The End of the Night (19)

On the way to the prison, Lu He told her that the nails of the three victims of the Hongzhuang case were found on Liang Ran's body, and Liang Ran admitted it. Today Luo Xiaoguo will take Liang Ran to identify the scene.

The gangster who was shot dead on the rooftop of the Great World Billiard Stadium last night was actually Liang Ran's friend Qiao Shijie. Lu He said that Qiao Shijie was the son of his mother's cousin, and therefore his cousin. He had received favors from the Liang family, so he had always protected Liang Ran.

The two didn't say anything else. Meng Siqi felt that Lu He's saddest moment was when he knew the truth about his mother. When he graduated that year, he came to the Municipal Bureau alone, to an almost unfamiliar place, just to find out the truth about his mother.

Of course, in the process of searching for the truth about his mother, he became an excellent criminal policeman. He had a heavier responsibility. Gradually, the truth about his mother was no longer the only one. He must want to find the truth for every case, because he once said, "The truth is endless, and our criminal police are exploring the truest truth buried in the abyss." He will persist in every truth.

After parking the car outside the prison, Lu He slowly turned his head and looked at her, "Siqi, thank you for finding the murderer in time, rescuing Zhao Yuting, and finding the real White-Faced Man."

Meng Siqi hurriedly said, "Lu He, don't say that. We are police officers and colleagues. This is what I should do."

Lu He pursed his lips, revealed a faint smile, and said softly: "Siqi, the Hongzhuang case has been solved, it seems that I have to keep my promise."

He turned around, opened the door and got out of the car. Meng Siqi gradually felt something was wrong. What promise? A promise to pursue her formally? She frowned slightly, and felt her face getting hot, so she also opened the door and got out of the car.

Xu Wangtu was wearing prison clothes and handcuffs and had been taken to the prison interrogation room in advance. When Meng Siqi pushed the door open and walked in, he found that Xu Wangtu had become older and older. He was originally dark-skinned with only sparse white hair, but now half of his hair was white. Although he still looked very clean, it was obvious that his face and hair were not as clean as before.

There was no light in his eyes. He just stared blankly at the person who came. Then he looked forward, staring into the air.

In fact, Meng Siqi was in a bad mood when he saw Xu Wangtu again, because Xu Wangtu was not only the murderer of four child kidnapping cases five years ago, but also the cause of the Red Lacquer Serial Murder Case and the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case. If it weren't for his perverted desires, none of this might have happened.

But in order to complete the chain of evidence, they must interrogate Xu Wangtu again.

Meng Siqi got straight to the point and said, "Xu Wangtu, in 1970, your wife Xie Wenjuan was murdered in the Red Lacquer Serial Murder Case, and today the murderer has been found."

Xu Wangtu raised his eyes, his empty eyes revealing a hint of curiosity and surprise.

Meng Siqi said sternly, "Xu Wangtu, we have interrogated you several times. You have molested students in Xie Wenjuan's class. Why have you never mentioned this? One of the students was named Liang Lexin. You have never mentioned this to us, the police. Your wife Xie Wenjuan was murdered by Liang Lexin's father Liang Chenghao."

The corner of Xu Wangtu's mouth twitched suddenly, and Meng Siqi could see that he was laughing, as if he didn't find the answer strange at all.

"We found you today because we want you to tell us how many children you molested back then. You have a family and children, so why did you commit such despicable and illegal acts? Xu Wangtu, you are going to be executed soon. I hope you can tell us the truth before you die."

Xu Wangtu's eyes were empty and dull again, but he answered the question without hesitation: "Among the five children, Le Xin is the one I have been with the longest and is also the one I like the most. Thank you for finding the murderer for Wen Juan. Regarding what happened more than 20 years ago, I actually didn't want to do that, but I had no choice. I can confess all the crimes..."

Xu Wangtu said that after his intellectual father died in a cowshed in 1969, his life ideals also stagnated.

Xu Wangtu was well-read in poetry and literature and had a lot of culture in his mind. He was an idealist and a romanticist. He had an obsession with pure things, which made him have a serious cleanliness obsession, and this cleanliness obsession was spiritual.

Xu Wangtu's first wife, Gao Yuyan, was from a working-class family. He and Gao Yuyan had a son, Xu Jianfei. Logically, such a life should have been a long and happy one.

However, Xu Wangtu knew in his heart that Gao Yuyan was kidnapped by gangsters when she was young. Although she was not sexually assaulted, Xu Wangtu still felt resentful. He always believed that Gao Yuyan was not perfect. In addition, Gao Yuyan was illiterate and the two had no spiritual communication. Therefore, after his father passed away, he and Gao Yuyan divorced.

