Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 6 Zhou Tong Detective Series I: Death Tarot Cards (6)
"Manager Liu, your bank doesn't have to be so extreme, right?" Li Changfeng had something to say in his words. You must know that the employees from the president to your subordinates have benefited from him, but now they are making trouble.

"Lao Li, you have to understand our difficulties." Liu Haiquan waved his hand, signaling the people behind to back out, and then continued: "Your new factory in the development zone of City C exploded, causing dozens of casualties. It also caused environmental pollution, and now it is making headlines in various media across the country, and it is difficult to do it in the city, and now the higher-ups are here to check our bank's non-performing assets..."

"Okay, get out!" Li Changfeng couldn't bear it anymore and lost his temper.

Liu Haiquan was a little surprised by Li Changfeng's actions, but he still retreated. After all, he was not willing to do so unless he had to.

After watching Liu Haiquan leave, Li Changfeng sat down on the chair himself. His complexion was pale, as if he had just experienced a serious illness.

After a long time, Li Changfeng finally picked up the phone, "Notify the general manager for me and ask him to come to my office immediately!"

"Chairman, the general manager..." The secretary was very surprised. The general manager, Li Wanren, is also the son of the chairman. His new wife just passed away, so he has not been at work. What made the chairman ask him to come to the company at this time? .

"Needless to say, tell him to come over immediately." After speaking, Li Changfeng hung up the phone.

Li Wanren came, his expression was sluggish, his eyes were red and swollen, and his hair was unkempt.

"Bastard!" Seeing his appearance, Li Changfeng couldn't help standing up and slapping the table and cursing: "Look at you, what do you look like now, the general manager of a dignified big company, for a woman, as for?"

Li Wanren didn't say anything, he was always afraid of his father.

"Do you know that the company is in a big mess right now, maybe... Maybe it might go bankrupt." Li Changfeng's voice trembled a little.

"Bankrupt?" Li Wanren finally responded.

"There was an explosion in the new factory, and the bank will terminate our loan." Li Changfeng sat down dejectedly.

"How is this possible?" Li Wanren was a little unbelievable that such a thing happened in a few days.

"I don't need to talk about these anymore. Let me ask you, how is the progress of the Japanese Jinling Club that you have been discussing about financing?"

"Golden Ling Club? The conditions they put forward are too harsh, and I have already rejected them!" Li Wanren thought of the aggressive attitude of the Japanese, and felt disgusted in his heart.

"Contact them again immediately. No matter what kind of conditions are put forward, we will accept them." Li Changfeng has reached a dead end, and now the only way to save the company is to cooperate with the Japanese.

"But……"

"Don't worry about it, let's do it right away!" Li Changfeng looked at Li Wanren again, and said with a little worry: "Forget it, I'll handle it myself!"

Zhou Tong followed behind his new class teacher and walked into the classroom.However, what he never expected was that the red-haired girl was also sitting in it just now, and he and her were actually classmates in the same class.

Li Ying was even more surprised than Zhou Tong, she didn't expect to encounter a narrow road.

"Everyone, let me introduce to you. This is a new classmate transferred to our class, Zhou Tong." After finishing speaking, the head teacher took a look at Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong felt pretty good about this young female teacher wearing glasses being his head teacher, so he also bowed to the classmates in the classroom very cooperatively, and then said modestly: "I hope everyone can do it in the future." Take care of me!"

"Don't worry, we will definitely take good care of you in the future!" Li Ying said loudly with a smile on her face that she will look good on you in the future.The surrounding students also booed and laughed together.

"Everyone be quiet!" The head teacher kindly stopped the students from making noise, then looked at Zhou Tong and said, "Zhou Tong, that is Li Ying, the monitor of this class, if you need help, just ask her Bar."

"She...is she the monitor?" Zhou Tong couldn't believe his ears.

"Just sit in the empty seat in front of Li Ying! Alright, everyone, class starts now." The head teacher's decision is beyond doubt.

