Who deceived whom?
At the same time, Luo Yuwen was in his dilapidated apartment, the whole place filled with smoke from his cigarettes, the ashtray nearly overflowing with cigarette butts. Standing before a whiteboard, his beard unshaven, his eyes heavily bruised, he stared intently at it, his once sharp eyebrows and bright eyes now droopy.
The dense pile of clues in front of Luo Yuwen gave him a headache. He raised the remaining sip of whiskey and drank it in one gulp, but the dull pain in his head did not ease at all.
"What's the problem?!"
If this case is not solved, my brother...
Luo Yuwen divided the clues according to time and tasks, from the first time Yan Ying came to him, to Jiang Shuiying's proposal of cooperation, and then to the process of investigating Zhu Zhi and Qu Qing with Jiang Shuiying.
Finally, today at the orphanage, he discovered that these three people had actually sponsored the same orphanage. Luo Yuwen recorded all the details carefully.
Luo Yuwen thought he had a good memory, but apart from the common point of the orphanage, he could not find any suspicious points. Recalling the previous investigation with Jiang Shuiying, she and the other two women in his memory did not seem to know each other.
Let's go back to the day before Yan Ming's death. Jiang Shuiying filed for divorce with him, and then he made an appointment with Zhu Zhi. After ordering fruit and vegetable juice, Zhu Zhi suddenly broke the appointment. When the delivery man was getting the fruit and vegetable juice in the store, Qu Qing was in the store and touched the glass of juice. Finally, the male secretary stopped at Yan Ming's door with the juice, and then the crime happened, and Yan Ming died in the office.
These three women seemed to have no connection and did not know each other, but each step they took inadvertently contributed to Yan Ming's death and left no evidence.
Luo Yuwen crossed his arms and wondered what method he could use to conceal the fact that someone had died alone in the office.
Assuming that these three women knew each other, Jiang Shuiying had an argument with Yan Ming the night before, so the male secretary said that Yan Ming was in a bad mood the next day, and the lover who had originally agreed to meet had something urgent to do, and then the glass of fruit and vegetable juice that was most likely drugged by Qu Qing was delivered to Yan Ming's office, leading to his death.
But this inference has a huge flaw: Why did Yan Ming drink the glass of juice when he knew that he was allergic to kale?
Luo Yuwen stood in front of the whiteboard with a worried look on his face, but he couldn't figure out why.
He was lost in thought, and the only sound in the quiet room was the ticking of the clock. At this moment, Luo Yuwen's cell phone, which was placed on the coffee table, suddenly rang, and the sudden ringtone startled him.
Luo Yuwen picked up the phone and saw that it was Yan Ying.
Why is he contacting me at this time?
"Hello?"
There was silence on the other side at first, and then a faint sob sounded in Luo Yuwen's ears.
“…Wu…Wu…Wu…”
It was a male voice.
"Yan Ying?! What are you doing!?"
"...Wuwu...Brother..."
"Save me..."
The moment he heard the sound clearly, the cigarette butt that Luo Yuwen had been holding between his fingers fell down due to trembling. The red dot fell in the darkness and extinguished on the floor. Luo Yuwen's breathing also stopped with this movement.
It was his brother's cry for help again.
Luo Yuwen's hands were shaking as he held the phone to his lips and yelled, "Yan Ying! What on earth do you want?"
"I told you I'm checking! What else do you want?"
The voice on the other end changed from a somewhat childish male voice to Yan Ying's hoarse voice, and he smiled sinisterly:
"Oh, I said I'd only give you a month. It's already been almost three weeks. Look at you, what have you found?"
"I told you there was something wrong with Jiang Shuiying and asked you to check her out, but what happened to you?"
"You actually cooperated with her? Haha... Do you really think I'm stupid? Do you think I don't know anything now?"
"I'll give you three final days, otherwise you'll never know where your brother is in your lifetime!"
The other party didn't respond to Luo Yuwen and hung up the phone. Luo Yuwen stood there in a daze, his chest heaving violently with his breathing.
He checked the time. It was nine o'clock in the evening.
Luo Yuwen squatted on the ground, having thrown his phone to the ground. He clutched his clothes at his chest, trying to calm his breathing. The excessive breathing made his head dizzy, and a feeling of impending death surged from his chest.
Those memories that he had intentionally buried, along with the pressure of the investigation in the past few days, once again filled his mind.
He paused for half an hour, waiting for the messy memories to stop, before an idea popped into his mind.
Luo Yuwen picked up the cell phone that was thrown aside, grabbed the coat thrown on the sofa, and walked out.
He wanted to go to Yan's house to find Jiang Shuiying.
Luo Yuwen had already checked everything he could find. He knew there was something fishy about Yan Ming's death, and he knew it must be related to Jiang Shuiying, but he couldn't find anything. With his back to the wall, he could only take a gamble.
Bet Jiang Shuiying will help him again.
If he had to choose between Jiang Shuiying and Yan Ying, Luo Yuwen would choose Jiang Shuiying.
He sped all the way, forcing himself to keep his scooter steady, and arrived at Yan's house. But to his surprise, when Luo Yuwen arrived at the door of Yan's house, the housekeeper had already been waiting for a long time.
The moment Luo Yuwen saw the housekeeper, he understood that Jiang Shuiying was indeed waiting for him!
He quickly parked the car, and the butler came up to him in time:
"Mr. Luo, the lady has been waiting for you in the study on the third floor. Please come in."
