Chapter 86 Chapter 86 The significance of female police officers
"I'm very happy."
Ji Yinhe stood up and answered without hesitation, "Although my original intention of becoming a police officer was to find you, and now I have found you, even though... you are no longer the person I remember."
“…” Wu Sijia was stunned for a moment, and after a while she slowly lowered her beautiful head.
"I can tell you everything, but I don't want you to hear my ugly face... Can someone else interrogate me? Little Yinhe, this is the last thing I ask of you."
Ji Yinhe looked at her for two seconds before softly saying "Okay."
She took a deep breath, stood up and called Zhao Zhuoqun and Guan Ye who were doing nothing.
As soon as he walked out of the door, he heard Dong Sihai crying loudly in front of Lu Zheng in the interrogation room next door.
"Officer Lu, I never thought she would abandon me at the last minute! Oh my God, I loved her so much, I was even the one who disposed of Deng Qianxiu's body... How, how could she do this to me?!"
Lu Zheng was so annoyed by the noise that he said impatiently, "Because she never loved you."
"I'm so blind!" Dong Sihai cried so hard that he hiccupped. "Can you please call my wife over? She loves me so much, she definitely wouldn't want to see me go to jail. Right... let my wife help me hire a lawyer, okay?"
Ji Yinhe, who was leaning against the door, frowned, "You have never loved Shi Youhua, right..."
"Who said that!" Dong Sihai puffed out his chest. "We were pretty sweet back then—I bought her the Anemone!" He then quietly explained, "It's just not registered in her name... But Officer, you don't know. My wife is great in every way, but she's incredibly career-oriented and doesn't even want to have children! What will become of the Dong family's legacy? Officer Lu, we're all men, you must understand—I just want a virtuous wife who cares about the family. What's wrong with that..."
"You're wrong, shut up." Lu Zheng didn't want to listen to his love story anymore, so he handed the signed confession book to Ji Yinhe. "I've almost finished asking everyone I need to ask. The only one left is Xu Yanhong..."
Ji Yinhe glanced at the female teacher who had just finished a check-up at the hospital and was now huddled in the corner with a dazed look on her face.
Lu Zheng whispered considerately, "She doesn't want to say anything. I think... I'll leave it to you. I'll contact Shi Youhua."
Ji Yinhe nodded: "Okay."
After Lu Zheng took Dong Sihai away, only Ji Yinhe and Xu Yanhong were left in the room.
It was midsummer and the room was very stuffy. Xu Yanhong was wrapped in a blanket, with sweat on her forehead.
Ji Yinhe didn't persuade her to take off the blanket, nor did she rush to ask what had happened in the past few days.
Instead, he stood up and turned on the ceiling fan, inserted a soothing piano tape into the tape recorder, poured a glass of light red bean and barley water, and went back to the office to get a piece of vitamin bread, a bag of shredded beef, and a plate of Kyoho grapes that had been cooled by the water.
Xu Yanhong looked up at the female police officer's actions in amazement, then looked down at the delicious food in front of her.
Being taken care of so considerately, tears almost fell.
"Rest for a while." Ji Yinhe walked to the door. "I'm outside. It's okay if you're not ready. We can take you home or help you contact a psychologist... Tell us when you want to talk."
Officer Ji gently closed the door, thinking that Xu Yanhong had suffered such serious injuries that it would take a long time to recover.
Unexpectedly, half an hour later, a subtle but firm voice came from the room, "Officer Ji, please come in."
Ji Yinhe walked in and found that Xu Yanhong was indeed in much better condition.
"...I thought the police station was full of men." She sipped the water from the cup, her voice low, "Thank goodness there are female comrades."
"The significance of female police officers is to make it easier for more female victims to speak out... And we also want to thank you. The words you left on the wall helped us find the murderer's hiding place." Ji Yinhe smiled and shook her hand. "It's okay, don't worry. You can talk about those painful memories when you want to."
Xu Yanhong put the cup down, and a hint of the firmness of a teacher appeared on her face.
"I can." She raised her eyes. "If you have anything to ask, I can tell you right now."
Ji Yinhe picked up a pen and paper and said, "Then let's start by getting to know Dong Sihai."
Xu Yanhong opened her mouth softly:
"That provincial training session was the first time I met him. A week later, he started pursuing me. I'd never been in a relationship before, but my family was pushing me hard, so I wanted to give it a try..."
"Three months later, I gave him my virginity, and he said he would let me live a happy life... Later, Ms. Shi found me, and I broke up with him over the phone. But he came to Jiangtan to find me and asked me to go to Jingzhou with him to see his determination..."
"I didn't expect that he would become a completely different person once he entered Jingzhou... I just realized that I was just a toy for him and that woman to flirt and have fun with..."
The shadow cast by the sunlight outside the window on the ground is constantly lengthened by time.
Xu Yanhong also ended her story with a tearful smile.
"Everything will be fine." Ji Yinhe patted her shoulder gently, "You have suffered all the hardships in this life, and the future will be good."
Xu Yanhong nodded seriously: "Yes!"
*
In the afternoon, Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng were sitting at their desks sorting through case files and summarizing materials when Guan Ye came bounding over and said, "Someone from the Jiangtan Municipal Bureau is here!"
Comrade Xiao Ji excitedly rushed to the window and took a look—
Tang Ci and Cheng Mo were standing downstairs of the office building with Xu Yanhong's parents.
Unfortunately, he ran into Wu Sijia's parents who had rushed over after hearing the news.
