The End of the Night (7)

In the distance, in the night, two men stood outside a car. A middle-aged man in his 50s said to the man in his 30s next to him, "Look, I was right, wasn't I? Meng Siqi is the shining sword. With her courage and perseverance, she pierced through Meng Tingzhe's huge gang."

"Team leader, it looks like we have to go back and report her for her achievements."

"Of course," Team Leader Chen sighed, "I heard that she has lived in extreme poverty and loneliness for the past thirty years, and has never fallen into the mud. She is the real unsung hero!"

*

After Meng Tingzhe and his men were taken away, Liang Yunfeng ordered them to deal with the scene as quickly as possible.

Zhao Leiting shouted: "Make sure every bone and every piece of evidence is not lost. Thank you for your hard work."

The busy work of collecting evidence was carried out intensively during the long night.

Outside the Meng family residence, someone brought a chair to Meng Siqi. Meng Siqi sat down, hugged her arms tightly and rested for a while. She was really tired.

Liang Yunfeng sat beside her and comforted her: "Siqi, everything is fine, don't worry, Meng Tingzhe's gang will eventually fall apart, the truth of the lighthouse accident will be revealed, and the truth of your father's will will also be revealed. It is very likely that the Hongzhuang serial murder case will also have an answer."

"Thank you, Director Liang." Meng Siqi slowly raised his head and said.

"Don't be so formal, Siqi. We joined the work in the same year and have the same length of service. You call me Lao Liang and I call me Yunfeng. This way, I will feel comfortable. You were able to find evidence of Meng Tingzhe's crime this time and destroy the gang involved in the crime. You have done a great thing for the people of Jinyang City. I should thank you on behalf of the provincial department."

Meng Siqi showed a gratified smile: "Yunfeng, thank you, with you, with you and Zhao Leiting, my life is worth it."

"In fact, with you, Meng Siqi, our life is worth it..."

Zhao Lei Ting said: "Mr. Liang, you came here specially tonight, which really caught Meng Tingzhe off guard. In fact, all the plans for tonight were carefully planned in advance. I didn't expect that the underworld forces that have been entrenched in Jinyang City for so many years would be destroyed by her alone."

Liang Yunfeng smiled and said, "So this is the charm of Siqi, it has never changed."

"Stop bragging." Meng Siqi smiled embarrassedly.

The moon came out from the clouds, and the sky and the earth seemed to be covered with a layer of white frost. The three of them sat on small chairs, looking at the work on site and chatting for a while. Zhao Leiting even ran to the nearby area to bring them midnight snacks, and handed several kebabs to Meng Siqi, "Siqi, you are a great contributor, you should eat more."

"Thank you, I can't eat so much, give me two skewers." Although Meng Siqi couldn't eat anything, he still cooperated with them and ate a little.

"This is the coconut juice I bought for you. There's no fruit tea, so just drink it." Zhao Lei Ting opened the lid for her again and handed a bottle of Coke to Liang Yunfeng, "Mr. Liang, is this a habit?"

"Just buy a bottle of mineral water. Carbonated drinks can keep me awake at night. Forget it. I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway. It's already so late."

As everyone was having a midnight snack, Liang Yunfeng sighed, "I never thought that time is the most valuable thing. Thirty years have passed so quickly."

"Liang Ting is still very young," said Zhao Leiting.

"Old Zhao, stop flattering me. You just can't change your mouth. Don't be so mean in private."

"How dare I? Mr. Liang has helped our Municipal Bureau a lot over the years, and I can't thank him enough."

Liang Yunfeng smiled and said, "When you were young, you were very eloquent. I didn't expect you to be the same even when you are old."

"Actually, at that time, I liked to joke with Siqi. I wanted to talk to Siqi every day. I don't know why, she was like a beacon of light to me." Zhao Leiting handed the lamb skewers to Meng Siqi.

"I don't want to eat anymore." Meng Siqi pushed it away. She looked at the night and listened to their stories.

"I remember the first time I went to the police station and met Siqi," Liang Yunfeng exclaimed, "I was wondering how there could be such a heroic girl in the world."

Meng Siqi smiled and said, "Liang Ting, was I really that good back then?"

"Okay, I can feel that they all like you, and so do I... Captain Lu likes you too. I remember one time when Shen Xiangming wanted to take you to the provincial government, Captain Lu got angry in the office. I could see that he cared a lot, he cared especially."

Meng Siqi's eyes turned red in an instant. Zhao Leiting handed the lamb skewers to Liang Yunfeng: "Old Liang, eat something."

Liang Yunfeng understood and said with a smile: "I just talked nonsense when I thought of the past, Siqi, don't mind it."

"Yunfeng, thank you. And Zhao Leiting," Meng Siqi said sincerely, "Thank you for being so kind to me in the past and now."

"Siqi, isn't it my duty to be nice to you?" Zhao Leiting also sighed, "I will never forget 1993 and 1994, when you were all here. It was the best time!" That was also the time when Yuting was alive.

Liang Yunfeng glanced at Zhao Leiting and immediately changed the subject: "Do you still remember Shen Xiangming? It's a pity that he died at such a young age."

