Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 267 This case is making me feel uneasy (Seeking monthly votes)
Tang Xue hoped that Huang Jianhui could stay with her, but Huang Jianhui said that if he stayed, people would find out. Since the child's situation had been taken care of, he had to leave.

Huang Jianhui swore to her that he would keep his promise and take her away after she graduated, so that they could find a place where no one knew them and start over.

Then she fell asleep peacefully until the next morning when Yao Fenfang dragged her out of bed and slapped her twice across the face!
The two slaps completely stunned her. Yao Fenfang was so angry that she was trembling all over. She threw a plastic bag in front of her and questioned her about what it was.
When she looked inside, she found that the bag contained the bloody, mangled mess that had been attached to the child from the previous night.

She didn't know why Huang Jianhui hadn't disposed of it, but Yao Fenfang clearly knew what it was.

Faced with her mother's barrage of scolding, Tang Xue kept her head down and remained silent, letting Yao Fenfang's fists pound on her body, face, and head.

Yao Fenfang played for a long time, until she was completely exhausted, before she stopped.

Then she started to hold her and cry uncontrollably, crying about why she was living such a miserable life, and what sins she had committed in her past life that God had to treat her like this.

After she finished cursing and crying, Yao Fenfang calmed down and asked her where the child was now.

Tang Xue walked to the bathroom door, pointed to the squat toilet inside, and remained silent.

Yao Fenfang walked over, trembling all over. The dark, gaping opening of the squat toilet looked like a man-eating mouth.

She ultimately didn't have the courage to look inside. She was utterly desperate. With all her might, she grabbed Tang Xue's neck and asked her again and again in a hoarse voice: Are you even human? Are you even human?

Just when Tang Xue thought she was about to die, Yao Fenfang let go of her hand and fainted.

When Yao Fenfang woke up again, she was lying at the bathroom door. Tang Xue was curled up on the floor next to her, hugging her knees, staring straight at her.

Tang Xue said that after Yao Fenfang woke up, she neither scolded nor hit her anymore.

Instead, she was told that no one should know about this. Then she made up a story, changing the date of childbirth to February 28th. If one day this was discovered and the police asked her, she should not say anything, but say that she knew nothing and that she had handled everything herself, and that she thought she had given the child away.

That is, the story that Yao Fenfang had given her, and she followed Yao Fenfang's instructions completely, not saying a word, at most nodding or shaking her head.

Yao Fenfang hugged her and said, "Mom is sorry for you. I've made you suffer so much. You must be a good person from now on."

Qiao Jiali asked, "Tang Xue, you said the child was already dead at birth, why didn't you tell your mother? And Huang Jianhui disposed of the body, why didn't you say that? You were willing to let your mother take the blame for you? Do you know what the consequences of murder are?"

Tang Xue's answer sent chills down the spines of the two interrogators.

She said, "Because I hate her, I don't want to tell her anything!"

Tang Xue said that when her parents divorced, she didn't actually know what infidelity meant. Her mother just kept telling her that her father was a bad person and didn't want them anymore.

But in her memory, she preferred her father to her mother from childhood to adulthood because her father never scolded her. On the contrary, her mother would often scold her. She would scold her for not doing well on exams, for being picky about food, and even for catching a cold and getting a fever.

Moreover, after her parents divorced, Yao Fenfang started verbally abusing her severely, and would start cursing at her whenever she saw something she didn't like.

Once, when Tang Jun came to visit her, she casually asked, "Dad, why didn't I stay with you back then?" Yao Fenfang overheard this and rushed into the house, hurling insults at her, calling her heartless and accusing Tang Jun of instigating his daughter. She told him to get out and never set foot in the house again.

Therefore, in Tang Xue's eyes, her father's refusal to visit her was all due to her mother's pressure.

She felt that Yao Fenfang kept her by her side only to torment her, to use her as a punching bag, and to scold her anytime, anywhere.

So when Yao Fenfang offered to take the blame for her, she said nothing.

She even told Qiao Jiali and Zhou Yi that if Yao Fenfang was arrested, she wouldn't have to wait until graduation to be with Huang Jianhui openly.

Such values ​​are simply outrageous.

In his previous life, Zhou Yi had seen rebellious teenage girls before. When he was a beat cop at the police station, he encountered one such girl, a spirited young woman who hung out with hooligans. She ended up in the police station for assaulting someone. She asked if her father was alive, if her mother was married, and had dropped out of school early. She even tried to get exaggerated tattoos like those in the movies.

He was uncultured and lacked manners, constantly using vulgar language. Eventually, due to itching and pus discharge from his genitals, he was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a host of sexually transmitted diseases at a young age.

When asked, she said she had dated more than a dozen boyfriends in a year, all of whom were hooligans.

If Tang Xue were such a spirited young woman, saying such things, perhaps Zhou Yi wouldn't be so shocked.

