Chapter 331 Interrogation of Zheng Tianlan
"Name!"
Zhou Yi questioned loudly.
Zheng Tianlan, who was sitting opposite, looked almost like a Shar-Pei dog, with his whole body drooping.
"Zheng...Zheng Tianlan..."
"age!"
…
Zhou Yi's tone was so harsh that the police officer who was in charge of recording the interrogation was a little surprised.
Because he didn't know who Zhou Yi was, he only knew that he was transferred from another place to assist in the case.
After asking for the basic information, Zhou Yi paused for a while, probably for two or three minutes.
He didn't ask any questions, but just stared at Zheng Tianlan sharply.
Zheng Tianlan felt guilty and lowered his head, but after waiting for a long time without any movement, he took a peek and found that Zhou Yi was still staring at him, which scared him so much that he trembled.
"Do you know why we arrested you?" Zhou Yi asked.
Zheng Tianlan hesitated and shook his head.
"Fighting stubbornly, huh? You won't cry until you see the coffin, right? Okay, then let me ask you, where is Zheng Guangming now?"
Zheng Tianlan lowered his head and said, "He went... went abroad for an inspection."
"Look up at me!" Zhou Yi shouted.
Zheng Tianlan raised his head, his eyes dodging.
"Tell me again, where did Zheng Guangming go?"
"Go...go abroad..."
"When did you leave the country?"
"March...March 16th."
"Which flight did you take to leave the country on March 16th?"
"I…I don't remember the flight number."
"Don't you remember? Don't lower your head, look at me when I speak!"
"Okay... okay." Zheng Tianlan raised his head again amid Zhou Yi's scolding.
"Is it the flight on March 16th?"
Zheng Tianlan nodded and said yes.
Zhou Yi sneered, "Does Anyuan have an airport?"
Zheng Tianlan was stunned and shook his head.
"How did he get on the plane if there was no airport?"
"He...he took the bus to the provincial capital." Zheng Tianlan hurriedly explained.
"Provincial capital? Then tell me, how do I get to the provincial capital from Anyuan?"
"Drive... or take the train?"
"How long will it take to drive?" Zhou Yi didn't give the other party any chance to breathe and asked questions one after another.
Zheng Tianlan shook his head: "No...I don't know, I haven't driven it."
"What about taking a train? You've never taken a train before?"
Zheng Tianlan shook his head again. It seemed that he was indeed a useless person.
"Then let me tell you, it takes six hours and sixteen minutes to get from Anyuan to your provincial capital by train. If you drive on the highway, it won't be any shorter than that. And let me tell you one more thing, there are no flights out of the country from your provincial capital's airport."
Zhou Yi pointed at him and said, "So tell me, how did Zheng Guangming take a plane to go abroad?"
Hearing Zhou Yi's words, Zheng Tianlan was shocked. It was obvious that he had no idea what Zhou Yi was talking about.
From his reaction, Zhou Yi sensed some possibilities.
Under normal circumstances, with his family background, it would be easy for him to live a life of debauchery and extravagance.
As long as he wanted, with his family's capital, he should not be called Zheng Tianlan in Anyuan, but should be called Master Zheng.
Anyuan's local economy was not doing well. It used to rely mainly on melon growing, but later it developed the breeding industry, which became the main pillar of Anyuan's economic development.
It can be seen from the government's attitude that this is the general trend of Anyuan's development.
Perhaps there are some black market forces in Anyuan that Zhou Yi doesn't know about, but at least on the surface, Zheng Guangming is considered a wealthy man.
Zheng Tianlan can do whatever he wants in Anyuan, especially since he inherited Zheng Guangming's wild genes.
But now it seems that this guy has probably never even been to the provincial capital, let alone abroad.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he has taken after his mother's personality and is rather timid. In addition, his family only became rich later in life, so he probably doesn't have much financial power and has little say in the company.
"I...I may have remembered it wrong..." Zheng Tianlan stuttered.
"Is it wrong? Who saw Zheng Guangming off when he left his villa on Shangtang Road on March 16th?"
Zheng Tianlan seemed to remember something and immediately said, "I, I gave it to you."
"Where did you send the person?"
"Train...train station..."
"What time did you leave home? What time did you arrive at the train station?"
Zheng Tianlan frowned, thinking hard as if he was constipated: "We should have left at around two o'clock...it should be...three...three..."
"Can't you remember how long it takes to drive from Shangtang Road to Anyuan Railway Station?" Zhou Yi sneered.
Zheng Tianlan didn't say anything.
"Zheng Tianlan, do you know that from the moment we walked into your office and said your first sentence, your confession was already riddled with loopholes? I'm warning you, you can continue to provide false confessions. No problem, we have plenty of time to play with you, but every lie you tell will ultimately cost you the consequences at sentencing!"
Zhou Yi knocked on the table and said, "Think about your wife, think about your daughter, do you think this is worth it?"
