Chapter 173 Scold
Xia Mufan felt that he had overestimated Ou Qingguo.
I thought she might run away or resist when she saw the police, but when the sirens sounded, she fell to her knees, looked at Xia Mufan pitifully, and started to act pitiful.
"Comrade police officer, it's not easy for me either. My child has a heart disease and needs a lot of money. Her mother ran away and I am the only one taking care of her. Sometimes I get angry and hit her. How can this be considered abuse?"
"The child is still young, and she keeps clamoring to go out and play, but her body can't run or jump at all, so I can only lock her up at home. Did you misunderstand something?"
Xia Mufan watched his performance expressionlessly.
From the parrot Guoguo, Xia Mufan learned that Ou Qingguo was a man who loved drinking, had a bad temper, and would beat and scold his wife and daughter at any time.
But when I actually met him, I found that he was a coward who bullied the weak and feared the strong, and begged for mercy as soon as he saw the police.
Perhaps it was because he was incompetent and honest, and did not dare to fight back, and was bullied everywhere outside, that he vented his resentment on his wife and daughter who were weaker than him.
Ou Qingguo saw Xia Mufan and Feng Xiaoyu staring at her coldly without any reaction. He turned around and looked at the neighbors standing at the door, crying and complaining.
"Uncle Wei, Aunt Lu, Aunt Fan... You know me well. I'm devoted to my family. I drive outside in the middle of the night every day and have to cook for the children when I get home. Which grown man can endure such suffering? Liu Qin ran away. During this period of time, I have been both a father and a mother. Life is hard. Please help me say a few words and don't let the police take me away."
Normally, the neighbors all had a good impression of Ou Qingguo, but what they saw today was so shocking that they all took two steps back at the same time, as if he had a virus and they wanted to avoid him as much as possible.
Lu Miaoju was a person who could not keep her words to herself, so she opened her voice and yelled, "Speak up for you? I won't help you at all! I look down on men who beat children, and I think it's only right for the police to arrest you and give you a lesson."
Old Wei on the second floor had been speaking for Ou Qingguo, but when he saw Xiaoxiao in the police's arms, who was as thin as a vine and covered in bruises, his impression of Ou Qingguo immediately changed. He sighed, "Xiao Ou, we know it's not easy for you, but it's always wrong to hit a child. If you make a mistake, you have to admit it. The police are here, what else do you want?"
Aunt Fan, who was named by Ou Qingguo, was an old lady who lived upstairs from her. She helped her son and daughter-in-law raise her two grandsons. She was kind-hearted and could not bear to see children suffer. She felt uncomfortable watching this, so she turned around and went upstairs, spitting on the ground as she walked: "You beat the child like this, and you still have the nerve to ask us to help you speak up, bah! Damn it!"
Aunt Fan's son did not follow his mother upstairs. Instead, he looked around the house and started to curse loudly: "Aren't men working hard outside to make their wives and children live comfortably? Who is like you? You act like a quail outside, but when you get home, you take out all your resentment on your wife and children? You beat Xiaoxiao like this, and you still consider yourself a human being?!"
This one sentence made Ou Qingguo's face turn red, and he stammered, not knowing how to defend himself.
Aunt Fan's son suddenly thought of something and shouted at the top of his voice: "Comrade police, I now suspect that Ou Qingguo's wife was beaten away by him. You must investigate it thoroughly. Although our community is notoriously poor, everyone is a good citizen who abides by the law. Don't let Ou Qingguo, a bad apple, spoil the whole bunch."
Following the shout from Aunt Fan’s son, seven or eight comrades in police uniforms walked into Ou Qingguo’s home.
Ou Qingguo looked up and saw a familiar face. He crawled over and hugged his legs, crying loudly: "Officer Jiang, you know me. My car had an accident in August, and it was you and the traffic police who helped me get the compensation and be able to receive treatment in the hospital. These police officers said that I abused my child. I swear to God, Xiaoxiao is my own daughter. How could I abuse her?"
