Incineration
Qu'an City Bureau
"Cheng Tongguang, were you the one who called Xu Lanxin on the night of September 17th?"
With doubts in his mind, Chen An walked into the interrogation room again.
Cheng Tongguang's face was covered with blue stubble, and his spirits were much worse. He nodded slowly, "Yes."
"What did you say?"
"I can't remember."
Chen An took out the message records he had found on Xu Lanxin's other phone and placed them in front of him. "Someone is threatening her, did you know?"
"It's me." Cheng Tongguang said desperately, "It's all my fault."
Chen An leaned over and whispered, "Have you ever considered that person is just using you as a tool?"
Cheng Tongguang raised his eyes, which were cloudy and lifeless. "I don't care. Besides, there's no such person, officer. You are too sensitive."
"On the night of the 17th, you took Huang Shuwen home. You were still in the taxi at four or five in the morning. Tell me how you made the threatening call to Xu Lanxin?"
Cheng Tongguang remained very calm. He couldn't answer, so he simply didn't answer.
Chen An continued, "It was your accomplice who threatened Xu Lanxin. It was he who told you that Wang Ruofei had returned to Jianan Province. He was also the one who set the laboratory on fire, correct?"
Cheng Tongguang shook his head dumbly, "I don't understand what you are talking about."
"Cheng Tongguang, he had no intention of caring about your life or death. You've gone to such lengths to kill someone for Huang Shuwen. Do you think Huang Shuwen would be moved?" Chen An asked. "Huang Shuwen plans to donate her body after her death. She'll donate all her usable organs, and the unusable ones to the school. Do you think she would want you to kill for her? Would she want you to be used like a knife by an unknown person and thrown away after use?"
"Cheng Tongguang, wake up. There's no benefit in shielding that person now."
At first, Chen An was not sure whether that person existed or not. He just had doubts, but when that phone call came, he was absolutely sure that there was someone behind the scenes pushing all this.
But... Cheng Tongguang's attitude was too firm, he was determined to protect that person.
But he checked all of Cheng Tongguang's relationships and couldn't find anyone who met the criteria.
"Officer, I'm not shielding anyone."
Chen An stopped talking nonsense with him.
Han Ming saw him coming out of the interrogation room again and handed him the water chestnut cake in his hand. "Have some?"
“No.”
Cheng Tongguang must have something to say.
Han Ming said, "Why are you so persistent? He's already confessed, and you can't figure out who the other person is."
"Oh~ You're not worried that the man is the same one who tried to kill Jiang Li that day, are you?"
Without waiting for Chen An's answer, he began to analyze the situation on his own. "I don't think it's likely. After all, his target is Jiang Li. If he wants to use him, why not just let him kill Jiang Li directly?"
After he finished speaking, he realized something was wrong. "He didn't kill Jiang Li, but he kidnapped Jiang Li. If the situation hadn't changed, Jiang Li might have died."
The question now is how many groups of people are there.
The three cases were mixed together, but the murderer was only Cheng Tongguang. He killed three people and was about to kill Jiang Li. Is this right? There are at least two groups of people involved.
Ever since he knew someone was trying to kill Jiang Li, Chen An kept the person by his side at all times. He asked for leave from school on Jiang Li's behalf and would not go to school until his injury healed.
Han Ming pointed at the young man who was chatting and laughing with Lu Yuyao and the others and joked, "This kid is really likable. The people in your group like him, and the guy who was injured last time also likes him."
With such a big incident happening, Han Ming naturally went to help. He went to the hospital to check on the injuries of the police officers and hostages. At that time, he realized that the man named Li Ziyang liked him very much, and his heart and eyes were full of Jiang Li.
"Hey, don't you feel any sense of crisis?" Han Ming nudged him with his elbow.
As for the two of them, Han Ming insisted that he liked Jiang Li.
At this moment, Chen An was feeling annoyed, unable to figure out what was going on, so he simply pulled the person aside and thought for a long time, but no words came out.
"Why are you hesitant to speak?"
Chen An thought about it but still couldn't bring himself to ask.
"You can't do this. I think that boy named Li Ziyang treats him very well. He definitely has ulterior motives. Why don't you chase him while he still likes you? Will you regret it when he doesn't like you anymore?" Han Ming advised earnestly like an old woman. "Unrequited feelings are the easiest to change. Do you expect him to only like you for the rest of his life? Humph, how is that possible?"
