After Li Yang's accident, Lü Qingqing and Hu Jia went to find Li Yongqiang.
At that time, they suspected that Li Yongqiang and Lü Qingqing had been discovered by a third party while exchanging information.
Now, it seemed that someone had deliberately set a trap for Li Yongqiang, making him tell Lü Qingqing about Mo Yun's matter.
This was truly a long game.
Upon seeing Li Yongqiang again, he directly invited them inside to sit.
"Hahaha. Sit down, quickly. What would you like to drink? I only have plain water here."
Li Yongqiang was very enthusiastic. This made Lü Qingqing somewhat unaccustomed to it, because every time she saw Li Yongqiang before, he had always been timid.
"Teacher Li," Lü Qingqing still addressed Li Yongqiang as usual, the purpose being to prevent others from knowing they had too much interaction.
"Ah," Li Yongqiang waved his hand, "You can call me Yongqiang."
Yongqiang?
Lü Qingqing was stunned. Her gaze involuntarily drifted to under his bed.
"Hahaha," Li Yongqiang bent down and pulled out the listening device. Lü Qingqing then saw that the wire had been disconnected.
"What is this?" Lü Qingqing was shocked. "Aren't you afraid the person who threatened you will find out?"
"I'm not afraid. That person is already dead," Li Yongqiang said with a smile.
"Dead?" Lü Qingqing glanced at Hu Jia and immediately realized, "Was it Mo Yun?"
"Yes, it was Mo Yun," Li Yongqiang said. Ever since he discovered the mole on the shoulder of the person threatening him, he insisted on bathing at the public bathhouse every night.
Finally, he saw the mole on Mo Yun.
And ever since he figured out that Mo Yun was the one threatening him, Li Yongqiang paid special attention to him. Then he discovered that someone often went to see him at 9 PM.
The last time, he found someone sneaking around to see Mo Yun. To eavesdrop on their conversation, Li Yongqiang climbed over the wall.
It was during this time that he overheard Mo Yun's conversation with that person. The other party mentioned tracking Hu Jia, which was why he passed the information to Lü Qingqing.
Li Yongqiang's words greatly surprised Lü Qingqing. The first surprise was that Mo Yun was the one who threatened Li Yongqiang.
The second surprise was that Li Yongqiang discovered Mo Yun under unexpected circumstances, without any hints or guidance from others. In other words, the possibility of someone setting a trap for Li Yongqiang was slim.
Could it be that Li Yang was framed and Li Yang appeared at the scene were just a coincidence?
This was too much of a coincidence.
"Don't tell me you killed Mo Yun?" Hu Jia blurted out abruptly.
As soon as Lü Qingqing heard this, she felt that something was wrong. Even if Mo Yun was killed by Li Yongqiang, he wouldn't have framed Li Yang; there was no reason for it.
As expected, upon hearing Hu Jia's words, Li Yongqiang's face immediately darkened. "Considering our childhood friendship, I won't curse at you. You should leave now."
Hu Jia also realized he had said the wrong thing. "I'm sorry," he said, then stood up and walked out.
Lü Qingqing was speechless. "Don't be angry with him. You know his memory isn't very good. In his eyes, you are just the one who was kicked out of the house and severed your father-son relationship with Uncle Li."
Hearing Lü Qingqing mention his father, Li Yongqiang's eyes dimmed. "I'm not angry with him."
He paused for a moment. "Actually, sometimes I envy him. He can forget about Uncle Hu's death, he can mistakenly believe he has avenged his father, but I have to live in this pain."
Lü Qingqing sighed and patted Li Yongqiang's shoulder. "Believe me, the bad guys won't get away. This revenge won't take too long."
...
After coming out of the small second-floor building, Lü Qingqing didn't say anything to Hu Jia. After all, it would be useless to say anything, and the possibility of Hu Jia and Li Yongqiang meeting again might be slim.
"Where are you going?" Hu Jia saw that Lü Qingqing wasn't heading towards the special investigation team and thought she was angry about his careless words.
