lcionline Chapter 956 Li Dejun's wife is going to remarry
Chapter 956 Li Dejun's wife is going to remarry
Li Ming stared at the intricate relationship diagram on the whiteboard and slowly said, "The murderer must be part of this interest group. Liu Jianguo and Chen Yanhua weren't at the scene of the crime, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't have hired someone to kill him. Our next investigation will focus on three things: First, thoroughly investigate the communication records of all those involved before and after the crime, especially anonymous numbers and encrypted communications; second, expedite the cracking of Li Dejun's USB drive to find the key evidence in his possession; third, re-audit all projects at the cement plant to find a breakthrough in the financial loopholes."
Xiao Wang raised a question: "If it really is a case of hiring someone to commit murder, what kind of person would the murderer choose to do it? This person would need to have medical knowledge to perform the professional procedure of air embolism, and also be very familiar with the environment of the cement plant."
“Perhaps we fell into a trap from the start,” Yang Sen suddenly said. “The perpetrator isn’t necessarily a professional. You can easily find methods for causing air embolism online these days, and there are quite a few people with medical backgrounds at the cement plant—doctors in the clinic, employees with nursing experience, even some medical school graduates who switched careers…” His gaze swept over the three newly added names on the whiteboard: “Zhou Zhengming, head of the equipment department, graduated from the provincial medical university with a degree in clinical medicine; Sun Lijuan, the finance manager, worked in the hospital pharmacy for five years. We overlooked this information in our previous investigation.”
Li Ming immediately made arrangements: "Xiao Zhou, Xiao Wang, you are responsible for investigating the social relationships of Zhou Zhengming and Sun Lijuan, focusing on whether they have had contact with suspicious persons; Yang Sen, continue to dig deeper into the financial loopholes and see if you can find any connection between the funds and the murder; I will personally go to the group headquarters to find out the progress of the approval of Li Dejun's plan."
After the meeting, Xiao Zhou and Xiao Wang returned to the cement factory. They first went to Zhou Zhengming's office, only to find the door locked. Their colleague next door said Zhou Zhengming had taken sick leave and hadn't come to work for three days. "He's usually very healthy; it's strange that he suddenly got sick," the colleague muttered.
The two then found Sun Lijuan, who was checking accounts in the finance department. Her expression changed slightly when she saw the police. "I'm not familiar with Director Li, we only had some work-related exchanges," Sun Lijuan said, trying to appear calm, but her fingers unconsciously traced lines on the documents. "His death... I was also shocked."
Xiao Wang noticed a medical journal on her desk, with a cover article about precautions for intravenous injection. "Is Supervisor Sun quite interested in medicine?" Xiao Wang asked casually.
Sun Lijuan's face turned deathly pale: "This...this is what my son wants to see. He wants to go to medical school."
Meanwhile, Yang Sen's investigation in the finance department yielded new findings. He discovered an unusual invoice in a piece of equipment maintenance expense. The supplier listed on the invoice didn't exist, and the approver was none other than Zhou Zhengming. Even more coincidentally, this payment was made exactly three days before Li Dejun's murder.
In the meeting room, Li Ming circled the name of Sun Lijuan, the finance manager of the cement plant, heavily in red pen. Just as he was about to plan the next steps of the investigation, Xiao Wang's phone suddenly vibrated on the table. The moment the screen lit up, he stared at the text message, his pupils contracting sharply: "Team Leader Li! Li Dejun's wife, Zhou Meihong, is remarrying, and her fiancé is a 22-year-old young man!"
The pen nib scraped across the whiteboard with a harsh sound, instantly drawing everyone's attention. Xiao Zhou snatched the phone, repeatedly checking the text message: "Li Dejun was murdered only half a month ago, and Zhou Meihong is already in a hurry to remarry? And the other party is just a fresh-faced young man who just graduated. This is too abnormal!"
Li Ming took off his glasses and wiped the lenses, his eyes behind the lenses growing even colder: "Xiao Wang, immediately retrieve the identity information of Zhou Meihong and this Qin Yong. Xiao Zhou, take some people to visit her neighborhood and see if there's anything unusual. Yang Sen, shift the focus of the previous financial investigation into Li Dejun to his family accounts."
When Xiao Wang brought the news of Zhou Meihong's remarriage to the case analysis meeting, the discussion in the meeting room, which had been focused on the corruption chain in the cement factory, came to an abrupt halt. Li Ming's marker hovered over the relationship line between "Liu Jianguo" and "Chen Yanhua" on the whiteboard, the ink spreading into dark dots on the paper: "22-year-old Qin Yong? Investigate his background immediately."
The next morning, Xiao Zhou and Xiao Wang stood in front of the breakfast stall downstairs from Zhou Meihong's house. The fried dough sticks in the oil sizzled, and the stall owner shook his head as he turned them over with his chopsticks: "Zhou Meihong has indeed been spending a lot of time with a young man lately, but they look more like siblings." He suddenly lowered his voice, "But last month, right after Li Dejun's accident, one night when I was closing up my stall, I saw that guy climbing out of her window, carrying a black bag in his arms."
Yang Sen carefully compared each transaction in Zhou Meihong's bank statements. "There have been no abnormal transfers to her personal account in the past six months, and her real estate and savings have not changed." He pushed a stack of reports in front of Li Ming. "But Qin Yong's account did receive 20 yuan on the seventh day after Li Dejun's death. However, this money was quickly dispersed into small amounts and transferred to more than a dozen different accounts, as if the traces were deliberately scattered."
During his investigation, Xiao Zhou discovered an even more crucial clue. The landlord of the urban village where Qin Yong lived slapped his thigh and recalled, "This kid lived there for less than half a year, and he usually kept to himself. He suddenly checked out on the 15th of last month, and when he left, he even cleaned the room thoroughly and changed the bed sheets." When the police retrieved the landlord's surveillance footage, it showed Qin Yong deliberately avoiding the cameras on the main road and choosing to walk through narrow alleyways as he left with his suitcase.
“Qin Yong used to work as a subcontractor at a cement factory.” Xiao Wang slammed a yellowed labor contract on the table. “From September to December last year, he was responsible for moving stones in the crushing workshop and had direct contact with Li Dejun.” The signature on the contract was illegible, and the emergency contact person was listed as “Zhou Meihong,” but the phone number was no longer in service.
Li Ming tapped his finger heavily on the map: "Focus on investigating Qin Yong's work records at the cement plant, as well as his relationships with other employees in the workshop. Also, retrieve his movements in the week before his disappearance, especially his cell phone signal."
In the cement plant's employee archives, Xiao Zhou and Xiao Wang pulled out a stack of attendance sheets. Qin Yong's attendance records showed that he frequently took leave in the two weeks before leaving the company, mostly citing "illness" as the reason. But when they found the workshop director at the time, the director scratched his head and recalled: "That kid worked very hard, but his eyes were a bit sinister. Once, when Director Li was inspecting the work, he stared at people's backs for a long time. I even joked that he wanted to be a leader."
After learning this relevant information, Li Ming made a decisive decision.