The Case of Love

Chapter 13 Lies
Zhou Yifeng had seen that the lid of the kettle could be used as a water cup. Although it was a bit big, it had a handle, making it easy to carry.

"Boss, let's go question Huang Anran!" Li Zhisong was a little anxious.

"Don't worry. Based on what we have discovered now, we can only say that he is lying to us. It's not enough to prove anything." Zhou Yifeng objected.

"Captain Zhou, when I was buying fried skewers just now, I met two girls from the second year of high school. They told me that Huang Anran has a friend named Li Wenjie, and I think we can talk to him. This Huang Anran is not simple. He is handsome and a rich second-generation. He has many girlfriends at a young age. Moreover, one time Huang Anran took Lu Ying away from school, it seemed like something happened, and Lu Ying was different after she came back." Su Xiaohan told Zhou Yifeng the information she had obtained from the girls.

"Boss, let's eat the fried skewers first. We can eat and talk at the same time. Otherwise, the skewers will get cold and won't taste good!" Smelling the aroma of the fried skewers, Li Zhisong felt even hungrier.

Zhou Yifeng made a "disdainful" gesture to him, signaling Su Xiaohan to take out the fried skewers and they ate first. As they ate and talked, they gradually got a clue. Lu Ying's boyfriend and good friend were the focus of the inquiry.

After dinner, the three of them continued to watch the surveillance. Zhou Yifeng received a call from Ma Nan, saying that Lu Ying, Li Danxin, and Zeng Lan's parents had come to the police station to report that their children were usually very lively and cheerful, and would never commit suicide by taking poison. Ma Nan and Zhu Xiaofeng comforted them for a while before they left.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yifeng fell into deep thought. Of these three girls, except for Lu Ying and Huang Anran who broke up and wrote a poem about despair of life, the other two girls had no motive to commit suicide. So what made them poisoned at the same time?

As the sky gradually darkened, the lights in the girls' dormitory opposite the teaching building came on, but the light was sparse. From a distance, it looked like a game of chess that was about to end, with only a few chess pieces.

A cordon had been set up on the floor where dormitory 613 was located. Because of the murder, many parents asked the school to let their children go home after school, and the school agreed.

Zhou Yifeng stood in front of the window with mixed feelings. If the deaths of Lu Ying and the other two were really caused by someone else poisoning them, then that person was too scary. There were no fingerprints of anyone else on the cup containing potassium cyanide. Judging from the signs at the scene, it looked like the three girls committed suicide by taking poison, or one of the three girls took poison herself and also poisoned the other two roommates.

"Boss, I found something!" Li Zhisong's raised voice broke the silence in the monitoring room.

Following Zhou Yifeng's instructions, Li Zhisong asked Xu Jungang to check the surveillance footage near the school in recent days to see if there was any trace of Huang Anran. Xu Jungang sent a surveillance video.

Zhou Yifeng heard the sound and went over to take a look, which once again confirmed his previous guess that Huang Anran was lying! In other words, none of what he said to them was true!

In the surveillance video near the school gate, Huang Anran took a bag from a man and hurried back to school. The man got in the car and drove away.

"Captain Zhou, Huang Anran said he hasn't left school for almost a month. I know the place in the surveillance video. It's at least a few hundred meters away from the school." In the surveillance video, the man's black car was parked in front of a snack bar, which was the place where Su Xiaohan went to buy fried skewers a few hours ago.

"It seems that there is really something wrong with this Huang Anran! Ask Jungang to enlarge the image and see if he can clearly see the license plate number of the car!" Zhou Yifeng ordered.

Li Zhisong agreed and contacted Xu Jungang immediately.

Soon, Xu Jungang sent the license plate number and the owner's information. The man who delivered the gift to Huang Anran was Huang Anyi, the vice president of Wenda Company.

"Captain Zhou, could this Wenda Company be Huang Anran's family company? And this person is called Huang Anyi, so he should be related to Huang Anran, right?" Su Xiaohan looked up and asked. "It's very likely! Zhisong, let Jungang check it out!"

Su Xiaohan was secretly delighted. This was not the first time that she and Zhou Yifeng had the same idea.

At the entrance of Beijing Central Hospital, Zhou Anqi got into a taxi accompanied by her parents and left the hospital. Her cell phone in her schoolbag rang, and she took it out and saw that it was a message from an unfamiliar number with only two words: "Sent." Zhou Anqi took a quick look and deleted the message.

"Qiqi, I will ask your teacher for a few more days off, and you can go back to school in a few days." Zhou's mother hugged her daughter gently, feeling very distressed. She knew that her daughter and Lu Ying were best friends, and her sudden departure must have been a big blow to her.

Zhou Anqi forced a smile and nodded. She didn't have the courage to go to school, to face her teachers, classmates, and the classroom where Lu Ying once existed.

In the monitoring room of Dongcheng No. 2 Middle School, Zhou Yifeng was waiting for Xu Jungang's response. Li Zhisong and Su Xiaohan continued to check the surveillance video.

"Senior Brother, freeze this picture!" Su Xiaohan saw two familiar figures in the surveillance screen.

Li Zhisong blinked his tired eyes hard, looked carefully, and found the problem.

In the two days before the incident, Huang Anran and Zhou Anqi had been together more than once. However, they chose relatively remote places, not crowded places like libraries or study rooms.

"The two men looked furtive, as if they were discussing something."

"It's a pity that I can't hear what they say."

The discussion between the two attracted Zhou Yifeng's attention. He walked towards Su Xiaohan while reading the message sent by Xu Jungang and said in a deep voice: "You are right. This Wenda Company is the company of Huang Anran's father, and Huang Anyi is his brother."

"Based on the current evidence, it is enough to prove that Huang Anran lied to us. However, these are not enough to prove that Lu Ying's death is related to him. It is too late today. If we look for Huang Anran again, I am afraid he will be alert. Let's act separately tomorrow. Xiaohan and I will look for Huang Anran, Xiaofeng and Ma Nan will look for Huang Anran's friends, and you and Jungang will look for Huang Anyi. Let's ask these three people at the same time and don't give them the chance to collude." Zhou Yifeng said to Li Zhisong.

It was late at night, and the three people left the monitoring room together, and each other's footsteps could be heard clearly.

At the end of the corridor, a dark shadow flashed by. The figure looked very much like Huang Anran. Su Xiaohan was about to call out when she saw him, but Zhou Yifeng quickly held her hand. Su Xiaohan understood and said nothing.

"Boss, our day is so unfair. I watched the surveillance video for most of the day but found nothing. I'm so tired that my neck hurts!" Li Zhisong complained cooperatively.

"It looks like these three girls really committed suicide. It's such a pity that they are gone at such a young age." Su Xiaohan reacted quickly and sighed.

(End of this chapter)