Chapter 13: She has someone in her heart...
After finishing his work, Shen Qingye asked Fang Yun if she had any other tasks. When he learned that she had none, he packed up the materials and prepared to send them to various departments.
When I came back from the second floor, I happened to see Luo Kaiyang taking some fresh air in the corridor.
"Brother Yang." Shen Qingye didn't see him today, so he walked over and said hello.
Luo Kaiyang looked back, his face full of fatigue: "Xiao Shen."
Shen Qingye was stunned for a moment when she saw the dark circles under his eyes, which were even darker than those on Wei Zhengyi's face that morning: "You...didn't you get enough rest last night?"
"That's about right." He said listlessly.
Shen Qingye thought for a moment and said, "Is it the case of Zhou Meihua yesterday? Isn't the result of that case very clear?"
"It's very clear." He leaned on the low wall and sighed, "The case is clear, but there are still a lot of things to deal with later."
Shen Qingye asked: "Could it be... Zhou Meihua's family has been making trouble?"
She also saw the scene before getting off work last night, but she didn't want to get involved with that kind of person, so she left work early.
"It's more than just a quarrel!" Luo Kaiyang suddenly became energetic, frowning and complaining to her: "You don't know, in my life, I have never seen such, such..." He looked around, gritted his teeth, and whispered: "Such a shameless person!"
Shen Qingye was not in a hurry to go back, so she stood beside him and listened to him: "She is a mother after all, and she is her own daughter, right? I heard that when Zhou Meihua was alive, she would send half of her monthly salary back home! What happened? The person died, but her mother didn't even want to look at him, and her mind was full of money. I told her that the murderer must pay compensation, so she could rest assured and take the body home to arrange the funeral. She said that her family had no money and couldn't afford the funeral. Bah! The boy next to her eats so much and dresses so well? How could his family not even have money for the funeral?"
"Do you know what the guy said in the end? He said that the money in the family belonged to him, and Zhou Meihua was an outsider, a money-loser, who would not even be qualified to be buried in the family tomb after death, so there was no need to spend that money! I was so angry at the time that if I hadn't remembered that I was a policeman, I would have beaten that guy up!"
Shen Qingye frowned when he heard this and couldn't help asking, "Where's his father?"
Luo Kaiyang said angrily: "His father doesn't care about anything at home. His mother has the final say! Come to think of it, if he didn't even come to see his daughter when she died, how can he be a good father?"
Shen Qingye pursed her lips and said nothing.
Luo Kaiyang became more and more excited as he spoke: "I tried to persuade her for two hours, but her mother just wouldn't give in. She just kept asking when she could get the money. She was being unreasonable! Lin Xiaofeng was also very angry with me. In the end, he said that his family didn't want to take the body back, but he wanted it!"
A hint of surprise flashed across Shen Qingye's eyes: "Did Lin Xiaofeng really take him back?"
Luo Kaiyang rolled his eyes: "It would be great if it were that smooth!"
"That old woman, not only did she not want to receive it, but she also refused to let Lin Xiaofeng receive it!"
Shen Qingye couldn't help but ask, "Are you sick?"
"That's right!" Luo Kaiyang slapped the railing excitedly. "What was she saying there? She said her daughter hasn't gotten married yet. How could such a beautiful young girl be taken back by Lin Xiaofeng? How could they save their dignity if the villagers find out? Pah, don't they even think about their dignity?!"
"We tried to persuade her again and negotiated with her. Finally, she said that if Lin Xiaofeng really wanted to take her back, that was fine, but she had to bring 5,000 yuan as a betrothal gift first!"
Shen Qingye closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Luo Kaiyang said: "When a person dies, they have to be sold for money! I suspect that if this were still the old society, she would sell the person for a ghost marriage!"
"Lin Xiaofeng has only been working for a few years. How could he possibly come up with so much money at once? The old woman was adamant and said that if he couldn't come up with the money, then just wait here. They weren't in a hurry anyway. I had no choice in the end. I really didn't want Zhou Meihua to be taken back by this family. Who knows what would happen to her in the future. So I discussed it with Lin Xiaofeng and paid two thousand yuan."
"The old woman was still not satisfied and kept on talking. Finally, I lost my patience and told her that she could either pay Lin Xiaofeng 2,000 yuan to take her away, or she could leave her at the police station without paying a penny and we would send her directly to the crematorium. It wouldn't take much effort. She stopped talking."
"In the end, I compromised and left cursing."
Luo Kaiyang sighed, "We were busy until late at night yesterday. This morning, Lin Xiaofeng went to get the money again and gave it to the old woman in front of me. After both parties reached an agreement, I took him to send Zhou Meihua to the crematorium. We were busy all day and only now can we take a break."
Shen Qingye was silent for a moment, and after a moment, he could only say: "Thank you for your hard work."
Luo Kaiyang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not hard work, but it's painful in my heart."
He said, "I now understand why the boss doesn't like to face the victims' families."
Whether it's sad or as weird as this time, it's never a happy experience.
He perked up and asked Shen Qingye again: "By the way, I heard that you went out on a field trip again today? How did it turn out?"
Shen Qingye was surprised: "Don't you know?"
Luo Kaiyang shrugged: "The boss, Brother Jiang, Brother Qiming and others are all in the interrogation room. Zhengyi is guarding the forensic department on the fourth floor. No one told me at all."