"I'm going to see Mo Yun's body," Lü Qingqing primarily wanted to check for that mole.
"See the body? Haven't you seen a body before?" Hu Jia was surprised.
"No. We agreed not to interfere with this case, so the autopsy was done by people from Tongyuanmen," Lü Qingqing explained.
Hu Jia was speechless.
For any murder case, he had to personally perform the autopsy, unless the person doing the autopsy was someone he trusted.
He had always assumed that the autopsy report on Li Yang's case file was from Lü Qingqing or Ouyang Wen, but he never expected it to be from those incompetent people from Tongyuanmen.
If the other party deliberately concealed certain facts, wouldn't the truth never be uncovered?
Lü Qingqing also realized the mistake at this point.
However, she didn't have the face to explain.
It was true that it was inconvenient for her to be involved in the case in the early stages, so she didn't perform the autopsy. But now that she was involved, she hadn't thought of performing the autopsy herself, which was a major oversight.
Soon, the two arrived at the morgue.
More than a week had passed, and the smell was unbearable.
"I can't believe you'd just touch it directly." The two stood on either side. Hu Jia couldn't help but praise Lü Qingqing as she put on her mask and gloves and stood directly in front of the body.
"What's there to it? I was an official in the county and prefecture before, I've seen scenes more bloody and disturbing than this," Lü Qingqing said while examining the body. "Do you think I got into the city police bureau just like that? Wasn't it because I dared to fight and be brave?"
Her proficiency and calm composure made Hu Jia look at her with new admiration.
It seemed he didn't understand her well enough. He must remember this matter when he returned.
"Huh?" Lü Qingqing found something wrong with the wound on the body.
"What's wrong?" Hu Jia asked.
"Mo Yun, Mo Yun didn't die from a stab wound," Lü Qingqing said.
What?
Hu Jia quickly moved to Lü Qingqing's side.
Indeed, Mo Yun's wound was unusual.
In the Republican era, although police autopsies had some technological assistance, they primarily relied on Song Ci's "Washing Away Wrongs" as a basis for judgment.
Hu Jia clearly remembered that "Washing Away Wrongs" explicitly stated that due to bleeding, there should be bloodstains around the wound of a deceased person who had suffered a sharp object injury during their lifetime, and blood splash marks around the wound.
Now, the flesh around the deceased's wound was dry and white, with no bloodstains or blood splash marks. It was evident that the body was pierced by a sharp weapon after death.
The reason was that after death, the blood circulation stopped, making it impossible to have bloodstains or blood splash marks.
Another point was that Li Yang had bruises on his body when he was arrested, leading to the conclusion that he had fought with the deceased. However, Mo Yun also had some minor wounds on his body that appeared to be from a struggle.
However, if the deceased suffered blunt force trauma during their lifetime, due to blood pressure, blood would enter nearby tissues and interstitial spaces from damaged blood vessels, forming hematomas locally. If the injury occurred after death, due to the loss of blood pressure, blood would lose the driving force to form hematomas, resulting in no tissue bleeding.
It was clear that Mo Yun's wounds belonged to the latter category.
To explain it with a more relatable example: Have you ever noticed that a wound seems to shrink slightly after you get hurt? Blood vessels constrict, and after a few hours, the area around the wound looks a bit red, as if inflamed. Later, it slowly heals on its own?
Dead people don't.
Therefore, Mo Yun did not fight with anyone before his death, which did not align with the signs of struggle on Li Yang's body.
"Haha, this means the possibility of Li Yang being the murderer can be completely ruled out," Hu Jia exclaimed in shock, and then in great delight.
Lü Qingqing was also surprised. She hadn't expected that the evidence they had been searching for so long would be found on Mo Yun's body.
If Mo Yun had already died before the knife was inserted into his body, the killer would have no reason to inflict two more wounds.
Now, the killer not only inflicted two more wounds but also deliberately faked signs of a struggle, with the purpose being obvious: to frame someone and conceal the cause of death.
Ultimately, whoever became the victim in this case precisely indicated that they were framed.