A madman in France? How come he's always at crime scenes!

Chapter 69 Boss, help!

No one spoke in the meeting room.

After a while, Zhang Ze muttered a curse under his breath.

"Did nobody ask about this thing back then?"

Meng Jiang picked up the transcript and read it carefully.

"Back then, everyone's attention was focused on traffic accidents and the quality of the project. Who would bother with an accountant's briefcase?"

"Indeed, when someone dies and the accounts are left unresolved, someone else takes the blame, and the responsibility is all settled."

Wu Liang pushed the list of his belongings back onto the table.

"If I had handled it myself back then, I might not have been able to tell at first glance."

Zhang Ze glanced at him.

"Now you're taking someone else's side."

"I'm not speaking for them, but this case went very smoothly back then," Wu Liang said, pointing to the accident report. "The roads were slippery on a rainy night, the new bridge railings had quality issues, and the responsible party was identified. The traffic police wouldn't focus their attention on a briefcase."

Meng Jiang did not refute it; the conditions for handling cases at the grassroots level twenty years ago were indeed incomparable to those now.

Back then, let alone surveillance cameras, even the entry and exit registration at the entrances of many units was handwritten. If an accident happened on a rainy night, the scene would be washed away, and footprints and tire tracks would turn into a muddy mess.

Wu Liang extracted his colleague's statement separately.

Accountant Lin left in a hurry, grabbing her briefcase and saying her child had a fever and she needed to get back quickly.

"here."

Zhang Ze leaned closer for a look.

"Does your child have a fever?"

Wu Liang nodded.

"That's right, if I remember correctly, Lin Zhiyi comes from a single-parent family."

Meng Jiang flipped through Lin Zhiyi's information.

"His mother died early, and Lin Huaishan raised him alone. He was only seven years old when the accident happened."

Zhang Ze rubbed his temples.

"A seven-year-old child has a fever, and the father is in a hurry to go home. This story sounds plausible."

"That sounds fine." Wu Liang nodded at the sentence. "The question is, who told him?"

Zhang Ze was taken aback.

"What?"

"Lin Huaishan is working overtime at the company, and his child is at home." Wu Liang looked at the statement. "His daughter has a fever, so someone has to notify him, right? A landline? A neighbor? A school teacher? He can't have figured it out himself, can he?"

Meng Jiang flipped through the documents.

The materials from twenty years ago are incomplete, but there is a community certificate.

Lin Zhiyi lost her mother at a young age and was raised by her father, Lin Huaishan, alone. After her father's death, her workplace assisted with the funeral arrangements, and her subsequent life and studies were supported by Tianyue Industrial and Tan Yongren personally.

Zhang Ze frowned as he looked at it.

"It was the company that helped again."

"They're loyal and righteous." Wu Liang put down the certificate. "That's why this matter is so troublesome."

Meng Jiang picked up the phone and asked someone to check Lin Huaishan's residence and community information from back then.

A reply arrived within minutes.

Lin Huaishan used to live in the Teachers' New Village in the south of the city. There was an old lady surnamed Chen downstairs who ran a childcare center. Most of the children in the neighborhood went there, but she has been gone for five years.

Zhang Ze sighed.

"Well, the road is blocked again."

Wu Liang rested his chin on one hand.

"Then there's only one way."

"What?"

"Why don't you just ask Lin Zhiyi?"

"???"

Zhang Ze looked completely bewildered.

"Attorney Wu, are you out of your mind? Don't you know who she is now? Not only is she a member of Tianyue, but she was also raised by Tan Yongren. You went and reopened her wounds. It's only because Tan Yongren didn't kick you out that you're doing a good job of raising you."

Even after I finished saying it, I felt it was outrageous.

Meng Jiang was also a little confused. Lin Zhiyi had been by Tan Yongren's side since she was a child. Any normal person who would be grateful would not be so easily poached.

Wu Liang carefully folded the transcript again and slowly said:

"Team Leader Zhang, that's not a very precise statement."

"Where is the inaccuracy?"

"When did I say I wanted her to cooperate in investigating Tam Wing-yan?"

Zhang Ze was taken aback.

Wu Liang picked up a bottle of mineral water from the side and slowly took a sip.

"Lin Zhiyi is very smart. You can't treat her like an ordinary person under Tan Yongren. The fact that she was able to stop the public opinion during the Hongyuan incident shows that she has a much longer-term vision than her subordinates."

Meng Jiang remained silent.

As Zhang Ze listened, he gradually came to his senses.

"You mean, she might not necessarily side with us, but she also might not completely side with Tan Yongren?"

"Don't rush to assign her to sides." Wu Liang shook his head. "Her biological father died, and Tan Yongren raised her for twenty years. If you come up here and ask her which side to choose, that's just plain stupid."

He picked up his phone, opened his photo album, and saw a picture of Lin Zhiyi's business card.

"Lin Zhiyi doesn't need to know what we suspect right now; she just needs to remember one thing."

"fever?"

"right."

"So, aren't you just going around in circles asking her if she has a fever?"

Wu Liang was speechless, and sighed while rubbing his forehead.

"Captain Zhang, have you ever been in a relationship?"

Zhang Ze looked at him warily.

"What do you mean?"

"It's okay, just checking the difficulty of communication."

"I am married!"

"Sister-in-law, you've worked hard."

Meng Jiang was looking down at the materials when he heard this and his lips twitched.

Zhang Ze slammed his pen on the table in anger.

Stop talking nonsense.

Wu Liang quickly steered the conversation back on track.

"If you directly ask her about things from twenty years ago, her first impression will definitely be one of rejection and wariness. But what if you try a different approach? The angle you take is very important."

Zhang Ze said irritably, "Then, Attorney Wu, what's so clever about your approach?"

Wu Liang smiled slightly, his finger landing on the date in Lin Huaishan's accident file.

"October 7th is the anniversary of his father's death."

……

Back at the hotel arranged for Wu Liang by the police, Wu Liang took out the booklet from the inner pocket.

After the White Bone Case, Wu Liang had a basic understanding of how to use the mysterious leather book. The first clue in the case would tell him that he would encounter the case on a specific date, but the specific defense attorney would have to wait until the next key moment.

However, it seems that not every case he encounters is one that requires his participation in the defense. For example, in the real case of the skeleton, Jiang Cuilan, also known as Shen Xin, has not been arrested or tried for a long time due to her mental problems. Only after the truth of the case is supplemented by reasoning can he enter the wonderful state of restoring the profile.

The real murder case involving Ni Dayong is hidden among them.

But this also put Wu Liang in a dilemma.

What if the pamphlet asks him to defend Tam Wing-yan?

Then we can only ignore it.

Since there's no punishment anyway, I'm happy to do what I want. Can a cheat code really turn the world upside down?

Wu Liang looked down and took out his phone. He glanced at the date; it was October 5th, two days before the 7th.

His brows suddenly furrowed.

After all, the image of him gazing deeply into the skull at the crime scene last time was still fresh in his mind.

"The case is pretty clear now, so hopefully nothing else will go wrong..."

Wu Liang muttered to himself, unable to think of anything new that could be brought up.

The phone suddenly rang.

Wu Liang turned his head and saw that it was Zhang Jiajing calling.