Chapter 82. Chapter 82. He was the one who held his wife's head underwater...
The new girlfriend stared blankly as her boyfriend, handcuffed, walked step by step toward the police car.
She didn't realize what was happening until her boyfriend had one foot in the police car.
"Wait! Wait!"
She shouted and yelled, instantly drawing the attention of the onlookers.
The new girlfriend pushed her way through the crowd, grabbed her boyfriend, and glared angrily at the police officer who had arrested him.
"What are you doing! What right do you have to arrest people!"
"What did my boyfriend do wrong? What right do you have to arrest him!"
The more she talked, the more convinced she became of her point, and her shy face flushed red.
In a fit of emotion, he even pushed a police officer.
Shen Xiuhe's face immediately fell after being pushed, but he couldn't retaliate because there were too many people around.
Staring at the woman, his tone was grim: "Miss, this is assaulting a police officer, do you know that?"
The new girlfriend clearly knew, and her excited tone immediately softened considerably:
"What right do you have to arrest my boyfriend?"
"Even if you arrest him, I'm his family member, you should at least give me a reason, right?"
Ji Jingtong frowned and looked at her, puzzled: "Are you his family member?"
"Yes, I'm his family member!"
My new girlfriend straightened her back.
"So you have to give me a reason!"
Before Ji Jingtong could say anything, the handcuffed man began to cry out his innocence.
"Wife, please save me! I've really been wronged!"
"I really don't know anything! I was sleeping peacefully at home, and these officers suddenly called me a murderer!"
"I'm a model citizen, who the hell did I kill?!"
He was so agitated that he shouted and yelled, looking pitiful as if he had been wronged.
Shen Xiu clicked his tongue and rolled up his sleeves, ready to step forward, but was stopped by Ji Jingtong.
Ji Jingtong: "Ren Wenguang, we told you this when we arrested you."
"You are suspected of murdering your wife and son, and we are now arresting you in accordance with the law."
"You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."
As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed the suspect, Ren Wenguang, into the car.
His words were like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pan, instantly causing an uproar among the onlookers.
"My God! Does the officer mean he killed his wife and children?"
"What a terrible thing to do! How could anyone do this!"
"How could I not do it? He's my neighbor, and he beats his wife and kids to death every day!"
The breakfast stall owner was deathly pale, clutching her husband's hand tightly, her voice trembling:
"So, his wife didn't run away with the children, but rather..."
He killed him?
As Ren Wenguang was being pushed into a police car by the police, his girlfriend simply couldn't believe that her boyfriend had committed murder.
Normally a gentle and shy person, he suddenly grabbed Shen Xiuhe's hair excitedly.
"Impossible! My boyfriend couldn't have killed someone!"
"You are not allowed to arrest people!"
Shen Xiu let out a scream as his hair was grabbed, and then turned around to subdue the woman.
His face was full of anger as he sternly warned, "I warned you, this is assaulting a police officer!"
The kind-hearted proprietress watched as Ren Wenguang's new girlfriend was subdued, her pitiful little face pressed to the ground.
Feeling sorry for him, she quickly stepped forward and said, "Stop making a scene, the police won't arrest the wrong person!"
Shen Xiuhe released Ren Wenguang's girlfriend and glared at her warningly.
The proprietress quickly helped Ren Wenhua's girlfriend up and reminded her:
"Wait for the police to call you. Assaulting a police officer is no small matter; it can land you in jail!"
But Ren Wenhua's girlfriend, her face flushed from crying, forcefully pushed her hand away and glared at her fiercely.
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You'd love for my boyfriend to be arrested!"
"My boyfriend asks for your fish balls every day and supports your business. What are you up to?!"
The proprietress looked bewildered: "I...when did I have ill intentions!"
She pointed to the police car that was about to start moving, looking aggrieved:
"I only reminded you because I was afraid you'd get arrested for assaulting a police officer, and you still..."
"Forget it, forget it, stop talking about it."
Her husband held her shoulders and shook his head at her.
"Let this person think what they want, don't meddle in other people's business."
The proprietress glared at Ren Wenguang's girlfriend, then went back to pack up her stall, fuming with resentment.
