Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 24 Zhou Tong Detective Series II: Blood Talisman (3)
This person is called Liu Qingte, who was Jiang Shaoqi and Wang Gui's classmate, and also their very good friend. The three of them were admitted to the graduate students of the History Department of Neptune University, but just a year ago, Liu Qingte failed because of being together. He was expelled from the school for allegedly falsifying and forging cultural relics in an academic paper.It was Jiang Shaoqi and Wang Gui who reported him.

When Yan Yongjie learned about these situations, she immediately made Liu Qingte the primary suspect.At the same time, she also decided to visit Liu Qingte with Zhou Tong.

"Yong Jie, your efficiency is really high. You have identified a suspect so quickly." Zhou Tong said with a smile while sitting in Yan Yongjie's car.

"I just think he has a motive to kill." Yan Yongjie's tone was very calm, she would not make any rash conclusions without evidence.

Zhou Tong lay crookedly on the co-pilot's seat, changed the subject, and said, "If it's an ordinary murder, the murderer should try his best not to leave any clues, complete the entire murder process as quickly as possible, and then He left quickly, but this murderer spent a lot of time and energy arranging the murder scene, and at the same time left us some clues to track down, there must be a reason for his abnormal behavior!"

Yan Yongjie nodded, agreeing with Zhou Tong's statement, and then continued with Zhou Tong's words: "When the murderer killed Jiang Shaoqi, he left the seven words 'I am the biggest in the underworld'. What I don't understand is the way he killed Wang Gui. I think it is a very unreasonable thing, because he had the opportunity to kill Wang Gui when Jiang Shaoqi was killed, but he didn't do that. And he strangled Wang Gui with a rope stained with Jiang Shaoqi's blood. He clearly told us that he was the only one who killed Jiang Shaoqi and Wang Gui. On the ceiling fan, the switch of the ceiling fan was actually turned on, which told us that Wang Gui could never have committed suicide."

Zhou Tong straightened his crooked body slowly, and said with great certainty: "I don't think the murderer is completely playing tricks, the reason why he did so many things, if I'm not wrong, he is doing death notice."

"Death notice?" Yan Yongjie slammed on the brakes, and Zhou Tong, who was not wearing a seat belt, almost flew out.

"I'm just guessing, don't need such a big reaction!" Zhou Tong complained while rubbing his painful head.

"Why do you think the murderer is making a death notice?" Yan Yongjie asked in surprise.

"Can you guess riddles?" Zhou Tong asked back.

"You mean... the seven characters left by the murderer when he killed Jiang Shaoqi are a riddle?"

"Believe in the answer to the first riddle, you can guess it too."

"'I am the biggest in the underworld', 'I am the biggest in the underworld'...Wang Gui? It really is Wang Gui's name!" Yan Yongjie suddenly realized.

"It's a pity that we know this too late!" Zhou Tong sighed, "The most troublesome thing now is what is the answer to the second riddle? If we can guess before the murderer does it, we can find a way to catch this riddle." Perverted and arrogant bastard!"

"The blood-stained rope, the rotating ceiling fan, the hanging corpse... What is the answer?" Yan Yongjie also fell into deep thought as she muttered to herself.

Liu Qingte lived in an eight-story apartment building in the urban area. The apartment building should have been quite old, and both the exterior walls and the interior decoration seemed a bit outdated.Although it was daytime, the light in the apartment building was still very dim, and there was a musty smell in the air from time to time.

Yan Yongjie and Zhou Tong walked up the narrow stairs to the sixth floor.

Standing in front of the door of room 607, Yan Yongjie knocked on the door.

After a while, the door was opened, and a thin and gentle young man wearing glasses appeared in front of them. It was the person Yan Yongjie and Zhou Tong were looking for, Liu Qingte.

"Mr. Liu, hello, I am police officer Yan Yongjie, and this is my colleague Zhou Tong." Yan Yongjie took out her police officer ID.

