In July, it became very hot, and Cheng Shaojie asked me if I could rest on Sunday and arrange a trip to the mountains. I said no, so I took a case, and I might not be able to leave.

In Yuanjiazhuang Village, Donghu Town, on the outskirts of the city, arson cases occurred continuously, and every night for a week, a family's wheat straw stacks were burned. But after burning three houses in a row, it can't be said to be an accident, and the police station set up an arson case, and the police station investigated and didn't find a reason, so the case was handed over to the criminal police team. On the night we took over the investigation, another wheat haystack was burned, and the next day Yang Lei took the investigators to visit the house, and another haystack was burned that night, which made Yang Lei and them very annoyed, which was simply arguing with the police.

After burning for five days in a row, Gao Jianguo couldn't sit still, and the analysis of the motive of the perpetrator did not seem to be revenge, there was no specific target, but it seemed to be done casually. Although Donghu Town is a township relatively close to the county seat, but Yuanjiazhuang is the most remote village in this town, Yang Lei they investigated for two days to rule out the possibility of outsiders committing crimes, and it can be basically determined that it was the people of the village who committed the crime, but we did not find suspects for two days, Gao Jianguo took me and Xiao Shen to assist them in squatting and waiting at night, we only entered the village after dark, and the Donghu Police Station also sent three police officers to participate in the waiting, we watched for two days, there was no movement, and there was no arson.

Gao Jianguo was very frustrated, and Zheng Duo said, "Were you found when you went in?" ”

Gao Jianguo said: "Impossible, it was already dark when we entered the village, and it was impossible for anyone to find out if we parked our car outside the village and walked in."

Zheng Duo looked at Gao Jianguo with a smile and said, "It seems that I still need to go out in person?" ”

Gao Jianguo hurriedly said: "No, no, how dare you take care of it, let's do it ourselves."

Zheng Duo asked: "You have been investigating for so long, are there any portraits of criminal suspects?" What kind of person could be committing the crime? ”

Yang Lei said: "Judging from our investigation, it is likely that the perpetrators are from this village, and there is no specific target for the crime, but basically it is a haystack far away from the house, so the houses and people are not injured, and we suspect that this case is likely to be a child's prank."

Gao Jianguo snorted angrily and said, "Let me catch this stinky boy and clean him up."

Zheng Duo glared at him and said, "Now most of the young people in the village are working outside, how many young people are still in the village?" How could it be that the goal could not be determined on such a small scale, and the work was still not detailed."

Gao Jianguo said unconvinced: "In such an arson case without a motive to commit the crime, it is impossible to determine the causal relationship of the crime, and the criminal suspect arson is very arbitrary, and no valuable physical evidence can be extracted at the scene.

Listening to their arguments, I looked out the window and said, "It's getting dark, are you going to guard today?" ”

Gao Jianguo said: "Shou, let's go eat something first, I was starved in the middle of the night yesterday, anyway, that guy does every crime after twelve o'clock."

Yang Lei said: "Okay, eat enough, as soon as the captain said he was hungry yesterday, my stomach gurgled."

We found a barbecue stall on the pedestrian street and sat down, Xiao Shen and I asked for cold noodles, and Gao Jianguo asked for cold noodles and barbecue.

When waiting for the barbecue, Yang Lei stretched deeply and said: "It will be very refreshing to drink some cold beer this time."

Gao Jianguo said: "Don't dream of your Spring and Autumn Festival, you can't catch people for two more days, and if there is arson again, then Director Zhang will talk to you and me, isn't it Zheng Ju?" ”

Zheng Duo put down the chopsticks in his hand and said, "It's good to know."

When he was walking back after eating, Zheng Duo's mobile phone rang, and he was heard to say, "Someone caught?" At the time of this, we all stood and pricked up our ears to listen to Zheng Duo's call.

