Chapter 205 What does this preparation mean?
Guan Xia and Pang Le sat quietly in their seats, watching Li Miao tearfully recount her painful past.
Guan Xia could see that Li Miao must have been keeping the secret in her heart for too long. She didn't seem to be giving a confession, but rather pouring out her heart, chattering on and on, one sentence after another. She didn't provide too many clues and evidence, but seemed to treat Guan Xia and Pang Le as people she could trust, and completely revealed her truest side.
Guan Xia and Pang Le let her talk until her tears soaked her collar. When she calmed down a bit, they pressed her, "Accomplice? Who are you talking about Li Feng's accomplice? What's their name? Where are they from? What's their relationship to Li Feng?"
Li Miao seemed prepared. He took a deep breath and said simply, "I don't know how many accomplices there are, but as far as I know, there's at least one, Wu Xingxian. There's also someone named Wu Yang. He's the one who has the most contact with Li Feng. And Li Feng has mentioned his name repeatedly in his sleep over the years, but not by his full name. He calls him Brother Yang."
Guan Xia's heart moved when she heard this. After spending so much effort, they were finally a little closer to their goal.
Controlling her expression, Guan Xia asked with a serious face, "What else do you know? Regarding Wu Xingxian and Wu Yang, do you have any evidence to prove that they are involved in your mother's murder?"
In Guan Xia's expectant eyes, Li Miao shook his head and said, "I don't have any evidence, but I know it's related to them through Li Feng's sleep talk and some of his drunken remarks. I also know that my mother was killed because she caught them doing something shameful. Li Feng kept crying in his dreams and said that he didn't want to kill my mother, but he had no choice. If she didn't die, they would have to die."
Guan Xia calmed down after hearing the words "no evidence". She looked at Li Miao and asked, "You said your mother caught them doing something shameful. What was it?"
Li Miao shook his head again and said, "I don't know, but I guess it was murder. In addition to bringing my mother's body back to the village, Li Feng also brought back another body. That body was buried in the ancestral tomb in Lijia Village. I found out a few years ago and secretly followed Li Feng to see it. The body was buried in someone else's grave. The name engraved on the tombstone was Li Mian."
Hearing the name Li Mian, Guan Xia immediately remembered the photo of Qi Baifa in the group yesterday. It seems that their speculation was half right. Li Song was indeed killed, but he was not built into the wall like Lu Xiangmei. Instead, he was buried in the tomb of Li Song's biological father Li Mian. According to their speculation about Li Feng's motives, this was also a disguised return to his roots.
Guan Xia asked again: "Have you heard of the name Li Song?"
Li Miao nodded. "I know him. He was one of the brothers that Li Feng grew up with in the orphanage. But later on, except for Wu Yang, I lost contact with the others."
Guan Xia understood something and was a little surprised. Seeing that Li Miao seemed very unfamiliar with Li Song, it was obvious that Li Feng had never mentioned him in all these years, whether he was talking in his sleep or when he was drunk. This meant that in Li Feng's heart he only felt guilty towards Lu Xiangmei, and had no regrets about Li Song's death. This was very intriguing.
Since Li Feng could feel guilty towards his wife Lu Xiangmei, with whom he had only been together for a few years, why was he so cruel to Li Song, with whom he grew up and even went through hardships and killed someone?
It would be understandable if Li Feng were inherently cold-blooded, but based on the information Guan Xia and the others had gathered, Li Feng could barely be considered sentimental. So why would he treat Li Song this way? Did something happen between them that caused a rift or even hatred between them? Or did Li Song do something that forced Li Feng, Wu Yang, and the others to silence him?
Guan Xia thought for a moment and suddenly felt that their focus had been a little off. Compared with Lu Xiangmei's disappearance case, Li Song's disappearance case seemed to be a better breakthrough.
Thinking of this, Guan Xia became even more excited about the upcoming interrogation of Li Feng.
But before that, we still have to try to get more useful information from Li Miao.
