Chapter 106: Trial
Chi Xia didn't have time to go to the bar that night, so he sent a message to Qu Bai.
Qu Bai just replied with a "OK", and after a long time she replied again, asking her to have a good rest.
After washing up, she stood at the kitchen door with a glass of ice water, her eyes fixed.
Was the person who broke into her house quietly the one she had in mind? What did that person look like now? What was his temperament? Was there any other relationship between him and her?
When she had the attack two days ago, she remembered something. It seemed that what stood between her and those hands was not only a fire, but also an explosion.
So what stands between them, is it salvation, hatred, or something else?
She felt a little headache when she thought of this, and there was no medicine for her now. Chi Xia immediately stopped thinking about it, drank the ice water in one gulp, and went into the room.
Without Qu Bai's sleeping soup, she slept restlessly again that night. When she woke up in the morning, she even suspected that she had fought with someone in her dream last night, and her neck was a little sore.
Just as I opened the door and was about to go out, Shi Tianyi called.
"How is it?" Chi Xia walked out of the door and his voice came over.
“Great victory!”
Shi Tianyi's voice was a little hoarse, but he was full of energy: "Guess what good stuff I found? This girl named Ji is not picky at all. Didn't the information you gave me say that she was having an affair with the boss Pei or something? Absolutely amazing! She also had an affair with the second-in-command of the company, hehehe..."
"Zhang Chao?" Chi Xia said.
"Yes, this woman went to see this Chao last night. She didn't come out all night and just stayed overnight."
Shi Tianyi added: "But Sister Xia, you asked me to check the whereabouts of this woman between May 13th and 15th, but I didn't find anything. She was blocking the river from May 11th to 16th, and had...well, facial adjustment surgery. I have already confirmed it with the hospital."
Does that mean Ji Shiqing didn’t have time to commit the crime?
Chi Xia was about to continue asking when Shi Tianyi chuckled again.
"However, on June 1, Ji Shiqing and Zhang Chao went to the old town secretly. I went to great lengths to find a video for you and will send it to you right away."
"June 1st?" Chi Xia paused: "Are you sure?"
"Sure, you can watch the video. It took a lot of effort for people to find it, okay!" Shi Tianyi said in a sad voice.
Chi Xia hummed and went to watch the video he sent. Shi Tianyi's voice also came from the receiver: "I checked the car they were driving at the time. It belonged to Zhang Chaoyi's friend. These two people are quite cunning, but how can they escape my eyes, don't you think?"
"Well done." Chi Xia praised him with satisfaction: "Come back and get your reward."
Shi Tianyi smiled proudly and yawned: "I have sorted out the things for you and will send them to you directly. Then the brothers will withdraw first?"
"Let's retreat." Chi Xia transferred the money over: "Thank my brothers for me and treat them to breakfast."
She was in a good mood: "Let's eat the most expensive one. Sister will treat us."
Shi Tianyi happily collected the bill.
Although Shi Tianyi's mouth and eyes are sometimes not in tune with the situation, he has never let Chi Xia down when it comes to doing his job.
Looking at the information he sent over, Chi Xia even sent the information to the task force group with some pride.
At the police station, Luo Xun had just finished washing up and returned to the task force office when he saw the information package she had sent him.
Lin Wenjue and the others also received it and were sending messages in the group, lamenting that they had just had a good sleep and something good happened to them.
After Luo Xun read the contents of the information package, he immediately decided to ask Cao Bin and Juanmao to bring Ji Shiqing and Zhang Chao back for interrogation.
Chi Xia and Lin Wenjue arrived at the office almost at the same time.
"That's great, come over here."
Luo Xun waved when he saw them: "I have also got the result of the handwriting identification here."
Chi Xia walked over quickly: "How is it?"
Luo Xun took out a few comparison samples and pointed to the first half of the suicide note: "From Pei Xinlu's writing habits and the choice of words and sentences, this suicide note is indeed more like Pei Xinlu's style."
"It just resembles it, but it's not it." Lin Wenjue said as he made a cup of strong tea in his thermos.
Luo Xun nodded: "Indeed, this suicide note is not written by Pei Xinlu, but the person who wrote this suicide note imitated Pei Xinlu's handwriting pretty well, imitating 70% to 80% of it."
"What about the remaining two or three points?" Lin Wenjue asked again.
"From the remaining two or three points, the one who imitated the handwriting should be a woman."
Luo Xun pointed at a few comparison samples and said, "Look at the places I marked."
Chi Xia and Lin Wenjue came over.
