Chapter 334 Lili said
Zhou Yi's question scared Zheng Tianlan. It was obvious that he was very afraid of his father.
"No...I don't know. I should...I shouldn't know."
"Back to the original question, why didn't you call the police after you learned from Huang Yanli that Bai Xiuxiu had kidnapped your father, Zheng Guangming?"
Zheng Tianlan's lips trembled as he said, "Lili said we shouldn't call the police yet. We need to confirm whether my dad and that woman deliberately deceived us or whether he was really kidnapped."
"What if he's really been kidnapped? You guys can't have never thought about this," Zhou Yi asked. "Are you planning to just watch him die?"
Zheng Tianlan hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"We waited for three days without any news. My dad's mobile phone was always turned off. That's when we realized he might have been murdered."
"Then why didn't you call the police afterwards? Instead, why did you create the illusion that Zheng Guangming had gone abroad?"
"Because... Lili said that if we called the police, they would investigate and would definitely find out about our relationship. Instead of that, we could just say he went abroad. Then, as long as we couldn't find him alive or dead, we could just say he ran off with another woman."
Zhou Yi sighed helplessly: "Zheng Tianlan, I don't know whether to say you are naive or stupid. You just follow Lili's words. Don't you have your own ideas and thoughts? Don't you think Huang Yanli's words are full of loopholes?"
"Ah? But Lili said..."
Zhou Yi said coldly, "Or, these words weren't actually said by Huang Yanli, but you are deliberately making up stories for the police?"
Zheng Tianlan quickly waved his hands and said that he was not lying and that everything he said was true.
Zhou Yi stretched out a hand and raised his fingers.
"First, the purpose of the kidnapping was ransom. They made a phone call, didn't get the ransom, didn't call again to demand the ransom, and didn't discuss the conditions and method of ransom delivery. Instead, they killed the person to silence him. Do you think this is reasonable?"
"Secondly, traveling abroad requires legal procedures. Unless you're illegally crossing the border, normal travel abroad will inevitably leave entry and exit records. Do you think Zheng Guangming took a smuggled boat to Southeast Asia for his overseas inspection, or do you think no one would notice if the boss of such a large company disappeared?"
"Finally, all of this is just what Huang Yanli told you. You saw nothing, heard nothing. How can you be sure that your father was really kidnapped and murdered? Didn't you suspect that he was killed for some other reason?"
Zhou Yi's words left Zheng Tianlan speechless.
Until the last sentence, he shuddered and said in surprise: "You mean... Lili killed my father?"
"Impossible, how is this possible? She can't even carry a slightly heavier bag, how could she possibly kill someone?"
Seeing his categorical denial, Zhou Yi had to admit that Huang Yanli was really a dog training master, and she had trained Zheng Tianlan, the loyal dog, very clearly.
"Then let me ask you, on March 16th, when Zheng Guangming left home, were you the one who saw him off?"
Zheng Tianlan immediately shook his head: "I didn't even see my dad on March 16th."
"If it's not you, then who is it?"
"It should be my dad's driver Xiao Feng, Feng Qiang."
"Didn't Feng Qiang resign and return home in early March?"
Zhou Yi's words made Zheng Tianlan's face change drastically, as if he had just remembered this matter.
"I...I remembered it wrong..." he said in panic.
"Huang Yanli and you have reconciled your statements, right? Did she teach you what to say if you were to be interrogated by the police?"
Zheng Tianlan didn't say anything.
"Did Feng Qiang take Zheng Guangming to find Bai Xiuxiu that day? Drivers are usually the ones who know Zheng Guangming's daily schedule best. Zheng Guangming placed Bai Xiuxiu outside and would stay overnight at her place every few days. Feng Qiang must have known all about this. And in theory, he should have gone to pick up Zheng Guangming the next day. But he definitely didn't get to pick her up. Either he waited for a long time in vain, or Huang Yanli found an excuse to send him away."
"Afterwards, Huang Yanli was afraid Feng Qiang would discover something was amiss, so she bribed him to resign under the pretext of returning home, while actually fleeing. Otherwise, with this driver around, the police would have known where Zheng Guangming was going abroad. Is that right?"
Zheng Tianlan said, "I really don't know. Don't ask me. Lili taught me everything. I said whatever she told me to say. She said that as long as we insist that my father went abroad, the police won't be able to do anything to us."
"Oh? So, when you told us in your office that Zheng Guangming called you from abroad, it was Huang Yanli who taught you to tell that?"
"this……"
Zhou Yi sneered. It really proved the saying that a bad guy's desperate efforts are not as good as a fool's sudden inspiration.
I guess he must have been quite proud when he said this to himself and Xia Yu.
"Zheng Tianlan, have you been to Hongcheng?" Zhou Yi asked.
Zheng Tianlan shook his head blankly.
"Have you ever been in the fruit business? Especially selling watermelons?"
He shook his head again: "My dad said I'm not cut out for business..."