Zhou Tong almost laughed, the beautiful female police officer was unequivocal when she lied.

"You...what do you want from me?" Liu Qingte looked a little confused.

"There are several homicide cases, I would like to ask you to assist in the investigation." When Yan Yongjie spoke, his gaze never left Liu Qingte's eyes for a moment.

When Liu Qingte heard the word "murder", he was at a loss for a while.

"You don't mind if we come in and have a chat!" Zhou Tong didn't wait for Liu Qingte to speak, and was about to open the door and enter the room.

"Of course, please come in, please come in." Only then did Liu Qingte open the door completely in embarrassment.

Zhou Tong was not polite, and walked in carelessly. Yan Yongjie followed him and also entered the room.

It was a small one-bedroom room, and the room was messy, with books piled up everywhere.Zhou Tong took a rough look and found that most of them were books on history and culture.

"I'm really sorry, you see my place is small and full of books, please sit here." Liu Qingte said while removing a pile of books on the stool.

"Mr. Liu, you should know Jiang Shaoqi and Wang Gui, right?" Yan Yongjie asked straight to the point.

As soon as Liu Qingte heard the names of these two, his expression darkened immediately, and he said, "These two shameless fellows!"

"You mean they reported the falsification of your thesis?" Yan Yongjie asked.

"I cheated? These despicable guys! They will do anything to drive me out, and I won't let them succeed." Liu Qingte's emotions immediately became agitated.

"You want to say that your thesis is not fake?" Zhou Tong interjected and asked.

"Of course...but you don't understand what I'm telling you." Liu Qingte hesitated when speaking, as if he wanted to hide something on purpose.

“有些事情是我们来这里必须搞懂的，8月23日凌晨1点至3点以及8月30日晚上9点至11点，你在什么地方，和谁在一起？”严咏洁对刘青特傲慢的态度有些不满，直截了当地问道。

"What do you mean?" Liu Qingte was puzzled.

"Jiang Shaoqi and Wang Gui were murdered at these two times!" Yan Yongjie stared at Liu Qingte when he spoke.

Liu Qingte's expression changed from panic to anger, and he shouted loudly: "You suspect that I killed them two? Although I hate these two guys, I don't want to kill them!"

"Mr. Liu, please don't get excited. We are only here to investigate the situation. At least there is no evidence to show that you killed them. Please answer our questions first!" Yan Yongjie continued to ask with the usual attitude of a police detective. road.

Liu Qingte blushed, and wanted to explain something, but finally didn't say anything, and thought for a while before answering Yan Yongjie's question, "I've already gone to bed at 1:8 in the morning, and as for August 30 at 9:11 in the evening By [-] o'clock, I was also studying in the apartment and didn't go out."

"Are you sure you were in the apartment during these two time periods?" Yan Yongjie asked back.

"I'm sure." Liu Qingte said with great certainty.

Li Ying walked on the campus angrily, tearing off a handful of leaves every time she passed a poor little tree. She was very angry, and the consequences were very serious, at least causing a lot of trouble to the greening workers on the campus.Li Ying scolded Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie thousands of times in her heart, and she skipped school to help them investigate the case, but they went out to investigate but didn't tell her, and didn't take herself seriously at all.The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the angrier she was, the more she vented her anger on the flowers and plants around her.

"Are you alright?" Someone finally couldn't bear to look on and asked behind Li Ying.

"I want you to take care of it!" Li Ying turned around and scolded unceremoniously.

However, even Li Ying did not expect that the person speaking behind her was a handsome young man with blond hair and blue eyes and a hearty smile.

"You are the most beautiful and hot-tempered Chinese girl I have ever seen." The foreign youth still had a funny look.

Li Ying blushed a little when she heard this, and quickly replied in a blunt tone: "You are the most nosy foreigner I have ever seen!" After she finished speaking, she stomped her feet and turned to leave.