Without the landlady's intervention, Ren Wenhua's girlfriend rushed in front of the police car and prevented it from starting.
"If you're going to arrest people, arrest me too!"
"I know my husband better than any of you!"
"Before he started dating me, he was almost beaten to death by thugs while saving me!"
"How could such a kind-hearted person like him kill his own wife and children!"
She lay on the hood of the police car, crying and shouting.
Finally, as he wished, he was taken away by the police, but he struggled frantically and refused to leave.
The proprietress watched as the woman was dragged into the car, snorted coldly, and mimicked the woman's tone, shaking her head:
"I know what kind of person he is better than any of you~ Hmph."
"Did she know that scumbag was abusive and that he was an alcoholic?"
"What do you mean by 'playing the hero and saving the damsel in distress'? I bet it's just a show put on by that scumbag to get with her!"
The husband, who was busy working, ignored his wife's complaints.
When he was almost done with his work, his wife carried tables and chairs into the house while snorting coldly:
"I always thought she was pretty and cute, and her smile was shy and beautiful. I must have been fooled by that scumbag."
"Looking at it now, it's true what they say, 'Birds of a feather flock together'!"
Otherwise, how could two people sleep in the same bed?
This woman, who usually seems shy and reserved, actually dared to assault a police officer and block a police car!
Her husband was tired of hearing it and interrupted her:
"Do you think that man really killed his wife and children?"
They lived downstairs, but they didn't hear any cries for help.
When this topic came up, the proprietress indeed stopped nagging.
She sat on the stool, trying to recall what had happened that night, and was quite certain that she hadn't heard any cries for help.
"Yes, that's strange, why aren't there any cries for help..."
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Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe took Ren Wenguang back to the police station for questioning.
But the man kept his mouth shut, insisting that he hadn't killed anyone.
He even cursed his wife and son, calling them debt collectors and jinxes, saying that even after they died, they couldn't stand his good fortune and kept bringing him bad luck.
He spoke with such certainty that after several interrogations, the police got nothing out of him.
After receiving the news from Ji Jingtong, Chu Ci told Bai Shengtian.
Bai Sheng was trembling with anger. "It was definitely him! It must be him! Who else could have a motive but him!"
"He's just being stubborn and trying to evade legal judgment!"
She's showered and changed clothes now, and she's back to being that decisive and efficient female lawyer.
Chu Ci gestured for her to calm down.
"The Kwun Tong Police Station has applied for a second autopsy, and the results should be available soon."
Two days after she said that, the police indeed had new leads.
In order to find the key clue to get Ren Wenguang to talk, Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe asked Chu Ci for help.
"Master, we would like to ask you for help."
After taking Chu Ci to the police station, Ji Jingtong handed her an autopsy report.
The autopsy report showed that the mother and child did indeed drown.
This is why it was previously concluded that the mother and son committed suicide.
However, in addition, the autopsy report found that the children among the deceased had ruptured internal organs before death, which was caused by severe beatings.
Ji Jingtong: "When the mother and son were discovered, their bodies were already highly decomposed and resembled giants."
"The forensic doctor who performed the autopsy for the first time lacked experience and misunderstood the cause of the abdominal swelling."
"After a second autopsy, our forensic pathologist determined that the swelling in the child's abdomen was caused by ruptured internal organs."
The autopsy report included photos.
A child with bluish-white skin lay quietly on the dissection table, his skin peeling off from being soaked in water.
Only his belly was bulging high, like a huge, inflated balloon.
Chu Ci knew that this was because his internal organs had ruptured and his abdomen was filled with blood.
She carefully read the report and looked up at the two of them.
What are your thoughts?
Ji Jingtong: "The deceased mother and son had simple social relationships. They had no relatives around them, only colleagues and customers they met while working."
"In addition, the deceased mother and son were easygoing and timid, and had basically never had any conflicts with others."
"Therefore, we unanimously agreed that we should look for the cause of death from the family perspective."
Shen Xiu nodded in agreement, then suddenly slammed his fist on the table.
"It must have been that bastard Ren Wenguang who did it! Who else could have beaten a child so badly that his internal organs ruptured!"
He stood up and kicked the air twice.
"I asked the forensic doctor, and he said that the human body is much more resilient than we imagine."
