Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 219 Rashomon

On the third floor of the guesthouse, in the narrow corridor, the soundproofing is very poor and one can faintly hear muttering from inside the door.

Dabao, Xiaowu and Qi Lei followed closely behind Luo Rui.

Jiang Gang also had a solemn expression on his face, looking at the red carpet in the corridor, as if blood was pouring out of the door.

"Which room do all these people live in?"

Dabao took a look at the notebook, pointed to room 301, and replied, "This is the room where the killer couple lives. Their names are Pan Cheng and He Zhen."

"Knock on the door!"

Xiaowu hurried over and tapped it a few times with his knuckles.

After waiting for a while, there was no movement inside.

Luo Rui walked forward and punched him hard several times.

Then, an impatient female voice came from inside the door: "Who the hell is that?"

"Police!" Xiaowu answered from the side.

There was an immediate silence from inside the door, and then there seemed to be some murmuring sounds. Luo Rui put his ear against the door, but they spoke very softly and he could not hear anything.

Not long after, Pan Cheng, who had dyed yellow hair, opened the door and asked directly, "Have we found our cell phone?"

Luo Rui didn't answer, but walked in first and pushed his body aside.

Jiang Gang and Qi Lei also came in. Dabao and Xiaowu closed the door outside and waited in the corridor.

There is a standard procedure for questioning people involved in the case. It is definitely not enough to do it alone. There must be a partner to verify and supervise each other. Jiang Gang is a prosecutor, so there is no need to worry about procedural violations.

The room in the guesthouse is very small. Apart from a bed, there is only a TV cabinet and two chairs.

In addition to Pan Cheng, a girl named He Zhen hid in the bathroom, apparently changing clothes.

Luo Rui brought a chair and sat down, pointed to the bathroom, and said to Pan Cheng: "Call your girlfriend out!"

Pan Cheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes wandering, and he asked fearfully: "Excuse me, what happened?"

Actually, Pan Cheng is two years older than Luo Rui, but he is 1.65 meters tall, thin, has dyed yellow hair, and wears colorful clothes, while Luo Rui is 1.85 meters tall, has a strong build, and is unremarkable. Moreover, his cold and fierce eyes put a lot of pressure on Pan Cheng.

Luo Rui stared at him closely and asked, "What's the matter? Don't you know what you did?"

As soon as Luo Rui finished speaking, Qi Lei took out a tape recorder and a notebook from behind his butt, pretending to write and draw on them, and occasionally looked up at Pan Cheng and shook his head slightly.

The look in his eyes was as if he was looking at a death row inmate, implying that this person was beyond saving!

Pan Cheng was startled, swallowed hard, and turned pale.

After all, she is young and can dye her hair yellow. How strong can her psychological endurance be?

Jiang Gang frowned when he saw Luo Rui and Qi Lei's performance.

You want to say that they are not in compliance with the regulations, but they won't say anything. They just look regretful and shake their heads.

Pan Cheng felt his legs go weak, but he forced himself to knock on the bathroom door and call his girlfriend out.

He Zhen's hairstyle was even more exaggerated, a huge afro. She changed her clothes and came out, not daring to look at Luo Rui and the others.

The two men stood by the bed with their heads down, like high school students standing as punishment.

She was already in her early twenties, and she had no temper at all? Could Wang Jialing have been killed by these two people? It seemed unlikely.

More than a year ago, Luo Rui read some psychology books in the library.

Dressing like this is a form of rebellion for teenagers, but being in their twenties and still doing this must have earned them a lot of disdain from others and their family members, and the pressure they are under can be imagined.

Luo Rui said: "Raise your head..."

The two of them slowly raised their heads. He Zhen placed her hands in front of her, interlocking their fingernails.

Luo Rui sighed in his heart, and instead of asking them to sit down, he pointed at Jiang Gang who was standing aside with a briefcase in his hand.

"This is the prosecutor of our county. You know the prosecutor, right? If you don't know, let me tell you. I'm a policeman. When I catch a criminal, I hand him over to him, and he will send you to jail. Of course, your sentence will be decided by the court in the end. If you deserve to be imprisoned, you will be imprisoned. If you deserve to be shot, you will be shot..."

Before Luo Rui finished speaking, Pan Cheng's legs were shaking like sieve bran. His hands hung by his thighs, pressing his legs hard to stop his body from shaking.

