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    【Death of a Lawyer-06】

    Liu Lan's calm performance made Jiang Pingce very suspicious - the deceased was her husband, and she didn't even bother to pretend to be sad. From the beginning to the end, her expression seemed to be helping a stranger go through the formalities.

    Her psychological quality must be very good, and most people can't do this in the face of her husband's death. It is normal for couples who are in a good relationship to break down and cry;

    But she was calm, looking at the dead person pushed out of the freezer, like an ant on the ground.

    Team Lin called Liu Lan to the interrogation room alone, and asked her some questions: "Have you been married to Zhou Ziyang for 8 years? You also have a 7-year-old son. He died, are you not sad at all?"

    Liu Lan's face was cold: "Why am I sad? The relationship between us is long gone. After more than a year, I just feel strange to him."

    Jiang Pingce said, "Has the Bureau signed the Divorce Agreement before?"

    Liu Lan looked up at Jiang Pingce and said lightly: "I haven't seen the divorce agreement. We haven't officially talked about divorce, because my son has just started elementary school, and the school needs parents to participate in organizing activities. We have to act as a loving couple. We plan to wait for our son to grow up and get used to the environment of the new school before getting a divorce.”

    For the sake of their children, both parents may be forgiven for delaying divorce. But has Liu Lan really not seen the agreement to let her "leave the house clean"? If she lives first without divorce, is she not afraid that her lawyer husband will transfer the property after marriage?

    Team Lin turned the pen in his hand and said, "Where were you from 10:00 to 12:00 last night?"

    Liu Lan said: "Last night I tutored my son at home. After my son fell asleep, I went back to my room to watch TV and went to bed at 12:30. I have never left the Jinzuo Community. You can go to the property to check the monitoring of the community."

    Judging from the agreement, Zhou Ziyang bought three houses, 33-01, 33-02, and 33-03 on the 33rd floor of Unit 1, Building A, Jinzuo. Jiang Pingce asked, "Which one do you live in Jinzuo Jiayuan? suite?"

    Liu Lan said: "The partition wall between 3301 and 3302 was opened up and renovated into a large suite. My son and I are currently living here; 3303 is a two-bedroom, one-bedroom suite. His parents lived there before, and Zhou Ziyang is currently living here. When my son asked, he explained that he was busy with work and needed to work overtime, worried that it would affect our rest."

    That is to say, the two live in nominally, but they actually live in the same building and different rooms on the same floor.

    Jiang Pingcelin team glanced at each other, and the latter continued to ask: "Is there anything unusual about Zhou Ziyang recently? Do you know that he once handled a lawsuit, did he offend anyone?"

    Liu Lan laughed at himself: "I have lived with him for a long time. Although he occasionally returns to my place to accompany his son to dinner, he will go to his own room after eating. What he has been doing recently and who he has offended, I don't know. Affection."

    Team Lin said, "Is it because he cheated on you?"

    Liu Lan nodded: "Yes. Women are more intuitive. For a period of time last year, he frequently smelled unfamiliar perfumes. I felt something was wrong. One weekend, he was wearing sports clothes and said he was going to exercise. I secretly followed him and saw him with a The woman with the curly hair is on a date at the Galaxy Building's office."

    The curly-haired woman is naturally the designer Chen Yueqin on the 39th floor.

    A trace of pain flashed in Liu Lan's eyes, and he lowered his head and said, "I was very sad at the time, but I didn't want to make myself so embarrassed by catching a 'treacher' in bed. After I went back, I thought about it carefully, since he is no longer loyal to me, Even if I manage to save him, he will still cheat when he encounters a young and beautiful girl in a few years. It is better to set yourself free."

    Jiang Pingce said: "So you took the initiative to propose a residence?"

    "I took a kissing video for him at the time. He knelt in front of me and begged for forgiveness. He also said that he would cut off contact with Chen Yueqin immediately. But I was firm and moved out that night." She sneered at the corner of her mouth and said. : "It turns out that my decision was right. While he begged me for forgiveness, he continued to fight with Chen Yueqin."

    Jiang Pingce: "..."

    It is wishful thinking for a man who is stealing to return to the family honestly. Liu Lan is undoubtedly decisive and wise in handling this matter. However, such a smart and calm woman, didn't she realize that Zhou Ziyang bought all the properties owned by the two before marriage? Once divorced, she will be at a great disadvantage in property distribution.

    Is she indifferent to property? Or does she have other plans?

    Team Lin asked, "Don't you hate your husband for cheating?"

    Liu Lan's eyes were frank: "Of course I hate it, I wish he died immediately. But so what? It was him who made the mistake, not me. I don't have to delay my life because of his mistake. Even if he is sorry for me, I can't kill me. He made my son an orphan without a father or mother."

    Team Lin stared at her thoughtfully, as if trying to analyze the truth of her testimony from her expression.

    However, Liu Lan's expression was calm, and he did not show any guilty conscience.

    After a while, she suddenly remembered something, turned on her mobile phone, and handed it to Jiang Pingce: "By the way, around 11:30 last night, Zhou Ziyang called me suddenly, and I recorded it."

    Hearing this key, Jiang Pingce immediately sat up straight and took the phone from her hand.

    In the call records of the mobile phone, there was a call from Zhou Ziyang at 23:30 last night. The call time was about 3 minutes. Jiang Pingce pressed the play button and listened only to the phone. A man said drunkenly: "Alan, I'm sorry for you... If I say, I regret it, I want to go home, I want to be with your son... What are you, you?"

    Liu Lan said coldly, "Are you drunk?"

    Zhou Ziyang's voice was indeed a little drunk, he sounded like he was crying and he was laughing, he mumbled for a moment, and he said, "I just play with Chen Yueqin, I never thought of marrying her... You know what? ? Men, sometimes you can't help yourself... That kind of romantic woman is not suitable for marrying into the family..."

