Chapter 443 Spring Rain (24 Days a Day)
The two came out of the interrogation room. Wu Yongcheng frowned and asked, "Zhou Yi, what are you doing? He's about to confess his relationship with Fan Tianyou."
"Captain Wu, it's useless. The old man is always acting, only saying things that benefit him."
"You have to ask that." Wu Yongcheng said unwillingly.
"The old guy won't confess until his defense is broken." Zhou Yi said as he walked quickly towards the stairs.
Wu Yongcheng was stunned, not understanding what it meant: "Broken defense? What the hell? Hey, where are you going?"
"Looking for Director Xie!" As soon as the words were spoken, the figure disappeared.
Zhou Yi ran to the door of Xie Guoqiang's office, calmed his breath, and then knocked on the door.
"Knock, knock, knock."
"Come in!"
Zhou Yi pushed the door open and walked in.
About ten minutes later, Wu Yongcheng, who was standing at the stairs, saw Zhou Yi walk out and walk towards him.
"Judging from your reaction, did you answer the director's question correctly?"
Zhou Yi leaned over to Wu Yongcheng and whispered a few words.
Wu Yongcheng was surprised after hearing this, "So Director Xie had already thought of this trick?"
Zhou Yi nodded.
"This old fox... ah, no, old wizard, you are indeed Director Xie." Wu Yongcheng corrected him, "Then there is no need to interrogate this old fellow for the time being."
"Well, leave it alone. The longer you leave it alone, the more anxious he becomes."
"Director Xie will have to arrange the follow-up matters, right?"
Zhou Yi replied, "Judging from what Director Xie said, he should have already made arrangements."
"Then he said he'd give you 24 hours. Why did he do this? To test you?"
Zhou Yi shook his head. It was really hard to guess what this director was thinking.
But no matter what, the way to break Chen Gengyun's defense has been found.
During this period of time, we must increase the price of the final interrogation.
"What about Jianghai Haoting? Jiang Zhengdao hasn't responded yet?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"I don't know about that. Director Xie didn't mention it either."
"Don't do anything fancy."
"I don't think it should be that serious... Jiang Zhengdao is not that stupid." Zhou Yi didn't know how the other party did it, but... the fall of Xu Nian's father in the previous life did not seem to affect this boss Jiang. At least after that, he was still doing well, and his business was getting bigger and bigger.
So... there must be some circumvention means involved here, it's impossible for him to be implicated so easily.
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Director Wang found relevant information about Chen Yimin's visit to Changfeng Forest Farm from the municipal archives, and the time was completely consistent with what Chen Gengyun himself said.
So the old man didn't lie about the big picture, he lied about the details.
It was these details that shaped Fan Tianyou into who he was and led to everything that happened in the subsequent grand case.
Wu Yongcheng looked for the name Fan Chunyu on the list of educated youth, but couldn't find it. Director Wang said that the municipal archives only kept records of educated youth whose registered residence was Hongcheng, and there would be no records if they were not local.
Either ask the local archives or ask your registered place of residence.
However, soon, colleagues from the provincial department who went to Fan Tianyou’s hometown brought some investigation information.
In fact, you can get some information from the name alone.
Fan Chunyu, this name is basically female, which means that Fan Tianyou has his mother's surname.
In that era, the probability of this happening was almost non-existent. Even Chen Gengyun's daughter Chen Lin, whose father lived in the distant mountains and whose parents had not yet obtained a marriage certificate, still took the surname Chen.
Therefore, there is only one possibility for Fan Tianyou to have his mother's surname, that is, he has no father and his father's identity has not been revealed.
This is consistent with the previous speculation about Chen Gengyun's sinful debt.
The previous interrogation was interrupted by Zhou Yi. If he had continued to ask questions without interruption, judging from Chen Gengyun's expression of "suddenly remembering and then suddenly realizing", he would most likely remember who Fan Chunyu was, and then describe Fan Chunyu's situation from the standpoint and perspective of an observer.
Finally, he sighed with emotion and surprise, and said regretfully: "I didn't expect Fan Tianyou to be Fan Chunyu's son, ah..."
Therefore, there is no point in questioning or interrogating him now, as most of the information obtained will be from outside the matter.
