After a brief pause on the phone, Gu Chen obviously felt that the noise on the phone was getting quieter.
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 of the Furong branch, Gu Chen, right?"
"That's right, I'm Gu Chen." Gu Chen replied affirmatively.
Liao Guoping on the phone immediately smiled when he heard the words: "Oh, 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 spoke politely and had heard of his name, Gu Chen said lightly:
"More than ten years ago, on the construction site you contracted, was there a Jiangbei worker named Lu Xiaofeng?"
"Ten years ago? Jiangbei Xiaogong? Lu Xiaofeng?"
It seems that the time is too long, Liao Guoping's memory is a little slow, or Liao Guoping's brain seems to have not recovered after the wine and meat game.
Gu Chen waited for a long time, but did not see Liao Guoping's reply, so he hurriedly asked again: "Do you have any impression?"
"Well, Director Gu, I... I seem to have a little impression, because I have contracted many projects and have been in this industry for many years."
"But you suddenly mentioned this person, I really don't have any impression, can you give me some hints?"
"That person was killed by a falling object, his head was smashed beyond recognition, do you have any memory now?" Gu Chen said.
"Uh... Well, there seems to be such a person, but... so many years have passed, and it seems that we also compensated the family members of the deceased back then."
"I don't know. Director Gu called today and asked about this incident back then. What exactly did he want to know?"
"Some details about that year." Gu Chen said.
"Details? This..." I felt a little inexplicable.
In other words, anyone who suddenly received this kind of call asking about the specific situation of the year after more than ten years would feel a little confused.
Of course, the same goes for Liao Guoping.
Seeing that Liao Guoping didn't respond for a long time, Gu Chen said again: "Why don't you 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: "But, Gu Ju, it's late at night, and besides, I've already drank a lot, and my brain is a little buzzing..."
"Then take a taxi and we will reimburse you for the taxi fare." Gu Chen said.
"Hehe." Hearing that Gu Chen's attitude was so firm, Liao Guoping just laughed dryly, and then said again:
"That's not what I mean. I mean, I'm confused now. If you ask me a question, I may not be able to answer it."
"It's okay, I'll help you slowly remember what happened back then, you just need to come here now, because the case we're investigating now is closely related to the one you came into contact with back then."
"So, we need your help now, and hope you can actively cooperate."
Seeing that Liao Guoping was still repelling, Gu Chen patiently explained.
And Liao Guoping on the other end of the phone said coyly: "At this time, it may not be very easy to take a taxi."
"Well, tell me where you are? I'll send a police car to pick you up."
"Ah no no no." Hearing that Gu Chen wanted to send a police car to pick him up, Liao Guoping, who was afraid that he would be misunderstood by his friends, immediately agreed:
"That's all right, let me tell my friends, take a taxi and come here right away, do you think it's okay?"
"Okay, then I'll wait for you at the criminal investigation team of Furong Branch."
Gu Chen also hung up the phone after a brief communication with Liao Guoping.
About half an hour later, a taxi slowly stopped at the gate of Furong Sub-bureau.
I saw a middle-aged fat man with a big belly and a briefcase on his shoulders. After looking around for a few seconds, he walked towards the office building.
It was also after a while of questioning that they arrived at the door of the criminal investigation team's office.
Knocking on the door, the middle-aged fat man poked his head out, but the moment he saw Gu Chen, the man quickly smiled, stepped forward, shook hands with Gu Chen, and said, "Director Gu, I'm Liao Guoping."
"Have you met me?" Gu Chen also asked him politely.
Liao Guoping shook his head, but said again: "Although I haven't seen you, I can often see your posters on the bulletin boards outside our community."
"So it's like this?" Seeing this situation, Gu Chen stretched out his right hand and said, "Sit down first."
"Ai!" Liao Guoping said "Ai", and looked around, then quickly found a stool and sat down first.
At this time, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha had also handed over the work 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 to check 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 a bit like that Xiaofeng person you mentioned on the phone."
"It's Lu Xiaofeng." Gu Chen reminded.
"Yes, that's Lu Xiaofeng. I remember, he seems to have worked on my construction site for a while. He is tall and thin and speaks with a northern accent."
After thinking about it, Liao Guoping suddenly came back to his senses, and quickly picked up Lu Weiwei's mobile phone to look at it a few more times, his expression turned ugly, and he felt a little incredulous:
"But, why does this 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: "That's right, this person is indeed somewhat similar to the Lu Xiaofeng I met back then, but he seems to be 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 person attacked the police and caused the injured policeman to almost die, do you think..."
"What? Assaulting the police? You mean, this person is still alive?" Hearing what Police Officer Wang said, Liao Guoping was dumbfounded, as if he couldn't believe it.
