After a brief pause on the phone, Gu Chen clearly felt that the noise on the phone was getting smaller and smaller.
Soon, Gu Chen heard the sound of closing the door again, and then came Liao Guoping's polite reply: "Director Gu, you are the star policeman Gu Chen of Furong Branch, right?"
"Yes, I am Gu Chen." Gu Chen also replied affirmatively.
When Liao Guoping on the phone heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Hey, Director Gu, I have known you for a long time, but I didn't expect that you would call me. I don't know, is there anything I can do for you?"
"Of course." Seeing that Liao Guoping was polite and had heard of his name, Gu Chen said calmly:
"More than ten years ago, on the construction site you contracted, was there a young worker from Jiangbei named Lu Xiaofeng?"
"More than ten years ago? Jiangbei worker? Lu Xiaofeng?"
It seemed that it was too long ago and Liao Guoping's memory was a little slow, or it seemed that Liao Guoping's brain had not yet sobered up after going through the meat and wine game.
Gu Chen waited for a long time but did not see a reply from Liao Guoping, so he quickly asked: "Do you have any impression?"
"Well, Director Gu, I... I seem to have some impression, because I have contracted many projects and have been in this business for many years."
"But when you suddenly mentioned this person, I really have no impression at all. Can you give me some more hints?"
"That man was killed by a falling object from a height. His head was smashed beyond recognition. Do you have any impressions now?" Gu Chen said.
"Uh... Well, it seems that there is such a person, but... so many years have passed, and it seems that we also compensated the family members of the deceased."
"I don't know. Director Gu called today and asked about this incident. What exactly did he want to know?"
"Some details about that year," Gu Chen said.
"Details? This..." It feels a little baffling.
In other words, anyone who suddenly receives a call asking about the specific situation of that year more than ten years later will feel a little confused.
Of course, the same goes for Liao Guoping.
Seeing that Liao Guoping didn't respond, Gu Chen said again: "How about this? Come to our Furong Branch Criminal Investigation Team now, I'll wait for you here."
"Ah?" Seeing what Gu Chen said, Liao Guoping obviously resisted and said: "But, Gu Bureau, it's late at night. Besides, I've already drunk a lot of wine, and my head is a little buzzing..."
"Then take a taxi and we'll reimburse you for the taxi fare." Gu Chen said.
"Haha." Hearing that Gu Chen's attitude was so resolute, Liao Guoping just laughed twice and then said:
"That's not what I meant. I mean, my mind is unclear right now. If you ask me questions, I may not be able to answer them."
"It doesn't matter, I will help you slowly remember what happened back then. You just need to come here now, because the case we are investigating now is closely related to the incident you were exposed to back then."
"So, we need your help now, and we hope you can actively cooperate."
Seeing that Liao Guoping was still repulsive, Gu Chen patiently explained.
Liao Guoping on the other end of the phone also said coquettishly: "It's probably not easy to take a taxi at this time."
"In that case, tell me where you are? I'll send a police car to pick you up."
"Ah no no no." When he heard that Gu Chen was going to send a police car to pick him up, Liao Guoping, who was worried that he would be misunderstood by his friends, immediately agreed:
"Okay, I'll tell my friends and we'll take a taxi over right away. Do you think that's okay?"
"Okay, then I'll wait for you at the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch."
Gu Chen only hung up the phone after a brief communication with Liao Guoping.
About half an hour later, a taxi slowly stopped at the entrance of Furong Branch.
I saw a fat middle-aged man with a big belly, carrying a briefcase. After looking around for a few seconds, he walked towards the office building.
It was only after a while of questioning that we arrived at the door of the criminal investigation team office.
After knocking on the door, the middle-aged fat man stuck his head out. But when he saw Gu Chen, the man quickly smiled and walked forward, shook hands with Gu Chen and exchanged greetings: "Director Gu, I am Liao Guoping."
"Have you seen me?" Gu Chen also asked him politely.
Liao Guoping shook his head and said, "Although I have never seen you, I often see your posters on the bulletin board outside our community."
"So that's it?" Seeing this, Gu Chen also stretched out his right hand and said, "You sit down first."
"Alas!" Liao Guoping said "Alas" and looked around, then quickly found a stool and sat down first.
