As soon as this thought popped up, Yun Que'er felt it was absurd.
If Liu Zhihui really had something to do with Zhang Qiang, she could have come forward immediately. There was even no need to let Zhang Qiang go to the police station.
After all, Zhang Qiang had been so confident before. Even if there was no solid evidence to prove his guilt at present, his future would be ruined.
If Liu Zhihui wanted to protect someone, with her decisive personality, she would never have dragged it out for so long.
"So Zhang Qiang can't be convicted now?" Yun Que'er asked anxiously.
Yun Mo Tan nodded. "For now, it's highly unlikely."
Without solid evidence, even if the person himself admits his guilt, there's no way to put him on trial.
The strangest thing was that even the used oxytocin vial that Zhang Qiang confessed was in his office drawer couldn't be found.
Both the witness and Zhang Qiang's own words pointed to him, but there was no physical evidence, which put the investigators in a difficult situation.
They even suspected that Zhang Qiang might be suffering from a mental illness. Unable to win Lu Miao's love, he imagined that he had harmed her.
However, this was not the most interesting part.
"Before you said that Shen Qingqing seemed to have an older brother?" Yun Mo Tan asked.
"Yes, she did. I saw him with my own eyes." Yun Que'er replied.
Yun Mo Tan frowned tightly. "Then Dean Liu suddenly mentioned that since Lu Miao and Shen Li had three children, even if the premature one had died, there were still two left. She asked Lu Miao and Shen Li to mourn. As a result, this remark almost drove Shen Li crazy. He made a big scene on the spot and almost hit Dean Liu. The police saw that something was really wrong with him, so they detained him. As a result, after an investigation..."
Yun Que'er could guess what happened next without Yun Mo Tan having to say it.
Shen Qingqing's older brother would surely be discovered, but the problem was that he was already dead.
"Dean Liu said that no matter how he died, a death certificate had to be issued." Yun Mo Tan said.
However, Lu Miao and Shen Li didn't seem to attach much importance to the death of their eldest son. Not only did they delay getting the death certificate, but the coffin they prepared for him was also very thin.
Moreover, cremation was becoming popular now. With Shen Li's status, he shouldn't have treated his own son so indifferently, leaving him lying in the cold coffin for so many days. He didn't even choose a good feng shui burial site for him. Instead, he planned to bury him somewhere randomly.
The police felt something was wrong and demanded an autopsy.
Shen Li was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He refused to agree no matter what.
Normally, an autopsy couldn't be carried out without the consent of the family members, but Shen Li's reaction was so extreme.
In the end, it was carried out by force. When they opened the coffin, even the forensic doctor who was used to seeing all kinds of tragic scenes almost cried.
The young boy was extremely frail, almost skin and bones.
There were all kinds of wounds on his body, obviously from beatings.
Many of them were fresh wounds inflicted shortly before his death. His back and thighs were covered in blue and purple marks.
The most fatal wound was on his neck.
There were still purple handprints on his neck. The handprints were very small, as if left by a child, and the marks were not very deep. They should have been left by a little girl.
Normally, that little bit of strength would never have been able to strangle the boy.
But the problem was that he had been unable to take care of himself since childhood and had almost no room to struggle. Moreover, the forensic doctor judged that he didn't seem to struggle when he was dying. He even seemed to cooperate with the murderer and died.
This incident was so strange that it was impossible to imagine what had happened at that time.
So they had to investigate the house where Lu Miao and the others had lived. They found a lot of traces of the young boy's life in the sheepfold.
Finally, it was concluded that Lu Miao had always disliked her eldest son who had cerebral palsy since childhood. Therefore, she treated him badly and often beat him. She only allowed him to live in the dirty sheepfold.
As his younger sister, Shen Qingqing had taken care of him for many years, even delaying her studies. So she also hated her older brother to the extreme. In the end, she killed him in such a cruel way.
By now, there might be a perfect answer.
As a suspect, Shen Qingqing naturally had to be investigated. So the police went directly to find her.
In fact, she was only ten years old this year, just a child. Even if it was determined that she had killed her older brother, at most she would only be sent for reform through education.
But when Shen Qingqing was taken away and sent to the interrogation room in the police station, she completely broke down.
First, she burst into tears, and then she kept telling the investigators that she didn't want to kill her older brother at all. It was all Lu Miao's fault.
From her words, the police learned that Shen Li thought that the child Lu Miao was carrying at that time must be a boy. Then their eldest son with cerebral palsy would become a burden.
Moreover, in Shen Li's eyes, a child with low intelligence who couldn't take care of himself had no reason to exist. So he promised Lu Miao that he would marry her in the future and let her live a prosperous life on the condition that she got rid of their eldest son.
Lu Miao wasn't unwilling to get rid of her son, but she thought that if she did it herself and was discovered, the price she had to pay would be too high for her to bear.
This was premeditated murder. Even if she wasn't sentenced to death, it would be life imprisonment.
All her hard work and planning over the years would be in vain. So she instigated her underage daughter to do it.
After all, Shen Qingqing was still young. Even if she was caught, she would be released after a few years, which wouldn't affect anything.
Maybe in her eyes, her daughter was worthless. So when she failed to instigate Shen Qingqing, she resorted to coercion.
She threatened to sever the mother - daughter relationship and drive Shen Qingqing out of the house, forcing Shen Qingqing to agree to help her.
She sneaked into the sheepfold at night, intending to strangle her older brother.
But shortly before she took action, her older brother had protected her, which made Shen Qingqing feel pity.
Moreover, Shen Qingqing didn't dare to kill someone at all.
So even though she had her hands around her older brother's neck, she didn't dare to use much strength.
At that moment, Shen Qingqing saw her older brother smiling at her.
He actively offered his neck to her hands and looked at her with his eyes.
Strangely enough, although he was a fool and should have understood nothing, at that moment Shen Qingqing understood what he wanted to say to her.
Thank you for your hard work all these years. Do it. Go and pursue the life you want. Brother won't hold you back anymore.
In extreme panic, Shen Qingqing carried out what Lu Miao had told her to do. Only then did she realize that she had strangled her older brother with her own hands.
Guilt, fear, and regret always came too late. Always too late.
For so many days, Shen Qingqing had been recalling what had happened that night and was almost on the verge of collapse. When the police finally found her, she actually felt that this was liberation.