Flower Museum Headless Dismemberment Case (17)
Chen Jierong jogged to the parking lot and saw Lu He and Meng Siqi walking together from a distance.
The moonlight was bright, and even in the midst of her intense work, her emotions still paused for a while. The two of them, their backs shrouded in the halo of moonlight, walked side by side in unison under the moon. Their heights matched, their figures were perfect, and one could not help but feel that these two people seemed to have known each other for a long time and protected each other.
She has been busy with this case recently and has no time to take care of her life. However, at this moment, she narrowed her eyes and smiled. She remembered what Director Liu had said to her intentionally or unintentionally, "When you are free from work, communicate more with Lu He."
They communicated in their spare time, and Director Liu's meaning was very clear. Lu He was a "silent man" in the police station and never approached girls; she was also an "ivy tree" in the bureau and had no contact with men. So what could the two of them communicate about? It must be about their feelings.
She understood Liu Ju's idea, but she didn't agree with it in her heart. She and Lu He were colleagues who had a good understanding of each other. To her, Lu He was her best friend and partner in her career. They could talk about anything because of work, but they would never talk about topics related to their feelings. She would never forget the feeling in her heart when she met Xiang Jie that year.
Unable to help it, her eyes were filled with the crystal light illuminated by the moonlight, and she wiped it with her slender white hand, and suddenly remembered that she had important things to do.
When she was returning from Shanghai Railway Station at noon today, she called the office of Team One, and later called the office of Team Two, but no one answered. She then called the Forensic Office and found out that both teams had gone to conduct a search operation.
This matter was neither important nor unimportant, and she did not want to disturb Director Liu, so she had to board the train immediately, hoping to see Lu He in the evening and tell him about this as soon as possible.
"Road team!" She trotted a few more steps and shouted.
Lu He was walking in front of the car door and turned his head to look.
Meng Siqi followed the sound, and in the moonlight, she saw Chen Jierong at first sight.
She walked quickly in the moonlight, her chest heaving. There must be something important. She called out, "Sister Rong!"
"Siqi!" Chen Jierong replied as she walked. When she reached the two of them, she was a little out of breath. "Look quickly, I just came from..." Her throat was slightly choked.
Lu He took the folder and said comfortingly, "Speak slower."
When Lu He pulled out the file, Chen Jierong's tone slowed down a bit: "When I examined the body before, I found that the wall of the deceased's stomach was stiff and there was a mass on the stomach wall. I was a little suspicious at the time. I thought it was a benign tumor, but the instruments here couldn't detect it. I took some gastric tissue and went to Jinyang City Hospital for exchanges. The opinions were not unified, so I went to Shanghai. I have a highly respected mentor in Shanghai who works at the Cancer Research Institute. I gave him the gastric tissue and finally came to an accurate conclusion."
Lu He had already opened the folder, which contained the test forms with the official seal on them. However, the words could not be seen clearly in the darkness. He raised his head and continued to listen to Chen Jierong's explanation.
Meng Siqi was exhausted after a day of search and interrogation at night, but at this moment she was concentrating and trying to hear every word Chen Jierong said.
Chen Jierong said: "We found that the deceased had cancerous cells mainly in the stomach. Although they had not completely spread, they had already reached the middle and late stages."
This piece of news is undoubtedly a very important clue in this case, which is why Chen Jierong is so anxious.
Because a question immediately came to the surface: if the murderer knew that the deceased was a cancer patient, why did he still kill her?
In this era, the cure rate of cancer is not very high, and even if it is possible to cure it, it may require a lot of money.
Unless the murderer did not know that the deceased had cancer, combined with Li Muxiao's confession, this is very likely.
In Meng Siqi's mind, she quickly considered various possible answers.
Chen Jierong spoke very quickly, and after she finished speaking, she was still trying to calm her breathing. Her slightly fluctuating panting sounds conveyed a rhythmic and sexy feeling in the silent night.
Lu He said in a magnetic voice: "Okay, Jie Rong's case is indeed very important. However, Li Muxiao has already pleaded guilty today."
"You plead guilty?"
"Yes, he didn't seem to know that the deceased had cancer, but I will follow up on this matter. I will check whether there are any recent cancer records of female patients in their twenties in major hospitals. Maybe I can answer some new questions."
"Okay." Chen Jierong nodded.
Meng Siqi was also thinking about the new problem that Lu He mentioned. Now there is a mystery that has not been solved, that is, why Ruan Mengying left suddenly, and why did she show a different face to Li Muxiao when she came back a year later? Could it be related to her terminal illness?
While she was thinking, Lu He said to Chen Jierong, "Let's get in the car together. I'll take you there."
Chen Jierong paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "No, I still need to go back and clean up."
Meng Siqi felt sorry for her because she looked so exhausted and probably hadn't had a good rest for several days. She quickly grabbed Chen Jierong's hand and said, "Sister Rong, let's go together. We can do the work tomorrow. It's already past nine o'clock. You need to go back and have a good rest."
Chen Jierong looked at her, as if hesitating, but then nodded slowly, "Okay, let's go together."
Chen Jierong opened the back door and said, "Siqi, please sit in the front seat."
"I'd rather sit with Sister Rong." Meng Siqi turned around and got on the car from the other side.
The car started, and Meng Siqi chatted with Chen Jierong for a while, asking her whether her journey to Shanghai was smooth and whether there were any interesting things. Chen Jierong answered with a smile.
She said that while waiting for the test report, she went for a walk on the Beach with her instructor, and she saw the Oriental Pearl Tower which was under construction. If all goes well, it will be completed in the next two years.
She studied medicine in Shanghai and still has some feelings for Shanghai, but she returned to Jinyang City after graduation. One of the main reasons was that her home was here.
