"She has a letter of introduction?"
"No." Wang Qing said, "She stole it from the train."
Xu Yingjie snorted, "You're really brave."
Wang Qing smiled awkwardly: "We were all poor back then. We didn't have money to buy train tickets. We just hopped on the train to get where we wanted to go."
Xu Yingjie was not surprised. Even now, there were still many people jumping on the train.
Wang Qing clenched his hands and fidgeted, saying, "Comrade Public Security, I...that's all I know. Chunhua came home with the child and stayed home for one night. She left for Shanghai before dawn the next day. I heard everything else from my family."
"You're right, we all know what you're talking about." Xu Yingjie nodded and turned to another police officer: "Have you written it down?"
"I've got it." Another police officer said, handing the confession book and pen to Xu Yingjie.
Xu Yingjie handed it to Wang Qing and said, "Sign the confession booklet and put your fingerprint on it. If there's anything else we need to add, we'll contact you again."
Wang Qing signed and nodded timidly: "Yes, yes."
*
Xu Yingjie rushed back to the Public Security Bureau and sent someone to notify Qin Zheng first. Without waiting for Qin Zheng to arrive, he began to interrogate Wang Chunhua.
Wang Qing's confession was a major breakthrough. Wang Chunhua initially refused to admit it, but she was facing an organized interrogation by the public security comrades. Her flawed rhetoric could not withstand the increasingly sharp questioning of the interrogator. In the end, she was speechless and could no longer deny it.
After two hours of continuous interrogation, Wang Chunhua's mental defenses were completely broken. She covered her face and cried bitterly, and finally admitted to the crime of swapping children.
She firmly denied stealing the child.
She said Yun Qiao was not stolen by her, but was given to her for adoption by someone else.
Xu Yingjie shouted sharply: "What's the answer?! Explain clearly!"
At this point, Wang Chunhua no longer felt the need to hide her story. She dejectedly said, "I left Pingyuan Province and went to Ludang Mountain to look for the bandit who had robbed my cousin. After some inquiries, I learned that the bandit had been wiped out by the county magistrate of Huxi at the beginning of the year. Undeterred, I went to Ludang Mountain and discovered that the stronghold was indeed gone."
Upon hearing this, a police officer participating in the interrogation couldn't help but say, "Wang Chunhua, you're really brave. A girl actually went to such lengths to find someone like this. Aren't you afraid that if you get lost, the bandits will hold you captive and won't let you leave?"
"I was scared afterwards, too, but I really didn't think too much about it at the time," Wang Chunhua explained. "At the time, I just wanted to buy a child, and I didn't know where else to buy one except from this bandit."
The policeman wanted to say something else but was stopped by Xu Yingjie's look.
Xu Yingjie turned to Wang Chunhua and said, "Go on."
Wang Chunhua nodded and said, "I was about to leave, but when I was going down the mountain, I happened to meet the bandit's wife."
"She was very clever and good at teasing people out of me. It didn't take her long to figure out my purpose. She knew I wanted to buy a child, so she told me to wait two days. She said one of her subordinates' wives was about to give birth, and she was worried that she wouldn't be able to raise the child if they were fleeing everywhere, so she wanted to give it away. She asked if I wanted it. If I did, she said she would let me take it away anytime. She didn't want any money from me, and even gave me ten old 50,000 yuan bills."
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