Chapter 55: She just wanted to deceive her mother by taking the blame.
Shen Qingye slowly leaned back, his eyes calm, "Yang Xilan, from beginning to end, have you ever said a single word of truth?"
Yang Xilan said excitedly: "Comrade police, comrade police, everything I said is true, I didn't lie to you, everything I said is true!"
Shen Qingye nodded: "Okay, you said you were holding the knife in your right hand when you killed Li Jinguo. But why did we find traces of you holding the knife in your backhand on the dagger?"
"The dagger was stabbed with a backhand wound, but the wound on the victim's body was stabbed with a forehand wound! Yang Xilan, you have changed your story several times. How are you going to argue now?"
Her voice suddenly rose, and Yang Xilan's body trembled unconsciously. She spoke with a trembling voice: "I, I don't know, I don't know, maybe I, I changed my hands after killing him... I forgot, I can't remember clearly, I was just scared of the police comrades at the time, I really didn't mean to, I didn't mean to kill him..."
"Of course you didn't mean it." Shen Qingye said coldly, "Because you didn't kill that person at all!"
Yang Xilan suddenly raised her eyes, looked at her in astonishment, and screamed, "I killed him, it was me who killed him! Who else could it be but me?"
Shen Qingye asked back: "There are only two people in the room, who else is there besides you?"
Yang Xilan shook her head in panic, raised her hands to support the table, and tried to stand up: "No, no, no! It has nothing to do with Yaoyao, this matter has nothing to do with Yaoyao, I was the one who killed the person, why do you have to suspect Yaoyao? I was the one who killed him, it was me!"
"It's not that we want to doubt Ren Fangyao, but you are guilty and trying to cover up your guilt. From the beginning to the end, you have been emphasizing that this matter has nothing to do with Ren Fangyao and that she didn't kill the man!"
"If she really wasn't the one who did it, we will clear her name. Why are you so excited? Do you want to clear her of all suspicion over and over again?"
Shen Qingye said sternly: "Yang Xilan, you are too concerned and confused, and you are guilty!"
Yang Xilan's body trembled constantly: "No, no, Yaoyao is a good child, she is so timid, how could she kill someone?"
She covered her face and cried, "I killed him. I really killed him. Please believe me..."
Shen Qingye sat up straight, looked at her for a long time, and finally let out a deep sigh of relief. Her eyes were clear and calm, like a bottomless cold pond: "If she killed someone on purpose, she will not be able to escape legal sanctions no matter what. But if she was acting in self-defense and killed someone accidentally, Yang Xilan, do you know what consequences your actions will bring to her?"
Yang Xilan looked up in shock. Shen Qingye said, "If it is confirmed to be self-defense, then even if she killed someone, Ren Fangyao does not need to bear any criminal responsibility. But if you insist on taking the blame for her, then the nature of the crime is different."
She looked at Yang Xilan and said word by word, "Taking the blame for someone else is generally considered a crime of harboring someone. No matter if you have killed someone or not, you will not be able to escape criminal responsibility. And once you have a criminal record, it will basically be impossible for your children to work as civil servants or police officers in the future."
"Yang Xilan, you still have room to tell the truth. If you insist on doing so, you must think carefully about whether you can bear the consequences."
Yang Xilan raised her eyes and looked at her with trembling eyes. Her lips moved for a long time. Her back, which had been straight all the time, finally slackened down slowly. Her whole spirit was gone.
"I said..."
At the same time, in another interrogation room.
"The missing fruit knife, the different wounds, the bloodstains wiped in the room, the body deliberately moved to the living room, and the human anatomy diagram on the table—"
Zhou Qiming looked at Ren Fangyao who was sitting silently opposite him, raised his hand and knocked on the table: "Ren Fangyao, what do you have to say about the doubts we just mentioned?"
Ren Fangyao slowly closed his eyes.
Zhou Qiming said, "You have to think it over. The evidence is almost conclusive. You are the most likely suspect. If you insist on letting your mother convict you, then not only will you not be able to clear yourself of suspicion, but she will also be imprisoned for harboring someone. Do you have the heart to watch your mother end up like this?"
There was a moment of silence in the interrogation room. Ren Fangyao looked up at him, but her beautiful facial features were inexplicably cold and indifferent.
She looked at him for a long time before she pulled the corners of her lips and smiled softly: "I know what the consequences will be."
She sighed softly, "I never meant to hide it from you."
Zhou Qiming was stunned and looked at Ren Fangyao with some suspicion. The other party exhaled slowly and said slowly: "As the police officer said, the wound, the knife, and the traces are easy to find out. I didn't expect to deceive the detectives of the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Brigade with these."
Zhou Qiming frowned and said, "If you put it that way, you admit that you killed the person."
Ren Fangyao smiled at him and said, "Yes, I did kill him."
Zhou Qiming got the answer, but instead of being relieved, he became even more puzzled: "Since you knew you couldn't hide it from the police, why did you do this?"