He Zhen's mental quality is better, but her nail picking movements are getting bigger and more frequent.

Jiang Gang glanced at Luo Rui, the squadron leader of Shahe County Bureau. He was very familiar with Luo Rui. Luo Rui was new in office and he had never dealt with him before, but now it seemed that this person was not simple.

Just a few words can scare people like this. If he wasn't an experienced detective, he wouldn't have been able to do this.

Seeing that the time had come, Luo Rui looked at Qi Lei.

Qi Lei blinked and turned on the recorder.

Luo Rui said, "Tell me, what happened? You are the youngest, and we found you first. If you want to redeem yourself, then tell us the truth."

Pan Cheng and He Zhen looked at each other, the former couldn't hold on any longer and sat down on the bed.

He seemed to wake up suddenly after drowning, his head was like a chicken pecking at rice, and he could not stop nodding: "I'll tell you, I confess, we beat that woman! But I didn't start it, I just slapped her twice..."

Seeing her boyfriend so panicked, He Zhen's psychological defenses collapsed.

She interjected, "Me too, I just pulled her hair, we didn't do anything at all!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Rui suddenly felt angry.

Jiang Gang said, "Tell me her name! Is the woman you beat up called Wang Jialing?"

Because the recorder was on and the recorded evidence would later be used in court, she could not be referred to as "her".

Pan Cheng said timidly: "I... I don't know her name, anyway, that woman is with a child, the one sitting on the lower bunk of the train."

"Why did you hit her?"

"My cell phone was stolen!" It was He Zhen who responded: "It's all that woman's fault. After she came in, the robbers broke in. That cell phone was newly bought by me. It cost us all our savings!"

Jiang Gang was a little bit unbelievable, and looked at her with wide eyes: "Is this the reason?"

He Zhen was frightened by his eyes: "No... I... I saw my boyfriend hit her, so I... I hit her too, but I swear, I just pulled her hair a few times!"

Jiang Gang looked at Luo Rui, and both of them found it hard to accept this reason for a moment.

Luo Rui looked at Pan Cheng, who immediately said, "Officer, believe me, I was not the first to do it. It was the man in a suit in the bunk below me who did it first. His briefcase was taken away. That guy was holding the bag all the way. There must be a lot of money in it!

Also...that woman's child spilled milk on his crotch, and his things were stolen, so he was very angry, and he must have taken it out on this woman.

At the time, my girlfriend and I were on the upper bunk, and we gave the woman a few slaps, and we didn’t get out of bed!”

Luo Rui really wanted to punch him a few times, but he gritted his teeth and held back.

"Did you know that Wang Jialing was seriously injured at the time? When the criminals broke in, they chopped her with an axe?"

Pan Cheng opened his mouth wide and swallowed: "I...we know..."

"You know? You still do this even though you know it?"

Pan Cheng immediately lowered his head, not daring to meet Luo Rui's eyes.

He Zhen, however, didn't seem to care at all. She didn't seem to feel any guilt at all. All she had in her eyes was fear of the police and the law.

"Besides you, who else took action?"

Pan Cheng bit his lip and said, "Everyone beat her. The man on the west side beat her the hardest. I saw him hitting her with his fists. The other man in military uniform on the upper bunk opposite also participated.

He had drunk a lot of alcohol and had been drinking since he got in the car. He couldn't reach the woman, so he kicked her head.

The woman was about to fall down, but the man pulled her up and the two of them continued to beat her.

Luo Rui was silent for a few seconds, trying to swallow his anger.

"What about the other one? Lan Hanwen, the young man on the upper bunk of Wang Jialing, did he do anything?"

Pan Cheng shook his head: "I didn't see him hitting anyone, he just watched."

"Didn't I persuade you?"

"no!"

Luo Rui asked the last question: "Who among you killed Wang Jialing?"

Suddenly, everyone in the room held their breath, especially Jiang Gang, who kept his eyes on Pan Cheng. The veins on the back of his hand holding the handbag were bulging.

Pan Cheng's eyes widened: "I...she's dead? I...I don't know. I saw the man in the suit running out of the cubicle, and He Zhen and I ran out right away too!"

Luo Rui leaned forward and stared at him: "You really don't know?"

……

"I don't know. No matter what you say, I didn't kill anyone!"

Wu Zihui leaned back, not meeting Luo Rui's eyes, and said, "You just asked me why I beat Wang Jialing? Well, I'll tell you, from the moment this woman got on the bus, her child was chirping, making a fuss or crying all the way.

