Lao Wu said it in a righteous way, but we couldn’t believe him.
Because the same thing was said almost exactly by Liu Hao.
Which one should I believe, him or Liu Hao?
Lao Wu’s statement that Liu Hao was innocent was not directed at Liu Hao. The people at the Fengqi branch had also told me that Lao Wu and Liu Hao used to be very close and the two were good brothers.
But maybe Old Wu was doing it on purpose, he said it so that he could appear to be impartial and make us trust him more.
Zhao Zichen and I were not fools, the more intelligent we were the more suspicious we were. We exchanged glances and I knew that Zhao Zichen was as suspicious as I was.
“What, you guys don’t believe me?” It was then that Old Wu saw that we were abnormal.
I coughed dryly and took the photo of the corpse back to look at it again and again, wondering in my mind how to go about making sure that Old Wu was good, and if not, how to muddle this through without a trace.
The first thing I did was to take a look at it, and then I took a look at it again, and my face turned white again.
“Holy sh*t, what’s wrong with you, what’s so great about this?” He was furious and yelled at me.
I said, “Team Wu, it’s not that we believe you or not, it’s that you don’t believe us. I am indeed an ex-special forces officer, and this Officer Xia is just a suspension check from the field. Even if we wanted to do something for you, we wouldn’t be able to help you.”
It was a funny feeling now, Old Wu and Bureau Zhou had said almost the same thing to us, both asking us to help find out what was black in the police force.
But no one could say who was the black one, everyone was just guessing.
Bureau Zhou and Liu Hao were on one end of the spectrum, Bureau Yang and Wu were on the other, and these two sides were suspecting each other.
Old Wu smiled and said, “Come on Team Zhang, I have long eyes too, you simply don’t believe me. But after you’ve seen this, maybe you won’t think so.”
He pushed in a test form, which was Xu Changsheng’s medical examination form.
“After Xu Changsheng was imprisoned, Bureau Yang and I found a way to test his DNA.”
Zhao Zichen said nervously, “Will he suspect?”
“No, we found a chance to beat him up. You guys are Xu Changsheng’s good buddies, did you know that Xu Changsheng has siblings?”
I looked to Zhao Zichen, who knew the most about Baldy.
Zhao Zichen said, “He was an orphan, adopted by Yun Guihai, I don’t know if he has any siblings, even he himself doesn’t know. The Yunya Sect originally made an orphan hall and adopted many children, Baldy was only six months old when he was adopted, and even if he had, he himself didn’t know.”
Old Wu said, “Team Zhang, if I didn’t trust you guys, I would never have told you about this, I hope you must keep it a secret.”
“What?”
Old Wu said, “Xu Changsheng skipped a grade to get into Tsinghua University and donated blood when he was studying, so he has a stored sample of blood, and so do his fingerprints, which are needed to receive any new ID cards. We compared the fingerprints are not right, then very suspicious, Yang team found a way to get Xu Changsheng’s blood samples, to do a DNA comparison, recently is not the New Year, the testing centre is also on holiday, I have a good rush, only this morning got the test results. The person we brought in is not the same person as Xu Changsheng.”
We had known for a long time that this man was not Baldy now, but Old Wu was willing to tell us this, much to our surprise.
Old Wu took a long sigh and said, “Yang Bureau and I always suspected that something was wrong with this man, so we wanted to hold him. In fact, we had checked long ago that the person was not killed by Xu Changsheng, and a lot of evidence did not match up. The forensic pathologist also proved that the time of death of the deceased was much earlier than the time of Xu Changsheng’s coma, and there were also knife wounds and bloodstains that showed that the room was not the first scene. But the reason we are holding Xu Changsheng is because the man is surprisingly not himself.”
I rubbed my palms together and looked to Zhao Zichen, who gave me a wink that suggested I could leak a little.
I asked, “Team Wu, what does this have to do with the black police you mentioned earlier? Yu Shen was a black cop, which you’ve already checked out, and Yu Shen is already dead.”
“Why are Fengqi’s people desperately trying to get Xu Changsheng out? When things go wrong, it’s a demon. I spoke to them and the fingerprints don’t match. Moreover, we picked up a fingerprint of Liu Hao at the scene, but I can confirm that Haozi has nothing to do with Xu Changsheng’s case at all.”
Liu Hao was also foggy, and he had been worried that he would not be cleared of suspicion, and that the fingerprint had been kept secret. But since Team Wu knew about the existence of this fingerprint, but didn’t arrest Liu Hao, what exactly was the evidence?
I said, “How do you know?”
Team Wu propped his elbows on the table, leaned forward, looked at us and said with a smile, “Someone had been following Old Liu that day, keeping an eye on him, and he hadn’t left the house that day, so it couldn’t have been him.”
It dawned on me and Zhao Zichen that even Liu Hao himself didn’t know about this.
I asked, “Why did you follow Liu Hao?”
“This ……” Old Wu blushed and his eyes turned elsewhere, “It doesn’t matter, let’s move on back to the case.”
Zhao Zichen said, “It’s important, Old Wu, you can’t say half and hide half, you have to tell us all of it before we can believe your words.”
Old Wu cast a look at me for help, but Zhao Zichen and I were thinking exactly the same thing, even Xia Gehuai was waiting for him to say it.
“My sister ……”
“What?”
“My sister has her eye on him and asked me to help check him out.”
“Huh?” All three of us sounded dumbfounded.
Old Wu simply broke down and said, “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you. My sister, who is ten years older than me, wanted to chase after Old Liu, but he wouldn’t take her up on it. I advised my sister that there are thousands of Chinese sons and daughters, so if this one doesn’t work, we can change. But my sister didn’t, and she pursued Liu to the death. As a matter of fact, there is a veil between a woman and a man, but she couldn’t catch up with Lao Liu. One day, my sister came to me and said, “Lao Liu is the one.”
“Which one?” I asked.
“Oops, that’s the one, the gay one.”
The three of us sat there, feeling all sorts of bombs exploding wildly around us, blasting us all into complete confusion.
Lao Wu said, “My sister said that she secretly followed Lao Liu and found him sneaking around with a man who had met him.”
“So you followed him?”
“I’m not that stupid, I guess it was Old Liu’s informant, but I couldn’t tell my sister explicitly, so I had to ask my sister not to keep an eye on it. But women you know.” Old Wu tapped his temple in disgust, “Anyway, she was secretly stalking behind my back and said she wanted to catch Old Liu in the act.”
Zhao Zichen said, “Is there something wrong with your sister? Even if he really is a f**got, it’s not like he’s your sister’s boyfriend, what does catching him in flagrante delicto want?”
