"I really...... There really isn't a ......."

"My husband doesn't kill people, you caught the wrong person. ”

The leading policeman ignored Zhou Zuo and his wife's explanation, and with a wave of his hand, two strong policemen picked Zhou Zuo up and prepared to close the team, and the police car was already waiting at the door.

The arrest operation was off duty, and when the police took Zhou Zuo away, there were a lot of people gathered at the door of their house, everyone pointed fingers and commented, and they were all shocked and surprised by what happened in Zhou's house.

After Zhou Zuo was taken away by the police, Zhou Zuo's wife squatted at the door and cried with snot and tears, this ordinary low-key peasant woman felt sad and indignant for the injustice suffered by her husband, tears and snot flowed straight down, and the neighbors couldn't bear to see this scene, and they stepped forward to comfort, "The police will not wronged good people, your Zhou Zuo will definitely come back soon, don't worry." ”

Under the comfort of the neighbors, Zhou Zuo's wife's mood stabilized slightly, and then began to call her parents-in-law, and after chatting a few words, she still sighed and hung up the phone.

The police brought Zhou Zuo to the bureau, and those policemen had not eaten yet, leaving only two interrogators to carry out a surprise interrogation of Zhou Zuo, and the others went out to dinner to celebrate the success of today's operation, but they did not expect that the actual operation was much smoother than expected.

Zhou Zuo was taken to the interrogation room, only a pair of handcuffs on his hands, and there were no more restrictions, Zhou Zuo himself was the first time to encounter such a thing, when the cold handcuffs touched his wrists, he was terrified, for an honest peasant like him, handcuffs are a very serious matter, a big stain on life.

Trembling, he sat down in his chair as instructed by the police, anxiously awaiting the interrogator's question.

After the chief examiner prepared the materials, he said to Zhou Zuo: "We are now interrogating you, please answer every question we ask truthfully, and take the initiative to explain the relevant facts." ”

Zhou Zuo's brain was blank, and he instinctively nodded and agreed: "Definitely, definitely." ”

The chief examiner asked the first question: "Do you know Cao Minghui?"

Zhou Zuo replied without hesitation: "I don't know." ”

"What about this person?" The chief judge took out a photo of Cao Minghui and brought it to Zhou Zuo to help him recall the person in the photo.

But after Zhou Zuo stared at the photo carefully for a few times, he still shook his head and denied: "I don't know this person." ”

The chief judge exhaled in disappointment, but he thought in his heart that Zhou Zuo was deliberately covering up the truth, and then he asked from a different angle: "Is your ancestral home from Xiangxi?"

"Yes. Zhou Zuo nodded and looked at the chief examiner, not knowing what the purpose of this question was.

"I heard that there is a custom in your Xiangxi that after a person dies, arranging red and white strips of cloth will make the deceased never rest, and to put it mildly, it will prevent the deceased from being reborn, right?"

Zhou Zuo was startled, and a cold sweat broke out, this is an ancient legend from their ancestral hometown of Xiangxi, and now almost no one believes in this.

"Isn't it?" asked the chief judge again loudly as Zhou Zuo hesitated.

Zhou Zuo nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, there was indeed before, but now there is none." ”

The presiding judge continued: "In a homicide case we received, this was how the deceased's room was arranged. ”

"What homicide, officer, what do you mean by that?" Zhou Zuo raised his head suddenly, judging from the tone of this policeman, it seemed that this was the homicide they were involved in, and then a layer of fear appeared on his face.

The chief judge added: "The deceased is the person in the photo I just showed you, his name is Cao Minghui. ”

Zhou Zuo hurriedly defended himself: "I really didn't kill anyone, his death has nothing to do with me, I was wronged." ”

The presiding judge frowned, knocked on the table and said loudly: "Wronged? But we found out that before the crime, the deceased and you were on the phone." ”

Zhou Zuo shook his head in fear, and his lips trembled and said, "No...... No way, I never knew this person, didn't know ...... I don't know ...... How could I talk to him on the phone, impossible. ”

The chief judge said with a serious face: "Now the numbers are all real-name system, that call number is indeed your name, coupled with the customs of your ancestral hometown, you have a major suspicion of committing a crime, I hope you still confess honestly and take the initiative to confess, which will be beneficial to the later trial, if you refuse to confess, once we find out the facts, you will be guilty of one more degree, and what awaits you may be a capital crime." ”

The presiding judge's warning was more like a threat to Zhou Zuo, he was just an ordinary farmer with little knowledge, but he had also seen some unjust, false and wrongful cases, and he was afraid that he would also become the protagonist of the unjust, false and wrongful cases, so he couldn't help but tremble, and gradually even his teeth were chattering.

