Chapter 116 The Nights Are Getting Shorter
Zhou Yi almost couldn't hold back and cursed.
Fortunately, at the last moment, he pulled himself back and didn't say the last two words.
He guessed that Xu Jiaguang lied about this matter, but he didn't expect that this bastard lied in every word.
Zhou Yi suppressed his anger, slammed the table and said, "Speak clearly, what's going on?"
"Yes, yes, I'll tell you. I'll tell you."
Xu Jiaguang had previously said that Zhang Hui had always been brooding over the child they had aborted, to the point of becoming somewhat insane and visiting many fortune-tellers out of superstition.
But Xu Jiaguang now confessed that the person who was really resentful was actually him.
It was he who forced Zhang Hui to believe in superstition and give birth to another son.
From the beginning to the end, Zhang Hui never thought about having a son.
The reason is very simple. Zhang Yu is the only son of the Zhang family. He is the one who can continue the family line for three generations.
In the minds of Zhang Hui and Zhang Yu's parents, let alone the boy born to you, Xu Jiaguang, and Zhang Hui, even if Feng Shengli had married into the family before, and even if he had a boy with the surname Zhang, the old couple would not think that this was the bloodline of the Zhang family.
Therefore, Zhang Hui was deeply influenced by her parents since she was a child. She even didn't want to give birth to a boy, because girls would get married sooner or later and become outsiders. What if she gave birth to a boy and had to compete with her uncle for the family property in the future?
This kind of thinking is outrageous to hear.
Zhou Yi asked, "Then why were you so insistent on having Zhang Hui give birth to a son? Don't you already have a son? And Xu Hui probably didn't have leukemia at the time."
Xu Jiaguang’s answer was equally speechless.
He said, "Because the more sons you have, the more respected you will be."
“…Who respects me?”
"We're from the same village as my hometown. My father died early, and it wasn't easy for my mother to raise me alone. I was bullied a lot when I was little. The kids bullied me, and the adults bullied my mother. So my mother always said that a family without men is not good. As long as there are more men in the family, no one will dare to bully us."
Zhou Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes. With your mother's character, are you sure she's not bullying others?
Xu Jiaguang continued, "So after Fang Ling and I got married, we wanted a son, and thankfully, the first one she gave birth to was a son. But I still wanted her to have another son, but she refused to have one. At first, she took medication secretly, but when I found out, she went straight to the hospital to get an IUD installed. Our relationship became very strained because of this."
"It was at that time, at a class reunion, that I met Zhang Hui."
Zhang Hui probably thought it was Yue Lao knocking on the door again, but unexpectedly it was the King of Hell knocking on the door.
"What about the rape of Xu Xinxin?"
"I... I'm not a human..." Xu Jiaguang lowered his head.
Zhou Yi was already quite impatient with his reaction and said sternly, "Who asked you to repent? Now I want you to confess your crime!"
Zhou Yi's tough attitude made Xu Jiaguang afraid that this "deal" would end there, so he quickly explained the situation in a proper manner.
Because now is his only chance to save his son's life, otherwise, the Xu family will be extinct.
"I attacked Xinxin because ever since Zhang Hui had her uterus removed, I've lost interest in her. I don't know if it's because she can no longer give me a son. Until one night, Zhang Hui had a dinner party at the restaurant and didn't come back until midnight."
"I was also very scared at the time, but at the same time I felt extremely excited, and gradually it started to escalate. Since... since that day, whenever I felt like it, I would put sleeping pills in the milk that Xinxin and Zhang Hui drank. I was afraid Zhang Hui would find out, so I always gave her a stronger dose..."
"Beast!" Chen Yan couldn't help but curse.
Zhou Yi asked, "When did Zhang Hui find out?"
Xu Jiaguang's answer left Zhou Yi and Chen Yan dumbfounded.
"She doesn't...know."
"What?" Zhou Yi slammed the table and shouted angrily, "Are you kidding me? How could a mother not know about this?"
"Officer Zhou, I really didn't lie. I swear, I swear. I usually bathe and change clothes for the child. I think she must have noticed it."
In his previous life, Zhou Yi had witnessed a sexual assault case and seen a stepfather molesting and raping his stepdaughter, while the mother remained silent and pretended not to know.
