Chapter 5: Chained Bizarre Deaths

"Dead?" Xiao Xia was very surprised by this unexpected news.

Guan Zheng nodded, "Didn't I say yesterday that since he is unrepentant, we have to collect evidence more fully to tell him that he will regret not accepting mediation." So, I went to his neighborhood this morning to check with the neighbors to see if there was anything else I could do, and I saw a large number of police officers inspecting the scene. ”

"How did you die? Murder? ”

"I don't know." Guan Zheng shrugged indifferently, in Xiao Xia's opinion, he was a little gloating about Wang Hua's death, "I have been running around the country since I graduated, and I am not familiar with the situation here. As the plaintiff's lawyer in this case, after the results of the autopsy come out, you go to the police station to find out the situation. ”

Xiao Xia nodded in agreement, but in her heart she thought that Wang Hua was dead, and whether her status as the plaintiff's lawyer was tenable was untenable! It would be more effective to use some connections, if not some secrets, she believed she could find out. I've been working in Changkong for so long, and I'm a little familiar with the police.

It's just that after only getting along for a day, she feels that there is something wrong with Guan Zheng's attitude. Yes, it is right to uphold the law, but the ultimate purpose of the law is not to punish, but to regulate social order and maintain social stability. The family is the most basic unit of society.

I talked about these things when Teacher Pan gave them the first legal lesson, and even people like her who barely repeat grades remember it, but did a high-achieving student like Guan Zheng forget it?

If her shortcomings are nerdy and think of everything too beautifully, then Guan Zhengze is too upright, too persistent, and too jealous and hateful. Now Xiao Xia feels that complete idealism is not a completely good thing, at least the world is not simple to distinguish black and white, and there are many helpless things.

Just like Wang Hua's case, although his parents are ready to sue him, they must be uncomfortable in their hearts. They just want to get a little attention and the necessary materials for life, they must not want to make such a fuss, and they don't want to see their son die. The death was a joy for everyone else who had nothing to do with it, but it was even worse for the poor old couple.

"What about the Wang family's parents?" She seemed to ask herself, and she seemed to ask Guan Zheng.

"You don't care about this case, I'll follow up." Guan Zheng thought she was asking a legal question, "The relevant inheritance law will help the Wang couple financially, and I will do my best to fight for their interests." ”

Natsu didn't speak. She wasn't asking about this, she was wondering if the poor old man would be able to hold up mentally!

"And—" Guan Zheng smiled a little smugly, "the consortium that sponsored us has jointly set up a fund that can set aside a part of the funds to help the helpless. ”

"Oh? And this good thing? ”

"Yes, if only the rich did good deeds. There are eight of our sponsors, but the aid fund is managed by Boheng Company, you can do it in a few days, and by the way, you can get to know the managers, and if I am not there, you can be in charge of this part. ”

Xiao Xia agreed, and a name flashed in her mind.

Boheng Company?

Isn't it the company that hired her to go to City A last time, the most powerful consortium among Changkong's customers?!

This coincidence flashed in Xiao Xia's heart, but she didn't care. Her mind was full of Wang Hua's affairs, and then she realized that the aid cause was not so easy to do, and the psychological pressure was not small.

After the preliminary investigation report on Wang Hua's death came out, Xiao Xia sensitively felt that this incident was reasonable and strange.

The results of the autopsy were: Wang Hua actually died of a drug overdose!

The drugs caused acute heart failure and kidney failure, which were the only cause of his death. In addition, he has a deep scratch on his face, and one of his eyes has been gouged out raw, making the whole face look rather hideous. But the medical examiner found his own flesh between his fingernails, and the eyeball in his own throat. Other than that, he didn't have any fatal injuries on his body.

As for the surrounding environment, because it is a central flower garden where trampling is not allowed, the footprint identification is very clear - there is only a pair of footprints at the scene, which belong to the deceased. The surrounding flowers and plants had obviously been ravaged by madness, as could be seen from the dead man's hands full of rose thorns and rotten leaves.

The nature of his work made him very irregular in his time, and he would often come home late at night, so his wife did not wait for him, only to find out in the morning that he had not returned all night, and his body was found by an old man who had done his morning exercise early in the morning.

It was already dawn, and Wang Hua was sitting in a low rose bush with his back against a small tree. Because there was no covering, and one of the two old men had quite good eyesight, his body was seen at a glance.

In addition, according to the confessions of friends and taxi drivers, Wang Hua did not react to taking drugs except for being drunk during the entertainment period and the taxi ride.

Based on various physical evidence at the scene and the results of the autopsy, the police concluded that the deceased had business entertainment that night, and because he had been drinking, his friend helped him call a taxi. When the taxi driver took the deceased to the entrance of the community, the radio was playing the evening news, so it was determined that it was ten o'clock, and Wang Hua died between ten and twelve o'clock.

