Xu Man felt a sense of disbelief.
She was not on duty last night, and after coming to the team today, she spent the whole morning watching surveillance videos. She was not clear about the progress of the case, and it was the first time she had seen the evidence presented by Qin Shen. Although she had some vague feelings in her heart before, she was still shocked when Lu Yajun really confessed to the crime.
Killing his classmate and brutally dismembering him was such a heinous crime, all because of the missing ten dollars.
A ten-dollar bill cost Zhang Xiaojuan her life.
She couldn't help but ask Lu Yajun: "Did you kill your good friend just because of such a small conflict?"
Qin Shen was interrogating the suspect in the case. Logically, as a recorder, she shouldn't speak, but she really wanted to know Lu Yajun's psychological activities at the time. The first knife attack could be said to be due to anger and loss of reason, but why could she bring herself to attack with the second knife? That was her classmate whom she had been with day and night for five years. What on earth was she thinking?
Lu Yajun just shook her head: "I... I don't know... I really don't know..."
Xu Man saw that she was crying so hard with tears and snot all over her face, which was completely different from the clean girl who smiled politely at her half an hour ago. Her heart softened, and she took out a bag of small-packaged napkins from her pocket, opened it, took out a few sheets, and handed them to her.
Lu Yajun took it, spread it on her face, and blew her nose hard. Her emotions seemed to have stabilized a little, at least her tears were not flowing as violently as before. However, she was still sobbing from time to time and occasionally burping.
From beginning to end, Qin Shen's expression did not change. Without waiting for Lu Yajun to calm down completely, he spoke again: "Continue to talk to us."
"Say...what?"
He said calmly, "Zhang Xiaojuan was killed by you on July 2nd. Now it is July 5th, and it has been three days since her death. What were you thinking during these three days? Did you regret it? When the police came to ask you about Zhang Xiaojuan's disappearance, what did you think?"
Lu Yajun glanced at him timidly: "I... I regret it very much. I feel that I was... too impulsive. I dream about being caught by the police at night... Sometimes, as soon as I close my eyes, her face will appear in front of me, looking at me with her eyes open, exactly the same as when she fell to the ground that day..."
"Really?" Qin Shen said, his eyes calm, "But when we questioned you yesterday, you were very calm the whole time, not like you were tortured at all."
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"Why?"
"...because..." Lu Yajun's tears welled up again, and seeing that they were about to burst, Xu Man hurriedly handed her the remaining half pack of napkins. She took it and opened it, whispered thank you, then took out a few tissues, crumpled them into a ball, and wiped her tears.
Qin Shen waited patiently for half a minute until she wiped away all the tears on her face, then continued to ask: "Why did you act so calm in the past two days? Aren't you afraid of being caught by the police? Then why didn't you look panicked at all when we came to question you?"
"Because... because the police had come to see me the day before, I was very panicked at the time, but... they just asked me some common questions and didn't look like they were here to arrest me, so I felt... that the truth hadn't been revealed yet, and maybe... they couldn't trace it back to me... and my grandfather also said that he buried the body in a place where no one could find it, and the police, the police wouldn't find me... so, I..."
Qin Shen: "Are you relieved now?"
Lu Yajun didn't say anything. She lowered her eyes and stared at her hands on her knees.
Qin Shen waited for a while, and seeing that she still had no intention of speaking, he stopped asking, lowered his head, and flipped the folder in his hand to the bottom. "What time is it?"
Xu Man was stunned for a moment before she realized that he was asking her. She quickly glanced at the number in the lower right corner of the computer and said, "Two forty-seven."
Qin Shen took the pen, listened to her count, and signed a line on the folder.
At 2:47 p.m. on July 5, Lu Yajun was approved for arrest. Within the next hour, her grandfather Lu Daonan was also arrested. The tools used by the grandfather and grandson to kill and dismember the victim were also seized one by one. At this point, the two suspects in the case of Zhang Xiaojuan's murder and dismemberment were all arrested.
After the truth of the case came to light, Zhang Xiaojuan's body was returned to her parents. The person who was responsible for receiving them was not Xu Man, but when the couple walked down the third floor carrying their daughter's body bag, the heart-wrenching cry still passed through the corridor and reached her ears, making her feel uncomfortable.
"What a tragedy this is." Li Shijie let out a long sigh and rarely restrained his frivolous tone. After Zhang Xiaojuan's case was concluded, he finally escaped from the clutches of the intelligence team leader and fled back to a group office. He was rejoicing for surviving the disaster when he heard the crying. "They raised their child well until he grew up, and now he's gone. How can they bear it?"
Zhu Zhuo leaned back on the chair, shook his head and sighed, "Ten dollars caused the breakup of two families. I really don't understand that Lu Yajun. It's just ten dollars. If it's gone, it's gone. At the very least, go tell Zhang Xiaojuan's parents. It's impossible that her parents can't even afford such a small amount of money and have to kill someone. Now, Zhang Xiaojuan is dead, her life is over, and she has also lost a grandfather."
