[Death of a Lawyer-11]
Jiang Pingce could see the diagonally opposite Building A from the balcony. He roughly calculated the distance and angle, and turned to Zhang Xiaonian: "Is there a structural diagram of the interior of Building A? How are the three rooms on each floor distributed?"
If the exact distance is not calculated, it would be embarrassing if Qin Lu's plate was displaced, moved to the wrong place, entered room 3301, and met Liu Lan and her son face to face.
Zhang Xiaonian participated in the architectural design of the community, and immediately pulled out the design drawings from the bookshelf and handed them to Jiang Pingce: "Units 1 and 2 have three rooms on each floor, and rooms 02 and 03 in each unit are two bedrooms and one living room. It is a small set, and room 01 is a large set with three bedrooms and two living rooms, and this building is a full-bright apartment with a transparent north-south."
Jiang Pingce looked at the drawings carefully, and then stood in front of the window to check the positions of several rooms in the opposite building, and said: "To go to Zhou Ziyang's residence, the plate needs to be tilted 45 degrees to the right, and the distance is 38 meters. Come back. When the reverse tilt is 45 degrees, the distance remains the same."
The plate transposition of the Department of Geography requires specifying the angle and coordinates on the globe. With Jiang Pingce's data, Qin Lu can teleport directly from Zhang Xiaonian's room to Zhou Ziyang's room in Building A opposite at any time.
When the time came to 20:30 in the evening, Yue Xingwen said, "Prepare for action."
It was already dark outside, and the street lights were on in the community.
Xin Yan said, "I'll go too and help you with lighting. Zhou Ziyang is already dead, and the lights in his room suddenly turned on. It's hard to explain if he is seen by the resident in the front and back buildings."
Yue Xingwen thought about it too, and said with a smile, "Okay, Xin Yan will come with us."
The other teammates consciously stepped aside a few steps. Yue Xingwen, Lan Yarong and Xin Yan came to Qin Lu's side. Qin Lu summoned a familiar globe with his right hand, and quickly clicked twice on it with his fingertips, and said softly, "Move Change the position!"
The scene in front of him suddenly changed, and the four appeared at Zhou Ziyang's residence.
Yue Xingwen walked quickly to the balcony, closed the blackout curtains, and then turned to Xin Yan and said, "Lighting."
Xin Yan summoned an alcohol lamp, and everyone took a look at the faint light of the alcohol lamp—a lot of mahogany furniture was used in the living room and dining room, the color of the floor was beige, the door was dark red, and the decoration style was more Chinese.
Qin Lu looked around and wondered, "Why is the house where Lawyer Zhou lives in this way? Does he like this kind of old solid wood furniture with red paint?"
Yue Xingwen recalled Liu Lan's confession that Pingce told him, and explained: "This house was originally bought by Zhou Ziyang for his parents to live in, so the decoration is also in the style that the elderly prefer, and the furniture is all Mahogany carved furniture. Zhou Ziyang moved here after his parents died and the couple separated."
Qin Lu suddenly realized: "It turned out to be his parents' house. There are indeed many elderly people who like this style."
Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone hurry up and search separately, Xin Yan, give me one of your alcohol lamps."
Xin Yan summoned three more alcohol lamps, one for each person to illuminate. Yue Xingwen took out the disposable plastic gloves for barbecue from his pocket, and each sent a pair: "Put on gloves and be careful not to leave fingerprints."
No wonder Yue Xingwen asked the waiter for a stack of gloves when he came out of the restaurant just now, which turned out to be used to search for evidence.
While wearing gloves, Lan Yarong praised: "Xingwen is quite professional."
Yue Xingwen said with a smile, "I'm also just in case. If the criminal police team re-investigates the case and comes to the deceased's house to search and find our fingerprints, it will be difficult to explain."
Qin Lu agreed: "Yes, make the Wannian Ship carefully."
The four quickly put on gloves, and Yue Xingwen began to assign tasks: "Senior Sister Lan and I searched the study room, Qin Lu and Xin Yan searched the bedroom, focusing on evidence such as paper documents and photo albums, and took photos with mobile phones after seeing them. ."
Everyone split up.
Yue Xingwen and Lan Yarong came to the study, where there was a mahogany desk and leather boss chair, and the mahogany bookcase on the whole wall looked very imposing. The bookcase is composed of upper and lower parts. The lower layer is a storage space with doors, and the upper layer is a five-layer neat bookshelf. The bookshelves are full of books.
