Chapter 296 Going to Anyuan
Zhou Yi replied: "Because I now doubt whether Fu Daqing is the murderer."
These words shocked the people from the Third Brigade. The biggest suspect at the moment was Fu Daqing. How come he was suddenly not the murderer?
"Tell me in detail, don't hide it." Wu Yongcheng urged.
Zhou Yixin said, I didn’t hide it either.
"Well, my opinion is that the timing of Fu Daqing's escape is very delicate. Think about what happened before he planned to run away?"
Wu Yongcheng said: "Lock down the city."
"Yes. Let's make two assumptions. The first is that Fu Daqing had just fled back to Hongcheng from another place and hurriedly sold his property and fled. If he were the murderer, would he risk running back to a city where the police had just conducted a city-wide manhunt just for that little bit of profit?"
The answer is undoubtedly no.
The mentality of a fugitive murderer is that when he hears a police siren, he can't help but tremble, and he is afraid to avoid it.
"Let's make a second assumption. Let's assume Fu Daqing had already fled back to Hongcheng before this, but had been hiding at home without being discovered. It wasn't until the city was closed and the manhunt frightened him that he immediately planned to flee, thus selling off his property. Which scenario do you think is more reasonable?"
Is this even a question? Of course it’s the latter.
"If he is not the murderer, why did he run away?" Chen Yan asked.
"Good question. Either he knows how Li Youqiang died, or he has other problems of his own. Whatever it is, at least arresting him is the right thing to do."
Jiang Biao said, "Couldn't it be that he killed Li Youqiang, fled and hid at home, then was frightened by our lockdown and finally ran away?"
"If a murderer runs back to his own home, wouldn't that be like catching a turtle in a jar? If it's the first hypothesis, there's a possibility that he's worried about his father, so he took the risk of returning to settle him down."
Jiang Biao stood up and said, "Simple, I'll go check the water and electricity conditions at Fu Daqing's house over the past few months."
There is another reason why Zhou Yi believes that Fu Daqing is not the murderer of Li Youqiang.
In the previous life, there were no case files related to Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang.
The body in the well in Anyuan City would definitely have been discovered in the previous life. As for whether the case was solved there, he didn't know because those were files from other provinces and cities and he couldn't access them.
But he tends to think that it is unsolved and remains an unsolved case.
Because the basic premise for solving a case is to confirm the identity of the deceased, otherwise it would become a false accusation.
If it is just to confirm the identity and investigate some information, just like Zhou Yi asked Lu Zhengfeng for help in the investigation before, it is an assisting behavior and does not need to be put into written documents.
However, what the Third Brigade is doing now is already a collaborative case handling. In the end, there will be a separate case record here, as well as a backup of An Yuan’s files that will be synchronized after the case is solved.
In the previous life, if Anyuan had found Li Youqiang, it would be impossible for them not to find Fu Daqing. As long as they found Gua Ge, the Municipal Bureau would keep a case file.
I had worked in the Municipal Bureau for six years, it was impossible that I didn't know this.
After a while, someone brought a search warrant to Li Youqiang's house, and Wu Yongcheng asked them if they had almost finished eating.
Zhou Yi said, "Captain Wu, how about we slow down a bit? Zhang Xianglan is still in the hospital taking care of her mother-in-law. If we call her back now and tell her we're going to search her, I'm afraid she won't be able to handle it."
Wu Yongcheng thought about it and nodded, no longer in a hurry.
"Okay, let's search tomorrow. If you have nothing else to do, go back and rest. Tomorrow, gather the information and communicate with An Yuan."
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The next day, the Third Brigade officially searched Li Youqiang's home, and Zhang Xianglan was called back from the hospital.
The area was already densely populated, and as soon as the police arrived, the crowd of onlookers gathered around and it was impossible to get out.
Because the room was too dark and the lights were not bright enough, the police in charge of the search could only use flashlights.
Strictly speaking, it wasn't until October last year that the country officially implemented the gun control law and implemented a comprehensive gun ban.
Because before that, in the 1990s, many public security incidents occurred across the country.
These outrageous public security incidents prompted the introduction of comprehensive gun ban regulations. Since then, guns have become something that people fear in society, just like drugs.
Although the onlookers did not know why the police searched Li Youqiang's home, they were all neighbors and knew that Li Youqiang had been missing for a long time.
Some people speculated whether Li Youqiang had committed a crime and was arrested, while others speculated whether Li Youqiang was dead.
Zhang Xianglan stood under a low eaves, her eyes dull and her face ashen, like a walking corpse.
"Captain Wu, we didn't find it." Qiao Jiali walked out of the house and said.
Wu Yongcheng nodded. "It seems that Li Youqiang took him away. Did you find anything else?"
"No abnormalities were found."
"Okay, let's pack up then." Wu Yongcheng said to Zhou Yi, "You're familiar with the family members, go talk to them."
Zhou Yi nodded and walked towards Zhang Xianglan.
"Ms. Zhang, we've finished searching here. There's no problem. Sorry to bother you."
