Chapter 163 Zou Bu Ran
Seeing that Zou Chengye remained silent, Xia Mufan pressed on, mocking him: "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. Mr. Zou, since you know that mental illness evaluation is very subjective, why did you insist on letting your wife, oh no, ex-wife, accept the evaluation of a psychiatrist? You know, compared with today, the questionnaire set 12 years ago was even more immature. You personally sent your ex-wife, who was mentally tortured, to a mental hospital. Zou Chengye, don't you feel the slightest bit of guilt in your heart?"
Zou Chengye never expected that even though he was the one who reported the case first, the police not only did not think about protecting him, but instead took him to the interrogation room for questioning.
The key point is that what Xia Mufan forced to answer was the part of his past that he had kept most secret and was most afraid of others knowing!
The sweat on Zou Chengye's forehead became more and more dense, and the fear in his heart continued to accumulate.
The secret that had been hidden in his heart for 12 years was suddenly revealed by the police. Such a huge psychological shock made Zou Chengye's legs completely unable to support the strength of his whole body. His body, which was leaning against the wall, kept sliding down until he collapsed on the cold concrete floor.
Reason told Zou Chengye: You can’t say anything, you can’t say anything. But Xia Mufan's questioning came too suddenly, and Zou Chengye was completely unprepared. He subconsciously defended himself: "I don't want to send Qinglian to a mental hospital, but she keeps committing self-harm, and I'm terribly scared. For her personal safety, I have to reluctantly give up."
"Reluctantly give up! Are you sure the person you loved at that time was Cai Qinglian?"
Xia Mufan's voice rose again, and it sounded like a loud bell in the small interrogation room. Zou Chengye's ears hurt. "In May 1985, Cai Qinglian was sent to a mental hospital. You divorced her in November 1985, remarried in December of the same year, and your son was born in June 1986. How dare you say you reluctantly gave up your love?"
Zou Chengye's head buzzed and his old face turned red. Before he divorced Cai Qinglian, he kept Yu Yaxiu hidden very well. No one knew that he had found a woman outside behind his wife and daughter's backs and even got his lover pregnant.
Zou Chengye always behaved well in front of the Cai family.
He is not a native of Xing City. He comes from a poor family and has many brothers and sisters. His family can't help him at all with his work or study. However, Cai Qinglian lives in Xing City and has many social connections. Her two brothers both work in government departments and her family is well-off. Ever since he married Cai Qinglian, the Cai family no longer treated him as an outsider. Seeing that he liked studying, they fully respected his hobbies and choices and gave him as much help as possible. Therefore, in the more than ten years since his marriage, he has always been very close to Cai Qinglian's family. During the holidays, he would eat and chat with Cai Qinglian's two brothers, and they got along like brothers.
Zou Chengye has a strong reputation as a good man who cares about his family and loves his wife. After Cai Qinglian got into trouble, her two brothers never doubted him at all. Even the police were fooled by his gentle and elegant appearance.
However, 12 years later, the birth of Zou Chengye's son became a great irony of his image as a "good man who cares about his family and loves his wife."
Zou Chengye clenched his teeth, trying hard to control himself from saying anything inappropriate. He kept encouraging himself in his heart: it had been more than ten years since the incident, and all the evidence had been lost in the long river of time. As long as he did not admit it, no one could convict him.
Thinking of this, Zou Chengye gathered all his strength and finally squeezed out a sentence from his throat: "I... withdraw the report and let me go home."
It was not until now that Zou Chengye realized how stupid it was to report the case. He now dared not deal with the police at all and was unable to face any of their questions.
As long as the policewoman in front of him would let him go and stop asking questions that made him feel ashamed and scared, he would rather face those threatening letters and phone calls.
Thinking of this, Zou Chengye repeated once more: "I withdraw the report and I want to go home!"
Xia Mufan's eyes flickered as he carefully observed Zou Chengye's reaction.
Zou Chengye was sweating profusely at this moment, unable to hide his fear, but his eyes gradually became clear. It was obvious that he had built up a psychological defense line at this moment, which created a deep gap between him and the police. It would be difficult to ask them about the past.