Colleagues who went to Changfengling said that this place has now become a border town. According to the description of local leading cadres, when the Construction Corps came to reclaim wasteland, there was only a small closed village here.
Although the Construction Corps and several forestry farms are gone, many of the people who engaged in land reclamation and construction back then did stay and settle down in the local area.
After more than thirty years of development, the small village has become a small town. The educated youth who stayed behind have all started families and have children, which can be regarded as a mark left by the times.
However, the current Changfeng Town is actually not the original Changfeng Forest Farm, but the former Changfeng Village. The construction corps headquarters was stationed next to the village, and later the corps camp and the village gradually merged to become the current town.
Locals said that the original three forest farms were all located deep in the mountains, and it took 10 to 20 miles of mountain roads to reach them. In addition, the environment was harsh, so around the end of the 1970s, the people who originally worked in the forest farms gradually retreated to the small town, and the forest farms were gradually abandoned.
Local officials checked Fan Tianyou's household registration file and confirmed that Fan Tianyou only had one mother, Fan Chunyu, the name Chen Gengyun had mentioned.
The column for Fan Tianyou's father is empty.
This Fan Chunyu was also an educated youth. His hometown was in the Jiangnan area and he was five years younger than Chen Gengyun.
In other words, Fan Chunyu was only nineteen years old when she gave birth to Fan Tianyou.
Moreover, Fan Chunyu committed suicide by hanging on August 18, 1984.
This time is very strange, because Fan Tianyou entered Hongda in September of 1984.
In other words, two weeks before Fan Tianyou was about to leave his hometown after finishing the college entrance examination and receiving the grand admission notice, his mother, who had been dependent on him for life, hanged herself.
This aroused the suspicion of colleagues in the provincial department, and they asked local cadres if there was anything unusual about Fan Chunyu's death at that time?
Local officials said there was nothing wrong. The county even sent police to investigate, and after confirming it was suicide, they let her son handle the funeral.
He also said that in fact, no one in the town was surprised that Fan Chunyu hanged herself, because she was in poor health and had been ill for many years. It was said that the root of the disease was caused by the birth of Fan Tianyou. She also had a lame leg, which was broken by a tree while she was working in the forest farm.
It was also because of her lame leg that she was able to be transferred from the forest farm back to the Corps camp in 1972. That year, Fan Tianyou was eight years old and began to formally study in the primary school in the camp.
In addition to physical problems, Fan Chunyu also had mental problems. When he was in a good mood, he loved his son very much and wanted to be with him all the time; when he was in a bad mood, he would take out his anger on his son and beat Fan Tianyou with a wooden stick, leaving him covered with bruises and with thorns piercing his flesh.
With the help of local cadres, two female educated youth who worked in Changfeng Forest Farm at that time were found. They are now grandmothers.
From these two people, I learned some information about Fan Chunyu.
Fan Chunyu came to Changfeng Forest Farm in July 1963, and was not in the same group as Chen Gengyun.
When she came, she was only eighteen years old, just coming of age. She was a quiet and thin girl who didn't like to talk much and liked to write poetry secretly by herself.
The two female educated youth said that Fan Chunyu was not actually good-looking, he was thin and small, and he was not talkative, so his presence was very low.
It was not until July of 1964 that the female educated youth living with her discovered that Fan Chunyu had not had her period for several months and her belly was noticeably bulging, so she immediately reported it to the women's cadres.
Then the doctor confirmed after examination that Fan Chunyu was pregnant and had been pregnant for more than six months.
This was a huge matter at the time. Such a situation actually happened in a collective forest farm. It was a major mistake in the work of the educated youth.
Therefore, the Corps cadres held a meeting overnight to discuss the matter and arranged for the director of women's affairs to talk to Fan Chunyu. They were determined to find out the truth: whether she was raped or had an affair with another man.
But the outrageous thing is that no matter how the women's director asked or how she did ideological work on her, Fan Chunyu just refused to speak.
At that time, they were all wondering what kind of magic potion this man had given her that made her protect him so wholeheartedly, because the consequences of doing so would be very, very serious.
After more than a month of unsuccessful interrogation, the person in charge of the questioning gave up and coldly said, "Since you don't repent, you'll be fine." Then he slammed the door and left.