Zheng Duo answered the phone and looked at Gao Jianguo and said, "You don't have to guard it, people have caught it." ”

I looked at Zheng Duo's face, not as if he was very happy, so I asked tentatively, "Whose phone is it?" Someone was caught by the police station? ”

Zheng Duo had adjusted his mood at this time, and said in a relaxed tone: "It's Deputy Director Fang's phone, not long after the two policemen who went to the police station to wait entered the village, they saw a person wandering around the village, so they followed from a distance, and the suspect was caught red-handed by the police as soon as he lit a haystack."

Deputy Director Fang is in charge of public security, and he is a very showy person, and this time he sent the police to give him such a long face, and he must have shown off in Zheng Duodi's ears on the phone.

Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "We have been guarding for two days, and we will catch it as soon as we send it out, and the two guys at the police station must have taken shit luck, or okay, go home and sleep, anyway, I haven't slept well for a few days."

Zheng Duo squinted at him and said, "What are you sleeping?" Someone sent it right away! ”

"If they arrest them, they can be interrogated, why should they be sent here?" There was a little vinegar in Gao Jianguo's words.

Zheng Duo glared at him again, and strode in front without speaking, Xiao Shen and I glanced at each other, made a grimace at each other, and hurried to the bureau after him, I also wanted to see where the criminal was.

We were all a little surprised to see an obscene and trivial old man in his sixties being brought in. I muttered to myself if I could be mistaken.

This old man named Wang Duolu sat in the interrogation chair with his shoulders bowed and his head bowed, Yang Lei and I were still entering his basic information in front of the computer, Zheng Duo walked up to him and stood for a while, Wang Duolu's head was lowered even deeper.

Zheng Duo asked in a calm voice, "Wang Duolu, do you know why I brought you here?" ”

Wang Duolu replied with a mosquito call: "Yes."

Zheng Duo said sharply: "Be louder"

Wang Duolu shuddered and said in a trembling voice: "I know, I set the fire"

Gao Jianguo also asked as sharply as Zheng Duo: "How many times have you put it away?" ”

"Seven times, no, no, eight times".

"Why set fire?" Zheng Duo asked again.

"My heart is not happy"

Gao Jianguo walked over and kicked Wang Duolu's foot and said, "If you don't set fire to it, don't you want to kill people if you don't have it?" ”

Wang Duolu hurriedly shook his head and stared at frightened eyes and said, "I don't dare, I don't dare."

Gao Jianguo looked at Wang Duolu angrily, planted in the hands of such a scumbag of an old man, he was as unconvinced as he was in his heart.

Watching the two of them ask one sentence at a time, Yang Lei and I sat at the computer desk and watched the two of them silent, Zheng Duo glanced at Gao Jianguo and walked out, the case was so easy to try, Gao Jianguo also felt that it was not interesting, and walked out.

Seeing that the two of them had left, Yang Lei and I began to take a formal stand and ask for the transcript.

Just like Wang Duolu told Zheng Duo, he came out to set fire because he was unhappy. He and his wife Liu Xiulan raised three sons and a daughter, two sons have a family, and now there is a son and a daughter in the family, he has a cowardly personality and is described as obscene, not only the strong Liu Xiulan does not take him in his eyes at home, but his own children do not put him in his eyes, in addition to work, the family basically treats him as air. During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household in the village killed chickens and stewed fish, children and relatives came and went, Liu Xiulan led her son Wang Libing and daughter Wang Lihong to the city to go shopping with the eldest son's family and the second son's family for a day, and only came back in the evening, and he looked at the house alone for a cold day, and no one asked him if he had eaten after he came back.

In the courtyard, they talked with the people who came to chat about how delicious the spicy chicken of the "Shanshui People's House" was, how fragrant the braised pork of the "Jufu Building" was, and how cost-effective the portions were. It seems that all the people in the village know which place in the city has good food and fun, but only he has never had a decent meal in the hotel in the city, has not visited any place properly, and has not even been to the park in the county seat.

He felt that he had lived for 60 years in vain, his wife did not take himself seriously, and his children did not take themselves seriously, and his life was too poor. But he could only keep these dissatisfaction in his heart, he didn't dare to show it, he was depressed for many days, but no one cared whether he was happy or not.

