Bloodstained Truths Uncovered Chapter 10

Comrade Sanyang's official name is Yang Kaitai. Before he was transferred to the Municipal Bureau and met Liam Chu, he did not have the nickname "Sanyang", which was auspicious and simple, bringing wealth from all directions. That year, he stepped into the case analysis center of the criminal investigation team for the first time with trepidation. The whole team was in a meeting, and the person presiding over the meeting was his future boss Liam Chu.

Liam Chu was a little too sober after being intoxicated by a cup of strong tea. As he watched this handsome young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes finish introducing himself, the refreshing factors in the tea rushed to his head in groups. He didn't know how to control himself and said stupidly: "Kaitai? Sanyang Kaitai? So is your nickname Sanyang?"

Yang Kaitai was a bit of a natural fool, and any stimulation would only make him dazed. After hearing the leader's joke, he didn't know if this was the legendary rookie's intimidation. He looked at him with a clumsy mouth and couldn't answer for a while, so he could only blush silently.

The police officers, who were as careless as Liam Chu, laughed without any malice, and some of them tried to excuse Yang Kaitai and try to ease his tension.

Liam Chu didn't expect that his words would embarrass the young man who had just graduated from school. He sighed in his heart that a rare species had really come. In their team, besides the men, there was only Qiao Shishi, a fierce female bandit. It had been many years since I had seen someone blush. Comrade Sanyang would become a clear current in the criminal investigation team.

Liam Chu liked him very much and immediately appointed him to be led by Fu Yi.

Yang Kaitai was given a nickname as a joke within half an hour of joining the bureau. After hearing this, Director Yang rushed down from the upper floor with a fierce sword. He found Liam Chu and yelled at him: "Who do you think you are the ancestor of? Is it your turn to change the genealogy of our Yang family? Why don't you change your name to Liushui? I will beat you to a pulp!"

Liam Chu ran away while laughing: "Don't worry, Mr. Yang. We have a custom in our team that anyone who breathes has to be given a nickname, right? That, that, Ergou!"

The team member who was chosen as the second dog responded smartly: "Here!"

Liam Chu called out Tiedan, Gousheng, Donkey, Daniu, and several other cheap and easy-to-feed nicknames one after another, and people all vied to choose the name they were given. The scene became noisy and lively.

Finally, Liam Chu pointed at Qiao Shishi and shouted, "Silly girl!"

Qiao Shishi twisted her long hair with her fingers and said with a smile: "Hey, it's me."

Director Yang was so angry with him that he lost his temper and was forced to leave by his son.

Yang Kaitai sent his father away, turned around and bowed to Liam Chu, his face flushed with shame, and said: "I'm sorry, Captain, actually, I really like this nickname."

Liam Chu was so moved by his bow, which was like mourning for the dead, that he quickly jumped off the chair, patted his shoulder with a smile, and said, "Brother, don't be so restrained."

At this time, Fu Yi came in, holding the information he had just found in the archives, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong? It was so lively just now."

Yang Kaitai turned around and saw a handsome, gentle man smiling at him and said, "You are the new one, right?"

Yang Kaitai has fair skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He has a youthful and creamy smell. He is even more handsome than Liam Chu. He has a very standard young master face. He looked at Fu Yi and didn't know what he was thinking. He was stunned for a long time. His face was red all the way to his ears, as if he had drunk two or three bottles of Maotai. He bowed to Fu Yi again at a 90-degree angle: "Yes, my name is Yang Kaitai! Nickname: Sanyang!"

From then on, Liam Chu told everyone he met that Director Yang's son was much cuter than Director Yang.

Comrade Sanyang has become the cute pet of the criminal investigation team. The cute pet admires Liam Chu and respects Fu Yi. He regards Fu Yi as his life mentor and Liam Chu as his life goal. In a blink of an eye, he has been working under Liam Chu for two years.

Today is the day of Cheng Xun's burial. Liam Chu had originally planned to attend the funeral, but plans cannot keep up with changes. He has more important things to do at this time, so he gave this task to Fu Yi.

Early in the morning, Fu Yi and Yang Kaitai set out, not to attend the funeral, which was held at noon, but to visit the families of two suicides that Liam Chu believed were related. Compared to Cheng Xun, Wang Mingyuan and Xue Minhao, their families were much more ordinary. Xue Minhao's parents were employees of ordinary foreign companies, and their family conditions were barely good enough. They lived in a residential building on the outer ring of the city center. The residential building should be a few years old. Although the exterior had just been renovated, the wall skin was peeling off very quickly, revealing some uneven cement walls inside, like a sixty-year-old woman with makeup on, and no matter how fancy it was, it couldn't cover up the decadent old age.

