Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 92 The Case of Burning the Corpse 10
Was Yu Lan not the murderer?

In other words, after Zhou Qiaoan escaped with her life at home, she was chased by others at Guilingpo.

"Is Zhou Qiaoan so outrageously rotten that everyone wants him dead?" Wu Yang asked from outside.

His family members were one thing, but outsiders also wanted to kill him because of what heinous things he had done outside.
Tan Ming: "Whether it's outrageous or not is unclear, but just from what Yu Lan said, it's rare to see someone so rotten."

He harmed his wife, children, and grandchildren; even in death, he will be cursed with the words, "Good riddance."

Tan Jia didn't join their conversation, wondering, "If it's not Yu Lan, then the focus of the investigation should still be on Wan Anliang. But Wan Anliang seems to have gotten involved in this whole thing out of nowhere. We still can't find out what his relationship with Zhou Qiaoan is, or what motive he could have for murder."

After leaving the interrogation room, Zheng Yan called the police officers who had visited three neighboring towns to inquire about the whereabouts of Yu Lan's family on the night of the incident, and whether anyone there knew Wan Anliang.

He was also puzzled after receiving the reply.

“Yu Lan is telling the truth; she didn’t go out that night. Wan Anliang is still the number one suspect, but no one in the three neighboring towns knows him.”

It had nothing to do with law enforcement conflicts, the addresses were far apart, and no one in the neighborhood had ever seen them. The murderer and the victim seemed to be completely unrelated people. What kind of hidden relationship could they have? They couldn't possibly be classmates, since Zhou Qiaoan only completed first grade.

Yu Lan and Wan Anliang have no relationship; there is no spark of love between them in their middle age.

Tan Ming and his friends had a wild idea: "Could it be some kind of conflict of interest?"

"Does Zhou Qiaoan seem to have any interests worth getting entangled with?"

"A conflict between card players? Maybe Wan Anliang is also a gambling addict at the card table, and they had a dispute while playing cards."

"According to the Market Supervision Bureau, Wan Anliang did not have such bad habits; his entertainment activities usually involved playing billiards."

"So, Wan Anliang hired Zhou Qiaoan as a thug to intimidate those who filed complaints? Then problems arose, Zhou Qiaoan learned his big secret and was followed, and he took advantage of the situation to eliminate her on the night of the incident?"

This idea is somewhat relevant.

Zheng Yan checked the time, first inviting everyone to lunch in the cafeteria, giving Xiao Chen enough time to investigate before calling to inquire about the progress.

Have the people who filed complaints against Wan Anliang and then withdrew them been found?

Xiao Chen was still slurping his instant noodles, and you could tell he was slurping the soup and noodles together. After swallowing, he said, "I found out. It's a few shops that sell cooked food. They're doing pretty good business. I even bought half a pig's trotter from one of them. It was quite delicious."

"But these stores were all fined and forced to close a few months ago. During that time, many internet celebrities suddenly went live on the Internet, all hoping to become famous by showing their faces. The stores that did go live have earned tens of thousands of yuan in the past two months, which made the other stores that were shut down resentful... I asked them, and they said that the reason they withdrew their complaints and reports was because they were warned and given some compensation, so they accepted their fate."

It's not difficult for market regulators to crack down on a few small shops, but they can silently destroy large shopping malls. They have no choice but to back down.

Zheng Yan asked, "What was the warning? What was the compensation? Wan Anliang couldn't possibly have negotiated it himself, could he? Did he get someone to help him?"

Xiao Chen immediately realized: "Could it be that they've found a scoundrel like Zhou Qiaoan? That's quite possible, although he is a bit old."

After saying that, he slurped up a spoonful of soup and noodles with his fork and put it in his mouth.

"Keep your voice down! Have you found the person who called Wan Anliang on the day of the incident?"

"We found out, but it wasn't the person we analyzed before. It was Wan Anliang's former boss who invited him to lunch. Apparently, he just wanted to check on how Wan Anliang was going to resolve the complaint. Wan Anliang left at 12:40 PM, telling his former boss he was going to meet with the shop owners. Judging by the timing, he was using a conciliatory approach, spending a considerable amount of money." Zheng Yan frowned. "The afternoon and evening are still blank. What could have connected him and Zhou Qiaoan in that short period of time?"

Xiao Chen: "I'm not sure, but around 4 p.m. that day, another call record appeared in Wan Anliang's call log that was not in the itinerary and had no note."

"who is it?"

"A middle-aged man named Wu Jinyou, according to the information he and Wan Anliang were high school classmates. I'm planning to take his statement later. By the way, the phone location results should be available in about an hour."

"Okay, Yu Lan's suspicion has been cleared. I'll have Tan Ming come and support you."

While waiting for the phone location results, Zheng Yan and his team started watching the surveillance footage again.

Although the workload is huge, as long as you watch a lot and for a long time, you can always find some clues. After all, the murderer will be exposed to surveillance for a few minutes along the way when entering Guilingpo from a certain place.

Zheng Yan stood behind the technicians, bending over, asking them to pause and zoom in every now and then. His eyes ached from looking at the footage, but he finally found Wan Anliang's whereabouts after 4 p.m. on the day of the incident.

"He and a man went into a teahouse, Qiming Teahouse, which was near one of the cooked food shops that had been closed for rectification."

However, this discovery still cannot connect Wan Anliang and Zhou Qiaoan.

Just as I was pondering this, Xiao Chen called.

"Captain Zheng, a major discovery! Wan Anliang has two cell phones, and their locations are different!"

"Two phones? A work phone and a personal phone, right? Which phone did you use to send fan submissions?"

“It was a private cell phone, and the one we investigated was also a private cell phone. Wan Anliang contacted his former superiors and Wu Jinyou using private phones. But he also had a work phone. The Market Supervision Bureau said that the phone that couldn't be reached was the work phone, and that it was switched off. The private phone that we investigated couldn't be reached either, because no one answered.”

Zheng Yan found it strange: "You said the positioning is different, but where are the two positionings respectively?"

"The latest location of the private cell phone is in Yuncheng. According to the location information that the work cell phone automatically sends to the nearest base station when it is turned off, it is only a few kilometers away from the exit of Guilingpo, and the time is exactly 2:00 a.m. on the night of the incident."

Strange, so strange.

Wan Anliang watched Zhou Qiaoan burn to death right before his eyes, and then shortly after, he turned off his work phone and used his personal phone to fabricate a false story and send it to the blogger of "Mystery Case Pursuit".
"Based on our speculation, Wan Anliang shifted the blame to the driver who caused the accident. At this point, he should have thought he was safe and would continue with his life. His work phone is so important, why would he turn it off and ignore the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau's matter? Does he want to lose his job? Moreover, his personal phone was found in Yuncheng. Did he go there on a business trip as planned? Then he shouldn't have turned off his work phone even more."

The whole case seems to be full of contradictions in Wan Anliang's eyes.

“Not only that,” Xiao Chen added, “Yesterday at noon he also spent thirteen yuan in Yuncheng, which he transferred to a fried rice restaurant.”

What kind of person is Wan Anliang? Would he eat 13-yuan fried rice while on a business trip?
Zheng Yan's heart skipped a beat.

"It's not Wan Anliang who's profiting. He's probably the real dead one."

Then he loudly ordered: "Find the location and arrest the person as soon as possible! Contact Wan Anliang's family and Yu Lan's son to do DNA matching, and bring the hit-and-run driver back for re-interrogation!"

(End of this chapter)