Chapter 322: Sudden Situation
The calligraphy exhibition has ended. Su Yi and Liu Lan originally planned to return to the capital with Yu Zhan the next day, but an unexpected situation occurred.
Wu Qu was seriously injured.
Liu Lan and her friends learned the news at three o'clock in the morning. When they rushed to the hospital, Wu Qu had already finished the operation and was in the intensive care unit.
The man who had just received the exhibition award certificate yesterday morning and was full of energy and vigor, was now lying on the sickbed, surrounded by various instruments, breathing weakly.
There were a lot of people standing outside the custodial chamber. Ouyang Cen, other leaders of the Calligraphy Association, Zhou Budai, and the judges who had not yet left the ancient capital were all there, and several policemen were taking statements.
The atmosphere is very heavy.
Su Yi asked Ouyang Cen what was going on.
Ouyang Cen said that Wu Qu bought a train ticket to leave the ancient capital last night. The train departed at 1:30 in the morning, and he checked out of the hotel around 11 o'clock that night.
The environment of the small hotel was very poor. In order to save money, Wu Qu was reluctant to stay in a better hotel. His home was in an ordinary county town in the northwest. His family was originally well off, but four years ago, in order to concentrate on preparing for this calligraphy exhibition, he quit his stable job as a high school teacher. During this period, his wife gave birth to their second child, and their life became very difficult.
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Wu Qu called an online taxi in advance. As the hotel was located in a back street, the driver called him and told him that the car could not come in and asked him to go to the main road. He was walking towards the main street with his suitcase while answering the phone when he was suddenly hit on the head with a stick.
The online taxi driver heard the noise and felt something was wrong. He went over to check what was going on and found Wu Qu lying on the ground unconscious with blood all over his head.
And there was no one around.
Only four hours had passed since the incident, and the police conducted a simple investigation of the scene.
The place where Wu Qu was attacked was right between the surveillance cameras of the small hotel and the intersection, which was a blind spot. The incident happened too late and there was no witness around.
Although Wu Qu is from the northwest, he seldom comes to the ancient capital. He has no relatives or friends here, let alone enemies.
The police initially concluded that Wu Qu had been the victim of a vicious robbery, but because the online car-hailing driver arrived in time, the attacker ran away before he had time to search for his belongings.
Of course, the police investigation is still ongoing, and professional criminal investigators have retrieved all surveillance videos from nearby roads in an attempt to track the whereabouts of the perpetrator.
They hoped that Wu Qu could see the appearance of the murderer and planned to ask him to describe the situation after he woke up.
After listening to Ouyang Cen's story, Su Yi couldn't help but look at Liu Lan. He remembered that Liu Lan once said that she was worried that Su Xuezhen would retaliate against them.
If Wu Qu had not been upright and exposed Su Xuezhen and Wang Qinghai's behavior of adjusting the questions in advance on the spot, Su Xuezhen would never have ended up in such a miserable situation today.
Liu Lan frowned, she had a hunch that Su Xuezhen was the one who did it.
Seeing several policemen preparing to leave, Su Yi immediately stopped them and said,
"Comrade police, Wu Qu has enemies in Gudu!"
"His enemy is called Su Xuezhen!"
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the calligraphers present became very solemn.
The police attached great importance to this clue and inquired in detail about the dispute between Su Yi, Wu Qu and Su Xuezhen.
They believed that Su Xuezhen was indeed a major suspect in the crime, and after careful analysis, they believed that there was another person who might also be retaliated against by Su Xuezhen.
They looked at Chen Jianqiu at the same time.
Chen Jianqiu was stunned at first, then said fearlessly, "I dare to take responsibility for my actions, so I'm not afraid of Su Xuezhen's revenge."
Ouyang Cen disagreed, "It's better to be safe than sorry. Su Xuezhen knew very well that it was you who reported to me that there was something wrong with Su Maolin's "Po Yao Fu"."
The police also have the same attitude. These people are well-known calligraphers and people of social status. If something really happens, it will be their dereliction of duty!
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