It was the weekend, so Xue Minhao's mother was at home. She saw through the peephole of the security door two good-looking men of slightly different ages standing outside the door. Although they both looked friendly, she still carefully checked their ID cards before letting them in.

Mrs. Xue is tall and thin, with a well-maintained figure. If it weren't for the wrinkles around her eyes and forehead, she would look like she is in her early thirties.

"Sorry, the security in our neighborhood is poor. Please come in."

Fu Yidao: "It doesn't matter. It's because the public security is poor that we have to be careful everywhere."

Mrs. Xue asked them to sit down in the living room and served them two cups of tea. She was a little surprised to hear that the police came for Xue Minhao's case last year, so she asked them the reason.

Fu Yi just said that some issues were not clarified back then, and now the leader asked them to investigate again thoroughly, and hoped that Mrs. Xue could cooperate.

Although the resurrection of the old matter made the mother who lost her son sad again, it did not hinder the police's work. She sorted out her feelings and answered the questions related to Xue Minhao one by one.

While Fu Yi was asking about Xue Minhao's social circle, Yang Kaitai left the living room in a low-key manner. He saw the bedroom with a poster of basketball star Kobe Bryant on the door among the three nearby bedrooms. He glanced at the two people in the living room, then gently turned the doorknob and walked in.

This should be Xue Minhao's room. Although the room is clean, it is as clean as a model room. It is obvious that no one has lived in it for a long time. The mother must miss her son and often cleans it. There are many posters of Kobe in the room, which shows how much the boy loved basketball. There are also many photos of him on the desk, spanning more than five years. The boy is walking or sitting, still or moving, with a flamboyant and bright smile, which makes it difficult to connect the person in the photo with the owner of the suicide note with a hidden distress signal.

Yang Kaitai picked up a photo of a young boy standing on the court holding a basketball and found that his shoulders were visibly uneven, with his right shoulder slightly tilted downward. It was not very obvious, but it could be seen if you looked closely. Looking at his other frontal photos, you could see his right shoulder tilted downward in almost every one of them. Yang Kaitai took the photo out to find Mrs. Xue and asked her if Xue Minhao's left and right shoulders were uneven when he was alive.

Mrs. Xue held her son's photo, tears welling in her eyes, and choked up as she said, "That's not true. He was born with some physical disabilities, his right leg is shorter than his left leg. To cover up this shortcoming, he always leans to the right. But he likes playing basketball and is very good at it. If it weren't for the defect in his right leg, the school team would have accepted him."

Yang Kaitai and Fu Yi looked at each other, and Fu Yi stood up from the sofa and said, "Can we go to the bathroom?"

Mrs. Xue led them to the bathroom, a small room separated from the toilet and sink by frosted glass. The shower was also in the outside room, and there was only a bathtub in the bathroom. Mrs. Xue said that she liked to take a bath, and the bathtub at home had never been replaced. She had not taken a bath since Xue Minhao drowned in the bathtub.

The bathtub was not small, and it was more than enough for an adult to lie flat, but it was a bit narrow. Mrs. Xue said that she bought it because it was cheap, so she didn't consider other comfort issues. Yang Kaitai stood by the bathtub and looked at it for a while, and said a little embarrassedly: "Can I go in and try it?"

"Can."

Yang Kaitai lay down and tried to turn left and right, then sat up and looked at Fu Yi who had been watching him. The latter nodded to him slightly. He crawled out and apologized to Mrs. Xue again, and then the two left Xue Minhao's house.

When I walked out of the community, it was already noon. The sun was like a fireball, baking my back and scalp, making them itchy. It felt like red-smoked needles were drilling into my skin. It was incredibly hot.

Fu Yi shielded the sun with his hand and put it on his forehead, looked up at the sky and said, "It's going to rain soon."

Yang Kaitai walked beside him with his head down, thinking, and whispered: "Captain Fu, I think Captain Chu's speculation is correct. Xue Minhao did not commit suicide."

Fu Yi looked at him and smiled: "Tell me, how did you figure that out?"

Yang Kaitai said: "Do you remember the photos in Xue Minhao's case file? The scene of his death was lying in the bathtub, with his body tilted about 15 degrees to the bottom of the bathtub. I just lay in it and tried it. Although their bathtub is narrow, it is not so narrow that you can't lie flat. The photo of Xue Minhao's death shows him lying in the bathtub facing left, tilted, with the center of gravity on the left side of his body, but..."

Fu Yi took off his black-framed glasses and wiped the sweat off the frames with a tissue. He said slowly, "But Xue Minhao has always placed his body weight on the right. In order to cover up his physical defects, he has developed this habit over the years. In his bedroom, the quilt and pillow on the bed are also placed on the right. It can be seen that he even developed the habit of leaning to the right when sleeping, but in his death photo, his body is leaning to the left, with the center of gravity on the left."

