Chapter 474: One of the Seven Deadly Sins is Missing
Zhou Yi did not ask much about whether the skeleton found in Yunxia Mountain was an accident or a murder.
Because judging from the condition of this skeleton, it has not been one or two years. The thickness of those vines must have taken at least five or six years to grow.
Therefore, it would take a long time just to confirm the identity. It might be that even by the time I report to Wuguang, I may not be able to confirm the identity of the deceased.
So there's no need to ask now.
On behalf of the Wuguang Municipal Bureau, Cao Anmin gave Zhou Yi a reward and would cover all of Zhou Yi's medical expenses. He also said that the director had applied to the city to commend Zhou Yi for his heroic deeds.
Afterwards, Zhou Yi joked to Wu Yongcheng, "It's not a loss."
Wu Yongcheng said with a sullen face: "You almost died, you know? And you're still smiling."
Zhou Yi moved his hands, but the injury on his right shoulder was so severe that he grimaced in pain. However, he still managed a smile and said, "I'm not dead."
Then the two chatted about the case for a while.
Ever since Zhou Yi was rescued, Lu Xiaoshuang, who had been by his side all the time, sensibly found an excuse to go out.
Wu Yongcheng told the whole truth about why he fell off the cliff.
Zhou Yi listened without saying a word, his face solemn.
After listening, Zhou Yi asked, "So, Ding Fei's motive for committing the crime was because he borrowed over 2,000 yuan from Liang Bin and then refused to pay it back. He thought that since Liang Bin was dead, he wouldn't have to pay it back, so he cut my rope?"
Wu Yongcheng nodded. "Yes, this guy has very poor psychological quality. It didn't take much effort to interrogate him. He's addicted to the slot machines in the arcade. He basically spent all the money he borrowed and his living expenses on them."
"Liang Bin is a very arrogant person with a strong desire for control. He pays for most of the club's activities, so everyone has to obey him. Ding Fei understood Liang Bin's temper and flattered him, praising him so that he could borrow money from him."
"But after borrowing too much, Liang Bin started to have problems. He urged Ding Fei to pay back several times, but Ding Fei kept making excuses to delay. In fact, he had no money to pay back."
Zhou Yi was lying on the hospital bed, looking at the ceiling. He never imagined that he wanted to save someone, but the person he saved was going to kill him for such a ridiculous reason.
He took a deep breath and felt that he still didn't fully understand the evil of human nature.
"Captain Wu, are you sure Li Yanan didn't cut the rope?"
Wu Yongcheng shook his head. "Li Yanan's confessions match Ding Fei's. Ding Fei indeed cut the rope alone. However, knowing Ding Fei's intentions, she not only did not try to stop him, but also gave him the scissors. Therefore, she has already met the criteria for complicity. Now, these two people have been arrested."
"What about Tang Mengjie? She's Ding Fei's girlfriend. Even though she wasn't involved, she was nearby. It's unlikely she didn't know anything, right?"
In response to Zhou Yi's question, Wu Yongcheng nodded. "Tang Mengjie has also been interrogated. She certainly didn't participate in the crime, but after questioning, she admitted that she suspected Ding Fei might have done something wrong and knew that Ding Fei had asked Liang Bin for money. But she chose to conceal it because she was unsure of what Ding Fei had done and was too scared."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but sneer: "They are really birds of a feather. If I had known they were this kind of people, I wouldn't have saved them."
Wu Yongcheng sighed helplessly: "Hey, who told us to be police officers?"
"Oh, we've contacted the school to find out what happened. Do you know why Liang Bin abused Li Yanan for so long?"
Zhou Yi asked: "Because Li Yanan cheated on her husband?"
Wu Yongcheng shook his head. "It's not that different, though. Li Yanan had a boyfriend when she was in high school, and they had sex. But she hid it from Liang Bin and lied that she had never been in a relationship."
"So Liang Bin obeyed her every command and spent a lot of money on her. When Liang Bin wanted to have sex with her, she kept delaying, saying she wanted to keep her virginity until her wedding day. Liang Bin felt that she was serious about the relationship, so he agreed not to touch her."
"What's the result?" Zhou Yi asked, because he knew something must have happened.
"As a result, Liang Bin received an anonymous note shortly afterwards. It clearly mentioned the names of Li Yanan and her high school boyfriend, among other things. The note also mocked Liang Bin for treating a slut like a treasure."
"Liang Bin took the note to Li Yanan and confronted her, but she denied it. Liang Bin then demanded that she go to a hotel with him and have sex to prove her innocence, or they would break up."
