Flower Museum Headless Dismemberment Case (16)

Li Muxiao searched for her for half a year, searched the entire Jinyang City, and even went to the police station to look for missing persons information, but there was no trace of Ruan Mengying in this world anymore.

The room was rented by a new tenant. That day, he found the landlord, claimed to be Ruan Mengying's boyfriend, and took away Ruan Mengying's belongings. The landlord said that Ruan Mengying took away some personal belongings, but left behind a small number of clothes and daily necessities. He did not dare to throw them away and locked them in a cabinet.

When he opened the cabinet door, what came into his sight was the lonely dolphin doll. He took back the few remaining belongings of hers, which was also the last thing worth remembering. Apart from that, everything related to her was almost gone.

During that time, Li Muxiao temporarily gave up his small job because of Ruan Mengying's words that she liked the sea of ​​flowers. A travel company was urgently recruiting flower and plant care and transportation workers, and he successfully found a formal job.

However, he did not stop looking for Ruan Mengying. During the search, he suddenly woke up and had a deep memory of the last time he met Ruan Mengying. Ruan Mengying once asked him to borrow money, which was money he had saved for a long time and planned to get married. At that time, Ruan Mengying said that she lent it to a friend for urgent use and would return it to him soon. However, the money and Ruan Mengying disappeared.

Li Muxiao gradually realized that he had been deceived. He never thought that a girl who looked pure and innocent would be a liar.

She took away some of her personal belongings, but left behind the stuffed dolphin. She once said that she loved dolphins, but it was obviously a lie. She bought the dolphin when she first met him, and every encounter after that, including her innocent personality, were probably all her tricks. Her purpose was to cheat him out of his savings.

He became a little ugly again. After get off work from the travel agency, he started selling "ugly" part-time in front of the entrance of Carrefour Supermarket, Hong Kong Hotel, and Venice Cinema. These were the three bustling places closest to Ruan Mengying's former home. He believed that Ruan Mengying would definitely reappear, even if it was to start a new scam.

Even though he thought Ruan Mengying had deceived him, he never gave up on her. He felt that one day she would come back and tell him in person that she missed him very much and that she had not lied to him.

Time passed day by day, until the end of last year, a year after Ruan Mengying disappeared. When he was selling balloons in front of the entrance of Hong Kong Hotel, a girl's shadow suddenly appeared in his eyes.

She was wearing a bright red dress, looking glamorous, but Li Muxiao recognized her at the first sight. He stood there in a daze for a long time.

Only when her back was about to disappear did he chase after her frantically, "Yume Sakura, Yume Sakura..."

Ruan Mengying turned around. She was as beautiful as before, but she had lost a lot of weight. Her face no longer had the friendliness of the past. She seemed not to know him. "Who are you?"

"I'm Li Muxiao, I'm Xiao Chou, don't you remember me?" Li Muxiao tried his best to explain, "Do you have any difficulties? Tell me, tell me quickly." He grabbed her arm, afraid that she would leave again and disappear from his world again. His moist eyes were filled with desire and excitement.

"I searched the entire Jinyang City and went to every place you might have been. I almost called the police and wanted them to find you..."

Finally, she remembered him, but there was no light in her eyes. "Li Muxiao, I will return the money to you. Please give me some time."

"What do you mean! You think I called the police for money? I was worried that something might happen to you..." Li Muxiao was inexplicably furious. Over the past year, he had worried about her, cried for her, and thought of all the worst possible outcomes. But the first thing she did when they met was to distance herself from him and think about paying him back.

"I said, I will return to you what you gave me." Ruan Mengying was very determined and shook off his hand with force.

Li Muxiao let go of his hand helplessly, with endless despair in his heart. He smiled coldly: "In this year, have you never considered my feelings?"

"I'm sorry," Ruan Mengying said coldly, "Don't follow me anymore. I have never liked you. Remember, I have always... In my eyes, you are just a little ugly..."

“Hahahaha…” Li Muxiao went crazy. He thought that Ruan Mengying had betrayed him, deceived him, and thoroughly insulted him... At that moment, he seemed to have lost everything.

Ruan Mengying turned and left, disappearing without a trace in his tear-blurred eyes.

He stood in the crowd, at a loss. The dry weather suddenly turned into a rainstorm. Pedestrians scattered in the bean-sized raindrops. Only Li Muxiao stood in the rain with a dejected look on his face.

The rain washed away the paint on his face, making his entire face look hideous. When the rain stopped, the children were so frightened when they saw his appearance that they hid behind the adults. He looked like a devil, with a ferocious face!

In the interrogation room, Li Muxiao's eyes were bloodshot and his tone was cold: "Later, I found her address. I bought eight kinds of flowers from different flower shops, unlocked her door, sent the flowers to her room, arranged them in her bedroom, and placed candles."