Officer Jiang, whose thigh was hugged by Ou Qingguo, is an older policeman from the police station. The Qingyuzui area is under his jurisdiction. He is a warm-hearted person who sympathizes with the weak. Knowing that Ou Qingguo's family conditions are relatively difficult, he tried his best to help him. This time, it was he who saw the portrait on the cooperation warrant and quickly recognized Ou Qingguo.
Officer Jiang bent down and tried to pry Ou Qingguo's hands open, but Ou Qingguo was very strong and it took a while for him to pry them open. Officer Jiang was so angry that his face turned red. He shouted, "Two years ago, your wife called the police and said you were domestic violence and beat her until her body was covered in bruises. The police from our police station came to mediate, and you knelt on the ground like you did today, hugged your wife's thighs and cried bitterly, saying that you were not a human being and that you were confused after drinking. You promised that you would never touch her again. Do you remember?"
Ou Qingguo nodded repeatedly: "I remember, I remember. Fortunately, you police comrades mediated at the time, and I also wrote a letter of guarantee, so my wife didn't run away. Later, she gave birth to Xiaoxiao, and our family lived very well. I am very grateful to the police comrades. Officer Jiang, please help me, don't arrest me. I promise you that I will never touch Xiaoxiao again, and as long as I have money, I will take her to the hospital for surgery."
Looking at Xiaoxiao in Xia Mufan's arms, Officer Jiang felt extremely sad. He was no longer willing to believe anything Ou Xingguo said. He used all his strength to lift his legs and break free from Ou Qingguo's entanglement.
"Promise, promise, another promise like this. What's the value of your promise? Who can believe it? You said you wouldn't beat Liu Qin again, but where is she now? Why did she run away? I told you that she came here from another place and has no relatives in Xing City. Her only relatives are you and Xiaoxiao. You have to be nice to her and don't bully her. Did you listen to me?"
"I also told you that Xiaoxiao's congenital heart disease can be cured. As long as we raise enough money and take care of her slowly after the operation, she will get better and better. At that time, our colleagues in the institute also donated money to you. You promised us that you would treat Xiaoxiao like a little princess. Look at the child you raised. Is this what a little princess should look like?"
Officer Jiang became angrier and angrier as he spoke, feeling that all his kindness had gone to waste.
"If it weren't for the criminal police from the Municipal Bureau who came to our police station to look for someone, I wouldn't have known you could do such a shameless thing. You pretended to be pitiful in front of us, but behind our backs, who knows what you did to the mother and daughter!"
Ou Qingguo was a bully who was good at pretending to be pitiful and gaining sympathy outside, but he was a completely different person when he got home. Now he was scolded like a grandson by the police. He dared not even fart. He curled up into a ball, tears and snot running down his face. He kept begging, "Officer Jiang, I only know you. Please help me talk to them and tell them not to arrest me. If you arrest me, what will happen to Xiaoxiao? Xiaoxiao has no father now, who will take care of her?"
It was the first time that Xiaoxiao saw so many people coming to her house. She was a little scared and held Guoguo in her arms, refusing to let go.
When the main force got up, Xia Mufan was able to free up her hands. She stood up and handed Xiaoxiao, who was wrapped in a quilt, to Feng Xiaoyu: "Take the child to the hospital and have a thorough checkup."
Feng Xiaoyu gently picked up Xiaoxiao. The child in her arms was as light as a feather, which made her feel distressed. She let out a long sigh, held the child and walked downstairs with Yu Jing.
The neighbors made way for the child and when they saw the scabbed wounds on the child's cheeks and the scars on his arms, they couldn't bear it and turned their heads away, sighing.
Children are the flowers of the motherland.
With children, there is hope for the world.
Everyone says that children are the apple of their parents' eyes, but Ou Qingguo, this beast, actually used children as a tool to vent his anger. It is really hateful.
