Chapter 68 Punishment
A seventeen-year-old boy is at an age that is both ignorant and bold.
Xia Mufan did not choose a gentle interrogation method, but directly launched a heavy attack: "Zhu Liang's father was poisoned and died."
Du Haoran and Qiao Duo's pupils shrank, and they exclaimed at the same time: "How could it be?"
The two exchanged glances, their lips tightly pursed, with a look of resistance on their faces.
When Zhu Liang was picked up by his mother this afternoon, he only said that there was an emergency at home, so Du Haoran and Qiao Duo did not know that Zhu Shengrong was dead.
Seeing the expressions of the two people, Xia Mufan looked at Qiao Duo again and threw out the second message: "Qiao Duo, you left a message on the paging station yesterday afternoon, asking Zhu Liang's father to bring cat food to Qingming Restaurant. What do you want to do?"
Qiao Duo's face suddenly turned red, and she waved her hands hurriedly: "No, no, I don't have any."
Xia Mufan suddenly raised his voice: "The paging station has a recording of your call, and there is a message on Zhu Shengrong's pager. It's useless for you to deny it. The cat food was poisoned, and Zhu Shengrong died after eating the cat food. Did you know that?"
Qiao Duo was so frightened that her face turned pale. She hid behind Du Haoran, tears streaming down her face. "No, no, I didn't know. I didn't know the cat food was poisonous, really!"
Du Haoran still wanted to be a hero, and he straightened his chest to meet Xia Mufan's gaze: "Police sister, Qiao Duo is timid, don't scare her, if you have any problems, come to me!"
Xia Mufan sneered: "This is a murder case, can you handle it alone?"
Gong Weiguo added in time: "Zhu Liang is already 18 years old, and you are already 17 years old. If you commit the crime of intentional homicide or intentional injury, you should bear criminal responsibility. By then, don't talk about studying, academic studies, and future, your lives will be in danger!"
At this moment, Du Haoran’s face turned pale.
Even if he didn't understand the law, he knew that killing someone means paying with one's life. Now the police have come to the school, they must have some evidence.
Qiao Duo had always been a good student in school. She felt her legs go weak after being frightened by Gong Weiguo. She clung to Du Haoran's arm and cried, "We didn't hurt anyone. We just wanted to punish Zhu Liang's bad father."
Xia Mufan said: "Punishment? You must be clear and don't miss anything." Whether it is intentional homicide or a joke punishment can only be determined after understanding the whole process of the matter.
Seeing the seriousness of the situation, Du Haoran calmed himself down and no longer dared to hide anything. He honestly told the whole story in detail.
Zhu Liang, Du Haoran and Qiao Duo are classmates. Zhu Liang and Qiao Duo sit at the same table, while Du Haoran sits at the back. They got together because they all liked cats and the songs of Little Tigers, and they also gave the trio a name: Kitten Team.
The three of them attended classes and evening self-study together, fed stray cats on campus together, took turns copying songbooks and listening to tapes during breaks, and bought a lot of cat stickers to stick on textbooks and songbooks. They had a very good relationship.
After this year's winter vacation, Zhu Liang returned to school like a changed person.
He no longer fed the cats with Du Haoran and Qiao Duo. He would tremble all over when he saw pictures of cats and often daydreamed in class. Qiao Duo and Du Haoran saw it, were anxious, and kept asking questions.
With the concern of his friends, Zhu Liang finally told the truth. He said his father was a cat-killing maniac. One evening around eight o'clock, he heard the sound of chopping bones in the kitchen. He sneaked over and found a dead kitten lying on the chopping board. His father was using a knife to cut open its chest and abdomen.
At first, Du Haoran was so scared that his scalp went numb. Cats are so cute, how could someone be so vicious to kill them? But Zhu Liang had concrete evidence to prove his claim, saying he saw his father killing a cat in the kitchen with his hands covered in blood. After killing the cat, my father put the body parts into a garbage bag and threw it into the trash can as if nothing had happened.
Qiao Duo was also frightened and asked Zhu Liang to tell his mother to stop his father from doing evil.
However, Zhu Liang just shook his head and said that his mother would not believe him and that they never believed him.
The three friends discussed for a long time and decided to do something to protect the cute cat.
At first, Zhu Liang found out that his father went to the pet store to buy a cat, so he thought about stealing his father's money so that he would have no money to buy a cat. However, firstly, Zhu Shengrong didn't have much money on him; secondly, Zhu Shengrong was responsible for buying groceries every day, so he could always save some pocket money. What's more, Zhu Shengrong bought the cheapest tabby cat and bought cat food by kilogram. Zhu Liang's move was childish and totally useless.
Next, Du Haoran brought a camera from home and gave it to Zhu Liang, asking Zhu Liang to take pictures of the process of his father killing the cat and throwing away the cat carcass in the kitchen. But Zhu Liang usually lived on campus, and Zhu Shengrong was more careful when he went home on weekends, so he never took a picture of him.
Du Haoran had no choice but to get inspiration from a Hong Kong police and gangster drama and decided to warn Zhu Shengrong over the phone.
However, Du Haoran is still a child after all, and no matter how he pretends to be mature, his childish voice is not convincing.
"Zhu Shengrong?"
"It's me."
"I already know about your ugly act of abusing and killing cats. If you continue..."
"Neuropathy!"
Without waiting for Du Haoran to finish his words, Zhu Shengrong hung up the phone with a "click".
When he continued to call, Zhu Shengrong replied bluntly: "A cat's life is worthless, what's your business? If you call me again, I will report you to the police for blackmail, do you hear me?"