Divorce was not a good thing in that era. The most important reason why Xu Wangtu decided to divorce was that he met Xie Wenjuan, who was teaching at Hope Primary School. Xie Wenjuan was young, beautiful, and could read and write. She was like heaven and earth to Gao Yuyan.

At that time, Xu Wangtu was an accountant in a supply and marketing cooperative. He had a good temperament, a petty bourgeois style, and was eloquent. He soon got to know Xie Wenjuan and pursued her with various romantic letters and poetic gifts.

Xu Wangtu said that their first official date was in a relatively secluded park. He was late because his bus broke down halfway. When he entered the park, he went to the agreed place to find Xie Wenjuan. Unexpectedly, a gangster was snatching Xie Wenjuan's bag at that time.

The strap of the shoulder bag was entangled in Xie Wenjuan's arm, and she refused to let go. As they were struggling, Xie Wenjuan fell on the grass and was dragged. The criminal was tall and strong, and he held a dagger in his hand and shouted at her to let go.

At that time, Xu Wangtu did not hesitate at all and rushed forward to fight with the gangster. The gangster swung his knife a few times, and when he saw new pedestrians appearing in the park, he ran away.

Xu Wangtu was injured, with scars on the back of his hands and arms. Fortunately, the injury was not serious, but Xie Wenjuan was very moved and even shed tears.

When the two went to the hospital to treat the wound, Xu Wangtu asked her why she was holding on to the bag so tightly. Xie Wenjuan said that she went to the photo studio to retrieve the photos, and the bag was full of photos, which were photos of her and her children. She couldn't throw it away.

After this incident, their relationship progressed rapidly. Because of his divorced status, Xu Wangtu thought that Xie Wenjuan's parents would oppose his marriage to Xie Wenjuan. Unexpectedly, when he first came to propose marriage, Xie Wenjuan's family agreed. Xu Wangtu was very moved. He thought that it was because he saved Xie Wenjuan that her parents agreed to him.

Soon Xu Wangtu and Xie Wenjuan got married. Their life should have been very happy, but Xu Wangtu found that Xie Wenjuan did not seem to be a virgin. This made him very confused. He even thought that the Xie family might be hiding some secret by agreeing to his proposal so readily.

So Xu Wangtu asked around and finally found out Xie Wenjuan's past. It turned out that Xie Wenjuan had once known an educated youth from a big city, and the two had been in love. Xie Wenjuan also learned a lot of culture from that educated youth.

Unfortunately, the educated youth suddenly returned to the city and disappeared, leaving behind Xie Wenjuan who was already pregnant. For fear that the matter would be exposed, Xie's parents had no choice but to abort Xie Wenjuan's child.

Xie Wenjuan, who had an abortion due to a broken heart, was originally disheartened in life, and teaching in an elementary school was her only spiritual sustenance. After being pursued by Xu Wangtu, she thought that Xu Wangtu was attracted to her. She once thought of committing suicide because of a broken heart and having an abortion, but today, she once regarded Xu Wangtu as the salvation of her life.

But what she didn't expect was that after marriage, Xu Wangtu began to dislike her in every way, and even pointed out during an argument that Xie Wenjuan was a useless woman that no one wanted.

During that time, Xu Wangtu's mental obsession reached a crazy state, which also caused Xie Wenjuan to have a mental breakdown, so Xie Wenjuan proposed a divorce, but Xu Wangtu held her captive. He had indeed fallen in love with Xie Wenjuan at first sight. He would not let her leave, but he also spurned her. His mind was extremely torn and contradictory.

Finally, the situation reached a balance. Xie Wenjuan took the students back to the dormitory to help them with their homework. Xu Wangtu began to find that the presence of children calmed his mind, especially those clean and pretty children, which were like a sedative to soothe his soul.

So Xu Wangtu would return to the dormitory to have lunch every day at noon and cook for Xie Wenjuan. Xie Wenjuan should have had the best time of her life during that period.

Xie Wenjuan would bring one of her children home every day to help them with their homework, and then arrange for them to take a nap in her bedroom.

Xu Wangtu initially took the initiative to say that he would watch his child sleep and stroke his child's little hand when the child fell asleep. The unprecedented peace and excitement made him realize that he had found the balance in his heart.

Xie Wenjuan initially thought that he liked children and never stopped Xu Wangtu's behavior. Gradually, she found that Xu Wangtu's actions became more and more serious, so she stopped bringing the children back.

Xu Wangtu was extremely dissatisfied with Xie Wenjuan's behavior. When Xie Wenjuan repeatedly refused, he finally exploded and committed domestic violence against Xie Wenjuan for the first time. Xu Wangtu told her that even if she divorced, he would announce to the school that she had secretly had an abortion with the city boy, so that she would not be able to hold her head up for the rest of her life.