It made me very upset. Besides, if it wasn't for her, my money wouldn't have been robbed. As soon as she came in, the criminals came. I thought she was in the same group with those people!

Officer, if I hit someone, the only punishment would be detention and a fine. Can't you pin the crime of murder on me?

Also, I am also a victim! I heard that your police have caught those criminals. When can I get my money back? "

Qi Lei crossed his arms and stared at him. Jiang Gang stood aside and pushed the frame of his glasses on his nose.

Luo Rui and Wu Zihui sat opposite each other and laughed, "You keep talking about those criminals, don't you recognize them?"

Wu Zihui's eyes narrowed and he shook his head: "They were wearing hoods at the time, and it was very dark in the carriage. I had no idea who they were!"

Luo Rui took out his cell phone, opened a photo and handed it to him.

"Zhong Daming has worked in your construction team for two years! Ding Zuo has also worked in your construction team for eight months, and this one, Zhong Shuang, has also worked for you for more than a year.

Now, do you know them?"

Wu Zihui's eyes flashed with panic. He lowered his head and seemed to adjust his expression. Then he pretended to be surprised and asked, "It's them?"

Not to mention Luo Rui and Qi Lei, even Jiang Gang could see that this guy must have recognized them during the robbery.

However, his statement did not show any information about these people to the police.

This guy has been hiding something, he is very dishonest!

Luo Rui stared at him: "You still want the 200,000? Why did they rob you? Why are you playing dumb! You just said you were a victim, but I think you are the culprit! If you hadn't stopped paying them, would this have happened?"

Wu Zihui, a shrewd old man, did not change his expression and argued: "These people are sloppy in their work, working for three days and resting for two days, and they also stole things from my construction site and sold them. I didn't ask them for compensation or sue them, which is already very good!"

"Really?" Luo Rui smiled and said, "In addition to these three people, we found out that you also owed wages to 32 other people! Are these people just sloppy in their work and don't do anything for long?

Wu Zihui, what do you think of us police officers? Do you think we can't find out anything about you?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Zihui suddenly became excited and stood up.

Qi Lei quickly took a step forward and stared at him. Wu Zihui licked his lips and said angrily, "What do you mean? Are you not going to give me the money?"

Luo Rui sneered and did not answer the question directly, but Wu Zihui knew with his butt that the money would never be recovered.

"Following up on the previous question, you said you didn't kill anyone? Right?"

Luo Rui took out another photo from his mobile phone. This was the photo Han Jinli sent him a few minutes ago.

The photo shows a woman's bloodshot clothes placed on a stainless steel table.

There was a clear footprint on the hem of the bloody shirt, with dust and milk stains.

"Did you kick Wang Jialing?"

Wu Zihui took a look at the photo and then looked away.

"not me!"

"Not you?" Luo Rui asked back, then turned to Qi Lei.

Qi Lei walked to the entrance of the room and took out a pair of black leather shoes from the shoe cabinet. He walked over, turned over the soles of the shoes, and compared the two, and everything was clear at a glance.

Wu Zihui wanted to snatch the shoes away, but Qi Lei immediately pointed at his nose.

"Don't move! If you dare to take away the evidence, you will be guilty of an even greater crime!"

"Okay, I won't grab it!" Wu Zihui was ready to throw the jar into the ground, spread out his two hands, and said stubbornly: "I kicked it, so what? It's nothing more than paying some money!"

"Pay compensation?" Luo Rui looked at him sideways.

Jiang Gang also shook his head, and Qi Lei laughed awkwardly.

Luo Rui said: "I tell you, Wang Jialing was pregnant at the time, and your kick was very powerful! You may be the direct cause of the death of the baby in her belly! Do you still think that this matter is so simple?"

Suddenly, Wu Zihui's face changed drastically and he sat down on the bed.

Luo Rui then asked, "Tell me! Who killed Wang Jialing?"

……

Qi Lei called the waiter of the guesthouse and used the key to open room 305.

Before, they had been knocking on the door outside, but no one responded.

After opening the door, the group walked in and found Zhao Jianguo lying on the bed, sleeping soundly. He was shirtless and snoring.

The TV was on at a very loud volume, playing the news program. On the bedside table, there were four bottles of Erguotou, but they were all empty, and the braised pork and peanuts were scattered everywhere.