Xiaoxiao, who was holding Guoguo, suddenly remembered something, stretched out her hand towards the door, pointed in the direction of the toilet and continued to shout: "Mom, mom, so many moms!"
The child's voice was trembling, and everyone who heard it felt as if there was a foreign object stuck in their throat, which was sour, astringent and uncomfortable.
Previously, when they heard the child tell Xia Mufan at the door that his mother was in the bathroom, everyone had some bad guesses. Now, when they heard the child again saying there were so many mothers, the neighbors were immediately furious.
Lu Miaoju trembled and cried out: "What, what do you mean by so many mothers? What does Xiaoxiao mean by that?"
The others also shouted.
"Police comrade, arrest Ou Qingguo immediately. We haven't seen Liu Qin for more than a month. Ou Qingguo said that she couldn't stand the hardship at home and ran away to work. Who knows if what he said is true?"
"Liu Qin is from another place, and she doesn't have her family to support her. Could she have been harmed by this kid?"
The eyes of the masses are sharp. Everyone contributed their thoughts and actually figured out the truth of the matter.
When Ou Qingguo heard what everyone said, he was so frightened that his soul left his body. His face turned as white as a piece of paper and he sat on the ground. After a long time, he managed to utter a sentence from his throat: "You, don't talk nonsense!"
Xia Mufan looked at Gong Weiguo and the others and asked, "Did you bring the tools?"
Sun Xianbing came forward with a large box in his hand. In the box was a fluorescence detector, which could detect bloodstains by detecting the special reaction of blood under special fluorescent light. "Here we are, here we are, we are ready. Captain Xia, where do you tell me to start the investigation?"
Xia Mufan raised his hand and pointed to the toilet: "Start from the toilet, the kitchen, bedroom, living room floor, wall, don't miss any of them."
Even a passing wild goose leaves traces, let alone killing people.
No matter how thoroughly it is cleaned, the bloodstains will not be visible to the naked eye. Under the detection of modern instruments, all bloodstains will be visible.
Ou Qingguo thought that he had done a secret job of dismembering and disposing of the body, and no one would know about it. But when he saw the instruments in the police's hands and heard Xia Mufan say that he wanted to check the floors and walls of the kitchen, toilet and bedroom, Ou Qingguo, feeling guilty, collapsed to the ground, his eyes sparkling, his mind went blank, and his whole body began to shake like a sieve.
Gong Weiguo handcuffed Ou Qingguo and prepared to take him back to the police car.
When Ou Qingguo was forcibly lifted up by Gong Weiguo, he couldn't stand up at all. His legs were shaking like leaves in the wind. A pungent smell of urine spread, and all the neighbors covered their noses and backed away.
The murderer who abused his children and killed his wife was so scared that he wet his pants when he was taken away by the police?
Pooh! Useless coward.
Colleagues from the police station set up a cordon at the door and, in the presence of neighbors, began searching the room. They took photos of the evidence, numbered them and archived them.
Under the illumination of special fluorescent lights, the police soon found a large amount of bloodstains in the corners of the toilet, the gaps between floor tiles, the wall tiles of the kitchen, and the floor of the living room. Some of the bloodstains were in the form of splatters, and some were in the form of dragging.
In addition, remnants of human flesh and internal organs were found in the corners of the kitchen and toilet.
After three days of DNA testing on the bloodstains and remaining human tissues, the results came out, showing that Xiaoxiao's mother was none other than Liu Qin!
The evidence was conclusive, and the special operations team formally interrogated Ou Qingguo.
After spending four days in the detention center, Ou Qingguo lost a lot of weight and had dark circles under his eyes, which showed that he had not gotten enough rest.
The nature of the case was extremely bad. Ou Qingguo was brought in with his hands and feet cuffed. As soon as he sat in the interrogation chair, his eyes fell on the objects on the interrogation table.
——It was a light green glass bottle filled with Erguotou, the wine he usually drank.