Guan Xia continued to ask, "How much do you know about Wu Yang?"
Hearing this name, Li Miao's expression suddenly became full of resentment. He clenched his teeth tightly, as if he hated this person terribly. After several seconds, he spoke through gritted teeth, "He is also a murderer, the same murderer as Li Feng. He was the one who ordered Li Feng to kill my mother. I have heard Li Feng begging him many times in his sleep, begging him to give my mother a chance to live."
In contrast to Li Miao's expression, Guan Xia was very disappointed. It seemed that Li Miao didn't know as much about Wu Yang as she did. But that was true. Li Miao was still very young when she followed Li Feng back to Lijia Village. Even if she was smart, with Li Feng around, it was impossible for her to find any information or evidence that could affect them.
If there was, Li Miao would not be alive now. Even if she was Li Feng's daughter, Guan Xia believed that Wu Yang would be able to silence her.
For more than an hour, Guan Xia and Pang Le repeatedly questioned Li Miao, trying to get all the information Li Miao knew. However, what was frustrating was that many of the information and clues were Li Miao's imagination and guesswork, and there was not much real evidence to prove it. Especially for Wu Yang, she acted as if she wanted to send him to the police station like she did to Li Feng, but there was not even a single piece of strong evidence to prove that he was really related to her mother's murder.
Guan Xia initially had hope for the evidence of abnormal transactions mentioned by Li Miao, but as Li Miao gave a detailed account, Guan Xia was left with only disappointment.
After all, whether it is what Li Miao said that Li Feng often called Wu Yang secretly, or the large sums of money that Wu Yang transferred from time to time, it only shows that Li Feng and Wu Yang were in frequent contact, but it cannot prove that he committed a crime, because both Li Feng and Wu Yang showed to the outside world that they attached great importance to the development of their hometown, and Lijia Village was really developing very well, so no matter which of these two points is true, it cannot prove that Wu Yang was instigating Li Feng to commit a crime behind the scenes.
Guan Xia thought to himself that it seemed that the most critical part of the whole case lay with Li Feng, but unfortunately, Li Feng was a die-hard supporter of Wu Yang. Just looking at the fact that he had followed Wu Yang's instructions and silenced his wife Lu Xiangmei, it was predictable that even if the police used the most experienced interrogation experts, they might not be able to get a confession from him that could threaten Wu Yang.
The interrogation lasted until almost dawn. Both Guan Xia and Li Miao were a little tired. It seemed that Li Miao had said everything he needed to say and could not explain anything more. Only then did Guan Xia let the interrogation come to an end.
Guan Xia asked a few questions that were on her mind.
Guan Xia looked at Li Miao and said, "Since you know where Li Feng buried the two bodies he brought back, why didn't you call the police after so many years?"
Li Miao laughed sarcastically and said, "How do you know I haven't called the police? In fact, I tried to. When I was sixteen, that was the first time I heard him talking in his sleep. After quietly returning to my own room from his room, I kept my eyes open and waited for dawn. I had planned it all. As soon as it was light, I would immediately run out of the village and call the police. In order to go faster, I even rode Li Feng's motorcycle, but before I left the village, I was stopped by the villagers. They were all bribed by Li Feng. Whenever he was not around me, the villagers would automatically become his spies, watching my every move. Do you think I haven't thought of a way? He can bribe people, and I have tried to find someone to help me, but he watched me too closely. He regarded me as his property. Apart from him, he would not allow anyone to get close to me."
Guan Xia understood and immediately recalled what she had heard from two villagers from Lijia Village chatting in the picking garden. It turned out that when she was sixteen, she didn't want anything to happen when she was close to someone, but she wanted to use her body to develop her own people, but was eventually stopped by Li Feng. No wonder the way the father and daughter get along is so strange.
One of them is obsessed with his daughter, and perhaps through her he is obsessed with his wife whom he killed with his own hands, while the other one knows all the truth and wishes him dead.