"I sneaked into her house to give her a surprise when she came home, a solemn breakup ceremony. The rose flower represents the most unforgettable love, but also represents the end of a beautiful love. As long as Ruan Mengying tells me in person that she once loved me, I can write off everything with her and I don't want the money anymore."

"That day, I finally waited for her. After Ruan Mengying came back, she was very angry with me. She thought I was ruining her life and asked me to get out immediately. Her tone was very straightforward and disgusting!"

"I am the kind of person who can only take soft actions and not hard ones. I picked her up on impulse and carried her to the bed. In the sea of ​​flowers that she loved, I kissed her desperately and took away everything she had made me lose. She kept resisting and said she would sue me for rape. I told her that I didn't want the money, but just let me touch her once. But she refused to agree and just shouted "rape". I was worried that people upstairs and downstairs could hear me, so I started to panic. I grabbed a bottle of sleeping pills on her bedside and poured milk into her mouth."

"She vomited more than half of it. I thought these sleeping pills would make her fall asleep, but I didn't expect the sleeping pills to work very slowly. She kept struggling, crying and shouting that someone was raping her. I was afraid of being heard, so I lost my last bit of reason. There was a fruit knife on the bedside table. It should have been left there by Meng Ying when she was peeling fruit. I grabbed it and put it against her throat while she was struggling, warning her not to shout or move. But she just wouldn't listen. My head got hot, and I cut her throat with a knife."

"I paid too much for her. I just wanted to take back the rights that a boyfriend deserves... That night, Ruan Mengying died. Because of the fierce struggle, her head was hanging on the bed and bleeding. I was scared and ran back to my rented house. But I loved her very much and I couldn't bear to leave her. I remember that she liked the sea of ​​flowers, a sea created by flowers. She wanted to be a carefree dolphin and wander among them. I want to satisfy her——"

"The next morning, I cleaned up the scene. I tried to put her into the suitcase at first, but her body was stiff and I failed after several attempts. Later, in her bathroom, I cut her into six pieces. Except for her head, which I couldn't bear to part with, I put all of her body into her suitcase."

"In the morning, I used my identity as a company employee to successfully deliver the suitcase and the flowers I had bought in advance to the Flower Museum... It was so beautiful there, and she must have felt so happy..."

The atmosphere in the interrogation room was heavy and stagnant. No one spoke, as if they were still immersed in this story. It was a sad and beautiful story. The hero and heroine in the story were both pursuing the most beautiful things in the world, but they both chose to hurt each other. Li Muxiao was even more cruel, killing his beloved just because he could not get his love.

Meng Siqi felt a long-lasting sense of despair, as if his heart had been hollowed out. If both of them had been more rational and cherished each other, perhaps the tragedy would not have happened.

But she also had some doubts. When the air was extremely quiet, she turned her head and looked at Lu He, "Captain Lu, I have a few questions to ask him."

Lu He nodded with a calm expression.

Li Muxiao's expression was still immersed in the story just now. He seemed very sad and helpless, and his eyes slowly moved towards Meng Siqi.

Meng Siqi said: "Li Muxiao, do you know why Ruan Mengying deceived you?"

"I don't know. She never paid me back, and she definitely doesn't want to see me, let alone tell me what happened to her."

"How did you transport your body to the museum after it was dismembered?" In Meng Siqi's opinion, Li Muxiao's whereabouts in and out of the museum must have been thought about in advance, otherwise why didn't people around the museum notice him, and he was so conspicuous in his ugly costume.

Li Muxiao said: "A small black van. I rented it in advance to deliver flowers."

Meng Siqi finally understood why Xiao Chou disappeared after leaving the museum. It turned out that he used public transportation.

"You said you went to the museum because Ruan Mengying liked the sea of ​​flowers, but why did you provoke the police station? How did you know that Officer Lu He was in charge of this case?" In Li Muxiao's provocative letter, "Officer Lu" was mentioned twice.

Li Muxiao's eyes turned cold. "Why? After I killed Ruan Mengying, I didn't want to live anymore, but you couldn't find any evidence of my crime, so I had to urge you. In such a big case, besides Officer Lu, who else could be involved?"

Meng Siqi understood that Lu He's speculations were all correct. Li Muxiao killed Ruan Mengying to provoke the police station and the newspaper in order to seek death. He insisted on asking the police to provide evidence instead of turning himself in, just because he wanted the ironclad evidence to nail him to the crime.

Perhaps this was exactly the way he wanted, a ritual of seeking death, not surrendering himself, but making a big splash.

Luo Xiaoguo shouted, "Li Muxiao! You killed someone and ignored the police. You still think you're right!"