Later, a series of storms awaited Fan Chunyu.
She became an object of everyone's scorn and an unforgivable sinner.
She was six months pregnant and kneeling there like a walking corpse, facing everyone's curses.
It is unknown how long this process lasted. The two female educated youth said that Fan Chunyu later gave birth to a boy, who took her surname and was named Tianyou.
Fan Tianyou lived with Fan Chunyu in a thatched hut next to the toilet. Fan Tianyou grew up slowly and became the only child in the forest farm.
In the first few years, Fan Chunyu's life was indeed very difficult, which was also the reason why he became ill.
However, as time went by, some kind-hearted people became indifferent to what happened at the time. In addition, the sudden appearance of a lovely child in the deep mountains would stimulate people's kind side.
So Fan Tianyou grew up in the mountains until he was eight years old, when Fan Chunyu broke his leg while working, and he left with his mother.
When they saw Fan Tianyou again, he was already in junior high school.
At that time, Fan Chunyu's mental state was already a little off, and he made a living by doing hard labor and picking up garbage.
Whether then or now, Changfengling only has one simple primary school, and students can only go to the big town next door to attend middle school. Fan Tianyou has to travel more than ten kilometers back and forth to school every day.
But what is surprising is that Fan Tianyou has shown amazing talent for reading since he was a child, and has always been the top student in the school.
Later, he was admitted to the county high school with the first place in the county and began boarding life, only coming back during winter and summer vacations.
What happened next was similar to what the local cadres said. Fan Chunyu committed suicide by hanging himself in the summer when his son was admitted to Hongda University.
After completing the funeral for Fan Chunyu, Fan Tianyou left Changfengling and went to Hongcheng to attend university. He never returned since then.
Colleagues from the provincial department also visited Fan Tianyou's home, a small house of a few square meters, which was dilapidated, with a collapsed roof and overgrown weeds.
As for Chen Gengyun, also known as Chen Yimin at the time, not many people actually remember him.
As to whether he was the man who made Fan Chunyu pregnant, neither the educated youth who went to the countryside with her nor the cadres of the Construction Corps were sure, because on the surface the two had no connection.
Moreover, among those who criticized Fan Chunyu back then was Chen Yimin.
The only thing the educated youth who stayed in the area remembered was that Chen Yimin, who had been there for less than two years, had a strong background, otherwise how could he have been transferred away so quickly.
After all, they have dedicated their youth and passion to this forest.
After synchronizing information with the task force, colleagues at Changfengling went to confirm the phone call on New Year's Eve in 1963, and it was confirmed.
This confirmed what Chen Gengyun said.
This is consistent with what Zhou Yi speculated. Chen Gengyun is very smart. He either selectively tells the truth and hides information that is not beneficial to him and is relatively private, or he tells lies that cannot be proven.
The information found in Changfengling is really sad. The experiences of Fan Chunyu and Fan Tianyou are really complicated.
Although there is no evidence to prove that Chen Gengyun is Fan Tianyou's father, the fact that Fan Tianyou traveled thousands of miles to attend university in Hongcheng gives us some clues.
If Fan Chunyu hadn't told him something, Fan Tianyou would not have known where Hongcheng was in that remote place.
So he came to Hongcheng, just like in the TV series "The Debt", to find his relatives.
So Chen Gengyun changed his name not because of his father-in-law's suggestion, but to cut off all ties with Changfengling.
Chen is a common surname. As long as the name is changed, let alone Fan Tianyou, even if Fan Chunyu comes himself, it will be difficult to find him in the vast sea of people.
But fate happened to bring the father and son together again at Hongcheng University.
However, how Fan Tianyou recognized Chen Gengyun after arriving at Hongda and what happened next will have to be explained by Chen Gengyun or Fan Tianyou himself after he wakes up.
But combining this information made Zhou Yi realize two possibilities.
First, it is unlikely that Fan Tianyou and Chen Lin would be in a relationship.
Not to mention the huge gap in their family backgrounds, just talking about Fan Tianyou's background, after Chen Gengyun knew where his hometown was, could he not have imagined that he was his illegitimate son?
How could he allow siblings to fall in love?
