Twenty-eight. I was interviewed
This reckless visit to Hexuan's house caused me to become alienated from anyone in their family. Never saying hello when you meet is probably the right way to open up between neighbors in big cities.
The sky in April is like a face-changing master, the sky is clear one second, and the next second it is lightning and thunder. On a rainy day, I sat in my office drinking cheap coffee from the office in a daze. The weather made everyone sluggish.
"Did you see the depth of the news last night?" After Cao Yang finished speaking, he reclined on his office chair.
"Did you tell any special news?" I deliberately added a special one because I was also very worried about the incident that happened the day before yesterday.
"There was a murder of a stray cat in a junior high school, where was the location?" Cao Yang crooked his neck as he spoke.
"It happened at Sangju No. 1 Middle School." I took a sip of the coffee I held in my hand as I spoke.
"You watched it too?"
"That junior high school was right across the street from my house, and I passed by that day." I pretended to be calm, I didn't want to be asked.
Cao Yang seemed to see that I was reluctant to say too much, "This matter can keep the police comrades of the district police station busy for a while." ”
I mumbled and ended the conversation that had left me sad. Butterflies weren't very important to me, but the thought that it was the only cat I knew was killed was sad enough to make me sad.
"Wang Wei, you will go to the Shangxi District Police Station in the afternoon." The captain suddenly pushed the door open.
"Okay, I'll go."
"Do you know what you're going for?" The captain asked as he put the materials in his hand.
"It's the cat murder case, I guess it's asking me to record some confessions, after all, I'm a resident of that neighborhood." I explained.
"That's good, don't think about it, it's just a witness questioning, this kind of thing is usually to go to the house, after all, we are a system, and it is convenient for anyone to go to the police station. You say yes. The captain comforted.
I nodded, what I wanted to see was definitely Murong Yang from the Shangxi District Police Station.
In fact, the police station in Shangzhou City is divided according to districts, and our public security bureau is located in Chengdong District, but the location is at the junction of Chengdong District and Shangxi District. The remaining two districts are Anbei District and South District. And further west of Shangxi District is the so-called Chengxi Development Zone, which is the place where the murder occurred in the case of Black Spider.
In the afternoon, I arranged my work and went to the Shangxi Police Station, the last time I went here was last year, when Murong Yang was still a newcomer.
"Unexpectedly, you have only been working in the police station for less than a year before you were promoted to deputy director."
As I spoke, I handed the drink in my hand to Murong Yang, who was waiting for me at the door. He knew I meant something sarcastic.
"Don't exalt me, the police station is aging more seriously now, college students like me are very popular here, and it is normal to promote me."
Although he is very modest in words, there is a sense of arrogance between the lines. "How are you now, in the criminal police team." After speaking, Murong Yang took a big sip of his drink.
"Me, so-so. It's just a few cases cracked. "I'm not far behind to show off.
"Let's go inside and talk."
With that, we entered the house, and we went straight to the room at the end of the hallway. The police officers who passed by all greeted Murong Yang. The official position is not big, but the pomp is quite big, and I am a little jealous in my heart.
The room we went to was a normal office.
"Please be seated." After saying that, he moved an office leather chair and placed it in front of my eyes.
I gladly accepted, because who wouldn't want to sit in such a comfortable chair when asking. Murong Yang sat on the table, and I could only look up at him when I was sitting on the chair.
Condescending interrogation techniques are too childish, I thought to myself.
"I ask you who this cat is very nice to in the community."
It was a strange feeling to be questioned for the first time, and although it was not formal, I could hear in his tone a tone that I could only have when interrogating a suspect.
"I don't know much, and I think everyone is nice to it except me and the two kids." I'm sloppy.
"Don't play tricks on me here, I'll ask you where you were between five and half past six that day."
"Are you suspicious of me?"
"I didn't want to do that either, I asked the residents in the neighborhood, and they said that you were the only ones who fed the cat regularly, and that the two children already had an alibi." After speaking, Murong Yang drank all the coke in the bottle in one gulp.
"So I suspect me, I also have an alibi, I was in the police station from five to six thirty that day, and my colleagues in the police station can testify against me, if you think the police can also commit perjury, you can access the surveillance video at the entrance of the police station."
When I finished speaking, Murong Yang breathed a long sigh of relief.
"I'm sorry I have to enforce the law strictly, not with a hint of emotion, and the same is true for you." Murong Yang was a little embarrassed to drink the drink in the bottle, even though there was not much left in it.
"Haha, you're still the same, and you're serious about everything."
"Is there anything else you can provide that would be useful?"
"As far as I know, there are often stray cats or dogs attacking people in that part of our house, and I wonder if someone has been resentful of being attacked and recognized the wrong cat." I forcibly explained.
"What does it mean to admit mistakes?"
"It's just that this cat never attacks people, at least for me."
"Is there anything else?" He stared at me with big eyes and straight eyes.
"No, that's all, I'm not a pervert, I analyze the cat world every day. Besides, I'm not interested in cats, and the reason I feed them is that they're special. ”
"What's special?"
"It's the pattern, you showed me that picture, its pattern is irregular, like the wings of a butterfly, so I named him "butterfly". I said impatiently.
"Well, it seems that it's really a pervert who did it, and now in this society, how can everyone have it." Murong Yang was a little helpless.
