Chapter 83 What is Justice
Xu Yiqing was sitting on a chair in the hospital lobby with a pounding heart. He kept looking down at his phone, totally ignoring the blood stains on his hands that had become sticky. They were left when he was bandaging Xiao Yong.

He himself was not seriously injured, all thanks to Xiao Yong’s courage.

He remembered everything now, every little detail about his brother. The brother who grew up with him, grew up together from a boy to a man, fought over toys when they were young, and understood each other after graduation.

Looking at the photos on my phone of the two of us spending New Year’s Eve at scenic spots around Jiangcheng when my brother started working, I remembered everything.

His name is Xu Nianqing, and the name was given by their grandfather.

The name Xu Nianqing sounds a bit feminine because when the elderly found out that the baby was twins, they planned to have a dragon and a phoenix together, so they named the boy Yiqing and the girl Nianqing.

Since they were all boys after they were born, we simply didn’t change the names, otherwise it would seem that the old people were favoring boys over girls, so they just kept the names they had originally decided on.

As an older brother, Xu Yiqing showed the magnanimity that an older brother should have, and always gave in to his younger brother, except for the time when he snatched toys from his younger brother when he was still immature.

After Xu Nianqing grew up, he no longer acted unreasonably. Instead, his academic performance was better than his brother Xu Yiqing. After graduation, he joined a state department, but the confidential work he was engaged in was not convenient to disclose, so even his closest brother did not know about it.

But this does not prevent them from living their own lives.

Xu Yiqing works as a forensic doctor in Jiangcheng. His brother may or may not come back to Jiangcheng during the holidays. No one can tell. He may not even be notified in advance. But every time his brother comes back, Xu Yiqing will ask him to celebrate the holidays or take a walk around Jiangcheng.

In Zhou Shi’s words, this brother-in-law is very shrewd in his speech and behavior, but he is genuinely good to his brother.

The two brothers had talked about this before. Xu Nianqing was very introverted when he was young. He was never a person who would say no. Everything that happened later was also due to his initial introversion. He believed that once he said no, it would leave scars between them that he could not fathom, and leave an indelible nail in the relationship.

So Xu Nianqing began to become sensitive, and started to learn to be a shrewd person, a person who could read people’s expressions and not let anyone down.

Unconsciously, when he came to his senses, he found that he had become more suspicious than Cao Cao and more cunning than Sima Yi.

However, Zhou Shi didn’t like dealing with such shrewd people who were obviously wary of others. In addition, Xu Nianqing rarely returned to Jiangcheng, so they didn’t socialize much.

She learned from her husband how outstanding her brother-in-law was, how obedient he was when he was a child, and how promising he was when he grew up.

Xu Yiqing always smiles when talking about his brother.

Despite their deep brotherly love, the moment he was questioned by the [Cleaner], he could not remember anything about his brother… He couldn’t even say the words “Nian Qing” that he always said.

Xu Yiqing closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead with slightly trembling hands.

Press the middle finger on the left temple, and press the thumb across the opposite side on the right temple, pinching it hard; at the same time, clench your teeth and tighten the muscles of the temple, just competing with yourself.

So even he himself didn’t know whether the trembling of his palms came from the muscles or from the anxiety in his heart.

The sound of sirens rang out at the hospital entrance, which was not surprising in a hospital.

But careful people could still hear the difference between the siren and the ambulance, including Xu Yiqing who was very familiar with it.

He looked up and saw Du Yu followed by several criminal police officers walking in in a hurry.

“You’re not hurt, are you?”

Before anyone arrived, Du Yu was the first to see Xu Yiqing sitting there with a worried look on his face.

He quickly stepped forward and checked Xu Yiqing’s body, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief after confirming that the blood was not Xu Yiqing’s.

“It was the brave taxi driver who saved me.” Xu Yiqing said: “He happened to be there at the time. His name is Xiao Yong.”

Du Yu frowned slightly: “Can it be such a coincidence?”

