Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 16

Su Xiaoxiao and Wan Yan exchanged a glance, both seeing helplessness in each other’s eyes. They had clearly agreed yesterday to wait until the evidence was more solid before the trial. Since Guan Hongwei was capable of scheming to commit murder, he would naturally not confess easily.

Moreover, they do have a lot of evidence that hasn’t been verified. Yesterday, Su Xiaoxiao said she would have technicians check his phone’s browsing history and the origin of the drugs, but these haven’t been found out yet, and they’re rushing into the trial.

She could understand their eagerness to solve the case. The matter had become so big that they wanted to solve at least one case to quell public opinion. But being impatient was useless and might even make things worse.

That’s the downside of going to other places to handle cases. Although they are a special task force, they are not in a superior-subordinate relationship with the local police. If the local police don’t listen to them, they really have no way to deal with it.

As they were talking, Zhang Jun ran over and said, “Captain Ye, a lawyer has come over. He says he’s Guan Hongwei’s lawyer.”

“What? Where did he get a lawyer?”

Everyone found it strange. Guan Hongwei is currently in custody, and he certainly has the right to hire a lawyer. However, he is detained, and his only relative is his younger brother, Liu Jie, who doesn’t seem like the type to hire a lawyer for him.

“He took Guan Hongwei’s letter of authorization.”

Su Xiaoxiao recalled the information she had seen about Guan Hongwei, but didn’t remember that he had a grandmother.

“I have reviewed the documents. He does have a grandmother, but she is his father’s stepmother. She is over eighty years old. His grandfather died long ago, and they have not had any contact for decades, but she is indeed his grandmother in the legal sense.”

How could a grandmother like that hire a lawyer for him?!

“Let’s go see him.”

In the criminal investigation team’s office stood a man in a suit and tie, tall and thin, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with his hair slicked back and perfectly styled. He wore a fur-trimmed coat over his suit, looking very elegant.

Upon seeing his appearance, Su Xiaoxiao knew they were in trouble.

She knew this lawyer; his name was Yan Kuan, a famous criminal defense lawyer and a senior partner at Zhengdao Law Firm.

He is not only Zhao Wei’s lawyer, but also Mo Feiyu’s lawyer, and now he has become Guan Hongwei’s lawyer. This lawyer is not as simple as he seems.

Su Xiaoxiao always felt that he had someone behind him, and wondered if he was working for some powerful family like lawyer Hu Weiqiang back then.

Yan Kuan spotted Su Xiaoxiao at a glance, smiled, and extended his hand to her. “Officer Su, we meet again. What a coincidence! Oh, I forgot to congratulate you, Officer Su. I should call you Deputy Su now. You are the youngest deputy branch captain in the history of Jingzhong City. That’s incredible!”

Su Xiaoxiao politely shook hands with him, inwardly thinking, “Couldn’t he have been less pretentious?”

“I never expected to run into Attorney Yan in such a small place as Wutong. It’s really fate. But no matter how good I am, I’m not as good as Attorney Yan. It’s only been a few days since Guan Hongwei’s murder case came out. We didn’t even know he had a grandmother. Attorney Yan was able to find a client. He’s much better than us.”

“Although the case has only been going on for a few days, it has caused quite a stir. Our firm has always paid attention to these kinds of social cases, and we accepted the case because we wanted to give the client a fair chance.”

As Yan Kuan spoke, he handed out business cards to the people present. He was only there to make an appearance, since he couldn’t actually see Guan Hongwei anyway. Everyone understood what making an appearance meant; it was essentially telling them that Guan Hongwei had a lawyer and that they shouldn’t cause any trouble.

After exchanging greetings and submitting the formalities, Yan Kuan left.

“It’s really weird, he can even find an eighty-year-old grandmother,” Zhang Jun muttered.

“Do you know this lawyer?” Ye Jiuzhou asked Su Xiaoxiao.

“I’ve seen him. It’s quite troublesome with him around. We need to make sure our evidence is solid and we don’t let him find any loopholes.”

Distracted by Yan Kuan’s affair, everyone lost their appetite and went off to do their own things.

After thinking it over, Su Xiaoxiao decided to separate from Wan Yan. Wan Yan went to help investigate Liu Jie’s matter, because with Yan Kuan’s involvement, they needed to be more cautious.

She wanted to meet Lin Yue’s parents first to see if she could learn anything about Lin Yue from them.

Lin Yue’s parents live in Yuejuyuan, a mid-range residential community, in apartment 1005 of building 11.

The woman who opened the door was in her fifties or sixties, with a round, slightly plump face and curly hair, looking like a landlady. She looked at them with suspicion.

Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Xia showed their identification. “We’re here to find out more about Lin Yue’s situation.”

“Haven’t you all already heard about Lin Yue’s situation? Why are you here again?” The woman said, reluctantly ushering them inside.

A man’s voice came from the inner room, “Mom, who is it this time?”

“Police, we’re here to find out about your sister.”

A young man in his early twenties shuffled out of the house in slippers and plopped down on the sofa. “What are the police doing here? Have you found the murderer who killed Lin Yue?”

This should be Lin Yue’s younger brother, Lin Tao. Su Xiaoxiao noticed that he didn’t call Lin Yue “sister”.

“We haven’t found it yet; we’re just here to get some information.”

“We’ve said everything we need to say, since we haven’t found you here. All we care about now is when you find the murderer and whether we can get compensation. We don’t care about anything else.”

“Your sister died, aren’t you sad at all?” Su Xiaoxiao looked at Lin Tao, and he really didn’t seem sad at all, nor did his mother seem particularly heartbroken.

“Why should I be sad? She’s not my biological sister. Let me tell you, officer, my mother raised her all these years, and she died before she could repay her mother. If she can get some compensation after she dies, then at least she was still of some use.”

“How can you talk like that? Even if she wasn’t your biological sister, she’s dead, and all you’re thinking about is compensation?!” Xia couldn’t stand this.

Lin’s mother pushed Lin Tao into the house, saying, “This is none of your business. Go back to your room.”

What’s even more infuriating is that Lin’s mother knew absolutely nothing about Lin Yue’s situation. She had no idea who her friends were, what her hobbies were, who she had offended, or whether she had any enemies.

Instead, she complained to them about how difficult it was for her to raise Lin Yue and how much effort she had put in, only to have her die like that. In fact, she and her son were expressing the same thing: they wanted to know when the murderer would be caught and whether they could get compensation.

When they came out, Xia was fuming, but Su Xiaoxiao was alright, because she had seen it many times before.

Although I didn’t learn much useful information, I at least learned about Lin Yue’s situation. Because he wasn’t her biological son, her family didn’t pay enough attention to her, and her parents focused all their energy on their son.

However, they didn’t treat her too harshly and still let her go to university. Of course, they didn’t manage her much during university, and she relied entirely on her own part-time work to support herself.

She is a grateful person. After starting work, she would give half of her salary to her family every month and use the other half to rent a place to live. She must have had a hard time. You can tell by looking at her computer. It is old and worn out. It takes her a long time to turn it on, but she has not been willing to replace it with a new one.

Would someone like that really be willing to spend the money they’ve painstakingly saved up on chasing after celebrities?!