Chapter 58: Interrogation (2)
"When did Liu Feng show up?" Yu Hao suppressed his surging emotions and tried to keep his voice calm. Sun Yong was stunned for a moment, as if recalling the details of the time, and then slowly said: "Not long after Luo Xin left, Liu Feng entered the house. He thought Wang Shun was asleep, so he rummaged around in the house, trying to steal money. I hid behind the wardrobe and watched him search around in Wang Shun's room." "How did Liu Feng get into Wang Shun's house?" Yu Hao asked, his fingers tapping lightly on the table. Sun Yong hesitated for a moment and said, "I didn't pay much attention." At this, Yu Hao frowned slightly. "Why did you frame Liu Feng?" "He was just unlucky and became a scapegoat. It didn't necessarily have to be him, he just happened to be there." "How did you know he would show up?" "I've been observing him for a long time." Sun Yong's face was expressionless, his words calm and composed. "He's been targeting Wang Shun for a long time. So, I put Liu Feng's fingerprints on the knife under Wang Shun's bed." "How did you do that?" "It's in Uncle Zhang's chess and card room. Liu Feng often appears there. Getting his fingerprints shouldn't be difficult." "So, you planned to frame Liu Feng and kill Wang Shun from the beginning, right?" Yu Hao stared into his eyes, his calmness terrifying. Sun Yong's lips curled into a bitter smile. "You can understand it that way." He didn't hide his murderous intent in the slightest, his eyes filled with a desperate determination. "Do you like Luo Xin?" Yu Hao asked bluntly, staring into Sun Yong's eyes, like peeling an onion, revealing the core secret layer by layer. Sun Yong smiled and shook his head, his eyes filled with an indescribable complexity. "Captain Yu, that's why I said from the beginning that you seemed to be lacking something. It's an understanding of the emotions between people. I helped her because I couldn't bear to see her being bullied. You even said I stalked her because I liked her, or maybe I loved her, right?" He paused, his eyes drifting out the window, as if he could see through the thick wall. "In this world, some emotions aren't as simple as love, friendship, or family. They can also be due to justice, compassion, anger... many, many reasons." "Don't go off on a tangent," Lu Chao scolded, his pen swishing across the notebook. Yu Hao raised his hand to stop Lu Chao, nodded, and said to Sun Yong, "Let him continue." Sun Yong glanced at Lu Chao, then turned his gaze back to Yu Hao. His tone was as calm as if he was telling someone else's story: "People like Wang Shun...
"When did Liu Feng show up?" Yu Hao suppressed his surging emotions and tried to keep his voice calm.
Sun Yong was stunned for a moment, as if recalling the details of the incident, and then he slowly said: "Not long after Luo Xin left, Liu Feng came into the house. He thought Wang Shun was asleep, so he rummaged around in the house, trying to steal money. I hid behind the wardrobe and watched him search around Wang Shun's room."
"How did Liu Feng get into Wang Shun's house?" Yu Hao asked, tapping his fingers lightly on the table.
Sun Yong hesitated for a moment and said, "I didn't pay much attention."
At this point, Yu Hao frowned slightly, "Why do you want to put the blame on Liu Feng?"
"He was just unlucky and became a scapegoat. It didn't necessarily have to be him, he just happened to be there."
"How did you know he would show up?"
"I've been observing him for a long time." Sun Yong's face was expressionless, and his words were calm. "He had long been targeting Wang Shun. So, I put Liu Feng's fingerprints on the knife under Wang Shun's bed in advance."
"How did you do that?"
"It's in Uncle Zhang's chess and card room. Liu Feng often appears there. It shouldn't be difficult to get his fingerprints."
"So, you have planned to frame Liu Feng and kill Wang Shun from the very beginning, right?" Yu Hao stared into his eyes with a terrifying calmness.
Sun Yong pulled up a bitter smile and said, "You can understand it that way." He did not hide his murderous intent at all, and his eyes were filled with a determination to burn his boats.
"Do you like Luo Xin?" Yu Hao stared into Sun Yong's eyes and asked bluntly, as if peeling an onion, revealing the most core secret layer by layer.
Sun Yong smiled and shook his head, his eyes filled with an indescribable complexity. "Captain Yu, that's why I said from the beginning that you seemed to be lacking something. It's an understanding of the emotions between people. I helped her because I couldn't bear to see her being bullied. You even said that I stalked her because I liked her, or maybe I loved her, right?"
