Chapter 2727 Fire
Tu Lanxun stared at Tang Weining for a few seconds. His sobs were like an intermittent, annoying rain. Suddenly, she said to N, "He's not the murderer."
N laughed, his broken eyes looking at him intently, his voice devoid of a smile, "How can you be so sure? There's no law, no witnesses, and all the evidence points to him as a suspect. How can you declare him innocent..."
He was right. If Tang Weining were handed over to the public security organs now, the body parts, the cold room, the scalpel and his own confession would be enough to convict him at the speed of light, and Tu Lanxun might even get an honorary citizen medal or something.
Tu Lanxun was stubborn: "There's something really big going on here. Everything is so out of character. Isn't it worth questioning? We can't ignore the doubts in the steps and just focus on finding the answer that seems correct. That's not solving a problem!"
N responded sharply, deliberately: "But he has already confessed his guilt himself."
Tu Lanxun: "That's because he was deceived. Someone deliberately made him think that he had killed Bai Chao and Bai Xiaoju, subtly guiding him to do what he is doing now - inviting the ghost fetus."
When she said it, she was stunned.
Is 10110101 messing with Tang Weining's thinking? That's right, that's right, that ghost-disguised "master" definitely hasn't just been targeting Tang Weining recently. This scheme has been set since the first person in the family died!
Tang Weining was still sobbing in his chair, so confused that he couldn't receive any information from the outside world.
Tu Lanxun felt a surge of power bursting out of her body. She loosened the restraints on Tang Weining, but did not let him go. Instead, she used her thin arms and legs to throw him to the ground, looked around, and took a glass of water and splashed it on his face.
Her tone was gentler than her actions. She squatted down and held him down. "Wake up. You're the only one left in your family. Now tell me, start from the beginning. What happened on the day your daughter Bai Xiaoju died?"
Tang Weining's eyes were covered with a tie, his face twitched twice, and he began to reveal his hidden memories in fragments.
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Five years ago, it was a dry summer.
Tang Weining has a deep memory of that summer vacation because two things happened. First, after a whole year of renovation, his family of three finally moved into the new villa, which was something worth celebrating.
Secondly, Bai Xiaoju had topped her class on the final exam, and since Bai Chao was a video producer with millions of followers, she had become a bit of a celebrity among her classmates. Bai Xiaoju asked Bai Chao and Tang Weining for a reward: Bai Chao was forbidden from criticizing her for the entire day, and Tang Weining bought her a popular white bear doll.
In addition, Bai Chao's family also invited his brother-in-law Tang Pengan and his family to the villa to have a meal, warm the house, and celebrate the housewarming.
The whole family sat at the table, everyone was laughing. Even the most introverted Tang Guangming was livened up by Bai Xiaoju's words. During the meal, Tang Pengan raised a glass of wine to toast his brother and sister-in-law. After all, he was a member of the medical staff, so he smiled and spoke in a roundabout way, with the elegance of a promising future.
Bai Chao responded naturally. She was good at speaking and had no sisters or brothers. She had a good relationship with Tang Pengan and Liang Wei. They praised each other and everyone was happy.
However, Tang Weining noticed carefully that the expressions of Tang Pengan and Liang Wei were not very natural. Liang Wei even scolded his son Tang Guangming, but was stopped by Tang Pengan with a look, as if he was in a bad mood.
Come to think of it, Xiaoguang is going to elementary school soon. He didn't do well in the pre-school entrance test. His younger brother and his wife both have decent jobs. His younger brother is particularly strong-willed and pushes him hard, but Xiaoguang has been dull and boring since he was young, and it's useless to sign him up for early education classes.
On a beautiful day, Tang Weining tried to smooth things over by letting his daughter take her brother upstairs to play computer games. Bai Xiaoju pouted and flung her braids, "I've been waiting for you to say this. We've been bored for a long time."
Bai Chao was angry: "How can you talk to Daddy?"
Bai Xiaoju argued confidently, "It's against the rules! Mom, you promised not to criticize me today, and Dad, you're just lying to me. Where's the little white bear you promised me? Where's the bear?"
The adults at the table laughed. Tang Peng happily took out a red envelope from his backpack and gave it to Bai Xiaoju: "This is from your second uncle. Take it. Think of it as buying you a bear on behalf of your father."
Tang Weining gave in a few times, but didn't take it seriously. However, he was curious: "You're not going camping, so why are you carrying this big bag?"
Tang Pengan said with a bitter face, "It's all because of my good wife. Liang Wei has fallen in love with baking recently. She insisted on buying an oven for our house and is worried that she can't whip the cream well. Look, today she went to the big mall and bought several bottles of canned cream with nozzles. Tell me, can this taste the same as the whipped cream? It's hot, and she's afraid it will get damaged if she leaves it in the car."
He tapped the five or six aluminum cans in his bag. Liang Wei was a little embarrassed and smiled, changing the subject: "Sister-in-law, brother, Xiaoju is such a lovely girl. Why don't you have a second child? A sister or brother to keep her company."
Before Bai Chao and Tang Weining could say anything, Tang Pengan glared at Liang Wei and joked, "Why are you meddling so much? You're even interfering in whether someone has a second child or not. Can you help?"
The joke was too harsh and Liang Wei's eyes immediately turned red. After being scolded by his brother and sister-in-law, Tang Pengan also softened his attitude and tried to coax Liang Wei, and soon the situation was restored.
But Tang Pengan couldn't really be blamed. Bai Chao's health had been damaged by the birth of Bai Xiaoju, making it difficult for him to have another child. Liang Wei's comment was a slip of the tongue. Bai Chao didn't take it personally, smiling and helping Liang Wei with some food—she hadn't planned on having another child anyway.
