Chapter 17 Chapter 16 The Tragic Truth

Although the truth about Wei Qiuyuan's murder finally came to light and came to an end, it has to be said that it was a tragedy. The root of disaster that Wei Qiuyuan planted for his own self-interest in the past finally blossomed and bear fruit many years later. Of course, what he bore was an "evil fruit" , and this evil result can only be swallowed by oneself in the end.This also corresponds to the old saying that has already been said to be boring: If you want others to know, you must do nothing yourself. After Wei Qiuyuan's murder case is solved, the focus of the next investigation can be on the case of Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan. Although Wei Xiluo and his mother Feng Yao have already entered the police's sight, but without enough evidence, I can only find a way to let them show their fox tails.

The reason why Hu Zhendong was arrested and brought to justice first was actually to lay the groundwork for the next actions. When Hu Zhendong was arrested, Meng Shaohui asked the police officers to be as high-profile as possible. The purpose was to let the villagers in the village know that the case had been solved. The police officers all withdrew, making everyone mistakenly think that after the police captured Hu Zhendong, they thought that the case had been solved. Although doing so would make the murderer who had not yet been arrested laugh, Meng Shaohui didn't care about it, because only the one who had the last laugh is the real winner.

When night fell on Sparrow Village, the investigators took advantage of the cover of darkness to enter the village again in the dark, and set up ambushes around Wei Beigui's residence and in the Sparrow Temple with live ammunition. Meng Shaohui believed that the murderer would definitely launch operations tonight. , because this is the murderer's only chance, he should be very clear in his heart that the reason why the police will withdraw is because the police suspect that Hu Zhendong is the murderer, but he is only the murderer who killed Wei Qiuyuan. If the murderer of Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan would return to the village again to protect the members of the Wei family, the murderer would definitely take advantage of this short period of vacuum to make the final move. Even if he didn't kill Wei Beigui, he would definitely be injured. , otherwise all previous actions will be in vain.

The time is beating every minute and every second, skipping ten o'clock, and slowly approaching eleven o'clock, waiting always makes people feel impatient, coupled with the "uninterested" mosquitoes around, let the pre-volt All the investigators have suffered a lot, but for the sake of the case, everyone can only bear it, for fear that if there is any movement, they will be discovered by the murderer who is hiding somewhere, and they will startle the snake and make the whole operation fall short. Just when the time jumped to 10:30, the police officer in charge of monitoring Wei Beigui's mobile phone intercepted a text message: "Hurry up to the main hall of the Bird Temple. I have found out the secret of 'Bird Returning to the Nest', Wei Xiluo."

Seeing the signing of the text message, Meng Shaohui finally breathed a sigh of relief, because the cunning fox had already revealed its tail. If the murderer in the previous cases could send text messages anonymously, then Wei Beigui would definitely not be anonymous again this time, because after Wei Xiluo was attacked, Wei Beigui already knew what method the murderer used to lure him to Que Temple, if the anonymous method is used again, Wei Beigui will definitely not take the bait, unless he thinks his life is too long. After receiving the text message, Wei Beigui obviously took precautions, and immediately called the other party back, obviously to prove the other party's identity.

"Is it brother?" "Got it, I just want to prove it. You also know that the last time you were attacked, didn't you get lured out by such a text message?" "All right, all right, I'll come right away, you must wait for me!" Soon, Wei Beigui appeared in front of the Sparrow Temple. After looking around at the surrounding situation, he gently opened the door, turned his head three times a step, and walked cautiously towards the main hall. "Brother, I'm here, where are you?" The only response to him was the strangely quiet darkness around him.

"Brother, I'm here, where are you?" Wei Beigui raised his voice again and asked. "I'm right behind you." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a particularly dazzling silver light coming from behind Wei Beigui in the darkness. Wei Beigui quickly dodged to the side, and then, the light of the flashlight turned towards the direction of the silver light. At the same time, he heard Disorderly footsteps sounded outside the main hall. In an instant, several high-brightness lights and a dozen police officers surrounded the main hall. All the dozens of dark guns were aimed at the person holding the dagger in the main hall. Under the lighting, the identity of this mysterious man was finally revealed. He is Wei Qiuyuan's third son, Wei Xiluo.

