Genius Detective - Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Chapter 147: Trap

Xue Chengyi woke up with a hangover and his head felt like it had swelled up . He washed his face and saw his wife sitting in the bathroom burning things expressionlessly .

Xue Chengyi found a shopping bag and put wet tissue paper at the bottom of it as Tang Hui poured all the ashes in it . They also put some other garbage in there to cover it up .

Although the house was warm, it seemed to be freezing .

Xue Chengyi took the lead in breaking the silence . "When this is over, let’s go through the divorce procedure . "

"Why?" Tang Hui said coldly .

"Why?!" Xue Chengyi's rage welled up . "You killed my dad!"

"Is his life more expensive now?"

"I have money to treat him now, unlike in the past . We didn’t have any options back then! That’s why we did that!”

"Mr . Xue, don't forget . If my mother didn't ‘suddenly’ die back then, you would still be a no-name . If my mother can't enjoy life, then your dad doesn't deserve it either . ”

"You are a vicious woman!" Xue Chengyi gritted his teeth .

"Me? Vicious? I made a lot of sacrifices at the beginning and did not report you to the authorities . Our lives are tied together! No one can leave the other behind . Otherwise, we’ll die together!”

Xue Chengyi was so angry that his lips quivered . At this moment, the doorbell downstairs rang . Xue Chengyi picked up the doorbell phone and asked stiffly, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Old Chen . "

"Officer Chen!" Xue Chengyi's tone changed one hundred and eighty degrees . "Did you need me for anything?"

"I’m investigating the nurse’s case . I saw that you were quite busy yesterday so I didn’t ask anything, but I was hoping to ask you some questions today . ”

"I’ll come down right away . "

Xue Chengyi gave Tang Hui a look, hid the bag of garbage, quickly put on his clothes, and went downstairs . Tang Hui reminded him as he was leaving, "You have to be careful . He is a policeman so he’s going to be pretty bright . Don’t leak anything!”

"He’s investigating the case around the nurse . "

"Don’t you know clearly in your heart who killed the nurse? Remember, we went out to eat supper at that time and don’t know anything . "

"You’re so stupid . The police would verify that . "

"Just say that the store was closed so we turned back . "

Xue Chengyi went downstairs and smiled as he greeted, "Has Officer Chen had breakfast yet? Let’s eat together!"

"No need . Can I come in and sit down?”

"Since we just finished the funeral ceremony, our place is still very messy . My wife is currently cleaning things up . Let’s go eat outside . ”

The two went to a breakfast stall and ordered a few simple dishes . Chen Shi asked, "It’s said that the money received from women and children is the easiest . Does Boss Xue’s clothing business make a lot of money?"

Xue Chengyi smiled and replied, "It’s not bad . We get by . "

"Which year did you start up this business anyway?"

"It was started ages ago . It didn’t do too well at first . Business only improved around 2002 . ”

"It’s hard in any industry . . . I need to ask you a few questions . That is, just ordinary questions . "

"Sure, I’ll tell you everything I know . ”

"At 4:00 that night, did you see any suspicious people coming into the hospital?"

Xue Chengyi shook his head . "4:00? I remember that my wife and I went out to eat supper around that time . "[1]

"What did you eat?"

"We were planning to go to a wonton shop, but unfortunately they were closed . We turned back and ate some instant noodles instead . ”

"Didn’t your father pass around that time?"

Xue Chengyi was scared and broke out in cold sweat as he responded, "Yes, yes . I meant we planned to come back to eat noodles . However, when we came back, we found that my father had stopped breathing . So, I quickly called the nurse and found that my father had already passed away . Then I called my relatives and friends and relayed the news . I didn’t eat anything all the way till the morning . "

"Condolences!"

"Haii, he’s gone already . I should let him go . ”

The two were chatting for a while when Chen Shi’s phone suddenly rang . It was actually his own alarm clock, but he pretended to answer it . “What? You found important clues on the seventh floor? . . . Don’t move… I’ll come over right now . . . ”

Xue Chengyi looked at him like an idiot . Chen Shi exclaimed excitedly, "We found some clues left by suspects . Maybe the case can be broken today . I will have to go over first . "

"No worries, you go ahead!"