After figuring this out, Guan Xia asked again, "Since when did Li Feng's mental state become unstable and he began to frequently visit the ancestral graves in Lijia Village to pay homage? Does this have anything to do with you?"
Li Miao laughed again, but this time it wasn't a mocking laugh, but a smug one. She said, "I remember this very clearly, starting in 20 years ago. That was the year I figured out where he buried my mother through his actions and the flaws he revealed. I can't make him pay for it in a short period of time, but I can at least make things harder for him. The most important thing is that home is his home, as well as mine. As long as I stay home, there won't be so many eyes watching me. So it's easy for me to do something. He's not crazy, but he's having auditory and visual hallucinations. Plus, he's old and has done so many evil things, so he thinks he's being punished by a ghost."
Li Miao's smile grew more unbridled and sweet as he spoke. "Although the evil spirit was just his hallucination, his retribution is real. Am I not one of them? He thought he could control me forever, but he forgot that children will eventually grow up, and people in their prime will eventually grow old. He thought he could take all his secrets to the grave, but I want to reveal everything while he's still alive. He wants to die of old age? Dream on. People like him must be brought to justice, so that everyone will know his true face and all the evil he has done."
Li Miao finally achieved his wish and laughed happily for a long time in the interrogation room.
After she finished laughing, Guan Xia asked one last question, "Do you know how many other people Li Feng killed in Lijia Village?"
Li Miao's expression was one of surprise yet not that surprising. He said calmly, "He could kill my mother. Is there anyone in this world he doesn't dare to kill or doesn't want to kill? I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to kill me one day."
When they walked out of the interrogation room, it was already daybreak outside. The golden morning sun shone through the glass onto the bright corridor, and Guan Xia's heavy mood didn't seem so heavy anymore.
After a brief conversation with the middle-aged female police officer who was observing the interrogation, Wang Yu immediately stepped forward and said, "Captain Xu just called and said Qi Bai and Brother Jiang found four bodies in the ancestral grave in Lijia Village."
Guan Xia said, "In other words, in addition to Li Song, Li Feng also killed three villagers from Lijia Village?"
Wang Yu nodded. "The bodies have been transported back to the police station. The local medical examiner is currently performing an autopsy. However, Qi Bai said that all four bodies are reduced to skeletons. They must have been dead for at least two years."
Guan Xia was not surprised by this. After all, according to the news they heard in Lijia Village in the past two days, several villagers of Lijia Village were deceived by Li Feng under the pretext of introducing jobs and then killed. It was six or seven years ago. According to Li Feng's style of doing things, they would probably die as soon as they left the village.
Guan Xia nodded and asked Wang Yu, "Have the local police conducted an interrogation on Li Feng?"
Wang Yu said, "Like Li Miao, he was taken to the interrogation room the moment he was captured. But he was obviously much more difficult to deal with than Li Miao. I went over to watch while you were interrogating Li Miao. No matter what the two interrogators asked, Li Feng remained silent. It seems there's still some time to get through."
Guan Xia sighed. Although it was expected, she was still a little anxious. After all, with Li Feng being arrested, all the news here would spread quickly. Guan Xia was not sure when Wu Yang would receive it, but once he knew, he would definitely not sit idly by. By then, whether it was them, or Ji An who was far away in Shangshuang City, or Meng Lan and Lu Tingfeng who stayed in Yongquan City, they would all become unsafe.
Thinking of this, Guan Xia couldn't help but ask again, "Did Xu Nian mention the task force when he called? Do they have any arrangements?"
Wang Yu said, "Captain Xu mentioned that the task force has organized a large number of police officers and they are on their way. They will arrive as early as noon today."
Guan Xia pressed on, "Will there be any arrangements for Sister Ji, Meng Lan, and Lu Tingfeng?"
Wang Yu said confidently, "Don't worry. The task force knows our situation very well and will definitely make all preparations."
Wang Yu spoke very tactfully, but both Guan Xia and Pang Le could understand what this preparation meant.
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