Zhou Tong walked over and sat down. Just as he took out his book to attend the lecture, he felt a sharp pain in his back. He immediately turned around, and it turned out that Li Ying had stabbed him with a pen.

"Good luck!" Li Ying said softly to Zhou Tong who turned around.

In the morning of March, even though it was already nine o'clock, the wind was still biting on the body. Wang Ma wrapped her clothes tightly with her hands, and at the same time quickened her pace.She wanted to arrive at Jiaming's apartment as soon as possible to start her day's work.

Jiaming Apartment is an inconspicuous small apartment building, but because of its cheap rent and its proximity to the city center, it is very popular with college students, young people who are single or starting a business.Wang Ma has four guests in Jiaming's apartment, and her job is to go there twice a week to help them clean the room, wash clothes, and organize housework.

When Wang Ma came to Jiaming's apartment, everything went smoothly. It took her a little over two hours to finish cleaning the three houses neatly.Wang Ma took a short rest and waited until twelve o'clock at noon before climbing up to the seventh floor to do the work of the last family.The owner of this room 702 seems to work at night and rest during the day, and must have gotten up at twelve o'clock to go out for dinner. Wang Ma used this time to tidy up her room.

But today seems a bit strange, usually Wang Ma would meet the hostess of that room going downstairs to eat in the corridor, but today Wang Ma didn't see her when she came to the door of the room.Wang Ma was worried that the hostess hadn't woken up yet, so she waited at her door for another ten minutes, but there was still no movement.Wang Ma couldn't bear it anymore, she pressed her ear to the door, trying to hear if there was anyone inside, but she heard nothing.Wang Ma thought to herself: "Did that woman go out a long time ago?".

So, Wang Ma took out the key and was about to open the door to enter, when suddenly a hand was placed on her shoulder.

Wang Ma was startled, and the key in her hand dropped to the ground, making a harsh sound.

"What are you doing here?"

Wang Ma turned her head and saw that the person speaking was the apartment manager downstairs, a shriveled and ugly old man.

"I'm here to help this guest clean the room." Wang Ma explained with some displeasure, she didn't like being questioned in such a questioning tone.

"Oh." The old man's small eyes swept over Wang Ma's body before he slowly went downstairs.

Wang Ma spit on the old man's back before bending down to pick up the key that fell on the floor, but she found that red blood slowly flowed out from the crack of the door, staining her key.There was an ominous premonition in Wang Ma's heart, she immediately opened the door with the key, and a horrifying scene jumped in front of her eyes.

That woman was sitting on a chair facing the door, her face was covered with blood, an iron nail was stuck between her eyebrows, her eyes were wide open, and she was holding a strange card in her hand...

When Yan Yongjie got the news, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon when she arrived at Jiaming's apartment.

The entire seventh floor has been sealed off by the police. In room 702 where the accident happened, the forensic doctor is doing a preliminary autopsy.

"How's the situation?" Yan Yongjie squatted beside the forensic doctor without fear and asked.

The forensic doctor didn't even look at her, and said while examining the body: "The deceased's death time was probably early this morning. Except for the puncture between the eyebrows, there were no other injuries on his body. The initial judgment should be suicide. As for other aspects, he still needs to go to the laboratory. Do further dissection."

"Same as the previous two incidents?"

"As far as the current inspection situation is concerned, it is indeed the case." The forensic doctor nodded helplessly.

"Hello, I am the police officer in charge of this case, Liu Qinggang, may I ask who you are?" At this time, a young police officer came over and asked.

Yan Yongjie took out her ID and handed it to him, "I am Yan Yongjie from the Special Criminal Investigation Team of the Ministry of Public Security."

Liu Qinggang immediately saluted politely.

"When was the body discovered?" Yan Yongjie asked directly without replying.

"At about 12:30 noon, a worker in charge of cleaning the room found the body."

"Where are the workers?"