So the so-called Fan Tianyou was his "future son-in-law", most likely to make up for the lie of his alibi on the night of the 28th. With Chen Gengyun's cunning, he had to find a very reasonable reason for Fan Tianyou to go to Xishan Cemetery.
Therefore, as long as the roommates of the two people can confirm that they were not in a relationship, the fact that the alibi at the cemetery was forged can be completely confirmed.
Moreover, Zhou Yi suspected that not only were Chen Lin and Fan Tianyou not in a romantic relationship, but Chen Lin was even extremely hostile and disgusted with Fan Tianyou.
As a result, Fan Tianyou's sensitive and fragile self-esteem was hurt, which in turn gave rise to some sinful thoughts.
The deaths of Li Aiping and Chen Lin were probably not just accidents.
Because this is related to the second point, which is Fan Chunyu's death.
No matter from which logic, Zhou Yi could not imagine the logic behind Fan Chunyu's suicide by hanging.
She endured for so many years and finally her son was admitted to Hongcheng University so that she could go find the unfaithful man who abandoned her and her son. However, at this time, she chose to commit suicide.
This is almost impossible.
Moreover, the locals' description of her only said that she had mental problems, but did not directly call her a lunatic, which shows that she could control her behavior and emotions.
So Zhou Yi had to suspect that Fan Chunyu might have died at the hands of her own son. Perhaps after suffering so many years of abuse, Fan Tianyou had an emotional outburst and accidentally killed his mother, and then pretended to be Fan Chunyu and hanged himself.
Zhou Yi hoped that he was wrong, because such a truth was too terrible.
But no matter what the truth is, the culprit behind all this is this hypocrite, Chen Gengyun!
He is the root of all tragedies!
Soon, the two pieces of information were confirmed by subsequent investigations.
Qiao Jiali contacted Fan Tianyou and Chen Lin’s college roommates respectively and received some very clear information.
Fan Tianyou's roommate confirmed that when Fan Tianyou first entered college, he was extremely poor and had to spend every penny carefully. He had white flour buns for three meals a day, with some pickles at noon. Sometimes he didn't eat at night and just drank cold water to fill his stomach.
Later, the counselor felt sorry for him and applied for poverty assistance for him. He also found him a part-time job in the cafeteria as a swill dumper, so that he could have food to eat.
But in the first semester of his sophomore year, Fan Tianyou suddenly had money. He bought new clothes, was no longer short of money for food, and even quit his part-time job in the cafeteria.
This surprised the students in the dormitory. After all, Fan Tianyou was so poor before that his roommates were afraid that he would starve to death one day.
So someone asked him what happened after he got rich, and his answer was that he got to know his rich relatives.
Later, Fan Tianyou's life became better and better, and his temperament gradually changed. When he first went to college, he was extremely thin, like a bamboo pole that would fall down if blown by the wind.
So it is obvious that his so-called rich relative is his father Chen Gengyun.
Classmates also said that Fan Tianyou's personality eventually changed. For a while, he was very arrogant and looked down on others, so people didn't really like him. As for his subsequent activities after graduation, he was not very clear. It was only two years later that we heard from other sources that he had studied abroad.
My classmates said that actually everyone was privately saying that he was the illegitimate son of some big boss, otherwise why would the contrast between the two be so great?
But there was no evidence, so the matter was left unresolved.
Then came Chen Lin’s classmate. Fortunately, the person Qiao Jiali found was not only Chen Lin’s college roommate, but also her good friend.
Chen Lin’s friends were very sad about her death, because with her family conditions, she could have had a bright future, but she died in an accident.
From this good friend, Qiao Jiali learned two pieces of information.
1. Before her death, Chen Lin had never had a boyfriend because her parents were very strict.
Second, for a period of time before her accidental death, Chen Lin had been depressed. Later, she confided in her that a relative from the countryside had come to their home. She and her mother hated this person very much, but her father always brought this relative home.
This basically confirms that Fan Tianyou and Chen Lin were not in a relationship at all. Chen Gengyun previously said that he got to know Fan Tianyou because Chen Lin was in a relationship with Fan Tianyou and Chen Lin brought the girl home.
Wu Yongcheng said: "In other words, Fan Tianyou and Chen Gengyun met for some reason during their sophomore year. Chen Gengyun then accepted him and brought him home, hoping that his wife and daughter would accept Fan Tianyou."
