Chapter 358 Where is Your Wife?
"Furthermore, you've been withdrawing small amounts of cash from the bank since April 11th. Your previous explanation was that you discovered Zheng Guangming's disappearance from Zheng Tianlan, and you were afraid that the accounting fraud would implicate you, so you planned to withdraw the money and run away."
"But you said this on the premise that you pretended not to know that Zheng Guangming was dead."
"But now, you have confessed to hiring someone to kill Zheng Guangming."
Zhou Yi sneered, "Come on, explain to me again, why is this happening?"
Xia Yu flipped through the previous interrogation records and found that it was true. He had already forgotten this information, but Zhou Yi still remembered it.
When Fan Zhongliang faced Zhou Yi's psychological blockade, he was very panicked and uneasy.
However, after he confessed his crimes, his emotions and mentality gradually calmed down.
In fact, this is a normal situation during interrogation. Many suspects will hide the fact of their crimes in their hearts, but this kind of anxiety and panic will continue to torment people.
What does it feel like to be in constant fear? Only those who have broken the law and haven't been caught yet know how it feels.
Therefore, many criminal suspects will feel relieved when they finally give up, and the stone that has been tormenting them in their hearts has finally fallen to the ground.
Fan Zhongliang is in this state.
But facing Zhou Yi's questioning, he became visibly nervous again.
"I... I was just preparing for a rainy day, thinking... if I ever need to run away, I can... I can..."
Zhou Yi continued, "Can we run away anytime?"
Fan Zhongliang nodded quickly as if he had found a life-saving straw.
"But you are a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and an old mother in the countryside. Are you planning to abandon the old and the young and just walk away?"
"But I can't explain it to them. I...I have no choice."
"Fan Zhongliang, on March 17th, you casually put Zheng Guangming's ID card in the storage box of your car, right?"
Fan Zhongliang nodded, his eyes flashing.
"What did you do with this ID card?"
“Burn…burned.”
"You just said that on the night of March 17th, you took your wife and daughter out for a hot pot dinner. You said you got drunk, and when you woke up the next day you were already home, right?"
Fan Zhongliang nodded repeatedly.
"Who's driving the car then?"
"My...my wife..."
"Is it possible that your wife found the ID card that night?"
As soon as Zhou Yi finished speaking, Fan Zhongliang suddenly looked up at him, but immediately lowered his head again.
"I...I don't know, probably...probably not."
"Are you sure?"
"I...I don't know. Anyway, when I went outside to burn the ID card the next day, it was still inside. It looked like no one had touched it."
"I have two questions for you." Zhou Yi looked down at him and asked.
Fan Zhongliang didn't dare to say anything, and sweat dripped down his temples.
"First question, last Tuesday, April 16th, did you go to Ding Wenyuan's place?"
"Yes, I went."
"What are you going to do?"
"I...I went to say hello for my wife. She doesn't want to continue."
"Why?"
"She...she said she was too tired and...she didn't want to do it anymore."
Zhou Yi nodded, seemingly convinced by this dry reason.
Then he asked, "Second question, where is your wife now?"
“She…she…she…”
Fan Zhongliang said the word "she" three times in a row, and finally said something that shocked Xia Yu.
Fan Zhongliang said: "She passed away last week."
But Xia Yu didn't know that when Zhou Yi just brought Fan Zhongliang back, he had already told Pan Hongjie that Chen Ting might be dead.
Zhou Yi remained motionless and asked, "When did he die?"
Fan Zhongliang's whole body trembled violently, and he stood there in a daze without saying a word.
Zhou Yi walked slowly back to his seat, looked at Fan Zhongliang, who was as still as a block of wood, sneered and said, "Mr. Fan, you've told so many lies that you've almost forgotten them and can't cover them up anymore, right?"
"Since you said Chen Ting died, not disappeared, that means she went through normal funeral procedures. We can find out once we investigate. You can't lie."
"Come on, explain clearly what you said happened later that we all already know."
Zhou Yi knew that this time it should be almost done.
Chen Ting’s sudden resignation is too abnormal.
If it were just an isolated and unrelated incident, it would be fine.
But when it comes to Fan Zhongliang, who hired someone to kill someone, things can't be that simple.
Judging from what Fan Zhongliang just said, Zhou Yi speculated that Chen Ting had discovered the ID card photo in the car on the night of March 17th.
It was impossible for her not to feel strange, because Ding Wenyuan said that Chen Ting used to work with Fan Zhongliang at Zheng Guangming's company.