Meng Siqi was startled. In her mind, Shen Xiangming was very far away from her, but she remembered Shen Xiangming. At that time, he was still working on a case at the Municipal Bureau for a while, and he also rented a house where she and Lu He lived for a while. But she didn't expect him to die. She hurriedly asked, "Yunfeng, how did he die?"

"It was the Seattle Club case. Because it involved a secretive figure in the province, Shen Xiangming followed that case and unexpectedly got murdered."

It turned out that Shen Xiangming died while handling this case. She remembered that in the last world, the Seattle Club was cracked by Team One and Team Two together, and later Shen Xiangming took over the follow-up of that case.

But in this world, the Seattle club was dismantled during the crackdown on gangs and evil in 2005, and Shen Xiangming must have been in charge of the follow-up of the case, but he was unexpectedly sacrificed.

She still remembered Shen Xiangming's wife, Liang Ran, who was Lu He's sister, and Shen Xiangming and Liang Ran's daughter Shen Lele. She quickly asked, "Where are Liang Ran and Shen Lele? Do you know them?"

Liang Yunfeng sighed, "Of course I know her. Not long after Shen Xiangming died, Shen Lele committed suicide by jumping off a building at school. Shen Xiangming died tragically, and her daughter probably couldn't accept it for a while. Liang Ran developed a mental illness after her husband and daughter died, and was treated in a hospital for a long time. I visited her, and she should have been living at home for the past few years... Maybe you don't believe it, but Liang Ran and I are actually from the same family tree."

Meng Siqi couldn't even imagine that this family of three had such a tragic fate. She even remembered what they looked like, their voices, and their smiles as if they were right in front of her.

The work of collecting evidence is nearing completion, and Liang Yunfeng and Zhao Leiting reviewed the scene again.

Meng Siqi walked out slowly. She remembered that she had left here many times and walked towards the bus. However, after arriving at the police station and getting off work, she would take the bus back here.

She remembered the time she spent with her parents here, she remembered every delicious dish Aunt Chang cooked for her, she remembered Zhao Leiting coming here to pick her up and drop her off time and time again, and she also remembered Lu He standing at the door looking at her back.

This was her home, but it also held a huge piece of evidence. Now it is nothing but bumpy dirt.

A tear slowly rolled down the corner of her eye. She was old, and her tears were no longer crystal clear, but she knew that her heart was still young.

Lu He, she wanted to say to him, you are right, no matter how far the night is, we can definitely witness the dawn! Look, isn't the first light coming?

The truth about you shouldn't be far away, right?

She believed that it certainly would not happen.

Meng Siqi smiled calmly at the stars, she knew that all the truth was not far away.

The next day, DNA testing on the corpse confirmed that it was Gao Han's. In addition, a small amount of blood was found in the mouth of the skull, which was confirmed to be Meng Tingzhe's DNA.

Even after 30 years, the blood has not completely diluted, and the iron ions and hemoglobin are still on the corpse. With the current technology, it is easy to draw a conclusion.

Meng Siqi remembered that Gao Han had bitten Meng Tingzhe's finger, so there was Meng Tingzhe's blood in his mouth. In addition to the on-site arrest, DNA was enough to prove Meng Tingzhe's crime.

Three days later, Meng Tingzhe finally confessed everything under intense interrogation. He killed Gao Han because Gao Han coveted his property and threatened to disclose their relationship to Meng Hui.

So Meng Tingzhe decided to kill Gao Han that day. When he penetrated Gao Han from behind, he strangled Gao Han's neck with a rope, but Gao Han bit his little finger.

In the end, Gao Han bit his little finger and it bled, and Gao Han was strangled to death. There was no DNA testing technology at that time, and he never thought that one day it would become evidence to convict him.

After killing Gao Han, he drove Gao Han's body to the front yard of Meng's house and buried it in a huge pit. During that time, Ye Xiuhui was hospitalized, Aunt Chang went to take care of her, and Meng Siqi was not living at home, so he buried the secret perfectly, but he never thought that thirty years later, Meng Siqi would dig up the secret he had buried so deep.

As for the subsequent Sujiang Lighthouse explosion case, Meng Tingzhe also admitted that he was the one who carried out the Sujiang Lighthouse kidnapping incident. That afternoon, he suggested that Meng Hui return to the Meng family residence for a reunion. At dusk that day, the gangsters he arranged rushed into the house and kidnapped four people including himself. The gangsters cut off Meng Hui's index finger, which was also the source of the fingerprint in the forged will.

The gangsters arranged by Meng Tingzhe took the Meng family to the top of the lighthouse. They were tied with explosives. In order to prevent Meng Hui's severed finger from being discovered, he had people set up a large amount of explosives on the top of the tower, with the aim of blowing them to pieces.

The explosives on Meng Tingzhe and Ye Xiuhui were fake. After making the blackmail call to Meng Siqi, Meng Tingzhe successfully untied the ropes and also untied the ropes for Ye Xiuhui.