Xia Mufan secretly said what a pity in his heart. It’s a pity that I don’t have more evidence, otherwise I would have been able to press on and break down Zou Chengye’s psychological defenses.
The door of the interrogation room was suddenly opened. Xia Mufan looked up and saw that it was Sun Xianbing.
Sun Xianbing took a look at the situation in the interrogation room, walked quickly to Xia Mufan, and whispered in her ear: "Mei Hui wants to see you about something, and he looks very anxious."
Xia Mufan frowned slightly.
Before meeting Lu Qiaoling this morning, Xia Mufan assigned a task to Meihui and Facai, asking them to search for Zou Bu Ran near Hui City Finance and Trade College. Could it be that they have found Zou Bu Ran?
Xia Mufan turned his head and looked at Gong Weiguo and Feng Xiaoyu who were sitting behind the table: "It's almost done, you guys do the finishing work."
After saying that, Xia Mufan didn't even look at Zou Chengye, walked straight past him, opened the heavy door of the interrogation room, and walked out with Sun Xianbing.
As soon as he walked out of the interrogation room, Coal Ash came running from the other end of the corridor, circled around Xia Mufan's trouser legs, tilted his neck to look at him, and meowed.
Sun Xianbing said: "That's what Coal Ash did just now. It couldn't find you, so it circled around me and kept barking. I saw that it seemed very anxious, so I..."
Sun Xianbing glanced at Xia Mufan and asked cautiously, "Um, I didn't interfere with the interrogation, did I?"
Xia Mufan waved his hand, not minding Sun Xianbing's sudden intrusion: "Nothing."
Zou Chengye was a very alert guy. He only got a little bit of information out of the past 12 years ago, but kept the key information secret. That was the secret hidden deep in his heart. Once he told it, he would be seriously injured, break the law and go to jail, and lose his reputation. How could he possibly admit it on his own initiative?
Only then did Sun Xianbing feel a little relieved.
Xia Mufan said: "Mei Hui must have something to worry about if he came to me in such a hurry. If you encounter such a situation in the future, just come to me."
Coal Ash stretched out his front paws and tugged at Xia Mufan's trouser leg.
[I completed the task.] 】
[I found Zou Bu Ran.] 】
[Xia Xia, didn’t you say that you would tell you as soon as you found the person in the photo? 】
Zou Bu Ran was found so quickly, it turned out that she was hiding next to Zou Chengye! Xia Mufan looked at Sun Xianbing and said, "Notify everyone to follow Meihui to find Zou Buran."
Sun Xianbing's eyes lit up and he looked delighted: "Ah, have you found Zou Bu Ran? That's too fast!"
Xia Mufan nodded. "Yes, Meihui is very smart. I showed it the photo of Zou Bu Ran and asked it to hang around Huishi Finance and Trade College with Fa Cai. I didn't expect it to find the person so quickly. It seems that Zou Bu Ran did not hide her tracks. Maybe she has been waiting for the police to find her."
Sun Xianbing felt that his brain was not enough: "The person who secretly threatened Zou Chengye should be Zou Buran, right? Shouldn't she be hiding from the police? Why is she waiting for us to find her?"
Xia Mufan smiled slightly: "Do you think Zou Bu Ran really wants to intimidate and murder Zou Chengye? Then you really underestimate this girl."
Sun Xianbing didn't understand, so he asked Xia Mufan, "I think Zou Bu Ran wants to intimidate and murder Zou Chengye. She holds a grudge against Zou Chengye, so she wants to repeat everything he did to her mother. It's reasonable to give him a taste of his own medicine."
Xia Mufan shook his head: "No, the person Zou Bu Ran hates the most is Zou Chengye, she will not allow herself to become Zou Chengye."
Sun Xianbing was completely confused, but he had one good point, he followed orders very thoroughly: "Okay, team leader, I'll go talk to them now, we'll meet in the parking lot later."
Xia Mufan nodded, bent down, picked up the coal ash and returned to the office.
