Chapter 105 The Woman's Plot
Seeing that Wu Qingluan was still looking at him until she got on the car, Gu Nankai burst out laughing.
"After we entered Ma Zhiyuan's house, I carefully observed the situation at their home. There was a knife on top of the refrigerator at the door of their kitchen." Gu Nankai stopped and glanced at Wu Qingluan. Seeing that she was still puzzled, he continued to explain: "When I left, I looked at the knife carefully. Jiang Li had tampered with the knife."
Wu Qingluan looked at Gu Nankai in surprise: "Tricks? What tricks?"
Gu Nankai pursed his lips and said, "Jiang Li tampered . There are gloves next to it. She also said that she wanted to kill Sun Zihan with the knife but gave up in the end."
He continued to look at Wu Qingluan: "Jiang Li can die with Ma Zhiyuan, so why wouldn't she kill Sun Zihan? She is a woman with a strong sense of self-esteem. She is stubborn and obstinate. She can be said to have built this family on her own. How could she allow her family to be destroyed by such a woman? So, it is probably difficult for us to understand her feelings of wanting to kill Sun Zihan."
After hearing what Gu Nankai said, Wu Qingluan frowned again. She stared at the road ahead, turned the steering wheel slightly to avoid the car, slowed down the car a little, and then said, "Then why did you rule out her suspicion?"
Gu Nankai leaned back, rubbed his nose, and said in a muffled voice, "It's very simple. There should be no connection between Jiang Li and the first two victims. After Shang Lu's identification, we know very well that the peony tattoos on the three victims were all done by the same person with the same technique. Jiang Li does not meet these characteristics at all. There is no need for her to stuff lipstick cores into Sun Zihan's lower body. It would be a waste of time for her."
Wu Qingluan was a little confused and sighed heavily: "Then we have come here in vain. Are Jiang Li and Ma Zhiyuan's suspicions ruled out?"
Gu Nankai nodded solemnly: "Yes, there may be many secrets between Jiang Li and Ma Zhiyuan. For example, after going through so many things, why can they still be together without any grudges? For example, Ma Zhiyuan lost his legs but still looked like he saw through life. All of this is not that simple. In my opinion, Jiang Li is a very capable woman who can support this family."
He suddenly smiled, and at this moment he suddenly laughed at his previous sympathy for Jiang Li. He said to Wu Qingluan: "Or, Sun Zihan tampered with Ma Zhiyuan's car, just as Ma Zhiyuan said, Jiang Li knew about it and wanted to die with him, but who knows, everything that happened later was out of Jiang Li's love or hatred for Ma Zhiyuan."
When Wu Qingluan heard this, she was suddenly shocked. On the way out of the hospital, Gu Nankai told her all the inquiries in the ward. Now, combined with her brief understanding of Jiang Li, Wu Qingluan realized that she seemed to have underestimated this woman. When she learned of Sun Zihan's death, the shock and happiness she showed were beyond her imagination. It is very likely that Jiang Li had known that Sun Zihan was dead a long time ago.
"Do you remember the shoe prints Cao Cang found at the door of Sun Zihan's house?" Gu Nan asked Wu Qingluan.
Wu Qingluan was startled and quickly said, "Do you think it belongs to Jiang Li?"
Gu Nankai neither nodded nor shook his head, but narrowed his eyes slightly as he thought about something. Wu Qingluan quickly added, "But didn't Cao Cang say that it should be the footprint of an adult male? Even if it is as you said, it is possible that someone deliberately disguised it, but Jiang Li should not have needed to do so."
After listening to Wu Qingluan's words, Gu Nankai's mind seemed to be much clearer. He then said, "Indeed, but I am thinking of a question. According to my experience, the clarity of the footprint found by Cao Cang is a footprint under normal force conditions. That means we should have found two footprints instead of one. What about the remaining one?"
Gu Nankai carefully recalled the situation at the door of Sun Zihan's house. Cao Cang must have compared everyone's footprints before confirming that it was an outsider's footprint. So it is not ruled out that the murderer should have left two footprints under normal force at the beginning. Jiang Li should have found one of them when she went there. In a panic, she made a decision to cover up the murderer...
When Gu Nankai told Wu Qingluan this reasoning, Wu Qingluan also fell into deep thought.
"But no matter what, we still can't identify Jiang Li as a suspect." Wu Qingluan asked with a frown.
"Yes, it's possible that Jiang Li knew that Sun Zihan was dead before us, but it's unlikely that she killed him. But we still have to check Jiang Li's side. We can't let go of any clues. What if she can find some clues related to the murderer?"
Gu Nankai narrowed his eyes slightly, but soon felt that this possibility was not great. Up to now, three victims have appeared one after another. In this confrontation with the murderer, not only did they not find any clues of the murderer, they were even unsure of the identities of two of the dead.
Wu Qingluan also felt the same as Gu Nankai at the moment. Jiang Li did want to kill Sun Zihan, but it was obvious that the murderer did it before her. There was even no connection between Jiang Li and the murderer. According to Wu Qingluan's rough guess about the murderer, this person must be a loner. She/he is not used to forming alliances with others. She/he is arrogant and conceited, but reveals a self-confidence that is hard to ignore. She/he completes everything in an orderly manner.
She/he left no message, like a devil.
Wu Qingluan quickly turned her head to glance at Gu Nankai, and saw that he was tapping his temple with his eyes half-closed in annoyance. Knowing that this was Gu Nankai's standard action every time he was thinking about something, Wu Qingluan did not say anything. No one knew better than her that every time he encountered a new case, Gu Nankai would stay up late at night to think about the case.
God knows if he took a rest yesterday.
She sighed to herself and didn't bother him anymore.
There was no more conversation along the way. After a whole morning of hard work, it was already twelve noon when the two returned to the serious crime squad.
As soon as he entered the door of the serious crime unit, Gu Nankai said loudly: "Everyone, I hope you still have some information to give me. We have been tossing around all morning but haven't obtained much useful information."
After he finished speaking, he realized that except for Wu Qingluan, everyone was looking at the two of them with resentment.
"What's going on? Why are you looking at us like that?" Gu Nankai was puzzled and asked everyone after blinking a few times.
"Boss, Teacher Wu, you're still asking us. Look how many times we've called you. No one replied to us all morning. We thought you two thought this case was hard to investigate and eloped! " Gao Yuan stood up and walked over. He threw his whole body on the large conference table, looked at Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan with resentment again and spoke.
After hearing what Gao Yuan said, Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan frantically searched for their phones. When they finally found them, they discovered that what Gao Yuan said was true. Both of their phones had missed calls, but because they had both set their phones to silent mode, and the situation on Ma Zhiyuan's side was beyond everyone's expectations, they didn't have time to check their phones on the way back.
"The situation was a bit complicated and I didn't have time to check my phone." The two smiled awkwardly, and Gu Nankai spoke first.
The two of them quickly walked towards the conference table. Cao Cang, Li Meng and Shang Lu also quickly came over. Following Gu Nankai's explanation, no one cared anymore about the fact that they could not be contacted.
Gu Nankai put his hands on the table and asked, "What's going on? Is there something wrong here?"