The waiter covered his nose and looked at the bed with dissatisfaction.

"You can go out now." Luo Rui said to the waiter while picking up the remote control with one hand and turning off the TV.

Jiang Gang saw this and asked, "What should we do?"

Luo Rui did not answer, but went to the bathroom, filled a cup with cold water, walked to the bedside, and poured it directly on Zhao Jianguo's face.

In an instant, the guy woke up immediately.

Seeing the people in front of him, he sat up alertly and asked, "What do you do?"

Qi Lei took out his ID, showed it to him, and then said, "Put on your clothes, we have something to ask you!"

"No, why are you asking? It's been a few days now? Can't I leave? My wife told me to go back and dig peanuts."

"Why are you talking so much nonsense! Hurry up and get up!"

Zhao Jianguo muttered something. Because he drank too much, he couldn't speak clearly and his tongue was a little tied.

He put on his military uniform, without wearing any clothes underneath, and sat cross-legged on the bed, rubbing his face with his hands and sniffing.

Luo Rui still moved a chair and sat opposite him, and Jiang Gang stood beside him as usual.

"Tell me, what happened in the carriage on the day of the robbery?"

Zhao Jianguo frowned and asked in confusion, "Why do you want me to tell you? I've already told you what I know! I don't have anything to lose, so let me go, okay?"

Qi Lei couldn't help but asked, "You didn't suffer any loss? Then why did you beat Wang Jialing?"

Luo Rui glanced at Qi Lei, who quickly shut his mouth.

Zhao Jianguo's eyes flashed with nervousness: "Who are you talking about? When did I hit anyone?"

Luo Rui said: "Don't play dumb with me! Tell me, why did you beat Wang Jialing? Besides Wu Zihui, oh, the man in the suit, you were the one who did the most!"

Zhao Jianguo hugged his legs, his exposed chest was very red, and his neck was also very red.

"No, officer, I really didn't hit anyone!"

Luo Rui looked at Qi Lei, who turned on the recorder that he had prepared long ago.

Pan Cheng's voice came from inside: [What I know is that since the day I got on the bus, the man in military uniform...]

Jiang Gang's voice prompted: [Tell me his name. His name is Zhao Jianguo.]

[Okay, Zhao Jianguo has been drinking and staring at my girlfriend. I glared at him a few times and he stopped looking at me. He then turned his attention to the woman with the child in the lower bunk...]

Jiang Gang said: [Her name is Wang Jialing.]

[Yes, Zhao Jianguo always stared at people with lustful eyes. Because he slept on the upper bunk and Wang...Wang Jialing slept on the lower bunk, so as long as he stretched his head, he could see Wang Jialing's exposed chest. He drank while watching.

The night before, he took advantage of Wang Jialing's sleep and went downstairs to use the bathroom, where he touched her breasts and buttocks.

I was still awake at that time and saw Wang Jialing woke up, but she didn't dare to make a sound and quickly covered herself with the quilt.

After coming back from the toilet, Zhao Jianguo sat on her bed and put his hand into her quilt.

Finally, Wang Jialing couldn't stand it anymore, so she shouted and stood up to call the conductor. Zhao Jianguo was scared and apologized repeatedly. Wang Jialing had a child with her, so she was probably afraid of retaliation, so she just let it go... let it go... and just let it go.

Later, Zhao Jianguo beat her the most fiercely, I guess it was because of this reason...】

At this point in the recording, Zhao Jianguo's face turned from red to white, and his breathing became heavier.

Qi Lei opened another recording, in which Wu Zihui's voice was heard.

[Officer, please believe me, I really didn't kill anyone! I apologize, I'm sorry for that woman...]

There was a "pa pa" sound coming from the recorder, like the sound of a slap.

[I didn't know that woman was dead. I was the first one to run out of the compartment. You should have seen it in the surveillance video. I was also the first one to run to check on the injuries of the flight attendant. I remember that after I came out, the couple on the upper bunk also came out. They can testify for me!

Also, if someone really killed her, it must be the drunk man. He was dishonest. He touched the woman and that night, he also touched her. They had a fight over it! He must have a grudge and must have killed her! Besides, he was the last one to run out of the cubicle. The gangster... the gangster's axe fell on the floor! 】

Qi Lei turned off the recorder, and three people, three pairs of eyes stared at Zhao Jianguo without blinking.