It's already very destructive to my worldview.
I didn't expect there would be something even more shocking. It's too outrageous.
It really proves the saying that sometimes not having children is the greatest gift.
Restraining his anger, he questioned her several times, but Xu Jiaguang's answer was always that Zhang Hui probably didn't know.
Zhou Yi felt that since things had come to this point, there was no need for Xu Jiaguang to hide this matter.
Many detailed questions were then asked, and the 313 major dismemberment case was finally declared over in this final interrogation.
Escorted by two policemen, Xu Jiaguang turned around and walked slowly forward with difficulty. The sound of handcuffs rubbing against the ground gradually faded away in the corridor.
When they put the transcript in front of Wu Yongcheng, Wu Yongcheng smoked half a pack of cigarettes with a serious expression before he finished reading all the records.
Finally, he said, "I think Xu Jiaguang doesn't really care about Xu Hui's life or death. All he cares about is a son who can carry on the Xu family's legacy. He's willing to confess because he has no other choice. Xu Hui is his only hope. If he still had a son, I don't think he would shed a tear if Xu Hui died of illness immediately."
Zhou Yi nodded heavily, he completely agreed with Wu Yongcheng's words.
When he walked out of the city bureau gate, he saw a sunset rising in the distant sky.
Zhou Yi no longer felt the cold.
"It's April now, and the days are starting to get longer and the nights are getting shorter."
…
Zhou Yiman walked aimlessly on the road. He wanted to take a few more steps and move around. He had been accompanying his grandfather to bask in the sun every day recently, and he had become a little darker.
When I looked up, I found that the sign of Hongcheng University not far away was particularly conspicuous in the night.
How did I get here without realizing it?
Zhou Yi was hesitating whether to go into Hongda to find Lu Xiaoshuang. Last time, she said she would treat him to a meal in the cafeteria.
Seeing that the Hongda dismemberment case occurred only a little over a month ago, Zhou Yi still had no time to launch an investigation.
Just as I was thinking about it, someone suddenly said from behind: "Are you...Officer Zhou Yizhou?"
Zhou Yi turned around when he heard the voice and saw a short-haired woman in a white coat standing behind him. He didn't know her, but she looked a little familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere.
"Hello, you are..." Zhou Yi asked.
"It really is you, Officer Zhou," the girl said excitedly. "Don't you remember me? I'm Ding Chunmei, a reporter for the city TV station. I was the one who reported on you rescuing the hostages at the food court that day."
"Oh, it's you. I remember now." Zhou Yi remembered that there was indeed a female reporter interviewing him at that time, but she spoke too fast and he didn't hear her clearly at all.
"Yes, it's such a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you here." Ding Chunmei said excitedly.
Zhou Yi looked at the other person's smiling face and the work ID hanging around his neck.
Suddenly something came to mind, and I hurriedly asked, "By the way, what day is it today?"
Ding Chunmei was stunned and replied, "March 31st? Officer Zhou, did you forget something?"
March 31st…female reporter…surname Ding…
Information about a case emerged in my mind.
Zhou Yi's nerves tensed instantly.
Ding Chunmei will die tonight!
Zhang Hui's case has officially ended. I saw some readers say it was not very convincing. In fact, I found some problems when I was writing it myself. Let me briefly talk about them.
1. The prototype of the Zhang Hui case is the Hangzhou wife-killing case. The original case was not complicated, but the impact was huge, so many people knew that Xu Jiaguang was the murderer at first sight;
2. I found this kind of simple but influential case particularly difficult to adapt because the space is very small, but if it is ended hastily, the significance of the case will not be revealed, so I focus on the details, resulting in a plot without a sense of suspense.
3. So in the future I will carefully choose such uncomplicated but particularly famous cases, try to be original or choose cases with a lot of room for expansion in the plot. The next case is like this. It has a prototype, but there is a lot of room for subsequent adaptation.
4. The Zhang Hui case was originally intended to be integrated into the plot of the Tang Lanlan case, but it turned out to be too risky. So I didn't dare to write about it anymore, fearing that it would just disappear.
——Finally, thank you all for your support. I am still adjusting the subsequent direction based on your opinions.
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