Chapter 66: Past Events
Zhu Liang's smile was like a blooming flower, and the light in his eyes was so bright that the knowledgeable Mei Hui knew at a glance that this man was a "cat slave" and could have fun with him to his heart's content.
Coal ash jumped out of the bag and fell into Zhu Liang's arms.
Zhu Liang originally just wanted to touch the coal ash and be satisfied, but he didn't expect such a big surprise to come. When the coal ash flew into his arms, he grinned happily, stretched out his hands and hugged it as if he owned the whole world.
Zhu Liang gently stroked Meihui's head and kept saying, "I touched it! I touched it, it's so good!"
As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes for some reason.
He raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes and glanced at Xia Mushige sheepishly: "Is it your cat? It's so cute."
Xia Mushige is very kind to people who like cats. She smiled and said, "It's my cat. His name is Coal Ash. He's very friendly."
Zhu Liang looked at the gray and black hair on Coal Ash's body: "Coal Ash? Hehe, Coal Ash."
Xia Mufan deliberately tested: "You like cats so much, why don't you raise one?"
Zhu Liang hurriedly shook his head: "I can't keep a cat, it will die."
"How could that be? Cats are easy to raise." Xia Mufan's voice was very gentle.
Zhu Liang shuddered: "You don't know, my father is a..."
He didn't finish his words, but the fear in his eyes made Xia Mufan immediately realize that Zhu Liang might know something.
Xia Mufan looked at Zhu Liang: "What is it?"
Zhu Liang shook his head and refused to say anything more.
Liu Caiyang interrupted: "Okay, Liangliang, go back to your room and study. I'm going to talk to the police."
Zhu Liang didn't say anything good or bad. His mood seemed to have suddenly fallen to the bottom. He just hugged the coal ash quietly with a dull look in his eyes.
Xia Mufan smiled and said, "You can carry it into the house. It's okay. I'll call you when I leave."
Zhu Liang then stood up, hugged Mei Hui and left affectionately, whispering as he walked: "I'll take you with me, don't be afraid, you won't be in any trouble if you don't go to school."
After Zhu Liang entered the house and closed the door, Liu Caiyang sighed, looked at Xia Mufan and said, "Officer Xia, to be honest, Liangliang is a mentally ill child. After his cat froze to death and his dog got lost when he was a child, he never kept a pet again. But he seems to have lost his soul. He says his father is a bad guy. He often hugs a pillow and tells Mimi not to be afraid, and that she will be fine as long as he is with her."
"His dad takes care of his food and drink, sends him to school and picks him up after school, and plays with him. How can he become a bad guy? Liangliang hates his dad for not raising the cat and dog well. I have no choice but to coax him, for fear that he will be unhappy one day and fight with his dad."
Xia Mushige asked: "Did the father and son ever fight?"
Liu Caiyang nodded. "It was the day Mimi died. Liangliang couldn't find it when he got up in the morning. Later he found it on the balcony. It was frozen to death. It lay straight with its eyes bulging. It looked very pitiful. Liangliang went crazy and beat his father, saying that his father had killed Mimi."
Liu Caiyang obviously didn't believe his son's words: "How is it possible? Lao Zhu is usually very honest. He does whatever I ask him to do. Even if he doesn't like to keep a cat, he feeds and bathes the cat seriously because my son insists. Why would he kill a cat?"
Xia Mushige's expression became serious: "And then?"
Liu Caiyang: "What else can I do? I just tried my best to coax my son. I said I would buy him a cat, but he cried so hard that he refused. I saw that he really didn't want a cat, so I brought him a dog, but the dog ran away. From then on, he and his father became enemies. He called his father a devil, and his father would beat him when he got angry. The relationship between the two was very bad."
Xia Mufan asked: "You don't believe your son's words?"
Liu Caiyang was stunned for a moment: "He is just a child, what does he know? It's just a cat freezing to death and a dog getting lost, how can he become a devil?"
"Bang!"
Zhu Liang's door opened again.
Zhu Liang looked at his mother fiercely, his chest heaving violently. "You never believed me! Mimi was killed by Dad! I just know it. It was very cold that night. I clearly brought Mimi into the house, covered it with a small towel, and closed the balcony door tightly, but when I woke up in the morning I found it frozen to death on the balcony."
Liu Caiyang looked at his son with a bitter face: "Liangliang, the balcony door of our old house can't be closed tightly at all."
Zhu Liang's voice became shrill in anxiety: "If it's not closed tightly, how can Mimi push the door open when she's so small? Dad did it on purpose! He killed Mimi on purpose."
Liu Caiyang obviously didn't believe his son's words, but seeing that his son was emotional and worried that he might have mental problems, he had to try his best to comfort him: "Yes, yes, your father did it on purpose, he is a bad guy..."
At this point, Liu Caiyang was filled with grief: "Liangliang, your father is dead, he is already dead, what else do you want?"
Zhu Liang's face was not sad at all, but rather a little excited: "He killed the cat, and the cat killed him. It's fair."
Liu Caiyang raised his head suddenly and looked at his son in disbelief: "Liangliang, what are you talking about? Your father was poisoned to death, how can you say the cat killed him? Your father was so good to you, how can you have no conscience at all? Even if Mimi was killed by your father accidentally, it's just a cat! How can people and cats be the same!"