Xu Yiqing said: “Let’s just accept this as a coincidence for now. We can talk about this in detail later… You didn’t tell Zhou Shi, right?”

“not yet.”

“It’s best if she didn’t say anything. Let’s talk about it tomorrow. She can’t help with this kind of thing. She will just worry for nothing.”

“Yu Sasa didn’t tell the truth.”

“I am inclined to say so.” Xu Yiqing said, “[The cleaner] took advantage of Yu Sasa.”

“No matter what, I’ll take you back to the criminal police team first.” Du Yu reached out and picked Xu Yiqing up from the chair, then carefully checked the wounds on his body, and finally looked at his neck.

Feeling the touch of Du Yu’s fingers on his neck, Xu Yiqing felt a little pain, but still waved his hand: “It’s okay, just a little scratch, much better than Xiao Yong.”

“What about others?”

“In the operating room.” Xu Yiqing gestured at his wrist and chest: “The scratches are pretty severe, but I’ve checked, there are no stab wounds, and it won’t be life-threatening. I bandaged my wrist in time, so there won’t be too much blood loss that will put a burden on the heart.”

Du Yu nodded and said to the old detective next to him, “Stay here for a while and try your best to cooperate with the hospital to treat Xiao Yong. Any request will be met. If you need money, call the finance department directly. If the finance department asks, just tell them that I said it. You don’t need to ask the director for instructions.”

After that, he took Xu Yiqing out and got into the car, and wanted to send him back to the Criminal Police Brigade to ensure Xu Yiqing’s personal safety. After that, Du Yu had more important things to do –

The city-wide manhunt is not over yet.

Before getting in the car, Xu Yiqing said, “There is also Xiao Yong’s taxi. His car is not locked. We can’t lose it.”

“Don’t worry, since he saved you, he won’t get lost.” Du Yu promised: “He is now even more of a figure in Jiangcheng.”
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After a whole night of searching, Du Yu forced the “Cleaner” to the south of Jiangcheng City. From cutting off traffic to checking ID cards one by one, it can be said that Du Yu used all the police force in Jiangcheng on the pursuit.

At least what is certain is that the [Cleaner] will never escape from Jiangcheng, and she is now in the area south of Jiangcheng. It is not certain whether she is hiding in a township or a village in the city, but at least she will not escape from the provincial road.

Du Yu set up control over all provincial roads leading to other places in Shinan, and there were police cars and police dog teams patrolling the fields at all times. Even if someone escaped from the suburbs at night, he would be caught.

And according to Xiao Yong’s confession in the hospital, he stabbed the opponent’s thigh with the cleaner’s dagger during the fight, and the injured woman was already trapped.

“We still have half of her fingerprint.” Du Yu said to Zhou Shi and Xu Yiqing in the hospital corridor, “Although it is a bit time-consuming and costly, the criminal police team is knocking on doors and comparing fingerprints in Shinan. It will only take two days.”

Zhou Shi’s expression was worried and heavy. She prayed that she could catch the [Cleaner] this time and find out everything behind it. Otherwise, it would be too exhausting for Xu Yiqing to live in danger all the time.

“Old Xu, what are you thinking about?” Du Yu saw Xu Yiqing was distracted and waved his hand in front of him.

Xu Yiqing came back to his senses and said, “I was thinking about my brother.”

“Xu Nianqing.” Du Yu sighed and didn’t respond.

In his opinion, Xu Nianqing is also a pillar of society. Although when he looked at her, Du Yu always felt that Xu Nianqing had something very important on his mind, as if he was putting the heavy responsibility of the progress of all mankind on his shoulders.

In the morning, Xu Yiqing had already told the two of them about how he was held hostage by the [Cleaner] last night, including the moment when the [Cleaner] mentioned Xu Nianqing but he didn’t remember anything.

Zhou Shi didn’t dare to jump to conclusions this time. She directly contacted her mentor at school, hoping to invite a top psychiatrist to Jiangcheng to help Xu Yiqing diagnose.