Qiao Jiali nodded. "Well, I think the term 'poor relatives from the countryside' is just an excuse Chen Lin used to tell his friends about this. After all, this is a family scandal. It's impossible for such a poor relative to appear out of nowhere."
"Yes, that's for sure. Then the deaths of Chen Lin and Li Aiping are also problematic." Wu Yongcheng took a breath. "It must be that Li Aiping didn't accept Fan Tianyou and forced Chen Gengyun to sever ties with his illegitimate son. Then Fan Tianyou killed them both for his own future."
"Does Chen Gengyun know about this?" asked Qiao Jiali.
"Then you'll have to speak up, old man." Wu Yongcheng turned around and saw Zhou Yi's face was solemn and silent. "What's wrong with you? What else did you think of?"
Zhou Yi said, "I'm thinking about Fan Chunyu's death."
"Didn't we analyze this before? It's possible that Fan Tianyou killed his mother in revenge."
Zhou Yi slowly shook his head. "Yes, I did think so at first. But Captain Wu, do you remember how he cursed when we held Fan Tianyou down?"
Wu Yongcheng recalled: "They called us inferior people and trash?"
"Yes, but the fact is, before he met Chen Gengyun, he was the low-class trash he himself was talking about. Considering the impression the educated youth from Changfengling had of Chen Yimin, they thought his family had connections and could be transferred back. So, is it possible that Chen Gengyun also created this image in front of Fan Chunyu? Looking at his current behavior and his role as a political broker, you can tell that he's someone who cares a lot about his reputation and image. His behavior of cultivating his own persona isn't new."
Wu Yongcheng was stunned: "Personality? What is personality?"
“It’s his image-building.”
"Oh, why do you always come up with weird new words? Are they popular among young people nowadays? And what is that 'breaking defense' you mentioned earlier?"
Although Zhou Yi was benched in his previous life, it did not affect his understanding of Internet information. After all, information was spread so conveniently and rapidly later on.
"It's about breaking down his psychological defenses. To use a different word, it's like breaking his heart."
Wu Yongcheng asked, "Is he like Murong Fu, going crazy because he has no hope of restoring his country?"
Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "Well, almost, but not crazy."
Wu Yongcheng smiled proudly at Qiao Jiali and said, "I have read all of Jin Yong's books."
"In short, Chen Gengyun must have found a way to make Fan Chunyu protect him wholeheartedly and not give him up even if he was criticized," said Zhou Yi.
"Yeah, indeed. This old bastard is really good at it. He followed everyone else in criticizing Fan Chunyu, and yet the other party didn't even give him up. It's unbelievable."
"So Fan Chunyu must have told Fan Tianyou since they were little that his father was a superior man and that as long as he got into a university in Hongcheng, he could go and find his father. However, Fan Chunyu couldn't stand the bitterness of reality and couldn't accept the fact that he had been abandoned by Chen Gengyun. That's why he was so emotionally unstable, loving when he loved and hating when he hated."
"In fact, the real target of her venting was not Fan Tianyou, but Chen Gengyun. Fan Tianyou was just a substitute for Chen Gengyun."
The two nodded in agreement. Qiao Jiali said, "Well, with Fan Chunyu in such a situation, she must be struggling internally, constantly wavering between hope and despair. In that kind of environment and with those emotions, it wouldn't be surprising if she were driven insane, let alone mentally ill."
"So you mean that Fan Tianyou subconsciously thinks he is a superior person?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"No, I mean, Fan Tianyou's murder of his mother might not just be revenge."
"What else could it be?"
Zhou Yi said a few words that made the two of them feel their scalps tingling.
"A token of allegiance to Chen Gengyun."
Wu Yongcheng asked, "Are you saying that Fan Tianyou killed his mother in order to recognize his father and return to his ancestral home?"
This is too abnormal, abnormal to the extreme, especially at that time Fan Tianyou didn't know who his father was at all. All he knew was the name "Chen Yimin".
If it was really Fan Chunyu who had been instilling in him the idea that his father was a superior man, then it would be so sad and lamentable that this was the result in the end.