A few minutes before the explosion, he jumped into the river with Ye Xiuhui in his arms. Ye Xiuhui was terrified after falling into the river, and desperately grabbed Meng Tingzhe at the bottom of the river. Meng Tingzhe wanted her to die, so he pushed Ye Xiuhui into the water alive. Ye Xiuhui naturally didn't expect that she would see Meng Tingzhe drown her in the end.

The reason why he brought Ye Xiuhui into the water was to eliminate the suspicion that he escaped alone. He could swim, but before the rescue team arrived, he deliberately choked on water, which also bought time for rescue.

Before he recovered from the hospital, the gangsters he arranged had already delivered Meng Hui's severed finger to Guo Zhaohong, and with the cooperation of Tang Yong, they modified Meng Hui's will.

However, Meng Tingzhe insisted that even if the will had not been modified, Meng Hui had originally left most of his property to him. Even if he was executed, he still firmly believed that he was the only son of the Meng family.

The police interrogated him about his relationship with the Hongzhuang serial murder case. Meng Tingzhe said that he did arrange for someone to call Meng Siqi and tell him that it was the Hongzhuang case murderer who kidnapped them, but in fact, it was just a lie he made up to confuse his criminal motive.

Meng Tingzhe flatly denied the Hongzhuang serial murder case and did not know the cause of Lu He's death. He confessed to several murders, but insisted that the Hongzhuang serial murder case had nothing to do with him and he did not instruct anyone to participate in the crime of the Hongzhuang serial murder case.

Moreover, he was rescuing people after jumping from the lighthouse on the night of August 13, 1994, and he had an alibi to prove that he was not there that night. And on July 16, the night he killed Gao Han, it was impossible for him to rush to the Great World Billiards Stadium to kill Zhao Yuting, so all suspicions against Meng Tingzhe were ruled out.

At the same time, the investigation team conducted a large number of interrogations on Meng Tingzhe, completely dismantled the Da Ting Group's criminal gang, pulled out the umbrella behind it, rescued hundreds of victims, and ushered in the brightest spring for Jinyang City.

*

Meng Siqi was sitting on a chair in the corridor of the police station. She received the results of Meng Tingzhe's interrogation. She was very pleased with all the results.

It's such a pity that the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case has failed again. Originally, Meng Tingzhe was the biggest suspect, but with his arrest, there are no more suspects in the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case.

Another suspect, Zhong Yanbin, was abroad when the fifth victim, Xu Yizhou, was killed and his suspicion had long been cleared.

The Hongzhuang serial murder case has once again become a mystery. Perhaps, as Zhao Leiting said, the truth may never be solved in this lifetime.

Unexpectedly, after thirty years, everything has returned to the starting point.

She was feeling a little low. Besides, there was another thing that made Meng Siqi feel very frustrated.

She never believed it. Meng Hui had clearly said that he would transfer the shares to her, but Meng Tingzhe's confession said that what he left to her was only a pitiful one-tenth, and almost all the inheritance was given to Meng Tingzhe.

Did she just not believe that her father really had no true love for his daughter? At first, Meng Hui encouraged her again and again in front of her, saying that she was his little cotton-padded jacket, but in the end, he did not really consider her at all.

"Siqi," Zhao Leiting came over without knowing when, holding a box and a letter in his hand. He sat on the bench next to her, "There is something that will make you very happy."

"What?"

"Guo Zhaohong passed away due to illness."

There was nothing to be happy about this matter, but she suddenly thought, why not ask Guo Zhaohong about the truth about the will? Maybe Meng Tingzhe lied.

"Take a look." Zhao Leiting placed a soapbox-sized wooden box in her palm. "This is the severed finger of your father Meng Hui."

Meng Siqi was startled, and felt that the box was heavy. She raised her eyes and asked, "Did Guo Zhaohong give it to you?"

"Yes. Guo Zhaohong also brought you a copy of the original will. He confessed before he died that he had not told you the truth because he was worried that Meng Tingzhe would silence him."

A thick envelope fell into Meng Siqi's hands. She opened it tremblingly, and sure enough, there was a confession letter from Guo Zhaohong. She didn't want to read it because there was a folded page at the bottom of the letter.

She opened it quickly, but her fingers trembled uncontrollably. Sure enough, there was Meng Hui's signature and fingerprint on the paper. The clear lines of black handwriting finally came into her sight.

Meng Hui's will stated that all the shares of Shangyin Shopping Mall would be left to Meng Siqi, and he also instructed her to take care of the lives of Ye Xiuhui and Meng Tingzhe, mother and son, and to appropriately support Meng Tingzhe's career.

Meng Hui said in his will, "Daughter, thank you for being my little cotton-padded jacket. Since you were born, I have been sorry for you. Your mother lost her fertility after giving birth to you, so we could only adopt a child. In the past twenty years, you are the one we feel the most sorry for. But I know that I am proud of you, and your mother will also be proud of you. Before I made this will, my health was not as good as before, and your mother was diagnosed with a serious illness. She opposed the will, but later she called me and told me to do as I wish! You are the daughter of the Meng family, and that will never change!"

Meng Siqi's tears fell, she couldn't control her emotions at all. Zhao Leiting hurried to comfort her, she suddenly fell into Zhao Leiting's chest and cried loudly.