Almost two hours have passed since Zheng Tianlan was brought back. His spirit has been in a state of high tension, which is very exhausting in terms of energy and physical strength.
Zhou Yi's mention of his wife and children was like a needle that pierced his tense spirit.
He suddenly became like a deflated ball and began to cry like a wronged young wife.
The police officer in charge of taking the statement was a little confused and looked at Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi was very calm and let him cry there.
After crying for a while, Zhou Yi stood up and walked over, placing a few tissues in front of him, the kind used on the table in the city bureau cafeteria.
The deputy investigating police officer was a little surprised. Did he just happen to have it in his pocket, or was it prepared in advance?
"Have you thought it through? If you have, let's speak frankly from now on, okay?" Zhou Yi asked gently.
Zheng Tianlan, who was wiping his tears and snot, nodded.
"Where is your father, Zheng Guangming, now?"
Zheng Tianlan said with tears in her eyes, "I...I don't know."
"Come again?" Zhou Yi glared at him.
"No, no, I really don't know. Huang Yanli told me that my father was kidnapped by a woman named Bai Xiuxiu."
"Kidnapping?" Zhou Yi was stunned. How could this kidnapping come up again? "What's going on? Tell me the whole story from beginning to end!"
Zheng Tianlan said that on the morning of March 17, he wanted to confirm something with his father, Zheng Guangming, at the company, so he called his father, but his mobile phone was turned off and the call could not be connected.
So he called the villa's landline again, but no one answered.
He called Huang Yanli, but Huang Yanli said that she had taken her child back to her parents' home and did not know Zheng Guangming's whereabouts.
Zheng Tianlan didn't pay much attention to it that day, thinking that his father was out having fun again and was drunk or something. After all, this kind of thing happened before.
It was not until the next day that Zheng Guangming could not get in touch with the family. He felt that something was wrong and went to the villa, but found that no one was home.
He drove to Huang Yanli's parents' home and expressed his desire to call the police. Huang Yanli then pulled him into the study and told him the "truth."
Huang Yanli said that the woman named Bai Xiu Xiu approached Zheng Guangming with a purpose. They set up a trap, kidnapped Zheng Guangming, and then demanded a ransom of 500,000 yuan.
Zheng Tianlan was immediately frightened when he heard this, and picked up the phone and said he would call the police.
But Huang Yanli stopped him and told him that it was too late.
Zheng Tianlan was stunned for a long time before reacting and asked her what she meant by "too late".
Huang Yanli said that Bai Xiu Xiu's kidnapping call was made the night before yesterday, that is, in the middle of the night on March 16th. The call was made to the home landline, and the call was made using Zheng Guangming's mobile phone.
At first, she didn't realize it was a kidnapping call, but rather thought it was Bai Xiuxiu calling to protest and disgust her. After all, she had slapped her twice when she caught them both at the company, and she also knew that her husband hadn't cut off contact with this woman.
So not only did she not take the other party's words seriously, she also insulted the other party on the phone, and even told her that if she had the ability, she could kill Zheng Guangming right now. Then she had to thank her very much.
It wasn't until she heard Zheng Guangming's screams on the phone that she was so scared that her mind went blank and she immediately hung up the phone.
Zheng Tianlan said that Huang Yanli's original words were that she didn't know how long it took before she came to her senses and hurriedly called Zheng Guangming's number, but the call was no longer connected.
Only then did she realize that something was wrong and that her husband might have been kidnapped or even killed.
She was so scared that she couldn't sleep all night. She took a kitchen knife from the kitchen and stayed with her sleeping son all night.
The next day, she immediately took her son back to her mother's home. This is why no one answered the phone when Zheng Tianlan called the villa the next day.
When Zhou Yi heard this, he frowned and asked, "Didn't you ask her why she didn't call the police?"
These words are completely different from what Huang Yanli said to them today.
Moreover, Zhou Yi felt that it was too unreliable. Kidnapping was not such a simple matter.
The question now is whether Zheng Tianlan was lying to the police or Huang Yanli was lying to Zheng Tianlan.
Zheng Tianlan said aggrievedly: "I asked you why you didn't call the police right away."
"How did she answer?"
"She said...she said..." Zheng Tianlan kept hesitating.
Zhou Yi slammed the table and said angrily: "Stop hesitating and speak quickly!"
"She said...it's actually better for my dad to be dead..."
"Why?"
"Because... because she said my dad was playing with other women all the time and would eventually have another child to divide the family fortune. And... and he wasn't good to us, always saying that he earned all the money in the family."
"Just because of this?"
"And... my dad... looks down on me and always calls me a waste. He says that my family eats and uses his money, and he has to control everything I spend, as if I owe him my whole life!" Zheng Tianlan became more and more excited as he spoke, and it was obvious that these words were revealed from his true feelings.
"Even if what you said is true, what does it have to do with not calling the police?" Zhou Yi asked.
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