After all, Wang Jingyao and the others were still children. When they saw the fire burning, they immediately panicked. They knew they were in trouble, so the three of them dispersed and fled the scene as soon as possible.
In fact, if they had not chosen to run away when the fire first started, but had chosen to call for help and have people put out the fire, the fire would not have burned so big. However, they did not do that.
It was night, and many people were staying at home and had no idea what was happening outside. Only after the fire burned out the tangled wires and the entire building lost power did anyone discover that the building was on fire. Many people
I chose to put out the fire immediately, but unfortunately, the fire had already started, and the corridor was usually filled with a lot of messy things, which caused a lot of trouble to the fire-fighting work.
When everyone saw that they could not put out the fire, they naturally chose to run away.
The fastest escapers are those living on the ground floor, and the higher the floor, the greater the cost of escaping.
Dai Zhiyuan's family went out to have a big meal and drank a lot of wine with Liu Mingxuan and others at noon. In the evening, because their eldest son was sick, they worked for a long time, so they went to bed early and waited until they were
When they were awakened by the noise outside, they discovered that the building was on fire. They realized it later and chose to escape immediately.
However, just when they were about to leave with the whole family, someone kicked the debris accumulated in the corridor to their door, blocking the door. Dai Zhiyuan's family kept banging on the door inside, hoping that people outside could
However, the fire was already very fierce at that time, and everyone was busy running for their lives, so there was no time to care about them.
Just when the family felt desperate, a single man who had the worst relationship with them discovered them and launched a rescue operation. However, his strength was limited and he was disabled, so the door was not fully opened.
Only a small opening was exposed, just for a child to come out.
The fire became more and more fierce, and many places were cracked. Dai Zhiyuan's family had no choice but to hand over their newborn son to a disabled person and ask him to help take the child out.
The disabled man agreed and left with his children, but Dai Zhiyuan's family was burned alive at home because they could not get out.
That fire burned many people to death. In addition to Dai Zhiyuan's family, there were also many lonely elderly people and children. Many people were burned and disabled.
After the fire was extinguished, the residents of the entire building were displaced. The scene was damaged twice due to emergency fire fighting, and was damaged multiple times during the subsequent rescue operations. This made it difficult to determine the real cause of the fire.
Investigation and inventory.
The disabled person who took away Dai Zhiyuan's youngest son did not survive in the end. He was already disabled and lived on a high floor. When he got downstairs, he could no longer get out. Finally, a fire alarm rushed in
, rescued the disabled person and the infant baby. The baby was very fragile and almost died, while the disabled person died not long after being taken out of the fire.
Although the baby survived, he was severely burned and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. However, after the baby's vital signs stabilized, the child disappeared in the hospital not long after.
At the end of the fire, Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan followed Dai Zhiyuan and rushed back to put out the fire. However, when they arrived at the scene, they were unable to do anything. At that time, they were still cursing who caused the fire.
After the fire was extinguished, Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan accompanied Dai Zhiyuan to handle his family's funeral affairs and returned to City S.
During this period, neither Wang Jingyao nor Liu Ruilong told the truth. After returning to S City, they tremblingly revealed the matter, which scared Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan half to death.
The fire was caused by Wang Jingyao, Liu Ruilong and Cao Sizhe. Although the three of them were minors, the fire was so big and the losses were extremely serious. If it was known that they caused the fire, then they would have to bear the responsibility
The compensation is very huge and cannot be afforded by them at all.
Finally, after some discussion, the two families kept silent about the matter for the time being and waited for the investigation results from the fire department to see if they could be traced to them. If they were traced, they would have to accept their fate. If not
If you find out about them, you can just pretend that there is no such thing.
I don’t know whether I should say they were lucky or lucky, because the building where the fire broke out was a residential building that caused trouble. The house was very old, and there were a lot of messy things piled up in the corridor. Coupled with the hot weather, the scene was damaged by many people.
After this destruction, many key clues were lost. After some investigation, Wang Hongzhen and the others were not found, which made the Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan families heave a long sigh of relief.
They didn't have to bear any responsibility, but their good friend Dai Zhiyuan's family was buried in the fire, which made them feel very guilty, but they didn't say a single word to Dai Zhiyuan.
When Dai Zhiyuan found them again, they discovered that not all of Dai Zhiyuan's family died in the fire, and the youngest son was rescued.
His family died tragically. Although his younger son survived, he became disabled and suffered severe burns. Dai Zhiyuan no longer wanted to stay in H and S cities, so he quit his job and left S city with his younger son.
From then on, this incident became a matter that the two families adhered to together.
The secret is that in the past, Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan liked drinking. However, since that incident, the two of them stopped drinking. Not only that, they also liked fishing, swimming and other sports related to water.
After the fire, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen opened an account together, and deposited a sum of money into it every year. This money was not left to the family, but to Dai Zhiyuan's younger son, as compensation for them.