Zhou Yi nodded gravely. "Of course, there was definitely a factor of long-suppressed anger erupting, but the fact that he was able to calmly arrange and disguise it as suicide shows that it wasn't just a case of losing control of his emotions."
"Just imagine, if Fan Tianyou found Chen Gengyun and told him that his mother was still waiting for him in the mountains, waiting for him his whole life, what would Chen Gengyun's first reaction be?"
Wu Yongcheng replied: "He would be afraid, afraid that the shameful things he did back then would be exposed."
"Yes, but if Fan Tianyou told him that his mother was dead, he wouldn't have such concerns. With his status and cunning, he would have countless reasons to portray himself as a love-struck man who can't help himself."
"But in fact, Fan Tianyou probably doesn't care. All he cares about is recognizing Chen Gengyun and changing his fate. So Fan Chunyu is his biggest obstacle, followed by Li Aiping and Chen Lin."
When Wu Yongcheng heard this, he was shocked and immediately said, "Could Xu Liu be pregnant?"
These words also shocked Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali.
It is now basically certain that Xu Liu's financial backer is Chen Gengyun.
In order to inherit everything from Chen Gengyun, Fan Tianyou even killed his own mother as a token of his loyalty, and may have also killed Chen Gengyun's wife and daughter. If Xu Liu was really pregnant and threatened him, it is possible that he would kill and dismember her to eliminate the obstacle.
After all, Chen Gengyun is only fifty-four years old.
And if Xu Liu was really pregnant, with her current scheming, she would definitely ask for a huge sum of money, causing Chen Gengyun to feel threatened and possibly committing a crime.
But Qiao Jiali immediately said, "But Xu Liu's autopsy report didn't mention that she was pregnant."
"Could it be that the period was too short, so the body was dismembered, cooked, and fried..." When Wu Yongcheng said this, he suddenly thought of something.
Zhou Yi also realized something at once.
"What's wrong?" Qiao Jiali asked after looking at their expressions.
Wu Yongcheng said: "The reason why the murderer sliced and fried Xu Liu's body was not to destroy Xu Liu's DNA, but because he was afraid of finding another DNA in Xu Liu's body."
"Is this... possible?" Qiao Jiali asked.
Zhou Yi shook his head. "I don't know. After all, the provincial DNA laboratory has only just been established, and I'm not sure if current technology can handle it. But as long as the body isn't damaged, the risk exists. Fan Tianyou studied economics, and Chen Gengyun studied sociology. They're not in medical fields, so I'm afraid they only have a limited understanding of this cutting-edge technology, so they don't dare to take the risk."
"Forget it, let's not analyze it anymore. The old bastard has too much intentions. Director Xie has made arrangements anyway. Let's see if he will confess when the time comes." Wu Yongcheng said, "I'll go to Team Liang to ask when we can search Jianghai Haoting."
As soon as Wu Yongcheng finished speaking, his cell phone rang.
"Oh, it's Director Xie calling." He quickly answered the phone. "Hello, Director Xie, it's me."
"Okay, okay, I'll be right there."
After hanging up the phone, he said excitedly, "Director Xie will personally lead the team to Jianghai Haoting. Zhou Yi, you come with me. Xiao Qiao, continue to look for Fan Tianyou and Chen Lin's classmates to double-check."
"OK."
"One more thing. Check the family background of Chen Gengyun's wife, Li Aiping."
"good."
Zhou Yi followed Wu Yongcheng out and asked, "Captain Wu, do you suspect Chen Gengyun was transferred back because of his father-in-law's connections?"
"Well, if his family had this ability, it wouldn't be his turn to become an educated youth."
The two walked out of the office building and saw that many people had gathered at the gate of the police station.
The technicians and forensic doctors were already in place. Liang Wei stood next to a police car and waved to the two of them. Wu Yongcheng and Zhou Yi immediately walked over to say hello.
Then Xie Guoqiang, dressed in a police uniform, walked out of the office building, looked at the people ready to go, straightened his hat, and shouted, "Let's go!"
Liang Wei opened the car door and said, "Captain Wu, let's take one."
Xiang Jie was responsible for driving, and Zhou Yi naturally sat in the passenger seat, letting the two leaders sit in the back seat.
Then the team drove out of the city bureau, with sirens blaring, and the team was like an arrow shot towards the city bureau.