Apparently reluctant to take a long detour home, he crossed the central garden, during which time he took drugs, and apparently overdosed, which led to a sudden and intense hallucination as he passed through the flowers, gouging out his eyeballs and trying to eat them, but he was unsuccessful in his extreme excitement, and finally died of pain under the effects of the overdose.

His death was not a homicide, and the case would be closed outright. The focus of the police will shift to anti-narcotics, preparing to find out where he got drugs of such purity? Where is the source of drugs!

Xiao Xia felt a little strange about this reasonable explanation, if the packaging bag of drugs was not found at the scene because there was a wind in the spring in the north, it was blown far away; If he took drugs because he was stressed; If family and friends have never seen him hide the drugs, these doubts cannot be established, but Xiao Xia's doubts come from her feelings.

In my impression, Wang Hua is a shrewd and shameless person who will never take drugs, and his death must be strange!

But no matter how suspicious she is, she has no evidence to refute scientific assertions, and one less person like Wang Hua dies, and the world will be a little purer because of this. She just sympathized with the old couple, they were the ones who lost everything, and Mrs. Wang even thought that she went to the court to sue her son, which forced him to a dead end.

Xiao Xia didn't know how to comfort the old man, so she had to ask Wanli to volunteer to help, so that this professional psychologist could guide the painful old couple, in fact, she felt that she also needed psychological treatment.

When she was in Changkong, she didn't take on this kind of case systematically, but at the Helping Hand Office, the five people were divided into two groups, Uncle Chai and two interns were in charge of women's and children's affairs, Guan Zheng and Xiaoxia were in charge of elderly affairs, and occasionally Guan Zheng would coordinate the comprehensive issues of this chain of legal aid agencies.

After working here for a month, she found that people who don't do this business may think that this kind of disharmony between parents and children is rare, and it is rare to make such a stiff thing to go to court, but when you really do it, you will understand that there are really a lot of such things, maybe because of the concentration.

Now she has another case at hand, an old grandmother surnamed Yang sued her adopted son Zhang. Zhang's parents died when he was five years old, and there was no one to support him, as a friend of Zhang's parents, the childless Yang couple single-handedly pulled him up. But Zhang rarely went home after work, and later did not show up at all.

When Grandpa Yang was alive, Grandma Yang still had a source of livelihood, but since Grandpa Yang died, she can only rely on a little savings and scavenging to survive. An illness a few years ago made it difficult for her to even have a hungry stomach, so I thought of asking Zhang to help. However, Zhang refused to recognize the adoption relationship because he did not go to the civil affairs department to go through the adoption procedures that year.

This is a case that constitutes a de facto adoption, although there are no legal formalities, and it is very simple. So Xiao Xia has been collecting witness testimony from relevant insiders with the permission of the court these days.

On this day, she and Guan Zheng came to Zhang's residence to make a final mediation effort. But as soon as he got out of the elevator door, he heard a woman's scream from Zhang's house.

The two of them hurriedly ran over and saw that the door of Zhang's house was open, his wife had fainted by the door, and the key was still inserted in the door.

On the opposite side of the door is the couch in the living room, there is a mess around the sofa, Zhang is sitting on the sofa crookedly, his face is gray, and he has been dead for a long time. There were scratches everywhere on his face, his clothes were torn a lot, and an eyeball had been gouged out and hung on his cheek.

"I'll call the police!" Guan Zheng said and ran to the corner of the living room to make a call.

Xiao Xia didn't faint, but she was also frightened enough by this accident, and looked at all this in horror!

Suddenly, she saw Zhang's clothes move underneath.

Her hairs stood on end, and she was about to scream, but she found that the leaves of a plant were peeking out from under her rotten clothes, as if they had slipped out.

She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that maybe he had accidentally brought it to his clothes while fiddling with the flowers, and that she was too nervous.

"Alright, the police will be there shortly." Guan Zheng put down the phone, "Let's go out first, don't destroy the scene." ”

Xiao Xia nodded, eager to leave as soon as possible. Although it was just a grass, she felt quite bad, could it be that she was hallucinating?

Thinking so, she turned her head again, and saw the strange plant move again, like a worm.

Her heart was beating again, but when she looked closely, it didn't move.

I must have been dazzled!

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing. It's just that we don't care about her? Xiao Xia pointed to Zhang's wife on the ground, and glanced at the plant again. The plant was motionless, but this time she had a new fear.

She felt that Zhang's drooping eyes on her cheeks were looking at her, no matter what angle she changed, those eyes were just staring at her!

"Leave it alone! I don't want to stay here! Xiao Xia ran out without waiting for Guan Zheng to decide.

She was terrified! I think it's weird.

Guan Zheng came out with her.

When there was no one else in the room, the strange plant began to move again, crawling slowly to the corner like a bug, and then vanishing into thin air!

At the same time, Zhang's drooping eyes on his cheeks shook like swings.

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