Luo Fei and Mu Jianyun study Chen Tianqiao’s complaint following the 1.30 case. He said that both his wife and himself have been attacked during the night at their home, then he was tortured into revealing the code of his safe. He said that his aggressor was Wen Hongbing’s accomplice. Nothing relevant was found on the crime scene.
Mu Jianyun thinks that Chen Tianqiao made the story up, but if it was that easy, Ding Ke would have spotted it. It seemed that, on the contrary, Ding Ke thought that the two cases were linked. At the same time, if the aggressor who took Chen Tianqiao’s money was Wen Hongbing’s friend, then the money could have paid for Zhang Cuiping‘s hospital fees, but we know she died soon after.
Luo Fei and Mu Jianyun visit the Chen Dayang, the doctor who took care of Cuiping at the time. He remembers that the family was poor, but after Wen Hongbing’s death, Zhang Cuiping said she had found enough money to pay for her operation, she explained it was money her husband had loaned to someone, and that she got the money back. But a policeman went and questioned Chen Dayang and Cuiping about it. Chen Dayang didn’t hide the money’s existence. After the policeman’s visit, Cuiping changed her mind and refused the operation. This visit hasn’t been recorded in the case file. Luo Fei shows Zhibang’s photograph and asks if he was the policeman in question. Dayang says he wasn’t, but he did come often take care of Cuiping.
Luo Fei and Mu Jianyun come to some conclusions: Cuiping didn’t want the police to know about the money, so she refused the operation. Because the money must have been illegally acquired, she could not legally give it to Chengyu so she entrusted it to her sister who must have kept it for herself while sending Chengyu to the orphanage after his mother’s death. Zhibang is certainly the man who stole the money from Chen Tianqiao, as a way to make up for killing Hongbing.
The identity of the policeman is still a mystery, Luo Fei tries to contact Huang Jieyuan to ask him about it, but he is not available (resting before one of the club’s “performances”).
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