Luo Yuwen found something strange as soon as he entered the house. He found that there were many cardboard boxes in Yan's house and there were no servants. It looked like they were going to move.
Luo Yuwen didn't know whether he was moving or running away.
The butler led Luo Yuwen to a heavy pearwood door and then left.
Luo Yuwen was still panting when he knocked on the door. Jiang Shuiying's gentle voice came from behind the door.
"Come in."
The first thing you see in this study is the heavy bookshelves on both sides. Jiang Shuiying is standing in front of the desk by the window with her back to Luo Yuwen, holding something in her hand.
"Coming?"
Luo Yuwen walked into the room quickly, panting heavily, slamming the door shut, and said in an unstable tone: "Jiang Shuiying, why are you playing tricks on me!"
"You, Qu Qing, Zhu Zhi, and the other three clearly know each other, so why are you pretending not to know each other and teasing me?"
"What on earth do you want to do!"
Jiang Shuiying didn't look back and didn't stop what she was doing. Luo Yuwen's questioning didn't affect her.
"I know them? Do you have evidence?"
"You're a detective. You can't accuse someone without evidence."
"Am I slandering you? Then tell me, why did you three, implicated in this case, coincidentally fund the same orphanage?"
At this point, Luo Yuwen became a little emotional, and his voice was no longer as gentle as before: "Why did you kill Yan Ming? For money?!"
"I once thought you were pitiful and a victim, but you used me and played me around!"
Perhaps it was Luo Yuwen's roar, or perhaps it was that Luo Yuwen's questioning hit the point, Jiang Shuiying finally put her hand down and turned to face the man who was trembling slightly with anger.
Luo Yuwen no longer had the vigor and vitality he once had. He hadn't shaved for many days, and his eyes were beginning to bleed bloodshot, with a look full of vigilance.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy, the air was filled with the smell of old wood and the rose fragrance of Jiang Shuiying. Jiang Shuiying did not rush to answer him, but just watched quietly until Luo Yuwen's chest slowly calmed down.
The two looked at each other in silence. After an unknown amount of time, Luo Yuwen heard Jiang Shuiying sigh slightly.
Jiang Shuiying stood with her hands behind her back, her expression calm. "You've been following Zhu Zhi and Qu Qing these past few days, right? And then you followed them to the orphanage?"
"And you followed them in, didn't you?"
"But Luo Yuwen, if we know each other, how do you think we can contact each other without being discovered?"
"The women's restroom."
These words made Jiang Shuiying's eyes evade a little, but they did not escape Luo Yuwen's eyes.
"You guys were really careful, only contacting each other once a month, and Zhu Zhi didn't even get out of the car during the whole process."
"Am I right, Jiang Shuiying?"
Jiang Shuiying turned her head, separating the two from each other: "I still say the same thing, you have no evidence. So what if you found the orphanage? It's just a coincidence."
"And the fact is that Yan Ming committed suicide. No matter how many times you ask, it's useless. This matter can't be resolved with just one suspicion."
"Luo Yuwen, you need evidence."
When Jiang Shuiying said this, Luo Yuwen was so angry that he laughed. He strode forward, grabbed Jiang Shuiying's shoulders with both hands and looked at her, not giving her a chance to dodge.
"The evidence is from your Yan's surveillance! It's you who colluded with Yan Ming's secretary, exploiting the time difference and blind spots in the surveillance to poison the fruit, and then fake Yan Ming's suicide!"
"You, Qu Qing, Zhu Zhi, and even the male secretary, all four of you know each other!"
"Zhu Zhi ordered the juice in advance, and then you deliberately asked for a divorce from Yan Ming the day before. Then, you had Qu Qing poison the juice in some unknown way. In the end, the juice went into Yan Ming's stomach and killed him!"
"Jiang Shuiying, you have a really good plan. You have cleared yourself of all charges!"
The two of them were facing the light, Jiang Shuiying's body was thinner than Luo Yuwen, and her whole body was shrouded in shadow.
Jiang Shuiying was a little flustered when Luo Yuwen grabbed her shoulders at first, but after hearing Luo Yuwen's questioning, Jiang Shuiying's expression changed back to her previous half-smile and in-control look.
Jiang Shuiying looked cunning, raised the corner of her mouth and changed the subject:
"Luo Yuwen, did Yan Ying call and threaten you?"
Luo Yuwen's hand holding Jiang Shuiying shook unconsciously.
"...What?"
Jiang Shuiying broke free from Luo Yuwen's restraints, turned around and grabbed the old smart phone that had been placed on the table.
"Not only do I know that Yan Ying came looking for you, I also know that Yan Ying used your missing brother to threaten you. That's why you rushed here to confront me tonight."
"You have checked all the clues you can find, but you still can't figure out why Yan Ming committed suicide, and now Yan Ying is threatening you again."
"So you can only pretend to have found out everything to trick me. Am I right?"
Jiang Shuiying half leaned on the desk, one arm around her, and with the other hand she held up the old smartphone in front of Luo Yuwen.
"What if I tell you now that I know your brother, too?"
Luo Yuwen opened his eyes wide: "...What did you say?"
Jiang Shuiying didn't give Luo Yuwen time to react. She threw the phone into his arms, walked around the table and sat down in the boss chair.
"Everything about your brother is in this phone,"
"Take a good look and see who deceived you."
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