Chapter 37 Bird of Paradise 22
In the Donglan City No. 1 Detention Center, Luo Siwei completed the formalities outside the door, and she was finally able to sit face to face with Li Muyao, the suspect in the arson case.
The man in front of me didn't look ferocious. He had a square face and slightly thick lips, but what impressed me most was his eyes.
Li Muyao's eyes were large, with double eyelids, long eyelashes, and large black pupils, like the eyes of a plowing ox. When Luo Siwei looked at him, she could see no emotion in his eyes.
Li Muyao doesn't speak fast, even a little slowly, and his reactions are half a beat slower than those of ordinary people.
This reminded Luo Siwei of what many relatives had said about Tang Xi when they were doing a background check on him - he was honest.
He hid his anger under a gentle appearance.
If you meet such a person on the street, it is hard to associate him with those murders and arson, but he is an out-and-out murderer.
It was this man who drove the truck and hit her yesterday. If Luo Siwei had been slower, or had had worse luck, he would have been responsible for more lives.
Li Muyao was injured, his head wrapped in thick gauze. He lowered his head, his back hunched. Because the evidence was irrefutable, he offered little resistance. After Luo Siwei questioned him for a while, he asked, "Officer, can you give me a cigarette?" Then, somewhat humbly, he said, "It doesn't have to be expensive, just something cheap will do."
Luo Siwei didn't have the habit of carrying cigarettes, so he went out and borrowed cigarettes and a lighter from the prison guards.
Li Muyao lit up a cigarette, smoked it silently until the end, and then confessed.
"Yes, I killed the man and I set the fire."
Luo Siwei asked him: "Why do you do this?"
Li Muyao looked at him, his brows slightly furrowed. The pupils of his eyes were no longer as still as a pool of water, but were filled with ripples: "Do you know what that family did to me?!"
Luo Siwei asked: "Did you have a fight? Did you lose your job because of them?" These were things they had discovered in their previous investigations.
"He ruined me, completely! Completely!" Li Muyao raised his head and said, "Officer, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I only have a junior high school education and I'm a rough guy. Later, to make a living, I learned to drive and worked for a short-distance trucking company, helping to transport goods between nearby cities. The economy was bad, and I knew it wasn't easy to find a job. I cherished my job, leaving early and returning late every day. I often went out to transport goods at six in the morning and didn't return until after ten at night."
"I have a good relationship with the bosses. I'm punctual and even help them unload goods. I live frugally and save money to buy a house. I figure in five years, I'll be able to put together a down payment in the county town. Someone from my hometown introduced me to a girlfriend, and we're planning to get married. If we have a baby then, I'll be no worse off than you city folks."
"But just a year ago, my boss suddenly called me and told me I didn't need to come to work anymore. I was completely stunned when I heard this. I asked him why, but he wouldn't tell me. Later, I went to ask other colleagues, and they told me that Boss He had complained to our boss that I had stolen a box of shampoo while delivering goods, saying I was dishonest."
Li Muyao spoke so much in one breath, tears welling in his big eyes, as if he were the victim. Or rather, he was truly the victim in the incident of the missing shampoo.
Luo Siwei asked Li Muyao: "Did you take the box of shampoo?"
Li Muyao's face became even uglier when he heard this. The handcuffs on his hands collided with the table, venting his inner emotions.
"I didn't take any of his shampoo at all. Even though I'm broke, I wouldn't touch my customers' things! I went to He Peihan's company and asked him to produce evidence and tell me the number of the batch of goods. He hesitated and couldn't produce any, just saying that something was missing. He also said that I was the only one in the warehouse delivering goods that day. I'm not convinced. Why do you blame me for something missing from your company?"
When Li Muyao reached this point, his speech speed quickened and his voice became deeper. His fingers kept clenching, as if what he was holding in his hands was not air, but something that could allow him to vent his anger.
"Later, I went to his house again and told him that I had worked at that delivery company for five years and had never lost anything. I repeatedly told him that I really didn't take that box of shampoo and asked him how much it cost. If he insisted that I lost it, I would be willing to compensate him! I just asked him to talk to my boss and let me stay."
Speaking of this, Li Muyao's face flushed, and his lips trembled for a moment before he uttered another word: "I even knelt down for him."
He then lowered his head and fell silent, burying his head in the collar of his prison uniform. Luo Siwei had already foreseen the outcome of the matter, but she still pressed on: "And then?"
"He Peihan said he didn't want any compensation from me. He just complained casually to my boss and didn't make a formal complaint against me. I can't blame him for losing my job."
Li Muyao sobbed softly when he said this, and Luo Siwei realized that he had just lowered his head and cried.
