Strange Case (XI)

Strange Case (XI)

It was already dark and the lights in the yard were turned on. The police officers withdrew one after another, leaving only the Second Team and Xiang Jing.

Xiang Jing's face was very ugly, "Captain Gu, why did you leave me alone?"

"You are an important witness and we need your cooperation."

Xiang Jing pointed at Jiang Shengyu and Qi Jiabao beside him and asked, "Is this how witnesses are treated?"

Gu Fang chuckled, "It seems that you know in your heart that you lied. Fu Pingping had the best relationship with you, and she even kept her relationship with Hou Yu secret for your sake. And you, you stood by and did nothing when she was killed."

"If I didn't hide, I would be killed along with her, and a life would be sacrificed in vain! If Pingping knew, she wouldn't agree." Xiang Jing became excited, "Why don't you catch the murderer but detain me as a witness?!"

"How do you know we haven't caught the murderer?" Gu Fang stared at her without blinking. "There's something I can't figure out. Since Fu Pingping treats you as a sister, why would she leave you alone when she knew you had a stomachache?"

"How would I know what she thinks? You should ask her."

"The opportunity for Fu Pingping to get close to you was because she had a conflict with Jiang Ying. You used the excuse of comforting her and took the opportunity to replace Jiang Ying."

Xiang Jing stared at Gu Fang coldly, "Captain Gu, you are slandering me. Seeing her sad, it is a normal reaction for a person to comfort her."

"Then why did Fu Pingping and Jiang Ying's relationship deteriorate after you came? They have been together for more than ten years."

"I don't know. You should ask Fu Pingping or Jiang Ying." Xiang Jing turned his head and frowned. "If there is nothing you can ask me, I will go home. My stomach hurts so badly."

"Sure, Shengyu, you and Jiabao take her home."

Qi Jiabao was stunned. Jiang Shengyu touched him and made a gesture of invitation to Jing.

Xiang Jing stood up and walked out. Jiang Shengyu stood in front of her and said, "Take our car."

"No, my house is very close."

"You're still in the car." Jiang Shengyu's tone was firm and unquestionable.

Xiang Jing looked at him for a while, then turned and walked towards the car. When they got in the car, Qi Jiabao drove, while Jiang Shengyu and Xiang Jing sat in the back seat.

Xiang Jing looked at Qi Jiabao and then at Jiang Shengyu. This was not at all like sending her home; it was clearly like he was monitoring her.

Shen Xingyan was puzzled. Knowing that Xiang Jing was a suspect, why did they send her home? Wouldn't it be better to detain her in the police station?

Gu Fang: "There is no direct evidence to prove that she is a suspect. It's just our guess. Besides, Jiang Ying hasn't been found yet."

"Where can a girl like her go?"

"I'm going to Jiang Ying's house."

"I'll go with you. It'll be more convenient."

Gu Fang nodded and drove her there. It takes more than ten minutes to drive from the spice factory to Jiang Ying's home. There were several plainclothes policemen guarding downstairs of Jiang Ying's house. When they saw them, they pretended to walk over and said, "Jiang Ying didn't go home."

Gu Fang and Shen Xingyan entered the building. It was not tall, with only four floors in total, and every household was occupied.

Jiang Ying lives on the second floor, and Gu Fang raised his hand and knocked on the door. A woman in her fifties opened the door and looked at them warily, "What's going on?"

Gu Fang took out his ID and said, "We are criminal police, and we are here to ask Jiang Ying something."

"She's not home!" The woman tried to close the door, but Gu Fang held it with his hand. "If she killed the person, she can't run away, and she can't run away. If she runs away, she will be escaping. If she didn't kill the person, she can't run away. If she runs away, she will never be able to clear her grievances."

The woman looked at Gu Fang, as if weighing his weight. Gu Fang let him look at her. Shen Xingyan said beside him, "Auntie, he is Gu Fang, the captain of the Second Criminal Police Brigade of the Municipal Bureau. If he can't handle your daughter's case, no one else can. Only if you trust us can your daughter be saved."

The woman gritted her teeth and nodded, stepped aside to let them in, poked her head out, and seeing that no one followed, she closed the door.

There were a man in his sixties and a young girl sitting on the sofa in the room. The man looked alert and the girl was a little scared.

It turned out that Jiang Ying had been hiding at home, and the poor policemen were still waiting downstairs.

Gu Fang was not surprised at all. It seemed that he had expected Jiang Ying to be at home.

Jiang's mother explained to her husband, "He said he was the captain of the detachment. If he couldn't handle Yingying's case, no one else could."

Father Jiang nodded and said, "My daughter was wrongly accused."

"Why did you run then?"

Jiang Ying started to cry, "I'm scared. Xiang Jing is so scary. She's like a ghost from hell, vicious and evil. She stabbed Pingping again and again. But Pingping didn't even cry for help. She even asked her to wake up. Xiang Jing was about to kill her, but she still cared about her. I feel so sorry for Pingping."

"You just said Fu Pingping made Xiang Jing wake up?"

"Yes, I went to eat early and came back early. I was planning to take a nap, but suddenly I heard Pingping and Xiangjing quarreling."

"What are you arguing about?"

"Probably why you abandoned her or something like that."

“Who abandons whom?”

"Xiang Jing said that. Xiang Jing was afraid that Pingping would abandon her. Pingping said that she didn't, and that she would continue to be good friends with Xiang Jing even if they got married." Jiang Ying's eyes were dim, and she curled the corners of her lips in self-mockery.

"Then what?"

"Then they started to argue louder and louder, and I heard Pingping scream. I wanted to go and see, but then I thought about the unpleasantness with Pingping and held back. But then Pingping screamed again, and I heard her say: Xiang Jing, wake up, I am Pingping, wake up!

