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Chapter 15 The Disappearing Corpse

In front of a Shikumen house, the mailbox at the door said "Wu". Luo Fei and Xiaoman looked at each other. This time Luo Fei nodded and stepped forward to ring the doorbell.After a while, the door opened, and a maid with long braids and a blue floral blouse opened the door.

"Who are you looking for?" the maid asked.

"Look for Lawyer Wu, I'm his friend." Luo Fei said.

Luo Fei handed over the business card, the maid looked at it and nodded: "Please wait a moment."

Ah Xiang entered the house, Luo Fei and Xiao Man walked into the courtyard, and saw that the courtyard was full of large and small boxes.At this time, Wu Qingfeng came out of the house, still with a calm demeanor.

"Consultant Luo, Detective Qin, what's the use of visiting the humble house?"

"Didn't you say that we will still deal with each other?" Xiaoman said coldly.

"Are you moving?" Luo Fei asked.

"I'm going to work in Nanjing." Wu Qingfeng replied.

"Aren't you the Ma family's personal lawyer?" Luo Fei continued to ask.

Wu Qingfeng smiled slightly: "This time, in order to release Mr. Ma on bail, the Ma family's property was exhausted. They even lost their house. How can they hire a private lawyer if they have the money. Fortunately, my friend in Nanjing found a job for me. Set off tomorrow."

"Hmph, this is the end of being a running dog for the rich." Qin Xiaoman snorted coldly.

After hearing this, Wu Qingfeng looked a little embarrassed.

"We won't just chat in the courtyard, will we? Don't you invite us to sit in the house?" Luo Fei pointed at the door with his cane.

"Oh, please come in, please come in, Ah Xiang, make two cups of tea." Wu Qingfeng instructed the servant while letting the two of them into the room.

Luo Fei and Xiaoman looked around in the living room, Luo Fei seemed to be interested in the books on the shelf.Wu Qingfeng sat down and drank tea: "Please sit down, both of you. Consultant Luo, you haven't said what you can do with me?"

"I want to talk to you about Ma Boyuan's case." Luo Fei tried his best to be calm.

"The case is over, and I am no longer the Ma family's lawyer." Wu Qingfeng said.

"But don't you want to know the truth behind this case?"

"Is there the truth behind it?" Wu Qingfeng put down his teacup and stared at Luo Fei.

Luo Fei looked at him: "I have an interesting story, I wonder if Attorney Wu is interested in hearing it?"

Wu Qingfeng: "Okay, let's talk about it."

Luo Fei cleared his throat, as if he was talking about a story: "It is said that there is a woman named Ruan Mengzhu in Jiangnan Water Town, who married into the famous Ma family in Shanghai a few years ago. Mr. Ma's reputation still has some influence in Shanghai's business community, and the Ruan family also relies on Ma's influence to do business in Shanghai."

Wu Qingfeng nodded: "I know all of this."

"Then do you know that after Ruan Mengzhu got married, her status in the Ma family was low, and her life was very unhappy."

Wu Qingfeng: "Oh, really?"

"The first time I went to Ma's house, I found that the wall of the living room was covered with photos of the Ma family, but there was no Mrs. Ma." Luo Fei saw Wu Qingfeng's eyes flickering, and then continued, "Plus the domineering old Ma Wife, incompetent Mr. Ma, this Ma family's daughter-in-law is definitely not easy to be, so Mrs. Ma had the idea of ​​leaving home many times, but the Ruan family sent Ruan Mengzhu back to the Ma family because of business."

"I've heard about these things, but as a lawyer, it's inconvenient for me to interfere with the client's family affairs."

"So you never only ask about Mrs. Ma?" Luo Fei asked intentionally.

"I'm not familiar with her, and I haven't spoken a few words to her." Wu Qingfeng replied.

"This is strange. I saw Ma Boyuan's usury bill in Mrs. Ma's bedside cabinet. As the Ma family's lawyer, aren't you and Mrs. Ma helping Ma Boyuan deal with all kinds of troubles?"

"I mean, apart from legal matters, Mrs. Ma and I have nothing to do with each other." Wu Qingfeng explained.

"By the way, I found a copy of "Causes of Laughter and Laughter" in Mrs. Ma's bedside cabinet besides the bill." Luo Fei walked to the bookshelf and got closer, "Ma Boyuan obviously doesn't read this kind of book, and this book only has the second volume. There is no volume, so I presume that someone else lent it to Mrs. Ma."

Luo Fei reached out to search the bookshelves while talking, and Qin Xiaoman found that Wu Qingfeng was not as calm as before, but a little nervous.

Luo Fei clapped the book in his hand: "Ah, here, "Cause of Laughter" has volume [-], but no volume [-]. What a coincidence, even the stamp of the bookstore is the same."

Wu Qingfeng's face darkened: "Consultant Luo, you said there was an interesting story. I thought it was related to the case. If it's just this kind of boring gossip, I'm really not interested."

"Don't worry, I'm going to talk about the case soon. You and Mrs. Ma developed feelings during the relationship. You sympathized with Mrs. Ma's situation and wanted to help her escape from this family, but you know that the Ma family will definitely pay any price for their reputation. Her natal family will not help her if she is retrieved, and if she wants to get out of this pit of fire, she must die."

"You don't suspect that I killed Mrs. Ma?" Wu Qingfeng looked at Luo Fei tentatively.

"Hahaha, you're not that stupid, your plan is much better." Luo Fei turned and looked at Wu Qingfeng.

"What plan?" Wu Qingfeng stared at Luo Fei.