At this time, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha had also handed over the task of interrogating Lu Xiaofeng to other police officers.
When they saw Liao Guoping, everyone gathered around him.
"Liao Guoping, you should know this person." Lu Weiwei took out her mobile phone and showed Lu Xiaofeng's photo in the interrogation room in front of him.
Liao Guoping frowned and quickly took the phone and checked it carefully.
After a while, he raised his head to look at Gu Chen and said slowly: "This person looks familiar. He seems to be similar to the Xiaofeng person you mentioned on the phone."
"It's Lu Xiaofeng." Gu Chen reminded him.
"Yes, that's Lu Xiaofeng. I remember that he seemed to have worked at my construction site for a while. He was tall and thin and spoke with a northern accent."
After thinking about it, Liao Guoping suddenly came back to his senses. He quickly picked up Lu Weiwei's phone and looked at it a few more times. He suddenly looked ugly and said in disbelief:
"But, why does the person in the photo look a bit older? Could it be... could it be..."
"Do you find it incredible?" Gu Chen asked.
Liao Guoping nodded silently: "Yes, this person does look somewhat similar to the Lu Xiaofeng I met back then. He still feels older."
"It's just that you asked me to come here this time just to show me this photo?"
"If I told you that this man attacked a police officer, causing the injured policeman to almost die, what would you think..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What? Attacking the police? You mean, this person is still alive?" Listening to what Officer Wang said, Liao Guoping was stunned and seemed a little unbelievable.
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Gu Chen didn't talk nonsense to him and said straightforwardly: "He has been captured by us and is at Furong Branch. Later I want you to identify whether that person is Liao Guoping."
"No...impossible, absolutely impossible." Listening to Gu Chen's words, Liao Guoping suddenly panicked and quickly waved his hand, looking very resistant:
"That Lu Xiaofeng, all of us saw at the time that he was hit to death by a falling object from a height. His head was smashed beyond recognition. It was very miserable."
"I saw all this with my eyes, and I was present throughout the compensation process at that time. I even paid a lot of money for this."
"But now you tell me that that guy is still alive, this... this is absolutely impossible."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liao Guoping was out of breath, as if he was frightened by this situation.
Gu Chen also said slowly: "Now tell me, what physical characteristics does Lu Xiaofeng have, besides appearance and figure, such as personality, tone of voice, and other things."
"Let me think about it." Liao Guoping wiped the sweat on his forehead and tried to calm down.
After a long while, he slowly said: "In my impression, he doesn't seem to talk much. He always likes to lower his head. When he looks at you, he likes to raise his eyes upward."
"Is there any more?" Yuan Shasha listened to Liao Guoping's introduction and asked while recording.
Liao Guoping scratched his scalp and couldn't help but said: "What else? This...more than ten years have passed, I really don't know what else?"
"Then come with me." Seeing that Lu Xiaofeng's memory in Liao Guoping's mind was blurring, Gu Chen directly asked Liao Guoping to follow him to the interrogation room.
Liao Guoping didn't dare not listen at this moment, so he could only stand up and follow Gu Chen.
Everyone came to the door of the interrogation room together. When the door opened, a group of people walked into the interrogation room. Lu Xiaofeng, who originally had his head lowered, raised his head slightly at this moment, but soon lowered his head out of habit.
It seemed that no matter how the police asked, he would never tell anything.
However, at this moment, Gu Chen was not in a hurry to interrogate Lu Xiaofeng. Instead, he gave up his position and motioned for Liao Guoping to step forward and carefully verify Lu Xiaofeng's identity.
"See if it's him?" Gu Chen said.
Liao Guoping said "Oh" and then slowly stepped forward. He saw the person coming across from him had his head lowered and was now wearing handcuffs and leg irons.
Liao Guoping was a little panicked, but he didn't dare to get too close to the other party.
So, Liao Guoping squatted down and began to observe the specific appearance of the person opposite.
But when he saw the other party's appearance, Liao Guoping was so frightened that he shrank back and sat down on the ground. He also backed away and muttered: "What the hell, what the hell."
Lu Xiaofeng, who was sitting in the interrogation chair, was also attracted by Liao Guoping's noise. He raised his head slightly and took a look.
Perhaps because he did not recognize Liao Guoping, Lu Xiaofeng felt confused at this moment.