I felt something was wrong, so I ran over and saw Xiang Jing raising a pair of scissors and stabbing Pingping in the chest. Pingping was also shaking Xiang Jing's trouser legs to wake her up. ”

Jiang Ying's description is roughly the same as Xiang Jing's, except that the murderer has changed, and Jiang Ying's description has more details.

"You didn't stop it?"

"I stopped them. I called Xiang Jing and asked her why she killed Pingping. Pingping was so good to her, so good that I was jealous. Xiang Jing looked at me with a pair of scissors in her hand. How can I describe her expression? She looked a little confused. She also asked me who killed Pingping. When she lowered her head to look, she seemed to be startled and the scissors fell.

Pingping wasn't dead at that time, she was just bleeding. I told her not to move and I went to call a doctor. When I ran to the door, I heard a very low sigh, as if it was right next to my ear. I turned around and saw Xiang Jing picked up a pair of scissors and stabbed Pingping in the neck.

She looked like a devil, and the scary thing was that she was still smiling. I was so scared that I had only one thought in my mind: run quickly, otherwise I would be killed by Xiang Jing. ”

Jiang Ying covered her face and cried, tears streaming out from between her fingers like beads from a broken string. What she didn't expect was that Xiang Jing actually turned black into white and said that she was the murderer of Fu Pingping.

Jiang's mother felt sorry for her daughter and stroked Jiang Ying's back again and again.

Gu Fang still had a question, "Why did you and Fu Pingping have a rift?"

"Pingping is pretty and has strong working ability. I am average in ability and appearance. I know I can't compare with her and I have never thought about it. She became the youngest workshop director in the factory. I am happy for her and try my best to cooperate with her work.

But she treated me as a fool, as a foil for her, using me to highlight her beauty and her abilities. I know that compared to her, I am an ugly duckling, but I also have dignity and I don’t want to be anyone’s foil. ”

"Did Fu Pingping say that herself?"

"No, I heard it from others."

"who?"

"I heard this when Xiang Jing was chatting with another colleague. At that time, Xiang Jing had just arrived and didn't know anyone, so I couldn't help but believe her words. She said Fu Pingping tried to win her over, saying that she was new and could only stay in the factory if she had someone to back her up.

Fu Pingping is the workshop director and can take care of her, so correspondingly, she also has to give Fu Pingping some benefits. Xiang Jing also asked Fu Pingping what he should do. Fu Pingping said that he was a fool and could be won over by a little favor.

When I heard this, I really regretted becoming good friends with Fu Pingping and being deceived by her for so many years. ”

Shen Xingyan sighed, "Since you and Fu Pingping have been good friends for so many years, you should know her well. How can you doubt her just because of a few words from others?"

"I didn't want to either, but Pingping suddenly distanced herself from me and became close to Xiang Jing. How could I not think too much about it?"

Gu Fang and Shen Xingyan looked at each other. Xiang Jing's strategy of sowing discord was very successful.

Jiang Ying suddenly realized, "Has Pingping never considered me as a foil?"

"You should ask her in person instead of listening to others."

Jiang Ying slapped her head in annoyance, "I'm so stupid, why did I just listen to others and let them take advantage of me!"

Jiang's mother grabbed her hand and held it in her palm. "It's not your fault. You are still young and don't know how treacherous people are."

"Why did Xiang Jing want to separate us?" Jiang Ying threw herself into her mother's arms and cried, "Mom, I'm sorry Pingping."

"Don't cry so quickly. Let me confirm with you. Are you sure Fu Pingping said something like "Xiang Jing, wake up"?"

Jiang Ying stood up and wiped her tears. "I am sure, I heard it clearly. Xiang Jing, who killed people, seemed to have become a different person. He was numb, cruel, and like a puppet."

Gu Fang nodded, "That's all for today. Don't tell anyone what you said to us. Stay home these few days and don't go anywhere." He wrote down a string of numbers on a notebook, tore it off and gave it to Jiang's mother, "This is my phone number. Contact me if anything happens."

Jiang's mother took the paper, held it in her hand, and sent them out.

When they got downstairs, Gu Fang called the policeman and whispered a few instructions. The policeman looked surprised and nodded.

Shen Xingyan asked: "Now that we have a witness, should we arrest Xiang Jing?"

"You seem anxious."

"I'm afraid she'll run away."

"No,... I still care about what Fu Pingping said before she died. Why didn't she call for help? Why did she wake up Xiang Jing?"

"Do you suspect Xiang Jing is the same as Fang Xinghua and Li Jianmin?"

"But what is the commonality or intersection between the three of them? If we can't find this, everything will be in vain."

"Perhaps the interrogation of Xiang Jing will lead to a breakthrough. You forgot that Xiang Jing had the intention to kill someone, and she stabbed him in the back."

"You're right, I'll contact Shengyu and arrest him!"

At that time, Jiang Shengyu was drinking tea at Xiang Jing's house, and Xiang's mother was telling him about Xiang Jing's childhood with great enthusiasm.

When Xiang Jing was nine years old, she was jealous of her classmate who got first place, so she caught a snake and put it in her schoolbag. The child was so scared that he didn't dare go to school for a month, and his parents finally transferred him to another school.

Jiang Shengyu listened and sneered in his heart, as expected, he has been bad since childhood. What made him angry was that Xiang's mother not only did not think that Xiang Jing's behavior was out of line, but also laughed at the child for being timid. It was really a case of the top beam being crooked and the bottom beam being crooked.

Therefore, as soon as Jiang Shengyu received the order, he handcuffed Xiang Jing directly. He couldn't wait any longer.

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