Chapter 5: Chain of strange deaths

"Dead?" Xiaoxia was very surprised by the unexpected news.

Guan Zheng nodded, "I didn't say yesterday that since he never repents, we must collect evidence more fully and make a lawsuit that he will regret not accepting mediation. So, I went to his house this morning and prepared to check with the neighbors if there is any situation that can be supplemented. As a result, I saw a large number of police officers at the inspection site."

"How did you die? Homicide?"

"I don't know." Guan Zheng shrugged indifferently. In Xiaoxia's opinion, he was a little gloating about Wang Hua's death. "I have been traveling around the country since I graduated and am not familiar with the situation here. As the plaintiff's lawyer in this case, after the results of the corpse examination come out, you go to the police station to find out the situation."

Xiao Xia nodded in agreement, but thought in her heart that Wang Hua was dead. It is still a big deal to say whether her status as a plaintiff's lawyer is tenable! It would be better to use some relationships to be more effective. If it is not a secret, she believes she can find out. After working in Changkong for so long, she will be a little familiar with the police.

However, after only one day of time, she felt that Guan Zheng's attitude was a bit problematic. It is good, maintaining the law is correct, but the ultimate goal of the law is not to punish, but to regulate social order and maintain social stability. The family is the most basic component of society.

These were explained in the first jurisprudence class by Teacher Pan. Even people like her who barely refrain from level ratings. Have you forgotten a top student like Guan Zheng?

If her shortcomings are nerd and think about everything too well, then Guan Zhengzhe is too upright, too persistent, and too jealous of evil. Now Xiaoxia feels that thorough idealism is not a complete good thing, at least this world cannot be simply distinguished between black and white, and there are many helpless things.

Just like Wang Hua's incident, although his parents were about to sue him, they must be uncomfortable. They just wanted to get some attention and material things necessary for life, and they would not want to be so irritated, nor would they want to see their son's death. This death incident was a great pleasure for other irrelevant people, but it was a little worse for this poor old couple.

"What should the Wang family's parents do?" She seemed to be asking herself, and also asked Guan Zheng.

"Don't worry about this case, I'll follow up." Guan Zheng thought she was asking about legal questions. "The relevant inherited laws will give the Wang couple financial help, and I will do my best to fight for their interests."

Xiao Xia didn't say anything. She was not asking this. She wanted to know if this poor old man could hold on in spirit!

"And -" Guan Zheng smiled a little proudly, "The several consortiums that sponsored us jointly established a fund that can withdraw some of the funds to help the unsuccessful groups."

"Oh? And that's a good thing?"

"Yes, I hope all the rich will do good deeds. There are eight sponsors in total, but the aid fund is managed by Boheng Company. You can do it in a few days and get to know the managers by the way. If I am not here, you can be responsible for this."

Xiao Xia agreed, and a name flashed in her mind.

Boheng Company?

Isn’t it the company that hired her to City A last time, the most powerful consortium among Changkong’s customers?!

This coincidence flashed through Xiaoxia's heart, but she didn't care. Her mind was full of Wang Hua's affairs, and then she realized that aiding a career was not that easy to do, and the pressure she had to bear was not small.

After the preliminary investigation report on Wang Hua's death came out, Xiao Xia felt sensitively that the incident was reasonable and strange.

The result of the autopsy was: Wang Hua actually died of overdose of drugs!

Drugs caused acute heart failure and kidney failure, the only reason he died. In addition, there was a deep scratch on his face, and one of his eyes was dug out, making the whole face look quite ferocious. But the forensic doctor found his own flesh in the cracks of his fingernails, and the eyeball was found in his own throat. Apart from that, he had no fatal injuries.

As for the surrounding environment, because it is the central flower bed that is not allowed to be trampled, the footprints are very clear - there is only a pair of footprints on the scene, which belongs to the deceased. The surrounding flowers and plants have obviously been destroyed by madness. This can be seen from the rose thorns on the hands of the deceased and the rotten leaves all over their bodies.

The nature of his work made him very irregular in time and often went home late at night, so his wife did not wait for him, and only found out in the morning that he had not returned overnight, and his body was discovered by an old man who was doing morning exercises in the early morning.

It was already dawn at that time, and Wang Hua sat in a low bush of roses, leaning against a small tree. Because it was not blocked, one of the two old men had a very good vision, so he saw his body at a glance.

Also, according to the confessions of friends and taxi drivers, Wang Hua did not react except drunkenly during the social engagement and taxi rides.

Based on various on-site physical evidence and autopsy results, the police concluded that the deceased had a business social engagement that night. Because he drank alcohol, his friend called a taxi for him. When the taxi driver sent the deceased to the entrance of the community, the radio happened to broadcast the evening news, so it was confirmed that it was exactly ten o'clock, and Wang Hua died between ten o'clock and twelve o'clock.

