bookrebus Chapter 27 People with moles between eyebrows
Chapter 27 People with moles between eyebrows
Su Xiaoxiao didn't expect that Lin Xuejiao was also in this nursing home.
If it weren't for the name next to the photo, she wouldn't have thought that this person was Lin Xuejiao.
In order to make it easier to take care of themselves, everyone in the nursing home, regardless of gender, has a short buzz cut. The same is true for Lin Xuejiao lying on the hospital bed. If it weren't for the pattern of her clothes, she would look like a man.
She was very thin and lay there motionless, breathing oxygen through her nose, but her eyes were open and she seemed to be conscious.
Su Xiaoxiao asked the front desk receptionist about her situation. The receptionist was called Xiaotong, a girl about her age who was quite willing to chat.
She said that Lin Xuejiao was actually quite pitiful. Her family had not visited her since they placed her here. At first, she was always in a coma, but recently she has been awake from time to time and can even say a few words occasionally.
In her condition, it would be a good thing if she remained unconscious. Being awake would be endless pain for her.
Her husband had paid her fees for two years, but now I heard that her husband has passed away, and there may be no one to pay her fees in the future.
"What would you do if you encountered this situation?" Su Xiaoxiao asked casually.
"She is lucky. Our nursing home is sponsored by the Xiangrui Charity Foundation. If she really has no one to take care of her, the charity foundation will provide assistance."
Xiangrui Charity Foundation, this name sounds quite familiar.
Oh, she remembered. This was a charity fund run by Zhao Wei's father, Zhao Zhixiang, a well-known entrepreneur in Jingzhong City.
"So how is she doing today?"
"It seemed like he was awake just now."
Are you awake?
Su Xiaoxiao decided to go meet Lin Xuejiao. If she was lucky, maybe she could ask something.
Just when Su Xiaoxiao felt that she was lucky, Qi Lei's interrogation did not go smoothly.
No matter how she was questioned, Qiu Yan insisted that she was the one who killed the man and that she was acting in self-defense.
Qi Lei took photos of the glass fragments at the scene in front of Qiu Yan.
"You said that the window was broken because Xue Pingyang hit it with your head. You lied! If the glass was broken from the inside, most of the glass fragments should be outside. But now most of the glass fragments are indoors, which means the glass was broken from the outside." Qi Lei stared into Qiu Yan's eyes.
"I don't know what happened to the glass fragments. Look at my head, the injury is still there." Qiu Yan lowered her head to show everyone the gauze wrapped around her head.
"In addition to the glass fragments, there is also this wound." Qi Lei threw out another photo. "Xue Pingyang was fatally stabbed with a single blow. The other knife wounds were only to cover up the fatal blow. You couldn't have stabbed him so accurately if you were just stabbing randomly. That blow wasn't caused by you, right? There was a third person at the scene."
"I don't know what nonsense you are talking about! There were only Xue Pingyang and I present at the time, and I was the one who killed him." Qiu Yan's eyes flickered, but her mouth was tough.
"Qiu Yan, if you don't tell us, we will find out sooner or later. Now we are just giving you a chance to confess and get leniency. Who are you taking the blame for? Is it your father? Do you think you can protect him like this?!"
"I didn't cover up for him, you are talking nonsense, he is not my father, he is not." Qiu Yan broke down and cried.
Qi Lei ignored her and let her cry for a long time, but after she finished crying she still said nothing.
Seeing that she was unmoved, Qi Lei asked someone to take her back first. He had another clue that would take two days to get.
Hu Weiqiang went to the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Bureau to find Guo Zhongliang and handle the bail procedures for one of his clients. After submitting the application, he gave a few more instructions, hoping that they could approve it as soon as possible.
When he had almost finished his work, he was about to go out, but when he turned around, he bumped into someone and his glasses were knocked off.
The person who bumped into him was Su Xiaoxiao. She was very embarrassed and picked up her glasses while saying sorry.
After seeing the man's appearance clearly, Su Xiaoxiao was stunned.
The man in front of her was well-dressed and slightly plump. She recognized him as lawyer Hu Weiqiang, whom she had met before when she was handling Zhao Wei's case.
