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Chapter 30 The Murderer's Concealment (1)
At the on-duty doctor's office on the first floor, Zhou Yuanyi showed his ID, and then asked about Xiao Zhijie's mother's ward.Accompanied by the doctor on duty, they took the old green-painted elevator to the women's ward on the third floor.The corridors of the ward are filled with the smell of lysol mixed with medicines, and the drafts that often flow in make people suddenly feel a trace of oppression and chill for no reason.

Just in the corridor of the ward on the third floor, they saw four people sitting on a couch.

Xiao Zhijie sat on one side with his arms around Shen Xiaoye, and Shen Xiaoye closed his eyes tiredly, lying peacefully in Xiao Zhijie's arms, snoring softly.She was wearing Xiao Zhijie's coat.Opposite them, there was an old man and a young man sitting.One is Li Hanliang, the director of Jiangdu Hospital.As for the other young man, Zhou Yuanyi and the others didn't know each other.

Zhou Yuanyi coughed heavily, and the four people sitting there immediately looked over vigilantly, and they immediately looked at the few people who came to the third floor with different expressions.

When Shen Xiaoye saw his father, there was a flash of panic in his eyes.She quickly broke free from Xiao Yuanyi's embrace, and asked tremblingly, "Dad... why are you here?"
But Li Hanliang glanced at Shen Jianguo, then at Shen Xiaoye, and asked, "Oh?! Are you her father?" After finishing speaking, he glanced at Xiao Zhijie and then at Zhou Yuanyi with an indescribable expression. He wants to say but stops.

Xiao Zhijie obviously didn't know the identities of Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei, he just stood up awkwardly, hesitantly said to Shen Jianguo respectfully: "Uncle, hello."
Shen Jianguo's face was sullen, and he said to Shen Xiaoye angrily: "You girl, why haven't you called home for so long? Tell me, why are you here?"
Li Hanliang hurried over, persuaded Shen Jianguo, and said, "Old Shen, I'm to blame for this, please listen to my explanation."
In front of Li Hanliang, of course Shen Jianguo couldn't continue to scold his daughter angrily, so he shut his mouth angrily.Li Hanliang took Shen Jianguo's arm and said, "Old Shen, let's talk in another place. They haven't had a rest all day, so let the children rest."
A doctor on duty opened a drug storage room in the ward for Li Hanliang and Shen Jianguo, and prepared a place for them to talk.In the storage room filled with the smell of this medicine, the tables are full of human organ specimens soaked in formalin liquid, which is very eerie.

Right next to a specimen bottle of human brain organs, Li Hanliang and Shen Jianguo started talking, and Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei hurriedly followed.

Earlier this afternoon, under Shen Xiaoye's persuasion, Xiao Zhijie finally made up his mind to send his mother to a mental hospital for treatment.He felt that he should ask Professor Li Hanliang first, which hospital would be better for his mother to be sent to for treatment, so he called Li Hanliang.

Li Hanliang knew the cause of Xiao Zhijie's mother's illness, and he always felt ashamed.He originally wanted to take her to Jiangdu Hospital, but thinking that Xiao Zhijie's father, Xiao Jian, died in Jiangdu Hospital, he was afraid that her exposure to the environment of Jiangdu Hospital would cause new illnesses, so he decided to change to another hospital, so he introduced her to Jiangdu Hospital. This is a psychiatric hospital in the outer suburbs.

At that time, he was leading the students to do experiments.But he felt that he should go there himself and take Xiao Zhijie to settle his mother down. After all, he has his own contacts in Jiangdu, and the patients he introduced will definitely receive good care.Besides, he was afraid that Xiao Zhijie didn't have enough money, so he could at least help Xiao Zhijie with money.In this way, at least his conscience, which has been tormented by guilt, can feel a little better.

Li Hanliang was worried that when Xiao Zhijie's mother was sent to the hospital, Xiao Zhijie's mother suddenly became ill and could not be controlled, so he asked a male student to accompany him.He picked a strong and fit graduate student named Long Hai.And he didn't want too many people to know about this, so he didn't ask the hospital to send a car to pick him up.

After finishing all the work and finally settling down Xiao Zhijie's mother, it was already very late and it was dark.The hospital is located in the outskirts, and there is no return car.Coincidentally, their mobile phones were out of battery, so Shen Xiaoye had no way to contact her family.

Long Hai, on the other hand, doesn't have a mobile phone at all. He came from the countryside to the city to go to university, and his family is poor.It is said that in order for him to study, his mother also came to the city to work as a nanny to subsidize the family.Long Hai is also one of Li Hanliang's most proud students, and he takes special care of him.In the laboratory, Xiao Zhijie and Long Hai took turns on duty, giving them a work-study opportunity.