Apparently Wei Xiluo was frightened by this sudden scene, and stood still in a daze, but when he realized it, he saw that it was not his younger brother Wei Beigui who entered the hall just now, but the criminal investigation team. Captain Meng Shaohui. "You..." Wei Xiluo stared at Meng Shaohui in surprise and surprise, and it took him a long time to squeeze out the word from between his teeth. "Surprised, isn't it?" Meng Shaohui smiled slyly. "What was the voice just now?" "Hehe, do you want to listen to it again?" Meng Shaohui took out a small MP3 from his pocket and pressed the replay button. Wei Beigui's voice came out from the small speaker on the MP3, "Don't tell me you don't even know what an MP3 is!"

"How could this be?" Wei Xiluo yelled incredulously, his eyes widening. "Why not? Do you really think we've all withdrawn? That's all a play we put on, otherwise how could we have lured you out so easily? Also, even though we took away the phone that was returned to Wei Beigui A monitoring device, but he left a monitoring device in his home. Also, his mobile phone was also implanted with a virus. You contacted him with text messages before, and the content was intercepted by us. Now the evidence is solid, you don’t Would you still want to deny it?" "I..." Wei Xiluo was speechless for a moment in surprise, not knowing how to defend himself.

"However, you also attempted to kill Wei Beigui. As for the murder of Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan, it's not you, but someone else. Am I right?" "I am the real murderer. I did it all. I used this dagger to kill them. If you don't believe me, you can use it for inspection." While speaking, Wei Xiluo threw the dagger in front of Meng Shaohui. "Even if you really killed them with this dagger, how do you explain the bloody shoe prints left at the scene of the two crimes? Don't tell me you left them." "Yes, I left behind." "What about the shoes?"