"To cause internal organ rupture, you have to repeatedly beat and kick the child's stomach in a short period of time."
"How could that scumbag treat his own child so cruelly and still have the nerve to say he loves his child!"
He was so angry his hair stood on end. If Ji Jingtong hadn't been holding him back, he definitely would have gone up and given that bastard a good beating.
Ji Jingtong looked at the silent Chu Ci and asked, "Miss Chu, we would like to visit the deceased's neighbors. Would you like to come with us?"
His original intention was to see if Chu Ci could see things that they couldn't, so that they could find clues.
Chu Ci nodded. "I want to go. Oh, and I also want to go to the deceased's house, is that alright?"
"Yes, that's fine." Ji Jingtong couldn't have been happier.
The three of them went together to the fish ball shop on the first floor run by the couple.
The two were also shocked by Ren Wenguang's murder of his wife and children, and the proprietress kept saying that they were willing to cooperate with the police investigation.
Ji Jingtong asked, "Our preliminary assessment is that the deceased died around 1 a.m. ten days ago. Did you hear any noises upstairs at that time?"
Shen Xiu quickly added, "For example, the sound of fighting or a child crying, etc."
The couple exchanged a glance, and the proprietress gave a forced laugh.
"Sir, to be honest, it happened ten days ago, which is a long time ago... We can't remember many of the details."
"However, the sounds of fighting and children crying can be heard every day."
She sighed, "Ren Wenguang, ever since he moved here, he beats his wife and children every day."
“Every day he would go out and come home drunk, and as soon as he got home, he would beat up his wife and children.”
"Not to mention us, other neighbors can't sleep every day because of his cursing and the children's crying."
So whether or not there were fighting or crying sounds that night is perfectly normal.
Ji Jingtong asked some other questions, but he couldn't find any key clues that would lead Ren Wenguang to confess.
After saying goodbye to the couple who were having breakfast downstairs, they took Chu Ci to Ren Wenguang's house as agreed.
At Ren Wenguang's home, his colleagues from the trace evidence department were arguing with the landlord.
The landlord, a 60-year-old man, was hurling insults at the police.
"Who are you? What gives you the right to say someone died in my house!"
"Let me tell you, the feng shui of my house is excellent!"
"My wife and I have never been sick while living in this house, and my son was also admitted to a prestigious foreign university from this house!"
"My house is so nice, how could a murder happen here!"
The police officers who were gathering evidence tried to pull him out, but said helplessly:
"Uncle, please don't interfere with our work, okay?"
"You're just wandering around the house like this, messing up all the evidence!"
The old man roared in a strong voice, "There was no murder in my house at all, so where is the evidence!"
Seeing that he was old, the police officers did not dare to push him, and could only try to persuade him gently.
But the old man clearly understood what the officers were thinking, and simply lay down at the door and refused to move!
"You are not allowed to enter my house. No murder has ever happened in my house!"
"Day after day, we taxpayers pay taxes to support you, and this is how you drive down our housing prices?!"
"I'm lying right here today, and none of you are getting in!"
The officers looked at each other, their faces flushed with anger.
Seeing their helplessness, the old man became smug.
"Hmph, I'm so old, let's see who dares to touch me!"
"If anyone dares to touch me today, I'll call the reporters! Let them see how the Royal Hong Kong Police treat Hong Kong citizens!"
"I'm going to bring people to the police station to cause trouble and make them compensate me for the lost property value!"
Seeing the police officers looking angry but not daring to touch him, the old man lay down at the door with his legs crossed.
Suddenly, the light in front of me was blocked.
He opened his eyes and saw a very handsome young man standing in front of him, blocking all the light.
But what he noticed first wasn't the other person's handsome face, but rather the coat he was wearing.
That coat cost over 20,000 yuan. His son also bought one, and yesterday he had a conflict with his wife at home.
The old man was staring at the coat when he was suddenly lifted up by the handsome young man in front of him.
Old man: "!!!"
He felt his body lighten and leave the ground, and he began to struggle desperately.
"Who are you! Who are you! Let me go right now!"
He yelled at the police officers who were watching the commotion, "You just stood by and watched him bully an old man like me?"
