The first sleepless night spent at the Public Security Bureau.

I asked to call my fiancée, but was not allowed. Officer Huanghai promised that I would inform her, and he also knew who Gu Qiusha's father was. However, until dawn, there was no news at all. There were no mirrors in the detention room, so I couldn't see my face, and I was afraid that I had dark circles under my eyes. I couldn't eat anything, my stomach was so uncomfortable, and my lunch was still on the floor.

6 June 1995, morning, first interrogation.

"What did you find in my dorm room?"

Before the officer could speak, I preemptively asked, and Huang Hai replied dullly: "That plastic bottle, found on the top of your closet." Although the bottle was empty, there was a residue of oleander juice extract, which was examined in the last few days. ”

"You're saying I refined the venom of oleander and poisoned Liu Man the night before?"

"Now, you are the biggest suspect, but that doesn't mean you're the murderer."

Needless to say, everyone thinks I'm a murderer - they think I'm in an immoral relationship with Liu Man, and I'm about to get married and start a career, she's the biggest stumbling block, and maybe after graduation, I'll continue to harass and pester. I live in the school dormitory, and there are natural conditions for committing crimes, not to mention that the campus is full of oleanders, and going out in the middle of the night to get some juice is like digging for something. No one dares to go up to a place like the small attic of the library at night, and only I can trick Liu Man into it......

"I didn't kill anyone!"

Swear by God, does it work? I'm stupid.

"I investigated your college records in detail, and you actually took toxicology, isn't it strange for a student in the Chinese department?"

"Then have you checked how my mother died?"

Huang Hai quickly said the answer: "She was killed by your father, when you were seven years old. ”

"The point is - she was poisoned." Instead, I regained my composure, as if I was recounting a social news, "He poisoned the medicine my mother drank every day." On the day my mother died, I didn't shed a single tear, but escaped from home, hugged the policeman's thigh and bit it hard, before sending my mother for an autopsy and finding out the real cause of death. ”

"I reviewed the file last night, and your father was sentenced to death and shot, I'm sorry! So, you took toxicology at college because your mother was poisoned? ”

"Is there any other reason? Can I not know the prophet? A few years ago, I knew that I wanted to kill Liuman, so I learned the art of poisoning people first? ”

"Affirm, what about the ambiguous relationship between you and Liu Man that is circulating in the school?"

"That's something that hasn't happened before! She just came to me often to ask me questions and sometimes said strange things, but I knew that there should be a balance between teachers and students, especially a beautiful girl like her, and I was especially careful from the beginning. ”

"You're very popular with high school girls, aren't you?"

I subconsciously bowed my head and said nothing, I never felt that I was a handsome guy, I could only say that my facial features were upright and my eyes were bright, and I looked like a righteous face at the advanced commendation conference. Occasionally, some people praise me for my lofty spirit, and my face hides the life of a hero who gets ahead.

Do girls like me these days?

"I don't know, probably because my personality is relatively gentle, and I don't usually talk too much, and I write some classical poetry in my free time, you know that eighteen-year-old girls are sentimental and have some admiration for men like me, and when they grow up in two years, they will definitely change."

What am I talking incoherently? Isn't this just an admission that Liu Man is attracted to me?

The transcript next to him quickly wrote down these words, and Officer Huang Hai nodded slightly: "Okay, let's change the topic, affirmation, can you tell us about your past?" ”

"My past?"

"Let's start with high school, we chatted too hastily yesterday, I heard that you were escorted to Peking University?"

"Yes, my application was Peking University, but I was not sure that I would be able to get in. But a month before the college entrance examination, almost seven years ago today, a major event happened opposite Nanming High School - at that time, in addition to the wilderness and factories on Nanming Road, there were also some dilapidated illegal buildings, shacks built by outsiders, and a fire broke out for unknown reasons. The fire was raging that night, and many students climbed the fence to watch the excitement, but I was the only one who rushed across the road and threw myself into the fire to save people, and luckily picked up a life. I won the city's commendation for this, and I joined the party in my third year of high school, and TV stations and newspapers came to interview me, and I almost got on the news broadcast. ”

"So, you've got a golden chance."