The foreign youth didn't seem to mind Li Ying's unfriendliness at all, and they persevered in catching up with Li Ying, sticking to Li Ying like brown sugar, "My name is William, and I'm an international student from the UK. I hope to make friends with you."

Li Ying stopped, looked at the handsome foreign student named William, and suddenly had an idea in her heart.

When Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie came back from Liu Qingte's investigation, they happened to see Li Ying coming out of the dormitory.Long hair, light makeup, and a light blue dress made her almost perfect figure even more attractive. Even Zhou Tong was surprised when she saw Li Ying who was dressed like a lady.

"Girl... have you changed your sex?" Zhou Tong looked at Li Ying who was approaching, and asked without hesitation.

Li Ying, who was full of spring, was about to change her face when Zhou Tong said that, but Yan Yongjie took her hand first, and said with a smile: "You are so beautiful today!" Li Ying laughed happily again, Seeing William walking towards her with a large bouquet of roses, he immediately let go of Yan Yongjie's hand and ran towards William.

"Oh, so it's the face of a woman who pleases herself." Yan Yongjie sighed.

Li Ying turned her head and glanced at Zhou Tong, then left proudly holding William's hand.

Standing aside, Zhou Tong could only be surprised.

"What, are you jealous?" Yan Yongjie tapped Zhou Tong's forehead with her finger.

Zhou Tong gave a dry "hehe" laugh twice, and said disapprovingly, "If it was Yong Jie, I might really be jealous!"

"Your bones are itching again, aren't you?" Yan Yongjie raised her fist pretending to be angry.

Zhou Tong quickly jumped away, "Stop joking, do business, do business."

Yan Yongjie put away her fists upon hearing this.

Only then did Zhou Tong approach Yan Yongjie, and asked seriously, "Have you read Liu Qingte's thesis?"

"That's not true. Do you think this case has something to do with his thesis?" Yan Yongjie obviously didn't have much interest in a paper suspected of being fake.

"Maybe there will be clues." Zhou Tong showed great interest in this paper.

"Okay, I believe it is not difficult to find the principal to get this paper. However, do you have any idea about the 'death notice' you mentioned earlier? If your guess is correct, it means that the murderer will continue to kill." Yan Yongjie was very disturbed .

"I don't have a clue yet, but now it is certain that the murderer is a very arrogant and cunning guy, and he is deliberately showing off his knowledge. I think this second mystery may also be solved from this aspect, and maybe it can be solved." Zhou Tong was thinking while talking.

"Do you still remember that on August 8, the night Wang Gui died, didn't we see a person on the balcony of the apartment building?" Yan Yongjie asked suddenly.

"That's right, but you let him run away with your skill, what else can you do now?"

"Although the person ran away, I went to investigate again. According to my inference, this person should be very familiar with the graduate student apartment building, which means that the murderer is likely to be someone from the school, or someone who once lived in the graduate student apartment. , besides Liu Qingte who is suspicious, other suspects are not ruled out at present, so we must investigate as many suspicious persons as possible, and we must never let the murderer have another chance to strike!"

"That's right, I'm going to find someone now." Zhou Tong suddenly remembered that it was necessary to investigate someone.

"Who?"

"We'll keep it secret for the time being." Zhou Tong made a gesture, waved to Yan Yongjie, and strode away with a smile on his face.

The person Zhou Tong was looking for was naturally the famous Qin Mengyao. It was a bit puzzling that she went to the hospital to see Wang Gui on the afternoon of his death.

Qin Mengyao was not in school at this time, but went to a gallery to shoot an advertisement for a skin care product.Zhou Tong asked for the location, and called a taxi to rush over.

The gallery where Qin Mengyao advertised can be regarded as the leading private gallery in the city. There are many authentic works of famous domestic painters displayed in it. Of course, there are more imitations of some world-famous paintings. The real best sellers are These imitations are not expensive, but they look quite stylish, which is very suitable for the decoration needs of ordinary families and some nouveau riche.The decoration of the gallery is also very commendable. It is graceful and gorgeous, and it has the taste of a Western European court. It is really good to choose to shoot an advertisement here.