Mentioning Long Hai's name, Zhou Yuanyi also had some impressions.

I remember that when investigating the situation of Substance A, Zhou Yuanyi's subordinate Wang Li once asked Li Hanliang's students about the situation, and Long Hai was among them.According to Wang Li, although Long Hai looks tall and thick, but his speech is a bit sissy, he even laughed at that time.But now Zhou Yuanyi has a good impression of this poor graduate student.

After leaving the psychiatric hospital, the taxi that brought Shen Jianguo was still waiting there.Shen Jianguo had expected that there might be no return car, so he gave a deposit and ordered a taxi to wait for him here.

It's a pity that the taxi can only take four passengers. Shen Jianguo is about to get his daughter, Xiao Zhijie and Li Hanliang into the car, and let Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei take Long Hai back to the city.
But at this time, Zhou Yuanyi came over and said to Xiao Zhijie, "Can you take a car with us? I want to ask you a question."
"Who are you?" Shen Xiaoye asked suddenly.She and Xiao Zhijie hadn't met Zhou Yuanyi before, so they didn't even know who he was.

Zhou Yuanyi smiled, showed his ID, and said, "I'm a policeman."
"Then what do you want from me?" Xiao Zhijie asked puzzled.

Of course Zhou Yuanyi couldn't say in front of so many people that he suspected that Xiao Zhijie was a suspect in several murders, so he said mildly: "I want to ask you to know something..."
Xiao Zhijie nodded and said, "Well, assisting the police is what I should do."
When he was about to follow Zhou Yuanyi, Shen Xiaoye suddenly called out hostilely: "You don't need to look for him at such a late hour to find out the situation, do you? Can't we talk about it tomorrow?"
Shen Jianguo grabbed his daughter and said angrily: "Of course I have something to do with him, don't talk about it anymore, come home with me! I will deal with you slowly when I get home!" Of course he knew that the police were looking for Xiao Zhijie. For what, but this matter can not be said to the daughter.He just wanted to go back quickly, he didn't want to see Wu Wei who stayed with Zhou Yuanyi for a minute.

Li Hanliang also had the same thoughts, so he quickly got into a taxi.Long Hai also got into the taxi and left with them.

Zhou Yuanyi stood in front of the off-road vehicle, glanced at Xiao Zhijie, and said, "Come on, get in the car with me."
On the off-road vehicle, Zhou Yuanyi stared straight ahead, his masseter muscles bulged, and said nothing.For a moment, the atmosphere in the car was a bit awkward, Xiao Zhijie didn't seem to know why he was called away by the young police officer, and looked at the windshield blankly.While Wu Wei was smoking a cigarette, he opened the car window a little bit, and the cold wind gushed into the car, blowing away the smoke from his mouth immediately.

Finally, it was Wu Wei who broke the silence.He slowly said to Zhou Yuanyi: "Xiao Zhou, let's ask in the car?"
In terms of regulations, this is very inconsistent with the interrogation regulations.To interrogate a suspect, two or more police officers must be present at the same time, and records must be made, and it must be ensured that the suspect is interrogated voluntarily.But now, Wu Wei is a private investigator who left the police job, and he is not qualified to question suspects.

Of course, Zhou Yuanyi understood Wu Wei's thoughts.Wu Wei is still brooding over the case four years ago, and he has always wanted to find evidence to prove that his original suspicion was not wrong.Wu Wei was holding back his breath all the time, he didn't want others to look down on him.In the past four years, he has done well in the field of private detectives, which is also related to his upright and stubborn character.Wu Wei is very curious about the current series of murder cases, and he thinks that perhaps from this case, the truth of the case four years ago can be unearthed.

Zhou Yuanyi decided to help Wu Wei with this.He slammed on the brakes heavily and parked the car beside the road back to the city.

Wu Wei slowly rolled down the window, a yellow taxi passed by just outside the window, it was the one they just passed, the one Shen Jianguo and his party took.Wu Wei thought, Shen Jianguo and Li Hanliang in the car must have seen this off-road vehicle parked by the side of the road.What will these two think when they see the off-road vehicle?Will they guess a policeman and a former policeman, will they ask Xiao Zhijie any questions?How would they feel about it?Do you feel flustered and anxious?
Wu Wei paused for a moment, then glanced at Xiao Zhijie, and asked, "Do you know what we are looking for you for?"
Xiao Zhijie shook his head innocently.

"Do you know Zhao Wei?" Wu Wei cut straight to the point, directly getting into the topic.

"Of course, I know him. He is my senior brother and a graduate student under Professor Li." Xiao Zhijie obviously thought that Wu Wei was asking him about the case of Zhao Wei's death on the lover's beach.