"Officer Huang, do you believe in fate?"

"I don't believe it."

"I don't believe it either, but I studied very hard in college, I hardly heard anything outside the window, I got the best grades, and when I graduated, I was unfair, and many of my classmates were much worse than me, some were just bad, but they were assigned to the central authorities. I was sent back to my hometown to become a high school Chinese teacher. ”

"But you've got the best chance right now." Officer Huanghai lit a cigarette and sprayed it into the air above my head, "I heard that you are about to get married, can you talk about your fiancée?" ”

"Two years ago, when I took the bus back to school, I found that someone was stealing her purse, and the whole bus was so indifferent that the conductor actually opened the door. Just as the thief escaped from the car, I rushed forward, crushed him to the ground, and finally twisted him to the police station. Gu Qiusha and I met in this way, and she was very grateful and invited me to several meals one after another. She worked in an educational publishing house, was in charge of editing high school Chinese textbooks, and had a very close conversation with me, and soon became my girlfriend. ”

"Have you ever been in a relationship before?"

"No, she's my first." Facing the smoke in the mouth of the Yellow Sea, I subconsciously leaned back, "After talking for half a year, I learned that her father was a former leader of the Education Bureau and now the president of the university. She has been without her mother since she was a child, and she is pampered by her father. I'm afraid anyone with a parentless background like me will dislike it. But her father had a good impression of me, and it happened that he also graduated from Peking University, and his secretary went home to give birth, and I was seconded from Nanming High School to the university and temporarily worked as the principal's secretary for three months. I worked very hard, following him day and night, not only serving him comfortably, but also praising me from the leaders and professors up and down. ”

Suddenly, I paused and didn't continue, why would my future father-in-law value me? A poor boy like me, who was born poor, actually got the opportunity to jump the dragon gate with a carp? Principal Gu has only one daughter, and someone will have to take the lead in the future, so as not to be bleak after retirement, rather than finding a high-ranking son to marry, it is better to personally cultivate a diligent young man, and he can still be loyal to him.

Officer Huang Hai broke the silence: "I heard that in March, you held an engagement ceremony. ”

I never dreamed that I would be flattered by the grandeur of the engagement ceremony, the presence of university and education leaders, and even all kinds of well-known figures in society, from TV presenters to the president of the writers' association. That was the good intentions of my future father-in-law, to introduce me to his social circle, and with so many connections, it would be convenient for anything - like getting me out of the police bureau.

I don't want to tell the police that this is useless, so I should grasp the key point: "A month ago, the school received a notice from my superiors that I would be transferred from my teaching position after the college entrance examination to work in the Youth League Committee of the Municipal Education Bureau. My fiancée, Gu Qiusha, told me that because of his father's relationship, I had been appointed by the leadership to take over as the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the city's education system in two years - the news quickly spread throughout the circle. ”

"Therefore, there will be a lot of people who will be jealous of you!" He snuffed out the cigarette butt and tapped the table with his knuckles, "That's the point you're going to tell me." ”

"Officer Huang, have you watched "The Enmity of Monte Cristo"?"

"I don't have time to read novels, but I know what you mean. Well, please tell me, who do you think wants to frame you? I'm talking about framing, not jealousy—I can't help it! I've been working on my head in the waistband of my pants for more than ten years, I've caught an unknown number of murderers, I'm scarred all over, and I haven't even been given a house, and your kid is about to rise to prominence in a blink of an eye, it's no wonder that normal people aren't jealous! ”

"I understand that framing by killing people is not just jealous, can you give me paper and pen?"

Officer Huang Hai stared into my eyes while pushing the pen and paper over, and I picked up the pen and wrote two beautiful words - stern.