"Convict me and let the court judge me." Li Muxiao's tone was even calm.

"Don't worry. The court will give you a fair trial." Luo Xiaoguo said gritting his teeth.

"Finally, I want to ask you a question," Meng Siqi said, "Why were you able to write letters to the police station while you were in custody?" She remembered that Xiao Chou's second letter misled the police, and Li Muxiao was released without charge.

"I prepared in advance and gave a letter I had already written to a child, promising to buy him some delicious food and a doll, and asked him to deliver it to the police station mailbox at a fixed time. Of course, if I was released early, the letter would not be delivered."

Yes, Li Muxiao just played a little trick, but in the absence of any evidence at the time, even if he had not played this trick, he would have been acquitted, which did not prevent him from provoking death.

Meng Siqi understood all the doubts she had and said to Lu He, "Captain Lu, I'm done asking questions."

"Okay." Lu He stood up and said in a serious tone, "Li Muxiao, tell me about the tools and process of dismembering the body. Why didn't anyone hear it that morning?"

Meng Siqi understood that the sound of a boning knife chopping bones would be quite loud, and it would be difficult not to arouse suspicion with that kind of sound early in the morning, so Lu He asked this question.

Li Muxiao said: "It was the bone cutting knife, the bone cutting knife from Ruan Mengying's house. That morning, there happened to be an old man in the community playing a tape recorder and doing exercises. The noise was very loud, so I just let it go and cut up the body. Even if someone found out, they would just think it was the sound of renovation. People often come back to that old community to do renovations."

Li Muxiao briefly described the dismemberment process. The cuts on the body were basically consistent with the autopsy results, and the evidence chain was relatively complete. Luo Xiaoguo asked a few more questions, and Li Muxiao's crime process became clearer. It seemed that there were no loopholes in the crime process that day. If there were any, he could just fill in the physical evidence chain.

At this time, it was already past nine o'clock. Cai Shuangxi pushed open the door of the interrogation room, and the air outside instantly flowed in. Meng Siqi walked out immediately. She breathed in the fresh air, and her depressed mood eased a little.

Suddenly, she suddenly remembered something that gave her a chill. She immediately rushed back to the interrogation room. Everyone was stunned by her behavior.

Meng Siqi rushed to Li Muxiao and asked him loudly: "Li Muxiao, are you lying?"

Li Muxiao raised his head and looked at her indifferently, his eyeballs trembling slightly in an extremely unnatural way.

"Where is the cart? You never mentioned the cart from beginning to end!" Meng Siqi had already realized that Li Muxiao was lying. Why did the cart disappear out of nowhere?

She remembered that the investigation results showed that on the night of March 23, a supermarket called "Xiaotian Supermarket" lost a trolley, which was confirmed to be the trolley used to dump the body; and Ruan Mengying was killed on the night of March 25, so why did Li Muxiao prepare the trolley two days in advance, unless he...

At that moment, Meng Siqi's eyes were red. "Li Muxiao, you prepared the cart two days in advance. You didn't lose your mind and kill someone accidentally. You had planned everything. You killed Ruan Mengying, dismembered her body, and sent it to the museum. You had planned it all in advance!"

"Just because she rejected your love and you couldn't get her love, you must kill her to pieces?" Meng Siqi found that he was somewhat out of control, his breath was trembling, and his chest was heaving violently.

That look made everyone present feel a little distressed. They had never seen Meng Siqi like this before. Although she was small, she had extraordinary explosive power and a compassionate temperament.

This kind of Meng Siqi also caused ups and downs in the usually calm Lu He.

He did miss this detail. Although Meng Siqi's inference cannot change the fact that Li Muxiao committed the crime of murder, the nature of the case is completely different.

In this love story, it was Li Muxiao who chose to end it in the most cruel way. He should have been filled with hatred during the process of looking for Ruan Mengying. When Ruan Mengying appeared again and rejected him, he developed murderous intentions and planned a "carnival-style" revenge killing.

The silent air was filled with a heavy atmosphere that made people feel depressed. However, at this moment, Li Muxiao's eyes slowly turned blood red as he looked at Meng Siqi, and the corners of his mouth slowly lifted.

——He is laughing!

"Laugh at your mother!" Luo Xiaoguo suddenly rushed forward and punched over, but Yan Chun held him back at the critical moment. "Deputy Luo, Deputy Luo, calm down! Don't leave any excuse for torture!"

Lu He shouted, "Take Li Muxiao away!"

Two policemen guarding the door walked in quickly, pulled Li Muxiao out of the interrogation chair, and escorted him out.

Li Muxiao turned his head and smiled at Meng Siqi, "Officer Meng, you're great!"