He paused, his eyes drifting out the window, as if he could see through the thick walls. "In this world, some emotions aren't as simple as love, friendship, or family. They can be driven by justice, compassion, anger... many, many reasons."
"Don't go off topic." Lu Chao couldn't help but scold, and scratched the notebook with the tip of his pen.
Yu Hao raised his hand to stop Lu Chao, nodded, and said to Sun Yong, "Let him continue."
Sun Yong glanced at Lu Chao, then turned his gaze to Yu Hao. His tone was as calm as if he was telling someone else's story: "People like Wang Shun are better off dead. He's a nuisance even alive. Luo Xin, a woman with a child, must have had it tough. Why did he bully her like that?"
"Is this the reason you gave for killing Wang Shun?" There was a hint of disbelief in Yu Hao's voice.
"Yes, isn't that enough?" Sun Yong asked back, his eyes filled with paranoid seriousness. "Captain Yu, you've seen quite a few murders, and in fact, many murders aren't that complicated. In some cases, the motives are downright ridiculous, yet even with such ridiculous reasons, some people commit murder. I suppose I'm one of them."
He spoke quietly, completely losing the nervousness and resistance he had at the beginning. On the contrary, the way he talked freely made Yu Hao feel that the man in front of him was both strange and scary. He seemed to have no idea that his behavior was wrong at all.
"Where did you take Wang Shun's cell phone and the condoms found at the scene?" Lu Chao asked.
Yu Hao turned his head and looked at him, with a hint of blame in his eyes.
Lu Chao's questioning style is indeed problematic. The standard question should be "What did you take away from the scene? Where are you putting it now?"
However, since the question had been asked, Yu Hao did not dwell on it too much. He looked at Sun Yong, waiting for the answer.
Sun Yong's eyes flickered, as if he was weighing something. Finally, he whispered, "I put the used condoms and Wang Shun's phone in a bag and dragged them back to my house through the passage. The next day, when the scrap collector came, I threw them away with rotten vegetable leaves and cardboard." He raised his head, a hint of provocation in his eyes. "I'm afraid you won't be able to find these things."
"What's going on with Guo Zhong?" Yu Hao's voice turned cold, like a chilly winter wind. "Does he know about that passage?"
Sun Yong's body stiffened noticeably, his fingers clenched into fists. He was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke, "Yes. Guo Zhong already knew about that passage."
He said that a few days after Wang Shun's death, Guo Zhong found him, holding a photo of the inside of the passage and smiling like an old fox.
Guo Zhong said that as long as he gave him 100,000 yuan, he would shut up forever. He also said that if he didn't give him the money, he would tell the police that he knew who the murderer was.
"That bastard," Sun Yong's voice was filled with deep hatred, "Not only did he ask for money, he also deliberately mentioned Luo Xin, saying that he had Luo Xin's old photos and that if I didn't obey, he would post those photos all over the village."
"So you pretended to agree to buy his house and took the opportunity to kill him?" Yu Hao asked, already having the answer in his mind.
"Yes." Sun Yong's voice was heavy, like a stone soaked in water. "I told him I wanted to buy 201 and 202 as a wedding house for Lei Zi, and asked him to name a price. He asked for a whopping 150,000 yuan. I pretended to hesitate, then agreed. I gave him a 50,000 yuan deposit and said I would give him the remaining 100,000 yuan after the Chinese New Year."
Sun Yong suddenly laughed, his laughter filled with a kind of almost crazy pleasure. "On the day we agreed to pay the money, I met him at the end of the alley - the dead end alley where he was killed. When he was counting the money, his head was lowered very low. I took out the knife from my back and stabbed him. He couldn't believe it until his death that I would really kill him."
"Where's the money? Did you really give it to him?" Lu Chao asked with a hint of surprise in his tone.
"I gave it to him." Sun Yong nodded, his eyes showing no hesitation. "As for the 50,000 yuan deposit, I don't want people to think that I killed him for money. I killed him because he didn't deserve to live."
He paused, his voice lowered, with a strange persistence, "He holds too many people's secrets in his hands, including Luo Xin's past... I can't let him ruin Luo Xin's life."
Yu Hao's heart sank suddenly, as if hit by a huge rock: "How much do you know about Luo Xin's affairs?"
Sun Yong raised his head and looked at Yu Hao with complicated eyes, as if he was examining her, but also as if he was sympathizing with her. "I know she used to stay at the Xingyue Hotel. Guo Zhong told me. He said he had a photo of Luo Xin hidden in the safe at his house."