"I have taken it back to the police station to make a statement." Liu Qinggang suddenly lowered his voice as he spoke, "Officer Yan, this suicide case is really unbelievable. The deceased actually pierced the center of the eyebrow with an iron nail, and when he died, he was still holding his hand tightly." with a strange tarot card."

Liu Qinggang took out a tarot card with a smiling death wrapped in a plastic bag.

Yan Yongjie took the Tarot cards from his hand, and said seriously: "From now on, this case will be taken over by people from our special criminal investigation team, please hand over all relevant materials, evidence, and witnesses to the police immediately. My colleagues."

Liu Qinggang was startled when he heard the words, and wanted to say something, but seeing Yan Yongjie's unquestionable eyes, he finally didn't speak.

"Officer Yan, the information about the deceased has been found." Xiao Zhao from the special criminal investigation team handed over a piece of information.

"Ma Huijia?" Yan Yongjie saw the name of the deceased and couldn't help but read it softly.She immediately dialed Zhou Tong's cell phone.

Zhou Tong was taking a self-study class at this time, and he was flipping through history textbooks as if he was bored reading a magazine.And Yan Yongjie's call at this time couldn't help but make him excited.

"Come to Jiaming's apartment immediately!" Yan Yongjie's urgent voice came over.

"Did you find anything?" Although Zhou Tong lowered his voice, he still couldn't restrain his excitement.

"Come if you want, stop talking nonsense!" Yan Yongjie hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Zhou Tong put down her phone, ran out of the classroom without thinking about it.

"Zhou Tong, how dare you play truant!" Li Ying, who was sitting behind Zhou Tong, shouted loudly.

But Zhou Tong didn't pay any attention to her, she had already run away without a trace.

When Zhou Tong got off the taxi, he saw Yan Yongjie waiting for him downstairs from a distance.

"Follow me." Yan Yongjie's expression was serious.

"That... wait a minute first...!" Zhou Tong didn't take a step, but looked at Yan Yongjie with an embarrassed expression.

"What's wrong?" Yan Yongjie asked.

"That... that... the fare hasn't been paid yet." Zhou Tong hurriedly called a taxi over, but forgot that she didn't have much money on her.

"You dare to take a taxi without money!" Yan Yongjie was angry and funny, but she still quickly took out her wallet to help Zhou Tong pay the fare.

Zhou Tong followed Yan Yongjie and went up to the seventh floor of Jiaming Apartment. He felt a little nervous. Yan Yongjie never wanted himself to be exposed to the case, but this time he called him here uncharacteristically. There must be something unusual.

"Do you know this person?" Yan Yongjie walked into room 702, then stood aside.

In the cold and gloomy room, under the messy hair, the deceased's eyes were wide open, with a rusty iron nail inserted between his brows, and red blood dripped down his forehead onto the floor, making a "thud-thud" sound. sound.

Zhou Tong had never seen such a tragic death, and he was not mentally prepared for this sudden situation. After a burst of extreme nausea and shock, he recovered his expression.

"Jiajia, she is the girl I was at the bar!" Zhou Tong took a long breath, and then said with certainty.

"It really is her. Her real name is Ma Huijia. She is 23 years old and is from the Northeast. She came here a year ago, but she didn't find a job, so she made a living as a drinking companion in various bars."

"It's a Tarot card again, isn't it?" Zhou Tong looked at the bizarre deaths of these girls, feeling an indescribable pain in his heart, wondering who committed such a cruel crime with what power.

"Well, it's exactly the same. The deceased committed suicide with iron nails, holding a tarot card with a smile of death before his death." Yan Yongjie looked at Zhou Tong, remembering that his father died in such a strange way ten years ago, and let him see it with his own eyes today. These, I am not a little cruel.

"The time of her death should be around early this morning, but piercing the iron nails will not cause immediate death, so the time of the deceased's suicide should be around [-]:[-] last night." Zhou Tong took off his shoes and boldly He walked to the side of the corpse and said while observing.

"How do you know?" Yan Yongjie asked in surprise.