He obviously did not want to go home from a long way, so he crossed the central garden. During this period, he took drugs and was obviously overdose, which led to a sudden and strong hallucination when passing through the flowers. He dug out his eyes and wanted to eat them by himself, but he was extremely excited and failed and finally died in pain under the influence of excessive drugs.

His death is not a murder, and the case will be closed directly. The police's focus will shift to drug control, and they are preparing to find out where he got the drug of such high purity? Where is the source of the drug?

Xiaoxia felt a little strange about this reasonable explanation. If the packaging bag of drugs was not found at the scene, it was because there was wind in the spring in the north and it was blown away; if he took drugs because of the stress; if his family and friends had never seen drugs being hidden by him, these doubts were not true, but Xiaoxia's doubts came from her feelings.

In my impression, Wang Hua is a shrewd and shameless person and will never take drugs. His death must be strange!

But no matter how suspicious she was, she had no evidence to overturn the scientific conclusion, and if one person died in Wang Hua, the world would be a little purer because of this. She just sympathized with the old couple, and they were the ones who had lost everything. Old Mrs. Wang even thought that she had gone to court to sue her son, which forced him to go to a dead end.

Xiaoxia didn't know how to comfort the elderly, so she had to ask Wanli to volunteer to help, asking this professional psychologist to help the painful old couple. In fact, she felt that she also needed psychological treatment.

When she was in Changkong, she did not take on such cases systematically. However, in the helping office, the five people were divided into two groups. Uncle Chai and two interns were responsible for women and children's affairs, Guan Zheng and Xiaoxia were responsible for the elderly affairs, and occasionally Guan Zheng would coordinate the comprehensive issues of this chain legal aid agency.

After working here for a month, she realized that people who don’t work in this industry may feel that such a chaotic situation is not common for parents and children to go to court, but when they do it, they will understand that there are really many such things, perhaps because of their concentration.

Now she has another case in hand. An old lady named Yang sued her adopted son Zhang. Zhang's parents died when she was five years old and no one was raised. As a friend of Zhang's parents, the Yang couple, who had no children, raised him up. However, Zhang rarely went home after work and did not show up at all.

When Grandpa Yang was alive, Grandma Yang still had a source of life, but since Grandpa Yang passed away, she could only rely on some savings and scavenging waste. A sickness before the New Year made her unable to even fill her stomach, so she thought of asking Zhang to help her. However, Zhang refused to admit her adoption relationship because she did not go to the civil affairs department to go through the adoption procedures.

This is a case that does not have legal procedures but constitutes a factual adoption, which is very simple. So Xiaoxia has been collecting witness testimony from relevant insiders with permission from the court these days.

On that day, she and Guan Zheng came to Zhang's residence and wanted to make their last mediation effort. But as soon as they left the elevator door, they heard a woman's scream from Zhang's house.

The two of them hurried over and saw that the door of Zhang's house was open, his wife fainted by the door, and the key was still inserted into the door. It was obvious that they had discovered the situation just after entering the door.

Opposite the door is the sofa in the living room, and there is a mess around. Zhang sat on the sofa with a gray face and had been dead for a long time. There were scratches everywhere on his face, and his clothes were torn a lot. One eyeball had been dug out and hung on his cheek.

"I'll call the police!" Guan Zheng said as he ran to a corner of the living room to make a phone call.

Xiao Xia did not faint, but was also scared by the accident and looked at all in horror!

Suddenly, she saw Zhang's clothes move under him.

Her hair was all standing up. Just as she was about to scream, she found that the leaves of a plant were exposed under her rotten clothes, as if they were sliding out.

She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it might be that he accidentally brought it to his clothes while fiddling with flowers and plants, and she was too nervous.

"Okay, the police will arrive soon." Guan Zheng put down the phone, "Let's go out first and don't destroy the scene."

Xiao Xia nodded and wanted to leave as soon as possible. Although it was just a grass, she felt quite bad. Could it be that she had hallucinations?

As she thought about this, she turned her head to look at it, and happened to see the strange plant moving again, like a bug squirming.

Her heart was shocked again, but when she looked closely, it stopped moving.

It must be my own eyes dazzled!

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. Just don't we care about her?" Xiao Xia pointed to Zhang's wife on the ground and glanced at the plant again. The plant did not move, but this time she had new fears.

She felt that Zhang's eyeball drooping on her cheek was looking at her. No matter what angle she changed, the eyeball was just staring at her!

"Don't worry! I don't want to stay here!" Xiao Xia ran out before Guan Zheng decided.

She was frightened! She thought this was too weird.

Guan Zheng came out with her.

When there was no one else in the room, the strange plant began to move again. It slowly crawled into the corner of the wall like a bug, and then disappeared out of thin air!
Chapter completed!