Chapter 196 Split-brain Case: Suspects

Fang Rui asked, "Where is your Dean Liu's office?"

"On the third floor, on the left, the second to last room."

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang found Dean Liu's office. They knocked on the door and a voice came from inside, "Come in!"

Dean Liu's office was simply decorated, with many banners hanging on the wall, such as "Amazing Hands and Kind Hearts", "Mother and Daughter Are Safe Thanks to Medical Skills, Benevolent Hearts of the World Praise Medical Ethics", "Noble Medical Ethics Warm People's Hearts, Exquisite Medical Skills Spread to the West", from these we can see that his medical skills and medical ethics are very good.

Dean Liu is a middle-aged man in his teens, not tall, very thin, with a Mediterranean hairstyle, and looks very friendly.

He was writing a report. When he saw Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang, he frowned and said, "Who are you? What do you want from me?"

They showed their ID and explained their purpose.

Upon learning that they were police officers, Dean Liu's brows furrowed even deeper, "Comrade police, what do you want me to do?"

Fang Rui asked, "Dean Liu, where were you between 8 and 10 pm on September 14th?"

"The evening of the 14th? Let me think, I got home at around 6 o'clock that day, and I stayed at home all the time and didn't go out."

"Can anyone prove it?"

Dean Liu said angrily, "What do you mean? Do you suspect me?"

Fang Rui said, "Why are you lying? The surveillance camera captured your car on the national highway near the highway entrance at around 8 o'clock on the evening of the 14th."

"Impossible! I haven't left the city recently, how could I have been to the highway entrance? Could you have made a mistake?"

Fang Rui handed the photos taken by the surveillance video to Dean Liu.

Dean Liu was shocked when he saw the photo. He muttered, "Impossible, how could my car appear on this road? I have never been here! This is not my car!"

Fang Rui asked, "You said you stayed at home on the night of the 14th. Do you have any evidence to prove it?"

Dean Liu's eyes dodged and he said in a panic, "I am divorced from my wife. I am the only one in my family. No one can prove it."

"Is there no surveillance at the entrance or elevator of your community?"

"No, I live in an old community and there is no surveillance."

Fang Rui wanted to ask more questions, but someone pushed the door open first. It was Dean Wang, the head of the hospital. He walked in with a beer belly and a serious face.

After understanding Fang Rui and his team's purpose, he said, "Two young comrades, Vice President Liu is in charge of technology and does not know much about hospital management. If you want to investigate something, you have to ask me. What's the point of making things difficult for Old Liu?"

Xiao Zhang retorted, "We are not making things difficult for him. We are just investigating his alibi."

"Old Liu is an honest man. How can he be related to the crime?"

Dean Liu said, "Anyway, I have never been there. It is none of my business."

"Comrade police, let's go to the reception room to talk." Dean Wang looked at Dean Liu's panic and immediately helped him out.

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang could only follow Dean Wang to the reception room.

Dean Wang was busy making tea for them. Fang Rui interrupted him and asked, "Dean Wang, does your prenatal checkup include Down syndrome screening?"

Dean Wang insisted on making tea for them. He sat down on the sofa and replied slowly, "Yes, it is a must-do item in prenatal checkups. We also provide gene screening projects that can screen for a variety of genetic diseases, in response to the eugenics policy."

"Has any pregnant woman in your hospital had her fetus screened for Down syndrome?"

"Of course there is! The prevalence of Down syndrome is higher than one in a thousand. Several cases are screened out every year, but under the doctor's advice, pregnant women will basically abort the baby. So the Down syndrome baby you are asking about was definitely not born in our hospital. You can go to another hospital to ask."

Dean Wang thought Fang Rui and his team were investigating a medical accident, so he tried his best to distance himself from the matter.

Xiao Zhang said, "But someone said that they saw the child in the hospital?"

"Who is that person? Let them come forward, I can confront him."

Fang Rui asked, "Can you give me the list of pregnant women who were screened for Down syndrome?"

