When I turned to the confession part of the case file, I raised my eyebrows and asked, "Zheng Tian and Gu Yin were in a relationship at that time?" ”

Officer Song took the page of confession and looked at it carefully and said, "Ah! Really, I didn't handle this case, so I don't know very well. Well? Zheng Tian's confession insisted that Zhang Xiao was the one who poisoned him. ”

"It's not difficult to understand, Gu Yin's accident Zhang Xiao is the biggest beneficiary, it is said that Zhang Xiao became an instant hit with that movie. What was the assistant's motive for poisoning? I asked.

"In the case file, it was said that Xu Yuan did not admit that she poisoned Gu Yin in the end, but someone saw that Gu Yin had a quarrel with her the day before the accident."

Quarrel? For such a trivial matter, he would risk going to prison to poison Gu Yin?

When he saw Zheng Tian in the hospital, he could already get out of bed and walk, Zheng Tian's injuries were really light, his back burns, and his arms were scratched, which was not an injury compared to Zhang Xiao.

He was walking by the flower bed downstairs in the inpatient department of the hospital, and when he saw me coming, he smiled at me and walked to the bench by the flower bed and sat down.

"You're recovering well." I said with a smile.

He smiled and didn't answer me, but asked me directly: "You didn't come here to visit me, you want to ask what you want to say." ”

I like to deal with straightforward people, saving time and effort.

"I came this time to learn about Gu Yin's case."

Zheng Tian obviously didn't expect me to ask Gu Yin, he was stunned for a while before he reacted, and said, "That case, it's been so long......" Zheng Tian's whole person dimmed.

I quietly observed his expression and asked, "I have read the case file of that case, and you suspected that the person who poisoned him was Zhang Xiao at that time?" ”

When Zheng Tian heard me say this, he immediately retracted the expression on his face and said, "You doubt me? ”

"I heard that Zhang Xiao hasn't woken up until today, according to the plot, you should come out behind her. Why did you come out before her when there was an explosion? I asked sharply.

Zheng Tian and Zhang Xiao play a couple whose male protagonist is kidnapped to an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere, with a time bomb next to him. After the heroine finds the hero, the kidnappers have already left, and the bomb is about to explode. The male protagonist couldn't bear to be killed by his lover and himself, so he asked the heroine to go out to the police. After the heroine runs out of the warehouse, the male protagonist breaks free from the rope and escapes. After the hero and heroine have run to a safe position, the bomb explodes. So according to the development of the plot, Zheng Tian should come out of the warehouse later.

"Can you tell me what happened when it exploded?" I asked him.

"I've already told the police, do you want me to repeat it?" Zheng Tian said coldly.

I have read Zheng Tian's confession, but ...... How so? It seems reasonable, but there is a sense of disobedience.

When Zheng Tianzheng and I were confronted, Zheng Tian's assistant ran over and told us that Zhang Xiao had woken up. Zheng Tian didn't react when he heard this, but said that he was tired and went back to the ward. I went to Zhang Xiao's hospital room to visit this unlucky actress.

Zhang Xiao was in the sterile ward, his body covered in bandages. Her spirit is very bad, and when she has been an actor for so many years, she has finally survived this status and suddenly a catastrophe has fallen from the sky, and no one can stand it.

I sat on the edge of her bed, and she didn't look at me, just looked at the ceiling and wept silently.

"Miss Zhang, I'm a private detective hired by Mr. Zhong, can I talk to you?" I try to keep my voice as low as possible.

She didn't look back, and was silent for a while before asking, "Did Li Chengyong do it?" ”

"Yes."

Her tears surged instantly, and there was a hint of resentment in her voice: "Why, is it because I said a few words to him that day?" ”

Yes, where can the general quarrel reach the point of putting people to death. Li Chengyong was a professor of applied chemistry at a university before serving as the pyrotechnician of this crew, and I asked his students, and everyone's caliber was basically the same. This person is very silent and usually doesn't talk much, but he is a very nice person. Such a highly educated person, why quit a good job and didn't come to such a crew as a pyrotechnician, even if the salary of the pyrotechnic engineer is a little higher, but Li Chengyong has lived alone for many years, and he doesn't look like he is in a hurry to use money. So, did he do this bombing or is he taking the blame for someone else?

"Li Chengyong didn't explain why he did this, but he just got the news today that he was confirmed to have advanced stomach cancer."

"He won't sentence?" Zhang Xiao's voice suddenly sharpened.

"He's dying."

Zhang Xiao turned his head to look at me and said word by word: "I might as well live now as I die." ”

I frowned, and could only tear away from the topic: "I came today to ask you another person, Gu Yin." ”

Zhang Xiao's face changed abruptly, and his original resentment became more distorted at this time: "What do you mean?" ”

I hurriedly raised my hands to show that I had no malicious intentions, and asked her to relax: "Don't get excited, I just want to investigate the reason why Li Chengyong did this." ”

"You said that Li Chengyong and Gu Yin have a relationship?" Zhang Xiao asked.

