Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Xiao Ji, the stage is now yours.
The electric fan was turning in the corner, and the wind stirred up by the blades was filled with a damp and moldy smell.
Time passes by every second.
In the interrogation room, Li Jian crossed his legs leisurely, looking quite relaxed and comfortable.
He has been sitting here for more than half an hour, and it seems that the police have no tricks up their sleeves and have found no evidence.
He believed that soon the helpless police would have no choice but to send him and his aunt out of the city police station.
With a creak, the door of the interrogation room was pushed open.
The young and beautiful policewoman walked in, straightened her clothes, and sat down on the chair opposite.
Li Jian curled up the corners of his lips and couldn't help but cast a coquettish glance.
"Sister Police Officer, you look young, you must have just graduated, right?" He imitated the big brother style in Hong Kong movies, tilted his head and touched the corner of his lips, "A place like the Public Security Bureau is not suitable for you, it's too hard! Why don't you come with me!"
The policewoman wrinkled her delicate nose and ignored him.
Li Jian found her slightly unhappy look very amusing. "Brother will take you south to Shenzhen to do business. I guarantee you will have a good time—"
"Li Jian." Ji Yinhe interrupted him in a cold and serious voice, "Let me ask you one last time. The night before Zhang Chunbo died, did you go to the assembly workshop to modify the motor's wiring?"
"I'm talking to you, police sister. I've answered this question so many times. It's boring to keep asking!"
Ji Yinhe nodded expressionlessly.
At this moment, the pager on her waist suddenly rang. She looked down and stood up.
"Hey, why did you leave? Let's talk for a while, sister——"
Li Jian held up his chin listlessly and watched her walk out of the interrogation room.
This policewoman must have just arrived and her professional skills are not yet proficient. Other police officers would close the door tightly before leaving, for fear that the suspect would hear anything, but she left in a hurry and did not even close the door properly, leaving a narrow gap. Sitting in the inner room, I could still hear the sound of her making a phone call in the office next door.
Li Jian became interested and pricked up his ears.
Unexpectedly, the first sentence he heard made his face suddenly turn pale.
"...Former Soviet insulation equipment? Oh, they're collecting fingerprints, right? Okay, Captain Tang, you've worked hard... It's okay, he still won't say anything... Yeah, Li Guoping hasn't eaten or drunk anything all night, we all think she's about to speak. Well, let's see who speaks first..."
Li Jian swallowed and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
It is true that anyone can touch that motor, but if you want to connect it to a 10,000-volt high-voltage line, you can only use insulation equipment from the former Soviet Union!
Li Guoping gave him some money and asked him to buy it from the market.
But as the son of a compressor factory employee, Li Jian clearly knew that the factory already had the supporting equipment, and it was usually locked in the maintenance room, so there was no need to spend extra money.
He embezzled the money, took the key from the workers, took out the equipment in the dark of night, and modified the motor.
When he was done, he wiped the equipment, returned it in its original condition, and locked the door of the maintenance room.
Unexpectedly, when I returned the key the next day, my aunt saw it.
Li Guoping scolded him severely, accusing him of doing bad things for the sake of small money. If the workshop workers told the police that he had borrowed the key, then he would be suspected of tampering with the motor!
To this end, the aunt and niece contacted the workers privately, using both kindness and force to prevent them from revealing any truth.
So Li Jian was confused at the moment. How could the police know that he had used the equipment so quickly?
And they even collected fingerprints from it. What on earth is going on? Who betrayed him?
Could it be...Aunt?
Li Jian rubbed his face irritably, his heart beating rapidly.
The door was pushed open again, and the policewoman walked back calmly and sat back down on the chair.
Li Jian had a lot of questions to ask, and he looked at the young and beautiful face with a tentative look.
However, the other party remained calm, leaning back in his chair and casually flipping through the confession.
Li Jian's face grew paler and paler, and he felt extremely uncomfortable sitting there, not feeling at ease at all.
...What is going on here?
Of course, although Ji Yinhe lowered his head, he was actually secretly observing Li Jian's condition with his peripheral vision.
If she guessed correctly, his psychological defenses were about to be broken!