His voice dropped, a hint of barely perceptible regret lingering in it. "After I killed him, I searched his house, but I couldn't find those photos."
Yu Hao recalled the traces of the break-in at Guo Zhong's house and finally understood. Sun Yong broke into Guo Zhong's house not for money, but to find photos that might hurt Luo Xin.
But Yu Hao and his team didn't find those photos. Perhaps this was also an excuse for Guo Zhong to threaten Sun Yong.
Sun Yong did all this not only to protect Luo Xin, but also to cover up her shameful past. He was like a clumsy hedgehog, protecting the people he wanted to protect in his own way. Yu Hao thought to himself.
"You were the one who did what happened to Xiao Yan, right?" Yu Hao's eyes were as sharp as a knife, and he finally asked the question that had been lingering in his mind.
A hint of hesitation flashed across Sun Yong's eyes, and then he nodded, as if the last shackles had been removed: "Yes, I did it."
The interrogation room fell silent again, with only the clock on the wall ticking away, as if counting the time for this twisted period of protection.
Yu Hao looked at the man before him and suddenly felt incredibly exhausted. Although the case had been solved, he didn't feel the slightest bit relieved. Instead, he felt like a heavy lead block was pressing down on him.
Sun Yong's confession continued, but Yu Hao could no longer hear clearly. His mind repeatedly flashed back to Luo Xin's gentle smile, Luo Xue's innocent eyes, and Sun Yong's busy figure at the night market stall...
These seemingly unrelated fragments now piece together a heartbreaking truth.
"Does Sun Lei know all this?" Yu Hao asked, with a hint of subtle fatigue in his voice.
Sun Yong's body trembled violently. "He... doesn't know anything." His voice was filled with tears. "He's a good kid with good grades. He's going to college in the future. He can't let me get him into trouble."
Yu Hao didn't answer, but stood up and said, "We will verify your confession. If it is true, the law will give you a fair judgment."
Sun Yong suddenly threw himself onto the table, his wrists red from the handcuffs. "Captain Yu, I beg you for one thing." His eyes were bloodshot. "Don't let Luo Xin know the truth. Just say... just say I killed them because of a personal matter with Wang Shun and Guo Zhong."
Yu Hao looked at him. Until now, he was still shocked by Sun Yong's motive for murder. To a certain extent, he could not understand Sun Yong's feelings for Luo Xin. What kind of feelings would make him kill for another person so silently?
Yu Hao even secretly wondered, if he were in Sun Yong's position, would he do the same? He felt that he would definitely not do so, perhaps because as the captain of the criminal police, he would definitely use legal means to punish Wang Shun and Guo Zhong.
But for Sun Yong, killing two people is the best way to protect Luo Xin.
Yu Hao sighed, opened the door, and walked out without looking back. Lu Chao followed behind him, and the sound of him closing his notebook was particularly clear in the corridor.
The door of the interrogation room slammed shut, isolating the two worlds.
Sun Yong slumped in the chair, tears streaming down his cheeks, dripping onto the handcuffs, splashing tiny drops of water.
In the corridor, Yu Hao leaned against the wall and closed his eyes. Sun Yong's confession perfectly matched the evidence he had, and the case had finally been solved. But he felt no sense of relief, instead feeling as if a huge rock was weighing him down.
"Captain Yu." Lu Chao asked.
"You will be responsible for the next task, collecting evidence and preparing relevant prosecution materials." There was a hint of fatigue in Yu Hao's voice.
Lu Chao nodded, turned around to leave, but was stopped by Yu Hao again.
"As for Sun Yong's son, Sun Lei..." Yu Hao paused, "Don't tell him the truth yet. Wait until the case is over before figuring out a way to deal with it. Don't let him get hurt again."
Lu Chao responded and left quickly. Yu Hao was the only one left in the corridor, and the cold walls gave him a chill.
He remembered Sun Lei's obsidian eyes. In this case, there were no winners, everyone was a victim.
Yu Hao knew that even though the case had been solved, the trauma left to Nan'an Village would take a long time to heal, and he himself would also need time to process it all.
He pulled out his phone, found Luo Xin's number, hesitated for a long time, and ultimately didn't dial. Some truths are better left unseen.
In the interrogation room, Sun Yong was still sobbing softly. This burly man hid a twisted and deep love in his heart, and this love eventually pushed him into the abyss.
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