deep white secret

Chapter 54 He's gone
Half an hour later, Ning Xia said goodbye to Xiao Song, walked to the hall, and saw Zhang Lei talking to Xu Jie from a distance.

"Officer Zhang, why are you here?"

"I came here today to confirm Li Wenrui's work relationship and check whether Li Wenrui had any disputes with others at work. I was just about to return to the bureau when I saw Team Xu here."

"Let's go back to the station and talk about it."

Xu Jie simply told Zhang Lei that Ma Mingjie had been asked to invite Zhang Jiafu's wife.

Zhang Lei sighed:
"I really didn't expect that Li Wenrui actually hid his intention to kill Zhou Xiaodan."

The three of them walked to the parking lot. Ningxia naturally sat in the passenger seat. Zhang Lei lowered his head and smiled secretly. He consciously sat in the back seat and saw several pieces of clothing for Ningxia and Xu Jie placed in the back seat of the car.

Xu Jie drove and looked at the regressing scenery outside the window. Zhang Lei asked:

"Ningxia, you have been here for half a month, how do you feel?"

"Great."

Ning Xia turned slightly sideways, looked at Zhang Lei with a smile and replied:

"Officer Zhang, I heard that your daughter took the high school entrance examination this year, and how did she do?"

Speaking of exams, Zhang Lei sighed:
"The girl is very confident. The results haven't been released yet, so I'm getting anxious. The girl and her mother have been away from home for a few days."

"I heard from Ma Mingjie that your daughter has a better relationship with you than your mother."

Xu Jie asked with a smile, Zhang Lei shook his head:
"When she was little, she liked to chase after me, and I doted on her. Her mother was a scapegoat, so she was the villain. But now that the girl is older, she yells at me from time to time."

Zhang Lei's tone was teasing, painful and happy at the same time. Ning Xia looked envious, and Zhang Lei asked:
"Ning Xia must have a good relationship with her father. I feel like Officer Ning is also a girl who is doted on by her father."

Ningxia was slightly stunned and said slowly:
"Well, dad dotes on me very much."

Ningxia choked up a little:

"But he's not here anymore. He wasn't here when I was a kid."

It was the first time that Zhang Lei saw Ningxia looking so lonely, and he quickly comforted him:
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't mention it. Officer Ning's father must be a good father, so don't be sad."

"Well, he is a good father, but I was a little girl at the time and didn't understand."

Ningxia smiled bitterly and said:
"Many years have passed. It was very sad when I was a child. The older I get, the more I understand him, so I regret that I was not sensible and missed a lot."

Ningxia took a deep breath:

"You can't turn back time, so I feel very sorry for my mother. My ideal is to buy a big house in Jinghai City and bring my mother to me."

This was the first time Xu Jie heard Ning Xia talk about her family. The moment Xu Jie turned his head to look at Ning Xia, he found tears glistening in Ning Xia's eyes.

Xu Jie always thought that Ningxia was a strong and calm girl, but at this moment, he felt that she needed to be cared for like other girls, and that she had a particularly soft place in her heart.

Zhang Lei quickly avoided this topic:

"Captain Xu, how was your investigation just now?"

"To be honest, I have always suspected Zhou Xiaodan. After interviews, she has been completely ruled out as a suspect. It seems that we have to reconsider the case."

Back at the police station, Xu Jie arranged for everyone to have a meeting quickly.

First, Ningxia reported the results of her investigation with Zhou Xiaodan, Yang Zhenzhu, and Xiao Song. Xu Jie nodded frequently and finally concluded:

"As I said earlier in my investigation, it is basically consistent with Ningxia. It confirmed the triangular relationship between Li Wenrui, Yang Zhenzhu and Zhou Xiaodan, but neither Yang Zhenzhu nor Zhou Xiaodan had the motive to kill Li Wenrui."

"Li Wenrui, on the other hand, caught us off guard. He actually tried to murder Zhou Xiaodan."

Ma Mingjie continued:
"Head, Zhang Jiafu's wife is called Li Juan. We have invited her to the bureau and are waiting in the meeting room."