"I ...... I didn't kill anyone, I really didn't...... Didn't kill ......" Zhou Zuo still denied that he had killed, but his emotions fluctuated more than before.

"You haven't killed anyone, you've been denying it, you've been justifying, well, you explain to me, why did the deceased talk to you, why did the murderer commit the crime according to the customs of your ancestral hometown?"

Zhou Zuo thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't explain anything, so he could only shake his head and say, "I...... I really don't know why, I really don't know anything, I don't know. Zhou Zuo was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"I've already given you a chance, you didn't grasp it, you can't even explain it yourself. Since this is the case, then you should honestly confess the facts of the crime!" the chief judge shouted loudly and slapped his palm on the table, making Zhou Zuo tremble.

Perhaps it was this palm that shook Zhou Zuo's brain circuit, and he suddenly remembered some fragmented information, and after trying to piece it together, he said, "I...... I know, just a month ago, my ID card was lost, and the murderer must have taken my ID card to get a phone card and call the deceased. ”

"ID card ??? dropped" The information provided by Zhou Zuo shocked the chief judge and another interrogator who made the record, and they looked at each other, as if they saw the embarrassment in each other's eyes.

The chief examiner turned his head and suppressed the embarrassment in his heart and continued to ask: "Why don't you report the loss of your ID card if you lose it?" And if the murderer wants to get a phone card, wouldn't it be more convenient to go to the black market to buy a phone card with no real name?"

Although Zhou Zuo was only in his early forties, he had worked all year round, and his face was already full of ravines, and he squeezed his forehead and explained: "This ...... Because I didn't find out that my ID card was lost for a while, I rarely used it, but I found out that it was lost, but they said that they would go to the police station to do it, but we couldn't do it there, and the family was busy with farming at that time, so I didn't report the loss in time. ”

The chief judge glanced at him: "You mean, the murderer used your ID card and blamed you?"

"I don't know, maybe that's the case, but I really didn't kill anyone, our family is honest, how dare I do such an illegal thing. Zhou Zuo hung his head and cried with a sad face, he couldn't figure out how he could do such a thing if he had always done his duty.

The chief examiner and the colleague who was making the record next to him glanced at each other, and whispered, "What do you think?"

The transcript pouted and nodded: "Maybe this Zhou Zuo really doesn't look like a murderer, looking at him like this, he is a timid and afraid peasant, killing people? ”

"So what now?

"That's it for the temporary interrogation, I just sorted out the transcript, and this week's argument also makes sense, and the murderer seems to be someone else. ”

"Okay, then report it. The chief examiner and the transcript exchanged ideas, reached a consensus, and decided to report Zhou Zuo's interrogation, after all, there were many doubts involved.

After sorting out the information in his hand, the chief examiner asked Zhou Zuo: "You said that you didn't kill anyone, so can you make an alibi for yourself?"

The presiding judge laid a trap here, because he did not mention the time and location of the crime from beginning to end, if Zhou Zuo directly answered this question and made an alibi for himself, indicating that he actually knew everything, then the possibility that he was the murderer was very high, so when the presiding judge asked this question, he stared at Zhou Zuo's reaction.

Zhou Zuo was silent for a while, and then said: "Officer, I want to ask first, the time and place of this homicide, if you don't tell me, I can't do an alibi at all." ”

Hearing this response, the chief judge's heart chuckled, and he suddenly grinned: "The time of the crime was between 21 o'clock and 2 o'clock at midnight last night, and the location of the crime was in Huanghua Village. ”

Zhou Zuo's eyes lit up, as if he saw hope: "Huanghua Village, I have always lived in Tongyu Village, Huanghua Village has not been to once this year, last night at this time, I slept at home, oh yes, from 21 o'clock to 22 o'clock, I should still be at the neighbor's house to watch them play mahjong." ”

"Who can prove it?" asked the presiding judge, raising his eyes.

Zhou Zuo's heart gradually calmed down, and he replied: "Watching them play mahjong, my neighbors can prove that after I came home at 22 o'clock, I was always at home, washed and went to bed, and my wife can prove it." ”

"Of course your wife will do an alibi for you, even if you have committed a crime. The chief examiner muttered, not quite recognizing the alibi.

Zhou Zuo continued to search in his mind for other evidence that could prove his alibi, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly exclaimed: "Oh, by the way, there is another one that can prove that I was sleeping at home, and there were people in the house opposite me at that time, and there were people in it who were very noisy, and I yelled at them, you go to them, they can testify for me." ”