"Are you here because of the incident with Kuwahara?" Xiao Long asked, looking at the detectives.
Tian Chunda and An Yi felt very surprised for a moment.
"Yes, but..."
"I saw it in the media. Even the text messages I sent were posted." Xiao Long said.
The doctor took out a cigarette from his pocket and asked the detective to smoke it. He noticed that there was no ashtray, so he opened the door and asked the nurse to bring it in.
Tian Chunda looked at the doctor and said, "I want to ask you about that text message. As I said before, this is related to a murder case, so there may be quite sharp questions."
"Please say."
"Why did you send a text message like that to Kuwahara?"
"Because I went to Dongyang to attend a meeting, he chased after me and demanded money from me. I had given him a lot of money before. I also have a weakness. He kept blackmailing me like this, so I had to treat it as payment. Tax paid him the money with his eyes closed. However, he got so carried away that he came to Dongyang to find me, which was too annoying. At that time, although I wrote him a check as he said, Kuwahara sneered. After I left triumphantly, I suddenly became furious. Will I have to endure being obedient to that man no matter what? In fact, I haven't written the draft to be delivered at the meeting, so I'm a little anxious. Back to I sent the angry text message to the hotel. Later I thought I was a bit childish."
As the ash fell, he glanced at his watch.
"Is the reason why you were blackmailed by Kuwahara related to Miss Shiyu's suicide in the crater?"
This time it was the doctor's turn to be surprised. His fair-looking face was startled, and he looked at Tian Chunda with his slender eyes wide open. It was as if I could hear the doctor sucking in the air.
However, the doctor's smile returned immediately.
"Now that you know it, it's easier to say. I don't know where Kuwahara got it from. He collected information to threaten me in April this year. He said that if he didn't give him money, he would tell the news Sell it to the media. Not only was the operation a failure, the patient also committed suicide, so I guess I felt guilty because I was being targeted by a powerful guy this time."
"Um."
"I have an ambition to work hard to support this hospital and open a branch. I want women in this world to get rid of the feeling of inferiority due to ugliness, so that more people can have happiness. This is my wish, and this wish cannot bear the thought of someone using my occasional surgical mistakes as material for malicious propaganda. If the victim commits suicide, society will sympathize with her and treat me as a bad person without clarifying the facts. The hospital is blamed, Then there will be a lot fewer patients coming for medical treatment, which is obvious.”
"Um."
"So I immediately put on a smile and made up my mind to agree to his request. After that, I never stopped smiling at Kuwahara. We also played golf together, went to bars to drink, or went on small trips. Wait, it’s all a soft-spoken strategy, so from a third party’s point of view, they will definitely think that we are good friends.”
The doctor said without any secret that the hospital had a high income in order to secretly emphasize that he could not kill Kuwahara. However, if Kuwahara knew the inside story of the plastic surgery hospital and discovered this unusual income, then the amount of extortion might be doubled; then the doctor would still have the motive to kill Kuwahara.
"When did you go to Dongyang, and what did you do after you went there?" Tian Chunda asked.
What Tian Chunda wanted to know was Xiao Long's whereabouts on the night of the 27th and the 28th.
"Please wait a moment while I go get the notepad. It would be better if you answer clearly."
The doctor left these words and went out. He immediately took the train timetable and came back with a black leather-bound notepad. Then he recounted his whereabouts in Dongyang during the past two days according to the notepad.
"When did Sang Yuan come?" Tian Chunda asked again.
"After eleven o'clock the next day, as soon as I left the hotel, I met Kuwahara coming from the opposite side. I didn't expect to meet him in Dongyang. I thought he was a man who looked very similar, so I walked away thinking He went over and called the doctor. I was startled and asked him where he was going. He said he was chasing me and called the venue. They told him the hotel where I was staying, so he came."
"Sang Yuan said at that time that he met a woman in Nanguang and hid in an apartment without telling his wife. This is really lucky. After I teased him like this, he immediately showed an unhappy expression. But he immediately suppressed his emotions, It’s not a good thing to say that the woman had a lover who was a gangster, and threatened him to pay compensation, otherwise he would attack his wife. He said that the gangster asked for 100,000 yuan in compensation. He asked me to pay for him. "
"Do you know who that gangster is?"
"Well, I don't know. I later found out that when he said he had a woman, it was probably just an excuse to ask for money."
The doctor fell into a brief silence in order to light a new cigarette. The lighter clicked and lit up a red flame. Then he continued: "Of course I refused, because it was none of my business. Then Kuwahara's attitude changed and he said some threatening words to me. You shouldn't forget that. Come on, if I expose that matter, you won't be able to show off and attend the meeting. No matter what, it's you who killed the lady before you got married. I want to tell these disgusting things. "
"Then did you give him money?"
"No, because I won't bring that much money with me on my trip, so I couldn't just write him a check for 100,000 yuan on the spot."
The two detectives looked at each other. There was no such check on Kuwabara's body.
"Will Kuwahara go back soon?"
"Yes, he brought a timetable pamphlet and said he was rushing to catch the 12:07 train, and then left in a panic. He was dressed lightly and didn't even carry a handbag. I saw it One look at his back with his sloping left shoulder and his habit of walking, that was the last time I saw him.”
"Did you text after that?"
"Yes. How should I put it? I felt insulted and angry. I wanted to catch up with him and scold him to calm down my anger, but I didn't have time. I had a meeting in the afternoon. So I sent that Angry text messages.”
"What time was that around?"
"It should be twelve ten or twelve or three minutes."
Tian Chunda secretly lowered his eyes to the notebook on his lap. The text message on Kuwahara's cell phone was received at 12:15, so judging from the doctor's words, it should be correct.
"What did you do after that?"
"After the meeting in the afternoon, I wandered around the streets until I returned to the hotel in the evening."
"What time did you get back to the hotel?"
"It was probably before seven o'clock. I remember that the dinner was very delicious. After all, I was very hungry..."
"When will the meeting last?"
"The meeting will be closed on November 1. I will take the express train back to Nanguang the next morning."
"You arrived in Dongyang on the morning of the 27th, until you left for home on November 2nd. During this seven-day stay, did you ever leave Dongyang?"
"No, I have been staying in Dongyang. The murder of Kuwahara was like resolving a disaster for me. To be honest, I haven't been in such a happy mood for a long time. But I didn't kill him. Just like I just did As you said, I haven’t left Dongyang for the past seven days. If you investigate this matter, you will know immediately. I have been with a man named Zhou Ting at the venue. If you don’t believe me, you can ask him That’s it, he runs a cosmetic surgery hospital in Dongyang City.”
Taking advantage of Dean Xiao Long's third look at his watch, Tian Chunda ended the conversation and left.
"What do you think of that matter?" Tian Chunda asked An Yi while walking on the road.
"What about that?"
"That's what he said about Kuwahara's mistress being intimidated."
"Is this it? I think it's Sang Yuan who is lying. It's an excuse for him to insist on asking for money."
"Is that so? I think a little differently. This is because Xiao Long knew very well that he was being looked at with suspicion, so he wanted to divert attention and fabricated the matter of Kuwahara finding a mistress, right?"
The criminal investigation detachment thoroughly investigated Wu Cheng's actions. Even if there was no problem with the time he worked at the bank, where he went and what he did after leaving the bank needed to be investigated. They continued to conduct rigorous reconnaissance based on the records in Wu Cheng's diary. However, visiting department stores or watching movies are common occurrences in daily life, and it is also difficult to provide evidence. Even after spending a lot of time, it's still not clear whether he is black or white.
