Chapter 374 A weed
Zhou Yi raised his head from his chair and said firmly, "Captain Wu, I'm fine."
"Zhou Yi, it's just you and me now. Answer me a question."
"What's the problem?"
"Are you and that girl Lu Xiaoshuang boyfriend and girlfriend?"
Zhou Yi slowly shook his head and said, "Not yet... yet."
Wu Yongcheng understood instantly. The two words "temporarily" explained everything.
"I don't need to explain the case handling procedures; you should understand. Since you're not in a romantic relationship, it's just a normal social relationship. As long as it doesn't affect the fair handling of the case, you don't need to recuse yourself."
"Thank you, Captain Wu."
"Don't thank me too soon. If... I mean if, the deceased is really Lu Xiaoshuang, then this case is linked to Hongcheng University. The situation will become complicated, and there's a high possibility that the provincial government will intervene, or even set up a special task force to lead the case." Wu Yongcheng took out a cigarette case, handed one to Zhou Yi, and then lit it up and said, "When that happens, my words won't count."
Zhou Yi knew what Wu Yongcheng meant.
In principle, according to relevant regulations, when a murder occurs, criminal investigation personnel must recuse themselves only if the parties involved in the case or their relatives have a close social relationship with the criminal investigation personnel. In order to avoid affecting the fairness of the case, they need to actively or passively recuse themselves.
The reason why Wu Yongcheng asked this was both a routine matter and to give Zhou Yi a reason not to avoid the issue.
He was of course well aware that Zhou Yi did not want to be excluded from this case, but the rules were the rules.
He could only let Zhou Yi say it himself, and then he would let it go.
But this is only limited to the period before the identity of the deceased is confirmed. Once it is confirmed, the special identity of the freshman from Hongda University will make the nature of this case different.
By then, the provincial government will take the lead, and Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang's close contacts will definitely be discovered, and then they will most likely have to follow the rules.
Unless someone with a high voice takes the initiative to speak out and protect Zhou Yi, he can only take a leave and wait for the result.
"Captain Wu, if it really comes to this, don't worry, I will follow the organization's arrangements."
Zhou Yi suddenly wanted to slap himself twice. He approached Lu Xiaoshuang in the first place just to prevent her from being killed in this life.
I didn't expect that this would become the reason why I might be kicked out of the case investigation.
Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi, you are really too clever for your own good.
Soon, Chen Yanxian came back and said that the technical department was already working on the test and the results would be sent over immediately.
Wu Yongcheng said that blood extraction and testing alone was not enough, and it had to be compared and matched with Lu Xiaoshuang's blood type.
However, blood typing is not a standard requirement in the university entrance physical examination, so Lu Xiaoshuang's medical records and blood donation records have to be checked.
Zhou Yi immediately said, "Xiao Shuang has donated blood. I heard her mention it. At the end of last year, she participated in the voluntary blood drive organized by the school."
In fact, Lu Xiaoshuang had never mentioned this matter to Zhou Yi. This information was in the files of the grand case in the previous life and was found by the police.
But he couldn't wait any longer. Since he had already made it clear that he suspected the deceased was Lu Xiaoshuang, he didn't want to take a detour.
"Okay, I'll contact the Blood Management Center right away," said Chen Yan.
After a while, Qiao Jiali brought back the relevant household registration files of Lu Xiaoshuang and her family.
Zhou Yi already knew all this, but he still picked up Lu Xiaoshuang's household registration file.
In the ID photo in the file, Lu Xiaoshuang looked very young, wearing a school uniform, a ponytail, and a calm and determined look.
Zhou Yi's thumb gently slid across the photo. Since it was a freshly printed black and white copy, the ink had not yet dried. As his finger slid across it, Lu Xiaoshuang's face in the photo began to become blurred.
At this time, Zhou Yi heard Qiao Jiali say, "Captain Wu, Lu Xiaoshuang's family, why don't I and Zhou Yi go over there? She has a grandmother who is over seventy years old."
Wu Yongcheng thought about it and felt that it was indeed safer.
Qiao Jiali called Zhou Yi to set off.
When getting in the car, Qiao Jiali took the initiative to walk towards the driver's seat.
"Zhou Yi, Xiao Shuang is a smart girl. Don't worry, she will be fine."
Qiao Jiali wondered if Zhou Yi had known or foreseen something in advance, which was why he became so excited when he heard about the body parts being found on the train.
Because she recalled the night when they ate mutton soup buns in the food street, Lu Xiaoshuang asked her why Brother Zhou always seemed to be worried about her safety.
She didn't take it too seriously at the time and told Lu Xiaoshuang that Zhou Yi had a strong sense of responsibility and that was his personality.
What I didn’t tell Lu Xiaoshuang was that your brother Zhou might have you in his heart, so he was so worried about you.
But now thinking about it, why does it feel like Zhou Yi already knew that something would happen to Lu Xiaoshuang?
But she didn't intend to ask any further questions because it was not important.
She believed Zhou Yi.
The most important thing now is that Lu Xiaoshuang is safe and that Zhou Yi will not be defeated.
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Lu Xiaoshuang's father is Lu Guohua, 49 years old, and the eldest son in the family.
In 1972, due to the policy of going to the countryside to receive re-education through education, I went to the Northwest. On the desolate and barren loess land, I worked with a group of equally powerless educated young people to reclaim wasteland.