Ou Qingguo was craving for alcohol, and with trembling hands he looked at Gong Weiguo and Xia Mufan, who were sitting upright, and Feng Xiaoyu, who was in charge of taking the statement: "Comrade police officer, can you give me a sip of wine?"
Gong Weiguo's face was stern and serious: "Why did you drink alcohol during the interrogation? Answer our questions properly!"
Ou Qingguo is addicted to alcohol. He feels uncomfortable if he doesn't drink for a day. Every time he comes home from the night shift and has breakfast, he must have wine. He had been in the detention center for four whole days without having a sip of alcohol, which made him feel empty.
Ou Qingguo sniffed. The bottle of wine in front of him was unopened, but he seemed to be able to smell the clear and leisurely aroma of the wine.
Even though his request was rejected, Ou Qingguo still tried to force a smile and looked at the policeman sitting behind the interrogation table in a flattering way: "Well, can I have a drink after I finish my confession?"
Gong Weiguo snorted coldly and did not comment.
Xia Mufan started the process, asking Ou Qingguo's basic personal information. After confirming that he was clear-headed, conscious, and had good memory, he got to the point.
"Where is Liuqin?"
The opening question is a life-threatening one. Ou Qingguo struggles desperately: "She couldn't stand the hardship at home, so she went to the south to work."
Xia Mufan took out an evidence bag containing Liu Qin's ID card, which was found in Ou Qingguo's bedroom drawer.
Xia Mufan held up his ID card and said, "You're going out to work, but you don't even bring your ID card with you?"
One lie requires countless lies to cover it up.
Ou Qingguo's eyes wandered: "She had a quarrel with me that night, saying that her family was too poor and she couldn't stand it anymore, so she wanted to go out to work. She disappeared the next day. Did she leave in a hurry and forget to bring her ID card?"
Xia Mushige asked: "Which night?"
Ou Qingguo avoided Xia Mufan's gaze and asked, "What night do you mean?"
Xia Mushige raised his voice: "What night was it when you had the fight?"
Ou Qingguo shook his head: "I don't remember. I had a car accident in August and couldn't move my legs. I stayed in the hospital for half a month. After I came back and recuperated for a while, Liu Qin couldn't stand it anymore. She said she couldn't take care of two people, and then we quarreled."
Xia Mufan asked: "Let me ask you, what month and day is it?"
Ou Qingguo then gave an approximate time: "Late September."
Xia Mushige said: "She left in September, and it has been three months now. Has she not contacted her family in such a long time?"
Ou Qingguo started his performance again, crying with tears in his eyes: "This woman has no conscience. It's fine if she doesn't want me, but Xiaoxiao is the child she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy, and she actually had the heart to ignore her. It is said that there will be no filial sons around a long-term sick bed. I didn't expect that after the child has been ill for a long time, she, as a mother, could be so cruel..."
Xia Mufan didn't give him a chance to continue his performance and interrupted him directly: "Xiaoxiao has been sent to the hospital. We have assessed her injuries."
Gong Weiguo and Xia Mufan worked in perfect harmony. Without waiting for her eye signal, he took out a report on the injury from his briefcase, stood up, walked in front of Ou Qingguo, and held the report in front of him: "Open your dog eyes and take a good look at what you did to your child!"
Ou Qingguo's limbs twitched from time to time due to his alcohol addiction. The serious atmosphere in the police station made him panic and his brain could not function normally. The injury assessment report was right in front of him, but Ou Qingguo felt that every word in the report was flying around randomly and there was no way to connect them together to understand it.
Ou Qingguo said in a trembling voice: "I, I don't understand."
He had a wrinkled face, lowered brows and looked very honest. But after being detained in the detention center for a few days, he looked dirty and unshaven, with an inexplicable light flashing in his small eyes, making him look ferocious.
Two contradictory expressions appear on his face, giving people a strong sense of disharmony.
Gong Weiguo pointed to the final conclusion in the appraisal report and read it out loud.