Officer Wang quickly asked: "Is it him?"
"Yes, he is Lu Xiaofeng, there is no mistake. His eyes, movements, and demeanor are exactly the same. He is exactly the same person as the original Lu Xiaofeng."
It was also under Liao Guoping's identification that Lu Xiaofeng, who was sitting in the interrogation chair at the moment, suddenly realized that the man opposite him seemed to be somewhat familiar with him.
Seeing that Lu Xiaofeng was a little surprised at this moment, Gu Chen also took a step forward and reminded him: "Lu Xiaofeng, raise your head."
It was also when he heard Gu Chen calling his name that the man raised his head slightly.
Gu Chen helped Liao Guoping, whose legs were weak with fear, and pointed at Liao Guoping and asked: "This person should be familiar to you, right?"
Lu Xiaofeng squinted his eyes and heard Gu Chen call out his name again. At this moment, Lu Xiaofeng frowned slightly, and seemed to feel that the situation seemed to be getting worse and worse for him.
"This is your boss at the construction site. It was on this construction site that you died accidentally. For this reason, your boss paid a sum of money to your family. Do you still remember?" Gu Chen
explain.
Lu Xiaofeng frowned slightly, but quickly turned his head away, as if he had not expected this sudden situation.
Lu Weiwei said angrily: "Back then, you caused great harm to others and died unexpectedly, but now you are still alive and well. So I want to know, who was the unlucky guy who was smashed to death back then?"
After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Lu Xiaofeng remained silent, as if he was mute.
Officer Wang's eyes were so angry that he slapped the table angrily and said angrily: "Lu Xiaofeng, don't think that we can't find out if you don't say anything."
"When you defrauded the compensation money, did you kill the deceased? Who was he? You didn't explain these things clearly, and now you openly attack the police, almost killing the policeman on the spot."
"Not only that, you also killed He Junlong. It can be said that you have a lot of blood debt in your hands."
"Don't think that if you don't say anything now, you can escape responsibility. Let me tell you, Lu Xiaofeng, you fell into our hands this time, and you will look good."
After hearing Officer Wang's words, Lu Xiaofeng's tense mood seemed to have returned to its original state, and he stopped talking to everyone. He lowered his head, closed his eyes, and assumed the posture of being silent.
"Hey!" Officer Wang was furious when he saw this situation. He was just about to go up and argue, but was stopped by Gu Chen.
"Senior Brother Wang, you can't do this." Gu Chen shook his head.
Officer Wang also said angrily: "This guy is so annoying."
"Let's go out first." Gu Chen had long expected Lu Xiaofeng's reaction. After all, he had always been like this since he was arrested.
It is nothing more than trying to resist the police investigation with silence, but this approach is very stupid. At least it is a fact that Lu Xiaofeng killed He Junlong, and the attack on Zhang Jingde is also a certainty.
No matter what, he cannot escape the punishment of these laws.
Taking Liao Guoping, whose legs were weak, back to the office, Gu Chen poured him a glass of water at the water dispenser and handed it directly to Liao Guoping.
Liao Guoping took the paper cup with trembling hands, thanked God, and then drank a sip of water to calm down.
Looking up at Gu Chen, Liao Guoping also complained: "Gu Bureau, I really didn't expect that this guy who has been dead for many years is still alive?"
"Not only is he alive, but he has become a murderer? Oh my god! This is too scary."
After the words fell, Liao Guoping also patted his chest, trying to calm himself down, and then said again:
"After all, I drank a lot of wine. They say wine makes people bold, but when I saw this guy, I almost pissed myself with fear."
"Are you so scared again?" He Junchao, who was sitting on the seat, seemed to be scared out of his wits when he saw Liao Guoping going to the interrogation room, and he couldn't help complaining.
Liao Guoping glanced at him and tried his best to defend himself: "Comrade police, you don't know how miserable Lu Xiaofeng's death was back then."
"Such a heavy object fell from a high altitude and smashed his head into pulp. Oh, I don't want to see that kind of scene again in my life. It's so disgusting."
"At that time, I felt guilty for this matter for a long time. Even during that time, I spent a long time in nightmares."
"This is not only material compensation, but also psychological suffering for me."