These books are nothing special, but Yue Xingwen saw a photo frame on the bookshelf, which was a group photo of Zhou Ziyang and his son. He took a photo and sent it to the group: "@jiangpingce, is the photo frame taken from the deceased's office so big?"
Jiang Pingce thought about the traces on the bookshelf carefully, and said, "The traces 20cm long and 3cm wide are consistent with this picture frame."
Yue Xingwen guessed: "It may be that he once took a family photo with his wife and children, and the studio sent him a few photo frames. He put one of them on the bookshelf in the office, and later broke up with his wife, so he put the photo frame. Take it away?"
As if to confirm Yue Xingwen's words, Lan Yarong quickly said, "A picture frame is buckled in the desk drawer?" She opened the drawer and found the same picture frame was buckled upside down in the drawer.
When I opened it, it was an intimate photo of him holding hands with his wife.
Yue Xingwen took a photo and sent it to the group: "It may be this. If he wants to have an affair with his lover in the office, he will take the photo of himself and his wife home and put it away."
This kind of explanation makes sense, otherwise, there is no reason for the photos that are well placed on the bookshelf to be taken away suddenly.
Yue Xingwen continued to flip through the bookcase. Below the bookcase was a storage compartment with a height of about 60cm. He squatted down to open the storage space and found a whole row of safes!
Three safes, all set with six-digit passwords.
Yue Xingwen asked in the group, "Do you know the password for his safe?"
Ke Shaobin quickly replied: "It's probably the same as the password for his office drawer, try 768315."
Yue Xingwen entered the password, and with a ding, the box really opened.
Then, he and Lan Yarong were stunned at the same time—
I saw a large amount of gold bars stored in the safe on the far left. Under the irradiation of the alcohol lamp, the full box of gold bars was dazzling. With so much gold, it is estimated that it can be sold for tens of millions of yuan. The second safe was full of neat RMB, estimated to be several million. The third safe was empty, and the money in it should have been taken away by Zhou Ziyang in a box.
While taking pictures, Yue Xingwen discussed with Lan Yarong in a low voice: "It seems that his gray income is far beyond our imagination."
Lan Yarong frowned and said, "Ordinary husband and wife divorce cases should not send so much money to lawyers in private; for the cases he has handled, we have to take a closer look when we go back."
Yue Xingwen thought that Zhou Ziyang once snatched an important client from Lawyer Qi, Jinxing Group. This is a well-known local Internet leading company, and Zhou Ziyang is currently the legal counsel of Jinxing Group. Could there be any problem with the Jinxing Group and secretly give him money as a hush money
Yue Xingwen temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and continued to search the bookcase.
Lan Yarong opened all the drawers of the desk and took photos of all the documents in the drawers for proof.
To her surprise, there were various medical insurance and commercial insurance contracts in the drawer, but she could not find the paper version of the divorce agreement. It seems that Zhou Ziyang just wrote the agreement on the computer, and has not had time to print and sign the formal divorce procedure with his wife. He may be hesitant, so he called his wife after drinking, hoping to get back together.
A divorce agreement that is not printed or signed has absolutely no legal effect.
Therefore, legally speaking, the spouse Liu Lan is still the first property heir after Zhou Ziyang's death.
Lan Yarong turned to the last drawer, and suddenly, Xin Yan's voice came from the next bedroom: "I found a business card case in the drawer of the bedside table in the bedroom. I took a picture and posted it to the group."
They cannot take away the evidence in the deceased's room for the time being. If the police search for evidence again in the future, it will cause evidence to be missing. Therefore, Yue Xingwen's strategy is: only take photos, take the photos back for analysis, and do not move the evidence.
Seeing the photo of the business card case in the group, Ke Shaobin immediately searched it on the computer and quickly came to a conclusion: "The business card case contains the contact information of some customers who have business dealings with him, but there is a business card, and I can't find the information on the computer. ."
Ke Shaobin's computer has information on all the cases that Zhou Ziyang has handled in the past few years, and he has also compiled a "client data sheet" of cases handled by lawyer Zhou, which is very convenient to query.
The name of the person who could not be found was Li Decheng. Attorney Zhou had never helped this person in any case, but Li Decheng's business card was found at home. He keeps this business card, and he must be in private contact with the other party. Otherwise, there is no need to take the unused business card home and put it in the business card box. Most people will throw it away.
Ke Shaobin immediately went online to search for Li Decheng's information, but the result surprised him: "Li Decheng is Chen Xueqin's ex-husband, a very rich businessman!"