Zhou Yi thought, looking at this situation, could it be that they are going to draw their swords against Jiang Zhengdao so soon?
"Captain Wu, Liu Baoguo admitted that he did commit favoritism and corruption in the incident at the Hongda graduate student dormitory eight years ago."
Liang Wei's words made Zhou Yi immediately turn around and listen carefully.
Liang Wei said that the Provincial Examination Institute's Admissions Office had checked Fan Tianyou's graduate registration and admission records. He was studying sociology at Hongda University, and his enrollment time was the same as Dong Lu's, both belonging to the School of Social Sciences.
However, their majors were different. Dong Lu studied psychology, while Fan Tianyou studied sociology, and the name of their admissions tutor was Chen Gengyun.
In other words, Chen Gengyun arranged Fan Tianyou's change of major from undergraduate to graduate school entirely for the purpose of allowing him to inherit his mantle.
When Liu Baoguo saw the investigation record, he was stunned. He knew he had no way to defend himself, so he told the story of what happened that year.
In the early morning of November 16, 1989, Liu Baoguo was awakened from his sleep by a phone call. When he hurried to the school, Dong Lu had already been sent to the nearby Pinghe Road Hospital, and his life or death was unknown.
Because the nature of the incident was unclear and no fire had occurred, he did not choose to call the police or notify the fire department, but instead let the school security department investigate on their own.
But having said that, he actually suppressed the matter for the sake of his own promotion.
He said that he did not think it was arson, but rather an accident, so when arranging a conversation with the students, he found the excuse of self-immolation, with the purpose of shirking responsibility without thinking about it.
This is also why the information obtained from Song Shasha, in which the school said that it was a student's self-immolation, was inconsistent with the accidental electricity usage recorded in the confirmation letter signed by Dong Lu later.
The security department found out that Dong Lu was the only one in the dormitory that night, and the graduate student who lived with Dong Lu was a local and often went back home to live.
However, after the fire broke out, when the dormitory manager was awakened and went upstairs, he met a boy running down from the third floor in a hurry, and he found that the iron door leading to the fourth floor was open.
The dormitory manager didn’t think much of it at the time and thought that the boy was just frightened. After all, all the students on the third and fourth floors were awakened by the fright.
He only remembered this incident when the security department was investigating later.
Liu Baoguo said that he realized at the time that this might be a case of arson, so he wanted to call the police.
But they were stopped by Chen Gengyun. Since Dong Lu was a graduate student at the School of Social Sciences, the school arranged for the two of them to be responsible for the investigation of the matter.
Chen Gengyun pulled him to a deserted place and told him that the boy was Fan Tianyou, a graduate student he personally supervised. Chen Gengyun begged him not to call the police, as Fan Tianyou's life would be ruined if he did.
Liu Baoguo said that he was moved by compassion and asked Chen Gengyun to bring Fan Tianyou to his office to explain the truth to him, otherwise he would call the police.
So, that afternoon Chen Gengyun brought Fan Tianyou to his office, and Fan Tianyou told him the truth with tears in his eyes.
But what Liu Baoguo said was obviously not the truth, because it was inconsistent with Dong Lu's later reaction. It was just impossible to confirm whether it was Liu Baoguo or Fan Tianyou and Chen Gengyun who lied.
In short, Fan Tianyou said that he and Dong Lu were secretly in love, but Dong Lu was cheating on him and had a boyfriend, so she wanted to break up with him.
On the evening of the 16th, he drank to drown his sorrows. After getting drunk, he became more and more angry. He took a half-bottle of white wine and went to Dong Lu to ask for an explanation. He said that he did not pay attention to whether the door on the stairs was closed. Anyway, he knocked on Dong Lu's dormitory door and went in.
The two became more and more excited as they talked, and Fan Tianyou took out a lighter and said he would set himself on fire to force Dong Lu to get back together with him.
As a result, Dong Lu also lost control of her emotions, snatched the white wine from his hand and poured it on herself, saying, "If you force me again, I will die in front of you."
During the argument, the lighter in Fan Tianyou's hand accidentally ignited, and Dong Lu was engulfed in fire.
Fan Tianyou was frightened and ran away immediately.
That’s the boy the dormitory manager saw.
