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Chapter 17 Four Unexpected Clues (3)
"Hey, don't mention it, it's troublesome...I'll tell you more when I come back." Wang Shiqi hung up the phone in a hurry, and there was a monotonous busy tone from the receiver. Zheng Yuan took off his glasses, stared blankly at the blinking cursor on the screen for a while, and waited. Realizing he was clueless, he finally decided to go for a walk.He knew that he had to overcome the obstacle of using a wheelchair to go out, otherwise he would have to wait in the living room until Wang Shiqi was free to take him out for a walk.

I'm not Wang Shiqi's dog.Zheng Yuan cursed inwardly while putting on the down jacket, and when he took the elevator down to the first floor, he almost felt like he was escaping from prison.The outdoor air was cold and fresh, Zheng Yuan slid out 200 meters excitedly, and then realized that he did not have a car.

And the nearest subway station is one kilometer away.

This impulsive outing ended with Zheng Yuan waiting for a taxi for half an hour in the cold wind, then spent another 10 minutes trying to climb into the back seat, and then waiting for the driver to help him put away his wheelchair.During the entire driving process, he scolded himself 120 times in his heart, and vowed that before he recovered, he would be the grandson of the whole world if he went out alone.

But the trip wasn't all fruitless.

He went to Qualcomm Plaza.After the serial wounding case, Zheng Yuan set foot here for the first time.It's strange that after investigating for so long before, he has been resisting to come and walk around in person.It's not the time yet, he thought, this is the stage for a big drama, but the drama is fake, and the talent is real, he doesn't want to be distracted by a fake murder performed.But after contacting Wu Hui and Yuan Jiashu, the meaning here became more subtle.

There were not many people in the square, it was working hours, and the wind was bleak, which is not surprising, but Zheng Yuan suspected that it was the sequelae of Wu Hui's case - once bitten by a snake, he was afraid of well ropes for ten years.Chinese people always have an over-developed cautious cell in avoiding risks.Besides, even if you are not afraid of imitators, the places where people have died are somewhat unlucky after all.Zheng Yuan's wheelchair drove to the center of the square, where black and white photos of Yuan Jiashu and Xu Ziqian were lined up side by side, and card candles and flowers were placed around the bottom, which should be left over from the previous mourning activities.The flowers were half-wilted. He stretched out his hand to fiddle with them, and the crisp yellow leaves were scattered all over the ground. No one had been here for a long time.Just as Zheng Yuan was thinking, a female voice sounded from behind: "Are you also here to worship?"

Zheng Yuan turned his head and saw a tall young woman with short hair and a plain coat holding a tulip in her hand. Even though she didn't have any makeup on, she could vaguely see her beauty.He somehow felt familiar, but he couldn't tell where he saw it, until the woman looked at his wheelchair and added: "You...you are also a victim?"

Zheng Yuan immediately realized who she was——Chen Shuman, the last victim of the Qualcomm Plaza serial murder case, the woman Yuan Jiashu saved with his life.Her big waves were cut short, and she lost a lot of weight. No wonder she couldn't be recognized at first glance. More importantly, as a witness of Yuan Jiashu's brave actions at the time, she simply went to the police station to record a statement and never heard of it again. She showed up, but no media interviewed her. It is said that the stress trauma was too deep, so she hid in the field alone.Zheng Yuan knew that he had seized a good opportunity, and also knew that there was no benefit in revealing his identity now, he coughed twice, and followed up the conversation: "Hey...it feels the same as yesterday, I didn't expect it to be lively for a while, this Everyone will forget about it.”

"Hmph! They don't understand anything!" Chen Shuman looked up, and there were already two or three eyes cast towards her. She put down the flowers, and smiled nervously at Zheng Yuan: "Do you want to sit together?"

They met at a nearby coffee shop.

