This also explains why Tom was willing to die, because he knew that everything his father did was for Alex, and he was just a tool. In his heart, he always regarded Alex's father as his own father. After discovering this cruel fact, he couldn't accept it, so he chose to die.
And Tom's death also made his father more certain that Alex was a new "personality".
After his father found out that his son really changed, he was happy, which can also explain his father's change in attitude towards him.
Later, Zhen's incident was an accident. Until now, with the appearance of Dong, his father found that his son continued to kill people, which was unacceptable to him.
His father didn't want to become the same as before, so he deliberately showed a proud look, just to make Alex think that he was the murderer, so that Alex might not change back to the same as before.
The motive is reasonable, but Alex just doesn't believe it.
There is one thing that doesn't make sense here, that is, why did his father tell him? Isn't it a better choice to keep silent?
If the positions of Alex himself and his father were reversed, he wouldn't say it absolutely.
Now there is only one result of his father's words, that is, Alex will be more convinced of the fact that he is a murderer, which goes against his father's motive.
Thinking of this, Alex snorts coldly. The only purpose of telling Alex was to make Alex think that Alex himself was a murderer.
He is cunning and sly.
He almost falls into his trap. He took it seriously just now and thought that fatherly love was like a mountain. Now it seems that fatherly love is not like a mountain at all. It is obviously fatherly love like a landslide.
After understanding this, Alex abandons the messy thoughts in his mind and continues to investigate according to the previous ideas.
The only flaw he could find now is Tao, but now Tao wants to surrender herself and shows an attitude of living a good life. Moreover, from the previous contact, even if he asks again, he would not get any results.
She must still say the same thing as before.
He couldn't be sure whether Tao was lying to him now, but there is a way for him to be sure of this, that is, to know the record of Tao's surrender.
If what she says when she surrenders is the same as what she said to him, it means that she did not lie before.
Because her words would certainly alert the police. After all, the place where she picked up the money was the place where Alice's body was dumped. There was no way to prevent the police from being suspicious. Once the police had doubts, it would be very troublesome to follow up, which would not be worth the loss.
If she lies when she turns herself in, Alex would be sure that what she said to him was also false.
Because from her perspective, she didn't know that the place was the place where the body was dumped. Since she didn't know, why did she lie? There was only one reason for lying, that is, she exactly knew that it was the place where the body was dumped.
Alex couldn't get the police's interrogation record, but he could judge whether she lied or not based on the time when Tao is released.
If Tao is released quickly, it means that she doesn't mention that address at all.
On the contrary, if she is not released soon, it means that she is telling the truth.
Early the next morning, Alex takes a taxi to Tao's community. It is not until after ten o'clock in the morning that he sees Tao being taken away by the police.
Two days passes in a flash, and Alex finds that Tao has been released, which makes Alex's eyes light up. He is completely sure that Tao was lying to him before.
Alex finds Tao and says straight to the point, "Why did you lie to me?"
"I don't understand what you mean?"
Seeing that she is still stubborn, Alex speaks out his guess.
Tao says excitedly,
"I didn't lie to you. I told you the truth. I swore.
I didn't say it because I didn't want to implicate you. You obviously knew about the existence of the note. What if I told the police and they found you? If the police finds out about money laundering, how would I explain it to your father?"
Reasonable, damn reasonable.
Alex now particularly hates things that are reasonable, because the more reasonable, the more it proves that his guess is wrong.
Looking at Tao with an excited face, Alex knows that he has no way to deal with her at this moment. Since he couldn't do anything to her, he could only hand the matter over to the police.
Thinking of this, Alex doesn't talk nonsense with her, goes back to the store, puts on gloves, and makes a new note, then he comes to the fast food restaurant again. The previous clerk's face changes when he sees Alex, since the person he doesn't want to meet the most now is Alex.
Alex sees his face and waves to him to come over. The clerk hesitates for a little while and comes to Alex and whispers,
"I have done what you said, what else do you want?"
Alex smiles and comforts,
"Don't be excited, I just want to ask, Tao left in a hurry, so is her work clothes still there?"
The clerk frowns but says, "Yes."
"Have you washed it?" Alex asks.
"No, we haven't hired a new clerk yet, so who will wash it? Just let the new clerk wash it when he or she comes."
Hearing the clerk's words, Alex nods, just as he imagined, and then Alex takes out a note from his pocket and hands it to the clerk,
"Now put this note in Tao's work clothes, and then call the police.
If the police ask you why you call the police, you can say that you are going to wash the work clothes, find this note, and then think of Tao's sudden resignation which you feel abnormal. Combined with this weird note, you finally choose to call the police.
Do you understand?"
The clerk looks at the note in his hand with a very hesitant expression.
Alex says, "For the last time, I won't come to you after this time."
Hearing Alex's words, the clerk no longer hesitates, since he is now eager to get rid of Alex.
After hearing the clerk finish the call, Alex turns around and leaves and returns to the store. He sees that the police comes to the fast restaurant after a while, and the police leaves soon.
He didn't want to do this at first since it was very risky for him to do so. He knew that the appearance of this note would make the police pay great attention to it, and then the police would focus their attention on him again, but Tao didn't tell him the truth, and he had no other way.
…
In the police station, the note has been taken for inspection. Chen looks at Tao and asks,
"Can you explain the origin of this note?"
Tao rolls her eyes, "It's not mine, and I don't know."
"Then why did it appear in your pocket?"
"I don't know, maybe someone else put it there?"
"Heh. "Chen snorts coldly and says, "Listen to what you said, do you believe it by yourself?"
Tao remains silent.
"Don't you want to speak? Do you think that if you don't speak, it's over? Yes, you must not understand, thinking that as long as you don't speak, it's okay. Anyway, it's civilized law enforcement now, and we can't use torture, right?"
At this point, Chen suddenly slaps the table hard.
"Bang."
Tao gets frightened.
Chen shouts,
"Do you think that we can't solve the case if you don't speak? If it's really that simple, what do we police do? Naive!
You are supposed to have heard this saying a lot: confess and be lenient, resist and be strict, right?
Your refusal to cooperate now will only make us more suspicious of you!
Tell us! Where did the note come from exactly?"
Tao hesitates for a while and repeats what she has said to Alex.
"In other words, you picked it up while you were cleaning the table. Do you remember who left it behind? "
"I don't remember. The store is very busy every day. I really don't remember. "
"What else did you find when you picked up the money?"
"No, I didn't pay attention at the time. All I could see was the money."
Chen frowns and asks after a while, "Why didn't you say it before?"
Tao hesitates for a moment, but still told Chen about Alex's visit to her.
Chen immediately becomes extremely alert when he hears that Alex is involved, and so does Yang outside the interrogation room.
"Why did you suddenly surrender?"
Tao tells him about meeting Alex's father.
After asking a few more questions, Chen leaves the interrogation room. Yang walks up to him and says,
"The surveillance in the store is just for show. It's not turned on at all, so there's no way to know the origin of the note."
Chen nods and says then,
"Bring Alex back first and ask him why he did this? Money laundering? He definitely didn't do this. I guess he wanted to get some information from Tao by laundering money. "
Yang nods and he thinks so too, since they have investigated Alex before. If Alex really laundered money, they would not have failed to find out.
"Leader Chen, I think that Alex must be investigating something, but what he is investigating exactly?"
Chen frowns and says. "This is also something I can't figure out right now. Let's bring him back first and see what he will say to us."
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