Dai Zhiyuan left. Since then, he has hardly contacted Wang Hongzhen and the others. Liu Ruilong suffered a serious illness after the fire and almost died. Fortunately, Wang Hongzhen took out most of his family's money at the critical moment.
The savings helped Liu Ruilong tide over the difficulties.
It is precisely because of this secret that the two families have been as good as one person for more than 20 years. In fact, over the years, Wang Hongzhen used his power to embezzle a lot of money from the company, and all of this money was
It was filled in under various names, and until now, the company has no idea, and the police have not found out.
Originally, more than twenty years later, the two families had slowly forgotten about this incident.
However, a few months ago, Dai Zhiyuan suddenly appeared. Not only did he appear, he also brought his young son Chang Zhiyuan with him.
It was also at that time that they learned that Dai Zhiyuan had not actually gone far, and had been living in Nanzhuang County, Liu Mingxuan's hometown, all these years.
Dai Zhiyuan was ill and was about to die. He was worried that he would not be able to continue to take care of Chang Zhiyuan after his death, so he found Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen, hoping that they could help. Dai Zhiyuan's reappearance caused a great panic in the two families. They were afraid that Dai Zhiyuan
They knew the truth about the fire that year, but after careful testing, they knew for sure. Dai Zhiyuan didn't know, so he agreed.
Dai Zhiyuan died, and Chang Zhiyuan found Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen. What he said frightened them half to death.
"I know the truth about the twenty-three-year-old fire. Shouldn't you make up for it?"
At first, Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan did not believe it. After all, more than 20 years had passed and the police had not found out. How could Chang Zhiyuan know? However, when Chang Zhiyuan came up with many investigation results that Dai Zhiyuan left before his death,
After that, they finally believed it, so they discussed and transferred all the money they had deposited in the bank over the years to Chang Zhiyuan, and Chang Zhiyuan left after receiving the money.
Chang Zhiyuan left, and the two families thought that the matter was over. However, more than two months ago, Cao Sizhe returned to China and came to S City to start a business.
Logically speaking, Cao Sizhe started his own business and had nothing to do with Liu Mingxuan and the others. There was no intersection between the two parties and there would be no problems. However, Wang Jingyao accidentally saw Cao Sizhe and recognized him. This made Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan fall into trouble again.
In panic.
It was at that time that Chang Zhiyuan appeared again. He proposed to kill Cao Sizhe and avenge his dead family. Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen had to help, otherwise they would expose the matter.
One wrong step, one wrong step.
Twenty-three years ago, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen chose to conceal this matter. Twenty-three years later, they first compromised with Dai Zhiyuan, and then compromised with Chang Zhiyuan. Now, Chang Zhiyuan wants to kill people for revenge, but they are actually unwilling
However, facing Chang Zhiyuan's threat, they had no choice but to agree.
On June 6, Cao Sizhe went to Zhang Lei's son's 100-day banquet. After the banquet, Chang Zhiyuan called Cao Sizhe.
The content of the phone call was very simple and direct, with only one sentence.
"I am Dai Zhiyuan's son. If you don't want what happened twenty-three years ago to be exposed, come to Nanchang Street to see me."
Cao Sizhe is a very arrogant person. He studies well, has a good family background, and has good connections. He can look down on many people. However, the fire in twenty-three years has become a nightmare in his life. After receiving this call,
His first reaction was to flee City S immediately and return abroad. However, after calming down, he still chose to compromise and went to Nanchang Street alone.
As for what Cao Sizhe encountered when he went to Nanchang Street, and what happened next, Gong Xiaomei didn't know either. Wang Hongzhen didn't tell her, Wang Jingyao didn't tell her, and Liu Mingxuan couldn't possibly tell her.
It wasn't until June 13th that Cao Sizhe's body was found on the beach and the police came to the door. Gong Xiaomei didn't know that Cao Sizhe was dead.
She didn't know how Cao Sizhe died, but Cao Sizhe's death must have something to do with Chang Zhiyuan, Wang Hongzhen, and Liu Mingxuan. She was very scared. However, compared to the incident in twenty-three years, Cao Sizhe's death had nothing to do with it.
So serious.
In fact, Wang Hongzhen and the others didn't know the bay where Cao Sizhe's body was found. They had never gone fishing there before. But after Cao Sizhe disappeared, they often went fishing there, and thus discovered Cao Sizhe's body.
At first, Xu Lang and others thought that Cao Sizhe was killed by Sun Wenyao's students, but after some investigation, they felt it was not the case. As for the people who reported the crime, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen, the police had also suspected it, but both families had a tacit understanding and concealed a lot.
The police found nothing suspicious about the incident, thus ruling out their suspicions.
On the 15th, Wang Hongzhen died suddenly and died at the seaside. The police were surprised and shocked. However, the families who were really shocked were actually the families of Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan.
