conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 28: Cliff Lone Pine (3)
Gu Daju said: "No. After Ning Zechen died, she lived alone. However, according to the salesperson in her clothing store, Zhen Lan drove away from Guangzhou for a few days almost every month. I don't know where she went. I think she secretly has a new boyfriend."

Fan Tianze smiled slightly and said, "This further confirms my guess. Well, please take us to meet the painter's widow."

Gu Daju said, "I'll take you there in a car."

Twenty minutes later, they walked into the Red Dragonfly clothing store on Qingyun Street.

Fan Tianze saw an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl in the store greeting customers, while another well-dressed middle-aged beautiful woman was sitting behind the counter with her head buried in a calculator.

Gu Daju pouted, Fan Tianze knew that this was Zhen Lan, so he went straight over.

Zhen Lan raised her head when she heard footsteps, Fan Tianze showed her ID, and said straight to the point: "Ms. Zhen Lan? I'm from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Qingyang City Public Security Bureau."

When Zhen Lan heard the words "Qingyang City", her expression changed slightly, she stood up and asked, "What's the matter?"

Fan Tianze said: "A few days ago there was a murder case in our Qingyang Mountain Scenic Area in Qingyang City. A middle-aged woman named Fang Lihui was killed on the side of the road. We suspect that this incident is related to you, so we specially Come and ask you to go to the Qingyang City Public Security Bureau to assist in the investigation." After saying that, he winked at Xiaomeng, who took out the handcuffs from behind his buttocks, and was about to handcuff her.

"What are you going to do?"

Zhen Lan's complexion changed, she quickly took a step back, raised her leg, and kicked heavily on Xiao Meng's stomach.

Xiao Meng was caught off guard, and was kicked by her kick so that she sat on the ground.

Fan Tianze couldn't help being surprised.

Gu Daju hurriedly told him in a low voice: "I forgot to tell you just now, this woman used to be a dancer, and has been taking taekwondo classes since then. She is not a weak woman."

Fan Tianze stared at Zhen Lan and smiled, and said, "If you learn Taekwondo, you can't attack the police."

Zhen Lan panted slightly, and said, "As soon as you come in, you will arrest people regardless of indiscriminateness. If I don't do anything, you will say that I am a woman and easy to bully."

Fan Tianze glared at him, and said coldly: "Zhen Lan, you're still pretending to be confused! In order to make Ning Zechen famous, you and your wife worked together to kill Henan, who was traveling alone at night, in Zhangjiajie Scenic Area. Song Siyuan, a teacher in Xuchang, created the illusion that Ning Zechen committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. Song Siyuan's wife Fang Lihui came to you, and seeing that the matter was about to be revealed, you did not hesitate to kill again..."

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Based on the actual situation he had already grasped, Fan Tianze made the following reasoning in front of Zhen Lan.

Ning Zechen was obsessed with art creation and painted all his life, but he never got the attention and respect he deserved. He was very depressed, helpless and indignant.

Psychologically unbalanced, in order for his works to be discovered and valued by others, he decided to take risks after discussing with his wife Zhen Lan, using the name of "death" to make a bold hype.

After Ning Zechen and his wife came to Zhangjiajie, they quickly chose a single tourist who was almost the same age and appearance as him to be their "surrogate".

That night, when the man was visiting Tianzi Mountain alone at night, the husband and wife saw no one around, so they hit the man's head with a stone with all their strength, until the man's head was bleeding and he died on the spot.

They even hit the man's face a few more times, deliberately making his face blurry.Then he changed into Ning Zechen's clothes and shoes, put a carefully crafted suicide note in his pocket, threw him down a cliff several hundred meters deep, and finally cleaned up the blood on the ground.

After doing all this, Ning Zechen quietly left Zhangjiajie overnight, while Zhen Lan reported to the police early the next morning that her husband disappeared during a night tour alone last night.

The police immediately mobilized the staff of the scenic spot to search everywhere, and finally found the bloody corpse at the foot of Tianzi Mountain.

When Zhen Lan saw it, she said that it was her husband Ning Zechen.

Because there was a suicide note to testify and someone identified the body on the spot, the police naturally believed that Ning Zechen committed suicide and asked Zhen Lan to claim the body of his "husband".

Just when the news of Ning Zechen's suicide was spreading, Zhen Lan struck while the iron was hot, throwing away the last two works of her husband "during his lifetime", and then borrowed money to buy them at a sky-high price of 50 yuan each. works.

Of course, the possibility that she colluded with some brokers and operated secretly cannot be ruled out.

After this operation, the price of Ning Zechen's paintings was fired immediately.

It is difficult not to sell the works that appeared after him at a good price.

