they said that Jiang Yue was studying at Yulong High School, and then they said that the child had run away on his own and they didn't know where he went."
"We checked Lou Xingning. He was sued by the company for suspected occupational embezzlement. He is no longer in China. His family is still in China, and we have sent people to find his family to inquire about the situation. Lingxing Media is a subsidiary of Lingxing International, which is a well-known company in our city. They are involved in a wide range of businesses. At first, they were engaged in catering, and later they started to engage in real estate, transportation operations, homestay tourism, commercial cities, hospitals, etc. They also have special logistics and agricultural assistance platforms. They use their tourism business development combined with local logistics to promote our local agricultural products to all parts of the country in various forms, create many agricultural product brands, and support the local economy. They are our key cooperative enterprises in Chengcheng."
Jing Jue was completely confused and had no idea what it was all about.
The first thing that came to Lu Changfeng’s mind was Qiu Shaoyang’s Qilin Real Estate, which was a key cooperation partner in the entire southwest region.
He asked Captain Zhao: "You mean Lingxing International used his business to drive the economic development of Yancheng, and their business is deeply tied to the economy of Yancheng?"
Captain Zhao nodded: "Yes."
Jing Jue thought of the bunch of mushroom gift boxes that Lu Changfeng bought, and asked Captain Zhao, "Is the mushroom breeding base in Bailong Town also theirs?"
"right."
Lu Changfeng asked: "Is Jiang Yue's scholarship for studying also awarded by this company?"
Captain Zhao said, "That's right. It was established by Sun Junwei, the CEO of Lingxing International, in his personal name."
"Sun Junwei is also a well-known philanthropist in our city of Zhen. The bus tickets to various towns here are very cheap. For example, it only costs 15 yuan per person to take a bus from here to Bailong Town. His company subsidizes half of the price, so that everyone can travel at a lower cost and can go to the city anytime they want. The breeding bases in various places are also helping farmers very well. If the land is requisitioned, it will be considered as a share, and dividends will be given at the end of the year. The land of my wife's family was requisitioned, and they can get more than 10,000 yuan a year."
It sounds like a really good people's entrepreneur.
From the deaths of five high school students all the way to the unknown origin of Jiang Yue's house, Lu Changfeng couldn't make any suspicions without any evidence.
"First find out where Jiang Yue is. It's impossible for a person to disappear out of thin air."
"Okay, we will continue to follow up on this matter and let you know as soon as we have any news."
The three parties held an online meeting together.
Yue Fanglin: "No one has come to me to provide clues yet."
Wang Qi said: "We are still trying to contact those teachers and ask them for useful clues, but there has been no progress so far."
Lu Changfeng informed Wang Qi and Yue Fanglin of what they had investigated so far.
"I think we still need to get them to talk through the matter of the judges, otherwise this case will be a dead end. Even if Jiang Yue is missing, it does not mean that her disappearance is definitely related to Tang Wenxuan and others. Lou Xingning has fled abroad for fear of crime. It seems that they are all related to each other, but in fact there is a lack of a thread to connect the clues of the case. I want to leave Jiang Yue's matter to the comrades of the Lang County Public Security Bureau to continue to investigate."
After thinking about it, Yue Fanglin supported Lu Changfeng's idea. "Then we will take action tomorrow. Gather the families of the five deceased and do some ideological work on them. As for the teachers who have resigned, let Captain Wang take charge. What do you think?"
Wang Qi said: "I will fully cooperate with your actions."
They thoroughly finalized the words they would use to talk to these people tomorrow, and by the time the discussion was over, it was already late at night.
Lu Changfeng was so sleepy that his eyelids were drooping and he fell asleep immediately.
They also had to rush back to Bailong Town to do ideological work for the family members.
After all the trouble, by the time Lu Changfeng returned to the Bailong Town Police Station, his waist was so painful that he could hardly stand up straight.
The families of the five families have been notified and have been invited to the police station's conference room.
Everyone is still immersed in the grief of the death of a family member and has not yet come out of it.
Lu Changfeng looked at everyone and said, "Your child has been laid to rest, but things are far from over. I called everyone here this time because I have something to tell you."
When everyone's eyes fell on him, he pointed to the people on his left and right and said, "I want to introduce myself to you again. My name is Lu Changfeng, and I am the deputy team leader of the Ninth Investigation Team of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Yancheng Criminal Investigation Bureau. The person on my left is the head of the team Yue Fanglin, and the two people on the right are members of our Ninth Team Zhou Yu and Jing Jue. We are responsible for investigating cases related to the Judge."
Yue Fanglin pressed the remote control, and the screen behind him lit up and began to play the content of the Judge's warning to all netizens. "The Judge made a lot of noise online some time ago. We are in a relatively remote mountainous area, so you may not know what kind of organization the Judge is. Now I can give you some basic knowledge."
After the video was finished, Yue Fanglin said, "The reason we are here is because your son was killed by the Judge organization."
Tang Wenxuan's father asked: "Since you know the murderer is the judge, why don't you catch them?"
Lu Changfeng said, "The judges kill people for what they call justice, and the victims they kill have all done bad things to some extent. Their appeal is for our police to find out what bad things the people they killed have done, and to seek justice for those who have been bullied. If this case does not progress, they will probably continue to kill people until someone is willing to come forward and tell the story of the bad things the deceased has done."
Lu Changfeng looked around at the families of the five victims. "As the closest people to them, you have more than one child in your family. If you continue to conceal it, the police will not be able to find out what they did. The case will enter a stagnation period. We should hand over the jurisdiction of the case to the local police and return to Yancheng. By then, your children will always have a butcher's knife hanging over their heads. Aren't you afraid?"
"First, your children, then you. Unless you take your children and hide in the mountains and forests for the rest of your life, the Judge will keep an eye on you all the time and will strike you a fatal blow when the time is right."
Tang Wenxuan's father said: "What judge? My child has never done anything bad. Our family is clean."
Ma Shanping's father also said: "That's right, our children have never done anything bad."
Yue Fanglin sneered, "The five of them bullied their classmates at Yulong High School. The students in the class can testify to this, and the teachers can also testify to this. I don't know where your family's so-called innocence comes from."
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