Seeing this message, Yue Xingwen asked Lan Yarong softly: "Senior sister, he has a private connection with Li Decheng. If he helps Chen Xueqin in a divorce case, but takes money from Chen Xueqin's husband, he deliberately loses the lawsuit and asks the court to Is it a big possibility that the custody of the child is awarded to the other party?"
Lan Yarong frowned: "There is a rule in the legal profession that you can't take both ends. In a divorce case, collecting money from both husband and wife at the same time is a taboo in the industry. If he is discovered, his lawyer qualification certificate will be revoked."
On the surface, she helped Chen Xueqin handle the case, privately collected her husband's money, and even helped her husband come up with ideas and find evidence...
Once discovered, Zhou Ziyang's career is over.
That's why he took bribes in private and dared not put the money on the table
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said, "Continue looking for clues. After searching his house, we will go back and discuss."
The four of them searched Zhou Ziyang's house in a carpet-like manner, but found no new evidence.
But today's harvest is enough, Yue Xingwen brought a lot of photos and let Qin Lu change the position of the plate.
After returning to Xiaonian's residence, Yue Xingwen asked everyone to collect the photos they took to Ke Shaobin and save them in the laptop. It was already 24:00 in the morning, and Yue Xingwen said, "You guys from the night shift last night will go first. Go to sleep, the rest continue to analyze the clues and watch the surveillance." Zhang Xiaonian lived in a suite in the third room and one hall of Building C, Jiayuan, Jinzuo, Xu Yishen, Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin Xinyan decided to stay here in Zhang Xiaonian. One room, taxis to work together, and convenient communication with teammates at any time.
Lan Yarong's house is a two-bedroom, one-bedroom LOFT apartment, just across the street from the Xinghe apartment building. Sisters Qin Lu and Qin Miao used to live with her. Zhuo Feng continued to live in the duty room of the property, while Lin Manluo lived alone.
Jiang Pingce didn't like to be crowded with too many people, so Yue Xingwen decided to take him back to his apartment and said, "Pingce, you can stay with me, my single apartment is quite spacious, I'll take you back to sleep first. , you haven't slept for 30 hours."
The two were roommates in the library, and Jiang Pingce was naturally willing to live with Xingwen.
After everyone had allocated the accommodation, Yue Xingwen took Jiang Pingce back to sleep first.
The two came to the hall of Xinghai Apartment side by side. The entrance hall was very luxuriously decorated, with gorgeous crystal chandeliers hanging overhead. This is a high-end hotel-style apartment with two elevators and a total height of 33 floors. Wen lives on the top floor, and the law firm has arranged such good conditions for the interns, which is indeed rich and powerful.
He and Jiang Pingce came to the elevator, pressed the up button, the elevator door opened, Jiang Pingce walked in, but Yue Xingwen suddenly stopped, as if thinking of something, staring intently at the elevator next to him.
Jiang Pingce looked at his face and couldn't help but wonder: "What's wrong?"
There was no one around, and the hall was empty.
Yue Xingwen lowered his voice and said, "It's 24:00 in the morning. The No. 1 elevator in the apartment is parked on the 1st floor, and the No. 2 elevator is parked on the 17th floor. This should be a fixed design to facilitate people going up and down the stairs."
In an apartment with a total height of 33 floors, one elevator will automatically stop on the 1st floor for people to go upstairs at any time; the other elevator will automatically return to the 17th floor when no one is in use, which is convenient for high-rise residents to go downstairs. Spend less time.
Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce: "But last night, I remember very clearly that when Senior Sister Lan and I went out to the crime scene, both elevators stopped on the first floor. We waited for several minutes before the elevator arrived. top."
Jiang Pingce quickly understood the meaning of Yue Xingwen: "At that time, someone was going out, so both elevators were on the first floor?"
The same time, 24:00 in the morning.
If the apartment set the elevator to stop on the first floor by default, it should be the same as last night, with both elevators on the first floor.
However, Yue Xingwen saw that at this moment, the No. 2 elevator stopped motionless on the 17th floor, and had no intention of descending. That proves that the default setting of the apartment is that the elevator No. 1 automatically returns to the 1st floor, and the elevator No. 2 automatically stops on the 17th floor!
Just before Yue Xingwen went out last night, someone just went out from Xinghai Apartment. Moreover, this person must live on the floor above or near the 17th floor. Therefore, after he presses the "down" button, the elevator parked on the 17th floor will give priority to pick him up because of the "closer distance". The elevator went downstairs, and the moment Yue Xingwen went out, both elevators stopped on the first floor.
Could this person who went out at midnight have something to do with Zhou Ziyang's death