She suggested that Meng Siqi should go to see the Oriental Pearl Tower after it was completed, saying that it would be very beautiful. The breeze from the Huangpu River would make people forget their worries.
She also talked about what it was like when she first started working, saying that she was still very afraid of dissecting corpses because they were completely different from the corpses she dissected in medical school, but she quickly became familiar with forensic work.
After talking about her two years of work, Chen Jierong stopped describing her story. Meng Siqi was listening intently when he suddenly noticed that in the dim light, her eyes were sparkling and moist.
She didn't disturb her. Perhaps recalling the past would bring up many memories, which is the purest emotion of human beings.
"Sister Rong, you should get some sleep."
"Yeah." Chen Jierong looked at her and smiled slightly, "Siqi, you have to be well."
Meng Siqi nodded. Although she didn't fully understand what she meant, she felt that this must be a blessing to her.
Chen Jierong rested for about 10 to 20 minutes. When the car stopped, she woke up, said hello to the two people and got out of the car.
Chen Jierong's home was not close to the police station, and it was night time, so Lu He didn't drive that fast.
Lu He set off again. Meng Siqi lay in the recliner, looking at the night outside the window, her thoughts still in Chen Jierong's description. She could feel that she was once a high-spirited girl. She returned to her hometown and faced the new job with youthfulness and determination, but today she is an excellent forensic doctor. In a few years, she has completed the transformation, and she also hopes to complete the transformation like Chen Jierong.
The wind blew away her thoughts.
The folder on the seat fell down. Meng Siqi picked it up and once again thought about the content of the folder and the new problem mentioned by Lu He.
Did Ruan Mengying know that she had a terminal illness? If she knew, she must have gone to the hospital for a check-up. In other words, the hospital must have had a record of the check-up. Such a serious illness would not be a pseudonym, so the name Ruan Mengying is likely to appear in a medical record.
This might be what Lu He mentioned about going to the hospital for investigation. If a terminal illness record is found, then it would answer a question: why did Ruan Mengying borrow money at that time and why did she leave without saying goodbye? Maybe she knew that there was something wrong with her body.
However, there is another problem that cannot be explained. A year has passed since Ruan Mengying left and reappeared. If she had a terminal illness, she would not be in a healthy state when she appeared in front of Li Muxiao again.
So Ruan Mengying left Li Muxiao for other reasons? It is possible that she was diagnosed with a terminal disease much later, and she thought that she didn't have much time left. At that time, she saw Li Muxiao again. She wanted him to leave her, but she gave him a firm rejection, which made him give up.
If this is the story, then Li Muxiao's killing of Ruan Mengying because of "betrayal" is a complete misunderstanding. When he knows the truth, he will be in great pain.
Li Muxiao has already pleaded guilty, which may not be important, but for the criminal police, it is not only about tracing the criminal process, but also the criminal motive and the complete chain of evidence.
While Meng Siqi was thinking, the car arrived at her home, a home she was very familiar with, a villa with a large yard outside. It was past ten o'clock and the house was still brightly lit. Either Ye Xiuhui was watching TV or Aunt Chang was waiting for her to come back.
Meng Siqi got out of the car and was about to say goodbye to Lu He through the window when Lu He pushed open the door and also got out of the car.
The two looked at each other, and his pupils were filled with the cold white of the moonlight, but his own warmth softened this cold white.
"Siqi, I'm very tired today. Go back and have a good rest."
"Well, Team Lu, thank you."
"You're welcome. Go ahead."
Meng Siqi nodded, took two steps, and turned back, "Captain Lu, let me follow up on what happened at the hospital tomorrow."
Lu He stood in the empty space, with his hands in the pockets of his brown leather jacket as usual, and his whole body was as straight as a pine tree. He replied, "Don't worry, you should have a good rest first."
Meng Siqi turned around and faced Lu He again. "Captain Lu, do you think that Ruan Mengying rejected Li Muxiao outright because she had a terminal illness? Do you want to investigate the matter and give Ruan Mengying justice? She did not deceive anyone and she is not a betrayer."
In Meng Siqi's mind, tracking down the murderer and solving the case may be just one of her goals. She also wants to give justice to the victim. Perhaps Lu He has the same idea.
Lu He pursed his lips, took two steps forward, and faced her from a close distance with his angular facial features under the moonlight.
He said slowly: "There is more to it than that. The truth is endless. We criminal police are here to explore the truest truth buried deep in the abyss."
"I'm worried that this story might not be that simple. I hope it's just a worry..." His tone suddenly became a little sad. "Let's just finish our work here first. Next, we'll wait for the court's verdict."
Meng Siqi nodded again. She gave a slight smile, as if it was specially for Lu He. She waved her hand and walked towards the yard.
As they walked, she suddenly felt something was wrong. Lu He said that the truth would never be revealed, but he also said that he had to do his job first, which was not in line with his character. It seemed that he just didn't want her to get involved. Did Lu He discover something and was worried about her safety?
She stopped and turned around. There was moonlight over there and Lu He was standing in the light, watching her from afar.
Perhaps because she turned around, Lu He slowly took a few steps towards her. His pace was even, and every step seemed to be in line with her heart rhythm.
Walking up to her, he pulled something out of his jacket pocket and handed it to her, "I got some Band-Aids from the office. Do you have any iodine at home?"
"Huh?" Meng Siqi was a little slow to respond. When she reached out to take it, she remembered that her knee was scraped today, but she had already forgotten about it.
"Thank you, Team Lu. I have some iodine at home." I took the Band-Aid from his hand and felt his warmth in my palm. The Band-Aid must have been kept in his pocket.
"Go back and have some rest."
"Okay." Meng Siqi curled his lips, "Be careful on the road."