With a heavy sigh, Liao Guoping looked around, then gestured with his hands and complained to everyone:
"Later, Lu Xiaofeng's matter was finally settled, and my mood gradually improved. But why did this dead person who I saw with my own eyes suddenly come back to life more than ten years later?"
"I have to ask you." Lu Weiwei said casually when she saw Liao Guoping looking at her.
Liao Guoping also groaned and said angrily: "Comrade police, please stop teasing me and look at me? How do I know?"
"Then you said just now that you saw Lu Xiaofeng being smashed into a pulp. Did you see those things falling from a high altitude and then hitting Lu Xiaofeng's head?" Yuan Shasha said at the side.
Liao Guoping hesitated for a few seconds, then waved his hand and said: "This...that's not true."
"That's it." Officer Wang took a sip of wolfberry tea and couldn't help but said:
"You didn't see it with your own eyes, which shows that there were obvious discrepancies in Lu Xiaofeng's death back then."
"But who is that dead person?" At this moment, Liao Guoping also had doubts about the identity of the deceased person.
Gu Chen asked: "Didn't you seriously confirm the identity of the deceased?"
Liao Guoping shook his head: "Well, it's hard to say. We also wanted to know who the deceased was back then. But in the pocket of the deceased's work clothes, we did find Lu Xiaofeng's work badge and some of his personal belongings."
"Even the cigarettes he smoked were the same pack he distributed to us workers that day."
"Moreover, when we counted the number of people at that time, we only found that Lu Xiaofeng was not there, so we could only confirm that he was Lu Xiaofeng, and everyone thought so."
"Then Lu Xiaofeng is the only one missing from your construction site, and you haven't confirmed whether there are others?" Gu Chen said.
Liao Guoping shook his head: "This is really not true. I remember that we counted everyone at that time, but Lu Xiaofeng was not found. Plus, there were no identification items, so it is normal to confirm that the deceased is Lu Xiaofeng."
"But, I still can't figure out who the deceased was? Why did the deceased wear Lu Xiaofeng's clothes? Did he appear on the construction site?"
"Don't you still understand?" Seeing that Liao Guoping didn't seem to understand at this moment, Gu Chen quickly said:
"This deceased person is Lu Xiaofeng's stand-in for the golden cicada to escape. Why is there a head injury? And the head position is beyond recognition? This is because this deceased person may have died at the hands of Lu Xiaofeng."
"When Lu Xiaofeng killed the deceased, he attacked the head. In the end, Lu Xiaofeng thought of a way to get the best of both worlds, which was to disguise him as himself."
"Then, he put on his own clothes, and finally directed and staged a safety accident, causing those high-altitude objects to fall directly and hit the deceased on the head."
"In this way, the deceased must be completely unrecognizable, and at this time, you can't confirm the identity of the other party at all?"
After a pause, seeing Liao Guoping's confused face, Gu Chen said again: "If I guess correctly, the time when the incident happened should be at night, right?"
"Because it's only at night, it's easier to operate these."
"That's right." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Liao Guoping nodded to confirm:
"I remember that it was indeed at night when the incident happened. There were lights everywhere on the construction site, but some places were dim and could not be seen clearly at all."
"The place where the accident occurred was at the corner of a building on a construction site."
With a heavy sigh, Liao Guoping was quite helpless and said slowly:
"I really didn't expect that something that had been finalized back then would actually have such a reversal?"
"It's incredible that people who died can still be alive more than ten years later."
Rubbing his face with both hands, Liao Guoping couldn't calm down for a long time.
Gu Chen sat down, keeping a level position with Liao Guoping, and then asked again:
"Liao Guoping, think about it carefully, how did you get to know this Lu Xiaofeng in the first place?"
"How do you know him?" Liao Guoping looked up and thought, and said in retrospect:
"I remember that I was on the construction site and contracted a project. At noon, I had dinner with a few friends at a nearby restaurant."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Because we urgently need some workers, I asked the hotel owner to ask, or hang a signboard at the door of the hotel, to find some workers nearby to help at the construction site.
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"And Lu Xiaofeng seemed to be eating in the same restaurant as me at that time."
"As soon as he heard that our construction site was looking for young workers, he recommended himself and asked if he could do it."