Gu Chen didn't talk nonsense with him, and said bluntly: "He has been captured by us now, and he is in the Furong branch. I want you to identify him later. Is that person Liao Guoping?"
"No...impossible, absolutely impossible." Hearing Gu Chen's words, Liao Guoping also panicked immediately, and quickly waved his hands, with a very resistant look:
"That Lu Xiaofeng, we all saw at that time, he was crushed to death by a falling object. At that time, his head was directly smashed beyond recognition, which was very miserable."
"I saw all of these. Moreover, I was present throughout the compensation process at that time, and I paid a lot of money for it."
"But you tell me now that that guy is still alive, this... this is absolutely impossible."
After the words fell, Liao Guoping was out of breath, as if he was quite frightened by this situation.
Gu Chen also said slowly: "Now tell me, what are the physical characteristics of Lu Xiaofeng, besides appearance and figure, such as personality, tone of voice, and other things."
"Let me think about it." Liao Guoping wiped the sweat from his forehead, trying to calm himself down.
After a long time, he finally said slowly: "In my impression, he doesn't seem to be very talkative. He always likes to keep his head down, and when he looks at you, he likes to raise his eyes."
"Is there any more?" Yuan Shasha asked after listening to Liao Guoping's introduction while recording.
Liao Guoping scratched his head, and said involuntarily, "What else? This...more than ten years have passed, I really don't know what else is there?"
"Then come with me." Seeing that Lu Xiaofeng's memory in Liao Guoping's mind was getting blurred, Gu Chen asked Liao Guoping to follow him to the interrogation room.
Liao Guoping didn't dare not to listen at this moment, so he could only stand up and follow behind Gu Chen.
Everyone came to the door of the interrogation room together. When the door opened and a group of people walked into the interrogation room, Lu Xiaofeng, who had lowered his head before, raised his head slightly at this moment, but soon lowered his head habitually.
It seemed that no matter how the police asked, he would not say anything.
However, at this moment, Gu Chen was not in a hurry to interrogate Lu Xiaofeng, but gave up his position and signaled Liao Guoping to step forward and carefully verify Lu Xiaofeng's identity.
"See if it's him?" Gu Chen said.
Liao Guoping let out an "ah", and then slowly stepped forward, and saw the person coming from the opposite side with his head bowed, and at this moment he was wearing handcuffs and ankles again.
Liao Guoping was a little flustered, 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 shrank back in fright, sat down on the ground, backed up again and again, and murmured, "Damn it, damn it."
And Lu Xiaofeng, who was sitting on the interrogation chair, was also attracted by Liao Guoping's noise, raised his head slightly, and took a look.
Perhaps because he didn't recognize Liao Guoping, Lu Xiaofeng also felt confused at the moment.
Officer Wang hurriedly asked again, "Is that him?"
"That's right, he is Lu Xiaofeng. There's no mistake. His eyes, movements, and demeanor are exactly the same. He is exactly the same as Lu Xiaofeng back then."
It was also under Liao Guoping's identification that Lu Xiaofeng, who was sitting on the interrogation chair at the moment, suddenly realized that the man opposite seemed to know him a little bit.
Seeing that Lu Xiaofeng was a little surprised at the moment, Gu Chen also took a step forward, reminding him: "Lu Xiaofeng, raise your head."
He also heard Gu Chen calling his name, the man at this moment raised his head slightly.
Gu Chen helped up Liao Guoping, whose legs were weak from fright, and also pointed to Liao Guoping and asked, "You should be familiar with this person, right?"
Lu Xiaofeng squinted his eyes, and heard that Gu Chen could call out his name. At this moment, Lu Xiaofeng frowned slightly, as if he also felt that the situation seemed to be getting worse for him.
"This is your boss at the construction site back then. You 'accidentally died' on this construction site. For this reason, your boss even paid a sum of money to your family. Do you remember?" Gu Chen explain.
Lu Xiaofeng frowned slightly, but quickly turned his head away, as if this sudden situation had caught him by surprise.
Lu Weiwei said angrily: "Back then you caused him a lot of misfortune and died unexpectedly, but now you are still alive and well, so I want to know, who was that unlucky bastard who was crushed to death back then?"
Hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Lu Xiaofeng still didn't say a word, as if he was a mute.
Police officer Wang was so angry that his eyes were straight, he also slapped the table angrily, and said angrily: "Lu Xiaofeng, don't think that if you don't say anything, we won't be able to find out."
"Did you kill the deceased when you cheated on compensation? Who was he? You didn't explain these things clearly, and now you openly attacked the police, almost killing the police on the spot."
"Not only that, but you also killed He Junlong. In your hands, it can be said that you have a bloody debt."
"Don't think that you can escape responsibility by not saying anything now. Let me tell you, Lu Xiaofeng, that you fell into our hands this time, and you are the one to look at."