"No, don't you find it strange?" someone interrupted, "Lu Yajun and her grandfather killed and dismembered someone in the living room. How loud must that be? Didn't we go to a murder scene at home before? The blood was all over the floor and the whole room was ruined, not to mention that the victim was dismembered this time. The victim died at 4 pm, plus the time for dismemberment and disposal, it must have been 5 pm by the time they started cleaning up the scene, and there wasn't much time left for her parents to get home from get off work. How could the grandfather and grandson clean up everything in such a short time? If you said they were two adults, I would believe them a little, but one of them is an old man and the other is a child, how could they be so efficient?"
Zhu Zhuo turned his chair to his side: "You mean, Lu Yajun's parents are also accomplices?"
"Not necessarily an accomplice," the man replied, "but I don't think it's possible that he didn't notice anything wrong at all."
"Why not?" Zhao Jia walked in from outside. "That day, Lu Yajun's parents came home a few hours late because of something else. They arrived home at around 8 or 9 in the evening. There was plenty of time for Lu Yajun and her grandfather to clean up the traces."
Xu Man was surprised: "Really?"
She had never heard of this news. Did she find out about it not long ago? Looking at the expressions of Li Shijie and Zhu Zhuo, they were also surprised. It seemed that like himself, they were hearing this statement for the first time.
"I just found out from asking." Zhao Jia said simply, then walked to his desk, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and gulped down a few mouthfuls. "Lu Yajun's parents just couldn't believe that their daughter could do such a thing. They kept asking me if I had made a mistake and clamored to see their daughter. I took a lot of effort to explain to them that the case is now in the investigation period and family members cannot meet with the suspect. Only lawyers can meet and communicate. They kept telling me that their daughter is very well-behaved and sensible, and it is impossible for her to do such a cruel thing as murder. And the elderly, who are in their fifties or sixties, how could they help their granddaughter hide it and dismember the body together? They asked me to recount how well-behaved and kind their daughter has been since she was a child..."
From Zhao Jia, Xu Man learned about Lu Yajun's parents' attitude towards this matter, which was disbelief, even more unbelievable than when she heard Lu Yajun confess his crime in the interrogation room.
According to them, Lu Yajun has been a polite and sensible child since she was young. She has a kind heart. When she sees stray cats and dogs on the road, she will stop to play with them and feed them. She will cry when she sees characters injured or dying in TV dramas. She has strong sympathy. Although the couple is strict with her, they are not harsh. Ten yuan is not a large amount of money. Even if she accidentally loses it, they will not scold her harshly. How could she do such a thing just because they are afraid of being scolded?
Speaking of the grandfather, he doted on his granddaughter very much. Sometimes, in order to control their daughter's weight and prevent her from eating sweets and cakes, the couple would secretly go out to buy a small cake for her granddaughter. But this is the kind of doting that old people have for their younger generations, and it is very common. How did it turn into an accomplice in murder and dismemberment? This is incredible.
However, the evidence was conclusive. Deputy Captain Chen led his men to Lu Yajun's home and found a snakeskin bag used to hold body parts and an iron clamp used to dig a pit. Blood was detected on the bags and, after expedited testing by the technical department, it was confirmed that the blood belonged to the victim, Zhang Xiaojuan. Lu Daonan's fingerprints were found on both the snakeskin bag and the iron clamp, and the surveillance camera also captured him carrying the bag towards the park. The facts were before us, and no matter how unbelievable it was, the grandparents and grandchildren became the only two suspects in Zhang Xiaojuan's case.
As Xu Man listened to Zhao Jia's story, she felt heavy in her heart. When the autopsy results concluded that Zhang Xiaojuan might have been killed by a minor, she did not feel much emotional because she had heard of many more bizarre cases in class. However, when she really faced the suspect and learned the cause and effect of the case, her feelings were completely different.
Just for ten dollars and a quarrel, a child's life was ruined and another child's future was destroyed. It is really sad.
"Do you really think this is just a tragedy that could have been completely avoided?" She sighed in her heart, and her face revealed some of her thoughts. When she sorted out the interrogation content and handed it to Qin Shen, Qin Shen saw through it and asked her a question. She then expressed her thoughts, but she did not expect to get such a response from the other party.
"Lu Yajun obviously didn't tell the whole truth. She must be hiding something from us. The first cut might have been made in anger, but what about the second cut? What about the dismemberment? Don't forget, when we found Zhang Xiaojuan's body, her face was completely destroyed and her clothes were stripped off. This put us in a difficult position at the beginning of the case and made it difficult to identify the deceased."
He leaned back in his office chair, raised his eyebrows and looked at her calmly: "Who do you think came up with the idea of destroying the information carried by the deceased and hindering the police's pursuit?"
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