Chapter 463 Interrogation of Wu Yuemei
In the interrogation room of Yunshan County Detention Center.
Wu Yuemei, wearing a blue uniform, was brought in.
The information shows that she is 37 years old this year, but she actually looks like she is in her early 40s.
His figure is a little bloated, but his facial features are still good. He might have looked good when he was young.
There was no need to shave or cut hair in the detention center, so she still tied her long hair up.
After sitting down, she glanced at the person opposite her.
I have seen the one in police uniform before, but the other one who is not in police uniform is a stranger.
Then she lowered her head.
"Wu Yuemei, we are from the Yunshan County Public Security Bureau and we have some questions to ask you," Zhou Yi said.
Wu Yuemei nodded.
"April 17th, where were you?"
"Didn't you ask?" Wu Yuemei muttered impatiently.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Yi slammed the table, and suddenly there was a loud noise.
Wu Yuemei shuddered with fear, and even Wang Tao next to her was startled.
Zhou Yi said sternly, "Just answer whatever you're asked. Figure out exactly where this place is! Do you have the right to be rambling?"
Zhou Yi's eyes were sharp, which frightened Wu Yuemei so much that she trembled and nodded repeatedly.
This rural woman had never experienced such a scene before. Zhou Yi usually dealt with vicious, cunning and crafty murderers.
"Where were you on April 17th?" Zhou Yi asked again in a raised voice.
"At...at home."
"Which home? Tell me clearly, the address!"
"Xia...Xiaguang Village, my husband Yao Xi's home."
Zhou Yi began to inquire in detail about what happened that night.
Wang Tao felt strange at first, because they had asked these questions before and they were all in the transcript.
But he soon discovered that Zhou Yi's questions were extremely detailed, even going so far as to ask exactly how many times he hit the child's buttocks and thighs, whether he scolded him while beating him, and what he scolded him for.
Sometimes Wu Yuemei couldn't remember clearly, but he would force her to remember, and she had to remember whether she hit her four or five times.
Wang Tao was a little confused. Was it necessary to ask so much? What difference did it make if I hit him four times or five times?
But since this was "Director Ni's man", he didn't dare say much.
"When did you notice the severe redness and swelling on the child's body?"
"Evening...evening..."
"What time at night!"
Wu Yuemei was already extremely nervous after Zhou Yi's series of high-intensity and nitpicking interrogations.
"I don't remember." She said in a tearful voice.
Zhou Yi glared and said one word: "I want to!"
Wu Yuemei could only cry while thinking, and tremblingly said: "Okay... It seems to be around 7:30..."
"Have you eaten yet?"
Zhou Yi's question stunned Wang Tao and Wu Yuemei, especially Wang Tao, who didn't understand why he asked whether they had eaten.
"Eat...eat."
"What did you eat?" Zhou Yi said, and then added, "Think about it carefully."
Wu Yuemei lowered her head and said, "Eggplant... Eggplant with minced meat, fried cowpeas, and... rice."
Zhou Yi was silent for a moment and asked, "Has Yao Huanhuan eaten dinner yet?"
Wu Yuemei was stunned for a moment, then replied blankly: "I ate... I ate."
"Are you sure?"
"Let me think, let me think..."
"As a mother, you don't even know whether your child has eaten or not?"
"I ate... I ate, but not much."
Zhou Yi looked at the other person and said, "Wu Yuemei, let me tell you a fact first. It is possible to tell whether a person has eaten or not. There will be residue in the stomach. Even if it is digested, it will enter the intestines and become excrement."
"You'd better think carefully about your answer, because you will be responsible for every word you say!"
Wu Yuemei hesitated and replied, "The child... the child didn't eat."
"Why not eat? After being beaten like this by you, he shouldn't dare not eat."
Wu Yuemei thought about it, and said as if she had found a life-saving straw: "Well, he...he was sleepy, so he went to sleep, and I didn't call him..."
Wang Tao, who was standing by, was furious when he heard this. A four-year-old child, whose mother didn't even call him for dinner, did she treat him as a human being?
Zhou Yi was even more worried. He had been to Yao's house last night. He could imagine a four-year-old child with bruises all over his body crawling onto the bed with difficulty, and then curled up in the corner and fell asleep.
As for the mother, she just ate and drank as she pleased, and didn't care about his life or death at all.
My child, even if you came to the human world to endure a tribulation, this tribulation is too painful.