Liu Baoguo told Liang Wei that under Chen Gengyun's pleading and out of respect for Fan Tianyou's talent, he finally made a foolish decision. He did not call the police but suppressed the matter.
"Bullshit!" Wu Yongcheng cursed angrily!
Zhou Yi was about to curse when Wu Yongcheng interrupted him.
These bastards are fucking bastards. Even though things have come to this point, they are still lying and accusing Dong Lu of two-timing.
Zhou Yi was so angry that he was shaking all over. Dong Lu and Xiao Bing were each other's light, but now they had to bear their slander.
"That bastard Liu Baoguo is obviously lying and shirking responsibility. Does he have a pig brain? How can he believe such words?" Wu Yongcheng took out the cigarette box angrily.
Liang Wei nodded. "Yes, this is the same as Chen Gengyun saying that the reason he gave false testimony for Fan Tianyou was because Fan Tianyou went to see a prostitute. It was just to shirk responsibility as much as possible."
Wu Yongcheng rolled down the window halfway, lit a cigarette and took a puff before asking, "Captain Liang, how does he explain the matter of studying abroad and his student records?"
Liang Wei sneered, "He said he knew nothing about the study abroad situation. He only knew that Chen Gengyun helped Fan Tianyou withdraw from the school the following month. As for the student records, his excuse was that after the withdrawal process, Chen Gengyun borrowed the original documents on his own, and never returned them."
Wu Yongcheng was so angry that he clapped his hands while holding a cigarette in his mouth: "Okay, okay, he is not guilty of anything. He is more innocent than the White Haired Girl."
Liang Wei smiled, patted his shoulder, and said, "Calm down. This kind of person isn't worth it. I've asked the comrades from the Discipline Inspection Commission to intervene. Since he's such a liar, let the Discipline Inspection Commission deal with him. They have more experience than us in dealing with people like this."
Zhou Yi agreed with Liang Wei's statement that Liu Baoguo did not actually bear much criminal responsibility in the Hongda case, and his bigger problem was something else.
It was impossible for him not to guess that Fan Tianyou was Chen Gengyun's illegitimate son, and it was impossible for him to believe the nonsense story about half a bottle of liquor being accidentally consumed. There was only one reason why he protected Fan Tianyou and concealed the truth for Chen Gengyun: he and Chen Gengyun had a vested interest.
Sima Qian told the world the truth more than two thousand years ago.
The world is bustling with people, all for the sake of profit; the world is in turmoil, all for the sake of profit.
Zhou Yi looked out the window and found that the buildings on the roadside were gradually becoming empty. He knew that they were entering Kaiping District.
Soon, they arrived at a villa area, Jianghai Haoting.
After the police car in front stopped, they also stopped.
Zhou Yi looked out from the passenger seat and found that Xie Guoqiang had already gotten out of the car. So he told Liang Wei and Wu Yongcheng, and several people also got out of the car.
Not far away, two black cars were parked at the gate of the villa area.
There was an Audi in front, and the car behind scared Zhou Yi.
A Mercedes-Benz S600. He remembered that the price of this car in 1997 was about three million.
Did Jiang Zhengdao come in person? No wonder Director Xie had to personally take action.
Two men in suits were standing next to the Mercedes-Benz. When they saw Xie Guoqiang leading a group of police officers walking towards them, one of them bent down and spoke a few words to the Mercedes-Benz's rear window, which was slightly open.
Then the car door opened and a tall man in his fifties got out of the car.
The man was wearing a navy blue silk Tang suit, with an elegant temperament, and holding a string of dark sandalwood Buddhist beads in his left hand.
When he saw Xie Guoqiang, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face.
"Oh, thank you, Chief. It's been many years."
"Boss Jiang, how are you?"
The two men shook hands, and although they were both smiling, Zhou Yi smelled a hint of tension.
After a few pleasantries, Xie Guoqiang was about to speak, but Jiang Zhengdao's gaze passed over him and fell on Zhou Yi behind him.
"Is it Zhou Yi?" Jiang Zhengdao suddenly asked.
Zhou Yi was stunned. He had never seen him in his two lifetimes. How come he recognized him right away?
Jiang Zhengdao's words made everyone stare at Zhou Yi.
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