"Ou Baozhu, your head, face, neck, chest, abdomen, waist, back, buttocks and right thigh are extensively injured, with the total wound length reaching 130.5 centimeters. According to the relevant provisions of the human body injury degree assessment standards, Ou Baozhu's injuries are classified as Grade 2 severe injuries."
After reading it, Gong Weiguo raised the appraisal report in his hand heavily, and the friction between the papers made a rustling sound.
Gong Weiguo's voice was filled with anger: "She is your biological daughter, only three years old! You beat her to the point of second-degree severe injury. If this isn't abuse, then what is it? What is it?!"
"Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. You are worse than an animal!" Gong Weiguo's voice echoed in the interrogation room, making Ou Qingguo's ears numb.
Xia Mufan took over Gong Weiguo's words: "Beating and disability, second-degree severe injury, starting from three years. You abused a child, which is aggravated crime, you can't escape the ten-year sentence."
Xia Mufan's voice was icy, like a chill wind in December blowing past Ou Qingguo's ears, causing Ou Qingguo to shiver uncontrollably, and cold sweat began to break out on his back and forehead.
Ou Qingguo felt scared.
When beating the child, Ou Qingguo was only thinking about venting his inner dissatisfaction. After all, that was his own child, so what was the harm in beating him?
Who could have known that the police would come to your door on their own initiative?
The public security agency's injury assessment report was written in black and white before him. When Ou Qingguo heard that he would be imprisoned for ten years, he was really panicked.
Tears of regret flowed from the corners of his eyes. Ou Qingguo raised his handcuffed hands, wiped his face with the back of his hands, and begged bitterly: "Comrade police, I have had a hard life. My parents died early and no one helped me. I worked hard in the freight station, and I hurt my foot. I saw that there was no way out in life. It was the freight station leader who took pity on me and sent me to learn to drive and find a job as a night shift driver. I finally got married and had a child, but I didn't expect to give birth to another sick child. Please have pity on me, I will take good care of Xiaoxiao in the future."
Having said that, Ou Qingguo carefully raised his head and observed the expressions of the police in front of him, but found that no one was moved. They all looked at him with cold eyes, as if he was a joke.
Under such a stare, Ou Qingguo could hardly continue acting. His eyes rolled and he suddenly changed his tone.
"It wasn't me. It wasn't me who beat her. Police comrades, I'm telling you, Liu Qin is not a good person. She often bullies the children at home. She either beats or scolds Xiaoxiao. I said I wanted to send Xiaoxiao to get treatment, but Liu Qin refused to agree. She said that even if she was cured, she would still be disabled. What's the point of treating her? She often beat the children with feather dusters and clothes hangers at home. All the injuries on Xiaoxiao's body were caused by her."
Since there is no evidence, we might as well push all the blame onto Liu Qin. Ou Qingguo became more and more excited as he spoke, and began to dance. The handcuffs and anklets made heavy rattling sounds as he moved.
"Police comrade, go arrest Liu Qin, it's her! She's the one who beat the child. I had to endure and care for her before, even though she beat the child, I never argued with her. Now that you've discovered me, I can only tell the truth."
Xia Mufan interrupted Ou Qingguo's performance and threw out a police report: "You tolerated and cared for Liu Qin everywhere? Did you draft a lie before you lied? Do you want to see the police report brought by the comrades from Qingyuzui Police Station? It clearly states that you beat Liu Qin after drinking, causing multiple soft tissue contusions and a broken wrist bone. You abused your wife and children, and you dared to quibble and put the blame on others!"
When Ou Qingguo saw his lie being exposed, his face turned red all of a sudden. He closed his mouth, pursed his lips into a straight line, and his eyes kept moving, as if he was thinking of a countermeasure.
Xia Mufan didn't give him any more room to think: "I tell you, when you get here, you must tell the truth, only then can you survive..."
Seeing that the atmosphere was almost set, Xia Mufan sneered and went straight to the point: "The reason you dare to put the blame on Liu Qin is that you are sure that we can't find her?"
