Chapter 123 Death of Hai Langui
"Ah, him, I've already contacted him. He has already arrived in Longhai, but he needs to go back home to find some materials. I guess he will arrive soon." Gao Yuan quickly followed up Gu Nankai's words and answered his question.
As soon as he finished speaking, before Gu Nankai had time to nod, he saw the door of the serious crime unit not far away being pushed open, and a man walked in hurriedly.
Seeing that the man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was tall, he looked a bit like a "violent" person like Li Meng. Gu Nankai and others did not realize what he was here for a while.
"Who are you?" Gao Yuan asked doubtfully.
"Zheng Li, the lawyer who was in charge of Hai Lan Gui's death five years ago." The man suddenly smiled, his voice was soft, which was very inconsistent with his appearance. Such a man who did not fit the image of a lawyer in everyone's mind turned out to be the lawyer of Hai Lan Gui that everyone had been waiting for.
Gu Nankai looked at the man for a few more times. When he realized Gu Nankai's gaze, the man also looked at Gu Nankai. Gu Nankai did not avoid him, but looked at him, then suddenly smiled: "Lawyer Zheng, I didn't expect it to be you?"
Everyone frowned. From what Gu Nankai said, it seemed that these two people had known each other for a long time?
"I dealt with Lawyer Zheng for a few days when I was handling a case before." Gu Nankai also noticed the way everyone was looking at him, and quickly explained to everyone.
Zheng Li also smiled heartily, and quickly stretched out his hand to shake Gu Nankai's, then said, "Yes, although a few years have passed, I have never forgotten Officer Gu. I didn't expect that the second time we met would be at the police station, and it was because of a case. It's really a bit of a coincidence, hahaha."
Zheng Li's smile made the atmosphere lively. In addition, he knew Gu Nankai, which made everyone feel a lot more relaxed. Since they knew each other, Zheng Li would not hide anything if Gu Nankai took action.
Gao Yuan then understood why Zheng Li agreed so readily to cooperate with the police investigation when he first contacted him. It turned out that it was because he had helped the police solve cases before. Thinking of this, he smiled inwardly and sat down on a chair with everyone else.
"Lawyer Zheng, this time we want to get to know more about Hai Langui. You are one of the few people who have had contact with him, and you are the only one we can find. What do you think about Hai Langui?" After everyone sat down, Gu Nankai went straight to the point and quickly led the topic to Hai Langui.
"Hai Langui..." Zheng Li chewed on this sentence and paused, looking up at Gu Nankai. He thought for a moment before slowly saying, "This person is quite strange."
"Oh?" Gu Nankai moved his body and leaned one arm on the table: "What's strange? Tell us."
It had been a long time since the incident, but Hai Langui was not forgotten in Zheng Li's memory like the other clients. This person left a deep impression on Zheng Li. He thought about the time when the two of them worked together, organized his words, and then began to speak.
"It's this guy named Hai Lan Gui. When he first found me, I thought he was from some slum . I didn't realize at that time that he would have such a big reputation and status in the tattoo circle, so I was not prepared to take his case. I didn't expect that he specifically wanted me. He came to me with a check the next day."
Thinking back to that time, Zheng Li still found it a little funny. He glanced at the people in the serious crime team and said, "Can you imagine a scene where a man who was dressed in rags and looked inconspicuous the day before and still dressed in rags and looked inconspicuous the next day, holds a check and asks me to cooperate with him?"
"You are considered an outlier in the legal circle, and outliers always attract each other." Gu Nankai imagined the scene and said to Zheng Li.
Zheng Li chuckled, "Hey, Officer Gu, please stop making fun of me."
He jokingly brought the topic back to Hai Lan Gui and continued, "Because of this incident, I became interested in Hai Lan Gui, so I agreed to cooperate with him at the time. But what I didn't expect was that Hai Lan Gui not only wanted me to help him deal with his property issues, but most importantly, he gave me a considerable cooperation fee to let me deal with his afterlife."
Seeing that everyone in the serious crime team except Gu Nankai had the same curiosity as himself, Zheng Li quickly added, "You know, when Hai Lan came back to see me, he looked very healthy. Although he was wearing rags, I can be sure that he was in good health at the time."
Gu Nankai had heard something, so he quickly asked Zheng Li, "When did Hai Langui get sick?"
Zheng Li knew Gu Nankai's insight. When he heard him ask this, he smiled again and said, "A week later, just a week after Hai Langui came to see me, he fell ill. The illness came so strangely, but except for me, no one else thought it was strange. It was as if Hai Langui had been ill for a long time."
Gu Nankai sank his eyes in thought. Zheng Li did not say anything but stared at him, hoping that he would say something. Soon, Gu Nankai had an idea: "Could it be that Hai Langui bribed the doctor?"
A glimmer of light appeared in Zheng Li's eyes. "It took me a long time to figure this out. Hai Lan Gui's search for me and his death seemed to be a deliberate plan of his own. This is a problem I only realized after his death. And I think the root cause of Hai Lan Gui's behavior was a woman."
A woman.
Gu Nankai's mind moved, and an excited expression was clearly shown on his face. He knew that this woman must be Shen Tingting. There must be a relationship between Shen Tingting and Hai Langui, and their relationship must be very close, so close that Hai Langui could even plan his own death in order to achieve a certain goal for Shen Tingting!
"That woman's name is Shen Tingting, right?" Shang Lu became interested, his eyes turned, and he asked Zheng Li for confirmation with some excitement.
But to their disappointment, Zheng Li shook his head in confusion, "I don't know who that woman is, because I have never seen her, and Hai Lan Gui never mentioned her existence. At first, everything he did had nothing to do with this woman, because after Hai Lan Gui died, no one helped him with his funeral. I took care of everything. I always thought that Hai Lan Gui was a lonely and pitiful man."
Zheng Li smiled awkwardly: "Hai Langui donated all his stuff, including the tattoo technology materials he studied all his life. I am sure that in the tattoo circle, those things are like treasures, but Hai Langui doesn't care at all. He asked that after his death, those things should be burned in front of his tombstone. We are in a cooperative relationship, so I had to agree to him."
Zheng Li glanced at Gu Nankai again, his tone regretful: "Even though I think it's a shame to burn those things like this, but there's nothing I can do. I can only do that."
Gu Nankai also laughed along with Zheng Li, and at the same time he asked: "When did you realize that everything Hai Langui did was for a woman?"
At this point, Zheng Li became visibly agitated. He moved his body to change his sitting position. His physical condition proved his emotional ups and downs.
