"Your inference is groundless, do you think that if you and the victim's family apologize and beg for mercy, she will be able to spare Nan Zhiyi?"

The two had their own opinions, and neither of them would back down after a night of arguments. In the end, it was Xie Wan who showed up to play a round, and finally decided that the two would talk about understanding together.

However, it was not easy to ask Aunt Taoxing to come out. Aunt Taoxing couldn't get through at all on the phone in their hands. The three of them ran to her hometown, residence, and place of work for three days, and also used ID card information to check her whereabouts through some other means, but they couldn't find anyone.

At dusk, they waited at the door of Aunt Taoxing's residence for the third time, and finally met a neighbor who knew about it.

"Aunt Tao came back half a month ago, packed up her things and left." The young man said, after looking at them for a while and feeling that they didn't look like bad people, he added, "I heard her say that she wants to emigrate, the house has been surrendered to rent, and you won't come back in the future, so you don't have to run away all the time." ”

Ling Li was stunned for a while. My niece's bones are still cold, and my aunt is nowhere to be seen, what does this mean?

Tian Zhengyan's face sank like water: "The other party came prepared. How can a middle-aged woman with no job and no economic foundation immigrate? She must have known something, so at this critical juncture, she was hidden by those people using the bait of immigration. ”

"Then we'll have to find her." Xie Wanlu said, and there was a trace of anxiety in her eyes.

Tian Zhengyan sighed and shook his head: "It's not that easy, didn't you find that there is no travel record of her at all?" As long as she doesn't use her ID card to register for accommodation, and she is not a wanted criminal, the police have no choice. Moreover, if she had been out of the province, we would have had no chance of finding her before the trial. ”

Ling Li had a worse and worse premonition in her heart, the things she had suspected were now coming true one by one, and it seemed that the development of events was far beyond her imagination.

It seems that Tao Xing is not the only one who calculates Nan Zhiyi, could it be that her aunt is also involved?

Thinking of this, the regret and guilt in her heart could no longer be suppressed.

"It's all my fault," she closed her eyes in chagrin, "if I had persevered and taken care of him for a while, it might not have happened." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a few tears fell to the ground.

Xie Wanlu saw that she didn't feel good in her heart, stepped forward and gave her a big hug, patted her back gently, and comforted: "It has nothing to do with you, these people have been staring at Nan Zhiyi for a long time, they want to destroy him, and it's only a matter of time before they make a move." ”

Tian Zhengyan also said: "From this point of view, the victim's death was really done by himself. It's just that why Nan Zhiyi wanted to destroy the scene, why he didn't admit his guilt and didn't cooperate, I still can't figure this out. ”

Ling Li raised her teary eyes and clenched her fists: "Then you can only ask him in person!" ”

The next time Ling Li saw Nan Zhiyi was a week later, two days after the court set the time for the pretrial conference.

"You're here." Seeing Ling Li and Zhu Jinchuan, Nan Zhiyi smiled easily, as if he was not the one in prison.

Ling Li was so angry that she almost gritted her teeth and said, "Next week is the pre-trial conference, can you take this matter seriously?" Do you still think your brother can protect you for the rest of your life? Don't you really understand the severance of this? Do you want to stay in it for the rest of your life? ”

"That's just his idea, I don't need it." He said, grinning again, "Actually, it's good, at least it's quiet, and there aren't so many people to bother, so I can think about something." ”

Ling Li's eyebrows jumped, and she always felt that there was something wrong with his words.

But before he had time to think about it, Nan Zhiyi said again: "Dust to dust to dust, people will always have that day, don't care." ”

Zhu Jinchuan frowned slightly, and spoke in this meeting room for the first time: ""

Nan Zhiyi glanced at him, pursed his lips, and replied: "

With that, he pressed the bell on the table.

When Ling Li was still in a daze, the door behind her opened, and a prison guard came in, and took Nan Zhiyi out of the interview room.

In just a few minutes, before she could ask the question she had been thinking about for a long time, he ran away again.

"Why is he still like this?"

Looking at the empty room at the other end of the fence, Ling Li's heart was sullen: "I still don't know how important it is, and I don't know how much others have paid for him!" ”

Zhu Jinchuan watched Ling Li become anxious again, and couldn't help but remind her: "Don't worry, there is still time." ”

Ling Li scratched her hair irritably: "The evidence will be exchanged next week, and the trial will be held next week, how can the public security act so quickly this time?" In the past, from investigation to prosecution, it often took half a year, why did you act so fast this time? Taoxing's aunt has not been found, and there is no letter of understanding, and there is no basis for intercession with the court. It's too late! ”

Seeing her chaotic appearance, Zhu Jinchuan sighed slightly.

thought that Nan Zhiyi's influence on her would gradually disappear, but unexpectedly, this case made her fall deeper.

Anyway, try your best to help her accomplish what she wants to do, and what happens in the future, I have to follow fate.

Zhu Jinchuan said a few more words to appease her, and finally made Ling Li calm down.

After leaving the detention center, Ling Li began to think about what she should do next.

