Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 351 Instigating Rebellion
Huang Yanli's heart sank when she heard this. She never imagined that she and her son were only worth 30,000 yuan in Zheng Guangming's eyes.

But before she could speak, the man with the knife beside her cursed angrily, "Fu Daqing, didn't you say the other party would give you 20,000 yuan, and we'd split it in half? You bastard, you're trying to cheat me out of this?"

Yes, the man with the hammer is Fu Daqing, whom the police have been searching for for a long time.

The person holding the knife was, of course, Li Youqiang, who was killed by Jiang Wei.

That knife is the key evidence in this case; it's a hidden knife.

When Fu Daqing realized that his name had been exposed, he was both embarrassed and angry. He could only say to Li Youqiang, "Brother Youqiang, it was indeed 20,000 at first, but I forced the other party to add another 10,000. I just forgot to tell you that."

Huang Yanli was both amused and exasperated; she had only received 20,000 yuan at the beginning.

She quickly shouted, "Sixty thousand! I can give you sixty thousand! If you help me kill Zheng Guangming, I'll give you every penny of the sixty thousand."

Fu Daqing stared at her and asked, "How do you plan to pay this money?"

Huang Yanli had already planned ahead: she couldn't say that her family had too much money, otherwise the other party would be tempted by the money and kill her and her son to steal it, and then everything would be over.

But it can't be said that they had no money at all; if the other party didn't accept them, they and their child would still die.

She said, "We only have 10,000 yuan in cash at home right now, which can be used as a deposit. You can kill Zheng Guangming tonight, and I will go to the bank tomorrow morning to withdraw the remaining 50,000 yuan and give it to you."

Fu Daqing stroked his chin and said, "Ten thousand? That's a bit low..."

Huang Yanli said impatiently, "I have a few pieces of gold jewelry in my dressing table upstairs, worth at least ten or twenty thousand yuan. I'll give them to you as an extra gift, is that alright?"

Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang exchanged a glance and nodded in satisfaction.

Huang Yanli asked timidly, "Could you help me untie it first?"

Fu Daqing gave Li Youqiang a look, and Li Youqiang put away the knife in his hand and untied Huang Yanli.

When they untied her, they took the opportunity to touch her a few times. Huang Yanli dared not resist at all, for fear of accidentally angering them.

Li Youqiang chuckled as he put away the rope, and Huang Yanli quickly wrapped her bathrobe tightly around herself.

Fu Daqing picked up the hammer in his hand and gestured with it, saying, "You better not try anything funny with us, and don't even think about calling the police, or we'll kill you anytime!"

Huang Yanli cried and shook her head repeatedly: "I would never call the police even if you beat me to death. I am the main culprit in hiring someone to kill. I am more afraid of calling the police than you are. Please believe me."

Fu Daqing nodded in satisfaction, and then Li Youqiang drew his knife again and headed upstairs.

Huang Yanli was startled and rushed over to ask, "Where are you going?"

Li Youqiang said indifferently, "Didn't you tell us to kill Zheng Guangming? I'll go kill him right now."

These words stunned Huang Yanli, and she felt a little confused. "Zheng Guangming isn't home."

Upon hearing this, Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing immediately exchanged a glance.

Li Youqiang frowned and asked, "Who's upstairs?"

"My...my son, he's only five years old, please don't scare him."

Fu Daqing also came over and asked, "So where is Zheng Guangming now?"

"At No. 68 Chennan Road, there's a small villa. He's with a woman named Bai Xiuxiu." Huang Yanli admitted to Qiao Jiali that she had known for a long time that Zheng Guangming had settled Bai Xiuxiu there, and that she found out after giving the driver Feng Qiang some benefits.

Then she said to Li Youqiang, "That bitch Bai Xiuxiu is younger and prettier than me, and she has big breasts. I believe you will like her."

Li Youqiang immediately laughed. Although she couldn't see the other person's face, the sudden furrowing of brows at the corners of the other person's eyes indicated that the words had hit the nail on the head.

Then the two followed her upstairs and searched the villa, confirming that besides Huang Yanli, only her son was sleeping peacefully.

Huang Yanli gave them 10,000 yuan and also gave them all her gold jewelry.

Now, she wants to live, but she also wants to see Zheng Guangming and Bai Xiuxiu, that despicable couple, die.

Fear and hatred intertwined, twisting her psyche.

But Fu Daqing was clearly a more cautious person. To prevent Huang Yanli from reneging on the deal later, he forced her to write a letter of employment for hiring someone to kill him and even put her fingerprint on it.

After doing all this, Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang told her that they would give her a piece of evidence after the murder.

Then ask her if she wants Zheng Guangming's finger or something else.
This startled Huang Yanli, who quickly said, "Don't use your fingers, just take his ID card back."

Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang exchanged glances, and Fu Daqing said something that she found very strange.

Fu Daqing said: Change something else.

Huang Yanli didn't understand what he meant, but she did as he was told. She said that she would just take back his mobile phone, because he was a businessman and never let his phone out of his sight, and he wouldn't allow anyone to touch it.

After doing all this, Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang left the Zheng family villa on Shangtang Road.