"Are you police officers just sitting around doing nothing?! Please save me!"
But the officers just rolled their eyes at him, went straight into the house through the door, and continued collecting blood.
Shen Xiuhe, holding the old man, said, "Go and call the reporters. I'll wait for you."
He pulled out his police ID and said, "I'm a police officer too. You called reporters to interview us, and I'm arresting you for interfering with police work."
“It’s July, let’s both be busy for a couple of days.”
Seeing his reckless attitude and his threat to arrest people and take them to the police station, the old man shrank back.
But seeing the expensive coat he was wearing gave him another reason.
"So, this is how you Royal Police officers waste our taxpayers' money?"
"A coat that costs 20,000 yuan, you really have the nerve to spend that much!"
The old man pointed at Shen Xiuhe's nose, "I'm going to expose you to the reporters!"
"Sure, go ahead!"
Shen Xiu grabbed his hand and handcuffed it.
"But before that, you're coming back to the police station with me!"
The old man looked at the handcuffs on his wrists and panicked, glaring angrily at Shen Xiuhe:
"I didn't do anything wrong, why are you arresting me!"
Shen Xiuhe: "You didn't do anything wrong, why are you blocking the door and preventing us police from going in to investigate?"
"Anyway, that bastard Ren Wenguang isn't confessing, so we can't be sure he's the murderer."
"Since you're so enthusiastic, why don't you come with us?"
Ji Jingtong frowned, trying to stop him, but Shen Xiuhe, caught up in his emotions, wouldn't listen to reason.
The old man was dragged downstairs by him, and his beard bristled with fear.
He clung to the stair railing, refusing to leave, and spoke urgently:
"Wait! It wasn't me! I really wasn't the murderer!"
Seeing that Shen Xiuhe didn't believe him, he directly betrayed Ren Wenguang.
"Officer! Listen to me! Listen to me, the murderer must be that bastard Ren Wenguang!"
"Ten nights ago, he suddenly asked to borrow my car, saying he wanted to take his wife and children back to her parents' home!"
"I saw it! His wife was knocked unconscious and carried out, and his son, whose belly was swollen, was stuffed into the trunk of the car!"
"I saw it all! He's the murderer!"
After he shouted, he suddenly realized that everything around him had gone quiet.
Shen Xiuhe stared at him in disbelief, and said in a cold, urgent voice:
"What did you just say? Say it again!"
The old man was so frightened that he flinched and shrank his neck.
Ji Jingtong quickly stopped Shen Xiuhe: "Talk to him properly."
“How can we talk to him properly!” Shen Xiuhe waved his hand away. “This old man just likes to take advantage of people.”
"You should talk to him nicely, but he'll act like you owe him something. You have to force him to tell the truth!"
The old man wanted to argue when he heard this, but he was terrified by Shen Xiu's gaze.
He trembled and quickly confessed what he had seen ten days earlier.
"It was past 1 a.m. that night. I was watching a football game at home when I suddenly heard Ren Wenguang cursing in the hallway."
"I pressed my ear to the door to eavesdrop and learned that he was beating his wife again. But this time his wife couldn't take it anymore and took the children to call the police."
"Ren Wenguang is a bully who picks on the weak and fears the strong. He didn't dare let his wife go to the police, but his wife still ran there with the child in her arms."
About an hour later, I heard some noise in the hallway and saw Ren Wenguang’s wife returning with their child.
"When I opened the door and asked them, I learned that the police officer on duty had scolded her, saying that she was troublesome and that he didn't want to deal with her, so she had to take her child back first."
“I invited her to come in for a while, but she said it wasn’t appropriate so late at night. I don’t know how much time passed, but that kid Ren Wenguang noticed the mother and son outside the door and dragged them inside.”
After speaking, the old man secretly glanced at Shen Xiuhe's expression. Seeing that he was frowning but not angry, he dared to continue.
"After that, I heard Ren Wenguang start beating his wife and children again. This time he was probably furious and he beat them particularly badly."
“His wife used to be afraid to cry when she was beaten because she was afraid of being laughed at by the neighbors. She always held it in. But that day she cried especially hard.”
"His son was acting strangely too. Usually, his son would cry when he was hit, but that day he didn't cry much..."