"Let it dry first and let her continue to wait. Ningxia, when the time comes, you can ask."

"Yes."

"What's the situation over there in Fuhai?"

Xu Jie continued to ask.

"I visited the Fuhai Hotel for two days. There are 75 waiters and cleaners in the Fuhai Hotel. Half of the waiters know Li Wenrui. Li Wenrui is a VIP member of Fuhai and spends more than [-] yuan in Fuhai every year."

"My dear, more than [-]? Then don't the eyes of people like Fuhai all hang on Li Wenrui?"

Shi Yihang sighed exaggeratedly, and Ma Mingjie chuckled:

"That's right. That's why everyone at Fuhai Hotel regards Li Wenrui as a cash cow. Li Wenrui tips well. Everyone has a good impression of him."

"It seems that our line of targeting the Fuhai Hotel from the perspective of throwing corpses is not valid."

Ma Mingjie nodded:

"Yes, sir, even if the murderer is from Fuhai Hotel, he is not qualified to dump the body. People are coming and going, and there is no way to carry the woven bag to the back alley without being discovered."

Xu Jie raised his eyebrows:

"What about Zhang Lei? You can tell everyone about the situation at Li Wenrui's company."

"Tianqi Investment and Financial Management Company has a total of 68 employees. The company is neither big nor small, because when it comes to investment and financial management, everyone is very smart."

"Because of this, there are a lot of conflicts of interest between everyone. Because Li Wenrui is the director of operations, all documents have to be approved by him, so there are many grievances."

"So, Li Wenrui's murder was a work dispute?"

Zhang Lei shook his head again:

"I don't think this kind of work dispute will cause the murderer to kill Li Wenrui. Everyone still remembers that Li Wenrui's body was divided into [-] bags. How much hatred can make people do this."

After listening to Zhang Lei's words, everyone lowered their eyebrows in thought.

"Furthermore, according to my investigation, during the days when Li Wenrui's accident happened, no one in the company asked for leave. Including the day of the body dumping, only two people were not in the unit. Both of them were female salesmen. They could find an alibi when they went to see customers that day."

The case seems to have reached a deadlock at this point, but a breakthrough has been made in the case where Li Wenrui hired a murderer to kill Zhou Xiaodan.

Seeing everyone lowering their heads, Xu Jie clapped his hands:
"Everyone, cheer up. How can our investigation of the case be so smooth? Now we will interrogate Li Juan first to see if we can find a breakthrough from her. The others will continue to follow up on their own clues and go over it again carefully."

Ningxia got the order, took the notebook and walked out of the meeting room quickly.

Opening the door, a 37-year-old woman stood up suddenly when she heard the sound, and the chair next to her made a harsh creak.

Li Juan was very nervous, wearing a half-length cloth skirt, white cotton short-sleeves, and her skin was tanned.

Ning Xia motioned for her to sit down and sat next to Li Juan.

Xu Jie's method worked very well. He left Li Juan alone in the conference room without asking anything. She was even more nervous at the moment.

So before Ningxia opened her mouth, Li Juan asked first:

"Officer, why did you bring me here?"

"Who are you, Zhang Jiafu?"

"It's my husband."

"What do you do?"

"no job."

"Oh, what is Zhang Jiafu doing?"

"Doing odd jobs or something."

"Do you know Li Wenrui?"

Li Juan thought for a long time and nodded:
"He's a distant relative of my family."

"How is their relationship?"

"Okay, no, not good."

"Not good? We visited and investigated and found that they have close contact and often eat together. They have a good relationship. Li Wenrui also introduced jobs to Zhang Jiafu. Is this bad?"

Li Juan rubbed her hands nervously and lowered her head.

"You want to lie? Do you know this is a police station and if you lie, don't you know the consequences?"

Li Juan was not frightened, and Ning Xia suddenly raised her voice. Li Juan shivered with fright, and finally made a grimace, as if she was about to cry.

(End of this chapter)