"Li Yanan agreed at the time, but after arriving at the hotel room, she suddenly changed her mind, saying Liang Bin didn't trust her and it was an insult to her."
Zhou Yi frowned upon hearing this and asked, "So Liang Bin raped her?"
Wu Yongcheng nodded. "Yes, she said Liang Bin forced her onto the bed and had sex with her, confirming that she wasn't a virgin. From that day on, Liang Bin began to torture Li Yanan both mentally and physically, saying it was to punish her for her infidelity."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but curse, "No, are these people all psychotic? Why not just break up? Why do something so reckless? Isn't this pure insanity?"
Wu Yongcheng agreed, "I think when we were young, we weren't as pretentious as they are. Or is this just a trend among young people nowadays?"
Zhou Yi quickly said, "Captain Wu, you can't pin this accusation on young people. These people are simply mentally ill. No matter what era they are in, they are mentally retarded!"
Wu Yongcheng patted him and said, "Don't be so excited. You have a concussion. Be careful or you'll feel dizzy again."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but rub his temples and said, "I'm so angry that my head hurts."
After a while, he asked, "Captain Wu, what about the second thing?"
"The second thing is Yao Li. What do you think his purpose is in joining this club?"
Zhou Yi closed his eyes and thought for a while before asking, "He, Liang Bin, and Li Yanan are all sophomores. Could he be in love with Li Yanan?"
"Okay, I'm relieved that your brain isn't damaged. That's right, Yao Li has a crush on Li Yanan, so he joined their club. And he didn't start having a crush on Li Yanan after entering college. They are from the same hometown and even attended the same high school, just not in the same class."
"Yao Li admitted that he had liked Li Yanan since high school, but because of his poor conditions, he never dared to express his feelings. In his own words, he wanted to be by Li Yanan's side and protect her silently."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but complain: "Well, another hypocritical psychopath."
Why does it feel like some kind of middle school youth pain literature, with all the ear and river stuff?
Zhou Yi had just finished complaining when he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Captain Wu, have you asked Yao Li if he wrote the note Liang Bin received?"
Wu Yongcheng immediately chuckled, "I knew you could figure it out. That's right, I asked, and it was him who did it."
Zhou Yi was not surprised by this result. Yao Li, who said that he only wanted to protect Li Yanan, was secretly pushing her into the abyss. He was hypocritical to the extreme.
Zhou Yi found it outrageous that such a small case almost had all the elements of the seven deadly sins.
Pride, envy, laziness, anger, greed and lust.
All that’s missing is gluttony.
It's totally off the mark.
I am so unlucky. I finally got to watch the sunrise with Lu Xiaoshuang, but ended up encountering something like this.
"Okay, you should have a good rest. We've talked too much today. Your girlfriend will be worried soon. Have a good rest. I'll arrange a special car to take you back to Hongcheng. You should recuperate at home. Ni Jianrong here..." Wu Yongcheng shook his head, "I'm really worried."
Wu Yongcheng walked out of the ward and found Lu Xiaoshuang standing diagonally opposite him with her head down in a daze, with a thermos at her feet.
Wu Yongcheng walked over, and Lu Xiaoshuang only then noticed him. She looked up and shouted, "Captain Wu, are you done talking?"
"Well, we've talked enough today. I guess he's tired. Let him have a good rest."
As he spoke, Wu Yongcheng took out a wad of money from his pocket and handed it to Lu Xiaoshuang, saying, "Here's five hundred yuan, a small token of our appreciation. Take it and buy him some good food. I've asked the doctor, and he's in good health."
"Thank you, Captain Wu." Lu Xiaoshuang reached out and took the five hundred yuan.
Whether to take the money in the end is Zhou Yi's business. She can only keep it for now and cannot make the decision for Zhou Yi.
"By the way, Xiaoshuang, there's something I still have to remind you of. Don't blame me for being nosy."
Lu Xiaoshuang looked at him, not knowing what he wanted to say.
Wu Yongcheng said with emotion: "Being a family member of a police officer is very hard. You have to bear much more pressure than ordinary people, especially criminal police officers. You have to worry about them every day. You have to be mentally prepared."
Looking at Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang, he thought of himself and his ex-wife, the estrangement and endless quarrels caused by work.
Later, she finally got pregnant and the relationship between the couple was improved. When they thought everything was going in the right direction, a sudden accident completely shattered everything.
On the day of the divorce, when his ex-wife came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, she resolutely left without looking back. It was the greatest pain in his life.
