Chapter 285: Death Before Success
Li Yong explained that Old Man Liu was ill and had a tumor in his brain. The doctor recommended surgery, but the savings the old man had accumulated over the years were not enough to cover the cost of the operation.
So he decided not to treat it. Since he was old anyway, he decided to leave all his money and business to Dazhuang.
Li Yong said that he wanted to make some money to treat the old man, so he had another evil idea.
Shi Tao didn't believe it, so he immediately suspended the interrogation and said that he would go and ask Old Man Liu in person.
Judging from the transcript, Shi Tao should have received a positive response from Old Man Liu.
Because Shi Tao's first words after resuming the interrogation were, "Don't think you are being loyal and righteous by doing this. You are breaking the law and committing a crime. You will never change your bad habits."
However, when Zhou Yi saw this, he felt that there was another possibility.
Li Yong is definitely satisfied with his current life, but there is a prerequisite: Old Man Liu must be alive, because only when the old man is alive can he be his shield.
Once the old man dies, his cooked food business will be gone.
The first step is to change the qualifications of vendors in the vegetable market, which he cannot pass because he is not Liu Dazhuang, he is Li Yong.
Now that the old man is here, he doesn't have to worry about this problem. Once the old man is gone, he will have to live a life of hiding again.
So the old man was more like a parasitic host to him.
Of course he certainly couldn't admit it, because he had to pretend to be kind and repentant in order to win the judge's sympathy.
He confessed that it was for this reason that he agreed to rob a bank with Wang Ronghai.
But he hasn't figured out how to do it specifically.
It can be seen from Luo He’s gold shop robbery that he is not the kind of brainless reckless man who only knows how to rob, so he needs to select the target, conduct long-term surveillance, and formulate a robbery plan and escape route.
But Wang Ronghai couldn't wait that long, so he took the initiative to recruit Meng Qingtong to join the gang.
However, when Li Yong found out about it, he felt that it would cause more trouble. In order to avoid getting himself implicated, he found a reason to ask Wang Ronghai to stop living with Meng Qingtong. For this, he even gave the other party a few hundred yuan that he had saved.
He didn't know where Wang Ronghai lived exactly, he only knew that it was a small hotel in a certain area.
Li Yong’s interrogation ended here.
There are some detailed interrogations later about how they formulated the bank robbery plan.
Among them, the issue that Zhou Yi is most concerned about is their target.
Li Yong said he hadn't set a specific target. He said he had observed several banks and felt that robbing them would be difficult, and two people probably couldn't do it. But he didn't want to add more people because he was still wanted and couldn't trust others.
The several banks he visited were all some distance away from his current living area, which meant he deliberately avoided them.
Shi Tao asked him why he didn't rob a gold shop. Li Yong's answer was similar to what Zhou Yi had predicted at the time, which was mainly about selling the stolen goods.
Zhou Yi felt that if Li Yong thought robbing a bank was difficult, he would most likely lower the specifications of the robbery target from a bank to a savings bank.
However, it would be extremely difficult for him to confirm the connection between Li Yong and the June 14th Savings Bank case, because based on the current situation, he could not take the initiative to ask Li Yong whether he knew Han Weimin, or whether he had visited the savings bank on Linbei Road.
Because it cannot be explained logically.
Zhou Yi put down the notes and thought, is this the only way?
I can no longer verify whether the June 14th case has been resolved in advance, and the rest can only be left to God's will.
Suddenly, he thought of a possibility, because in the files of the June 14th case, when Song Yiming and Xu Nian performed the autopsy, one of the references they used to determine the time of the deceased's death was the digestion of food in the deceased's stomach.
Pork food residue was found in Han Weimin's stomach, but no pork was found in Zhang Guilan's stomach.
This is very common information, but when combined with the current case investigation results, it is quite different.
He immediately looked up the address book of all the units in Hongcheng, found the train station, and called.
After revealing his identity, Zhou Yi said he wanted to find Han Jiajia.
After waiting for seven or eight minutes, the phone was finally picked up. Han Jiajia asked doubtfully, "Is that Officer Zhou?"
"Hello, Miss Han, I have a question I would like to ask."
When Han Jiajia heard Zhou Yi's voice, she was still stunned. When her colleague called her, she said that a policeman called her. Her first reaction was Zhou Yi, but then she thought that Zhou Yi would not call her for no reason, so she couldn't help but get nervous, fearing that something had happened at home.
I didn't expect it to be Zhou Yi. "Wha...what?"
"Does your father usually prefer to eat pig's head?"
When Han Jiajia heard this question, her mind was full of question marks: "Huh?"
But he still replied: "He likes to eat it very much. He buys it several times every month. But my mother and I don't like to eat it."
"Then do you know where he buys the pig's head meat he usually eats?"
Han Jiajia felt that Zhou Yi's voice sounded a little excited.
