Chapter 267 God's Will
Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali immediately pricked up their ears.
"Captain Shi, what's wrong?"
Shi Tao said, "Do you remember? We were afraid Tang Xue might commit suicide, so we called Yao Fenfang back. After we opened the door, what did Tang Xue shout from her room?"
"She said..." Zhou Yi's expression suddenly changed, and he spoke word by word, "The baby is crying again."
In an instant, Zhou Yi understood what Shi Tao meant!
The baby is crying again!
When did the baby cry?
Since Tang Xue had been in a semi-closed state since she was brought back, they instinctively thought that she had some mental problems and was unable to bear all this, which led to the auditory hallucinations.
After all, under the circumstances at that time, the fact that she could say this proves that she was hallucinating.
Zhou Yi and the others didn't hear any crying, so these few short words were ignored by Zhou Yi.
Case analysis is inherently a very brain-intensive task, and sometimes it is easy for those involved to become confused.
Zhou Yi is like this, while Shi Tao is a bystander who sees things more clearly.
Among all the police officers, only he and Zhou Yi heard Tang Xue say this.
"Captain Shi, I love you so much!" Zhou Yi suddenly hugged Shi Tao.
Shi Tao was shocked.
Zhou Yi let go of his hand and walked back impatiently.
Qiao Jiali didn't understand what was going on, but she knew that Zhou Yi must have discovered something very important, so she followed him immediately.
Shi Tao looked at the backs of the two men and couldn't help but say, "This brat is so jumpy."
Zhou Yi immediately interrogated Tang Xue again. Tang Xue, who had just been brought back, sat in the interrogation room again, looking flustered, not knowing what had happened.
"Tang Xue, I have some more questions to ask you." Zhou Yi said.
"Uncle... I... I have already told you everything I know." Tang Xue said in panic.
"When we found you yesterday, you said to your mother, 'The baby is crying again.' I asked you, why did you add the word 'again'? When did you hear a baby crying again?"
After Zhou Yi asked this question, Qiao Jiali finally understood what he meant.
If the child died at birth, how could Tang Xue hear the "baby's cry"?
All human psychological disorders have cause and effect and cannot come out of thin air.
Tang Xue must have heard other children crying before, but if her child died at birth, it is impossible for her to develop a psychological barrier because of hearing other children crying before.
This is the key point that Shi Tao reminded us of. Perhaps Shi Tao did not think about it in such detail, but this is definitely what he meant.
"I... I'm not sure... That night, after I gave birth, I fell asleep and suddenly heard a baby crying, which scared me awake."
"How long was the crying?"
"It should be... very short... the kind where he kept crying and then suddenly stopped crying... I thought I had misheard. Later, when he was about to leave, I held his hand and asked him if the baby was crying. I thought I heard the baby crying."
Qiao Jiali hurriedly asked, "What's Huang Jianhui's reaction?"
"He..." Tang Xue swallowed and hesitated.
Zhou Yi asked in a deep voice, "Did he show any signs of panic?"
Tang Xue hesitated, then nodded. "He said I misheard and told me not to overthink it... but... I feel like I really heard it..."
Zhou Yi fell silent, and with his silence, the air in the interrogation room seemed to drop to freezing point.
Finally, Zhou Yi spoke. His voice was a little hoarse, like a heavy icebreaker, breaking through the thick ice.
He said, "Tang Xue, you already have the answer in your heart, right?"
"I……"
"Whether the child you gave birth to truly came into this world, even if it was only for a very brief time, this truth is only known to you, the mother!"
When Zhou Yi mentioned the word "mother", Tang Xue's spirit finally collapsed completely.
This word, like a huge iron ball covered with spikes, was unstoppable and easily smashed the tortoise shell that she had been using to protect herself and deceive herself.
Her eyes were wide and empty, just like the filthy pit that had dealt with her child.
Then she murmured, "He killed our child... He killed our child..."
Two lines of tears flowed from her eyes, but in Zhou Yi's eyes, these two lines were not tears, but the blood that flowed out of the body of the poor newborn child when he was dismembered, flowing into the dirty and dark sewage outlet where he was buried, and flowing into the eyes of the young girl who gave birth to him.
In the interrogation room, Tang Xue was like a madman, repeating the same sentence over and over again.
She didn't cry heart-wrenchingly, nor did she scream at the top of her lungs. She just kept repeating herself like a lifeless machine.
Zhou Yi knew that when she was pulled out of that self-deceiving shell, she would be no different from a dead person.
She did not kill anyone or dismember the body, so she will not be sentenced to a serious crime, but she will spend the rest of her long life atonement for her sins.
Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali waited until she calmed down a little, and then confirmed again and again that she had indeed heard the child's brief cry before asking her to confirm and sign the transcript.
Leaving the interrogation room again, Zhou Yi felt no joy at having solved the case. He said weakly to Qiao Jiali, "Sister Qiao, I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to apply for Huang Jianhui's detention notice. I feel a little tired and want to go back to bed early."
Qiao Jiali nodded. "Why are you being so polite to me? Don't worry. You've worked hard enough, so go back and rest. Anyway, Huang Jianhui is going to bring his son Huang Chen here tomorrow for a blood test, so that's just the right time. If he doesn't come, we can go and invite him in person."
Zhou Yi thanked Qiao Jiali and walked along the long corridor into the night outside.
Shi Tao came over from the other end and asked in confusion, "Xiao Qiao, why is Zhou Yi here?"
Qiao Jiali looked at the receding figure with some distress and said, "Sometimes I forget that he is just a young man in his early twenties. He also gets tired sometimes."
That night, Zhou Yi lay in his bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
He was not defeated by the truth of the case, but simply felt sorry for the child who was killed by his own father less than an hour or two after entering this world.
From a legal perspective, as long as the child is born and separated from the mother's womb, he or she is a person with legal status and a citizen.
This child is the youngest victim in all the homicide cases he has encountered since he passed the internal examination in his previous life to become a criminal policeman and joined the Nanming Branch.
This child has never even experienced the rising and setting of a single day in this world.
But it was such a short-lived life that, under almost impossible circumstances, left behind a piece of intestinal tissue, which was salvaged when the police salvaged Zhang Hui's body.
At his own suggestion, he was sent to the DNA laboratory in the provincial capital, becoming the first case in the province to use DNA testing, which led to the discovery of the existence of another deceased person.
Could it be that all this is really as Old Qin said, that this child is crying out to him?
Is it true that there is God’s will in this world?
…
The next morning, when Qiao Jiali saw Zhou Yi walk into the office in high spirits and greet her, she immediately felt relieved.
Being a police officer, especially a criminal police officer, requires self-psychological construction.
"Huang Jianhui's detention notice was approved by Team Leader Ni after Team Leader Shi asked him to." Qiao Jiali put a document on the table.
Director Xie and Captain Wu are still in the province, so the person in charge of criminal investigation in Hongcheng is naturally Ni Jianrong.
"Although Captain Shi is a bit cynical in normal times, he is really reliable at critical moments," said Zhou Yi.
"Captain Shi has that style. Every leader has his own style of doing things." Qiao Jiali didn't ask Zhou Yi how he felt. There was no need to say more about this matter.
"By the way, Captain Shi and I interrogated Yao Fenfang again yesterday. Here's the transcript. Take a look."
Zhou Yi took the investigation record handed to him by Qiao Jiali and began to read it.
Based on Tang Xue's previous interrogation confession, Shi Tao directly told Yao Fenfang that Tang Xue had confessed all the facts and warned her not to resist any further.
Yao Fenfang still didn't believe it and continued to insist that she had killed the man. It was not until Shi Tao put the attendance sheet and call records in front of her that she stopped talking.
Shi Tao told her that the police had already investigated clearly and that the child was not killed by Tang Xue, but by someone else. So he asked her to confess the truth and stop hiding anything. This would help herself and her daughter.
When Yao Fenfang heard that the murderer was someone else, she was shocked and asked excitedly who did it and who had harmed her daughter so miserably.
Shi Tao said, you have to understand clearly that you are not a family member of the victim now. You are a criminal suspect who gave false testimony and obstructed the police in law enforcement. You are not buying vegetables in the vegetable market. Now I am asking you, what qualifications do you have to ask me?
Frightened by Shi Tao, Yao Fenfang confessed everything.
Zhou Yi was very clear about this. It was not because Shi Tao scared her. The key was that she had originally believed that Tang Xue had killed someone, so she was determined to take the blame for her daughter.
But Shi Tao's words that the murderer was someone else directly shattered her original motive for committing the crime.
Yao Fenfang's confession also matched Tang Xue's confession.
On the evening of the 28th, she scolded her daughter for some trivial matter. Tang Xue slammed the door and went back to her room and locked it. This kind of thing had happened between them countless times.
So when she went out the next day, she didn't pay attention to whether Tang Xue was at home, although theoretically school started earlier than her work time.
Then she worked a full twenty-four hours at the factory and returned home exhausted both physically and mentally.
She said that as soon as she opened the door, she felt something was wrong because there was a strange smell in the house.
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