After hearing his words, Lu Xiaoshuang's eyes were no longer confused. Instead, she said with a firm gaze, "Don't worry, Captain Wu. No matter how difficult the road in this life is, I will definitely accompany him. Unless one day he doesn't want me anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yongcheng glared and said, "He dares! If he dares to bully you in the future, just tell me, and Xiao Qiao and the others, we will support you."
Lu Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "Thank you, Uncle Wu."
"Go ahead, go and keep her company." Wu Yongcheng said with a smile.
He stood there, watching Lu Xiaoshuang's back as she walked towards the ward, as if he was seeing his ex-wife's back on the day of their divorce.
When Lu Xiaoshuang walked to the door, she turned around and smiled at him.
He couldn't help but be stunned, as if he saw the young face in his memory smiling at him.
…
Five days after being rescued, Zhou Yi returned to Hongcheng and lived in a single room at the Third Municipal Hospital.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but the ward he stayed in was exactly the same one he stayed in after being injured in the food court incident.
Lu Xiaoshuang looked at the familiar ward and asked with a smile: "Brother Yi, looking at this ward, do you feel a sense of fate?"
Zhou Yi smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "This is my second time in prison."
"What does it mean to be imprisoned for the second time?"
"It refers to those criminals who are caught and imprisoned for the second time."
When Lu Xiaoshuang heard this, she immediately denied it, saying, "You can't say that. It's unlucky."
"Then how should I say it? Scoring twice?" Zhou Yi asked.
"What? This should be called a fateful encounter."
"Forget it, I don't want to encounter it again."
Lu Xiaoshuang was about to say no, but suddenly remembered what Wu Yongcheng had said before, and her heart tightened.
Zhou Yi also noticed something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong? Are you worried?"
Lu Xiaoshuang smiled and shook her head: "No. Brother Yi, do you want some fruit? I'll wash it for you."
Zhou Yi leaned against the hospital bed, reached out and held her, and asked, "Brother Biao said that you walked almost a kilometer by yourself to find the place where I fell?"
Lu Xiaoshuang sat on the edge of the bed and nodded.
"Don't do such dangerous things again in the future, okay? That area is very dangerous. It rained heavily before. If you are not careful, you may encounter danger. The consequences will be unimaginable." Zhou Yi said earnestly.
Jiang Biao didn't tell Zhou Yi about this at first, so Zhou Yi always thought that it was the rescue team that found him. Later, when the three of them came to the hospital to see him, they let it slip and he found out.
She couldn't help but feel a little scared. After all, because of the deliberate misleading by Li Yanan and others, the location was some distance away from the search range of the rescue team. If Lu Xiaoshuang ran there alone, it would be a serious problem if something really happened.
"Brother Yi, things are not what you think." Lu Xiaoshuang immediately recounted what happened that night.
Zhou Yi was stunned and couldn't help asking, "You...you didn't say that on purpose to deceive me, did you?"
"I swear, I lied to you, you're a puppy."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that what grandma said was actually true."
Zhou Yi clasped his hands together and bowed towards the void, saying repeatedly: "Thank you, ancestors, for your blessings. Thank you, ancestors, for your blessings."
Although he still found it incredible that the night lantern guided Lu Xiaoshuang to find him, he was reborn after all, and he couldn't explain everything with scientific logic.
"Son, where is my son?"
The person has not arrived yet, but the voice has arrived. Zhang Qiuxia's voice came from outside the ward.
Zhou Yi smiled at Lu Xiaoshuang, then whispered, "I'll pretend to be asleep, you cover for me."
As soon as he turned his head and closed his eyes, Zhang Qiuxia rushed in with her family.
Just as she was about to speak, Lu Xiaoshuang immediately winked at her.
"Shh..." Lu Xiaoshuang whispered, "Auntie, Brother Yi just fell asleep. He's a little tired. Don't wake him up."
Zhang Qiuxia looked at her son lying on the bed, feeling a bit torn. Finally, she pulled Lu Xiaoshuang aside and said, "Come on, let's go out and talk to Auntie. What's going on? Why did his grandmother say on the phone that Zhou Yi fell from a mountain several hundred meters high?"
Zhou Yi, who was pretending to be asleep, almost couldn't help laughing when he heard it.
My goodness, how did this rumor spread? They think I’m the Monkey King.
Lu Xiaoshuang couldn't help laughing and said quickly, "It's not as exaggerated as grandma said. Let's go and talk outside."
Then Zhou Yi heard the footsteps of a group of people gradually walking away. Finally, the door of the ward closed and the room suddenly became quiet.