The old man had a crying face, as if he was complaining that such bad luck had befallen him.
He sighed softly and continued:
"More than half an hour later, Ren Wenguang suddenly came to borrow my car, saying he wanted to take his wife and children back to her parents' home."
“I was worried that he would secretly sell my car, but he said that after sending his wife and children back to her parents’ home, he would pay the rent he owed.”
"I had no choice but to lend him my bike to pay the rent. But I was careful and followed him on my bike the whole time..."
The old man glanced furtively at Shen Xiuhe's expression and stammered an explanation.
"I'm not trying to stalk him, it's just that he hasn't paid rent for several months. If he runs away one day, I can go to his wife's parents' house to ask for it, it won't come to this..."
"Get to the point."
He was impatient and determined to get back to his senses.
"Tell me what you saw when you followed him."
The old man pursed his lips, his features scrunched up, and it took him a while to mentally prepare himself before speaking.
Just as Shen Xiu's patience was about to run out, the old man said in a trembling voice:
"I...I saw Ren Wenguang park his car in front of a pond, and then..."
"Then... he opened the trunk and threw his wife and kids out!"
As he spoke, the old man seemed to be replaying the scene from that day in his mind, and he trembled like a leaf.
"When he threw his son down, his stomach was swollen and he kept weakly calling for his father."
"His wife woke up right after being thrown in, and she was holding her son, trying to swim ashore. It was...it was Ren Wenhua..."
"He jumped into the water, pressed his wife's head down to prevent her from climbing out, and drowned her..."
The old man, his hands cuffed, huddled up on the stairs, trembling uncontrollably.
Shen Xiu frowned, "Since you saw it, why didn't you call the police at the time?"
"I dare not!" The old man suddenly raised his head, gesturing for him to look at his own physique.
"I'm already 68 years old, I don't have many years left to live, why should I get involved in this mess!"
He had a mournful face, but his gaze towards Shen Xiuhe was full of self-righteousness.
“I have sons and grandsons, and all of you royal police are useless!”
"What if I report him to the police and you don't sentence him? What if he comes out and retaliates against my son and grandson?"
"My grandson just started kindergarten, he's so young, what am I supposed to do!"
Shen Xiu glared at him, pointing his finger at his nose, "Old man, who are you calling a piece of trash! Say it again!"
The more the old man talked, the more convinced he became of his point, and he straightened his back.
"You Royal Police are utterly useless! Utterly useless!"
"You have the nerve to blame an old man like me! That day, Ren Wenhua's wife took the children to report the case, why didn't you do anything about it!"
"If you had intervened back then and arrested Ren Wenhua and locked him up for two days, the mother and child wouldn't have died!"
His increasingly loud voice echoed in the hallway, questioning the conscience of the police officers present.
"It's all because you Royal Police officers are so useless, it's all because you're irresponsible!"
“If you had taken responsibility and used the money to do real work, Ren Wenguang’s wife and children wouldn’t have been killed!”
"Even if we're blaming anyone other than Ren Wenguang, the first person to blame should be you Royal Police, not this old man!"
Shen Xiuhe: "..."
He was speechless as the old man scolded him.
But it's undeniable that the quality of the Royal Police is inconsistent, and he couldn't argue with that.
With the old man's testimony, there was evidence to try Ren Wenhua.
But the old man was completely unyielding, making it difficult to persuade him to attend the sentencing hearing.
Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe tried to persuade the old man many times, but to no avail.
The old man acted as if he was "too old to cause trouble" and refused to cooperate with Bai Shengtian, who was a lawyer.
Bai Shengtian couldn't help but complain to Chu Ci, "I've tried giving him money, gifts, and even tried to win over his grandson, but the old man just won't cooperate!"
But whether a witness is willing to attend or not is their own business, and they have no way to force the old man to attend and testify.
All I could do was complain while continuing to try and change the old man's mindset.
As a result, the day before the Ghost Festival, the old man suddenly came to Chu Ci with a mournful face, holding his little grandson in his arms.
She started crying and shouting as soon as she entered the door:
"Master, please save my grandson!"
"The Ghost Festival is coming soon, and my grandson has been possessed by an evil spirit!"
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