The tutor said that he would contact me as soon as possible, but there was no further news after that.

In addition, Xu Yiqing asked Du Yu to help contact the senior officials of the provincial public security department to see if he could find out what confidential project his brother was involved in. If possible, he wanted to ask the relevant departments to communicate and learn more about his brother’s situation. Xu Yiqing vaguely remembered that when his brother died, in addition to himself as a forensic doctor who had contacted his brother’s body, many unfamiliar department personnel came from other places to contact the Jiangcheng police to confirm his brother’s death.

He wanted to find those people who were there at that time and understand the situation.

Xu Yiqing said: “The [cleaner] must know me and my brother. And maybe… Nianqing and I both knew her before.”

After seeing the fruit in the refrigerator and what happened last night, Xu Yiqing no longer dared to guarantee that there was nothing wrong with his memory.

But this is exactly where it gets ridiculous.

He recalled his past life from childhood to adulthood, attending elementary, junior high and high school in Jiangcheng, going to Capital University with excellent grades, working diligently during his undergraduate studies, and staying in school for graduate studies with the first place in his major.

During their undergraduate studies, Xu Yiqing and Zhou Shi were both outstanding students in the school and had heard of each other. When they were in graduate school, they met at a cross-school debate competition. Zhou Shi took the initiative to attack Xu Yiqing, and then the two fell in love.

After graduating from graduate school, Xu Yiqing did not choose to pursue a doctorate, but returned to Jiangcheng to work. Zhou Shi chose to pursue a doctorate, and the two had a long-distance relationship for a while. But because Zhou Shi’s grades were too outstanding, she completed the graduation requirements very early, and then rejected the top-paying job and bright future in the capital, and chose to come to Jiangcheng to find Xu Yiqing.

Later, because of a forensic appraisal that could be considered a medical malpractice, Xu Yiqing, who was about to take over as the director and become the top leader of Jiangcheng, was forced to divorce Zhou Shi, and the two parted ways.

During this period of time, where would I have the time to get to know the people in the photos, to get to know Li Cheng, He Yunke, the [Cleaner] who wanted to kill me, and the [Forensic Doctor], [Policeman] and [Butcher] that the [Cleaner] was looking for?
At least in Xu Yiqing’s memory, his life was coherent and without any gaps.

“And I got a very important piece of information. The [cleaner] didn’t admit that she dismembered Nianqing. She said that only the [forensic doctor] could do it… In that case, there was no need for her to lie.” Xu Yiqing said: “And based on the level of detail in Zou Yi’s autopsy, the [forensic doctor] could indeed do it.”

Du Yu, who had been listening, was suddenly stunned. He took a deep breath and frowned in thought: “Is it possible that Nian Qing’s body was not dismembered at that time, but… was dissected?”

These words were as shocking as a bolt from the blue.

But when Zhou Shi and the others thought about this outrageous statement carefully, they felt that it became more and more possible.

If the body was to be dismembered, there was no need to cut it into more than 2,000 pieces. Moreover, the locations where the bodies were dumped were not scattered. Even the police found the bodies quickly. There was no point in dumping them in this way.

The only thing missing from the body is the head, which remains a mystery to this day.

The identity of the deceased Xu Nianqing was confirmed through DNA matching.

Xu Yiqing said: “Also, I can hear the hatred that the [Cleaner] has for me from her words. I don’t understand where this hatred comes from. Also, she doesn’t seem to hate my brother as much as she does me. She seems like a friend.”

After the Li Yueyue case, surveillance footage captured a cleaner wearing Xu Nianqing’s coat and placing a takeaway box containing Li Yueyue’s severed head at the door of Li Dusheng’s KTV.

In the Liu Zhuhua case, the police found the room where the cleaner had lived in the employee dormitory building under the jurisdiction of Li Dusheng. After Xu Yiqing identified the layout of the room, she determined that it was similar to her brother’s habits, so the police believed that she was missing the deceased.

At that time, Zhou Shi also analyzed that the murderer missed the people he killed because he might be missing the process of committing the crime. The murderer regarded the deceased as his own work.