"But Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing said they knew you. How do you explain this?" Zhou Yi lied to him.
"Li... Youqiang?" Zheng Tianlan frowned and thought for a while before shaking his head. "I don't know these two people. Who are they?"
There is a technique to distinguish whether someone is lying or not regarding whether they know certain information during an interrogation.
It's the reaction speed.
If you deny it immediately without thinking, you are most likely lying.
Because in a high-pressure scenario like interrogation, people are mentally highly tense, their thinking is not very smooth, and they need to think before they can give feedback.
A similar situation is like an important interview. Except for a very few gifted people, most people will speak incoherently due to nervousness.
Those who deny without thinking know precisely what the police's questions mean and what the consequences are.
Therefore, based on the original survival instinct of living things to seek benefits and avoid harm, they will immediately deny it.
Zheng Tianlan's denial reaction is basically true.
If he didn't even know Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing, it meant that he might really not know about the murder. From the first time he met Zhou Yi and the others, he was simply stupid enough to do whatever Huang Yanli said.
So the real mastermind is this woman Huang Yanli.
But this also made Zhou Yi have an incomprehensible question, that is, what was Huang Yanli's logic in hiring someone to kill Zheng Guangming?
If it was Zheng Guangming who discovered what was going on between her and Zheng Tianlan, then it was impossible for Zheng Tianlan to be completely unaware of it.
If it wasn't because of this incident, was it simply because Bai Xiuxiu's appearance threatened her position that she had to be killed to silence her?
If he had to kill someone, he should have killed Bai Xiu Xiu. He shouldn't have done it when Zheng Guangming didn't come home at night, as that would only increase the risk of not having an alibi.
Besides, Bai Xiu Xiu is not pregnant. Zheng Guangming has slept with so many women. If Huang Yanli was willing to hire someone to kill someone just for this reason, then the hills of Xiaoqiushan Park would probably be filled with dead bodies.
Zhou Yi couldn't figure it out. He really couldn't figure out what Huang Yanli's motive for murder was.
Could it be that it’s really because women’s hearts are as unpredictable as the sea?
And there is another very interesting thing. The autopsy results showed that the male corpse suspected to be Zheng Guangming was not murdered, but died of a heart attack.
As to whether his heart attack was entirely due to his own physical reasons or was caused by the murderer's stimulation, this cannot be confirmed at present.
Because from the perspective of a forensic autopsy, the autopsy cannot tell whether the person was scared to death.
The forensic doctor can only examine and provide professional conclusions such as "sudden cardiac death" or "stress-induced cardiomyopathy", but these are only for reference and have no direct or necessary relationship with whether the person died of shock or fright.
No forensic doctor would write in the autopsy report that the deceased died of excessive fright.
The person who would write this sentence is definitely not a forensic doctor, but a charlatan.
Zhou Yi had seen similar horror stories before, where the victim was frightened to death, claiming they must have seen an extremely terrifying scene before dying. There were even forensic doctors who claimed that the autopsy revealed the victim's heart was shattered due to fright.
Well, this is pure nonsense. These books might as well be used to roast sweet potatoes.
Zhou Yi looked at his watch. It was already very late, and it seemed that Zheng Tianlan had basically explained everything he could.
Next, we should summarize the information with Pan Hongjie and others.
"Zheng Tianlan, if you have any questions, think about it carefully. Tell us when you've made up your mind." Zhou Yi stood up and pointed at him, saying, "I'm giving you this opportunity. You'd better cherish it."
After saying that, Zhou Yi said hello to the deputy judge, opened the door and left.
Zheng Tianlan's face was filled with panic and confusion. He said blankly, "I...I already said it."
"Sign." The deputy investigating police officer handed him the transcript and said seriously.
"Then... after signing, can I go back first? I... I don't want my wife and daughter to know."
"Go back? Haha, it seems Officer Zhou is right. You really are not smart enough. You can't go back. Just wait to go to jail."
"Ah? I... I didn't do anything..." Zheng Tianlan started crying again.
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While Zhou Yi was interrogating Zheng Tianlan, the others were also busy and were carrying out related investigations.
On Wu Yongcheng's side, after five or six hours of continuous long-distance driving on the highway, when they passed a rest stop, Jiang Biao and Chen Yan took turns driving.
When they entered Lujiang City, it was already dark. After getting familiar with the route, the Santana of the Third Brigade headed towards the county hospital where Fu Daqing was being held.
When turning an intersection, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from the side of the road and almost hit their car. Fortunately, Jiang Biao reacted quickly and slammed on the brakes.
It was just that Wu Yongcheng in the back seat didn't wear a seat belt, and his face hit the back of the front seat directly, which was painful.
Jiang Biao cursed, "You're looking for death!"
The black shadow didn't stop and ran away, rolling and crawling.
Jiang Biao restarted the car and drove forward. Just after driving a dozen meters, Wu Yongcheng suddenly seemed to think of something and immediately shouted, "Biaozi, turn around!"
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