He was right, no one would wait for you forever, but he was older than Jiang Li and should have to bear more thoughts. He couldn't enjoy everything about Jiang Li's youth without any scruples.
The more he thought about it, the more confused he felt. The more he looked at it rationally, the less he understood what Jiang Li meant to him. He was not that important, or at least he had not yet figured out the weight of this person in his heart.
"Do you think people stay together because they like each other or because they love each other?"
Chen An suddenly asked him.
Han Ming's mind was confused and he said, "It's all right."
Chen An shook his head, "If it weren't for love, I wouldn't choose to be with anyone."
For the first time, Han Ming realized how stubborn this man was. "Brother, don't you love him enough? You came all the way to Changping County just to bring him home. You had him move into your house when they had nowhere else to live. You bought him a pet, paid for his tuition, and protected him everywhere. He's even invading your territory, and you're still giving in. Tell me, how far do you have to go to really call it love?"
"Han Ming, liking someone is different from loving them. All of the above can be attributed to liking them. Maybe I do like him. After all, who doesn't like beautiful things? Who doesn't like outstanding people? But love is different. Love includes liking someone. Besides liking someone, it also includes respect, care, and... being unable to control oneself. None of these things appear."
"What if I don't like him and just treat him as a younger brother? What if I misjudged my feelings and didn't love him that much at all? What if I was with him without his permission and ended up breaking up on bad terms and never spoke to him again?"
He couldn't answer Chen An's question, but he could see the confusion in Chen An's eyes.
"That will only hurt him. It's irresponsible to make the decision to be together before you figure out your own feelings, especially with someone who likes you."
The confusion between liking and loving is the most serious. In a relationship that is full of superficial liking, he chooses to use love that is heavy enough as a guarantee to ensure that he will never betray.
Han Ming was speechless and could only give a thumbs up and sighed sincerely, “You are this!”
"You deserve to be single."
Lu Yuyao had not finished eating the ice cream that she had wholesaled earlier, and someone came to help her eat the ice cream. Jiang Li was happy to finish the ice cream for her, but she had to avoid someone in doing so, so she stuffed all the ice cream into her own mouth before Chen An showed up.
The weather is getting colder, and people are still injured and don’t know what to avoid eating.
Chen An frowned briefly, tapped his head with the folder in his hand, and said nothing.
"Boss, I've figured out the ID card information that Cheng Tongguang found. Huang Ming, from Changping County, and he seems to know Jiang Li."
When the photo was enlarged in front of Jiang Li, a hint of panic flashed across his eyes.
"You are in the same junior high school and class. Do you have any impression of him?"
Jiang Li quickly calmed down and observed Bai Shuo's expression for a while, "I have no impression."
Bai Shuo didn't ask any more questions and continued to report, "This guy named Huang Ming died four years ago, just a few days before the high school entrance exam. His body was found in a boxwood forest. He fell off a cliff. Cheng Tongguang found his ID card nearby and has been using it ever since."
The boxwood forest brought back memories from four years ago. It was in the boxwood forest that he found Jiang Li and also where he found his ID card. If this person had a close relationship with Jiang Li, then...
"The Boxwood Forest was a tourist attraction launched by Changping County a few years ago. Before the high school entrance exam, Huang Ming and his friends planned to go there, but something unexpected happened." Bai Shuo suddenly looked at him and pointed out, "You were there too."
This was the first time he felt so close to being exposed.
Chen An saw that his face didn't look too good, as if he had recalled something bad, so he touched the back of his hand and asked, "What happened then?"
He calmed down and said, "Nothing special happened. After visiting the scenic area, we went home. I didn't know Huang Minghe..."
Bai Shuo said, "It's normal that you didn't know. The news of Huang Ming's death was only announced to the school after the truth was found out. Before that, they only said that he had taken leave and returned home."
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and also put the matter of getting to know Jiang Li on the agenda.
"Why are you staring at me?"
Chen An's gaze was so intense that he couldn't help but wonder if he had aroused his suspicion.
But he didn't know that it was not him who aroused Chen An's suspicion, but a small matter related to him.
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