He was more than half sober now, and yelled at the top of his voice: "Officer, I...it's not like that, it was that woman who seduced me, she seduced me! I was forced to touch her!"

"Forced?"

Faced with such absurd logic, Luo Rui shook his head in disappointment, and even Jiang Gang sighed.

Luo Rui stood up, opened the door of the guest room, and said to his teammates who had arrived earlier: "Take him to the detention center, record fingerprints, extract DNA, and notify his wife and family!"

Luo Rui's voice was so loud that Zhao Jianguo broke down emotionally.

"Officer, don't... I'm telling you the truth, when I got out of bed, the woman was already dead, not like what the tape recorder said!"

Luo Rui didn't look at him, but pricked up his ears.

Zhao Jianguo pleaded, "I admit that I kicked her twice, but I didn't kill anyone! After I beat her up, I started looking for something with my back to them. I had no idea what was going on. When I got off the bed, I saw the woman lying on the bed with her neck broken. It was so scary!
An axe lay on the bed below, covered in blood.

I thought I was drunk and my eyes were blurry, so I didn’t say anything! The man must have been killed by someone else! It was either the guy in the suit or the college student who was reading a book, but it wasn’t me! "

The police officer who came in handcuffed Zhao Jianguo without saying a word and carried him out.

Jiang Gang immediately asked Luo Rui, "Could it be that Lan Hanwen killed Wang Jialing? It doesn't seem likely. He was a college student who was preparing for the judicial examination. He had no grudge against Wang Jialing, and there was no connection between the two."

The axe left at the scene had its fingerprints wiped off the handle.

There is no doubt that this was done to cover up the evidence.

To be able to think of this in such a panic situation shows that he has a very strong mental quality.

From the surveillance footage, we can see that Wu Zihui was the first to run out of the cubicle, followed by the Shamatte couple.

If one of these three people was the murderer, the others would definitely have witnessed it, and there would be no need for them to give false testimony for the murderer. There is no special connection between them.

Excluding them, the only ones left are Zhao Jianguo and Lan Hanwen.

They were the last two to run out of the cubicle, and there was a lot of blood on their bodies.

There were blood stains on Zhao Jianguo's shoes and clothes, but he didn't even wash them.

If what he said is true, then the murderer is Lan Hanwen.

But Zhao Jianguo did not see Lan Hanwen kill anyone at all, and the surveillance video at the time showed that Lan Hanwen came out holding Wang Jialing's child.

Luo Rui’s cell phone contained many photos of crime scenes, all of which were sent to him by Miao Shouqiang.

He looked at the photos carefully one by one, especially the bloodstains at the scene.

Bloodstain analysis is the most important basis for reconstructing a scene.

For example, the victim is standing next to a wall, and the murderer hacks at the victim with a knife or an axe, and blood splatters on the wall behind.

But the blood on the wall was not continuous, with a blank space in the middle. So can we infer that there was a third person at the scene, standing right next to the wall? Or maybe a wardrobe blocked the blood splatter, so there was no blood on that section of the wall.

From compartment No. 13 of carriage No. 11, Luo Rui clearly saw that the bloody footprints extracted by Miao Shouqiang belonged to only one person, and that was Zhao Jianguo!

Moreover, the bloody footprints had the toes pointing forward and the heels facing the bed.

It's located just below the bed ladder near the compartment door.

This just proves that he is not the murderer, because when he got out of bed, a lot of blood had already flowed on the ground.

If we rule out the possibility of these people giving false testimony, then the murderer must be Lan Hanwen!
But why did he kill Wang Jialing?
Is there any dispute between him and Wang Jialing?
Luo Rui stood up and was about to call Han Jinli when the other party called him.

"Luo Rui, the expedited DNA test shows that Wang Jialing's child is indeed her ex-husband's. There's no problem. By the way, Yonghui is with me, and he has something to say to you..."

"Captain Luo, we have investigated and found that Wang Jialing's ex-husband did not transfer any large amounts of money, nor did he withdraw a large amount of cash."

"Okay, I understand!"

Luo Rui hung up the phone, went to room 310, and knocked on the door with his knuckles.

Different from the treatment of the previous suspects, this time, the Seventh Squadron gathered at the door of the guest room, preparing to arrest them.

They all understood that Lan Hanwen was the most likely suspect of murder!
But what was his motive for killing? !

(End of this chapter)