Chapter 15: Julien Fourteen

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Chapter 15: Julien Fourteen

TL: cici, Editor: Isalee

Synopsis: Expectedly, these two mental retards were only able to maintain the peace for only three minutes before they started the damn war again.

First Published on Ainushi.

"I hate analyzing the victim." Lang Qiao pouted and put a pen under her lips and nose. "For those victims who are injured for no apparent reason, I feel like I need a long time before my heart to accept that. Why? Why does someone who is so good have to end up like that just because of bad luck? Why should someone who struggled to live for many years have to be killed by an unprovoked attack from a scum? But for those victims who are not innocent, or those that even deserve what they got, I feel that it serves them right. And... our action of finding the murderer on his behalf is no different than holding the candle to the devil, I... oh!"

Luo Wenzhou had rolled the paper into a paper drum and knocked the back of her head, successfully stopping Lang Qiao's long speech.

Lang Qiao held the back of her head: "What did you hit me again for? What I said is what people feel! The police are also people!"

Luo Wenzhou: "Want your salary or not?"

Lang Qiao: "...Yes."

"Then just do your job. From where do you get so many feelings?" Luo Wenzhou grabbed a white board with one hand. Below the photo of a boy who had a small crescent scar on his forehead, he wrote down "He Zhongyi, male, eighteen years old, deliveryman, H-province" and other basic information.

Then, with his height advantage, from above the small white board, and through the clear glass windows of the office, he took a look at Fei Du who was accompanying Mother He.

Mother He probably heard something from someone and felt very desperate for Zhang Donglai to be released from the Bureau. As she believed that her action would lead to nowhere, she cried until she collapsed, to the point that she could barely walk upright. As a result, she came back with Fei Du's support.

She was either instinctively grabbing a life-saving straw, or she firmly believed that Fei Du was one members of the Zhang Donglai gang and so she "could not let him run away". While Mother He's mind was blank, she subconsciously and firmly grabbed the corner of Fei Du's clothes.

Fei Du was forced to stay there, and therefore Luo Wenzhou saw this scene outside of the window.

Fei Du was a young man after all--it would be easy for him to forcibly get rid of the sick woman who was not even taller than his chest. However, he unexpectedly did not lose his temper and just quietly sat together with this old and ugly woman.

At this time, He Mother had recovered from the exhaustion from her collapse and retrieved some of her wisdom. Luo Wenzhou saw Fei Du hold one of her hands, lean over, and whisper to her. Luo Wenzhou did not know what rhetoric he had said, but Mother He slowly calmed down. She even occasionally nodded or shook her head to respond.

Luo Wenzhou looked through the window and asked, "Has Ma Xiaowei been released?"

Tao Ran hung up the phone: "No. The Sub Bureau sent a message to me and said that Ma Xiaowei's drug addiction broke out. The people's police had found out bulks of drug from his residence, so he was detained."

Luo Wenzhou: "Can we call him in for an interrogation?"

Tao Ran shrugged: "No. It is said that he is very unstable. If anything happens, the Sub Bureau cannot take responsibility. If we really want to have an interrogation, we have to send people to the Sub Bureau." Read latest chapters at nov(e)lbin.com Only

Wang Hongliang seemed to have made up his mind and would not allow them to come into contact with Ma Xiaowei alone. For this reason, he treated the boy as a museum artifacts--only allowing others to take a look at him through the window. Take him away from Sub Bureau? No way.

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At the time, two policemen on the criminal investigation team came in with a cardboard box: "Boss, we brought back all of He Zhongyi's personal belongings. After the investigation, we can return them to his family. There might be something useful."

He Zhongyi did not have many personal items. There were several pieces of clothing--most of them were uniforms that were given to employees by delivery points--basic daily necessities, a mobile box that he reluctantly could not throw away, and a diary.

Well, it was a diary without much content. It was basically an account book with memos.

In addition to being a delivery person, He Zhongyi apparently also did temporary part-time jobs from time to time. There were always scattered income of small amounts. Summing all those up, his monthly income was comparable to that of a young white-collar worker.

The account book had very detailed records, even events such as spending 2.5 yuan for breakfast was noted down. Luo Wenzhou flipped through a few pages and suddenly said: "What does the note that was attached to the head of the deceased look like? Let me take a look at it."

Someone next to him immediately brought out the close-up photo and handed it to him.

That character "Qian" was written in an askew form--a "kid style" handwriting that was far from decent. The hook on the right was so large that it was about to occupy half of the entire world of the character, which looked very uncoordinated--Exactly the same as the handwriting of the character "Qian" in He Zhongyi's account book.

"This character was written by the deceased himself." Tao Ran was puzzled, "Wait, I remember when He Zhongyi appeared in the Chengguang Mansion that night, he was carrying a kraft paper bag in his hand. Was there a note in the bag? That kraft paper bag went missing later on. What was inside?"

