Strange Case (VI)
Municipal police interrogation room.
Fang Xinghua sat on the interrogation chair, his hands handcuffed to the table and his feet shackled. He stared at one place silently, not knowing what he was thinking.
Gu Fang knocked on the table, "Fang Xinghua, you killed Du Juan and then escaped. This is adding crime to crime!"
Fang Xinghua said nothing and shrank back into his chair.
"Why did you want to kill her? She is your wife. Even if there is a huge hatred, you can just divorce her. Why bother to kill her?"
Fang Xinghua closed his eyes and took a long breath. "I didn't want to kill her, really. I still like her. Even though she always called me a loser and scolded me for not making much money, I always wanted to live with her."
"But you killed her anyway."
"I said I didn't want to kill her. I didn't know what happened. I couldn't even remember when I took the knife. When I came to my senses, Du Juan had already fallen to the ground with a knife in her stomach." Fang Xinghua trembled when he recalled the scene at that time.
“Why didn’t you call the police?”
"I don't know. There was a voice in my head telling me to quickly pull out the knife, wipe off the fingerprints at the scene, flee the scene, and throw away the murder weapon. It kept repeating over and over. I had no choice. I was scared. I couldn't think of anything else except to do what it wanted."
"If you had called the police at that time, perhaps Du Juan could have been saved."
"I'm scared. I've never killed anyone, and I don't even dare to kill a chicken. I'm like a possessed person, my mind is blank. Even now, I can't remember anything at all." Fang Xinghua slapped his head in annoyance, as if trying to slap out his memory.
Gu Fang stared at his actions, fearing that he was too excited and it would be detrimental to the interrogation, so he changed the angle and asked, "Do you run home every time you work the night shift?"
"Not really. Sometimes the night shift is really boring and there won't be work all the time, so I'll just go home and take a rest."
"How did you do that?"
"There are some spare clothes in the dormitory. I will take one set and put it on the scarecrow, pretending it is dozing off. The security guards won't go in to check anyway. I just need to rush back in the early morning and finish the accumulated work.
In fact, it is normal for those who work the night shift to doze off or leave temporarily. The night is so long, who can guarantee that they will work in the workshop all the time? ”
You say he is honest, but he thought of using a scarecrow to pretend to be working overtime. You say he is kind, but he killed his own wife.
Gu Fang lamented the complexity of human nature and asked again: "What happened after you returned home?"
"As usual, I climbed out from the east wall of the factory. The east wall was low and there was a tree planted there, so it was easy to get out. On the way back, I walked in the dark and avoided people. When I got home and was about to take a nap, Du Juan got up. She said she was hungry and wanted to eat a tomato.
I didn't know what I did to displease her, and she scolded me again, saying that I didn't work properly and sneaked back in the middle of the night. After working for several years, I'm still a scumbag. The monthly salary is not enough for anything except food and drink. When will I be able to buy a house? She also said that a new real estate project had opened, with good houses and nice layouts, and that if I couldn’t make any more money, she would go out and borrow money, and if she couldn’t borrow money, she would, she would…”
"What about her?"
"I forgot, I can't remember, I can't remember." Fang Xinghua slapped his head with a painful expression, "What was she going to do, what did she say, why can't I remember."
Fang Xinghua's expression became more and more painful. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I really didn't want to kill you. I don't know what happened. I couldn't control myself."
Seeing that he was about to collapse, Gu Fang stopped interrogating him and took him out.
Jiang Shengyu stared at Fang Xinghua's back and said, "I think he is just pretending to escape the blame. He clearly killed someone but he said he didn't know."
"He doesn't look like he's lying."
"You actually believed him?!" Jiang Shengyu was shocked.
"He has already admitted to killing Du Juan. There is no need to lie about the details."
That seems to be true. Jiang Shengyu touched his chin and asked, "Could he be possessed?"
Gu Fang glared at him unhappily and said, "Read less weird books." He walked out of the interrogation room and staggered to the forensic room.
…
Qi Jiabao was describing the process of arresting Fang Xinghua in the forensic room in plain language, and the dangers he described were so numerous that it seemed as if he had been there too.
An Xin cooperated with him very well. He would let out an "ah" whenever he reached a thrilling part. When he paused deliberately, An Xin would ask, "And then?", fully playing the role of the supporting actor.
Shen Xingyan listened with a smile. She had heard her grandfather talk about the process of going to the village to arrest serious criminals. They always went and came back secretly for fear of being surrounded by the villagers. The villagers are ignorant and easily deceived. In their eyes, the law is not as important as family. They are not afraid even if they are charged with harboring a criminal.
When faced with such villagers, they dared not say anything radical, let alone hurt them, for fear that the conflict would escalate and get out of control.
When she heard that Gu Fang actually dared to go against the villagers, she still admired Gu Fang very much. Maybe he had calculated that the villagers would hide, but not everyone has such courage.
Qi Jiabao was still talking in Mandarin, and Gu Fang stood quietly behind him.
Shen Xingyan and An Xin both smiled when they saw this, but Qi Jiabao was unaware of it and was sighing that Gu Fang would be his role model in the future. Gu Fang raised his hand and patted him on the head, deliberately saying with a stern face: "Have you finished the work? Are you from the Second Detachment or the Forensic Office?"
