"Your partner?" Lu Xiangxiang asked.
"Yes, my girlfriend. One of us lost his wife and the other his husband. He was unmarried and she was unmarried. We were together as a couple, but my girlfriend felt it was embarrassing for us to be together at such an old age, so she didn't make our relationship public. I'm old now and I don't have many years left to live, so I wanted to marry her home in the next few years, but she refused to agree." The old man sighed.
So that's how it is. The two of them were in a twilight romance, she said.
She touched her nose awkwardly.
"Did the uncle see the man's face clearly?" Zhou Ziheng continued to ask.
"I saw it clearly, but I just didn't recognize it," he said.
Zhou Ziheng took out a pen from his bag and began to scribble. Soon a face appeared on the drawing. It was Du Zhifeng's face.
He showed the drawing to the old man, who nodded, "Yes, that's him. Even though I'm old, my eyesight is still sharp. It's this guy."
With the old man's testimony, there is no doubt that Du Zhifeng was the one who killed Dong Wenzhen.
But Du Zhifeng was drinking with his brother that day, and it was not known whether his brother had given false testimony.
"Uncle, thank you for your clue. It has helped us a lot." Zhou Ziheng said to the uncle with a smile.
"Okay, go get busy. There's no need to play chess anymore."
"No, I have to do what I promised you, otherwise it won't count."
"Well, let's do this. Come back sometime. I'm retired now and have nothing to do. I play chess here every afternoon."
Hearing his words, Zhou Ziheng nodded, and then left with Lu Xiangxiang.
"Let's go to brother Du Zhifeng's house again." He said, looking at the person next to him, but the person next to him was holding the notebook he had just drawn and exclaiming.
"how?"
"Captain, your drawing is too similar to the real thing." She pointed at Du Zhifeng's face and said.
"I have been drawing since I was a child. It's nothing special," he said concisely.
"No, it's already great." If he can draw so well just by casually drawing, it will be even better if he draws seriously.
Facing the girl's praise, the corners of his mouth rose slightly and then fell again, as if the person who was smiling just now was not him.
"Okay, let's go, otherwise we won't be able to finish this job today."
She nodded, and then they went to Du Zhifeng's brother's house together. This time, there was no need for Du Zhifeng to introduce them, as they came to the house on their own initiative. Only Du Zhifeng's wife was at home, and his brother had gone to work.
Seeing the two people who had gone and returned, she was a little surprised: "What happened to the public security comrades?"
"We want to ask what happened on the night your husband was drinking with Du Zhifeng more than ten days ago?" Zhou Ziheng continued to ask.
"My husband has already said everything he needs to say. I don't know anything else because I still have to take care of the children later. I'm going back to my room to sleep," she said.
"Your husband must know something. If he knows something and doesn't report it, he will be complicit in the cover-up and will be arrested and sent to labor camp." Zhou Ziheng's voice was cold, and his expressionless face really looked like the Grim Reaper.
Hearing his words, her face turned pale, and she finally said, "That night, I felt no movement in the living room, so I went out to see that Du Zhifeng was not there. I thought he had gone to the bathroom."
Hearing her words, their eyes lit up slightly.
"Then do you know when he will be back?"
"It was around 9:30. I asked my husband to go back and check the time at home. He said Du Zhifeng had gone to the bathroom and when he came back they continued drinking. So I looked at the time on the wall and it was this time."
"What about when you go out?"
"I didn't stay outside the house for long, so I don't know the exact time. Could it be that he really killed Dong Wenzhen? That's impossible."
"When he learned that Dong Wenzhen was missing, he joined the search. His grief-stricken expression was truly pitiful. He has always been honest and kind, a very good person. We, the police, really have no intention of shielding her. He was out for a short while, how could he kill someone and then come back as if nothing had happened?"
"Dong Wenzhen was strangled to death and pushed into the river, and her body floated downstream." As soon as Lu Xiangxiang said this, Du Zhifeng's brother's wife turned pale.
"He has an alibi for that day, and there are other witnesses, so we can bring him to justice."
Du Zhifeng's brother's wife chased him out and asked, "Then my husband is not guilty, right?"
"No, I hope you can cooperate later." Zhou Ziheng said in a serious voice.
Hearing his words, she breathed a sigh of relief, then cursed Du Zhifeng with a sullen face: "This damn guy, he committed a crime himself and dragged my husband into it. What kind of brother is he? I told him he is not a good one."
She cursed at home, but it had nothing to do with them anymore.
They went to where Du Zhifeng worked.
Du Zhifeng was feeling uneasy at his workstation; he had a bad feeling.
"Knock, knock," a voice sounded, and they all raised their heads and looked towards the door.
Two people appeared at the door, they were Lu Xiangxiang and Zhou Ziheng.
When he saw the two people appear, the bad premonitions in his heart came back.
"Comrades Public Security, why are you here again?" he asked in surprise.
"Du Zhifeng, we have evidence that you killed Dong Wenzhen. Please go back and accept investigation." Zhou Ziheng's voice was cold and emotionless.
Hearing his words, everyone looked at each other in confusion. The director was also stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, no, no, that's impossible. How could Zhifeng do such a thing?"
Du Zhifeng stood there expressionlessly. Zhou Ziheng stepped forward with handcuffs. Lu Xiangxiang also went to help, but Du Zhifeng pushed her away, turned around and jumped out of the window.
She was pushed into a hard chest without noticing, and when she looked up she saw it was Zhou Ziheng.
She quickly got up from his arms, "Captain, Du Zhifeng escaped."
"It's okay, he can't run away." His low voice came, and she saw Zhou Ziheng walking out of the window, and found Du Zhifeng who had been stopped downstairs.
The one who stopped him was someone from the security department. That's right, Zhou Ziheng and she had gone to the security department before coming in. She didn't follow them in at that time, so she didn't know what they talked about in there.
Now she knew that Zhou Ziheng had already asked the security personnel to wait outside the window.
"Captain, you are so amazing and so shrewd." She praised.
Wily? He's old?
He is only twenty-five years old now, how can he be old?
His face also darkened, and he emphasized: "It's resourcefulness."
"Okay, okay, the captain is resourceful." She changed her tone, thinking why this guy was being so serious here, it wasn't like she hadn't praised him before.
Du Zhifeng was arrested and the matter came to an end. He was detained at the public security bureau here and they went to interrogate him.
Because the matter had been exposed and there were witnesses and evidence, he did not make excuses after being caught and confessed to his crime.
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