"First, you went to Bao Daxiang to order a ginger-colored cloud crepe cheongsam that was exactly the same as Mrs. A gardener's car blocked half of the road. That night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Mrs. Ma deliberately found an excuse to quarrel with Ma Boyuan, holding on to the door of Ma Boyuan's car. At this time, you were hiding in the bushes beside you, hugging A female corpse wearing exactly the same costume as Mrs. Ma."

Luo Fei's eyes seemed to flash the dark shadow that flashed in the bushes in front of Ma Boyuan's headlights that night: Wu Qingfeng was waiting in the bushes holding a corpse in a cheongsam, watching the movements of Ma Boyuan and Ruan Mengzhu through the gaps in the bushes.

"When Ma Boyuan's car passed by the bushes, Mrs. Ma pretended to fall into the bushes by accident, and you lost no time in stuffing the female body that had been prepared in advance into the bottom of Ma Boyuan's car, and let the wheels just run over the head. Ma Boyuan thought he had killed Mrs. Ma by mistake, I won't look for her again, and Mrs. Ma has regained her freedom." Luo Fei said, walking close to Wu Qingfeng, his sharp eyes pierced something hidden in Wu Qingfeng's eyes, "Maybe she has left Shanghai, Now I am waiting for your appointment somewhere in Nanjing."

However, after all, Wu Qingfeng was not the kind of person like Ma Boyuan who would be easily shaken to the point of chaos.Facing Luo Fei's meticulous reasoning, he forced a look of disapproval at this time: "Hahaha, what a bizarre story, is there any evidence?"

"This is Bao Daxiang's custom-made women's clothing record for this month. The clerk said that a man wearing glasses ordered a cheongsam with ginger sauce and yellow cloud crepe with the size." Qin Xiaoman said, taking out a record book, Spread out and push towards Wu Qingfeng.

Wu Qingfeng didn't even look at the notebook, "Mrs. Ma did entrust me to customize a cheongsam for her. I just ran errands for her."

"Where's the extra cheongsam?" Xiaoman asked.

"How do I know, you should ask Mrs. Ma." Wu Qingfeng said coldly.

Xiaoman showed another photo: "We also found footprints of leather shoes in the bushes of Ma's house. This size and the pattern on the sole..."

Luo Fei got up and walked to the door, picked up a pair of leather shoes by the door, turned around and showed the soles to Wu Qingfeng: "It's exactly the same."

"You can find hundreds of pairs of leather shoes of the same size and pattern all over Shanghai." Wu Qingfeng sneered.

"There is only one pair that can enter and leave Ma's house at will." Xiaoman said.

"Oh, I remembered." Wu Qingfeng hesitated for a moment, then confronted Xiaoman and retorted with a pretentious gesture, "One day I suddenly got anxious and stood in the bushes for convenience, is it against the law?"

"you……"

Seeing this, Luo Fei unhurriedly took out his handkerchief and took out a piece of broken glass: "Your movements are not small, you even dropped your glasses and broke a lens. This is the first time I saw You noticed right away that your two spectacle lenses are different, one is new, and the broken one..." Luo Fei spread the broken glass to Wu Qingfeng, "This is in the bushes at the scene of the car accident Found it, I believe the degrees are the same?"

At this time, Wu Qingfeng lowered his head to wipe his glasses, and his shoulders moved slightly.

Luo Fei and Xiao Man approached immediately, only to find him smiling.

Wu Qingfeng put back his glasses and looked up at Luo Fei: "Consultant Luo, Detective Qin, if you have an arrest warrant, you can arrest me right now, but I want to remind you that your so-called evidence will be irrelevant in court." It is untenable, your story is just a bizarre guess in front of the judge and jury, I am afraid that not only will I not be convicted, but my reputation as the No. 1 detective in Shanghai will also become a joke."

Seeing Wu Qingfeng yelling so loudly, Xiaoman couldn't hold it back any longer, walked closer and pointed at Wu Qingfeng and scolded: "Wu Qingfeng, don't make excuses, go to the police station with me now, and you will surrender."

Wu Qingfeng smiled: "Little girl, why are you still immature at all, the law is serious, and everything needs evidence. The evidence in your hands can only prove that I have been to Ma's house, and it cannot prove your bizarre story. , if that story is to be established, it still lacks the most crucial piece of evidence."

Xiaoman was taken aback: "What evidence?"

"Corpse. You said that I prepared a female corpse to pretend to be Mrs. Ma in advance, so another woman must have died. But as far as I know, there have been no cases of young women being killed or missing recently. Where did this corpse come from?" come here?"

After hearing this, Qin Xiaoman was dumbfounded by the question for a while, and turned to Luo Fei involuntarily, but saw that Luo Fei was in a trance, not knowing what he was thinking.

"The source of the corpse...we have already found it." Qin Xiaoman raised her face and argued.

"Little girl, your eyes will wander when you lie." Wu Qingfeng said, his eyes were full of contempt and self-confidence, "Okay, thank you for your story, if there is nothing else, I will continue to organize things, both of you It's better not to send it away."

Wu Qingfeng made a gesture of seeing off the guests, Xiaoman stepped forward and stared at Wu Qingfeng, still unwilling.

Suddenly, she felt that her clenched fist was wrapped in a warm hand. Xiaoman turned her head to look at Luo Fei, but seeing Luo Fei staring directly at the door, she said flatly, "Let's go."

But Xiaoman felt that at a certain moment, those eyes seemed to be avoiding something in her body.

(End of this chapter)