Ou Qingguo felt his heart suddenly stopped beating and he couldn't breathe at all. He raised his head blankly and looked at Xia Mufan with fear in his eyes.
Gong Weiguo took out the photos taken inside the house and placed them in front of Ou Qingguo one by one.
Xia Mufan's voice was cold and clear: "Even if you can't see the words clearly, at least you can see the picture clearly, right? This is your home, do you still recognize it? After testing, we found multiple bloodstains on the walls and floors of the kitchen, toilet, and living room. Judging from the blood splatter and dragging marks, the amount of bleeding was extremely large and reached a lethal amount. In addition, in the gaps between the bathroom floor tiles, we found human flesh and internal organs. After DNA comparison, it was the wife Liu Qin you mentioned who ran away to work because she couldn't stand the poverty of the family."
Xia Mufan slammed the table hard, stood up, and said in a voice full of majesty and solemnity: "Tell me the truth, where did Liu Qin go? What did you do to her?!"
Xia Mufan's words hit Ou Qingguo's heart like a heavy hammer. He didn't expect that he had destroyed the body so cleanly and cleaned the house countless times, without leaving any smell, so how could the police find it?
The large dark stains in the photo were the bloodstains that he had wiped off countless times.
Ou Qingguo blurted out: "Impossible, I have already rinsed it clean."
Xia Mufan pressed on: "Did you flush it clean? Where did it go? Did it go to the sewer?"
Ou Qingguo raised his hands and wanted to cover his ears, but his hands were handcuffed and couldn't be separated. He covered his left ear but not his right ear. Xia Mufan's voice still persisted in drilling into his ears.
"Tell me! Did you kill Liu Qin? What did you do with her body?"
Ou Qingguo shook his head desperately: "No, no, no! I didn't kill her."
There was a tape recorder on the interrogation table. Xia Mufan pressed the play button on the tape recorder, and Xiaoxiao's childish voice came from it: "Hong Mama, Chou Mama, so many Mama."
Xiaoxiao's words have been playing in an endless loop. There is a hint of fear in the child's tender voice, and the voice that seems like a dream keeps hammering Ou Qingguo's smelly and dirty soul.
His daughter's voice nearly brought Ou Qingguo to the brink of collapse.
He felt like a person who fell into water. The cold lake water rushed into his nostrils and mouth, blocking his trachea. He couldn't breathe at all and his consciousness became increasingly blurred. The pain of suffocation made him gasp for air.
I’ll kill you while you’re sick!
Seeing Ou Qingguo's reaction, Xia Mufan took the opportunity to attack.
She picked up the bottle of liquor on the interrogation table and smashed it hard on the ground.
"Bang! Chi--"
The glass shattered and the aroma of wine filled the air.
The aroma of the bottle of wine that fell at Ou Qingguo's feet penetrated into her nose and aroused the alcohol craving in her body. Her internal organs, including the joints between her bones, began to itch, but she could smell it but could not drink it. This feeling made Ou Qingguo extremely painful.
Every word Xia Mufan said was like a knife, piercing Ou Qingguo's lungs.
"People like you are just bullies who bully the weak and fear the strong. Who would respect you?"
"Outside, he bows and scrapes to everyone like a slave; when he gets home, he vents his anger on his wife and children who have no ability to resist."
"Useless man, coward!"
Xia Mufan's words successfully stimulated Ou Qingguo.
The double torture of body and mind made Ou Qingguo's psychological defenses collapse completely. He took off his honest disguise, and the words that he had been holding back in his heart erupted like a volcano.
"Who told her to look down on me!"
"Outside, they bully me, and at home, she looks down on me!"
"She looked at me like a bug, full of disgust. When I saw her look like that, I wanted to beat her up!"
"So what if I beat her to death? She has no relatives in Xing City. There's not even anyone around during the holidays. Who would care about her?"
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