But now the conclusion that the cleaner dismembered the body has been overturned, and combined with the birthday wishes received at He Yunke’s funeral, Xu Yiqing boldly speculated that the cleaner not only knew his brother before, but also had a very good relationship with him.

That birthday blessing phone call that the [Cleaner] forced He Yunke to leave before his death was not for himself… but was for his dead brother!

My brother and I are twins who have the same birthday!
Du Yu summarized the conversation between the three people, took out his mobile phone, opened the memo, made a simple note, and then put the phone back in his pocket.

“I’ve made note of this and will discuss it in detail when we get back. Today we’re here mainly to express our condolences to Xiao Yong. After all, he’s Lao Xu’s lifesaver and he can be considered a benefactor to the Jiangcheng police.”

Du Yu held flowers in his arms, Xu Yiqing and Zhou Shi carried fruits and other things. In addition, there was a silk banner, a certificate and a bonus of 100,000 yuan, which would be given to Xiao Yong after he was discharged from the hospital. When the time comes, reporters would be asked to expose it… Of course, these would have to wait until the [Cleaner] was arrested and it was confirmed that he had no accomplices, before Xiao Yong’s deeds could be widely publicized to prevent retaliation.

The three of them pushed open the door and went in. It was a single room with a police officer watching them all the time.

Xiao Yong recovered well and was lying on the bed playing with his mobile phone. When he saw someone coming in, he turned over and sat up. When he saw that it was Du Yu, the leader in police uniform, his eyes immediately lit up.

“You are Du Yu, the captain of the Criminal Police Brigade!” Xiao Yong was very excited.

Du Yu was stunned: “Do you know me?”

“I’ve seen you on TV. You’re a good policeman.” Xiao Yong praised sincerely.

Du Yu chuckled, but felt that this compliment was strange… Few people would praise themselves as good police officers. They would praise their deeds rather than their profession.

“I’m here today to thank you for saving our Jiangcheng forensic doctor.” Du Yu said.

Xiao Yong nodded: “I know, I recognized him after I saved him last night, that’s even better, saving a good policeman is equivalent to saving many lives.”

Xu Yiqing smiled and said, “I’m not a policeman.”

“You are doing a just thing. You are a policeman.” Xiao Yong frowned: “How can it not be counted?”

This logic…

Xu Yiqing and Zhou Shi looked at each other. It was a bit strange, but not too strange.

But Xiao Yong’s overflowing sense of justice is really curious.

According to the doctor, Xiao Yong’s injuries will definitely leave sequelae and he will suffer when he gets old, but he doesn’t care at all. He is just happy that he saved someone.

Saving lives is justice, so what does it matter if you get hurt for justice?
Xiao Yong didn’t plan to live to old age.

Du Yu and others sat down, Xu Yiqing peeled an orange for him, and Xiao Yong politely said thank you.

Zhou Shi asked: “Why do you always rush to the front when doing something righteous?”

Xiao Yong said: “Because my father is a policeman, the son of a policeman should also do these things.”

“Your father?”

“My dad is dead.”

When Xiao Yong said this, he was very calm, but he could not hide his sadness.

“My dad was a drug enforcement officer. He died before I was an adult… I heard from his colleagues that he was shot many times and died a tragic death. But I haven’t seen my dad for many years. I almost forgot what he looked like and can’t even imagine how tragic his death was. My dad’s colleagues said he was a good policeman. I can’t embarrass my dad, but every time I think about him, I find that he didn’t leave a decent photo.”

After he finished speaking, there was some silence in the atmosphere.

The three members of the task force finally understood why Xiao Yong was so persistent in doing good things.

Like father, like son. Xiao Yong’s behavior should be respected by all police officers.

But no one noticed that Xiao Yong glanced at the bedside table next to him inconspicuously.

There is his wallet in the cabinet, and inside the wallet there is a special compartment, which contains photos that must not be seen by the person in front of him.

(End of this chapter)