Because the gallery rented and shot an advertisement today, it was closed to the outside world. Zhou Tong took some thought and played a little trick to sneak into the shooting scene pretending to be a staff member.Zhou Tong saw Qin Mengyao under the light at a glance. She was wearing a luxurious Western European-style low-cut dress, posing in various poses with a leisurely manner, and cooperating with the photographer to take pictures.

Zhou Tong stood at the side, drooling uncontrollably, his body felt hot, he had already forgotten about Qin Mengyao's driving into him, and he just kept feeling in his heart, how could there be such a man in the world? Crazy stunner!

However, a "fly" appeared in his line of sight. To be precise, it was a man who disgusted him - his classmate Feng Tianrong.Holding a large handful of flowers, Feng Tianrong stared at Qin Mengyao lustfully, wishing he could swallow her in one gulp.Zhou Tong knew that his current appearance was not much better than Feng Tianrong, but this did not reduce his dislike for Feng Tianrong at all. Although he did not want to take his eyes off Qin Mengyao, the appearance of this "fly" really It made him less interested.Zhou Tong wiped his mouth, turned his body sideways, and casually looked at the famous paintings around him. Suddenly, he was attracted by a painting behind Qin Mengyao. This painting was imitated by the famous impressionist Cezanne. There is nothing special about it, but the words on the nameplate below the painting surprised Zhou Tong—"The House of the Hanged Ghost by Cézanne of the Impressionist School".

"The house of hanging ghosts?" Zhou Tong raised his head unconsciously while chanting. He saw the gorgeous and huge crystal chandelier on Qin Mengyao's head. The lights were psychedelic and weird, and the scene of Wang Gui being killed It came up in my mind over and over again, and Zhou Tong suddenly had an extremely ominous feeling.

Just when the flashing lights kept flickering and everyone around was busy around Qin Mengyao, no one expected that Zhou Tong would suddenly rush out and rush towards Qin Mengyao with lightning speed.

Qin Mengyao didn't even see who was jumping at her, so she was hugged and rolled out.When she saw clearly that the person holding her was Zhou Tong, she immediately flew into a rage.However, before she could get angry, Zhou Tong covered her mouth and pressed her tightly under him, followed by a loud noise.At the place where Qin Mengyao was originally standing, the chandelier on the top fell to the ground with a bang, glass shards splashed in all directions, and the whole scene suddenly burst into screams and chaos.

Section 4 Fog
The sirens and the hissing of ambulances gradually calmed down the chaotic scene.Because the chandelier did not hit anyone when it fell, most of the injured people were trampled on in the chaos, or were injured by knocked down equipment.Because Qin Mengyao was pressed under Zhou Tong, he was completely uninjured, while Zhou Tong was cut with a few inconspicuous wounds by glass shards and bled a little.However, Qin Mengyao was quite frightened. Facing the police's questioning, he looked out of his wits.With the help of the doctor, Zhou Tong treated the wound briefly, and came to Qin Mengyao's side and asked, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay...how did you come here?" Qin Mengyao calmed down a little.

"Coincidence." Zhou Tong said with a haha.

Qin Mengyao obviously did not believe that such a coincidence happened, and there was an imperceptible unease in her eyes.

"Is it a coincidence that the chandelier suddenly fell?" Qin Mengyao asked suddenly.

"Maybe, maybe not, but maybe you know better than me." Zhou Tong looked at Qin Mengyao and said.

"I'm afraid you're not just here to watch me shoot commercials, are you?"

"On the afternoon of August 8th, you visited Wang Gui in the hospital, and he died strangely that night. Do you think this is a coincidence?" Zhou Tong asked.

Qin Mengyao's face immediately changed, she was a little surprised, who is this freshman?

"I guess that's not the question you're asking."

(End of this chapter)