Chen Shi went to the seventh floor of the hospital . Lin Dongxue and Xu Xiaodong were waiting for him there . This was the top floor and patients were generally reluctant to live here . As long as the hospital was not full, there would be no one on this floor .

Chen Shi held a mop in his hand and rested it against the corridor . He asked, "Is there any progress?"

Xu Xiaodong reported, "Xue Chengyi invested about 500,000 yuan into this clothing company in 2001 . In the second half of the year, the company expanded its market and its share price doubled . He became a deputy manager . "

Chen Shi said, "That bastard deliberately told me that it was in 2002 . "

Lin Dongxue also reported, "I checked the hospital . Coincidentally, Xue Chengyi's mother-in-law suffered from stomach cancer in 2001 . She died suddenly during her hospitalization . Xue Chengyi did not ask for hospital compensation . The hospital also didn’t want to bring public attention to the ordeal . "

"’God didn't block his financial path . ’" It seems that everything is very clear now . Xue Chengyi didn't want to use the investment money to pay for his mother-in-law’s medical expenses, so he killed his mother-in-law . "

"What about his father's death this time? With his current financial assets, it shouldn’t be a problem to use some for medical expenses . " Lin Dongxue wondered .

Chen Shi thought of the two handprints on the pillow and reasoned, "Xue Chengyi's father's death is a repayment of debt! Tang Hui knows that Xue Chengyi killed her mother . She chose her husband over her mother-daughter relationship and did not report Xue Chengyi . He was able to achieve his career goals . For twenty years, the husband and wife have been bound by this secret . Just as Wang Shuo said in his novel: Two greedy people in the fairy tale dug for underground treasures . The result was that they dug up a person’s skeleton . Although they quickly buried it back and even planted a tree and some flowers on it, they both understood what was buried underneath . When they saw the tree and flowers, they could only think about the skeleton underground . Now that Xue Chengyi’s biological father was dying, Tang Hui asked him to pay his dues, so the two killed the old man together . Unfortunately, they were spotted by a small nurse and the two could only kill yet another person to tie up loose ends . "

Lin Dongxue said empathetically, "If it wasn't for the small nurse, this case may never have been known . ”

Xu Xiaodong countered, "If you don’t want someone to know something, it’s only possible if you don’t do it . "

"Not necessarily . The death of an elderly person with terminal illness is generally not suspected . They wouldn’t accept a coroner’s forensic test either . The idea where if people don’t report something, the government would not interfere is a widespread notion . If it was not for the nurse this time, this secret would have been buried in the darkness forever!”

"How should we find evidence?" Lin Dongxue asked .

"The evidence is definitely there . The little nurse's cell phone has yet to be found . The couple have been busy with the funeral . I think the evidence has not been cleaned up yet . . . I’ve set up a trap to wait for Xue Chengyi to fall into on his own . "

"A trap?"

At this time, footsteps came from the corridor and Chen Shi lowered his voice . "Xiaodong, you should hide first . Call me in five minutes . You can talk about anything you want . ”

Xu Xiaodong walked away to the other side . Surely enough, it was Xue Chengyi who had come up . Chen Shi showed a smug smile and asked, "Boss Xue, why are you here?"

"Oh, I just came over to do some procedures . I saw your car parked below, and since I knew that you were handling the case, I came up to say hello . " Xue Chengyi smiled, his eyes glanced at the room blocked by the police tape cordon . "Have you arrested the real murderer?”

"Don't talk about it . The forensic appraisers are stuck in a traffic jam . They should be here in a minute . ”

At this time, the phone rang . After Chen Shi answered, he said with surprise, "What? There are two people dead?! Control the scene first . I’ll come over immediately…”

He said to Xue Chengyi in a panic, "There is another case I need to attend to . Can you stay here and wait for me? There are important clues in here . Make sure nobody goes in . The appraisers will come soon . ”

"Sure, you can rest assured!" Xue Chengyi nodded .

Chen Shi took Lin Dongxue downstairs and Lin Dongxue laughed . "This is your trap? Will he be fooled?”

"You’ll be fooled if you have a guilty conscience!"

1 . Both my editor and I are unsure if this consistency is on purpose . In chapter 142, Xue Chengyi says that his wife was watching over his father but fell asleep when his father passed .