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Chapter 78 Guan Zu Investigates the Case

Ma Haotian drove Guan Zu to the yacht club. The Zhang family's private yacht had been cordoned off, and there were two uniformed police officers guarding the scene.

After showing their identification, Ma Wutian and Guan Zu arrived at the crime scene. Guan Zu carefully put on shoe covers and gloves and carefully observed the entire yacht. However, after looking for a while, he did not find anything useful. All the main evidence at the crime scene had been taken back by forensic experts, leaving only some locations marked with chalk and evidence number cards.

Guan Zu, who had been looking around the bedroom where the incident occurred for a while, suddenly remembered something and quickly walked over to Ma Wutian: "Brother Tian, ​​I remember the autopsy report said that they found traces of sleeping pills in Zhang Chengyu's stomach, right?"

Ma Haotian thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, what's wrong?"

Guan Zu then asked, "No, there's just one thing I don't understand!"

Ma Haotian looked at Guan Zu curiously: "Oh? Is there something you don't understand?"

Guan Zu pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Tian, ​​let's forget all our previous deductions and re-examine this. Zhang Chengyu died from a drug overdose. It's normal that there were drug paraphernalia at the scene. But the sleeping pills were in his stomach, and there were no other wounds on his body. How did he ingest them? No traces of sleeping pills were found at the scene. If it was suicide, putting aside the illogical thing of him taking sleeping pills before or during drug use, even if he swallowed all the sleeping pills himself, there would still be some drug residue at the scene and on his body. Logically, someone committing suicide wouldn't clean up these things, right? In that case, there's a high probability that another person or several people cleaned up the scene. So, suicide is questionable!"

From another perspective, if it was homicide, there were no signs of struggle at the scene, including on the body. So how did the murderer manage to give him the sleeping pills?

Furthermore, considering the autopsy report, which showed that in addition to sleeping pills, there were also traces of red wine in his stomach, could it be that the murderer mixed sleeping pills into the red wine and made Zhang Chengyu drink it?

Judging from this, there seem to be many things missing from the scene, such as wine bottles or something similar.

Ma Haotian frowned upon hearing Guan Zu's words: "What does all this prove?"

Guan Zu glanced at Ma Haotian and paced back and forth a couple of times: "If these things really exist, we can first rule out that Zhang Chengyu prepared them himself. It must have been prepared in advance by the murderer. There must have been a process of getting on and off the ship, right? I've seen Zhang Chengye's investigation report. In the surveillance footage, Zhang Chengye didn't take anything with him when he got on and off the ship. He went on empty-handed and got off empty-handed. So, wouldn't this suspicious point be advantageous to Zhang Chengye?"

Ma Haotian leaned against the yacht's railing and lit a cigarette: "Could it be that Zhang Chengyu prepared the red wine, and Zhang Chengye brought sleeping pills on board, found an opportunity to put them in the red wine, killed the person, threw everything into the sea, and then disembarked alone?"

Guan Zu stopped pacing back and forth and snapped his fingers: "Not enough time! Based on what he said and the surveillance footage, it's confirmed that Zhang Chengye only had 20 minutes from boarding to disembarking. He simply didn't have enough time to do so much!"

Ma Haotian was taken aback: "If that's the case, could the real culprit be someone else?"

Guan Zu shook his head: "I'm not sure. As things stand, there are doubts about Zhang Chengye's motive and the timing of the crime. Should we expand our investigation?"

Ma Haotian stubbed out his cigarette: "There's no other way. Let's go back first!"

Guan Zu nodded, and the two of them got off the yacht together.

Back at the East Kowloon Major Crimes Unit, Ma Haotian called a meeting. In the meeting room, Ma Haotian first raised the points of doubt that he and Guan Zu had discussed earlier. After putting down the documents, he looked at Guan Zu and asked, "Is there anything else to add?"

Guan Zu shook his head: "There's nothing else to add. I wanted to ask if you've investigated anyone around Zhang Chengyu recently, like his girlfriend, business partners, or anything like that?"

After hearing Guan Zu's words, Cheng Xiaolin said, "We have investigated Zhang Chengyu's daily activities. He hardly works, so no one has any motive for doing so."

He usually just eats, drinks, and has fun. We've investigated his cronies, and they all have alibis.