After all, many uneducated children, who have no family to care for them, become social idlers at a young age, walking on the edge of the law. Their values ​​grow wildly and eventually become distorted, which is understandable.

It was unexpected that he didn't turn out badly.

But Tang Xue was just an ordinary high school student. She didn't drop out of school, nor did she suffer any bullying.

Admittedly, her parents were divorced, and her life certainly had many unsatisfactory aspects.

Zhou Yi could understand her rebellious nature.

She was deceived by Huang Jianhui and did something outrageous, which ultimately led to her pregnancy, so it's somewhat understandable.

But when she revealed that she had concealed everything because she hated Yao Fenfang, making Yao Fenfang take the blame for murder so that she could elope with Huang Jianhui as soon as possible, Zhou Yi was certain that this person was completely beyond saving!

Not all criminal suspects deserve sympathy!

Unfortunately, if the case reaches this point, then everything will be in Tang Xue's favor from now on.

Huang Jianhui cannot escape the crime of insulting a corpse because he committed the act of dismembering the body.

Since Tang Xue did not commit murder, Yao Fenfang's charge of harboring a criminal is not established. However, she provided false statements during the police interrogation, which constitutes an obstruction of justice, and she also violated the Public Security Administration Punishment Law by falsely reporting a case. Therefore, she still faces legal sanctions.

Tang Xue's crimes were similar to Yao Fenfang's, but she was instigated by Yao Fenfang, and in fact, she was more like a victim in the whole case.

Because court proceedings do not consider subjective emotions, but only objective facts.

Tang Xue will ultimately face a lighter punishment than imagined.

Of course, the arrest of Yao Fenfang and Huang Jianhui was undoubtedly a blow to her that was even heavier than legal sanctions.

Qiao Jiali continued to press for details about what happened next, asking how Yao Fenfang disposed of the bag of placenta.

Tang Xue said she didn't know either, the only thing she was sure of was that Yao Fenfang didn't cut up the placenta and flush it down the toilet.

Because the toilet was clogged, she went out and bought tools, and it took her a lot of effort to unclog it.

Zhou Yi recalled the first time he questioned Tang Xue. After pretending not to know anything as Yao Fenfang had instructed, Tang Xue suddenly asked two questions.

"My mom, did she not give the baby away?"

"Is my baby... still alive?"

At the time, Zhou Yi felt something was off. Since he had chosen to pretend not to hear, what was the point of suddenly asking a question?

Zhou Yi immediately asked her why she had asked those two questions earlier.

Tang Xue admitted that after that, she used a public payphone to call Huang Jianhui.

After learning that her mother was going to take the blame for her, Huang Jianhui told her that if the police found out about this one day, she could ask her this question to make it seem like she really knew nothing about it.

But this seemingly unnecessary addition aroused Zhou Yi's suspicion.

With the interrogation concluded, the matter was basically clear. The next step was to interrogate Yao Fenfang again to confirm the veracity of Tang Xue's statements.

And to arrest Huang Jianhui, this beast in human clothing.

At the end of the interrogation, Qiao Jiali asked, "Tang Xue, didn't you ever doubt the truthfulness of the promises Huang Jianhui made to you? He has a family and a respectable job. Do you think he would give up all of that for you?"

Upon hearing this, Tang Xue cried out anxiously, "He will! He promised me, he definitely will!"

Qiao Jiali could only sigh helplessly.

As Qiao Jiali emerged from the interrogation room, she said, "Zhou Yi, this case is making me feel uneasy."

"Hey, Sister Qiao, don't talk about you. I'm the same way." Zhou Yi sighed.

"You said that Xu Jiaguang initially tried to cover up his murderous intent with a charge of manslaughter and mislead the public. Now this case has actually turned out like this. Was the child really dead at birth?"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "Without a body, it's impossible to confirm this through an autopsy. And the only two people who had contact with the child from beginning to end were Tang Xue and Huang Jianhui. Unless they themselves admit that the child is alive, this matter is unverifiable and unsolvable."

Zhou Yi and his team can question whether the child was alive or dead when he was dismembered. However, without any logical support, questioning and rebuttal can easily turn into leading questions.

Shi Tao walked over from the other end of the corridor, just about to ask how the interrogation was going, since he was the one who found the key clue from that phone call.

But when he saw that Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali both looked very unwell, his heart skipped a beat.

He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you? Is a little girl really that difficult to deal with?"

Qiao Jiali showed the interrogation transcript to Shi Tao, and the more he read it, the uglier Shi Tao's expression became.

"The child was born dead, huh? Tsk tsk tsk... What a bargain for those dogs..." Shi Tao stroked his chin, not uttering the curse words.

Zhou Yi said, "Let me go through the whole case again, review it, and see if there are any other clues."

"Zhou Yi." Shi Tao's expression suddenly changed, and he said, "This isn't right!"

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