But he was wearing glasses at that time, so she didn't notice the mole between his eyebrows.
"Can you give me my glasses back?"
Hu Weiqiang frowned slightly. He was already unhappy about being hit, and this little policewoman kept staring at him.
He knew that many girls nowadays liked middle-aged men like him who had successful careers, but he had no interest in little girls with underdeveloped figures.
"Oh, sorry." Su Xiaoxiao retracted her gaze and handed over the glasses in her hand.
Hu Weiqiang took the glasses, muttered "bad luck", and walked out in square steps.
Su Xiaoxiao stared at his back for a while. It couldn't be such a coincidence. Could he be the robber from that year? This was really unexpected!
"How is it? What did you gain?" Qi Lei came over and put the case file back on her desk.
He had taken the time to look through the case files. The case was not complicated and he had not found any useful clues.
"Indeed, Liu Tang provided me with a useful piece of information. He said that when Qiu Mingzhang confessed that the robber was someone else, he mentioned a characteristic of that person."
"What characteristics?"
"That man has a mole between his eyebrows."
"Why didn't I see this information in the transcript?"
"I didn't see it either, so I specifically asked Liu Tang whether it was written in the transcript. He told me with certainty that it was written."
"So, you mean someone tampered with the transcript?"
Qi Lei frowned. If someone had tampered with the transcript, that person must be someone inside the system. Could it be that someone knew that Qiu Mingzhang was not the murderer back then?
"I do not know."
After a criminal suspect is arrested, many statements will be made. It is possible that someone deliberately took away one.
"There is another situation, I don't know whether I should tell you or not?"
"Speak directly if you have anything to say."
"I bumped into Lawyer Hu when I walked in just now and knocked his glasses off. I noticed that he has a mole between his eyebrows."
Lawyer Hu? Qi Lei was shocked.
Hu Weiqiang is one of the most famous lawyers in Jingzhong City. He has been in the profession for 20 years and has fought countless cases. He is particularly good at criminal defense and has defended many people. He is known as an injustice lawyer and there will be no wrongful convictions in his hands.
If such a person was a criminal himself and let others take the blame, Qi Lei couldn't even imagine how big a scandal it would be if this matter were exposed.
Moreover, he also has certain relationships with the people above him. If we really look into it in detail, it might be a serious matter.
"We have to be careful about this matter. He is not the only one with a mole between his eyebrows. It doesn't prove that he is the robber back then." Qi Lei thought.
"So, do you want to investigate? Captain Qi." Su Xiaoxiao also wanted to test Qi Lei's attitude.
"You can check! But don't act rashly without evidence." Qi Lei reminded him that this girl had a very fierce temper and he should control himself.
Su Xiaoxiao gave Qi Lei a thumbs up. He was indeed her idol and did not disappoint her.
Hu Weiqiang's information is not difficult to find. The lawyer's information is public and can be found by searching on the Internet.
He graduated from the Law Department of Jingzhong University with a major in law. He passed the bar exam in the year of graduation, then interned at Zhengwei Law Firm. One year later, he passed the interview and obtained his lawyer's license.
25 years ago, when the case happened, he should have been a freshman in college.
Su Xiaoxiao found his former counselor. According to the counselor, with Hu Weiqiang's grades at the time, he could go to the best university in China, but because his family was poor, he could only choose this local school.
Strictly speaking, he cannot be considered a native of Jingzhong. His family lives in a rural area in the neighboring county. Besides him, there are two younger siblings in the family, and he is the eldest.
His parents didn't want him to go to college. They just wanted him to graduate from high school so he could go back to the village and be a teacher. This way he could have a salary and take care of his family.
But he didn't want to stay in the countryside for the rest of his life. Going to college was his only chance to change his destiny, and he had to seize it no matter what.
So, he ran away despite his parents' opposition, as his parents could not give him any financial support.
He was the poorest student in the school, no doubt about it, but the school was impressed by his academic performance and waived his tuition fees.
But food and accommodation still cost money. Even if he worked part-time in his spare time, he still lived a hard life and sometimes even had no food to eat.
But this situation did not last long, and it suddenly changed in the second semester of my freshman year.