After taking a seat on the leather sofa in the corner, Chen Shuman was obviously relieved, maybe it was the dim light in the store that saved her.Zheng Yuan understands that feeling of insecurity. When Xiaoye just had an accident, he also had the urge to hide in the shadows from time to time—others are hell, and even the purest caring makes him feel sick, so he can only escape far away. , the waiting time will be flattened and diluted, and finally become a thin piece of memory.Chen Shuman's voice was very soft: "Hey... When the accident happened, I was excited for a few seconds. You know, the hero saves the beauty, it's like making an idol drama." With a fleeting sense of luck: "...he is so tall, so handsome, and he is so energetic when he rushes over to pull me, I thought... I thought..."

Chen Shuman's face was bittersweet, Zheng Yuan thought she was sad that such an extraordinary hero could not get married with her in the end, or that she knew the news that Yuan Jiashu was engaged, but he did not expect Chen Shuman to say something completely unexpected :

"Who would have thought they knew each other?"

Zheng Yuan trembled in his heart, but remained calm on the surface: "Ah? Really? I remember the police told me to randomly select victims..."

"We don't know if it's random or not. He definitely wasn't random. The two of them talked after pushing me away. He kept saying: I'm sorry..."

"Him? A murderer?"

"It's the one who saved me, Yuan Jiashu."

While talking, the waiter came over to deliver the drink, Chen Shuman immediately pursed her lips, and retracted into the back of the back guardedly.Zheng Yuan looked at her in a brief silence, the black eye circles and trembling eyelids implied that she was upset, if she was just a survivor of a traumatic case, such a reaction seemed a little too extreme.The waiter put down his cup and left. Chen Shuman then slowly sat up straight and took a sip of hot tea.Zheng Yuan felt that this was an opportunity: "Aside from saying sorry, did they say anything else?"

"Hey, I was also frightened at the time, my feet were weak, and I couldn't even get up, so I just yelled, and I couldn't hear anything... But, what happened later, I guess you wouldn't believe it... ..." Chen Shuman lowered her head and turned the phone, and it took a long time before she finally made up her mind: "That knife, Yuan Jiashu grabbed that person's hand and stabbed it into his heart."

"You... are you sure you read it right?"

"No, I promise not. He just suddenly, the murderer was frightened and burst into tears, you know. When he fell down, he stood there holding the knife and didn't move for a long time." She intermittently After finishing speaking, his expression became strange: "Hey, I only told you because you were the same as me, so don't tell the outside world."

Zheng Yuan felt a chill all over his body: "Why didn't you tell the police about this?"

"He saved my life anyway, and everyone regards him as a hero. If I say that, then he is nothing." Chen Shuman suddenly reached out and squeezed Zheng Yuan's right hand on the table: "Anyway, that man He is also a murderer, one more and one less is not wronged, right?"

Chen Shuman's words pierced Zheng Yuan's nerves like a sharp thorn. He seemed to understand what Wu Hui wanted to do after so long.The other party seemed to be aware of her gaffe, and she withdrew her hands embarrassingly. To cover up her embarrassment, she turned her head and took out a small bottle of perfume from her bag, and sprayed it behind her ears twice.The fragrance was so strong that Zheng Yuan couldn't help sneezing. Chen Shuman smiled apologetically: "Is it too fragrant? Actually, I haven't used this brand for a long time, but I still want to bring it when I come here today... …Did you know that Yuan Jiashu also smelled like this, I was still laughing in my heart at that time, a big man, how to use women's perfume, who knows..."

Chen Shuman's voice faded, Zheng Yuan's eyes fell on the transparent glass bottle, there was a simple black mark on the yellow background, he didn't recognize it.He took out his mobile phone, and Chen Shuman became alert: "What are you doing?"

"Ah... your perfume smells really good. I want to take a picture of it and buy one for my girlfriend some other day." Chen Shuman was dubious, Zheng Yuan pressed the camera button, and passed the photo to Wang Shiqi.