Ren Fangyao half closed his eyelids and sighed softly, "Because of my mother."
She described her crime in detail: "After I got home, my mother was about to go out to buy groceries, and the man and I were the only ones left at home. Because of what he had done before, I had been on guard against him and had never been alone with him. This time was no exception. After my mother left, I took the fruit plate, grabbed the fruit knife, and returned to my room, intending to finish my fruit before doing my homework."
"But just as I finished eating the apple, he suddenly knocked on the door and said he had collected my clothes and was going to bring them in." She paused and explained, "My mother has always been the one who washed and collected the clothes in our house. He has never touched them once."
"But this time, he said he had collected clothes for me and would bring them in for me."
"I didn't believe it, so I asked him to leave it outside and wait for me to finish my homework and go out to get it. But he kept knocking on the door outside, saying that they were just two pieces of clothing and he could just bring them in to save me the trouble."
"I felt something was wrong at the time and insisted on not opening the door. I thought he would change his mind after a while, but I didn't expect... I don't know when he made a key for my room."
"He opened the door with his key and walked right in."
Zhou Qiming and Jiang Cheng looked at each other with ugly expressions.
Ren Fangyao closed her eyes, as if unwilling to recall that scene: "I was a little scared at the time, and felt that he had bad intentions, so I stood up and wanted to go out. But he closed the door and blocked me in the room. He asked me why I didn't open the door, saying that we were father and daughter and hadn't had a good conversation for so many years, and he wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with me."
"He said it was my birthday today, and after today, I would officially become an adult, and would be an adult from now on. He asked me if I had any wishes, and he would help me realize them."
"I was still afraid at the time, so I just said a few random words to him and thought I'd go out first. Once we were outside, he definitely wouldn't dare to do anything. But just as I was about to go out, he grabbed my hand, pushed me to the front of the table, and then... hugged me."
Ren Fangyao took a deep breath and said, "I was terrified at the time and started to struggle subconsciously, but he hugged me tighter and tighter, saying that he wanted to get closer to me. I just felt sick and punched and kicked him, but he was very strong and easily subdued me."
"He touched and kissed me, and I cried and struggled, calling him uncle, saying I was his daughter and we couldn't do this. But he said he had raised me for so many years and had worked so hard to bring me up, so instead of letting someone else take advantage of me, it would be better to let him have a taste of me first."
Ren Fangyao looked numb and indifferent, as if she was not telling her own story, but a stranger who had nothing to do with her.
"I hit and kicked him, and struggled hard. After a long time, he got annoyed and raised his hand to strangle my neck, and fiercely told me to be obedient. He lifted my skirt roughly and tried to force me to do that... I was very scared at the time. I was crying and groping on the table. In a panic, I touched the knife I had just used to peel the apple. I was terrified at the time, and without thinking much, I raised my hand and stabbed him -"
"Blood sprayed all over my face, and by the time I reacted, Li Jinguo's eyes were wide open and he fell on top of me."
Ren Fangyao looked dazed, his voice was dry and trembling as he said, "I was terrified at the time, so I pushed him to the ground, watched the blood from his chest flow onto the ground, and stood there for a long time, not knowing what to do..."
"Just then, my mother came back..."
"She pushed open the door of my room and saw Li Jinguo lying on the ground, not breathing. Her face turned pale. She asked me what happened. I said that Li Jinguo came into my room and wanted to kill me, and I accidentally stabbed him to death with a knife..."
"My mother was also scared, but she calmed down quickly. She asked me to help her carry Li Jinguo to the living room, and then wipe off the bloodstains in the room, creating the illusion that Li Jinguo died in the living room, and then told me—"
"She was the one who killed Li Jinguo. This matter has nothing to do with me."
"She wanted to take the blame for me."
Ren Fangyao raised his hands to cover his face. His shoulders slowly slumped down. He exuded a helpless aura and said in a hoarse voice, "I don't want to. I killed the person. I can't let my mother take the blame for me. But she insisted. She said that I will take the college entrance examination soon. I have good grades and can go to a good university. I can't let this incident affect my studies."
"I said I would not be affected, I said I was just acting in self-defense and would not bear criminal responsibility, but she told me to obey, she said killing someone is killing someone, people don't care whether it was so-called self-defense or not, people only know that I killed my stepfather, people will always talk about it, this incident will become a stain on my life."
"She didn't want me to have this stain, she wanted me to be innocent."
She laughed briefly. "But what if there is a so-called stain? She couldn't bear to see me being pointed at, but could I bear to see her take the blame for me?"
Ren Fangyao took a deep breath, raised his eyes and looked at the policemen, and said, "I agreed on the surface and followed her instructions. I watched her clean the blade and leave a backhand mark on it, but I remember clearly that I killed him with a forehand position."
"There were also apple peels in the trash can and blood stains on the floor that had been cleaned up—"
"I know you will definitely find something wrong."
"I never meant to deceive you."
She just wanted to deceive her mother.
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