Luo Wenzhou read through He Zhongyi's notebook ten lines at a time: "Was it possible that it was cash? Look at this."

Tao Ran: "Go away!"

On the evening of the same day, after Zhang Donglai knew when and how he entered and exited the small dark house from Zhang Ting. He believed that the lawyer played an important role in this; therefore, just after he returned home and took a shower with grapefruit leaf, he offered to have dinner with only the lawyer on the same day.

Compared to those colleagues who were doing non-litigation legal services for various gold providers (4), the criminal lawyers' jobs were high-risk, pressurized, and not very profitable. It was very difficult to meet such cases where the litigant was stupid and rich where the case itself was not complicated. If he was not Zhao Haochang's classmate, it would not be his turn to enjoy this kind of benefit. The lawyer was pleased and went for the dinner.

Zhang Donglai politely gave him a red envelope (5). In the beginning, he offered to drive the lawyer back. However, right after they left the hotel, they happened to run into a beautiful woman with perfect body proportions. She greeted Zhang Donglai with familiarity and entered Zhang Donglai's car with a natural attitude.

The lawyer consciously felt that it would not be very good to stay with them. He would be an annoyance. So he sensibly sat down in the back seat and said that he would like a ride to the nearest metro station.

In the car, the beautiful woman and Young Master Zhang were talking shamelessly, which made the audience feel as though he was sitting on pins and needles. The lawyer was not so cheeky, so he had to pretend that he was only air as he leaned behind and played with his mobile phone. When passing a crossing, Zhang Donglai slammed on the brakes. As a result, the lawyer leaned forward. At this moment, he saw something at the corner of the car.

Thinking that something on the car seat was thrown off because of the sudden stop, the lawyer wanted to pick it up. When he bent over, he was suddenly stunned.

He saw that it was a silver-gray striped tie with a big label on the tail. It was well-crafted, but seemed to be rubbed forcefully and the shape of it was changed. It looked like a salted fish and was curled up in the gap of the back seat.

"There is a scar from the blunt instrument that was used to hit the back of the deceased's head. The deceased was suffocated to death. The weapon was some kind of soft cloth. Scarves, ties, soft cords, and similar objects are all possible..."

The lawyer was drunk in the beginning. At that moment, the alcohol evaporated from his open pores with a "hu" sound.

At this time, Zhang Donglai seemed to suddenly remember that there was a living creature in the back seat. While he was restarting the car, he looked back at the lawyer: "Lawyer Liu, why are you bending over? Are you drunk or uncomfortable?"

The lawyer hurriedly straightened up, and the blood in his entire body rushed to the top of his head. His limbs were cold and his ears creaked. He forced a smile: "I... I was a bit dizzy."

Zhang Donglai looked through the rearview mirror at him. Probably influenced by the light, Lawyer Liu felt that he saw indescribable haze in between Zhang Donglai's eyes.

Fortunately, Zhang Donglai did not put him in his heart. After briefly looking at Lawyer Liu, he again devoted himself to chatting with the beauty sitting next to him. Lawyer Liu rigidly kept his sitting posture, opened his cell phone camera and secretly filmed the area around the tie. Then, he stretched one of his feet little by little, picked up the tie with his toes, and quickly put the tie into his briefcase with the cover of his sleeve.

Just before he could get his hand out, Zhang Donglai looked through the rearview mirror again: "Is that station correct? Lawyer Liu?"

The lawyer was scared to the point that his heart almost stopped functioning. He completely lost his language function and could only nod.

Zhang Donglai raised his eyebrows: "How sweaty is your face! Is the temperature of the air conditioner too high?"

The woman partner sitting shotgun opposed the suggestion: "Don't make it lower, I am cold."

If not for the silly girl who did not know the truth as she just sat in the car and talked, Lawyer Liu believed that he must have already been scared to death. He could not recall how he got off Zhang Donglai's car. Zhang Donglai leaned forward from inside the window: "Lawyer Liu, are you really okay? You really don't need me to send you home?"

The lawyer tried to pull his facial muscles: "Really."

Fortunately, Zhang Donglai was obsessed with beauty and he did not really want to send a short man home. After he got confirmation, he immediately stepped on the accelerator and left.

The night wind blew over and Lawyer Liu found that his back was soaked.

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(1) Gongjia: An old fashion Chinese word of "company".

(2) Go Die Gang: Slang. Refers to the "organization" of single people, since they want all people who are not single die. Betraying this organization means someone has found a girlfriend/boyfriend.

(3) Apartment Slave: Slang. Refers to people who pay housing mortgage.

(4) Gold Providers: Slag. Refers to very rich clients.

(5) Red Envelope: Traditionally, Chinese people give out money inside red envelope when there is something to celebrate.

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