The matter of finding Aunt Taoxing naturally has to continue, even if she is too late to appear in court in the first instance, she can ask to appear in court as a new witness in the second instance. In addition, evidence of the connection between the Australian side and Tao Xing is also being collected.

And the news from Li Guo's side, it is said that according to the current investigation report of their application for re-examination, some clues have been found - the antidepressants taken by Tao Xing are mixed with some drugs that can cause depression. According to further investigation, those drugs were a blood pressure medication that Aunt Taoxing had been taking for a long time.

Combined with Aunt Moapung, who wants to find but can't find it, it seems that all the doubts can be answered in her.

She had just had a clue when her phone rang.

Interrupted by her train of thought, Ling Li was a little irritable, grabbed her phone and looked at the screen, and found that it was a local landline number she had never seen before.

She picked it up anxiously and said "feed" with some emotion.

A few seconds later, on the other side of the earpiece, Nan Zhijun's voice came out.

He said solemnly: "Ling Li, there is one thing I ask you. ”

Ling Li immediately became nervous: "Is there any new movement in the case?" ”

He sighed slightly from the earpiece, and then, there were some complicated emotions in his voice: "I want to ask you to go back to Huacheng." ”

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The next meeting with Nan Zhiyi is scheduled for the day in two weeks.

The exchange of evidence had already taken place, and Ling Li could not find any effective means other than unjustified objections to those evidence.

Lacking the testimony of Aunt Taoxing, an insider who participated in it, other objective evidence cannot constitute a complete chain, and the laboratory data leaked by Mu Chenghua's shadow on Australia's phone number, in the exchange of evidence, provided the procuratorate with materials on Nan Zhiyi's motive for committing the crime.

This was a mistake that Ling Li did not expect at all, and the witness testimony and character certificates she had tried her best to collect were also insignificant, and they were not worth mentioning in front of the other party's trace identification, autopsy report, and current investigation records.

All the roads were blocked, which made Ling Li have to be anxious.

In this meeting, Nan Zhiyi was still the same as before, half-dead, didn't care about anything, and couldn't tell the case honestly.

Ling Li's eyes were slightly red, and her chin was a little sharper than a few days ago.

After asking about the case again to no avail, Ling Li lowered her eyes and said, "Grandma has passed away, just the night before." I stayed with her for two days and two nights, watching her breathe her last. There are five days left in the funeral, and you won't be able to make it to the funeral. ”

Nan Zhiyi's eyes widened, and he didn't react for a long time - however, there was no sadness in his eyes at all.

Ling Li didn't understand the meaning of his expression now, and waited and waited, but waited for a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It's good that grandma is gone, so you don't have to be tortured." He said, "My grandfather has been waiting for her for many years, and now, she is finally reunited." ”

Ling Li gritted her teeth and clenched her fists: "Mi Li and Gu Li, I also helped you find them, they have been wandering for three months, fortunately someone sent them to the aid station, you should be glad that they escaped the poisonous needles and poison of the dog meat dealer." It's just that when they came back, they were infected with very serious mites and were being treated. ”

Nan Zhiyi's eyes moved, and he lowered his voice and said, "Thank you, but I don't need it, I can't even take care of myself, let alone two dogs?" ”

Ling Li took a deep breath and calmed her emotions.

After that, he asked: "I will help you raise the dog, and grandma is still waiting for you to go out and hold a wake for her, so you had better cooperate with our defense work, regain your freedom as soon as possible, and fulfill your responsibilities as a grandson as soon as possible." ”

"Responsibility?" He suddenly laughed, "Are you saying that you were not good to the old man when you were alive, and you came to mourn and mourn when you passed away?" Sorry, I don't need to. ”

Ling Li was enraged again, couldn't help but stand up, and yelled at him: "Before she left, she was still thinking about why Xiao Yi didn't go back to see her. So many people care about you and work hard for you, what is your attitude now? Nanzhiyi, don't you have a heart? ”

Hearing this, Nan Zhiyi was obviously stunned, as if he had heard something incredible, and a strange look flashed in his dark eyes.

In just a few seconds, he returned to the angry look of not caring about anything, and grinned: "Yes, there is no heart." ”

This time when she came out of the detention center, Ling Li was trembling slightly.

Zhu Jinchuan looked at her, silently took off his coat and put it on her shoulder.

"Don't be afraid, second sister," he whispered, "there must be a way." He doesn't say, we can find a way. ”

Ling Li was confused and didn't know how to respond to his concern.

Zhu Jinchuan saw that she was still flustered, paused, and said: "Even if we are guilty in the first trial, we still have the opportunity to try the second trial, even if the first and second trials are death sentences, there is still a year for review." In short, there is still time, don't panic. ”

"But ......" Ling Li only said one word, and then found that there was a thick nasal voice in his voice.

She actually ...... Crying?

Didn't you tell yourself at the beginning that you couldn't cry for him anymore? Why now, seeing that he and Taoxing didn't end well, she cried instead?

It's not the norm, it's not what she should be.

Zhu Jinchuan silently shut up, pretending not to see the tears in the corners of her eyes.