"This... this involves the privacy of our clients, and we cannot disclose it. Police comrades, I have already told you that no child with Down syndrome was born in our hospital. You do not need to waste time, go to those public hospitals and ask, they have a lot of patients, maybe some pregnant women have not had prenatal check-ups, or their Down syndrome was not detected through screening, and still gave birth to a child with Down syndrome."

Fang Rui said, "If you don't provide it, we can only apply for a search warrant."

Dean Wang changed his attitude upon hearing this, "As citizens of society, we have an obligation to cooperate with the police to solve the case. So no problem, I will let the nurse who manages the files print out the list of these pregnant women and their medical records. If you need any other data, just tell us, we will definitely cooperate with you."

Fang Rui quickly got the list of pregnant women, but Li Yan was not among them. He had previously checked Li Yan's prenatal examination report, and the report showed that Li Yan's fetus was healthy. This proved that someone had tampered with Li Yan's prenatal examination report.

After leaving the hospital, Xiao Zhang said, "Boss, that Dean Liu must have been lying. He probably didn't go home that night."

"Let's go to the community where he lives."

"Okay."

Dean Liu used to be a doctor at the First Affiliated Hospital of the City, and later switched to Angel Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital. The community where he lives is a unit house allocated to him by the First Affiliated Hospital of the City. Because he has property rights, the house was not taken back after he switched jobs.

"It seems that Dean Liu is quite content with his life," Xiao Zhang said, "He is the dean, but he still lives in this old community."

Fang Rui discovered that there are cameras in this community.

He asked the security guard at the door: "Is this camera useful?"

"Yes, it is. It was just installed a few months ago."

Fang Rui showed his ID and asked: "Can you help us retrieve the surveillance video? I want to see the surveillance video on the 14th."

"Okay, no problem."

The security guard was a talkative middle-aged uncle. While retrieving the surveillance video, he chatted with Xiao Zhang.

Xiao Zhang made up a story: "Do you know Director Liu? I heard that his midwifery skills are particularly good. I have a relative who wants to give birth in his hospital. I wonder if I can make an appointment with him. Can I get an appointment if I give him a gift?"

"Then don't waste your energy. Director Liu never accepts gifts."

"He is really a good doctor with high medical ethics."

The security guard chuckled twice and stopped talking.

Xiao Zhang asked: "Am I wrong?"

"You can't say it's wrong. His medical skills are quite good, but his character is not necessarily good."

"Why do you say that?"

The security guard lowered his voice and said: "His wife divorced him. Can you guess why? He found a mistress in her twenties outside. If I hadn't heard his wife arguing with him that day, I really wouldn't have thought that the honest Dean Liu would be such a person!"

"But he lives in such an old and shabby house, and he probably doesn't have much money. What does that mistress want?"

"How do you think a dean is without money? Forget about his salary. How much can he receive in red envelopes and kickbacks? Even though he lives in this kind of place and drives a junky car, there might be hundreds of millions of cash hidden in his house?"

Xiao Zhang asked curiously, "How do you know he has cash hidden in his house?"

"Isn't that how it's played in TV dramas? He looks poor at ordinary times, but when you lift the quilt, you'll see cash all under the bed."

"..."

"Dean Liu's son has very poor grades, but he went abroad to study. Where did he get the money? As soon as his wife divorced him, she went abroad as well. It is said that she even bought a house abroad. Where did the money come from?"

"Couldn't his wife have earned it?"

"His wife is just a housewife, how could she earn so much money?"

Fang Rui asked, "Did you see Dean Liu come back on the 14th?"

The security guard said without even thinking, "No!"

"How can you be so sure?"

"I haven't seen Dean Liu drive back for several days. He has come back less often since he divorced his wife." The security guard blinked, "You should know the reason."

Xiao Zhang said, "Do you know where he went?"

The security guard muttered, "I'm just a security guard, how would I know so much?"

"..." Xiao Zhang was speechless. Don't you know enough?

After returning to the bureau, they carefully checked the surveillance of the community. The surveillance showed that Dean Liu's car had not returned to the community.