"I'm just skeptical."

"I don't have anything to say, I don't know anything." Zhang Xiao closed his eyes and refused to communicate with me.

What is the connection between Zhang Xiao, Zheng Tian, Gu Yin and Li Chengyong? Gu Yin is Zheng Tian's girlfriend, even if the poisoning case five years ago was really done by Zhang Xiao, Zheng Tian should be the most suspected person in the explosion case. But even if Zheng Tian wanted to take revenge on Zhang Xiao, why wait five years, and choose to be so helpful to his career. If the bombing case was really Zheng Tian's handiwork, then why did Li Chengyong acquiesce that he did all this, and what was he covering up for Zheng Tian.

I wrote down the names of several people on a piece of paper to sort out the relationship between them, but no matter how I looked at it, Li Chengyong was hovering outside of a few people. Judging from his personality, he doesn't look like a person who will kill people because of quarrels, and there is no contact between him and Gu Yin, and he has never even met at all, and he and Zheng Tian are just nodding friends. A person does not do something for no reason, let alone kill someone. So, what is Lee Sung-yong's motivation?

Zheng Tian's confession said that the reason why he was able to run out of the warehouse before Zhang Xiao was because the camera that had been set up in the warehouse to film his escape was malfunctioning, so he went out through the back door with the photographer and wanted to tell the pyrotechnics not to detonate it, but as soon as they left the warehouse, the warehouse exploded. Zheng Tian's position was next to the back door, so he went out before Zhang Xiao. Later, the police checked that the machine was indeed faulty and asked a special mechanic to verify that it was not a human fault. In this way, it was really this photography that saved the lives of Zheng Tian and the mechanic.

I circled Li Chengyong's name with a pen, he is still the core of the whole case, maybe I need to look in a different direction.

Li Chengyong has been being treated in the hospital because of advanced stomach cancer, which happens to be in the same hospital as Zhang Xiao and Zhengtian. The police sent people to watch him 24 hours a day, but it is said that Li Chengyong was very cooperative with the treatment and did not look like a person who was bent on death.

I found Li Chengyong's address and the key to his house from Song Yan, and I might be able to find something in his house. Li Chengyong lives on the third floor of a year-old unit building in the northernmost part of the city. This building is so old, the lighting in the corridor is very bad, and the lights in the corridor are also broken. I took out Li Chengyong's key, opened a pocket flashlight on the key, and went upstairs.

The room was clean and everything was neatly packed. Light blue fabric sofa, 34-inch rear projection color TV, light marble coffee table. These furniture are very outdated, but it can be seen that Li Chengyong is a very careful person, and the furniture is well maintained.

The house is a two-bedroom layout. Li Chengyong lives in the master bedroom, there is a double bed in the master bedroom, I opened the wardrobe next to the bed to see, it is also neat and tidy. The police had come once before, but they hadn't touched much of the house, and when I looked around, I always felt like there was something missing in the room.

Photo!

Yes, it's a photo. Even if Li Chengyong has always lived alone before, it makes no sense, and he doesn't even have a photo. I opened all the cupboards in the room and rummaged through the drawers, but unfortunately there really wasn't a single photo. This is absolutely not normal. I took out Li Chengyong's set of keys and looked closely, except for the door key, office key, car key, and the basement key of this house...... Basement?

I hurried downstairs to the basement, which was very clean. No, it shouldn't be called clean, it's empty, to be precise. I frowned and began to look inch by inch from the doorway. Sure enough, there was a key in the crack of the basement air window, and it looked

It's not new, and I think I'm very close to the answer.

The provenance of the key is easy to check and there is a number engraved on the key. Such a key is on the locker, and I took the key to find a bathing center that Li Chengyong often visits, and he has an annual card for this bathing center at home.

Open the locker, there is only one picture frame in the locker, and inside the frame is a picture of a girl. I looked at it carefully, and I always felt that this person was very familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere. I took the photo and went straight home, anyway, today is not without gain.

The moment I went upstairs and opened the door, I remembered who the girl in the photo was, and I hurriedly pulled out the key and turned around and ran down.

When I arrived at the police station, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, but Song Yan was still there, I held on to the door of his office and gasped, he looked up at me in surprise and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"You have Li Chengyong's information here, I remember that he got married once twenty years ago, help me find out who his wife was at that time?"

Twenty years ago, Li Chengyong's wife was called Yue Li. Yue Li is married for the second time, and when she married Li Chengyong, she also took a five-year-old girl. However, the girl did not change her surname, but just lived with them. Yue Li died of illness ten years ago, and the child was picked up by Yue Li's mother, and the old man may have felt that his daughter had died, and the child had nothing to do with Li Chengyong so he transferred his household registration.