"I, I threw it away." "Haha! Your lies are too bad!" Meng Shaohui laughed loudly, "According to our inspection of the shoe prints, it was left by a women's sneaker, the size is 36, and the shoes were worn Women are about 1 meter tall and weigh about 45 kilograms. Tell me, which of the above points do you agree with? Don’t tell me that you deliberately wore a pair of size 36 shoes, and you lost weight in an instant, and then If you go to kill someone again, you can instantly change back to your original figure after killing someone, do you think I will believe such an absurd explanation?" "I..." Wei Xiluo was at a loss for words again, not knowing how to justify his fabricated lie. At this moment, an investigator walked into the hall and whispered something to Meng Shaohui. He nodded in satisfaction, then walked up to Wei Xiluo and showed off his gleaming handcuffs. "You don't need to argue anymore. Your mother Feng Yao has already surrendered to our police. I believe that she is the real murderer of Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan." Meng Shaohui said. "Mom!" Wei Xiluo fell to his knees on the ground with a "plop", tears streaming from his eyes at the same time. Feng Yao in the interrogation room looked unusually calm, because at this moment, she felt a sense of relief, and her nerves, which had been tense for a long time, were finally completely relaxed. "Can you tell me the whole story?" Meng Shaohui asked calmly. "Well, I'm already sitting here, so there's nothing I can't say." Feng Yao nodded slightly, "Actually, Zhao Tietou's real identity is Hu Zhendong, and he killed Qiu Yuan. I knew about it early on. Because I was there the night it happened." "You were there that night? Didn't you say you went to the city to help take care of your grandson?" Feng Yao's words surprised Meng Shaohui. "It was originally like this, but later Xiluo came to me and said that he owed usury a lot of money, and the usury came to ask for the debt, and said that if he didn't pay back the money the next day, he would trouble him. I was worried that those loan sharks would really do it. Something outrageous happened, but I didn’t have that much money with me at the time, and the passbook was at home in the village, so I found a black taxi and rushed back to the village overnight. But because I had already returned to the village It was late at night, so no one in the village knew about it, and I didn't want to disturb the villagers and Qiuyuan, because if Qiuyuan knew that I came back overnight to take money to repay the usury for my son, he would definitely not agree. But when I got home, I found that The door was not locked. I thought it was Qiu Yuan who forgot to close the door at night. When I entered the door, I saw that the light in the living room was still on, and I heard Qiu Yuan talking to others. I just fell asleep, why is it so late tonight and chatting with someone in the living room? Out of curiosity, I quietly hid outside the living room and listened to who he was chatting with. Security director Zhao Tietou, but the conversation they had next made me break out in a cold sweat. It turns out that Zhao Tietou's real identity is Hu Zhendong, the son of the former village head Hu Liang, and he said that Qiu Yuan set fire to death The reason for killing his parents was to cover up the fact that the villagers had cancer, Qiu Yuan acquiesced to these two things, and the purpose of Hu Zhendong's coming that night was to take revenge." "In the face of the fact that someone was going to kill your husband, you not only did not call for help at the time, but you did not call the police afterwards. I believe that when you heard the truth about what happened back then, you also developed great hatred for your husband. Because your lover Sun Yugui was mining luminous stones for Wei Qiuyuan back then, so he contracted cancer and eventually died, right?" "It seems that you have checked my history very clearly." Feng Yao said, "I really didn't expect that Wei Qiuyuan would be responsible for Yugui's death back then, and he kept this secret for decades. In order to cover up the truth, he even killed Hu Liang and his wife, the only village head who knew the inside story. I really never thought that a person who has been in bed with me for so many years is actually a murderous demon. He killed Yugui, and in Yugui After Gui's death, he still acted like a kind and considerate old man to care about me and please my family. If it wasn't for him, Yugui would not have died back then, and I would not have been able to marry him. At the moment when Hu Zhendong smashed him to death with the hammer, I actually felt a feeling of ecstasy, I even wished I could rush up, grab the hammer and smash this hypocritical demon to death with my own hands." Having said that, Feng Yao finally became a little excited from the calmness at the beginning. It seems that Wei Qiuyuan's deception has really hurt her very much. "Wei Xiluo is actually Sun Yugui's son, right?" "Yes, we had a relationship one night three months before Yugui's death. At that time, Yugui didn't know that she had cancer. After that night, we began to discuss marriage, but later found out that Yugui's My body was getting worse day by day. At that time, I knew that I was pregnant. After knowing the result, Yugui and I were very happy, and finally we could use this as an excuse to persuade my family not to force me to marry Wei Qiuyuan. , but who knew that Yugui left before he even had time to look at the child's face. Wei Qiuyuan came to my house every day to comfort me after Yugui's death, and he was very kind to my family, so my family took the opportunity to marry me Wei Qiuyuan, on the one hand, because they are really satisfied with Wei Qiuyuan, the future son-in-law, after all, he is rich; Pregnancy can be regarded as a shameless thing that makes the whole family lose face." "Then Wei Qiuyuan didn't know that you were pregnant when you married him?" "He's not stupid, of course he knows, after all, the child was born 3 months prematurely, but he had already become the village head at that time, so naturally he didn't want to publicize this matter, if people know that the wife he married gave birth to a rival If he is a child, this matter will undoubtedly become the laughing stock of the villagers, and the prestige he has built up in the village with great difficulty will also disappear. At that time, he will no longer have the face to sit in the position of village chief. So When he asked me the truth of the matter, I didn't hide it from him. It would be a big deal. Anyway, I didn't want to marry him. But after weighing the pros and cons, for his own face, he finally chose not to marry me. Divorce, on the contrary, will be more caring for me in the days to come. His purpose is very simple, that is, he hopes that I can truly give birth to a child for him. It is ridiculous to say that Beigui was born entirely to preserve Xiluo. Ah!" Feng Yao smiled coldly, that kind of coldness is a kind of desolate coldness emanating from the bottom of her heart, "Before I plan to return to the north