reckless detective

Chapter 16 The Oriole (5)
Late at night, in the detention room.

Wan Lu never thought that one day she would be locked up here as a criminal suspect.

She is no stranger to this place, but she is still very cautious. When she first came in, she didn't know where to put her hands.

There is a "bed" made of cement in the detention room. The suspect sleeps on this bed for a while when he is extremely sleepy. It is really a kind of torture, hard and cold.

Someone secretly took a few sofa cushions for Wan Lu, probably to let her sleep for a night, but she couldn't sleep anywhere.

When Yan Ruyu and Wu Cuo went to see her, she was sitting on the edge of the "bed" in a daze, sometimes with a smile on her lips, and sometimes with sad eyes, as if she was recalling the days when she was with Zhou Peng.

"Let's eat something." Wu Cuo handed Wan Lu a bowl of instant noodles that had just been washed with boiling water.

Wan Lu took the instant noodles, but just put them aside.

Wu wrongly said: "Tomorrow morning, the leader will come down to interrogate you. I don't have much time to help you. Now you have to recall carefully. If there is any suspicious person or thing, or Zhou Peng's recent abnormal behavior, Tell me everything."

"Can I ask a question first?" Wan Lu asked.

"You said."

"Why arrest me? I am the informant, and also the girlfriend of the deceased. Just arrest me for this? There must be other reasons, don't you know? Tell me."

"You really don't know?" Wu asked wrongly.

Wan Lu answered Wu Cuo with an expression of "Are you going to tell me?"

"Zhou Peng recently got a sum of money, enough money to save his company. At the same time, the stolen money from several vicious cases in the city hall was intercepted. The criminal was nicknamed Huang Que, and the organization suspected that Zhou Peng was The oriole, and you are the internal response of the oriole."

Wan Lu opened his mouth, but said nothing.

The amount of information in this passage is too large, obviously Wan Lu can't digest it all at once.

Yan Ruyu didn't care about these things, she stepped forward and handed a stack of Zhou Peng's house inspection photos to Wan Lu and said, "Take a closer look and see if there is anything missing in the house, the big ones."

"Big one?" Wan Lu was very puzzled, but followed what Yan Ruyu said, and carefully looked at the photo.

After looking at more than [-] photos three times in turn, Wan Lu finally shook her head and said, "No, there is nothing missing from the photos."

Yan Ruyu took a deep look at Wu Cuo, and the meaning in her eyes was clearly asking: Will Wan Lu lie?
Wu Cuo hesitated, he dared to pat his chest to guarantee Wan Lu in front of anyone, but he was a little timid in front of Yan Ruyu.

He knew Yan Ruyu too well, this guy only talked about evidence but not human feelings.

Just when the two of them were making eye contact, Wan Lu took out a photo alone and looked at it carefully in front of the dim light.

"Huh? This place..." Wan Lu looked at the photo, then at Wu Cuo.

Wu Cuo said anxiously: "Grandma, you can't wait to burn your eyebrows, just tell me if you have anything to say."

Wan Lu handed over the photo and asked, "Is this photo taken in the afternoon of the crime?"

"Correct."

"Here! This is wrong!"

The photo was taken at the entrance of the master bedroom of Zhou Peng’s house. Almost the entire master bedroom was taken in, without any focus. Compared with those photos that record the physical evidence at the scene, this one is more like the photographer who pressed the wrong camera shutter. Yes, even the photo is a little out of focus.

The designer of the house probably wants the owner to feel the sunshine and freedom every morning when he wakes up, so there is a big balcony inside the bedroom.

The balcony is closed, and the wall separating it from the bedroom is only about 1 meter high, and the upper half is full of glass windows.Through the glass window, you can see some sundries piled up randomly on the balcony, and a few potted plants, but because there is a 1-meter-high wall blocking it, you can't see what is on the ground.

At this moment, the glass door connecting the bedroom and the balcony is open, and the afterglow of the setting sun spills into the bedroom, rendering the interior a layer of light yellow.

"There's something wrong here!" Wan Lu pointed to the sunshine at the glass door of the balcony, "If the photo was taken in the afternoon, then the sunlight should be shining obliquely from the right side of the door, but I remember the position next to the right side of the door, which is here Behind the wall, there are several cardboard boxes. At this time, the slanting sunlight will be blocked by the cardboard boxes, and there should be a shadow at the door!"

"you sure?"

"I'm sure! And these cartons were brought back by Zhou Peng not long ago. I was still wondering what was in the cartons. He said they were some company documents, so I didn't pay any attention to them."

carton? !
It seems that it is necessary to re-survey the site, especially carefully inspect the traces of the balcony.