Li Muyao said, "He may not realize how much this incident has affected me."
"I lost my job, and my girlfriend ran away. It's so hard to find work in the city, and instead of finding one, I was scammed out of my money. I was desperate and felt like I couldn't survive. I spent my days smoking and drinking to numb myself, and occasionally went to an internet cafe to surf the internet, where I even learned how to gamble online..."
"Later, my friend found a fortune teller for me. He said that the man surnamed He was the unlucky star in my life. He had changed my fate. I hated him. I couldn't sleep at night because I thought about his family. He had hurt me so much, but he had a wife and children and lived a happy life with his family. Why was he so lucky?"
"Later, I finally found a food delivery company that was willing to take me on. I started delivering food, running in the wind and rain, riding an electric scooter, and rushing to meet deadlines."
Li Muyao stared at Luo Siwei and asked, "Do you know what it's like to be a food delivery driver?"
Luo Siwei didn't say anything. She often needed to order takeout every day, but she was a more easy-going customer. She could imagine that if she met an unreasonable person, the rider would be treated harshly.
"I see car accidents every week on average. If something goes wrong, those people will point fingers and scold me. That afternoon, I received several complaints in a row. It was particularly strange, as if all the difficult customers were assigned to me that day!"
"During dinner, I received a call from a customer. He ordered a bowl of spicy hot pot for 13 yuan and told me that the soup had spilled. I told him I could compensate him with another one...but he hung up and complained to me. My whole month's work was wasted!"
Li Muyao's voice went from low at the beginning to sobbing and then to excitement. His voice became higher and the small interrogation room was filled with his voice. When his eyes widened, a white line appeared at the lower edge of his pupils and the corners of his eyes were blood red.
The veins on the man's hands and forehead were bulging, and he looked like a completely different person from the honest and kind man he had seemed before.
From those words, Luo Siwei also heard his rage.
"I was so angry I stopped delivering and threw away all my takeout orders! I rode my electric scooter aimlessly on the street, thinking about buying a knife and finding the person who ordered the spicy hot pot. I'd kill him and then I'd die. But I didn't. I figured it out: that person was just abusing their power. I also wanted to run over a few people! But then I thought, those people didn't offend me."
"I rode my electric scooter from the afternoon until the night wind blew, and my scooter ran out of battery, so I had to push it back. I wondered why my life had turned out like this? Then I thought of the culprit: I hated He Peihan!"
"The next morning, I woke up and a group of people broke into my house. They were Huang Gan's men, coming to collect a debt. I owed them about 50,000 yuan. They took me to see Boss Huang, and he said, 'I need a driver, but I don't want someone who's timid and honest.'"
"I said, 'I'm very courageous.'"
"Huang Gan laughed at me at the time. He said, 'If you have the guts, set a fire and show me. If you dare, I'll use you.'"
"I asked him where he set the fire. He said, 'Helan Community.'"
"I thought, doesn't He Peihan live there? So I went there!"
"That night, I broke into He Peihan's home and stabbed his son first. I covered his mouth to stop him from screaming, and the little bastard bit me. Then I set fire to his house."
There is no road to heaven, but there is a door to hell. He was transformed from a human into a demon and escaped into the eighteen levels of hell...
After saying all this, Li Muyao lowered his head and said, "Officer, I confess everything."
Afterwards, Luo Siwei asked Li Muyao some details of the crime, including the source of the murder weapon, the time, etc., which corresponded to the situation at the crime scene.
Luo Siwei finished his interrogation of the prisoner, and Ni Xiang finished taking notes. They walked outside, where an iron gate separated the work area from the prison area.
Compared to prisons, detention centers are more of a mixed bag, with all kinds of prisoners here. Luo Siwei only breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the prison area.
Ni Xiang held the record book and suddenly said, "That person is..."
Luo Siwei followed her gaze and saw white bungalows and various iron bars all around. Outside one of the detention center's walls grew a magnolia tree, which had buds and was about to bloom. One of its branches stretched out, and a man was standing by the wall, looking up.
The man turned around when he heard the voice, and Luo Siwei recognized that it was Lin Shuangting.
Dr. Lin took off his mask and greeted them. Then he asked, "Officer Luo, have you caught the murderer?"
"Yeah." Luo Siwei nodded, "I found the real murderer."
Lin Shuangting smiled at her gently: "Your persistence seems to be correct. But Officer Luo, you look very tired."
Luo Siwei said: "Fortunately, after handling this case, I can rest for a few days."
"Take care of yourself." Lin Shuangting's smile became gentler, and he said meaningfully, "There's no end to catching those bad guys."
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