"Hmph, I'm sleepy. Okay, okay." Zhou Yi nodded repeatedly. "Wu Yuemei, tell me how you discovered the redness and swelling on Yao Huanhuan's body while he was sleeping, and how you decided to give him a hot bath?"
During the interrogation, Wu Yuemei said that when he was changing the child's clothes at night, he found that the child's buttocks and legs were severely swollen, so he thought of giving the child a hot bath to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
The police who were in charge of the interrogation at the time did not investigate the authenticity of her words because they seemed quite reasonable.
But how could a mother who doesn’t even care whether her child eats or not take the initiative to change her child’s clothes?
Therefore, Zhou Yi concluded that Wu Yuemei was lying in her original confession.
Because of what happened that night, now only she knows.
Sure enough, Wu Yuemei followed her previous instructions and recounted how she discovered the child's wound was red and swollen, and how she boiled water to give the child a bath.
"Wu Yuemei, the child is sleeping. Why did you change his clothes?" Zhou Yi asked.
"I...I wanted to see if he was dirty..." Wu Yuemei said guiltily.
This is how Zhou Yi felt yesterday. Once he told a lie, countless lies would be spawned to cover up the first lie.
At this time, Wang Tao also realized the problem. He found that Zhou Yi had unknowingly exposed the opponent's flaws.
"You don't even care whether your child eats or not, so how could you care if he's dirty? I've been to your house and I've seen your room. From the dining table in your outer room, I can just see the bed in the room. Tell me, what were you thinking about while you were eating?"
"I...I didn't think anything."
"Then tell me, how could you eat this meal while sitting there, watching your own son lying in bed, his life or death unknown?" Zhou Yi asked, knocking heavily on the table with his index finger joint.
Faced with Zhou Yi's huge sense of oppression, Wu Yuemei blurted out an explanation: "He was not in the bed at that time..."
Immediately, she realized that she had said the wrong thing and shut up immediately.
But it was too late.
Wang Tao couldn't help but ask, "If not in bed, where is it?"
Wu Yuemei lowered her head and stopped talking.
Zhou Yi let out a long breath and said, "It should be on the floor in the inner room."
Wang Tao was startled: "On the ground...on the ground?"
Then he cursed: "Wu Yuemei, are you still human?"
Zhou Yi asked, "Wu Yuemei, what did you do after beating Yao Huanhuan?"
Wu Yuemei lowered her head and said nothing.
Zhou Yi slammed the table and shouted angrily, "Look up! Answer!"
Wu Yuemei trembled all over and said, "Watch...watch TV."
"And the child?"
"He was...lying on the firewood pile in the corner of the outer room."
Zhou Yi remembered the corner of the wall on the right side of the door in the outer room of the Yao family, where some firewood for cooking was piled. Yesterday he saw some children's toys piled in that corner.
"You just left him lying there?"
"I was angry at the time, and... he had been lying there like this before. It wasn't the first time."
"Wu Yuemei, at this point, you can still speak in such a righteous tone? Are you still human?"
Facing Zhou Yi's accusations, Wu Yuemei lowered her head and tugged at the corner of her clothes.
"So Yao Huanhuan lay on the firewood pile for several hours, and you didn't even bother to eat?"
Wu Yuemei nodded: "He used to get up and come to eat when it was time to eat. That day I prepared dinner, but he didn't come to eat. I thought he was pretending to be dead, so I ignored him."
"Go on!" Zhou Yi's face was gloomy.
"I was very angry and cursed him a few more times, wanting to see how long he could hold it in. You don't know, this kid is very stubborn..."
"Stop making excuses for yourself. Now I'm asking you to repeat the objective facts!"
Wu Yuemei nodded: "Well, after dinner, I ignored him and went to watch TV. I watched it until around eight o'clock, almost nine o'clock, and I finished the TV series and felt a little sleepy."
"But... then I realized the child hadn't moved, so I got a little worried and went to check on the firewood pile."
Wang Tao's heart was in his throat. He asked, "How's the child?"
"His hands and feet were icy cold. I thought he had caught a cold from lying in bed for too long, so I thought I'd give him a hot soak and let him sleep. Then... I went to boil some water."
"What temperature of water did you use to give Yao Huanhuan a bath?" Zhou Yi asked.
"I don't know. It was a little hot, but I thought it would be better if it was a little hotter. It would heal faster."