Yang Kaitai nodded repeatedly, and suddenly rushed to him and said, "The bathtub in their house faces south and north. When you open the door and walk in, the bathtub faces the right hand. If you drag a body into the bathtub, most people are right-handed. If the person dragging the body is also right-handed, then the right hand should be at the bottom and the left hand at the top. After the body is dragged into the bathtub, the body will tilt to the left, and there will be an angle of about 15 degrees between the body and the bottom of the bathtub."

Fu Yi was suddenly blocked by him. He was busy cleaning his glasses and almost bumped into him. He opened his glasses and looked at him mistily for a moment, then put on his glasses, patted his shoulder and said, "You are too nervous."

After saying that, he walked into a roadside shop, came out with two ice cream cones, and saw Yang Kaitai still standing in the middle of the sidewalk basking in the sun. He looked particularly well-behaved and harmless as he kept silent and thinking. The collar and back of his white shirt were stained with sweat, and sweat was dripping down his neck and forehead.

Fu Yi gave him an ice cream cone, then pulled him to the shade of a tree on the side of the road, took out his cell phone and called Liam Chu.

Yang Kaitai hung his head, not knowing what he was thinking, until the ice cream cone was melted by the high temperature and a sweet juice flowed onto his wrist, then he quickly tore open the wrapping paper and took a big bite.

After Fu Yi finished talking to Liam Chu on the phone, he returned to him and said, "Okay, we should go to Cheng Xun's funeral."

Fu Yi and Yang Kaitai confirmed that Xue Minhao's death was not suicide. This marked the beginning of the case and uncovered the clues that had been buried underground for more than three years.

The blockade at the scene in Noah Times Square was about to be lifted, and Liam Chu once again returned to the first crime scene. The place where Cheng Xun died, the first scene was where the most clues were hidden. Whenever he encountered a difficult case, he would always return to the scene. Although he might not necessarily find new evidence, it would allow him to reshuffle his thoughts. This time, he undoubtedly encountered a difficult problem.

The scene was too clean, and the clues that should have been discovered had already been collected. Liam Chu walked around the cordon and found nothing. When he was about to leave, he was suddenly blinded by a flash of light from the bushes. He squatted on the grass and moved forward inch by inch. He found a button in the soil and grass roots. It was a very ordinary light green button. Due to its age, the color became mottled and it was difficult to see its original appearance.

Liam Chu frowned as he looked at the button which had perhaps been lying here for a long time. It obviously had nothing to do with the case.

This artificial lake is flanked by bamboo forests and green willows on both sides. Even if there were cameras around, the view would be obscured by the greenery. Liam Chu stood up and looked up at the four corners of the sky surrounded by greenery. He saw nothing except the high-rise Pearl Tower standing in the center of Noah Times Square. However, looking west, the Ark Building, the headquarters of Wells HE's company, was located on the east side of Wangjing Road, separated from Times Square by only a road.

He left Noah Square, drove across the road to the city's CBD financial center, parked in front of the Ark Building, and stepped into the lobby on the first floor.

There are active personnel changes here at Wells HE's company and he seldom comes to Wells HE's company, so few people know him. He specifically asked for Wells HE, and the beautiful receptionist maintained good professionalism and asked him if he had an appointment.

Liam Chu thought that if he ever got to the point where he needed to make an appointment a week in advance to see Wells HE, he would no longer be able to be a brother.

He took out his cell phone and wanted to call Wells HE, but no one answered. He called Assistant Xiao, but Assistant Xiao didn't answer either. However, apart from Assistant Xiao, Liam Chu didn't have any acquaintances in Wells HE's company. As for He Yunshu, whom he had met a few times, he never had the habit of leaving other girls' phone numbers.

The girl at the front desk thought he was a troublemaker, and even the security guard cheered him on. Liam Chu glanced at the security guard standing next to him with a fierce look in his eyes, and he felt very upset. When he was about to leave in disgrace, he suddenly remembered someone.

Ten minutes later, Sophia Shu came down. As soon as she got out of the elevator, she saw Liam Chu standing in front of the reception desk with a dark face, so she walked towards him quickly in her high heels.

"What's wrong? Looking for me?"

Liam Chu softened his expression and said, "Where's Wells HE? I can't contact him."

Sophia Shu pulled him aside and said, "Mr. He didn't come to the company. He went to the Rio Hotel for a meeting today."

Liam Chu was silent for a moment and asked, "Is it the Rio Hotel at the intersection of North Street?"

"Um."

Liam Chu was about to leave, but he took a step towards the door before he suddenly stopped and turned back to say to her: "Thank you."