The phone call just now was made deliberately for Li Jian to hear after she discussed it with Tang Ci.
A retired electrician from the compressor factory told them that the motor modification circuit in the final assembly workshop must use former Soviet insulation equipment.
And that set of insulation equipment was locked in the maintenance room.
The keys to the maintenance room are in the hands of a few workers in the workshop. According to factory regulations, every time the equipment is used, it needs to be registered.
If we can compare the fingerprints detected on the equipment with the list in the registration book one by one, the person who is not registered must be the real culprit who secretly used the equipment to modify the motor!
However, Ji Yinhe soon discovered that this inference also had flaws.
If the real murderer wiped off his fingerprints, or was so cunning and bold that he deliberately registered his name, confident that the police would not waste the energy to verify the actual circumstances of each use, then he would still have a good chance of escape.
But time is running out and there is no time to find more evidence.
If the real murderer is Li Jian and Li Guoping, they will definitely leave Jiangtan without stopping after leaving the Municipal Bureau this time.
Even if we have more direct evidence, it may not be so easy to arrest the person.
When Ji Yinhe mentioned the idea of defrauding someone by pretending to make a phone call, Tang Ci immediately said, "We can give it a try."
He picked up the pager and was about to interrogate him when a slender arm stopped him.
"Captain Tang, I'm a stranger and a young policewoman. Li Jian will definitely not take me seriously." Ji Yinhe said seriously, "I'll stay at the Municipal Bureau to deceive him. You take your men to the compressor factory and find the equipment to check fingerprints."
Tang Ci was silent for a moment. "You're right. Even if we have a confession, we still need physical evidence. I don't believe there won't be a trace of him left in the entire workshop... Xiao Wu! Call Lao Tian, and you two will go to the compressor factory with me. Cheng Mo will wait outside the interrogation room. Xiao Ji is a girl, so if Li Jian suddenly does something extreme, you must stop him in time."
"Yes!" "Okay."
"Xiao Ji, the stage is up to you." Tang Ci looked at Ji Yinhe and smiled, then strode towards the big jeep parked at the door of the office building.
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Time goes back to the present. Comrade Xiao Ji, who has completed the first step of the performance, took advantage of the cover of the table and made an "OK" gesture to Cheng Mo outside the door.
After receiving the signal, Cheng Mo lowered his head and operated the BP machine twice.
Soon, a loud "beep" sound was heard from the interrogation room.
In front of Li Jian, Ji Yinhe took out his BP machine, quickly scanned the screen with his eyes, revealing an uncontrollable excitement.
"Very good!"
She even clenched her fists and made a "yeah" gesture secretly, but as if she was afraid of being discovered by Li Jian, she quickly unclenched her fists and returned to her normal expression.
"Um, the police sister..."
Li Jian's butt moved restlessly on the chair.
"Don't be impatient." Ji Yinhe raised his head and looked at the other person sincerely. "I'll leave soon and won't tell you anything. Our captain will come to take over later. If you have anything to say, tell him."
She took a deep breath and began to gather her emotions.
In the phone call just now, Tang Ci said that they had found the insulation equipment, and Xiao Wu was taking Lao Tian for fingerprint comparison.
And he also had unexpected gains.
"Li Jian's neighbors told me that Li Guoping's brother, Li Jian's father, is in the hospital," Tang Ci said. "I just checked with the hospital. He has a terminal illness and needs surgery, which will cost a large sum of money. So Li Jian is actually very short of money. This is probably his motive for becoming Li Guoping's accomplice..."
Ji Yinhe followed his train of thought: "But Li Guoping wants to take the money and run away. In other words, the aunt and nephew have not reached a consensus on how to divide the spoils!"
"Right." Tang Ci chuckled, "You can take advantage of this opportunity."
This discovery did give Ji Yinhe the inspiration to "perform the next play."
Sure enough, when Li Jian heard that someone was going to be replaced, he grabbed the corner of the table, got a little anxious, and shouted, "Don't leave!"
Why did the captain come here to interrogate me for no reason?
——The guess in his mind seemed to be further confirmed.