Another aspect is his romantic relationships. We've investigated his ex-girlfriends and current girlfriends, and Zhang Chengyu has a fairly good reputation in this regard. He's willing to spend money, and these women all have alibis, so they can basically be ruled out!

Guan Zu raised an eyebrow upon hearing Cheng Xiaolin's words: "He has a current girlfriend? Who is she?"

Cheng Xiaolin pulled out a stack of documents from the thick pile and handed it to Guan Zu: "This is his current girlfriend's information, Helen Deng! 28 years old, she's an independent art dealer and also runs a small gallery called 'Wen Gallery.' Her main clients are wealthy businessmen from Hong Kong Island and collectors from Southeast Asia!"

Guan Zu took the documents and examined them carefully. Besides what Cheng Xiaolin had just mentioned, the documents contained some other information:

Deng Jiawen returned from studying abroad and started working in the industry. She met Zhang Chengyu three months ago, and the two quickly became a couple and have been dating ever since. They are currently in the honeymoon phase.

There's also the movement trajectory on the day of the incident, and some alibis!

After looking at it twice, Guan Zu looked up at Cheng Xiaolin and said, "The information says that on the day of Deng Jiawen's incident, she attended a charity party at around 8:30 a.m. and didn't leave until the party ended at 11 p.m.

What about the rest of the time? Where was she before the party? Where did she go after the party?

Cheng Xiaolin frowned: "Because the deceased's time of death was between 10 pm and 11 pm, which is exactly the time when Zhang Chengye boarded the ship, and Deng Jiawen was at the party during that time, so there was no record of Deng Jiawen's other time. We only heard her say that she went straight home after the party when we were taking her statement."

After listening, Guan Zu picked up the documents and glanced at them again: "Did anything unusual happen when she attended the party?"

Cheng Xiaolin thought for a moment and shook her head. At this moment, He Jiale suddenly spoke up: "I know that. When I was taking a statement from a girl at the party, we chatted a bit more. I heard her say that not long after the party started, Deng Jiawen was bumped into and spilled wine all over herself, so she went to change her clothes and touch up her makeup!"

Guan Zu's eyes lit up: "Do you have that girl's contact information? Could you ask her to confirm exactly what time Deng Jiawen went to change clothes, whether anyone accompanied her, and how long she took to change?"

He Jiale nodded: "I asked for that girl's contact information back then, and I'll contact her now!"

Zhang Zixuan glanced at He Jiale: "Jiale, you're just after the girl because she's pretty, haha!"

He Jiale shrugged and spread his hands: "Then you shouldn't worry about it, right? We've used it now, haven't we?"

At this moment, Ma Wutian tapped the table: "Go make a call right now!"

He Jiale made a face at Zhang Zixuan and ran out.

Seeing He Jiale go to make a phone call, Ma Haotian turned to Guan Zu and asked, "Is there something wrong with this woman?"

Guan Zu leaned back in his chair, shaking the documents in his hand. "Something just feels off!" he said, then turned to Cheng Xiaolin. "Xiaolin, do you have a boyfriend?"

They were discussing the case smoothly when Cheng Xiaolin was suddenly asked this question, and she was a little confused: "I've got it! What's wrong?"

Guan Zu sat up straight: "How long have you two been dating?"

Cheng Xiaolin didn't understand what Guan Zu was up to, but she still answered, "It's been over two years!"

Guan Zu then asked, "When you and your boyfriend first started dating, during what's commonly known as the honeymoon phase, how often did you call each other and meet up?"

Cheng Xiaolin tilted her head and thought for a moment: "The first few months were all very exciting. Whenever time allowed, we saw each other almost every day, not to mention talking on the phone. We would call each other whenever we had a spare moment!"

Guan Zu placed the documents on the table: "According to the call records in the documents, Deng Jiawen only spoke with Zhang Chengyu once before the party, and then never contacted him again until the police contacted her on the third day. Didn't Deng Jiawen say that they were in the honeymoon phase? Is it normal not to contact each other for three days during the honeymoon phase?"

Cheng Xiaolin nodded: "It's definitely not normal. During the honeymoon phase, it's rare for couples to go three days without seeing each other, unless they're traveling for work, let alone not even talking on the phone. If we women can't even do that, let alone you lousy men!"

Upon hearing this, the expressions of all the men present instantly turned strange.

Just as everyone fell silent, Ho Ka-lok rushed in, shouting as he ran, "I've found something!"

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