Zhang Xianglan nodded mechanically. She had dark circles under her eyes and looked tired. She seemed even more tired than last night.
"Officer Zhou..." she said hoarsely, "Can I go to Anyuan and bring my husband back?"
Zhou Yi felt strange. Didn’t they already communicate about it last night? Why did he suddenly change his mind and go to Anyuan?
"Ms. Zhang..."
Just as Zhou Yi opened his mouth, Zhang Xianglan said, "My mother-in-law passed away early this morning."
What? ? ?
Zhou Yi was shocked and thought he had heard wrongly.
"Didn't the doctor say it was just a small ruptured blood vessel? Isn't it life-threatening?"
Zhang Xianglan covered her face and cried, shaking her head repeatedly: "The doctor didn't know why this happened. But I know that Youqiang is gone, so she doesn't want to live anymore. When she was dying, she kept calling out Qiangzi, Qiangzi. So I want to bring Youqiang back, otherwise my mother-in-law won't be able to rest in peace."
Zhou Yi felt a little sad. He remembered the old lady who complained to him in the ward, and how she asked him timidly and cautiously if he had any news about her son.
And then there was Zhang Xianglan, who was clearly still fuming with her husband and mother-in-law when I found her yesterday afternoon. But she rushed to see her mother-in-law after work that night. Her mother-in-law was in the hospital, and she stayed by her side all night, never taking off her clothes.
No matter what kind of person Li Youqiang is, at least he has a mother who loves him dearly and a wife who has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. These two women have done him justice.
Zhou Yi was in a dilemma. It was no problem to identify the body, but it would be difficult to take it away.
Of course, the so-called taking away means cremating the body on the spot and bringing the ashes back. For such a low-income family, it is simply unrealistic to transport the body back by a special vehicle from a distance of five or six hundred kilometers.
However, even cremation is not something the family can decide.
It depends on the attitude of the Anyuan police, because cremating the body is risky before the case is solved. Even if the autopsy has been completed, the family will not be allowed to cremate the body in a short period of time.
Cremation is allowed only when the investigation of the case encounters difficulties and cannot be advanced for the time being, and the emotions of the family members must be taken into consideration, but an application must also be made in accordance with the procedures.
But the case has just been filed. Even if Zhang Xianglan goes to Anyuan to apply, Anyuan will most likely reject it on the grounds of re-examination or evidence preservation.
This was undoubtedly a secondary injury to Zhang Xianglan who was running over.
Seeing Zhou Yi hesitate to speak, Zhang Xianglan asked in a trembling voice, "You won't even return my husband's body to me? His mother is lying in the hospital morgue."
"Ms. Zhang, we deeply sympathize with your situation," Wu Yongcheng said as he approached. "Your husband's body must be returned to you, but because the case didn't happen in Hongcheng, we can't intervene and grant you a consent on behalf of the public security department there. You can choose to go to Anyuan and apply for it, but the application will go through the approval process, so it might not be fast..."
Zhou Yi understood that Wu Yongcheng's original intention was to make her give up temporarily.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianglan said firmly: "Okay, I will go to them to apply."
At this point, Zhou Yi has understood that it is not that Zhang Xianglan must bring back her husband's body immediately, but that she must find a goal to support herself.
This is a self-protection mechanism for people who suddenly suffer a major blow.
Because if she doesn't find a goal to work towards, her spirit may collapse immediately.
Zhou Yi whispered this idea to Wu Yongcheng, who nodded slightly and said, "Zhou Yi, how about... you go on a business trip to Anyuan?"
"On a business trip?" Zhou Yi asked in surprise. "Captain Wu, this case was filed by Anyuan. It's not a good idea for us to interfere in their territory, right?"
"I didn't ask you to intervene. We're collaborating on the investigation, and they'll be the main focus. You can offer suggestions when appropriate. Besides, we'll have to investigate Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing's social connections, right? This is a joint investigation. I'll report this to Director Xie and have him contact An Yuan to get a letter of cooperation. They won't make things difficult for you."
Wu Yongcheng leaned over to Zhou Yi's ear and said, "Just don't be too high-profile. Don't let people think we're trying to steal the credit. Also, don't do secret law enforcement, or you'll be criticized."
Zhou Yi knew that the secret law enforcement he was talking about meant conducting independent investigations while handling cases in other places, bypassing the local police.
"I understand, but... is it necessary?"
Wu Yongcheng glanced at Zhang Xianglan and said, "Why don't you persuade her not to go?"
"Oh..." Zhou Yi understood immediately. Wu Yongcheng was afraid that Zhang Xianglan was too obsessed and kept wasting time in Anyuan, which made things more difficult.
At the same time, they were probably also afraid that the case would reach a stalemate and become difficult to solve.
So this can be considered as sending myself over to break the deadlock.
But the problem is that once you leave the province, the advantages of your previous life’s archives will be gone.
To put it simply, it's not dead.
What's more, Zhou Yi had another worry.
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