for Wei Qiuyuan, I have an agreement with him that no matter what happens in the future, Everyone must treat Xiluo as his own child, if not, I will publish the entire agreement with him and make him lose face. Of course he knows that I am planning for Xiluo's future. But there is no way, he can only agree in the end, it can be said that the birth of Beigui is just to pave the way for Xiluo's future, although I know it is unfair to Beigui, but there is no way, for the sake of Yugui and me My flesh and blood can have a bright future, that's all I can do." "What about Wei Xiluo? It seems that he knows the truth of the matter, right?" "Yes! But he didn't know the truth until the night I killed Wei Yannan. That night I sent Xiluo and Beigui home to rest, saying that Wei Qiuyuan's first seven days should be guarded by me alone, but The child Xiluo was worried that I would not be able to bear it by staying up all night alone, so he turned back again. However, he saw me sneaking out of the house, so he followed me out of curiosity, and witnessed the whole process of me killing Wei Yannan. I killed them to prevent them from competing for inheritance, but when he heard the truth I said, he was shocked. Then, in order to protect me, before you came to investigate us, he called Beigui and told him If the police come to investigate our whereabouts that night, they will say that the three of us stayed in the mourning hall to watch for Wei Qiuyuan that night, because if we tell the police that we sleep at our respective homes at night, the police will definitely become suspicious. If the police want to take us out of the village to investigate , then no one will get the inheritance. After hearing this, Beigui immediately agreed. Later, in order not to arouse the suspicion of your police, he made up and directed a bitter plan of his own, trying to divert your police The line of sight makes you mistakenly think that the murderer is going to kill them all, so that you won't suspect me." "What about killing Wei Beigui?" "The most innocent thing about this whole thing is Beigui! I can only say that I'm sorry for him. He shouldn't have come to this world because of my selfishness." Feng Yao shook her head in pain and helplessly, "If Beigui If Gui is not dead, then part of the inheritance must be given to him in the end. If Xiluo swallowed the inheritance by himself, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of your police, so there is no way, we can only find a way to kill Beigui, I don't want The inheritance falls into the hands of anyone related to Wei Qiuyuan, and I will never allow it to be ruined by Wei Qiuyuan's prodigal sons. Although Beigui is my own, I gave birth to him only to protect Xiluo, and now I sacrifice him for To protect Xiluo, so I have to kill him to get the best benefit for Xiluo, because he is the flesh and blood of Yugui and me, and since Yugui is gone, I must let our children live better, and It can be regarded as my confession to Yugui, not to mention that the money Wei Qiuyuan earned was bought by the villagers and Yugui with their lives. He and his family should not have these properties. He has a father who is worse than a beast." "But what I didn't expect was that in order to protect you, Xiluo would do it himself in advance." "I killed him!" Feng Yao covered her face with her hands and choked up. Although the words were simple, they revealed incomparable sadness and remorse. "Actually, the secret of 'Birds Returning to the Nest' is to tell people to quit gambling, right?" Meng Shaohui suddenly changed the subject and asked. "How do you know?" Feng Yao asked in surprise, wiping away the tears on her cheeks. "I also guessed, because Hu Zhendong once heard from Wei Qiuyuan that he has long since looked down on the secret of finding the 'Bird Returning'. According to the hints in the poem "Nest", I studied those Buddhist scriptures and learned a lot of life principles from them. I did some irreparable mistakes for some interests. Now it seems that wealth is like floating clouds! Once a person dies, Everything he had before his death was turned into dust, so he hoped that his children would also realize these principles, stop gambling and live a normal life. So I was wondering if the "Birds Returning to the Nest" It's not a secret, it's just been passed down from generation to generation to exaggerate the mystery." "That's right! That's how people are. The simpler a thing is, the less people will believe it. They would rather complicate things than believe the simple truth. In fact, the secret of 'Birds Returning to Their Nests' is just like what you said, police officer. and I already knew these things." "How did you know this long ago?" Meng Shaohui asked curiously. "It was Yugui who told me. In fact, Yugui is the descendant of Sun Fei who left the secret of 'birds returning to their nests' in the village back then. The secret of 'birds returning to their nests' has been passed down from generation to generation in his family, but It is not allowed to tell outsiders, because even if it is told, no one will believe it, so it is better to make it mysterious on purpose and let those people find it by themselves, so that when the mystery is solved, people's memory will be stronger. Profound." Feng Yao recalled. Afterwards, out of curiosity, Meng Shaohui went to check the historical materials about Sun Fei, but unfortunately, there were no historical records at all. After all, this is a completely unremarkable unofficial history, but one thing is certain is that Sun Fei is a good man. The sparrows return to their nests—the holy monk takes the scriptures from the west, and saves all the common people in the world.In fact, judging from the poem left by Sun Fei back then, it is not a five-character quatrain or a seven-character verse. In the village where everyone made a living by mahjong, it became a mysterious poem. The first three lines of the poem obviously draw people's attention to the Buddhist scriptures, while the last line "Hundred sparrows return to their nests to turn riches and honor", Meng Shaohui thinks is enough to express Sun Fei's intention in writing this doggerel back then. If Baique means more than a hundred mahjong tiles, then returning to the nest can be regarded as a box containing mahjong tiles. Naturally, you will be rich. As the saying goes, "Small gambles make you happy, but big gambles hurt your family." Just like what Feng Yao said, people are like this, the simpler things are, the less people believe them, they would rather complicate things than believe the simple truth, in the case of Sparrow Village, this sentence was also echoed talk. If Wei Qiuyuan didn't hide the truth about the villagers' cancer because of his own self-interest, but boldly announced the truth to the public to find a solution, I believe it would not have caused the tragic situation of today's ruined families. It was originally very simple. One thing, but he made it extremely complicated by himself, and he had to swallow the final evil result. I have to say that this is really a tragedy that should not have happened.