When they heard that their daughter was imprisoned, abused and almost killed by the child of the couple in front of them, the Xu couple's eyes turned red and they glared at each other fiercely.
The latter knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the other party to apologize.
The sounds of crying and scolding filled the entire provincial department compound. Tang Ci, Cheng Mo and several police officers from the provincial department stood in the middle to stop them.
Ji Yinhe pulled Lu Zheng and ran downstairs.
"...Xiao Yinhe?" Wu Sijia's mother recognized the little girl from the neighborhood at a glance. "You work here too? Can you help us plead for her? Sijia used to be a good child. She must have had her reasons. She didn't kill intentionally..."
"Auntie, I am the one who investigated this case." Ji Yinhe looked at the face that looked much older than Lian Qiao and sighed softly, not knowing how to answer the second half of her sentence.
"How could it not be intentional!" Xu Yanhong's mother shouted loudly, "Your daughter is quite capable. She once imprisoned a little girl for two years, killed her, and then dragged her to the dog farm, letting those wild animals destroy her body—"
When Wu Sijia's mother heard this, her eyes rolled back and she fainted on the ground.
"Okay!" Lu Zheng and Tang Ci simultaneously stopped Xu Yanhong's mother.
Ji Yinhe glanced at his watch and immediately said, "Teacher Lu, take Xu Yanhong's parents to the small conference room upstairs. Xu Yanhong is resting there. Captain Tang, the detention center's car will be here soon—"
The Xu couple quickly followed Lu Zheng away. Wu Sijia's mother was not seriously injured, so the policemen breathed a sigh of relief and dispersed.
Wu Sijia's father was left bowing to Ji Yinhe, "Can you let us take a look, just one look..."
Comrade Xiao Ji's eyes were tearful. She could understand the couple's reluctance to part with their daughter who had been missing for many years.
But as a police officer, he must abide by the rules, not to mention that the crime Wu Sijia committed is so serious.
"I'm sorry." She shook her head.
The Wu couple let out a heavy sigh.
Ji Yinhe sighed, glanced at the flower bed beside the office building, and suddenly an idea popped into his mind.
"Don't make any noise for a while." She said a few words to the Wu couple, and then winked at Tang Ci.
"Okay..." Tang Ci shook his head. "This is the provincial department. Of course, I'll listen to you."
As they were talking, the prison van of the detention center had already driven into the gate. Ji Yinhe hurried forward to do the handover, then ran back to the interrogation room in two steps and brought out Wu Sijia who was wearing handcuffs and shackles.
Perhaps there really is a different kind of telepathy between parents and children.
When going down the stairs, Wu Sijia suddenly stopped, looked into the depths of the flower bed, and her lips suddenly trembled.
"What are you doing standing there?" A policeman sternly gestured for her to leave.
Ji Yinhe next to him opened his mouth softly, "Five seconds, I'm responsible."
The policeman nodded and said nothing more, while Wu Sijia stared at the deep green. A tear suddenly fell from his cheek and soaked into the lapel of his dark blue prison uniform.
She silently uttered three words, "I'm sorry." Then she quickly got into the prison van.
At this moment, separated by several trees and Tang Ci's tall figure, the Wu couple burst into tears the moment the car door closed.
…
As for Dong Sihai, everything is much more comical.
Shi Youhua was not as honest as Wu Sijia's parents and Xu Yanhong's parents. As soon as Dong Sihai appeared at the gate of the provincial department, she got out of the luxury car, walked over in high heels, and slapped him loudly with two "pa pa" sounds.
Dong Sihai was stunned for a few seconds and naturally thought that his wife was venting her anger.
But he wasn't worried - usually, once the anger subsided, he could get back to cleaning up his own mess!
So Dong Sihai said in a hoarse voice: "Youhua, Huahua, can you help me find a lawyer? I didn't kill anyone. Everything I did was instigated by Wu Sijia. I -"
A lawyer in a suit and tie came out from behind Shi Youhua, handed over a stack of documents with both hands, and said with a smile:
"Hello, Mr. Dong. I'm Ms. Shi's lawyer. This is the divorce agreement I drafted for her. Could you please take a moment to review it?"
"..." Dong Sihai couldn't believe it, "Youhua, you want to divorce me?"
Shi Youhua didn't even bother to say a word to him. She turned around, put on her sunglasses, got into her luxury car, and drove away in style.
Dong Sihai got into the prison van like a lost dog, holding the divorce agreement, and his heart-wrenching cries echoed throughout the provincial department compound.
Ji Yinhe, who was standing upstairs watching, couldn't help but applaud and whispered to Lu Zheng beside him: "Boss Shi did a great job!"
Lu Zheng nodded in agreement and said, "Besides, no one hired a lawyer for Dong Sihai this time. Given his crimes, I'm afraid he won't be released for at least ten years."
The case was finally solved, and the summer outside the window finally came to an end.
Ji Yinhe looked at the late sunny day in front of him, raised his hand and stretched lazily.
Lu Zheng turned his head and happened to see the pale golden sunset hitting the tip of her straight and delicate nose, and his heart couldn't help but move.
His eyes inadvertently moved downwards, and suddenly his cheeks felt hot.
Ji Yinhe was still wearing the uniform he had worn when he was arrested in the early morning - a button on his chest had been cut off by a dagger during the fight with Wu Sijia.
At this moment, a small piece of skin was revealed from the slightly opened collar of his clothes, and it was clear and white under the light, like a touch of cool snow, melting into his restless heart.
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