I originally wanted to share with him about the perverted cases I encountered, because we loved to study the so-called unsolved cases when we were students. But at this time, I couldn't open my mouth, and besides, it was not allowed to talk about the case to unrelated people.
"Alright then, that's all, thank you for visiting today." With that, he slid off the table.
When I walked out of the police station and saw that it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, I asked the captain about the situation in the bureau. Nothing big did I went home.
I was lying alone on the couch, thinking about recent events like in a movie. I don't know when I started in a daze, or how long I was in a daze, maybe only half an hour or maybe more.
"Buzz."
I turned my head to see that it was an unfamiliar phone number, and I picked it up with some reluctance.
"Who?"
"It's me, Murong Yang, are you free now?" Murong Yang's deep voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Yes, what's the matter with you, I'm not going out to drink, I'm already done eating."
"It's not drinking, I'll ask you about the case when you come out."
"Now." I looked at my watch, and it was nearly eight o'clock.
"Right now, I'm at the door of your neighborhood now." Murong Yang said with some smugness.
"Okay, I'll go down now."
I hung up the phone and sighed, what the hell is it that you are asking me so late? I thought to myself.
Murong Yang was alone with his back to the gate of the community, looking at the school opposite, and I didn't rush to call him.
"What the hell are you asking me?" I approached him and patted him on the shoulder.
Murong Yang calmly turned around.
"You're here, let's go to a nearby café."
"I'll talk about it right here."
"Don't be afraid of catching a cold."
As soon as he finished speaking, a small wind whizzed by. Even though I was wearing a thick one, I couldn't help but shiver.
"It's so cold at night, okay. Let's talk to a nearby café. ”
Before I could finish speaking, Murong Yang had already left the coffee shop, and I immediately followed.
Murong Yang and I chose a relatively quiet position and sat down.
"What do you want to drink?" Murong Yang asked.
I remembered the pain of the last time I had a hot American-style drink with the captain, and I struggled to recall the name on the cheap instant coffee I had in the office.
"What's stuck?"
"Cappuccino." The voice of a strange woman.
I looked up and saw that it was a waiter.
"That's right, that's it, I want a copy." I said with some embarrassment.
"Get me a Blue Mountain coffee."
It's a good name to remember, I thought to myself. Murong Yang watched the waiter walk away before speaking.
"Do you think those two are possible?"
"You mean, Hexuan and Qingyun? They were friends. ”
"No, I mean they could be murderers?"
I want to laugh at the question, I don't know where he knows what secrets to put the number one suspect on these two people.
"No way, they can't be murderers."
"You be quiet, I'm just suspicious now, don't be so excited."
I noticed that my voice was a little louder, and I felt that the customers next to me were looking at me.
"Ah, it can't be theirs, how can the two of them be murderers if they are a man and a woman, I guess the murderer is the actor's ex-girlfriend!" I remember that a mystery drama was being played on TV right now. I deliberately turned up the volume in the hope that other customers would hear it.
"Why do you suspect them?" I turn down the volume.
"The alibi of the two of them proves that they were doing activities in the cooking club after school at five o'clock, and the time lasted until about half past six, because the football field is located at the back of the school building and the club room is also behind the school building, so they saw the cat that was killed." Murong Yang said quietly but clearly.
I was about to continue asking when the waiter walked towards me, and she said as she put her coffee on the table.
"The murderer is the father of the male protagonist, and it was the finale yesterday."
"Oh, thank you, I'll go home tonight." I was relieved that my words were indeed heard by the people next to me.
I continued to ask after the waiter left.
"Is there anything suspicious about that?"
"There were three people in the club activities that day in addition to the teacher, one of the girls in the third year of junior high school left at half past five because she wanted to go home to prepare for the high school entrance examination, and the teacher also went to the office next to the activity room at six o'clock, and the two of them were good friends, so I don't think the alibi of the two of them from six to half past six is not valid."
"Didn't the teacher go to the activity room next door to check on the situation?"
"I went there once, but it was only at the door, the time was around 6:15, according to the teacher at the time, he heard Hexuan's voice, Hexuan seemed to say, and you almost put some cream on it. The teacher judged that Hexuan was talking to Qingyun at that time, because it was best not to interfere in the production process, and the teacher did not go in again. Murong Yang took a sip of coffee after speaking, probably because of his nervousness.
"Did the teacher go in when school was out?"
"Well, I went in and there was a beautiful cake in the room, and because the teacher asked her to make the cake shortly after the first student left, she was pretty sure that it would be nice for a junior high school student to make it in less than an hour. The cake didn't look like it was bought outside, so she was convinced that they hadn't walked out of the activity room. "Murong Yang didn't want me to question him anymore, so he said it all in one breath.
Since the coffee was already a little bright, I took a big sip and said.
"It seems that you are too worried, they are very kind, and they are still two children. Please trust me. ”
"Well, I hope so." After speaking, he also drank the coffee in the cup in one go.
"I'll invite you, I'm here for you." Murong Yang picked up the receipt on the table and prepared to settle the bill.
"I didn't want to rob you, if it weren't for you, I'd be resting at home now." I'm not polite at all.
After Murong Yang paid the money, the two of us walked out of the café, he and I simply said goodbye and left, and I also went home......