Qu Yongming and Qu Yongqiang left their hometown a month ago, which exactly matches the information on the note.
Wen Mingguo told Ji Shaoguo the news she had found out over the phone, "No one here knows Cheng Zhiji, and no one knows what the relationship is between him and Qu Yongming. The only connection is that Qu Yongming's adoptive father went to Beijing to make a living, and five years later his stepmother also went to Beijing to look for him."
The hospital notified Qu Yongming that he had passed the critical period and had woken up, but he was unable to speak yet.
After investigating Qu Yongming and Qu Yongqiang's movements in Beijing over the past month, Ji Shaoguo discovered that they had been lurking at the gate of Huajing University the week before and had also appeared around Cheng Zhiji's home. From the very beginning, Qu Yongming's target was Cheng Zhiji.
Cheng Zhiji has a son who has been working in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. After receiving a notification from the police that his father had been killed, he immediately took leave and rushed back from Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
In the interrogation room, Wen Mingguo pushed two photos in front of Cheng Zhijia, "Do you know these two people?"
The people in the photo are Qu Yongming and Qu Yongqiang.
Cheng Zhijia frowned slightly and shook his head, "I don't know him."
Wen Mingguo took the photo back and pushed two more photos over, "Where are these two people?"
In the silent interrogation room, the expression on Cheng Zhijia's face changed. It was a rapid emotional fluctuation of being frightened and panicked.
"You have seen them." Wen Mingguo said very affirmatively, his dark eyes staring at Cheng Zhijia's face.
Cheng Zhijia did not answer the question directly, but asked with some stammering: "Is my father's death related to them?"
Wen Mingguo leaned back against the bench, folded her arms across her chest, and said, "The murderer is their adopted son."
Cheng Zhijia lowered his head heavily like a lost dog, "I should have guessed it earlier, retribution has finally come."
Wen Mingguo: "What happened? Is the death of Qu Zhaoyang and Gu Xiaomin related to your father? Tell me everything you know."
Cheng Zhijia pointed at Qu Zhaoyang's photo and said, "This man is my father's friend. One night thirty years ago, he suddenly came to my house with a box of gold bars. My father and he had a big conflict. I heard no sound downstairs in my room, so I went downstairs to check. At that time, my father was..."
Seeing Cheng Zhijia stop, Wen Mingguo pressed him, "What did you see?"
Cheng Zhijia covered his face with his hands and lowered his head in regret. "My father was dragging the man's body. There was blood on the ground. He was dead."
Wen Mingguo said in a resolute voice: "Did your father kill him?"
Cheng Zhijia shook his head, "I didn't see it with my own eyes."
Wen Mingguo put his hands on the table. "You are deceiving yourself, and then what?"
Cheng Zhijia was slow to raise his head, and his hoarse voice was filled with a strong sense of infarction. "I saw my father drag him to the backyard and bury him."
"Where's the box of gold bars?"
Cheng Zhijia: "My father took it away."
Ji Shaoguo stood outside the glass window of the interrogation room and muttered to himself, "Qu Zhaoyang is so poor. The money he sends home every month is only enough for basic living expenses. Where did he get the gold bars?"
Wen Mingguo pointed at Gu Xiaomin's photo and asked, "What about her?"
Cheng Zhijia blinked. "Five years later, this woman showed up at my doorstep and kept asking my dad to tell him where Qu Zhaoyang was. She stayed nearby for a long time and made my dad very annoyed. Later, when I went to school, I saw this woman on my way out. She was still alive at the time."
Wen Mingguo supported herself on the table with both hands, stood up and locked her gaze with Cheng Zhijia's guilty look, "Then she disappeared. Was she killed by your father?"
Cheng Zhijia is 42 years old this year. He was 12 years old when Qu Zhaoyang died, and he was 17 years old when Gu Xiaomin came to him.
At this age, knowing that his father had killed someone but keeping silent and allowing things to go on can be considered a complete cover-up.
Cheng Zhijia quickly shook his head and denied it, "I don't know if my father did anything to her. She was fine when I left. Later, when she was gone, I thought she went to find her man somewhere else."
Wen Mingguo: "What did your father do with the box of gold bars?"
Cheng Zhijia: "I didn't see it later. At that time, the family's conditions gradually improved, so I think it was spent."
After the interrogation, they did not let Cheng Zhijia leave, but took him to the backyard of his house.
Ji Shaoguo pointed to the backyard and asked him, "Where is Qu Zhaoyang's body buried?"
Cheng Zhijia pointed to the center of the yard.
The police took shovels and started digging.
Before long, they dug up bones.
When all the corpses were exposed, Ji Shaoguo squatted on the ground and said, "There are two bodies."
Cheng Zhijia trembled all over and his face looked extremely dejected.
According to the forensic examination, the two deceased were a man and a woman. The man died from a heavy blow to the head by a hard object, and the woman was stabbed to death with a knife. The ages of the two deceased matched those of Qu Zhaoyang and Gu Xiaomin.
Looking at the clothes that had not yet completely rotted in the soil, Cheng Zhijia nodded. One of the clothes was similar to the one Gu Xiaomin wore back then.
In the conference room.
Guo Jie said: "We found two gold bars in Cheng Zhiji's house with the mark of Huixia Bank on them. Thirty years ago, Huixia Bank was attacked by the enemy. When the support troops arrived, they found that ten boxes of gold bars were stolen. Nine boxes were recovered, and the remaining box was not found. It should be the box that Qu Zhaoyang brought to Cheng's house."
Ji Shaoguo said: "Qu Yongming killed Cheng Zhiji to avenge his adoptive parents, and killed the widow Qiu to divert attention. Let us focus all our attention on Wang Shuning and reduce the number of guards at the hospital. The case has finally been solved."
Wen Mingguo looked at the photos of the first two victims who were raped and murdered. "Why did he commit rape and murder first to avenge his parents? He could have just killed Cheng Zhiji first at the scene, and nothing would have happened later."
Yu Qiufeng raised his hand and said, "Could it be that when they were committing rape and murder, they were caught by their enemy Cheng Zhiji, so he just killed them. He didn't expect Wang Shuning to suddenly appear, and was worried that the other party's shouting would attract many people, so he ran away."
Wen Mingguo: "Qu Yongming is 45 years old this year. He has no criminal record in his hometown. It is a bit far-fetched that he wanted to rape her not long after arriving in Beijing."
Ji Shaoguo: "It is difficult to discern human nature. Qu Yongming raised his five-year-old mentally retarded brother alone. I am afraid he was already filled with resentment. By following Cheng Zhiji, he found that the murderer of his parents was living such a good life. He was angry for a while and wanted to take revenge on society."
The young police officer who fought with Qu Yongming in the hospital that day nodded vigorously, "Qu Yongming did not hesitate at all when he committed suicide. He was very desperate."
If Cheng Zhiji had not killed Qu Zhaoyang and Gu Xiaomin, Qu Yongming would not have had such a miserable life.
After being adopted, he met two foster mothers who were both very kind to him. His life was okay before he was ten years old. From ten to fifteen years old, although life was difficult, he could barely get enough to eat and wear.
After Gu Xiaomin came to Jingshi to find Qu Zhaoyang who was killed, he brought Qu Yongqiang, a mentally challenged burden, with him. Qu Yongqiang's life was almost like that of a beggar and was really difficult.
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