Huang Yanli, on the other hand, seemed to have all her strength drained away, and collapsed to the ground, bursting into tears.

She cried for a long time until she heard her son crying upstairs, which brought her back to her senses. She then hugged her son, comforted him, and coaxed him to sleep.

Up to this point, if she had called the police immediately after Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang left, then from a legal perspective, she would not have committed the crime of hiring someone to kill. Even if she had called the police, and they had arrived at Bai Xiuxiu's residence a little late, resulting in Zheng Guangming already being dead.

If she hires a good lawyer, she will most likely be acquitted on the grounds of non-dispute.

Because under those circumstances, she had no choice but to do so in order to ensure her own and her son's personal safety. Even the written record that Fu Daqing forced her to write was completely coerced.

If she calls the police immediately, it means she didn't have the real intention of hiring someone to kill her, but did it to protect herself.

Furthermore, after Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang left, she was fully entitled to call the police, and there was no situation where her personal safety was still threatened.

But she didn't; she never chose to call the police.

No matter how helpless or forced she was at the time, the fact and intention that she hired someone to kill him afterward are real.

Qiao Jiali and Zhou Yi were well aware of this, so even though Huang Yanli confessed, she would not be considered to have acted in self-defense or in an emergency in the subsequent trial.

They might not even have a chance to get a reduced sentence.

The truly ironic thing is that if she had called the police on the night of March 16th, she could have avoided the risks.

Moreover, Zheng Guangming will still die, because the autopsy results show that Zheng Guangming died from his own illness, not from external forces.

Whether Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang go to kill Zheng Guangming or not, he is destined to die.

But Huang Yanli didn't have the ability to foresee the future; she didn't know, otherwise she wouldn't have done it.

But Zhou Yi felt that he could actually let her know when he turned back.

It's not a matter of killing someone by attacking their spirit; it's just that as one of the suspects in this case, she has the right to know the situation.

Even if the police don't tell her, she will still find out through her lawyer during the subsequent legal proceedings.

Zhou Yi just won't be able to see her reaction after she learns the truth.

If a person does not want to go down the path of crime, they must always maintain a bottom line. Some unexpected situations may catch people off guard, but as long as they hold fast to that bottom line, the law will give justice to the parties involved.

On the night of March 16th, Huang Yanli was indeed facing a dead end in the villa.

Her only way to break the deadlock was to win over Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang and bribe them with money.

Because these two were not professional killers, but rather impoverished and frustrated middle-aged men who killed for money, they could naturally be turned by others with money.

Zhou Yi was not surprised by the result. In fact, Huang Yanli's ability to find a way to turn the situation around in that situation was enough to prove that she was not only smart, but also mentally stable.

If it were any other woman of the same age, she would probably have screamed for help and been stabbed to death by Li Youqiang.

But after escaping danger, her choices ultimately determined her fate.

However, there may be a big problem here: whether Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang were actually hired by Zheng Guangming to kill Huang Yanli and Zheng Tianyu. Zhou Yi holds a negative opinion.

Although Fan Zhongliang has been captured, he has connected Fu Daqing and Zheng Guangming through his social connections.

It is possible that Fan Zhongliang recruited Fu Daqing, a penniless outsider, as a hitman for Zheng Guangming to commit murder.

However, a detail in Huang Yanli's own confession made Zhou Yi feel that the truth might not be so.

After Fu Daqing agreed to Huang Yanli's conditions, Li Youqiang instinctively grabbed a knife and went upstairs to kill someone. The person he wanted to kill was naturally Zheng Guangming.

But in reality, Zheng Guangming was not at home that day; only Zheng Tianyu was upstairs.

If the two were hired by Zheng Guangming, then Zheng Guangming's absence from home would naturally serve as the best alibi, avoiding a lot of trouble.

But Huang Yanli said that Zheng Guangming had just returned from a business trip on March 16th, the day after his trip. Then why didn't Fu and Li commit the crime while Zheng Guangming was away? This would provide a more solid alibi.

Fu and Li had already arrived in Anyuan in February, and the matter of hiring someone to commit murder had been going on even before the Chinese New Year.

Why wait so long?

Li Youqiang's reaction perfectly illustrates that they did not know Zheng Guangming was not at home that day.

They assumed the person was at home, which is why they wanted to go upstairs to complete the task after accepting Huang Yanli's conditions.

In other words, their target when they broke into the villa that night was not Huang Yanli, but Zheng Guangming.

Huang Yanli was someone whose life was optional. The reason she was originally supposed to be killed was because she discovered the two people who had sneaked in.

That's why they had to silence them!
However, during this process, some discrepancies arose in the information. Huang Yanli believed that their target was her, and that someone had paid them to kill her.

She naturally assumed that Zheng Guangming had hired someone to kill her.

However, as far as Li and his companion were concerned, someone else had actually hired them to infiltrate the villa and kill Zheng Guangming.

Li Youqiang's statement that killing one person is killing, and killing two people is also killing, likely refers to Zheng Guangming and Huang Yanli, a married couple.

But Huang Yanli thought that the two people were referring to herself and her son Zheng Tianyu.

So all of this might just be a misunderstanding!
(End of this chapter)