They ate a table full of dishes from dusk till nightfall, and chatted while watching TV. The nanny left after making dinner, and Tang Weining automatically went to wash the dishes. Bai Chao and the other two watched TV, ate fruit and ate melon seeds. Soon, two more bags of garbage were added, and he took them out to throw them away.
For some reason that night, the public trash can nearby was moved. Tang Weining had to walk a distance to throw away the trash, and when he returned, the party had already ended.
Tang Pengan and Liang Wei were about to say goodbye with their son, but Bai Chao tried to persuade them to stay. After repeated attempts, the whole family decided to go to the newly built green park next to the villa area. Bai Chao was worried about the second floor. "Xiao Ju is still asleep. Why don't we wake her up? She fell asleep before her uncle and aunt left. How ridiculous!"
Tang Weining loves his daughter and rarely disagrees with his wife. "Hey, what could go wrong sleeping in your own home? And it's so close, if I shout here, I might be heard over there."
So they set off. Tang Weining locked the door himself, and he was the only one who carried the sensor key to the courtyard gate.
The group walked and stopped here and there. There were many small vendors in the Green Park. They even got separated once. Liang Wei bought a plastic windmill for Tang Guangming, but Tang Guangming insisted on buying one for Bai Xiaoju as well. He took it and ran back, saying it was a surprise for his sister.
Liang Wei didn't stop him. Tang Guangming usually looked listless, but when the six-year-old boy ran wildly, he was like a madman. She didn't catch up with him. In the end, she and Bai Chao and the Tang brothers chased him all the way back to the outside of the villa.
——The yard was brightly lit, and the building was on fire. Flames and thick smoke rushed straight to the roof from the second-floor windows, like a large brick light bulb. The shadows inside were like the filament that would make people cry when looking directly at it.
As it turned out, the park could not hear anyone shouting from the villa, so no one knew whether Bai Xiaoju had shouted or not.
The fire department arrived and carried out two intact bodies of children, which were black and white from smoke. The older girl was sent to the funeral home and the younger boy was sent to the ICU.
The final on-site investigation concluded that the circuit contact error posed a major safety hazard. Today was the first time that electricity was used on a large scale in the villa, and the switch was not turned off. Electric sparks overflowed and ignited the curtains. Although the fish tank and green plants nearby delayed the spread of the fire, the billowing smoke invaded the respiratory tract and took Bai Xiaoju's life.
The master and apprentice who were in charge of the electrical circuits during the renovation were sentenced to prison, and their company had to pay a huge amount of compensation. Bai Chao aged ten years overnight, and Tang Guangming was left with burn scars on his head, face, shoulders and neck that he would never be able to erase in his lifetime. Tang Pengan and Liang Wei also cried their hearts out.
Where's Tang Weining? Tang Weining fainted.
When he saw the blackened bottle of melatonin in the fire scene with only two gummies left in it, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
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"I locked the door, I bought the medicine, I left Xiaoju at home... Tell me, how could this have nothing to do with me? I'm the one who harmed her!"
Tu Lanxun thought something was wrong. The sound of electric sparks exploding was very irritating. Even if the melatonin was strong, it wouldn't make a person unable to wake up like they were under anesthesia...
Wait, anesthesia?
Don’t Tang Pengan and Liang Wei both work in the hospital?
But Tang Weining repeatedly assured him that he was the only one who had taken the key that night and that he was the one who locked the gate to the courtyard. He also locked the front door to his house, and because the air conditioner was on, the windows in the entire villa were closed.
Tu Lanxun pressed the issue, "Your house has three doors: the courtyard door, the front door, and the back door. Did you lock them all?"
Tang Weining thought for two seconds and said, "It's all locked. Xiaoju can open it from the inside, but it can't be opened from the outside."
Tu Lanxun sighed softly, feeling somewhat helpless: "It can't be opened from the outside. How did Xiaoguang get into the fire and get burned?"
"Oh, oh, that's right." Tang Weining's memory was a little fuzzy, and he remembered: "Xiaoguang climbed over the courtyard wall, stepping on a trash can. As for the door, I remember it was unlocked with a fingerprint. I guess it was the fingerprint that Xiaoju took Xiaoguang to record that day. She likes to play with it."
Tu Lanxun's fingers were typing rapidly when Bai Xiaoju's reply came through her phone. The little girl had a good memory and said firmly, "No, I didn't record Xiaoguang's fingerprints. I'm not stupid."
Her eyelashes trembled, and she turned to Tang Weining, even though he couldn't see her. "Did you replace the door of your house after the renovation was completed? Or, in other words, were you present when the door was installed?"
Tang Weining: "I know what you are suspicious of, Miss, but this has absolutely nothing to do with my brother's family. The renovation was supervised by both families, and my brother was with me the whole time in the park that day. Xiao Liang is a weak woman, and she also..."
His voice gradually stopped and became hoarse. Finally, Tang Weining covered his face with his hands and touched his tie: "Liang Wei studied in college... I remember it was electrical engineering..."
Tu Lanxun asked, "Who told you that Xiaoguang entered the fire scene through fingerprints that night?"
"It's Liang Wei..." Tang Weining was extremely weak. "But, if it was really her, why did she do this?"
Tu Lanxun suddenly looked at him with some sympathy.
"You said it yourself. Bai Chao's body was damaged after giving birth, and she is basically unable to get pregnant again. Unless something unexpected happens, Bai Xiaoju will be the only child in her life."
"And the only heir." She looked around the huge villa.
"If Bai Xiaoju were gone, where would you two be most likely to find an adoptive child?"
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