    He did drink and said something incoherent afterward.

    Liu Lan was silent for a moment, and said unbearably, "Zhou Ziyang, you make me feel sick."

    She simply hung up the phone, and the recording stopped abruptly at this moment.

    Team Lin hugged her arms and said to her, "Do you record every time you call your husband?"

    Liu Lan said: "This is what he taught me. You must leave evidence for everything. How can you say it with your mouth?"

    Team Lin scratched the back of his head, stood up, stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, thank you for cooperating with the investigation, we will contact you again if there is any problem."

    Liu Lan got up and shook hands with him politely, then turned to leave. Wearing a linen "color" dress, the woman's back is thin, but her walking posture is very straight, and her tall and straight posture is also very elegant in the crowd.

    A colleague next to him sighed in a low voice: "Such a beautiful wife, she still goes out to steal fish, this Zhou Ziyang is really in the midst of happiness and does not know his happiness..."

    Team Lin turned around and asked, "Xiao Jiang, do you think it's possible that Chen Yueqin and Liu Lan are the murderers?"

    Jiang Pingce thought about it carefully, and said, "Chen Yueqin is very suspicious. Not only did she stay in the Xinghe Building with Zhou Ziyang last night, but she also had her necklace on the roof of the building, and Zhou Ziyang's fingernails had her skin fragments, plus In the recording of Liu Lan's call, Zhou Ziyang clearly stated that he wanted to return to the family and was just having fun with Chen Yueqin. Assuming that Chen Yueqin heard this conversation afterwards, of course, he might become angry, thinking that Zhou Ziyang was deceiving her feelings, so he impulsively dismissed Zhou Ziyang. Young was killed."

    Team Lin nodded: "Well, she has the time and motive for committing the crime. What about Liu Lan?"

    Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and said, "I always feel incomprehensible about Liu Lan. It may be because of her depression. She seems to have closed her heart, and her emotions are not revealed."

    No matter what questions are asked of her, she can answer fluently, calmly as if telling someone else's story.

    This woman is a bit strange, but she said that she will not make her own life because of others' mistakes, and she will not make her son an orphan... This is a very good reason. Because once she kills Zhou Ziyang, she will be sentenced to death, and the two children will have no one to take care of, so it is not worthwhile.

    Jiang Pingce analyzed: "She took Zhou Ziyang's call at 11:30 last night, but Zhou Ziyang died around 12:00 in the morning, and her suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, but I don't think she looks like a murderer. From a mother's point of view, she killed her husband and made her children orphans, which is not in line with her calm personality."

    Team Lin agreed: "Well, I think so too. We still have to find the dead man's mobile phone."

    Jiang Pingce put forward a suggestion: "The deceased called his wife Liu Lan at 23:30 last night, indicating that the mobile phone was always with him, that is to say, if his mobile phone was not taken away by the murderer, it might still be in a certain place in the Galaxy Building. in a corner."

    Team Lin waved his hand and said, "Team A of the field team searches the Galaxy Building in a carpet-like manner to find the cell phone of the deceased as soon as possible!"

    At the same time, Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo also quietly launched investigations at Minghui Law Firm.

    Zhou Ziyang died, and everyone in the law firm was talking about it. Some interns didn't dare to talk nonsense when facing the police, but in private chats, a lot of news broke out——

    "Lawyer Zhou must have an affair with the beautiful girl downstairs. I went back to the law firm to pick up things that weekend, and when I saw them making out in the bathroom, I was scared and ran away."

    "Chen Yueqin really looks beautiful, and her sister is also very beautiful."

    "By the way, her sister came to lawyer Zhou every day for a while, and the two locked the door in the office to talk about things for several hours. Her divorce lawsuit was handled by lawyer Zhou, and as a result, she got a house worth tens of millions, children She doesn't seem convinced that custody was awarded to her husband?"

    Yue Xingwen heard the key revelation of "intimacy in the bathroom", pretended to go to the bathroom, and wanted to check to see if there were no clues.

    The entire floor of the 40th floor is Minghui Law Firm, and the toilet is located in the corner of the corridor.

    Yue Xingwen pushed the door and went in, and the whole bathroom was luxuriously decorated, which was not inferior to a five-star hotel. The men's "sex" toilet has five compartments, all doors are open, and they are cleanly cleaned, nothing special. Yue Xingwen didn't want to rush into the female "sex" bathroom, so she let Senior Sister Lan go in and see.

    Lan Yarong and Lin Manluo entered the door together. There were also five compartments, four of which were open, and the one at the far corner was left open. The two looked at each other, and Lin Manluo reached out and gently pushed the door—

    There was no one in the bathroom, but there was a mobile phone on the platform next to the drawing paper!

    Lan Yarong immediately took out the phone and said, "Xingwen, found a phone!"

    Yue Xingwen lowered his head - the phone with the black casing was exactly the same as the phone that Zhou Ziyang used when he saw Zhou Ziyang making a call in the stairwell yesterday, and it was turned off at this time.

    Yue Xing's literary expression was serious: "Senior Sister Lan, can you ask if anyone in the law firm has lost their mobile phone?"

    Lan Yarong took out her mobile phone and asked in the "Minghui Law Firm" office group, "Has my colleague lost his mobile phone?" Everyone said "No".

    The three looked at each other and said in unison, "Is this Zhou Ziyang's phone?"

    However, Zhou Ziyang, a man, how could his mobile phone appear in the women's toilet? When he went to the toilet, he was so confused that he didn't know the male and female signs? Or was it left by the murderer?

    Regardless, finding the phone is a big step. Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message to Jiang Pingce: "We found the mobile phone of the deceased Zhou Ziyang in the women's toilet on the 40th floor."

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