In addition to beating and scolding, Xu Wangtu also used spiritual preaching. He believed that Xie Wenjuan had let him down, had an affair with another man, aborted the child, and was not a virgin. All of these were unfair to him.

This made Xie Wenjuan feel more and more inferior, and finally she agreed to help Xu Wangtu's plan, bringing a child back to the dormitory every day and helping Xu Wangtu drug the child.

Xu Wangtu finally began his six-month-long molestation of Xie Wenjuan. The five cleanest and most beautiful children in her class were also selected by Xu Wangtu himself. Among them, Liang Lexin was his favorite and the one he had been with the longest.

Until one day, he returned home at dusk and found Xie Wenjuan murdered, with her body painted with red paint. Because this was not the first red paint case, he did not think at first that someone was taking revenge on him.

It was many years later that he happened to remember the flame mark around Xie Wenjuan's areola, and there was that flame mark on Liang Lok-sum's notebook. He began to realize that Xie Wenjuan's death might be related to Liang Lok-sum, and that the murderer imitated the red strokes he drew on Liang Lok-sum's body.

In fact, those red paintings are his ideal poems.

But Xu Wangtu had no way to identify the murderer, and it was even more impossible for him to identify the murderer. Until nearly twenty years later, when he committed a crime again, he had no intention of using colored pencils to draw on the child.

In fact, Xu Wangtu had thought about explaining the incident twenty-four years ago, but strangely, on the day Xie Wenjuan died, the day her entire body was painted red, he suddenly felt that Xie Wenjuan had become very noble.

In fact, his love for Xie Wenjuan at first sight has not changed. He did not want to expose Xie Wenjuan's shameful past again. He wanted to "protect" Xie Wenjuan one last time, so Xu Wangtu always kept his mouth shut about what happened 24 years ago.

Of course, there is another most important reason. When his wife was murdered, he once thought that he would be retaliated against, but he was safe and sound for many years. He gradually believed that the murderer had nothing to do with Liang Lexin. It was just an ordinary serial murder case and Xie Wenjuan was killed randomly.

Xu Wangtu finished his story and finally confessed: "I'm sorry for them, but I can't control myself. Now I'm waiting to be shot!"

This story made Meng Siqi unable to calm down for a long time and he sighed endlessly. Xu Wangtu was the cause of many cases. Because of his abnormal desires, he killed many children and destroyed many families. The death penalty is not enough to eliminate the grief.

But the death penalty is also the highest penalty under the law.

At this time, Xu Wangtu raised his head, with a look of uneasiness in his eyes that was completely different from his usual mood. "Officer Meng, there is one thing. A few days ago, a woman in her thirties came to the prison to interview me. When she left, she suddenly asked me, 'Do you remember the little girl you sexually assaulted 24 years ago?'"

"She left after saying this. I didn't ask her name. I thought she was an ordinary reporter. Now thinking back, she was probably Leung Lok-sum."

When Xu Wangtu said these words, his eyes were filled with fear, because he was about to be executed, and he was worried that something might happen to his granddaughter Xu Yizhou.

Meng Siqi was also surprised. It turned out that Liang Ran had visited Xu Wangtu once before his execution. Liang Ran was a reporter for a magazine and was also well-known in the political and legal circles. It should not be difficult for her to interview Xu Wangtu.

When she said the last sentence, she must have been filled with hatred and pride.

When they got back to the car, Lu He comforted her: "Siqi, don't think too much. They should all be punished by law. No matter what the reason is, they should not commit crimes! We criminal police should uphold the dignity of the law."

Yes, this is the duty of a criminal police officer. The "they" that Lu He mentioned include not only Xu Wangtu, but also Liang Chenghao and Liang Ran. Liang Chenghao and Liang Ran were also victims, but they should not choose to hurt others just because they are victims. The law is not merciful and should be a weapon to uphold justice.

Especially Liang Chenghao, who studied law. If he had called the police in time, used legal weapons to fight back against the murderer who hurt his daughter, and used correct psychological treatment to counsel Liang Ran, perhaps these tragedies would not have happened.

Maybe those wonderful families are all happy and complete!

It's a pity that the law did not punish him, but even if he died, everything he had in his life was nailed to the pillar of shame.

It was he who personally caused Liang Ran to end up like this. He was not Liang Ran's "good father", but the devil who led Liang Ran to hell.

This tragedy is enough to serve as a warning to the world, and also tells the world that upholding the dignity of the law is not only the duty of judicial personnel, but also the responsibility of everyone.