"I don't know exactly where it is, but it should be not far from my house, because sometimes he goes out to buy pork heads instead of riding a bike, but walks there. Oh, I think I heard him casually say before that the owners are an elderly couple and they are very nice people."
All set! Han Weimin loves to eat pig's head meat and is a regular customer of the stall, which means he has some connections with Li Yong.
Although Li Yong is relatively low-key and doesn't talk much, as an old customer, the old man will probably chat with Han Weimin when he has nothing to do.
From the autopsy report of the June 14th case, we can know that Han Weimin ate pork that night, but Zhang Guilan did not, which is consistent with the information provided by Han Jiajia.
It is very likely that it was the conversation between Han Weimin and the old man when he was buying meat that made him Li Yong's target.
Even before going on duty that night, Han Weimin might have gone to Li Yong to buy his favorite pork head in order to reward himself, which led Li Yong to decide to commit the crime that night.
In the absence of other clues, how could Wu Yongcheng and others who investigated the case think of a small vendor selling pig heads? No matter how much they investigated the social relationships of Han Weimin and his wife, they could not find anything about him.
"Okay, I understand. Thank you." Zhou Yi hung up the phone.
Han Jiajia on the other end of the phone was confused. She called just to ask about pig's head meat?
Is there something wrong with this Officer Zhou's brain?
My previous favorable impression of Zhou Yi suddenly diminished a lot.
At this time, the colleague who had just called her asked, "What do the police want from you?"
"Nothing, just asked about my family situation."
"By the way, how about the guy Sister Wang introduced you to last time? Did it not work out?"
Han Jiajia thought for a moment and said, "It seems... not bad. Maybe I can try it again."
Zhou Yi had no idea about Han Jiajia's psychological changes. He was just glad that this time it was finally almost right.
On the night of June 14th, I went to wait near Linbei Road to confirm whether the case was really over.
When I looked up, I saw Qiao Jiali walking in.
"What's so good about you? It's written all over your face." Qiao Jiali asked with a smile.
"Team Shi helped Luo He catch a wanted criminal."
"Yeah, Captain Shi can do it."
"Sister Qiao, when will Captain Wu and the others be back?"
"It should be soon. It's already Friday. They've been gone for a week."
Zhou Yi nodded: "Almost."
Qiao Jiali gloated, "Captain Wu is going to be suffocated to death."
"Why?"
"Because every time Captain Wu went to the provincial capital with Director Xie, there were endless meetings. He said it made his head buzz, so he'd smoke during every meeting. Although everyone smoked, he was the most heavy smoker. Once, he smoked so much that Director Xu thought there was a fire. Since then, Director Xu has made a rule that smoking is prohibited during meetings."
Zhou Yi burst out laughing when he heard this. "Oh my god, Captain Wu is really going to die."
"That's right. Hey, Zhou Yi, do you think Captain Wu has been smoking a lot less recently?"
Zhou Yi nodded: "Sister Qiao, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it. It seems like it's really..."
Seeing Zhou Yi was silent, Qiao Jiali turned her head and saw that his brows were furrowed. Her heart skipped a beat. She hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"
After being reminded by Qiao Jiali, Zhou Yi discovered that Wu Yongcheng seemed to be smoking much less frequently recently.
When he first joined the Third Brigade, Zhou Yi felt that Wu Yongcheng seemed to be smoking almost all the time, and the big front door in the drawer was always left open.
But since when, Wu Yongcheng has been smoking less and less frequently.
It was nothing at first, but he suddenly thought of the night after eating mutton soup with steamed buns, when Wu Yongcheng asked him if he wanted to be the captain of the third team.
I didn't think it was strange at the time, but now when I think about it, it feels like I'm entrusting my child to someone else.
Could it be that Captain Wu got lung cancer from smoking?
That's why he suddenly stopped talking.
But on second thought, Zhou Yi felt that it should be impossible.
In his previous life, he worked as a local police officer in a police station for three years. In the year 2000, he passed the internal examination and joined the criminal investigation team of the Nanming Branch.
In 2004, he was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau because of his outstanding performance.
At that time, Wu Yongcheng was no longer in the Hongcheng City Bureau. It was said that he was transferred, but it was not clear whether he was transferred back to his hometown.
Zhou Yi didn't know in which year Wu Yongcheng was transferred, but he was sure it was at least two thousand years later.
Moreover, before this, no one had ever heard of the deputy chief of the criminal investigation detachment dying of cancer. If such a thing had happened, it would have spread internally long ago.
Zhou Yi thought for a moment, then raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said, "It's okay. I just thought of something else and got distracted."
Zhou Yi estimated that Wu Yongcheng was feeling somewhat unwell, but it was definitely not a terminal illness.
Smoking less and "entrusting your child to someone else" is probably because he is overthinking it and thinks he doesn't have much time left.
Zhou Yi sighed in his heart. Oh, it seems that he will have to have a good talk with Captain Wu after he comes back.
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