"Xu Yuan." I let out a breath. It turned out that the direction of my investigation all along was wrong, and I always thought that Zhang Xiao's injury was because of Gu Yin, but I ignored this assistant who suffered from unwarranted disasters.

"How is Xu Yuan now?" I asked.

Song Yan called the prison, hung up the phone and said, "Xu Yuan died in prison a year ago. ”

That's right. Li Chengyong resigned from his position as a university professor a year ago and went to Tianlan to follow up with Zhang Xiao's crew, which was a month after Xu Yuan's death.

"Not good!" I was shocked.

Song Yan glanced at me and immediately understood, and while we were rushing to the hospital, we called the police on duty over there. He dialed the phone again and again, but unfortunately no one answered there.

When he arrived at the hospital, the police officer who was guarding him was knocked unconscious and collapsed in the ward, and Li Chengyong was nowhere to be found.

Song Yan and I glanced at each other and hurried to Zhang Xiao's ward, pushing Zhang Xiao's ward open, my eyes flashed by the reflection of metal, and then there was a blood red.

Zhang Xiao's bandages were all torn off, the flesh and blood on the burns on her body were blurred, her mouth was stuffed with a pillow, her eyes were wide open, her eyes were bulging, blood was gurgling from her neck, and there was a fruit knife stuck in her chest.

Li Chengyong stood on the edge of the bed and looked at Zhang Xiao's corpse on the bed, his eyes were full of ashes, and the feeling of despair was even stronger than when I first met him.

There was a commotion in the hospital, and Li Chengyong was about to be taken back to the police station again. But before the police car arrived at the police station, Li Chengyong fainted again. The police had no choice but to send people back, so they just sent more people to guard them.

I went straight to Zheng Tian's hospital room, and although it was late at night, he hadn't slept yet.

"Zhang Xiao is dead."

Zheng Tian stood on the edge of the bed and looked out, the moon was as bright as bright tonight.

"Don't you want to say something?" I walked up to him and asked.

He turned his head to look at me and smiled and said, "Say what?" ”

"Why didn't Zhang Xiao run out?"

"I don't know." Zheng Tian said lightly.

I knew that no further questioning would lead to anything, so I turned and walked out. After not taking a few steps, Zheng Tian's voice came from behind him: "Retribution, this is the retribution she deserves." ”

I paused for a few seconds and walked out without speaking.

Li Chengyong died after being treated in the hospital for half a month, and after killing Zhang Xiao, he lost his life.

I came to the cemetery on the weekend, there were very few people here, but I ran into an acquaintance.

"Mr. Zhong."

"I wanted to do her justice, but I didn't." Zhong Lixing's tone was deeply helpless.

On the two tombstones in front of them, the two girls are smiling. Gu Yin, Xu Yuan.

Five years ago, Zhang Xiao made a desperate bet to poison Gu Yin for that role and blamed Xu Yuan. Gu Yin died of poisoning, and Xu Yuan was unjustly imprisoned. Ten years later, Xu Yuan died of depression in prison.

Li Chengyong is Xu Yuan's stepfather, he has lived with Xu Yuan for ten years, and he loves this daughter with all his strength. Li Chengyong began to collect evidence from the moment he learned that his daughter was wrongfully imprisoned, and wanted to return his daughter's innocence, but Xu Yuan did not wait for the day when the truth was revealed. I have to say that Zhang Xiao's methods are clever and do not leak.

Upon learning that he was terminally ill and his daughter had died in prison, Li Chengyong finally broke down, and he decided to seek justice for his daughter in his own way. Li Chengyong single-handedly planned the bombing, but Zhang Xiao was not dead. At this time, Zhong Lixing invited me to investigate the case, he thought that I could find out the truth of the year and give his daughter justice. Unfortunately, I let him down. Even if all of us understand that the real culprit was Zhang Xiao, we can't bring her to justice without evidence. As for Zheng Tian, at most he played a role in fueling the flames. He is a man who understands, he wants to avenge Gu Yin but he can't spare his life, after all, none of us are independent of the world.

After Li Chengyong killed Zhang Xiao, the despair in his eyes was like a black dahlia blooming in my dream over and over again. I think he may not be able to forgive himself for not being able to give his daughter Zhaoxue until he dies.

It is said that there are gods in the first three feet, even if you do it without leakage, the price you pay will not be less.

Zhong Lixing put the flower in his hand in front of Gu Yin's tombstone and turned to leave, that back revealed deep helplessness and ...... Distressed.

When I looked into the poisoning case that year, I had no opinion and saw a letter of intent to donate my heart.

When Zhong Lixing turned to leave, I saw his hand gently pressing the position of his heart. I think the beating heart at that moment will feel sadness, too.

The Buddha said: The cycle of cause and effect is unpleasant. Either way, the cause you planted will always get the fruit you deserve. No one can escape.