"I remember, this is what he told me at the time. He said that he had just come to Jiangnan City and had not been working for a long time. His last job was not satisfactory, so he resigned. Now he happens to have no job, so he asked me
I asked about the wages of the laborers."
"Then we had a brief chat. I thought this guy was in good health, so I asked him to come to the construction site that afternoon and give it a try."
"Then what?" Officer Wang continued to ask.
Liao Guoping raised his head and thought: "Then? Then he came to the construction site that afternoon. He was quite diligent. He worked at the construction site for a long time and asked me if he could do it?"
"I was also in a hurry to find someone, so I told him to come to work early tomorrow. In this way, he became a laborer at our construction site, mainly doing odd jobs."
"Anyway, I feel like people are quite honest."
"Is he the only one?" Yuan Shasha asked again while recording.
Liao Guoping nodded silently: "Yes, he was the only one at that time. It seems that he had no relatives and came from Jiangbei to work."
"I was afraid that he would ask me to arrange a place for him to live, so I made it clear to him that we would provide working meals here, but not accommodation, and let him think clearly."
"He agreed readily at the time, so he continued to work like this for nearly ten days."
With a faint sigh, Liao Guoping also said helplessly: "Everyone seemed to be getting familiar with it, but suddenly one day, I was working the night shift on the construction site and checking some materials with the workers, when I heard a loud 'plop'."
"Everyone didn't react at the time, and the construction site was very noisy, so they didn't know what happened?"
"Then I heard someone say that something fell from upstairs. My first reaction was to ask someone to go over and have a look to see if anyone had been hit."
Holding his forehead with one hand, Liao Guoping also said helplessly: "What are you really afraid of?"
"Just when I was lucky and felt that it was an accident and there would be no casualties, I heard a worker shouting, "It's going to kill someone, it's going to kill someone."
"When I heard this, the machines on our construction site immediately stopped working. Many people put down their work and ran to the site of the incident to check the situation."
"I discovered that a worker wearing work clothes had his head blown open and was smashed into a ball of flesh by an object falling from upstairs."
After waving his hand, Liao Guoping also said tremblingly: "Oh, I still remember that scene, not to mention how terrifying it was."
"Then what? Are you going to confirm the identity of the deceased?" Lu Weiwei said.
"Yes, we wanted to know who this unlucky guy was? So we went forward to confirm the identity of the deceased."
"We soon discovered that this guy is Lu Xiaofeng..."
"Wait a minute." As soon as Liao Guoping finished speaking, Gu Chen confirmed again:
"I want to confirm with you whether there were any preventive measures at your construction site at that time? For example, a protective net to prevent falling objects from heights?"
"Yes." Liao Guoping nodded silently and quickly explained:
"But Director Gu, you have to know that no matter how strict the precautions are, there will still be small accidents. The protective net at that time was indeed in place, but there were also loopholes."
"But who would have thought? By such a coincidence, an object would fall from a high altitude at the location of the loophole, and then Lu Xiaofeng would be killed?"
"We were really desperate at the time and really didn't know how this could happen?"
"Moreover, because of this incident, our entire construction site was required to stop work for rectification. The losses were really huge."
"But not long after the incident, we contacted Lu Xiaofeng's family, his wife, who came from Jiangbei at that time, and confirmed the body."
"In the end, everyone reached a compensation agreement and the accident was successfully resolved."
With a heavy sigh, Liao Guoping added: "I just didn't expect that many years later, I would meet Lu Xiaofeng here again."
"Then are you sure that the man in the interrogation room is really Lu Xiaofeng?" Lu Weiwei also asked him for confirmation.
Liao Guoping nodded fiercely: "It's unmistakable. His eyes and his habitual movements, I can tell them apart just by looking at him."
"Even if he didn't speak, I could still recognize him. I really couldn't figure out why he did this. He really hurt me."
In the end, Liao Guoping also looked aggrieved, as if he had been in the shadow of that incident for so many years.
After Gu Chen thought calmly for a few seconds, he asked Liao Guoping again: "What do you think of Lu Xiaofeng? Make an objective evaluation."
"What else can we do?" Liao Guoping also recalled saying while drinking the last bit of tea in the paper cup:
"At that time, I thought he was relatively honest, and he came from out of town. He didn't have a job yet. I thought I could recruit someone who would work hard, but who would have thought? This guy actually cheated me."