At the end of the day, it was Wang Shiqi who brought Zheng Yuan back home. In Zheng Yuan's words: "It's better to hit me to death if you go out to take a taxi again." Wang Shiqi couldn't help it, so he rushed over half of the city, and when he arrived at the cafe, the needle was already pointing to night At nine o'clock, he looked at the cake plates spread out on a table in front of Zheng Yuan, dumbfounded: "At least you should eat something serious."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go." Zheng Yuan's wheelchair rolled over and pinched Wang Shiqi's feet, but he dodged it: "I have been a disabled person for a day, that's enough." Before he finished speaking, a waiter nervously He ran over: "Sir, do you need any help? Do you want to go to the bathroom?" Wang Shiqi looked at Zheng Yuan's delicate face, and probably understood what he suffered in this little adventure: others' kindness hurts some people. It is a heavy burden, especially for Zheng Yuan. It is estimated that the pile of cakes on the table is Zheng Yuan's passive repayment. Fortunately, there is no need to tip in the store, otherwise his wife for the rest of his life would have to be sent away.Wang Shiqi was amused, held the handle of Zheng Yuan's wheelchair, and kept the waiter aside calmly: "It's okay, it's okay, excuse me, this patient's brain is not good, I have to send him back to take medicine." Before the waiter waited After reacting, he already rolled Zheng Yuan out of the door like a gust of wind, rushed down the small ramp, and then ran with his legs free.The wheelchair rattled on the mosaic ground, and Zheng Yuan was so frightened that he grabbed the armrest tightly and shouted, "Wang Shiqi! What are you doing!"

"Have you heard of it? As long as you run around the square fast enough, the spiral will start!" Wang Shiqi's hair was caught in the wind, and he pushed Zheng Yuan like a hound.

"Stop! If you don't stop, I will call someone!"

"You are screaming! You are screaming!" Of course Zheng Yuan didn't have the face to scream, he could only grit his teeth to resist the dizziness.Wang Shiqi ran half a circle before he stopped, and fell to the ground.Zheng Yuan was so angry that he kicked him: "You are crazy!"

Wang Shiqi laughed loudly, and the hot air he breathed out was frozen into white smoke in the night: "You, you have to live a little more relaxed once in a while. After finally being willing to go out by yourself, why don't you hurry up and walk around happily." Zheng Yuan didn't speak, Wang Shiqi grabbed the handrail, with a smirk on his face: "Hey, you didn't really come out today to eat cakes in that crappy cafe, did you? I saw it, the woman in the photo..."

"I met someone, but it's probably not what you think." Zheng Yuan showed him the photo secretly taken on his mobile phone. It was Chen Shuman's silhouette, standing outside the window of the coffee shop and stretching out his hand to hail a taxi: "Do you still remember her?"

"Who is it?" Wang Shiqi leaned over to look at her with a smile: "You look good! You kid, how many ex-girlfriends are hiding from me?"

"The last girlfriend. This is Chen Shuman. Today she told me a completely different story. That day in Qualcomm Plaza, Yuan Jiashu was not assassinated by Wu Hui. He committed suicide. She saw it with her own eyes."

"..." Wang Shiqi's smile froze, and it took a long time before he answered: "Do you believe this too?"

"Why can't you believe it?"

"Then why didn't she tell me during the statement?"

"She has difficulties, she..."

"That's enough, Old Zheng. It's a good thing to invest in it. If you invest in it like this, you will be stunned." Wang Shiqi had a headache: "Didn't you promise me to investigate according to the clue that Wu Hui is the murderer? I brought you in to investigate the case. I want you to catch the murderer yourself, and get rid of the knots of these years. How come you chatted with him like Stockholm. I know you have a good heart, but you can’t always be on the side of the suspect, even if you are yourself If you don't want revenge, what about Xiaoye?"

Zheng Yuan's eyes darkened, and after a while, he stretched out his hand and rubbed the top of Wang Shiqi's head: "Go back." Knowing that he didn't listen to what he said, Wang Shiqi patted his butt in desperation and got up.He touched something with his hand in his pocket, thought for a while, and threw it on Zheng Yuan's lap with a clatter.The other party picked up the paper box to have a look, and laughed dumbly: "Why did you buy it back?"

"Didn't you ask me to buy it?" Wang Shiqi pushed the wheelchair: "I specially sent me a picture on WeChat, thinking you were in a hurry to ask for it."

"Stupid you, I asked you to help me find out what brand it is." Zheng Yuan opened the package and sniffed it, and couldn't help but sneezed again: "I'm fine, why buy a woman's perfume?"