After Cao Sizhe was killed, they knew who the murderer was, and with Wang Hongzhen's death, they were even more certain that the murderer must be Chang Zhiyuan. However, Liu Mingxuan disappeared at that time, and they were not sure. When the police questioned them
At that time, the two families chose to remain silent again because of what happened that year.
It was precisely because of their silence that aroused Xu Lang's suspicion, so he further investigated the two families.
Just when Xu Lang and the others were about to investigate Dai Zhiyuan, Shen Fang returned after missing and became insane. Liu Mingxuan was also found at this time and committed suicide.
In fact, when Liu Mingxuan's body was discovered, the two families couldn't help but want to tell the secret. However, after seeing the suicide note left by Liu Mingxuan, they once again chose to remain silent.
In their opinion, Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen had already sacrificed their lives, and the events of twenty-three years should have passed, and they felt that Chang Zhiyuan would let them go.
And this is indeed the case. After Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan died one after another, Chang Zhiyuan never appeared again, and the lives of their two families seemed to have returned to the past.
On July 1st, the 7.1 case occurred, which immediately attracted great attention from the police in City S and City H. The cases of Cao Sizhe, Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan were temporarily shelved. This made the two families, who were already frightened,
Finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, at this time, someone called and told them to go to the police station to report the crime, saying that members of CSY used torture to extract confessions and threatened them when questioning them.
In fact, at this time, what the two families wanted to do most was to let these two things go and stop being noticed. However, the other party once again threatened them with what happened twenty-three years ago, so they had to choose to do this.
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After listening to Gong Xiaomei's confession, Ye Du was silent for a long time.
She never thought that the murder of Cao Sizhe, the murder of Wang Hongzhen, and the suicide of Liu Mingxuan would be so complicated, and they were also related to the fire case in the past 23 years.
Previously, when Xu Lang and the others investigated Dai Zhiyuan, they made a bold hypothesis based on the previous archives. Originally, this hypothesis seemed absurd, funny, and ridiculous to many people. However, it was not
What I want to argue is that this bold hypothesis is actually true.
The fire twenty-three years ago was not an accident, but a man-made arson. The arsonist was not an adult, nor did he have any agenda, just for fun. They were three children, Cao Sizhe, Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong, who were definitely buried that year.
Dai Zhiyuan's youngest son did not die in the sea of fire, but survived.
In fact, from the perspective of an ordinary person, when Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen learned that the fire was caused by their own children, they chose to conceal it. This is a normal human reaction. After all, the number of casualties in that fire was
Quite a few, and the corresponding losses will be huge. If they choose to surrender, Wang Jingyao and Liu Ruilong will definitely not be sentenced to death, but at least they will have to bear legal responsibility and sky-high compensation, which will directly destroy the two families.
People are selfish. When many people see something, they often stand on the moral high ground and blame others, as if they are right. However, when tragedy happens to them, their choices are fundamentally different.
It will not be as noble as they said before, but will be even more despicable, shameless and immoral.
Ye Du was silent for a long time. She raised her head, looked at Gong Xiaomei and asked: "Twenty-three years ago, was the fire in H City really caused by Wang Jingyao, Liu Ruilong and Cao Sizhe?"
Gong Xiaomei nodded.
"Is there any evidence?" Ye Du asked.
"You can ask Xi Junli and Liu Ruilong. Back then, Liu Ruilong got seriously ill because of this incident and almost died."
Ye Du nodded, she would definitely confirm this.
"Who killed Cao Sizhe? Was it your husband Wang Hongzhen, Liu Mingxuan, or Chang Zhiyuan?"
Gong Xiaomei shook her head and said: "I don't know, and I'm not sure, but Wang Hongzhen and Liu Mingxuan must know about this."
"Did Cao Sizhe have any contact with you before he was killed?" Ye Du asked again.
Gong Xiaomei shook her head again and said: "No, Jing Yao also met Cao Sizhe accidentally, and he didn't dare to recognize him. After all, the fire twenty-three years ago was too big, so he didn't dare to recognize him, and he didn't recognize him.
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Ye Du nodded, it is indeed true. The Wang and Liu families have worked hard and fearfully to hide it for more than 20 years. They will definitely not take the initiative to find Cao Sizhe. After all, Cao Sizhe is also one of the murderers. If there is any trouble with this matter,
It would be of no benefit to everyone, not to mention that Chang Zhiyuan had already found them, so they did not dare to do anything excessive.
"Liu Mingxuan and Wang Hongzhen went fishing in the bay not on a whim, but on purpose, right?"
"Yes, although they love fishing, they like to be in crowded places and rarely go to remote places. They only found that place before Cao Sizhe was killed."
"Why did Wang Hongzhen choose to call the police?"
Gong Xiaomei shook her head and said: "I don't know, it should be arranged by Chang Zhiyuan."