Zhu Liang was still holding Coal Ash in his arms, caressing its fur gently. He looked very gentle, but there was madness in his eyes: "Humans and cats are both lives, how can they be different? Killing someone means paying with your life, and the same goes for killing a cat."
Hearing this, Sun Xianbing and Yu Jing looked at each other and felt the hairs on their arms stand on end.
From what this kid said, could it be that he was the one who killed Zhu Shengrong?
Because Zhu Shengrong once killed his cat?
"Mimi wasn't killed accidentally by Dad. Mom, do you remember? After Mimi died, I put it in a shoe box and cried for a long time. You said you would bury it under the camphor tree downstairs, right?"
It was a long time ago, and Liu Caiyang thought for a long time before he had some impression of this detail: "Yes, you cried so hard at that time, and refused to go to school. It was your father who buried the cat at night."
Tears flowed from Zhu Liang's eyes, falling drop by drop on Mei Hui's head.
Soot felt his trembling and rubbed his palm obediently to comfort him.
Zhu Liang cried and said, "I dug the cat out the next day. You have no idea how miserable Mimi was. Dad cut open its stomach..."
He refused to say the rest and his whole body began to twitch.
Liu Caiyang hurriedly stepped forward to support his son, stroking his back and coaxing him: "It's okay, don't be afraid, the doctor said this is all your imagination, Mimi is lying in the shoe box fine."
Zhu Liang tried desperately to avoid his mother: "No! No! The cat you saw was not Mimi, Dad lied to you. He changed it and you didn't know it at all. You only know how to make money, stay in the store every day, order Dad to do things, and coax me to study. You don't know anything!"
Because of his excitement, Zhu Liang's expression was a little confused, but Xia Mufan understood it.
The sadness and fear in the child's heart were so heavy that they were almost crushing his spirit.
Gu Shaoqi walked forward, stretched out his hand to Zhu Liang, and said in a cold and calm voice: "Zhu Liang, don't hurt the cat."
Zhu Liang calmed down instantly and lowered his head to look carefully at the coal ash in his arms.
Gu Shaoqi squatted down slightly and looked Zhu Liang in the eye: "We believe you. Your father does have a tendency to abuse cats."
Zhu Liang was recognized and his emotions gradually stabilized. He looked at Gu Shaoqi and said, "Uncle police, you found out, right?"
Gu Shaoqi turned his head and looked at Xia Mufan with a questioning look in his eyes, as if asking: Can I speak?
Xia Mushige nodded.
Gu Shaoqi is a medical graduate and has a lot of experience in how to calm patients down. If he communicates with Zhu Liang, the effect should be good.
After getting Xia Mufan's permission, Gu Shaoqi said to Zhu Liang, "We investigated the Yuanlin Road Flower and Bird Market and found that your father would go to the pet store once a month to buy a three-month-old tabby cat and a pound of imported cat food with cat attractants added."
"What?!"
Liu Caiyang shouted, rushed forward eagerly, and grabbed Gu Shaoqi's arm: "My old Zhu often buys cats and cat food? How come I don't know!"
Zhu Liang looked at his mother, his tone full of sarcasm: "You sent me to boarding school, and you stayed in the store from morning to night. Do you think you know everything he did during the day?"
Liu Caiyang was so confused that he was running around in the room, "What do you mean? What do you mean? Because our Lao Zhu bought a cat and cat food, he should die?"
Gu Shaoqi's attitude was very gentle: "It's not that he deserves to die, but Zhu Shengrong may have abused cats. This may be an important clue to solve the case. I hope your family will think about it carefully."
Xia Mufan watched Zhu Liang's every move closely.
When Zhu Liang heard the police say the word "cat abuse", he seemed to have a feeling of being finally affirmed, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes! I said my dad killed cats, but you never believed it. Now that the police have said it, you should believe it, right?"
Liu Caiyang is a businessman after all, so he quickly calmed himself down: "Wait a minute! Why does Lao Zhu abuse cats when he buys cats and cat food every other month? Could it be that he wants to release them into the wild? Or does he want to feed stray cats? What makes you say he abuses cats?"
Xia Mufan wanted to see how Gu Shaoqi would answer this question.
When Boss Qian mentioned that Zhu Shengrong bought a cat and cat food, he relied on his intuition as a cat lover to rule out the possibility that Zhu Shengrong bought the cat in order to release it into the wild.
Gu Shaoqi did not make excuses: "So I said it is a possibility. The purpose of our investigation is to find clues to solve the case."
Liu Caiyang: "You mean, someone wants to harm Lao Zhu because he mistreats cats? Who is it?"
She shuddered suddenly and looked at Zhu Liang who was standing beside her, her heart turning cold. No way? Could it be my son who did this?
Once this thought arose, it took root in Liu Caiyang's mind. Without thinking too much, she quickly pushed her son and said, "Go back, go back to your room. You are still a student. Go back to your room and read."
In any case, she had already lost her husband and could not lose her son again.
Xia Mufan stepped forward to stop Liu Caiyang, and then asked: "Zhu Liang, who else have you told about your father killing the cat?"
This case focuses on cat food. As the investigation progresses, the truth may be right in front of us.
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