Hearing Officer Wang's remarks, Lu Xiaofeng's nervousness just now seemed to have returned to the original level, and he stopped talking to everyone, just lowered his head, closed his eyes, and put on a posture of being quiet out of sight.
"Hey!" Seeing this situation, Police Officer Wang was also furious. He was about to go up to make a theory, but Gu Chen pulled him back.
"Senior Brother Wang, it's impossible." Gu Chen shook his head.
Officer Wang also said angrily: "This guy is so fucking annoying."
"Let's go out first." Gu Chen had expected Lu Xiaofeng's reaction in this way, after all, he had been like this since he was arrested.
It was nothing more than trying to use silence to resist the police investigation, 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.
In any case, he cannot escape the punishment of these laws.
Back to the office with Liao Guoping, whose legs were weak, Gu Chen was at the water dispenser, poured him a glass of water, and handed it directly to Liao Guoping.
Liao Guoping took the paper cup with trembling hands, thanked God, and then took a sip of water to calm himself down.
Looking up at Gu Chen, Liao Guoping also complained, "Gu Ju, I really didn't expect that this guy who has been dead for many years is still alive?"
"Not only alive, but he turned out to be a murderer? Damn! This is too scary."
After the words fell, Liao Guoping also patted his chest, trying to calm himself down, and then said:
"At least I drank a lot of wine, and they all say that wine strengthens people's courage, but when I saw this guy, I almost freaked out."
"Are you so scared again?" He Junchao, who was sitting on the seat, couldn't help complaining when he saw Liao Guoping went to the interrogation room, as if he was frightened out of his wits.
Liao Guoping glanced at him, and tried his best to defend himself: "Comrade policeman, you don't know how miserable that Lu Xiaofeng died back then."
"Such a heavy thing fell directly from the sky and smashed his head into a pulp. Oops, 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 a long time because of this matter, and even during that time, I spent a long time in nightmares."
"This is not only material compensation, but also psychological suffering."
With a heavy sigh, Liao Guoping looked around, then gestured with his hands again, and complained to everyone:
"Later, after Lu Xiaofeng's matter was finally dealt with, my mood gradually improved. But why did this dead man whom I saw with my own eyes suddenly come back to life after more than ten years?"
"I have to ask you." Seeing Liao Guoping looking at her, Lu Weiwei also said casually.
Liao Guoping also groaned, and said angrily, "I said comrade policeman, please stop teasing me, look at me? How do I know?"
"Then you just said that you saw Lu Xiaofeng smashed into a meat paste with your own eyes. Did you see those things fall from a high altitude and hit Lu Xiaofeng's head?" Yuan Shasha said.
Liao Guoping hesitated for a few seconds, then waved his hands and said, "This...not really."
"That's it." Police officer Wang took a sip of wolfberry tea and said involuntarily:
"You didn't see it with your own eyes, which shows that Lu Xiaofeng's death was obviously different."
"But who is that dead person?" At this moment, Liao Guoping also had doubts about the identity of the dead person.
Gu Chen asked: "Didn't you seriously confirm the identity of the deceased?"
Liao Guoping shook his head: "Well, it's really hard to say. We also wanted to know who the deceased was? But in the pocket of the deceased's overalls, we did find Lu Xiaofeng's badge and some of his personal belongings."
"Even the cigarettes he smoked were the packs he gave us workers that day."
"Also, when we counted the number of people, we only found that Lu Xiaofeng was not there, so we can only confirm that he is Lu Xiaofeng, and everyone thinks so."
"Then Lu Xiaofeng is the only one missing on your construction site, so you haven't confirmed if there are others?" Gu Chen said.
Liao Guoping shook his head: "It's really not there. I remember that we counted everyone at that time, but we didn't find Lu Xiaofeng. In addition to identity objects, it is normal to confirm that the deceased is Lu Xiaofeng."
"However, I still don't understand. Who was the deceased? 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 be clear at this moment, Gu Chen hurriedly said:
"The deceased was Lu Xiaofeng's golden cicada's stand-in. Why was the head injured? And the position of the head was beyond recognition? This is because the deceased 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, that is to disguise him as himself."
"Then, he put on his own clothes, and finally directed and acted out a safety accident, causing those high-altitude objects to fall directly and hit the head of the deceased."
"In this way, the deceased must be completely different, 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'm not mistaken, the time of the incident 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 when the incident happened, it was indeed at night. At that time, there were lights everywhere on the construction site, but there were also some places that were dim and could not be seen clearly."
"The place where the accident happened was in 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 such a reversal would happen to the things that had been determined back then?"
"It's unbelievable that a dead person can be alive more than ten years later."
Rubbing his face with his hands, Liao Guoping couldn't calm down for a long time.
