—The interrogation room!
Hu Dabao's hands were pressed firmly against the interrogation table. He didn't know fear and thought the police officers were just playing with him.
"Why did you kill him!" a police officer slammed his fist on the table in anger.
Hu Dabao: "My back itches, let me scratch it."
Police: "Did someone deliberately instigate you to kill? According to your father, you were never allowed to touch water, fire, or sharp weapons from a young age. Did anyone teach you to kill with a knife?"
Hu Dabao looked up with a grin, shaking the handcuffs loudly. He drooled as he looked up and said, "Eat corn."
Police: ? ? ?
He got up, went back to the outer room, lit a cigarette, irritably ruffled his short hair, and took the new documents from his colleague.
"How am I supposed to investigate this? I've seen plenty of cunning criminals, but how am I supposed to get the truth out of a mentally challenged person?"
His colleague laughed at him, "Your superiors have given you 72 hours to find out the truth. If that doesn't work, why don't you kowtow to them and beg them?"
After receiving a glare, the man stopped joking and began to read the newly sent statement from the hospital.
"Hu Daya is continuing her treatment, and Hu Bin is out of danger, but he insists that someone deliberately instigated him and even asked us to investigate the new captain of the Pingtou Brigade."
It's said that because his wife and daughter died young, this man has become somewhat insane, and he might be planning to exploit his son's mental disability to launch indiscriminate revenge against the Hu family.
The old police officer still remembers the case of Hu Heshuo's wife and daughter drowning a few years ago. The case was eventually closed because the mother-in-law unintentionally caused her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to drown.
The case was closed with the mother-in-law committing suicide by hanging.
Xiao Shen, who was in charge of the matter at the time, always felt something was amiss and wanted to investigate, but it all came to nothing because someone above him was holding him back.
As the two were talking, a female police officer pushed open the door and entered. "Comrade Ruan has arrived, and she brought a little girl with her. It is said that she witnessed the entire incident."
Ruan Xianxian and Tingting were sitting on a wooden bench when the police pushed the door open and found the two of them eating vegetable dumplings.
"It's you again." The police officer looked speechless.
There aren't that many murders in this small county, but in recent months, any major incidents have been more or less related to this ancestor.
Why hasn't she gone anywhere else? Is she just going to wreak havoc in Ping'an County?
Ruan Xianxian raised her head innocently, "I came to turn myself in. I mean, I brought someone to turn themselves in."
Police: Shut up!
"Are you full?" she asked Tingting beside her. The little girl finished the last bit of dumpling wrapper and stood up. "Uncle, I saw it."
The police officer's expression tightened and then softened. He squatted down and asked, "What did you see? Can you go next door and tell your uncle in detail?"
“No.” It was Ruan Xianxian who spoke up. “Her parents didn’t want to come, but Tingting insisted on it herself. I will be her temporary guardian.”
public security:……
Sometimes when I see her, I really want to call the police!
Ruan Xianxian patted the girl's little hand, "Just tell your uncle what you saw, you don't need to worry about anything else."
The two men sat down opposite the police officer; one asked questions, and the other took notes.
To everyone's surprise, Tingting's words were earth-shattering: "I saw it! Brother Ye Guo taught Brother Da Bao how to kill small animals."
"What?" The police officer suddenly stood up.
Tingting shrugged.
Ruan Xianxian glared at the two of them, "Why are you so agitated? You're scaring the child."
Calling it a child isn't quite right; at twelve or thirteen years old, in the countryside, it would be enough for her to get married in a year or two.
The police officer took a deep breath, deliberately ignoring the question someone asked Tingting, "When and where did you see it? Besides you, does anyone else know?"
"I see it all the time, right at home!"
Ruan Xianxian knew that children who had never been to school didn't have very clear expression skills, so she translated: "Tingting lives opposite Hu Bin, and her window faces the Hu family's courtyard."
When she said "often," she was probably referring to the working hours of the Hu couple.
“Yes,” Tingting agreed, and began to recount what she had seen that summer.
How Ye Guo taught Hu Dabao to abuse rats and frogs, the strange noises that often came from the Hu family, and how Hu Bin just encouraged Hu Dabao to raise a knife to kill her.
At thirteen years old, although his language expression ability is relatively weak, he already understands everything he is supposed to understand.
The two policemen exchanged a glance and immediately sent men to the hospital to arrest Ye Guo.
When they returned, they asked, "What do you mean by the strange noises you mentioned?"
Sister Ruan had taught her this on the way here, so she answered it right away: "Brother Da Bao often strips Sister Daya naked and pokes her with a black stick."
The police officer took a deep breath, their gazes meeting in a dark and unreadable exchange.
The little girl might not understand what that means, but they do.
Tingting lowered her head and picked at her fingers. Sister Ruan and the uncles thought she didn't understand, but she actually did.
When she arrived, her parents told her not to tell anyone about this, saying it would affect the marriage prospects of the entire brigade, including her own. But why should they?
She was almost killed by the Hu family!
At the crucial moment, if it weren't for her grandfather saving her...
Tingting dared not think any further and blurted out everything she knew, saw, and experienced.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and two police officers looked at the newcomer. "Xiao Shen? What brings you here? It's not your shift today."
The police officer surnamed Shen didn't say much, only asking, "It's said that your grandfather passed away two years ago. How did he manage to save you in that critical moment?"
"Her grandfather died two years ago?" The two police officers looked at each other, their hair standing on end.
Seeing that Tingting was about to say something, Ruan Xianxian immediately covered her mouth, "It could be a hallucination that people experience in a crisis."
She was so scared and desperate for someone to save her that she thought her grandfather had rescued her when she fell.
Yes, that's the only way to explain it; we can't allow superstition and supernatural explanations.
It's even more important not to implicate her being present at the scene!
Tingting immediately shut up and stopped talking. She had made an agreement with Sister Ruan that she was not allowed to say a word about things that Sister Ruan forbade her to say.
The police officer surnamed Shen gave Tingting a deep look, but didn't dwell on the question. He picked up the statement and read it quickly.
Everyone knew he was the main person in charge of the case where the mother-in-law killed her daughter-in-law, and the two police officers did not stop him.
Putting down the confession, he said, "Let's make a bold assumption: Hu Dabao committed murder at the instigation of Ye Guo, but why would he do it?"
Based on this young comrade's testimony, is it possible that the child in Hu Daya's belly is not Ye Guo's at all, but Hu Dabao's?
The two of them: You really dare to dream!
Police Chief Shen continued, "Besides Hu Daya, did Hu Dabao also commit sexual coercion against other innocent women?"
The two people didn't respond, letting his thoughts wander.
In that case back then, there was evidence pointing to the fact that the mother and daughter who had died were not killed by the mother-in-law, but by Hu Dabao.
During the critical period of investigation and evidence collection, the case was forcibly halted, but Xiao Shen never gave up.
This is a headache. Is this a case from several years ago that's being brought back to the table? Will the people who suppressed this back then be implicated?
How many people will be involved?
I dare not think about it...
They glanced up and caught a glimpse of Ruan Xianxian finishing the last vegetable dumpling, and their minds, which had been pounding with anxiety, instantly cleared.
Oh, with this stick around, everything's fine!
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