FBH Chapter 12

Wu Shuqi personally interrogated the suspect, Gou Zhenghui, in the interrogation room of the branch bureau, with Sun Rumin taking notes on the side.

Wu Shuqi’s expression was serious, but she couldn’t help but laugh in her heart, and asked, “Where were you between noon and afternoon on July 15th?”

“With Li Xiaomei.”

“Who is Li Xiaomei?”

“The woman I was talking about.”

“Who can prove we were together?”

“No one can prove it, but you can check…check the hotel surveillance.” Gou Zhenghui lowered his head, not knowing whether it was because he felt his behavior of seducing another person’s wife was disgraceful, or because he was afraid of being severely reprimanded by the police.

“We opened a room in a hotel?” Wu Shuqi couldn’t help but frown.

“Yes.”

“Which hotel? Where?”

“Hausen Hotel, on Jiefang Road.”

Wu Shuqi immediately sent Wu Zhi to check Gou Zhenghui’s room registration record.

“I know, it’s been reported in the newspapers and online,” Gou Zhenghui said without hesitation.

Wu Shuqi asked, “Did you threaten to kill Li Yuehua? Did that happen?”

Gou Zhenghui had no choice but to honestly answer, “Yes.”

“I… I was delayed by something.” Gou Zhenghui was a little anxious.

Wu Shuqi asked, “What was it? Who can prove it?”

“Really? Then why does the person in the video look so much like you?” Wu Shuqi said deliberately.

Gou Zhenghui was still very agitated, “You must be mistaken…”

At this time, Wu Zhi came back and reported his findings: Gou Zhenghui did open a room with a woman named Li Xiaomei at the Hausen Hotel on July 15th. The room registration time was 10:21-17:17.

Although the time and hotel name matched, it did not mean that Gou Zhenghui’s suspicion had been ruled out. Therefore, Wu Shuqi arranged for Wu Zhi and two video investigators to go to the Hausen Hotel to retrieve surveillance footage and conduct a careful investigation of the suspect.

Wu Shuqi knew the specific location of the Hausen Hotel because she had come to this hotel with colleagues to arrest criminal suspects. The straight-line distance from that place to Prosperity Garden was estimated to be at least five kilometers away. Gou Zhenghui had 34 minutes between leaving the hotel and returning to the hotel, so he did not have the conditions to commit the crime in such a short time.

“What did I go out of the hotel to do?”

“A woman came to find me, and I went to send her away.”

“What kind of woman?”

Gou Zhenghui lowered his head and said, “We broke up.”

“Officer, can I leave now?” Gou Zhenghui was a little restless.

Wu Shuqi thanked Gou Zhenghui for providing such important information, and then let him leave.

Recalling what Gou Zhenghui had just said, Wu Shuqi unconsciously connected the deaths of Ning Yaohong, Li Zihan, and Lü Yuchan with Li Yuehua. She had always felt that Li Yuehua was suspicious, and now she was even more suspicious. She told Sun Rumin her thoughts, wanting to hear his views and analysis.

“Therefore, he found a way to get cyanide. After learning that his wife was coming to Jincheng, he added the cyanide to the beverage in advance, preparing to find an opportunity to poison his wife. He just didn’t expect that his son and lover would accidentally lose their lives as well. Of course, suspicion needs evidence to support it.

“As for him saying that he didn’t know that his wife would go to Jincheng this time, we checked the call records between him and his wife. Although we didn’t find their call records except for the two calls that Ning Yaohong made to him after going to Jincheng on July 18th, it doesn’t mean that he was lying, because he could have known that Ning Yaohong was going to Jincheng when he was talking to people in his hometown. I think we need to go to Ning Yaohong’s hometown to understand the situation from Ning Yaohong’s parents.”

“Okay, I’ll go over today,” Wu Shuqi agreed.

Sun Rumin immediately realized that he had only focused on reasoning, but had ignored the key trace evidence that had been fixed. He rubbed his forehead and thought for a while, and said, “Maybe after Ning Yaohong, Lü Yuchan, and others mistakenly drank the beverage, Ning Yaohong or Lü Yuchan, for some reason, put on gloves to open the refrigerator and the cola bottle, and then took off the gloves and threw them on the sofa. The gloves were burned to ashes in the subsequent fire.”

Wu Shuqi felt that his reasoning was a bit far-fetched, so she shook her head.

Sun Rumin was unwilling: “Could it have been left by Li Yuehua?”

Sun Rumin cleared his throat, indicating that the following analysis was very important: “If Li Yuehua really prepared to add cyanide to the beverage, and if the beverage was really placed in the refrigerator, then because cyanide is highly toxic, he would definitely not dare to take it lightly. Therefore, he had no choice but to wear gloves to open the refrigerator door and take the beverage out…”

Wu Shuqi nodded and said, “That makes sense! We all ignored this detail before!”

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