Shen Qingye told him what happened today. Luo Kaiyang opened his eyes wide: "It turns out that Cai Limin is not innocent either? Seeing him look so honest, I thought he was at most an accomplice to the crime."
"No, you found the body right away? That's too efficient!"
He looked Shen Qingye up and down, and said in surprise: "Xiao Shen, I noticed that you were involved in both cases, and both cases are progressing very quickly. Would you like to consider joining our serious crime team? I see that you seem to be quite interested in this area!"
Shen Qingye smiled and said, "Not for now. I'm fine the way I am now."
Luo Kaiyang was just acting on impulse, and he was not too disappointed by the rejection. He just said "oh" and looked towards the direction of the interrogation room, muttering, "I don't know how the boss and the others are doing..."
Shen Qingye also looked up with a long gaze.
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In the interrogation room.
Cai Limin's lips trembled, and he forced a smile: "Comrade police officer, what did you just say? I don't quite understand."
"Didn't you understand?" Yue Lingchuan smiled even warmer: "Then I'll say it again."
"Listen carefully, the sound of rain outside is similar to the sound of the day when Lu Xiuqin died, isn't it?"
It was noisy outside the door; all that could be heard was the footsteps of people passing by and their low voices talking. Cai Liming felt that there seemed to be no such sound of rain, but in a trance, he seemed to hear the crackling sound of raindrops hitting the ground, mixed with the damp fishy smell of the soil, which made his face gradually turn pale.
He shook his head with all his strength: "I, I don't quite understand what you mean."
"You don't understand? It's okay, I'll be more direct." Yue Lingchuan put his hands on the table and sat up straight: "Cai Limin, we dug up a body in the yard of your hometown. According to DNA testing, it was confirmed to be Lu Xiuqin. What do you want to say about this?"
Cai Limin's pupils shrank, and he said in a trembling voice: "What did you say? Xiu, Xiuqin is dead?" He shook his head in panic: "I don't know, I don't know, I watched her leave at that time, and I haven't seen her since then. I thought she ran away, I really didn't know she had..."
Zhou Qiming nodded: "Oh, you mean, I don't know who killed Lv Xiuqin, and after that, he sent her back to her home and buried her in her own yard, is that what you mean?"
Cai Limin's face trembled: "Comrade police, I really don't know. She is my wife and the mother of my child. I live with her. Why would I kill her?"
Yue Lingchuan shook his head: "You and Cai Chengyong are indeed father and son. You two really look alike." He looked at Cai Limin and said, "But your son is much smarter than you and is also much more cautious."
"Of course, we can't rule out the reasons of the times. After all, in that era, information was blocked and we didn't know the methods of the police. Now, with TV dramas, news, radio, and so many other media, we can more or less understand a little bit."
Cai Limin's breathing became slightly deeper.
Yue Lingchuan leaned over the table, picked up a transparent plastic bag beside him, and shook it at him: "Do you know what this is?"
Cai Liming looked over and blinked rapidly a few times.
"Does it look familiar? These are the pieces of clothing we found at the place where Lv Xiuqin buried her body." Yue Lingchuan smiled, "It's amazing, isn't it? A piece of clothing, buried in the soil for nearly 20 years, can still be preserved."
"What's even more amazing? Our technicians have extracted a type of male DNA from this piece of clothing." He stared at Cai Limin's face closely, not missing a single expression on his face, but his face still looked confident and at ease: "Do you know what DNA is? It's like a fingerprint, it's unique to you, and no one else will be the same as you."
He took the file bag beside him and held it in his hand: "We matched the extracted DNA with yours. Here are the test results. Do you want to see them?"
Cai Limin's somewhat sagging face was shaking constantly. He gritted his trembling teeth and still resisted stubbornly: "I don't know, police comrade, I really don't know anything..."
Yue Lingchuan laughed, threw the file bag aside, and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it. After all, the evidence is now solid. As for your confession, if you have it, that would be the best. If not, it won't affect the sentence."
He looked at him and smiled, "In your situation, even if you don't get the death penalty, you'll probably have to stay in there for life. If you don't want to talk about it, just keep it to yourself. We don't care anyway."
There was silence in the interrogation room. Yue Lingchuan leaned back in his chair, flipping through documents idly, with a calm and natural look on his face, as if he didn't care at all.
Cai Liming stared blankly at the void in front of him, his whole body tense, and he did not utter a word for a long time.
I don’t know how long it took, but his straight back slowly collapsed, and it seemed as if all his energy and spirit had leaked out, and he looked much older in an instant.
He slowly raised his eyelids, stared at Yue Lingchuan for a long while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Don't you policemen all want to find the truth?"
Yue Lingchuan looked at him and smiled: "You are wrong. Only the family members care about the truth. We just need to catch the murderer."
He crossed his legs and said casually, "I've been a policeman for several years. What kind of cases have I not seen? What kind of grudges and hatreds have I not heard of? For people like you, the motives for killing are nothing more than those, for love? For hatred? It's not uncommon."
Upon hearing this, Cai Limin slowly closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time before finally telling the truth:
"She has someone in her heart..."
Yue Lingchuan and Zhou Qiming looked at each other upon seeing this, and a flash of joy appeared in their eyes.
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