The sun outside the window was shining brightly, falling on the white pillow of the hospital bed, accompanied by Zhou Yi's gradually even breathing.
…
Zhou Yi stayed in the Third Municipal Hospital for more than a week, saying that he was recuperating, but in fact, people came to see him one after another, and he never had a moment of rest at all.
Apart from relatives, people from the bureau and Qian Hongxing's family.
There are many others.
Jin Lei and Zhang Ning brought their old colleagues from Nanhu Street Police Station.
The old neighbors of Ergang.
Some unfamiliar municipal party committee leaders came to express their condolences.
Yu Rong came to visit him on behalf of the TV station.
There were also Xu Junjie and Yan Lang. Xu Junjie brought Cheng Jiaojiao to see him. No one knew where he heard the news, but after asking him, it turned out to be a complete detour.
Zhou Yi learned from Cheng Jiaojiao that Han Jiajia was in a relationship, and it sounded like the same blind date he met in the western restaurant.
Lu Xiaoshuang naively asked who Han Jiajia was and whether she was their high school classmate.
Old Yan initially thought that Lu Xiaoshuang was Zhou Yi's sister. When he learned that she was Zhou Yi's girlfriend, and a 19-year-old female college student, his eyes widened. He surrounded Lu Xiaoshuang and kept asking if there were any classmates he could introduce to him. Finally, Lu Xiaoshuang could only reluctantly say that she would help him ask after school started.
Old Yan was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling, as if he had already found a girlfriend.
Then there were some colleagues who had come into contact with him in previous cases, such as Officer Miao Cheng, and Director Wang of the Yong'an Township Police Station in Yanyang County also brought Hu Zi over.
Looking at the endless stream of people coming to visit him, talking and laughing, Zhou Yi had a very strange feeling.
If I were living in a TV series, this would be the rhythm of the finale.
But life has to go on. In fact, there is no grand ending, but Zhou Yi was discharged from the hospital smoothly.
But being discharged from the hospital does not mean recovery. For moderate concussion, the doctor's advice is to strictly limit physical and mental activities for the first two weeks and ensure adequate sleep every day.
If symptoms improve significantly after two weeks, you can gradually increase light activities, but avoid excessive fatigue.
So after Zhou Yi returned home, Zhang Qiuxia came to cook for her son every day, three meals a day.
Lu Xiaoshuang was interning at the Tax Bureau. After the Hongda case was over, the anonymous report had been dealt with. After all, it was a report made by the murderer to confuse the public, so it would not be considered a valid report. Therefore, Lu Xiaoshuang continued to intern at the Tax Bureau as usual.
However, as July 20th was approaching, Zhou Yi noticed that Lu Xiaoshuang was a little worried.
That day, Lu Xiaoshuang came home from get off work to visit Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi asked her, "Xiaoshuang, I see you've been a little worried lately. Are you worried about going home to see your parents?"
Lu Xiaoshuang quickly smiled and said, "It's okay. The doctor said you still need to rest for a while. Besides, you have to report to Wuguang on August 1st, so you need to rest well. We can talk about going back to see my parents next time. My parents are not unreasonable people."
Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "How about this? You haven't been back for so many years. Why don't you go back by yourself this time? I'll accompany you next time."
Lu Xiaoshuang was slightly stunned, but immediately nodded and said, "That's fine."
"Then I'll get you the ticket. I know someone at the railway police."
Lu Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Yi."
But when he turned his head, there was a hint of loneliness in his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, it was July 21st, Hongcheng Railway Station.
Outside the ticket gate, Lu Xiaoshuang and Zhou Yi hugged each other.
"You must be careful when you are alone outside, okay? When you arrive in your town, you must call me to let me know you are safe." Zhou Yi reminded.
"I know, Grandpa. You've been talking about it all the way." Lu Xiaoshuang said with a smile, "Then I'm leaving."
"Go ahead."
"Okay, go back and rest, don't get too tired."
Lu Xiaoshuang took the sleeper ticket given by Zhou Yi and dragged the suitcase. In addition to clothes, the suitcase also contained some things that Zhou Yi prepared for her parents.
Then he passed the ticket gate, looking back at Zhou Yi every few steps.
Zhou Yi waved at her until her figure disappeared from his sight.
Zhou Yi turned around and trotted away quickly.
On the train platform, Lu Xiaoshuang was looking for the carriage number on her ticket.
Suddenly, someone called out from behind: "Lu Xiaoshuang? Is that you?"
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