"Then do you know Ouyang Mei?"
Xiao Zhijie shook his head and said, "I don't know, of course I don't."
"Then where were you that night, from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the morning? What were you doing? Who can testify for you?" Wu Wei's tone was very cold.

Xiao Zhijie raised his head in astonishment, and asked, "Why are you asking this? Are you doubting me?"
Although Xiao Zhijie was very reluctant, he still said that he went home that night.He was worried that his mother's illness would strike again, so he would go home to visit his mother the next day.He stayed home and slept that night, as his mother could attest to.As for Zhao Wei's death, he didn't know until he arrived at school the next day.

However, according to Wu Wei and Zhou Yuanyi's point of view, Xiao Zhijie's statement cannot be accepted by them.One is because Xiao Zhijie's mother is his immediate family member, and the testimonials given by him are not credible; the other is that his mother is a mentally ill person who cannot even control her behavior, and the authenticity of what she said cannot be accepted as evidence .

Wu Wei asked Xiao Zhijie again where he was when Wu Qingsheng died in a car accident.

This question is easy to answer, Xiao Zhijie stayed with Shen Xiaoye that day.When Wu Qingsheng had a car accident, the two of them happened to be driving back to the city, and happened to witness the scene of the car accident. At that time, when they saw the Passat squeezed into scrap metal, Shen Xiaoye thought it was his father, Shen Jianguo, who had the car accident, and was so worried. Almost howled.

However, this cannot alleviate Xiao Zhijie's suspicion.Because Wu Qingsheng had a car accident, the real reason was that substance A was dripped into the eye drops, which caused mydriasis; at the same time, the airbag of the Passat was damaged and a wire was cut.These things may have been done by the murderer before, and there is no evidence of absence at the time of the incident, which does not explain anything.

The next question to ask was where Xiao Zhijie was when Wei Linger was killed and decapitated on the [-]th floor of the building where Shen Jianguo's company was located.

In fact, the exact time of Wei Linger's death cannot be determined, but it can only be determined that it was about 24 hours before the body was found.Xiao Zhijie also couldn't say that he had a sufficient alibi, because it was impossible for him to have a friend by his side to testify for him all the time during 24 hours.

This is a tragedy, in common law systems, if there is no evidence, the police will find the suspect innocent.In this case, if Xiao Zhijie could not find a reasonable alibi, then he would not be able to clear himself of his suspicions.

However, what Xiao Zhijie really couldn't figure out was that he had nothing to do with Zhao Wei. Why did the two policemen suspect him?

He angrily raised his own questions to Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei.

After hearing his question, Wu Wei gave Xiao Zhijie a cold look, and said, "Because you have a motive!"
"Motive? What motive do I have?"
"Because you want to avenge your father!"
Xiao Zhijie was horrified, he was stunned for a long time before he could react.

"What? I avenged my father? Did you make a mistake?" He asked in a daze, "My father died of illness...he died of a heart attack four years ago...Professor Li did it himself. Operation……"
"If one day, you know, your father didn't die because of a serious illness, but because of a medical accident, and this matter is related to a person. Will you—will you find a way to get revenge on that person?" Wu Wei's voice suddenly increased in volume and asked.

After hearing this, Xiao Zhijie's face became serious.He stared fixedly at Wu Wei's face, and then said resolutely, "Yes! Of course I will take revenge!"
However, he felt that he had fallen into the trap of Wu Wei's questioning, so he immediately added: "But the Zhao Wei, Ouyang Mei, Wu Qingsheng, and Wei Linger you mentioned have nothing to do with Professor Li! Besides, my father's death is true. It was because the condition was serious, and I am also a medical student, and Professor Li was not responsible for that operation, so it was not an accident at all."
Wu Wei pondered for a moment, and then said word by word: "Yes, the four people who died did not have anything to do with Li Hanliang. However, they did have something to do with another person—that is Shen Jianguo! He is your girlfriend Shen Xiaoye's father!"
"But, what does Uncle Shen have to do with the cause of my father's death?" Xiao Zhijie still had a blank expression.

"Because I suspect that the reason why your father died during the operation four years ago may be because Professor Li performed the operation after drinking. And it was Shen Jianguo who drank with him before the operation that day!"
After Wu Wei finished speaking, Xiao Zhijie immediately showed disbelief, resentment and surprise on his face.

Xiao Zhijie leaned forward, grabbed Wu Wei by the collar, and said loudly: "What you said is not true, is it? It's impossible! Professor Li is so kind to me, just like a father! What? Everything helps me, it can't be a criminal!"
(End of this chapter)