One night a few days ago, he couldn't sleep, so he got up and sat in the courtyard to cool off, and in the dead of night he felt as if he had been abandoned by the whole world. He walked out of the yard and walked around the village, and when he passed by a haystack, he threw a cigarette match on the haystack, and the wheat straw that had been dried by the sun suddenly caught fire, and when the fire suddenly burned, he was startled, and he wanted to put out the fire but stood there helpless, watching the fire burn more and more, he felt that he suddenly felt a kind of relief that he had never felt before, he no longer thought about extinguishing the fire, but kept standing there and watching the raging fire, until he felt that someone came out and he hid.

From then on, in the dead of night, he would come out and set fires, sometimes pretending to be with the firefighters, and he felt unprecedented joy when he saw others panicking and fighting fires.

Knowing that the Public Security Bureau came to investigate, he also felt a little scared, and sneaked out to set fire to it late for two days, although he was not caught, but in the end he was still weak-hearted, and secretly decided not to do it again, but he endured it for two days and did not hold back, today, as soon as it was dark, he couldn't wait to come out and set fire, but he didn't expect to be caught by the police who came to wait at the police station.

After Wang Duolu was detained, Liu Xiulan scolded and scolded the family notice, and I asked her to send some change of clothes to the detention center to give Wang Duolu, but she only said: "Let him die inside, he has done such a shameful thing at such an old age."

When Wang Duolu's arrest was announced, seeing him sitting calmly in the interrogation chair with a smile on his face, I asked, "Wang Duolu, how are you staying inside?" ”

He smiled and said, "It's good, we only eat and don't work in it, there are six people in our cell, and they tell stories every day very interesting." ”

I looked at him with a sneer and asked, "They tell stories, what are you doing?" Don't you tell stories? ”

Wang Duolu smiled a little embarrassedly: "I don't have a story, I just listen to them, they have been to many places, they have seen everything, eaten everything, and encountered a lot of interesting things."

After Wang Duolu was arrested, Liu Xiulan came to ask us when we would release the people back, and I said: "We have already sent you the arrest notice, we are ready to prosecute, and the court will sentence you, and you can only go back after serving your sentence."

Liu Xiulan frowned and said: "Just burn some haystacks, it's not worth much, and he won't hurt anyone and go to prison, he is going to prison, what about the work in the field?" ”

I looked at the woman helplessly and said, "Is he just a working machine?" Isn't he your husband, the father of your children? Did you care about him? Have you ever loved him? He's a man of flesh and blood, you know it or not."

Liu Xiulan blinked and looked at me fixedly, and what I said seemed to her to be a fantasy.

went back to tell Cheng Shaojie about the case, and sighed why people now always complain about their lack of affection, but they don't care about the people around them at all.

"When it's cold, let Mom and Dad go on a trip to the south together, and if we don't have time to go, let them join the Sunset Red Tour," I said.

Cheng Shaojie patted me on the back and said, "The biggest advantage of you as a comrade is that you can introspect yourself." I waved my hand to block his hand and said with a smile: "Go and go, you still know the word 'self-reflection', have you made great progress!" ”

Cheng Shaojie said with a smile: "I like to talk about this word the most in "Zeng Guofan", I watched it several times when I was in the detention center, and I don't even know this?" ”

I laughed out loud and told him that Wang Duolu was locked up in the prison and listened to the stories of his fellow inmates every day, and was very happy!

Cheng Shaojie also laughed and said: "It's better to stay in prison than to stay in that kind of home, the last time you chatted with Cheng Jiahui and them, there was a sentence called 'others are hell', I don't understand what it means, but I remember this sentence, is it better for Wang Duolu to stay with those people in his own family like staying in hell, it's better to stay in prison, prison is better than hell."

I stretched out my hand to scratch his face and said with a smile: "I don't say whether the meaning is right or not, but the words are very vivid, this comrade is very good at learning and applying."

He reached out and grabbed my hand, pulled me to his chest and said, "I didn't learn from you, you are Teacher Lin."

"What else do you want to learn?"

He buried his head in my ear: "I'll pay the tuition first and then think about what I want to study, okay?" ”