Chapter 114 The Final Interrogation
"Okay, I understand. Okay, we'll talk later."
Qiao Jiali hung up the phone and said to Zhou Yi, "There is indeed a highway passing through Hongcheng. It is a key provincial construction project and passes through Xinhe County in Hongcheng. My wife said that the relocation work for this project has started and the project has been publicized. We will find out after checking it out."
Zhou Yi pointed at the map of Hongcheng and asked, "Zhang Hui and Xu Jiaguang were classmates in junior high school, so they should be in the same town, right?"
Chen Yan nodded: "Yes, they are both from Yongkang Town, Xinhe County, but one is in the south and the other is in the north."
Zhou Yi tapped the map and said, "I remember when Zhang Yu was interrogating him, he said that after his parents passed away, they left their rural home and land to Zhang Hui. As long as we can confirm that this highway passes through Zhang Hui's hometown, then the final piece of the puzzle in this case will be found!"
Chen Yan immediately volunteered, "I'll go to the traffic police detachment and ask!"
Qiao Jiali and Zhou Yi stood in front of the map, looking at the dots and lines on it.
Qiao Jiali asked: "Zhou Yi, how did you come up with this idea?"
"It was quite a coincidence. I ran into a high school classmate today. He's from Xinhe County. He happened to mention that his village was being demolished for the highway construction. I hadn't thought of that at first, but combined with the information you found about Xu Hui's leukemia, I made a bold guess."
"But... do you think someone like Xu Jiaguang would really kill his own wife to get his son treated?"
Yes, would a man like Xu Jiaguang, who could do that to his own daughter, really kill and dismember someone just to cure his son's illness?
Zhou Yi didn’t know, because he had never had any interaction with these people in his previous life, so everything was unknown.
He couldn't know everyone's fate.
"Perhaps Xu Jiaguang has a deeply ingrained, extreme preference for boys over girls, just like those people who throw newborn girls into the river to drown. In his eyes, sons are treasures, the very essence of life, while daughters are trash, tools for him to vent his lust, worse than weeds."
"Perhaps he simply has no humanity at all and doesn't care about Xu Hui's life or Xu Xinxin's. His motive for killing Zhang Hui was simply because of the huge relocation fee."
"But I really don't know, because I've interrogated him so many times. I'm confused as to which of his words are true and which are false."
Qiao Jiali nodded. She understood Zhou Yi's feelings perfectly. She had never seen someone like Xu Jiaguang, so unrepentant in the face of irrefutable evidence. "I have another question. Zhang Hui is dead. Will he still be eligible for the land acquisition and relocation fees?"
"Sister Qiao, you're reasoning backwards based on the current situation. What if Zhang Hui hadn't been found? What if she'd been a missing person all along? As her husband, it shouldn't be difficult for Xu Jiaguang to exercise his power of attorney. After all, the highway wouldn't delay or reroute just to wait for a missing person."
Zhou Yi’s words left Qiao Jiali speechless. Yes, what if all this had not been discovered?
In the evening, Wu Yongcheng and Jiang Biao drove back.
The two men walked into the office exhausted and saw Zhou Yi. Wu Yongcheng did not show any surprise.
"Captain Wu..." Zhou Yigang shouted.
Wu Yongcheng said: "Highway."
"Sure enough, you guys found it too."
"What? Do you think you are the only one who can lead the Third Brigade? Although we are few in number, each of us is a top soldier." Wu Yongcheng said.
"Master, should we interrogate Xu Jiaguang immediately?" Chen Yan asked.
Wu Yongcheng looked at Zhou Yi and asked, "How about you come? Biaozi and I ran over a hundred kilometers back and forth in one day, and the road was not easy to walk on. I was almost broken by the shaking."
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi shook his head and said, "Captain Wu, I won't interrogate you. After all, I'm still on sick leave."
"Get lost, don't play dumb with me. You started this case, so you have to finish it. Don't expect me to clean up your mess."
Zhou Yi smiled, patted Chen Yan and said, "Brother Yan, thank you for helping me clean my butt again."
Chen Yan said awkwardly, "Zhou Yi, why are you becoming more and more like the master?"
When Zhou Yi went to the interrogation room, he happened to see Xu Jiaguang being escorted by two policemen.
After just a few days of not seeing each other, Xu Jiaguang seemed to have aged twenty years, with sunken eye sockets and protruding cheekbones, like an old man with a serious illness.
His body was hunched, and his hands and feet were shackled with heavy shackles. As he slowly moved forward, the chains kept rubbing against the ground.
"Xu Jiaguang." Zhou Yi shouted.
Xu Jiaguang raised his head and looked at him with difficulty, his eyes lifeless.
Zhou Yi had seen this kind of look before, in the eyes of criminals who knew they were doomed to die.
Everyone is afraid of death.
But what is more terrifying than death is waiting for death to come.
"Leave it to me." Zhou Yi said to the two colleagues from Team 1 who were escorting him.
The two nodded and made a simple handover.
Chen Yan also came, and together with Zhou Yi, he took Xu Jiaguang into the interrogation room.
The final trial of the March 13th major dismemberment case has officially begun.
This time, Zhou Yi didn't use any tricks or get emotional. He came up and said calmly, "Xu Jiaguang, we have already investigated all your motives for committing the crime."
Xu Jiaguang raised his eyelids, looked at the two people opposite him, and said nothing.
"The house and land left by Zhang Hui's parents in their rural hometown are going to be expropriated for the construction of a highway, right?"
Xu Jiaguang was silent.
"This money is just enough to save your son Xu Hui's life, right?"
Xu Jiaguang continued to remain silent.
"But if you asked Zhang Hui for money, she definitely wouldn't give it to you. So you decided to kill her, am I right?"
Finally, Xu Jiaguang responded. He raised his head weakly and said, "Since you all know, why are you still asking me...why not just sentence me to death?"
Xu Jiaguang's reaction was the most difficult situation during the interrogation. He had given up the desire to survive. He knew that he was doomed to die, so he didn't care at all.
But for the police, some of the criminal facts of the case are still vague, and these facts can no longer be obtained from other evidence. Only Xu Jiaguang can confess voluntarily.
"Xu Jiaguang, do you have any other wishes?" Zhou Yi's question made Chen Yan pause while taking notes.
Xu Jiaguang was also stunned. "What...what do you mean?"
"I can do you a favor."
"Wh...what help?"
"We can help Xu Hui contact charities such as the Red Cross, and they can solicit donations from caring people in society."
When Xu Jiaguang heard this, his eyes lit up instantly.
"But...but I'm a murderer."
Zhou Yi said: "Every citizen has equal rights. As long as Xu Hui did not know about or participate in this case in advance, your criminal behavior will not affect him. This is a right granted to him by law."
Xu Jiaguang couldn't wait to say, "No, no, my son has nothing to do with this matter!"
Zhou Yi knew that Xu Jiaguang was finally going to tell the truth.
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