"From the time you discovered his hands and feet were cold until he took a hot bath, was Yao Huanhuan conscious and conscious?"
"He was...dazed the whole time. After I took off his clothes and put them in the bucket, he finally started talking."
"What did he say?"
"I didn't say anything, I just said it was hot, so hot."
Zhou Yi took a deep breath and asked, "So what did you do then?"
"I held him down to prevent him from moving and told him he would be fine after soaking for a while."
"Is the child crying?"
"He cried." Wu Yuemei quickly added, "But he felt much better after soaking. His body was warm and rosy. I saw that the wound was peeling a little, so I applied some ointment on him and put him in bed to sleep."
"Then...then...I swear, I really didn't know something like this would happen. When we were kids, we could just take a hot bath and get better. How could I have known..."
Zhou Yi was furious and didn't want to listen to her excuses: "So before you took a bath, you already noticed that Yao Huanhuan's hands and feet were cold and her consciousness was blurred, right?"
Wu Yuemei nodded, "Yes."
"But you didn't choose to seek medical treatment in time because you felt it was unnecessary?"
"The main reason is that it's late at night, his father, grandparents are not at home, and it would be troublesome for me to go out alone."
As the saying goes, a mother is strong. A normal mother would even risk her life when her child is in danger, but her reason was that it was too troublesome.
"So, you considered going to the hospital, but because you thought it was too troublesome and inconvenient, you didn't do it, right?"
"Well, yes...right."
"When you were giving Yao Huanhuan a hot bath, you ignored her objections and forced her to soak in water far hotter than she could tolerate, causing extensive peeling and burns. And you still didn't seek medical attention afterwards. Is that correct?"
Wu Yuemei nodded again: "Yes."
Zhou Yi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
There is no way to escape the charge of abuse. The suspect himself has clearly committed subjective acts of harm and admitted that even after learning that the victim was in poor health, he still subjectively gave up sending the victim to the hospital in time.
This is not like what she said, that she didn't know. She thought that backward ideas themselves could not be a reason for exemption from responsibility.
The court's judgment first looks at the objective facts and then at the subjective intention that gave rise to the objective facts.
Obviously, after being exposed about the meal, Wu Yuemei could no longer lie with her previous confession. Her intention to cause harm was persistent.
Once the crime of abuse is confirmed, the nature of the case can be changed to a criminal case.
An autopsy can be performed on Yao Huanhuan. As long as the autopsy results confirm that there is a connection with Wu Yuemei's behavior, the case can enter the public prosecution stage.
But the maximum sentence for abuse is only seven years, which is too easy for this beast in human skin.
"Wu Yuemei, why do you hate Yao Huanhuan so much?" Zhou Yi asked.
"I... I just have a bad temper." Wu Yuemei defended weakly.
Zhou Yi slowly shook his head: "No, this is not an excuse. Your hatred for Yao Huanhuan has exceeded the normal limit of a bad temper."
"Wu Yuemei, I went to see Yao Xi this morning. He said Yao Huanhuan wasn't his son, but a bastard. Did you tell him that?"
"I..." Wu Yuemei wanted to deny it, but couldn't find an excuse.
"We just checked the visitation records. Yao Xi came to see you ten days ago and brought you some food. What did you say to him that time?"
When Wu Yuemei heard the name Yao Xi, her eyes suddenly became filled with disgust.
"Yes, he came to see me. He told me that it didn't matter if we lost the child, because we could have another one after I got out."
"What!" Zhou Yi's blood rushed up instantly when he heard this.
How could Yao Xi actually say such a thing? What did he think of children? Poultry or something?
And he actually wanted to reconcile with Wu Yuemei and have another child?
Is this guy crazy? Has he never seen a woman in his life?
If you think about it carefully, it seems that someone like him has never seen a woman in his life, and it is very likely that he will never see one in the future.
So for this reason, he chose not to pursue the matter. The child was dead, so he let it die. As long as his wife was still alive, he could have another child?
It’s not that Zhou Yi has never seen the evil in human nature, but that doesn’t mean he will be indifferent when he sees the evil in human nature again.
"How did you answer?"
"I was so angry with him at the time. I called him a psychopath and told him that the child was not his at all. I would rather die than give birth to a child for an ugly and poor guy like you."
"Then how did he react?" Zhou Yi asked.
"After hearing that, he got furious and started cursing at me. I cursed him back, and then... I was taken away..."