"Who knows, what if you want to pick up a girl on a whim... Anyway, I'm a second-class citizen now, and I have to do everything according to you. If I don't feel happy anymore, I will die or live with me..."

Zheng Yuan heard the sourness in his words, quietly opened the cap of the perfume, and when he came to open the door, he sprayed him all over the head and face.

"Zheng, don't go too far!" Wang Shiqi rubbed his eyes angrily.Zheng Yuan laughed at the side: "It was you who made me happy."

"Then make fun of me?! What does it smell like? It smells so good!" Wang Shiqi frowned and sniffed at his clothes, and shook his fist at Zheng Yuan: "I don't bully the disabled, we will settle the score together when you recover. "

"Don't wait for me to recover, let's forget it now." Zheng Yuan pressed the doorknob and refused to go in: "I still want to save Wu Hui."

"Crazy. Why save him? Didn't he kill so many lives? Didn't he kill the seven people in the square?"

"Injury, the evidence is conclusive, and the crime deserves it. Killing, there are too many things that cannot be explained clearly, so no conclusions can be made."

"Why are you jumping to conclusions again? Confessions, physical evidence, and the crime scene, you can't pretend to be blind, can you? He's not guilty? Now that a random case is brought out, he can be shot several times!"

Zheng Yuan grabbed Wang Shiqi's arm: "So? What do you think is the purpose of shooting him? Is it really to punish him for his crimes, or is he in a hurry to give an explanation to the onlookers? Yes, Xu Ye told me, you are under a lot of pressure, The boss is pressing hard, everyone is looking forward to closing the case early, but have you ever thought about sending a person to death for no reason, what is the difference between us and that serial murderer?"

Wang Shiqi bit his cheek and remained silent.

"Remember, at the beginning you asked me why I lived, and I couldn't tell. Now I think about it, I want to live, but not for revenge. Hatring someone can't last a lifetime. But if I have the second half of my life, I will I will try to understand, understand the reason why the wicked do evil, and understand the motive of one person to kill another. Only when I know why, can I have a chance to move forward, otherwise I will always live in unexplained fear Zhong... Do you know, walking on the road every day these years, everyone I see looks like a murderer, as if they will rush over at any time, kill you, kill my son, or kill me." Zheng Yuan's voice Trembling: "Believe me, I hope that the murderer is Wu Hui more than anyone else, I hope that the beast has been put in a cage, but if not, that person is still with us, entering the same station with us, taking the same bus Elevators, sitting back to back in the same restaurant...Can you live like that? Can you?"

Zheng Yuan's words made Wang Shiqi sigh: "What do you want to do?"

"I want to see Wu Hui again." Zheng Yuan said firmly, "It's just me and him."

Take the initiative
"Are you really planning to do this?" Cheng Nuo pressed a folder with his hand: "You can think clearly, Yuan Jiashu is a person who has been issued a certificate of bravery in the city. With a bonus of 30 yuan, he donated a Hope Primary School, and he was almost touched. China is now, is it meaningful to jump out of the post-mortem now?"

"I don't want to check, but it's a pity that there is someone at home who insists on checking." Wang Shiqi forced the folder over, tapping the cover with his fingers to keep it open: "You already know the result, right?"

Cheng Nuo was expressionless: "Heroin. But I still say that, people can't judge it in two ways. Just because he takes drugs doesn't mean he can't save people."

"Of course. But there are some things that look different from another angle." Wang Shiqi finally opened the newly released inspection report, and the toxicology test data line by line was shocking. "Yuan Jiashu, 28 years old, has no relatives in China, and met his fiancée Xu Ziqian studying abroad. After returning, he has been working as an executive in Xu's Cedar Group." Wang Shiqi smiled badly, "Hey, heroin is not like others. It is expensive, so A large sum of money for drugs, do you think his fiancée knows or doesn’t know.”

"What do you want to imply?" Cheng Nuo narrowed his eyes, "Xu Ziqian's body was taken back and burned."

"Yes, it's just that the collection is so smooth, don't you think it's strange in such a hurry?"

(End of this chapter)