Maybe she didn't care too much at the time, but she must have paid attention to it and even inquired about Zheng Guangming's situation. She found that Zheng Guangming had disappeared inexplicably, so she began to suspect that her husband Fan Zhongliang was the murderer.
After learning about this, Fan Zhongliang used some method to kill Chen Ting and disguised her death as an accident or natural cause.
Fan Zhongliang looked at Zhou Yi in bewilderment. All his secrets were now exposed in broad daylight.
"Ah——" Fan Zhongliang suddenly broke down and started yelling and crying.
Xia Yu was startled and almost stood up.
But when he turned around, he saw Zhou Yi sitting there with his arms folded across his chest, motionless, looking at the suspect in front of him as if he were watching a play.
Fan Zhongliang kept making a fuss for more than ten minutes, but finally he got tired and gradually became silent.
Zhou Yi asked calmly, "Have you had enough? If you have, let's continue."
Zhou Yi thought to himself, your excitement is nothing. Xu Jiaguang was really excited back then. Your acting skills are much worse than Xu Jiaguang's.
At this moment, Fan Zhongliang, like Zheng Tianlan whose lies were exposed, looked like a Shar-Pei dog, lying there limply.
"I say..." Fan Zhongliang said weakly.
"Can... can you give me another glass of water?" The remaining half glass of water was spilled by him when he was making a fuss, along with the glass.
Zhou Yi smiled slightly and said firmly: "No! Unless you confess first!"
Xia Yu suddenly realized why Zhou Yi suddenly went out to get water.
Damn, this interrogation rhythm is amazing, it will take him at least five years to learn!
Fan Zhongliang was like a man lying in the desert. When he was about to die of thirst, nothing was more important than a glass of water.
And Fan Zhongliang finally confessed everything.
He admitted that the death of his wife Chen Ting was also caused by his own hands.
Fan Zhongliang said that less than half a year after Zheng Guangming founded Guangming Trading Company, the workload increased sharply due to business expansion, and he felt overwhelmed, so he suggested to Zheng Guangming that they hire another accountant.
Zheng Guangming agreed and asked him to make the arrangements directly.
So, thinking that the good things should be kept within the family, he brought his wife Chen Ting into the company to assist him.
Later, more people were recruited one after another.
Logically speaking, he is Zheng Guangming's confidant, and it is the best thing for the couple to manage money in the same company.
However, it was not until the end of 1994 that he began to notice that something was wrong with his wife. She would always disappear inexplicably during working hours, and her clothes began to become more and more fancy.
At first he thought he was rich, and Chen Ting started to show off because Chen Ting knew that he had cooked the accounts for Zheng Guangming and even participated in it for a while.
But in order to protect his wife, he didn't allow Chen Ting to have too much or too deep contact.
Until one day, he suddenly felt dizzy and unwell halfway through his work, so he drove home to rest.
He was lying in the bedroom resting when he suddenly heard the door open and the sound of high heels. It must be Chen Ting who came back.
But he remembered that Chen Ting should have gone to the tax bureau today. Why didn't she return to the company but went straight home instead?
He didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Just when he was about to get up and ask, Chen Ting went straight into the bathroom and started taking a shower.
Their bathroom is separated into wet and dry areas, and the washing machine is next to the sink outside.
He walked over quietly without saying a word and found Chen Ting's clothes and skirt thrown in the washing machine.
But the strange thing is that there are underwear but no stockings.
He clearly remembered that Chen Ting was wearing stockings in the morning.
On the way to work, I even joked about it, saying that she was wearing stockings and high heels, and that she was being so coquettish.
Chen Ting jokingly retorted, "I don't have enough to eat at home, and you don't allow me to go out and find a handsome guy."
Fan Zhongliang didn't take it too seriously at the time, thinking it was just a joke.
Little do we know that sometimes what is said half-jokingly is the truth.
Then, Fan Zhongliang reached into the washing machine and took out Chen Ting's underwear.
After the examination, he said his brain exploded.
I was so angry that I was shaking all over, and immediately remembered the joke I made in the morning.
He opened the bathroom door and rushed in, grabbed Chen Ting's neck and asked who the man was?
Chen Ting, who was showering, was frightened by him and started crying, but she refused to admit Fan Zhongliang's accusations, calling him mentally ill.
Then Chen Ting, wrapped in a bath towel, cried and made a fuss in the living room, and she turned the tables, saying that Fan Zhongliang did not trust her and deliberately monitored her, and she was trying to commit suicide.
Fan Zhongliang knew she was lying, but as the saying goes, if you catch someone cheating, you have to catch them both. He had no hard evidence to prove that Chen Ting was cheating.
But he didn't know that from that moment on, the gears of death began to turn.
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