The three members of the Kitten Team looked at each other, feeling helpless in this cruel adult world.
Hearing this, Xia Mufan exchanged glances with the team members. Judging from the three solutions mentioned by Du Haoran, the children’s way of solving the problem is obviously full of idealism, simple and cute, without any hostility.
Xia Mushige asked: "And then?"
If no one else intervened, the three high school students from the Kitten Team probably wouldn't be able to come up with such an interconnected plan, right?
Du Haoran looked at Qiao Duo: "Can you, can you tell me?"
Qiao Duo shrank her neck and said nothing.
Xia Mushige reminded them: "Speak honestly and don't lie to the police."
Du Haoran made up his mind and closed his eyes: "Then, Qiao Duo told her sister about this matter, and I asked Brother Lu for advice, and then Brother Lu helped us come up with ideas."
"Brother Lu? Which one?"
Although he already knew the answer in his heart, Xia Mufan still asked.
"Ke Lu is my dad's subordinate. He has a very good relationship with me. If my dad is not free on weekends, he will pick me up and take me home. Brother Ke has no relatives in Hui City, and I am also an only child, so I call him brother."
Thinking of Ke Lu who stood at the door of the hotel and said he wanted to be friends with him, Xia Mufan's eyes darkened: "What idea did he come up with?"
Du Haoran looked at Xia Mufan cautiously: "Brother Lu is a good man, he also likes small animals. When he heard that Zhu Liang's father killed a cat, he was so angry that he cursed and said he would help us teach him a lesson."
"How did you teach him?"
Du Haoran shook his head: "I don't know either. Anyway, Brother Lu said he would teach him a lesson, so he will call Zhu Liang's father and we will only be responsible for leaving a message."
Qiao Duo said: "Brother Lu is a very, very good person, he has a strong sense of justice. He said that even if we call the police it will be useless, no one will stand up for a few cats, we must teach him a severe lesson, so that he will never dare to kill cats again."
Du Haoran said anxiously, "Police sister, I am not lying, everything I said is true! Brother Lu and Sister Qiao Rui both work in the hotel, so they asked Zhu Liang's father to meet at the hotel so that they can monitor his actions. Qiao Duo called him four times according to the information Brother Lu wrote on the paper in advance. Brother Lu said that as long as he forced Zhu Liang's father to eat cat food in public, he would definitely change his ways after being humiliated like this."
humiliation?
Ke Lu suggested forcing Zhu Shengrong to eat cat food in the restaurant. Was his original intention to humiliate him?
So why is cat food poisoned?
Was it Ke Lu who poisoned him, or was it Zhu Shengrong himself who did it?
As the case was investigated to this point, we thought the truth would soon be revealed, but it was suddenly shrouded in mystery again.
Ke Lu was the person who communicated with Zhu Shengrong on the phone. What did he say? How did he make Zhu Shengrong willingly follow the arrangements and bring cat food into the restaurant?
When Du Haoran called earlier, Zhu Shengrong was not worried about the cat killing being exposed. Why was he scared when it came to Ke Lu?
Qiao Rui was responsible for serving the dishes. Did she do anything?
Seeing Xia Mufan remained silent, Du Haoran swallowed nervously when he thought of what she said about Zhu Changrong being poisoned. "Police sister, we really didn't intend to kill him. Although cat food tastes bad, it won't be a problem for people to eat it. We really just wanted to punish him. Who made him kill so many poor kittens?"
Xia Mufan accurately caught the loophole in the words: "How do you know he killed a lot of kittens?" Zhu Liang only saw his father chopping a cat in the kitchen once during the winter vacation. Later, he wanted to take a photo but didn't find a chance. It can be seen that there is no evidence to prove that Zhu Shengrong killed a lot of cats.
Du Haoran scratched his head: "If there is one, there will be two."
Qiao Duo said softly: "Zhu Liang said that the Mimi he raised when he was a child was killed by his father."
Du Haoran: "He definitely killed more than one or two. Zhu Liang said his father was a cat-killing maniac. He wouldn't lie."
Xia Mufan asked the two children to sign the transcript and explained the situation to Teacher Li.
When Teacher Li heard this, he was sweating with anxiety: "These three children are really... Oh! Should we notify their parents?"
Xia Mufan nodded: "Then I'll trouble Teacher Li. Oh, by the way, please ask Du Haoran's father to bring Ke Lu to school."
The school notifies the parents, and they always come quickly.
Du Haoran's father Du Zhigang brought Ke Lu and Qiao Rui to the school. As soon as he entered the office, he asked anxiously: "What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened to our Haoran?"
Ke Lu was slightly startled when he saw Xia Mufan sitting in the office, but then he smiled and said, "Officer Xia, why are you here?"
Xia Mufan smiled slightly: "Manager Ke should know why I am here."
Du Zhigang glanced at Ke Lu suspiciously, then his eyes swept over his son who was huddled in the corner like a quail, and he seemed to realize that the problem was not simple.
He stepped forward and said, "Hello, police comrade. What happened?"
Xia Mufan briefly recounted what had happened.
Du Zhigang never expected that the murder case in his hotel would involve his son. He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and said to Ke Lu and Qiao Rui in a deep voice: "What did you two do?"
Qiao Rui said weakly: "I, I just urged him when serving the food."
Xia Mufan: "What are you urging me to do?"
Qiao Rui: "I say, don't waste time, eat the cat food quickly."
Xia Mushige: "Who told you to say that?"
Qiao Rui turned her gaze to Ke Lu.
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