Luo Xun continued, "Although this handwriting imitation is quite good, the brushstrokes are quite weak. Look at the transitions of these characters. The strokes are all relatively soft. I personally prefer the female style. I also took it to the technical investigation department for verification this morning. They also held the same attitude. They are already issuing a report."
"So although this suicide note was not written by Pei Xinlu, it was written by someone who knew about the incident. Currently, it seems that the only female suspect we know of is Ji Shiqing."
Lin Wenjue said: "I'll trick her later."
"Zhang Chao and Ji Shiqing will be here soon. You and Lao Cao will go to Zhang Chao's place, and Chi Xia and I will take care of Ji Shiqing."
As Luo Xun spoke, he had already printed out the information package that Chi Xia had sent him, and the printer was spitting out papers one by one.
The three of them sorted out the case, and Lin Wenjue called the boss of Ji Shiqing's former company to learn about the relevant situation. They were very satisfied with the clues they got.
Not long after, Cao Bin and Juanmao also brought Ji Shiqing and Zhang Chao to the police station and locked them up in the interrogation room separately.
Luo Xun thought about it and assigned another task to Juanmao, but Juanmao ran out again as soon as he came back.
Before entering the interrogation room, Chi Xia stood outside the glass window and observed Ji Shiqing for a while.
When Luo Xun came over, she said, "Captain Luo, Ji Shiqing should not be the woman that San Langzi was talking about."
Luo Xun stood beside her and looked at the full-length photo of Zhou Wanrou in his hand: "The body shape doesn't match."
"Yeah." Chi Xia nodded and looked at him: "Let's go in."
The two pushed open the door of the interrogation room and went in. Ji Shiqing was so scared that she looked at them and cried, "I've already said I know nothing, why did you bring me here?"
"You don't know? Are you sure?"
Chi Xia directly played the video of her and Pei Xin quarreling on the rooftop in front of her: "What is this?"
Ji Shiqing watched the silent video in disbelief, with a look of panic on her face: "This... this is just an ordinary quarrel. Employees and bosses sometimes have... conflicts!"
"What about this one?"
Chi Xia and Luo Xun sat down, slowly swiped their phones, and played the next video.
It was the video that Shi Tianyi found. Ji Shiqing and Zhang Chao drove a friend's car to the old town.
The image in the video was enlarged, and although it was blurry, it was clear that it was their faces.
"besides."
Chi Xia swiped again, and this time several photos came out. They were photos of her going to Zhang Chao's house last night, as well as photos of the two meeting taken from the surveillance video.
The time of the screenshot was the night when Lin Wenjue and his friends went to the Johor Bahru Foreign Trade Center.
Chi Xia threw out the evidence as soon as he came up, then leaned back and left the rest of the game to Luo Xun.
Luo Xun waited for a long time, letting Ji Shiqing digest these things.
Just as she looked up in panic and was about to speak, Luo Xun said solemnly: "According to our investigation, at 10 o'clock in the evening on June 1, you and Zhang Chao stayed in the old town for nearly two hours. What were you doing there?"
"We...we are not..." Ji Shiqing's forehead was covered with sweat, and she was interrupted by Luo Xun who raised his hand just as she opened her mouth.
Luo Xun leaned forward and placed two documents in front of her. There was also a photo of Pei Xinlu's body on the documents. Ji Shiqing immediately closed her eyes and turned her head: "No! Don't show him to me!"
"Him? How do you know it was him? Who is he?"
Luo Xun's voice was oppressive: "Isn't it a coincidence that the direction you were heading to was exactly where we found the body. That place is waiting to be demolished, and there is no place to visit relatives. Or... are you just going there for a date?"
"Can't we just go on a date? What's it to you? Who knew he would die there?" Ji Shiqing finally found a chance to refute.
Luo Xun laughed, and Ji Shiqing felt creepy.
He said slowly: "It's him again, Miss Ji. I want to ask, who exactly is this "he" you are referring to? Could it be Pei Xinlu?"
Ji Shiqing's face turned pale and she was stunned for a long time: "I... I don't know! I don't know anything!"
"If you don't know, then who will know?"
Luo Xun suddenly stood up and threw the information in his hand heavily on the table: "I tell you, we have all the evidence we need. There are some things that are very different between you and us!"
Ji Shiqing was so frightened that her neck shrank and a guilty look flashed across her eyes, but she still didn't dare to speak.
Chi Xia and Luo Xun's eyes met, she curled her lips slightly and sighed, and Ji Shiqing's eyes subconsciously looked towards her.
"Miss Ji, if that's what you want, you might as well listen to this."
Chi Xia took out a recorder and placed it on the table. She looked at Ji Shiqing with a smile, then she pressed the switch.