Zhou Yi sneered. It turned out that Yao Xi was not just someone who could hide and had no temper.
It turns out that he was afraid when his children and parents were beaten and scolded because the knife didn't hit him.
This time, a knife called a green hat hit his head, and he would get angry and curse.
It’s true that birds of a feather flock together!
I wonder how Li Chong would feel in the afterlife knowing that Yao Xi is such a person.
"So who is Yao Huanhuan's biological father?"
Wu Yuemei's features twisted together. "Actually, I'm not sure if the child is Yao Xi's. I was just being bullied by some old women in the cell, and I was so angry that I said that."
"Not sure... that means there are other men out there, right?"
In this kind of thing, a man may just pull up his pants and walk away without remembering it, but it is impossible for a woman to not know who she had sex with during that time.
Wu Yuemei nodded guiltily.
"Wu Yuemei, what did you do before? I heard from your mother-in-law Ding Lanying that you used to work in the capital city of the neighboring province."
When Zhou Yi asked this, Wu Yuemei immediately avoided Zhou Yi's gaze and nodded guiltily.
"What kind of work?"
"Just... just like the waiter in a restaurant..."
In fact, Zhou Yi discovered from the very beginning that Wu Yuemei had an instinctive fear of the police and her eyes were always avoiding them.
This reaction made him think of a possibility.
"Have you ever engaged in prostitution before?"
Wu Yuemei was about to shake her head to deny it, but Zhou Yi pointed at her and said, "Think carefully before answering. We can find out everything!"
Suddenly, she swallowed back the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
"Yes...but that was many years ago." Wu Yuemei defended palely.
Zhou Yixin said that it seemed that his intuition was right, this was a "technical staff member" who had "turned over a new leaf".
No wonder the matchmaker said that otherwise it wouldn’t be Yao Xi’s turn.
It turns out that it is the turn of the "honest people" because they are old.
In fact, with the development of the economy, this situation will occur more and more. Young women from backward areas will run to unfamiliar developed areas and sell their bodies to make money while they are young and beautiful.
When she was in her thirties, old and ugly, and her business was not doing well, she took her savings and returned to her hometown and became a boss, opening either a clothing store, a nail salon, or a beauty salon.
Then, under the pretense that she has been working hard outside and has thus delayed her lifelong event, she finds an honest man who treats her well and marries him.
The famous online meme about the honest man came from here.
I didn't expect Wu Yuemei to play this trick so early.
"So, that man who might be Yao Huanhuan's biological father, is the one you met during your prostitution period?" Zhou Yi asked.
"Well...I guess so."
"The relationship between you two shouldn't be just a simple prostitution relationship, right?"
As soon as this person was mentioned, Wu Yuemei's whole expression changed. If she felt physical disgust when Yao Xi was mentioned before, then now when this man was mentioned, she hated him from the bottom of her heart.
"He's a beast. If I hadn't believed that bastard, I wouldn't have ended up like this!"
"Tell me, why do you hate him so much? What's his name?"
Zhou Yi had actually guessed some possibilities.
The reason why Wu Yuemei hates her own son Yao Huanhuan so much is because of this man who may be the child's biological father.
And precisely because she herself was not sure whose child Yao Huanhuan was, she transferred all her hatred for that man and her dissatisfaction with the Yao family's conditions onto this innocent child.
Of course, the essence of all this is that Wu Yuemei is a selfish beast without conscience and humanity.
There was only one reason why Zhou Yi asked her why she hated that man. He wanted Wu Yuemei to admit in person that everything she did to Yao Huanhuan was because she transferred her hatred for this man to the child.
This will further prove that Wu Yuemei's abuse and harm were long-term subjective behaviors.
This should increase the court's sentence for her.
It is impossible to ask her to pay with her life, so we can only increase the sentence.
"I said, can you guys just shoot him? He's not a good guy. He's involved in gangs."
Wu Yuemei only graduated from junior high school and has little education, and has no concept of law. In this respect, she is the same as Ding Lanying. She always talks about execution, as if executing someone is as easy as buying vegetables.
"Gangster? That depends on whether you can provide information about his crimes. First, tell me his name and where he's from."
Wu Yuemei said: "He is from our Wuguang, his name is Hu Dali, and his nickname is Cannon."
Zhou Yi's heart skipped a beat: "Cannon?"
He knows this person!
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