Some of Ning Zechen's "posthumous works" that appear on the market may really be his previous works, while some are newly created works after he "suicide", or even underwent plastic surgery for this purpose, and lived in seclusion. work.

Just like the painting "Sunrise of Mountains and Rivers", although the signature shows that it was a work five years ago, the lone pine in the painting proves irrefutably that this work was actually made by Ning Zechen a year ago. A new work created after collecting wind from Qingyang Mountain Scenic Area.

And the scapegoat who was pushed down the cliff by Ning Zechen and his wife was naturally Fang Lihui's husband Song Siyuan.

In fact, after Fang Lihui learned about the suicide of the painter Ning Zechen when her husband disappeared in Zhangjiajie, she had already become suspicious.So she not only went to Guangzhou to meet the painter's widow Zhen Lan, but also paid close attention to Ning Zechen's works. When there were auctions of his works in Shanghai, she went to Shanghai to see his paintings. to Wuhan.

She firmly believes that she can always find some clues.

Sure enough, when she saw Ning Zechen's "posthumous work" "Sunrise in Rivers and Mountains" on the Internet, she immediately noticed the small pine tree in the painting.

She also went to Qingyang Mountain Scenic Area five years ago, and also went to Yuhuangding to watch the sunrise. She vaguely felt that the scene painted in this painting was different from the scene she saw at that time.

She felt that the painting was strange, so she borrowed 20 yuan from the bank with her own real estate as collateral, and went to Beijing to buy the painting in person.

From the time she bought the painting in Beijing to her appearance in the Qingyang Mountain Scenic Area, there is still a time difference of several days, excluding the time taken by train.

After she got the painting, she must have asked experts to identify whether it was Ning Zechen's own handwriting.After getting an affirmative answer, he took the train to Qingyang City.

She came all the way here with the painting in order to kiss the Jade Emperor's Peak and finally confirm her conjecture.

But unfortunately, from the moment she visited Zhen Lan in Guangzhou, her appearance aroused uneasiness between Zhen Lan and the "dead" painter.Since then they have paid close attention to her movements.

When Fang Lihui found out that Fang Lihui bought this "Sunrise of Mountains and Rivers" for 20 yuan, the artist felt that there must be a reason for it. After many investigations, he finally realized that he had made a fatal mistake when creating this painting. .

Once this mistake is finally confirmed by Fang Lihui, it will definitely bring disaster to the couple.In order to keep her secret, Fang Lihui had no choice but to commit murder.

So, the couple followed Fang Lihui all the way to the Qingyang Mountain Scenic Area.Just when Fang Lihui was about to go to Yuhuangding for the final testimonial, they took out the daggers they had prepared long ago and worked together to kill her.

Afterwards, they must have searched Fang Lihui for the revealing "Sunrise Picture of Mountains and Rivers", but because the painting had already been snatched by Liu Sanshou, they couldn't find it, and finally had to leave angrily.

Finally, Fan Tianze said to Zhen Lan: "According to my initial reasoning, Ning Zechen is a scholar, while you are a weak woman. The reason why you were able to kill Song Siyuan and Fang Lihui successively is most likely hired murderers." But just now you kicked my assistant to the ground, obviously you have practiced taekwondo very well. From this point of view, your husband and wife have fully possessed the ability to kill people together. Although it is convenient to hire a murderer , but there is no guarantee that your secrets will not be leaked afterwards. From your shrewd point of view, the possibility of hiring a murderer can basically be ruled out."

After hearing Fan Tianze's well-founded, well-founded and rigorous reasoning, Zhen Lan realized that her situation was over. She couldn't help but turn pale, tremble slightly, and fell down on the chair. After a long time, she slowly stood up and looked at Fan Tianze with a low voice. : "I have to admit that your reasoning is correct. But there is one thing that you got wrong."

"Oh?" Fan Tianze frowned, "What matter?"

"The deaths of Song Siyuan and Fang Lihui were neither caused by our husband and wife's joint efforts, nor were we committed to murder. Both of them were killed by me alone. Although my husband knew about it, he did not participate in the murder from the beginning to the end. .With my many years of dancing and taekwondo skills, you won’t believe me when I say I can kill people?”

Fan Tianze stared at her for a long time before saying, "I believe it. Since your husband Ning Zechen is still alive, where is he now?"

Zhen Lan sighed, her eyes softened, and she said: "He has undergone plastic surgery and lives in seclusion in other cities to concentrate on painting. I drive from Guangzhou to see him once a month. His seclusion is apart from me. No one can find it. The murder has nothing to do with him, I did it all by myself. So please hold your hands high, don't disturb him, let him concentrate on creating."

Fan Tianze thought for a while, finally nodded and said: "If after our investigation, we can finally prove that the murder has nothing to do with him, then I can consider agreeing to your request."

(End of this chapter)