Thirty-nine. The sorrow after the truth
"We found an unopened bottle of soy sauce in the club room, because it didn't have the "Cooking Club" logo, so I didn't think it was bought by the teacher of the cooking club, maybe it was brought in by outsiders. The captain said, standing in front of the whiteboard.
This job was supposed to be me, but I didn't want to say the doubts about Hexuan from my mouth, so I refused.
"I found two more bottles of soy sauce in Hexuan's house, one bottle still had a little left and the other bottle had not been opened. Unfortunately, the unopened bottle was marked with the word "gift", and I went to the convenience store to ask, and the buy one get one free campaign ended on May 1. He Xuan said that he went to buy soy sauce for supper on the 7th, and this bottle was supposed to be at home and not in the activity room, so I concluded that he was not for supper but ...... Eat dumplings made by the club. The captain reasoned.
The captain's reasoning also surprised me, I didn't really think so carefully.
"So I think Hexuan is very suspicious, and this case is not so simple." The captain looked at me after speaking, and I dodged.
Cao Yang reported after the captain. "Today, Zhang Lei and I from the forensics class continued to analyze the evidence and found several noteworthy details." Cao Yang pushed his glasses and continued. "We have verified the fingerprints on the murder weapon one by one, and it is worth noting that most of the fingerprints on it are held in the forehand, and according to the strength and position analysis of the fingerprints, they should have been left when cutting things. But we also found a few traces of the backhand grip in many fingerprints, but we don't know what it did. ”
I listened carefully with my chin in my hands.
"We contacted the medical examiner for a re-analysis and found that several stab wounds on the deceased's body were not caused at the same time as the fatal injuries. But this is only speculation, because the medical examiner does not know exactly whether it is or not. Okay, that's all I got for clues. After Cao Yang finished speaking, he returned to his seat.
I sat there with a buzz in my head, and I seemed to know the truth but couldn't believe it was the truth. I looked at the captain and saw him sitting thoughtfully.
At six o'clock in the evening, most of the people in the public security building had already left work. "Thank you for your hard work, so go home too." The captain gathered up his belongings. "By the way, Wang Wei, I have something I want to tell you if you stay."
I sat there and snorted.
After everyone else was out of the office, the captain came to my side, and he put a hand on my shoulder. "This case, leave it to you, I think you know the truth, you must bring the murderer over by tomorrow morning, we will assume that he turned himself in, but if you can't do it, we will have to apply for an arrest warrant." The captain put on his clothes and walked out of the office.
I sat there stunned, and this is how it ended, I thought to myself. I walked out of the police station and took a taxi.
When I came to the door of the community, I looked at my watch, and the time was already seven o'clock. I bought a can of beer at the convenience store and drank it while I wandered around the middle school across the street.
The sun was about to set in the west, and the whole campus seemed to be a golden world. The school building turned golden, and I walked around the school building, and the green grass on the football field also turned gold, and the activity room in the distance also turned gold. I sat on a bench on the edge of the football field with my half-drunk beer in a daze. I wasn't very good at drinking, and about two-thirds of the way through I started to get a little drunk. Probably because there was no food, I made an excuse for myself.
Soon a can of beer was already in my stomach, and I squeezed the can hard and threw it out. I stared at the can...... I moved with the movement of the can, and I didn't feel strange, I looked up to find Su Hexuan standing in the distance of me, holding the deflated can in his hand.
"Big brother of the criminal police, why are you here."
Even though his voice was still very simple, I listened to it rather sarcastically at this time. A warm breeze blew, and my wine woke up in an instant.
"Hexuan, I have something to ask you?" I said kindly to Hexuan in the distance.
Hexuan smiled, I thought it was terrifying.
"Okay, you can ask."
"You promise me, will you turn yourself in tomorrow morning......" I said pleadingly.
"You must be drunk, why should I turn myself in."
"Come and sit here." I finished and patted my hand next to me.
Hexuan sat next to me, and I didn't look at him. Place your elbows on your thighs and clubbing your face with your hands.
"Did you lie about the soy sauce?" My words were sharp.
Hexuan's silence is enough to explain everything, "You didn't leave the house after buying the soy sauce, but took it to the activity room the next day, I guess you and Qingyun agreed to eat dumplings together at school the next day, because the activity room has been locked, you need to buy it yourself, and the dumplings are naturally hidden by the two of you." ”
"yes, what does that mean, I just didn't want such a stupid thing to be known, so I lied. Besides, I'm not breaking the law by lying. Hexuan responded calmly.
"It's not about that, it's about what you see when you go to school early the next morning." There was a hint of sarcasm in my words.
Hexuan was silent.
"When you walked around the school building, you saw Qingyun lying on the football field, and you didn't come up to save her, but stabbed her many times with a knife." I'm only halfway through what I'm saying, and I hope Hexuan will say that half himself.
Hexuan remained silent.
"Your method is very simple, let Qingyun put on the school uniform in the front, and then you put a knife in it, so you stabbed Qingyun more than a dozen times in a panic! The advantage of this is that even if there is blood, it will not spill on you. ”
Hexuan finally spoke. "I didn't kill her!"
"Well, when you did all this, the deceased was already dead, and she committed suicide. We found fingerprints on the murder weapon, which I think were left when I stabbed myself to commit suicide. "I said a little ruthlessly." What the hell is going on to make you do this? "Actually, I already have a theory in my heart, but I still plan to let Hexuan say it, so that he can get the final salvation.
"She loves cooking, and she feels like it's the right thing to do to herself, so I ......." Hexuan didn't finish.
"You're going to turn yourself in." I looked up at the sky that was about to darken.
"Yes, I'll go tomorrow, but you're going to keep it a secret from my parents, and I want them to taste what it's like to know the truth at last. Oh yes, I came to you this time, and I found that the soy sauce in the activity room was gone, and I also felt that I couldn't hide it. After saying that, Hexuan got up and left, and I watched his back gradually disappear. When there was only one black dot left, he didn't move, and I took a closer look at Murong Yang standing there interrogating him.
After about ten minutes, the two black spots disappeared completely, and the sky was completely dark.
And the causes of these darkness must be unsparing efforts to figure out. I sat in my chair and looked out at the night sky, a young girl who excelled in her studies but grew up in an incomplete family, and the consequences of no one caring for her made her think she was doing everything right, including her favorite cooking. The hobby was not properly guided by his parents and ended up in the abyss of suicide.
The other lives in a perfect family, but the discipline of his parents makes him lose his freedom and vitality. What he does is wrong, what others do is right, and the idea has taken root in his young heart and grows unscrupulously.
The sorrow of education has produced such a case that I do not want to think about again, and every time I think about it, I feel a pang in my heart. The balance between freedom and bondage is something that every parent or educator should learn throughout their lives.
The cool breeze blew and I was relieved. Back home......
I took leave for the next day's class, and early in the morning I heard the cries of Hexuan's parents, Hexuan did not break his promise, he went to turn himself in.
In the afternoon, I learned through Murong Yang that the murderer of the cat was Qingyun, and the cake that was regarded as an alibi was actually made by a cake shop, and it was deliberately not very good so that it could get by. And the confession from the son of the owner of the noodle shop was also false, because the father had a habit of feeding the cat, so the child wanted to say that he saw it and went home directly.
Because Hexuan was a minor, the punishment he received was to go to a juvenile detention center for two years on weekends.
At eight o'clock in the evening, I turned on the TV and watched the day's news roundup, and the hour-long news broadcast did not hear about Qingyun and Hexuan's case. I turned off the TV satisfied, because in my mind it was the only thing I could do to protect them......