Gu Chen sat down and kept a level position with Liao Guoping, then asked again:
"Liao Guoping, think about it carefully, how did you know this Lu Xiaofeng in the first place?"
"How did you know him?" Liao Guoping raised his head in thought, and said in retrospect:
"I remember that I was on the construction site and contracted a project. At noon, I had dinner with some friends at a nearby restaurant."
"Because there is an urgent need for some small workers, so I asked the hotel owner to ask, or hang a signboard at the entrance of the restaurant or something, and wanted to find some small workers nearby to help on the construction site."
"At that time, Lu Xiaofeng seemed to be eating at the same restaurant as me."
"As soon as he heard that our construction site wanted to recruit small workers, he recommended himself and asked him if he could?"
"I remember, he told me this way at the time. He said that he just came to Jiangnan City, and he didn't work for a long time. The last job didn't go well, so he resigned and didn't work. Now he just doesn't have a job, so he asked me Look at the wages of the small workers."
"Then we talked briefly. I think this guy is in good health, so let him come to the construction site to try it out that afternoon."
"And then?" Officer Wang continued to ask.
Liao Guoping raised his head and thought: "Then? Then he really came to the construction site that afternoon. He was quite diligent and worked on the construction site for half a day. He asked if I could?"
"I was also in a hurry to ask for someone, so I said he would come to work early tomorrow. In this way, he became a small worker on our construction site, mainly doing some chores."
"Anyway, I feel that people are more honest."
"Is he alone?" Yuan Shasha asked while recording.
Liao Guoping nodded silently: "That's right, he was the only one at the time, and he felt that he had no relatives and no reason, and came to work from Jiangbei."
"I was afraid that he would ask me to arrange a place to live for him, so I made it clear to him that we provide work meals here, but we don't. Let him think about it himself."
"He also agreed very readily at the time, so he has been doing this for nearly ten days."
With a faint sigh, Liao Guoping also said helplessly: "Seeing that everyone is getting familiar with it, but suddenly one day, I was on the night shift at the construction site, and when I was checking some materials with the workers, I heard a loud 'plop'."
"At that time, everyone didn't react, and there was a lot of noise on the construction site, so I don't know what happened?"
"Later, when 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 was hit."
Holding his forehead with one hand, Liao Guoping said helplessly, "What are you really afraid of?"
"Just when I was lucky and felt that it should be an accident and there would be no casualties, I heard some workers yelling, people were crushed to death, people were crushed to death."
"When I heard this, the machines on our construction site stopped working immediately, and many people put down their work and ran to the scene of the incident to check the situation."
"It was discovered that a worker in overalls had his head blown out and was smashed into a ball of flesh by the falling objects from upstairs."
After waving his hands, Liao Guoping also tremblingly said: "Oh, I still remember that scene, not to mention how scary it was."
"And then? Are you going to confirm the identity of the deceased?" Lu Weiwei said.
"Yes, we want to know who this unlucky guy is? So we went forward to confirm the identity of the deceased."
"We soon found out that this guy is Lu Xiaofeng..."
"Wait a minute." Just as Liao Guoping finished speaking, Gu Chen confirmed again:
"I want to confirm with you, did you have any precautionary measures on your construction site at that time? For example, a protective net to prevent falling objects from high altitude?"
"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 be small accidents. The protective net at that time did exist, but there were also loopholes."
"But who would have thought? It was such a coincidence that an object would fall from a height at the location of the loophole, and then, Lu Xiaofeng would be crushed to death?"
"We were really desperate and really didn't know how this could happen?"
"Besides, because of this incident, our entire construction site was required to stop work for rectification. The loss is really a big deal."
"But not long after the incident, we contacted Lu Xiaofeng's family, that is, his wife, who came from Jiangbei and confirmed the body."
"In the end, everyone reached a compensation agreement, which successfully resolved the accident."
With a heavy sigh, Liao Guoping said again: "It's just that I didn't expect that after many years, I would meet Lu Xiaofeng again here."
"Then are you sure that the man in the interrogation room is really Lu Xiaofeng?" Lu Weiwei also asked him for confirmation.
And Liao Guoping nodded fiercely: "You can't be wrong, his eyes, and his habitual movements, I can tell the difference just by looking at him."
"Even if he doesn't speak, I can recognize it. I really don't understand why he would do 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 calmly thinking for a few seconds, Gu Chen asked Liao Guoping again: "Then what do you think about Lu Xiaofeng? Let's evaluate it objectively."
"What else can I do?" Drinking the last bit of tea in the paper cup, Liao Guoping also recalled:
"At that time, I saw that he was more honest, and he came from another place. He didn't have a job for the time being. He thought that he could recruit someone who worked hard, but who would have thought? This guy actually cheated me."
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