Being praised in this way by such a cruel murderer made Meng Siqi feel mixed emotions, and felt extremely empty and distressed inside.

"I'm sorry, Captain Lu, Deputy Luo, I was a little excited just now. I will be calmer next time." Just now, because of her excitement, Luo Xiaoguo almost hit Li Muxiao. If Li Muxiao was left with scars, and Li Muxiao bit back in court, Luo Xiaoguo would also be controversial.

Luo Xiaoguo comforted her, "Xiao Meng, don't worry. Li Muxiao is such a bastard. Go back home and have a good sleep today. Everything will be fine after a good sleep."

Meng Siqi nodded and walked out the door silently.

"Xiao Meng." Luo Xiaoguo called out as he walked out the door, "Where do you live? I'll find someone to take you there."

She turned around and said, "It's okay, I have the last bus." In fact, she probably wouldn't be able to catch it, so she would take a taxi or stay overnight at the police station.

"How can that be? It's so late, I'll drive you home. It's settled, how can a little girl walk alone at night?"

"Lao Luo." Lu He appeared at the door. "You and Yan Chun should write the case report tonight and follow up on the work of handing it over to the procuratorate."

"Captain Lu, there's no need to be so anxious." Luo Xiaoguo said.

"We agreed to close the case within one day. The closing report must be delivered to Old Liu's office at 12 o'clock tonight. He will see it first thing tomorrow. You write it first, and I will come back to summarize it later."

"Where is the team going?"

"Give me the car key, I'll give him a ride." Lu He stretched out his broad and slender hand.

Luo Xiaoguo swallowed and put the key in his palm, then looked at Meng Siqi again. He felt that Lu He's attitude had changed as well. It seemed that he was right. Meng Siqi's performance was too stunning today. Not only him, but Lu He had also changed his attitude. He never gave anything away before. This case was more important to him than anything else. How could he give up the right to write the case closing report?

Meng Siqi stood there. She understood what Lu He meant. She wanted to refuse, but she didn't know how.

"Siqi." Lu He's low voice came.

His expression was calm. "I'll drive you there."

"There's really no need for a road team." Meng Siqi knew that he was not going the same way and that he lived far away from her.

"It's okay, it's too late. I don't feel comfortable with someone else sending me off."

Luo Xiaoguo swallowed again and stared at Yan Chun as they watched Lu Dui and Meng Siqi walk side by side and disappear into the corridor.

Yan Chun said, "That's what I told you, Deputy Luo. Meng Siqi is pretty and smart, and most importantly, she can solve cases. Captain Lu will never let her go. All he thinks about is the case. It's going to be scary when these two work together from now on."

Luo Xiaoguo said meaningfully: "Who was the one who wanted to get rid of Meng Siqi? It was Team Lu. Wasn't Meng Siqi assigned to our team from the beginning?"

"Is it Team Lu? Why do I remember it was you?"

"Don't talk nonsense. How could I not want her?"

"Deputy Luo, it's really you." Cai Shuangxi stood behind the two of them without knowing when. "You said at that time that this woman looked like a wooden beauty, useless."

Luo Xiaoguo rolled his eyes at him and said, "Cai Shuangxi, you are talking nonsense. Team Lu doesn't want us."

Cai Shuangxi explained earnestly: "Because you asked for Liang Yunfeng first, our team couldn't have a second spot, so Meng Siqi gave it to the second team. Team Lu just put a stamp on it."

"Take a look." Luo Xiaoguo looked at Yan Chun, shook his head and sneered, "He means that Liang Yunfeng and I are wrong."

"Liang Yunfeng is doing fine." Yan Chun said nonchalantly.

"No, no, I didn't say Xiao Liang is a bad person..." Cai Shuangxi's face turned slightly red and he waved his hands repeatedly.

At this time, there was a rapid sound of kicking and stomping in the corridor. The three turned their heads and saw that it was Chen Jierong.

Chen Jierong was wearing a navy blue windbreaker, which fluttered vigorously because of her height and long legs. She was holding a folder in her hand, her face was covered in dust, and her long hair was blown around her ears by the wind. She was always gentle and calm, but now she looked a little anxious.

Luo Xiaoguo remembered that Chen Jierong had recently gone on a business trip to Shanghai for technical exchanges, and that was for this case. The folder in her hand must be related to this case. He hurriedly asked, "Does Jierong have any urgent business?"

Chen Jierong panted and said, "Lao Luo, where is Team Lu? I have something to talk to him about."

"The road team just went to the parking lot."

"Okay." Chen Jierong said thank you and immediately ran towards the parking lot.

The three of them looked at her thin and petite back as they hurried away, forgetting the issue they were just arguing about.