"It's very simple. The deceased's body spots have faded, the cornea is cloudy, and the pupils can still see through. It means that the time of death should be fifteen to sixteen hours. The current time is 37:[-] in the afternoon, so it can be inferred that the time of her death was Around the early morning of this day." Zhou Tong explained that he suddenly stopped here, thought for a while, and then continued: "What makes me strange is that the deceased did not make any struggle or survival during the period from suicide to death. , this is incredible.”

"If she committed suicide, she wouldn't struggle to survive. What's so incredible?" Yan Yongjie really couldn't understand Zhou Tong's self-righteous appearance.

"Even a person who commits suicide will have a basic physiological reaction and fear of death. It is completely impossible to not struggle with such intense pain for half an hour, unless..." Zhou Tong said Stopped here.

"Unless what?" As soon as Yan Yongjie said that, her face immediately turned red. As an investigator herself, she actually asked a high school student.

"Unless she lost her consciousness before committing suicide." Zhou Tong said firmly.

Yan Yongjie was completely stunned after hearing Zhou Tong's answer.She was not shocked by the answer, but because the young man who gave the answer had such a subtle observation ability, completely like a detective with rich experience.

"Where did you learn these things?" Yan Yongjie finally couldn't help asking.

"I'm sorry, it's hard to tell me!" Zhou Tong smiled slightly.

From childhood, Li Ying was almost in need of the wind and the rain. No one had ever dared to turn a deaf ear to her existence like Zhou Tong. When she thought of this, she couldn't help but divide the pencil that was spinning in her hand into pieces. two.However, the bell for the end of get out of class also rang together with the snapping of the pencil.

"Xiaoying, this is a love letter from the handsome guy in the class next door!" A very carefree female voice sounded behind Li Ying's ear.

Li Ying didn't even look at it, and waved the handed over love letter and typed it under the desk, "Don't bother me, I'm not interested!"

Before the girl who helped deliver the love letter came back to her senses, Li Ying had already walked out of the classroom with her schoolbag.

A top-notch Mercedes-Benz S500 parked at the gate of the school long ago. The driver in suits and leather shoes got out of the car immediately when he saw Li Ying walking out of the school gate.

"Miss, the boss asked me to pick you up to have dinner with my wife." The driver said respectfully.

"Tell my mom, I'm not going back for dinner tonight!" Li Ying stopped a taxi and drove away without even looking at the driver.

Yan Yongjie drove away Zhou Tong, but she kept thinking about what he said, if these deceased committed suicide because they were controlled by psychotropic drugs, then what was the murderer's purpose for killing them?What is even more confusing is that the murderer left the iron nails, are the Tarot cards just some kind of symbol or does it have a special purpose?
"Tarot card, what exactly do you want to tell us?" Yan Yongjie looked at the still smiling God of Death on the Tarot card and asked.

Yan Yongjie finally obtained from the investigators a list of friends who had played with Hu Fangli in the bar the night before her death, which listed in detail the names, addresses and contact information of these people.It didn't take Yan Yongjie much effort to get in touch with these people one by one and inform them to go to the police station for investigation.

However, after some cross-examination, the result was disappointing.Although everyone had seen this set of tarot cards that night, Hu Fangli brought the cards herself. As for where she got them, no one knew.

Immediately after Yan Yongjie went to the Pink Lovers Bar, but there was still no progress. Except for a few sighs, the people in the bar knew nothing about Ma Huijia's death.

The investigation seemed to have reached a dead end, Yan Yongjie frowned deeply, helpless.

"No, there is another clue!" Yan Yongjie suddenly remembered something, and blurted out in an instant.

In the meeting room of the headquarters of Qifeng Petrochemical Company, a tense and suspenseful negotiation is going on.The tension is because this negotiation determines the life and death of Qifeng Petrochemical Company, but the result is certain, that is, Chairman Li Changfeng must accept any conditions proposed by the other party.

(End of this chapter)