“Our Second Detachment and the Forensic Office are inseparable, don’t you think so, Sister Shen?”
Shen Xingyan just smiled, Gu Fang pulled Qi Jiabao, "Go back, Ling Qi brought back a bunch of information, go and help, no one else can leave."
Qi Jiabao was dissatisfied, "You didn't take me with you when you investigated the case, and threw me to others. Humph, when can I grow up to be a detective like you?"
"Detectives always start with small things, and Ling Qi's case is not simple either."
"Really?" Qi Jiabao perked up immediately. "Then I'll go. But Captain Gu, you must take me with you next time you go to a scene. It's been so long since I've been to a scene. I even forgot what the corpse looked like."
"Okay, go ahead, I'll take you next time."
After getting Gu Fang's promise, Qi Jiabao left happily.
Gu Fang picked up the chair, turned it over, sat on it, put his hands on the back of the chair, and sighed softly.
Shen Xingyan was happy, "Are you here to sigh?"
"Fang Xinghua admitted to killing Du Juan."
"That's good, the case is solved."
"But he didn't remember the details. He said he didn't know why he killed Du Juan, nor did he remember how he got the knife. By the time he realized what was happening, Du Juan had already been killed."
"That doesn't make sense. Even if he had a temporary amnesia, he should have remembered it after such a long time."
"Yeah, I find it strange too. If the case is closed like this, I'll always feel uncomfortable in my heart, as if something is left unresolved." As the team leader, Gu Fang has solved countless cases.
In the process of solving cases, he developed his own intuition and experience. Even without substantial evidence, he could rely on his intuition to grasp the general direction of solving the case.
He felt that there was something wrong with Fang Xinghua's case, and Shen Xingyan really thought about it seriously.
There was no mention of this case in Grandpa's notes, and she didn't know whether things were developing in an unknown direction because of her arrival, or whether Grandpa had never heard of this case.
She could only make judgments based on her own experience and knowledge. “I once heard a story about a man who went to a rich man’s house to steal gold bars and was caught while trying to escape.
He cried out that he was innocent, saying that he didn't know when Shengcheng had stolen the gold bars, nor did he know why he had stolen them. He didn't even know that this rich man existed. Later, after extensive investigation, the police discovered that this person regularly went to see a doctor who was proficient in hypnosis. The doctor used hypnosis to control the man and made him steal. ”
An Xin felt like he was listening to a fairy tale. How could this be possible? Could hypnosis reach this level?
Gu Fang's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Are you saying Fang Xinghua was hypnotized?"
"I just associated this story with your description. Isn't solving a case all about pooling ideas? What if?"
"Haha, I knew I would get some inspiration from you. OK, I'll go check it out. I might have to go home very late tonight, so remember to walk the ball."
"I understand." Shen Xingyan waved at him. The two of them were as familiar with each other as if they had known each other for many years.
There was a hint of dimness in An Xin's eyes. Every time Gu Fang and Shen Xingyan talked about the case, a brilliant light would emanate from them, and that light made people afraid to approach. He kept trying to catch up with her, but he knew that no matter how hard he tried, he would never catch up with her.
Suddenly, a hand appeared on his shoulder. An Xin raised his head and Bao Wu smiled at him. "What are you thinking about? Follow me to the scene."
An Xin's expression was solemn. "Another murder?"
"We just received a call about a child falling from a building at Xinxing Home."
Shen Xingyan's eyebrows couldn't help but jump, "I'll go too."
"It's just a fall from a building case, there's no need for all three of us to go."
"There are few high-fall cases. I want to go and see."
"That's fine, let's gain more experience."
Three forensic doctors, together with Qi Jiabao and Wen Ke, rushed to Xinxing Home. When Qi Jiabao heard that there was a case, he insisted on going to the scene no matter what and left the job of looking up information to Qiu Ming.
Xinxing Home is one of the few high-rise buildings in Nanfu City. The child fell from the 18th floor and lay in a pool of blood with his brain splattered. A young woman was kneeling on the ground crying her heart out. A man was standing next to her. He just frowned and looked at the corpse without any reaction.
After checking the child's pulse and heartbeat, the doctor shook his head at the young woman, who then fainted. The doctors were frantically trying to save him, but the man just stood there motionless, like a statue.
The crowd watching were all filled with grief, and some whispered, "Poor thing, he died at such a young age."
An older woman said, "Xiaonan's father and grandfather both favor sons over daughters. Once she dies, Xiaonan's father will definitely urge Xiaonan's mother to give birth to a son."
Another woman of similar age said, "When Xiaonan's mother was pregnant with Xiaonan, Xiaonan's father asked people everywhere to feel Xiaonan's mother's pulse. After knowing that she was pregnant with a daughter, he forced Xiaonan's mother to drink the rotor soup, insisting on having a son. Now, his wish has come true."
"Shh, keep your voice down so they can hear you."
"Everyone in the community knows what happened. Xiaonan was beaten all day long. They said he fell from a building, but who knows how he got down."
Shen Xingyan listened in silence and winked at Qi Jiabao.
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