Did they really find evidence?
Could it be that Li Guoping has already confessed?
"Comrade police officer, what exactly did my aunt tell you?" Li Jian touched his head and gave up beating around the bush. "Please tell me a little bit so I can understand, right..."
But Ji Yinhe on the opposite side blinked her innocent and clear big eyes.
After a moment, a crystal tear welled up from the corner of his eye.
"I really don't know anything. They were all out on a mission, so they just pulled me in to work overtime."
"They've all gone out?" Li Jian asked in surprise. "Why?"
"How would I know?" She sniffed pitifully. "I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but my sixth aunt has leukemia. Have you seen the Japanese TV series 'Blood Doubt'? The treatment costs a lot of money..."
Li Jian's expression suddenly changed.
"My parents are in the hospital taking care of me, and I can't really help. It would be great if I could earn more money, but the city bureau doesn't even pay overtime..."
Ji Yinhe was worried that this sentimental scene might be too abrupt, but she didn't expect the man opposite her to be so into the role that he burst into tears.
"My dad also has cancer!" Li Jian let out a huge snot bubble. "I understand you. I'm telling you, until it happens to you, you don't understand how serious it is!"
"Yes! My Sixth Aunt and I are very close. I really can't bear to see her suffer!" Ji Yinhe pretended to wipe his eyes with his shirt sleeve. "But this disease is really expensive. Even if my parents took out all their family savings, it still couldn't fill the hole!"
"Of course not! My aunt doesn't want to give me even a cent!"
Ji Yinhe's ears moved, and she asked sleekly, "Didn't your aunt make a lot of money?"
Li Jian, completely oblivious, sighed, "But she's such a stingy person, never giving a penny. She gets all the good things! If my grandparents hadn't let her go to technical secondary school, how could she have gotten a job in a factory office? But to become the general manager, she didn't get married or have children, and she didn't even contribute to the household expenses, spending it all on her looks. It really pissed my grandma off to death... Li Guoping is such a selfish, ungrateful person!"
Ji Yinhe was filled with righteous indignation, "That's too much!"
"Yeah! That's too much!"
The interrogation room fell silent. No one spoke.
Apart from Li Jian's heavy breathing, even the air seemed to be frozen.
After a long while, he suddenly asked, "If I confess before my aunt, will I get a lighter sentence in court?"
Ji Yinhe looked at him for two seconds and nodded slightly. Cheng Mo walked into the interrogation room and picked up the confession book and recorder.
Li Jian gripped the armchair tightly and sighed deeply.
Ever since he was taken away by the police, he had been pretending to be greasy and cunning in order to delay the interrogation, in accordance with the agreement with his aunt.
But at this moment, the police have found the equipment. If there are fingerprints that were missed, or if Li Guoping has given up denying it, what awaits him will be a long prison term.
Even the death penalty.
Li Jian didn't want to continue acting. If he told the truth honestly, he might be able to ask the police to plead for him and get a few years off his sentence.
Maybe I can spend more time with my dad.
"That motor... I tampered with it." He lowered his head. "But it was Li Guoping who asked me to do it. She also taught me how to operate it."
Cheng Mo asked, "What's the motive?"
"My aunt said that if Zhang Chunbo found out she was burning invoices in the middle of the night, he might report her. Then there would be no one left at home to earn money... As long as I could resolve this, she would pay for my dad's medical treatment!" Li Jian took a deep breath. "Comrade police officer, I didn't even graduate from elementary school. I thought connecting the 10,000-volt power supply was just a way to scare Zhang Chunbo. I really didn't mean to kill anyone. I had no idea someone would die!"
After he finished explaining, he fell back into his chair weakly.
Cheng Mo took out his confession for him to confirm and pressed his fingerprint.
Ji Yinhe stood up and said, "Thank you for your explanation. Now we are going to interrogate your aunt."
"..." Li Jian raised his head in a daze, "Li Guoping, didn't she say anything?"
"Yes." Ji Yinhe nodded, "and——"
She gave an awkward yet polite smile.
"Actually, I don't have a Sixth Aunt."
Li Jian slowly came back to his senses: "..."
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