Zhou Yi's family had never experienced this. Firstly, none of the four Zhou siblings had high education levels. Before Zhou Yi enrolled in the police academy, the most educated member of the family was the eldest son, Zhou Jianye, who only had a high school diploma. But by the time Zhou Jianye graduated from high school, the "Sending to the Countryside" movement had already ended.
Secondly, the Zhou family is a family of steel workers and they enjoy preferential treatment in such matters.
Zhou Yi remembered that the files of the Hongda case contained detailed information about the Lu family.
Lu Xiaoshuang's grandfather was also a scholar. He was a private school teacher before liberation and seemed to be quite famous in Hongcheng.
The large courtyard where the Lu family lived was passed down from his grandfather and had always belonged to the Lu family.
Later, for various reasons, there were fewer and fewer houses in the yard, and finally only three facing east were left.
When Lu Guohua went to the Northwest, Lu Xiaoshuang's grandfather had already passed away. Later, Lu Guohua met Lu Xiaoshuang's mother Su Xiuying in the Northwest. The gentleness of the southern woman was like a soft flower in the barren Northwest, touching the heart of this northern intellectual.
The two held their wedding on the loess plateau in the simplest way: a wedding character, a pair of red candles, two red flowers, two bowls of noodles, a bowl of meat, and their trust in each other and their expectations for the future.
On the Frost Descent of the following year, Lu Xiaoshuang was born.
In Hongcheng, the two remaining sons of the Lu family also got married and started their own families.
It’s just a pity that among the three sons of the Lu family, the best one passed away, and the remaining two were not good people.
Compared with Zhou Yi's second uncle Zhou Jianjun, they are basically the same.
In the previous life, in addition to the basic investigation of the case, due to the particularity of the grand case, it also received widespread social attention.
A large number of media outlets rushed to report on the case, and Hongcheng TV even made a special program to follow up and reveal the truth.
The situation of the Lu family was thoroughly exposed by the media.
In addition to the Lu family, there are four other families living in the compound.
These four families became the focus of media interviews, and many details about Lu Xiaoshuang's daily life were exposed one by one, causing public outrage.
For example, when Lu Xiaoshuang first came to Hongcheng, her parents gave her more than 200 yuan, which was originally intended for her to pay tuition and buy textbooks. However, her second aunt took it away in the name of safekeeping, and later refused to give it to her for various reasons when she needed the money.
For example, the money that Lu Xiaoshuang's parents saved from their frugality and remitted to them became a mess and was divided up by her second and third uncles' families. It almost delayed Lu Xiaoshuang's registration for the first year of high school. It was only because the school took the initiative to contact her because of her excellent performance in the high school entrance examination that this problem was solved.
There were also many other small things, like the daily washing of dishes and clothes for a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, whose hands would turn red and swollen like radishes in the winter. She couldn't eat at the table, instead staying in the kitchen with her grandmother. The second and third sons wouldn't eat without meat, so Lu Xiaoshuang usually had pickles with rice.
Sometimes the neighbors in the compound couldn't bear to see this and felt sorry for the girl, so they secretly sent her some food.
The second and third sons' wives must not be allowed to see it either. One has a hot temper and curses like a machine gun, and the other is sarcastic and rolls her eyes to the sky.
The place where Lu Xiaoshuang lived was also extremely simple. It was a small attic built above the house where the old lady lived. She had to climb up and down with a ladder, and this climb took her six years.
All the hardships in life, the grievances of being criticized all day long while living under someone else's roof, these sufferings could not defeat this girl.
She was like a weed among the tiles on the roof of a slum, growing vigorously and healthily towards the sunlight.
But suddenly one day, it was stepped on and crushed to pieces.
The series of reports on the Hongda case and Lu Xiaoshuang by television, radio, and newspapers made countless people empathize with this girl.
They cried for her death, felt sad for her unfortunate life, and were angry about the grievances she suffered in Hongcheng and in the home she thought was her family.
As a result, a series of chain reactions occurred, starting with the second and third sons of the Lu family and their entire families being beaten by the angry crowd.
The second son, Lu Guozhong, had two front teeth knocked out by someone at the factory. The third son, Lu Guoliang, had his tricycle used to transport goods smashed. When the second son's wife went to the public toilet, someone splashed her with feces. The third son's wife was directly fired from the unit.
The two sons of the second and third sons were also isolated and discriminated against in school, which led to them dropping out of school and living in society, although they were not good students themselves.
However, these retributions did not make them realize their mistakes. Instead, they intensified their slander and framed Lu Xiaoshuang, who died with her eyes wide open. They said that she had fallen in love early in junior high school and had hooked up with male classmates. They said that after she went to college, she became a mistress of a married man and wanted to get promoted, so she forced her lover to marry her, which was why she was killed.
These rumors once spread wildly in society, tarnishing Lu Xiaoshuang's innocence.
In the end, it even turned out that Lu's lover was a high-ranking official in Hongcheng, so the police could not solve the case and were actually shielding the murderer.
These outrageous and unfounded rumors were so rampant that the authorities were forced to intervene and publicly release the autopsy results, which showed that Lu Xiaoshuang's hymen was intact and unharmed, thus shutting up those foul mouths.
There is so much injustice in this world. People suffer during life and are stigmatized after death.
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