Unfortunately, before Yan Ruyu and Wu went out by mistake, a key piece of evidence that could confirm the case appeared.

A climbing rope was found in the trunk of Wan Lu's car, and a small amount of blood was left on the climbing rope. After identification, the blood on the climbing rope matched the DNA of the deceased Zhou Peng.

The murder weapon was found!
This evidence alone is enough to conclude that Wan Lu is the murderer in this case.

At very dawn, Wu Cuo stood in front of the trunk of Wan Lu's car, with mixed feelings in his heart.

The climbing rope was found here, hard evidence.

How difficult is it to overthrow the irrefutable evidence?
Yan Ruyu looked composed.

He turned on the flash on his phone, and simply leaned his upper body into the trunk, carefully checked every corner in the trunk, and searched for a long time in the car.

"No...not a bit of blood."

"What are you looking for?" Wu Cuo asked.

"Remember the bruises on the hands of the deceased Zhou Peng? If Wan Lu used this car to bring the deceased home from the crime scene, there should be blood stains in the trunk, but I couldn't find it."

"Even if there is blood, it must have been cleaned up." Wu Cuo said.

"Then why don't you get rid of the climbing rope? With such evidence, it's like Wan Lu standing at the gate of the city hall and yelling: Come and catch me! I'm the murderer!"

Yan Ruyu took a deep breath of the morning air, feeling much refreshed all of a sudden, and continued: "Let's go, go to the balcony of Zhou Peng's house to have a look."

Wu Cuo rubbed his swollen temples, and took a few deep breaths following Yan Ruyu's example.

Yan Ruyu was driving, and Wu was sitting in the co-pilot seat by mistake, and the two of them were rarely silent.

"Are you worried that Wan Lu will be wronged?" Yan Ruyu spoke first.

Wu mistakenly lit a cigarette for himself, and another for Yan Ruyu. He took a deep breath in depression and said, "The evidence is too bad for her."

"Evidence can be falsified. If I didn't find this climbing rope, I still have some doubts about Wan Lu, but now I am sure that the murderer is not her. As a criminal policeman, how could Wan Lu put the criminal tools in the car back up casually?" In the box? This is one.

Second, the WeChat message Wan Lu received on the day of the incident was definitely not sent by Zhou Peng. The reason why the person who sent the message deleted and blocked Wan Lu’s contact was to lure Wan Lu to Zhou Peng’s company and confront and quarrel with Zhou Peng. There is only one purpose in doing this: to make Wan Lu seem to have something to do with this case, and to frame Wan Lu.

And the only person who was close enough to Zhou Peng to get his mobile phone in the company was Guo Liang. "

Wu wrongly said: "When you said that, I remembered that Zhou Peng's parents once said that there were rumors about Wan Lu in the company, saying that she often meddled in the company's affairs, and Zhou Peng listened to him in everything. Absolutely don't believe it, as criminal police, we are so busy solving cases that we don't have time for other things."

"You mean, the purpose of the rumormongers is to make us think there is something wrong with Wan Lu."

"Yes! Moreover, as Zhou Peng's right-hand man, it is not difficult for Guo Liang to spread this rumor in the company."

The car was driving when Wu Cuo's cell phone rang. He took a look and turned on the speakerphone.On the phone, a criminal policeman said wrongly to Wu: "I found out a piece of news after investigation. On the afternoon of the day when the incident happened, Guo Liang went to an auction house after leaving the company. According to the person in charge of the auction house, Zhou Peng consigned and sold it at the auction house not long ago. They bought a painting by Qi Baishi, and after identification, the painting was fake. Yesterday they called Zhou Peng's assistant, Guo Liang, and Guo Liang went to get the painting back..."

After hanging up the phone, Wu Cuo frowned, "Could it be that I was wrong in the first place?...Zhou Peng's so-called raising money refers to this painting? Not the stolen money?"

"No! He is the oriole!" Yan Ruyu was very sure, "Six years ago, there was a money laundering case. An auction house often sold unknown works of art at high prices. After investigation, the auction house was just a tool for money laundering. .”

"what do you mean……"

Yan Ruyu speeded up the car, "Give me the name and address of the auction house, and send you to Zhou Peng's house. I'll go to the auction house to have a look."

　I had a dream last night, in which an old fairy asked me: Son, do you want your book to become popular?I said: I want to dream!The old fairy smiled: That's right, you are just dreaming.I feel so sad after waking up...Student, please comfort me with your recommendation tickets, favorites, and comments.

　　


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