Meihui nestled in Xia Muchan's arms and squinted his eyes happily. While licking its little paws, it talked to Xia Mushige.
Xia Mufan asked: "Where did you see Zou Bu Ran?"
[She is in the school, living in the girls' dormitory. 】
Xia Mufan asked: "Isn't he hiding in the house and not coming out?"
[No, he had short hair, was dressed very simply, was tall, was chatting and laughing with a few girls, and walked out carrying a bottle of boiled water. 】
Xia Mufan asked: "Did you go to the dormitory with him?"
Soot was a little smug.
[Of course, I am an expert at stalking. She lives in dormitory 320 and the other girls call her Zou Zou. 】
Xia Mufan rubbed Meihui's little head and said, "You haven't been discovered, have you?"
Meihui rubbed Xia Mufan's warm palm happily.
[No, I'm very nimble.] 】
Huishi Finance and Trade College is far away from the Criminal Investigation Team. Xia Mufan felt sorry for it running back and forth: "Why did you have to run back by yourself?"
When Coal Ash heard this, he was immediately furious.
[Hmph, get rich!] There are many trees and birds in the school, and many gray magpies are chirping on the paulownia trees. As soon as Fa Cai saw the wild birds, he forgot his mission and ran away to call his friends. I'm not saying that this guy Fa Cai is unreliable. We still have to lock it in a cage to kill its wildness. 】
Xia Mufan couldn't help but laugh.
Back then, Coal Gray also had a wild personality, but I didn't expect that after raising it for such a long time, it now regards itself as a warning cat everywhere, becomes more and more responsible, and teaches the playful Fa Cai a lesson in a proper manner.
Xia Mufan rarely disciplined the starling Fa Cai. After all, he brought it home because he saw that it had helped the police solve a case. The purpose of bringing it home is to set it free and let it live the life it wants. .
Xia Mufan took a small dried fish and put it into Meihui's mouth, rubbed its wide little head, and said soothingly: "Okay, I'll listen to you. When you get rich and go home, I'll put it in the cage for two days."
After asking questions carefully, seeing that the time was almost up, Xia Mufan came to the parking lot and met with the team members.
After getting on the bus, the team members started chatting as usual.
Gong Weiguo said with admiration: "Team Leader, your interrogation today was very powerful. Your words were so sharp that the Zou guy was scared to death and almost told the truth."
"Yeah, it was almost there." Feng Xiaoyu also felt a little sorry, sighed, and glanced at Sun Xianbing, "If you hadn't suddenly knocked on the door and came in, that Zou might have confessed. Next time when the team leader is interrogating her, you must not interrupt her rhythm. Don't disturb her rashly unless it's a big deal."
Sun Xianbing's face turned red all of a sudden.
It was Xia Mufan who came to his rescue: "Actually, it has nothing to do with Xianbing. When he pushed the door open, Zou Chengye's eyes had already turned from initial astonishment to clarity. Once he regained his sanity and weighed the pros and cons, he would understand that in this old case, with the lack of evidence, no one can convict him as long as he doesn't admit it. He is a university teacher after all, so he still has some intelligence. If we want him to admit his crime, I'm afraid we still have to do some investigation."
Sun Xianbing asked, "Can we get some evidence from Zou Bu Ran?"
Xia Mufan hummed, "Zou Bu Ran came prepared this time. She used threatening letters, threatening phone calls, and the kitchen trap to create a terrifying scene, forcing Zou Chengye to report to the police station and asking us to start paying attention to the old case from 12 years ago. She is very thoughtful and cautious. She must have evidence of Zou Chengye's frame-up of Cai Qinglian. If we meet with her, everything will be solved."
Sun Xianbing suddenly realized what was going on when he heard this. He excitedly raised his right hand and patted his thigh. "If that's the case, then Zou Bu Ran is really smart! No wonder you just told me, Team Leader, that Zou Bu Ran's purpose in doing this is not to intimidate or murder Zou Chengye. She is just fishing and waiting for the willing ones to take the bait."
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