Chapter 36 6. The price of lying
In Yangtietou's single apartment in the tranquil Tianhu Garden, Cao Xiaoyang is fast asleep.
In the darkness, the door opened gently, and a black figure slowly approached Cao Xiaoyang's bed.
In the dream, Cao Xiaoyang reached out and grabbed Yang Tietou's pillow, hugged him in his arms, with a coquettish smile on his face, and a sweet sleepy whisper: Brother Tietou, I like you, I like you so much...
With the faint sky light coming in from the window, the black shadow stared at Cao Xiaoyang's childish face for a long time.Then he couldn't help but bent down, and brought his mouth to Cao Xiaoyang's...
Cao Xiaoyang quickly let go of the pillow in his arms, stretched out his right arm, and put it on Heiying's shoulder.Maybe it was because of the chill of the night on the other party's clothes, or maybe Cao Xiaoyang in the dream smelled a strange smell, and she woke up abruptly.
Seeing that Cao Xiaoyang opened his eyes, Heiying seemed a little at a loss, and immediately moved his mouth away from her lips.
Cao Xiaoyang looked at the other party with sleepy eyes.At first, she probably still had a dreamlike feeling, so facing the face with only her mouth and eyes exposed, she was a little puzzled; but then, her pupils suddenly dilated, and the small face Her mouth turned into a big O, and she wanted to shout that it was for sure.However, Sombra didn't give her time.The black shadow swished out his hands, strangling her slender neck...
Heiying put his hand under Cao Xiaoyang's nose for a test, and seeing that he was out of breath, he left her, took out a flashlight from his pocket, turned it on, and began to search in the house...
Almost at the same time, with full horsepower, he drove the car to Yangtietou on the outskirts in one breath, and parked the car on the side of the road again.He slowly lowered the window glass, and a gust of cold wind blew in, instantly making him sober.At this moment, Yang Tietou couldn't help but began to worry about Cao Xiaoyang: The little yellow hair obsessed with money will wake up tomorrow and see that I am not there, so he is confused, what should he do if he risks making that blackmail call alone... No, I have to go back and talk to Xiaoyang Huangmao made it clear...
Thinking this way, Yang Tietou closed the window and wanted to drive the car back.But before he could turn the car around, the distracting thoughts at this moment were instantly wiped out.He can't go back, he can't live up to the trust of his boss Xie Chuan.Isn't it because of his boss that he has been able to look like a man these years?If he breaks the rules for a girl, how will he hang out in this circle in the future, who will value him...
Yang Tietou stepped up his horsepower as if angry, and drove forward.
At this moment, a large truck in front of him inexplicably changed lanes and went the wrong way. The bright headlights shook the iron head so that he could not see anything, and his mind was almost blank.With a bang, a large truck crashed over, and in an instant, the black Santana was smashed into a pile of scrap metal...
The driver of the large truck wearing a fleece cap opened the door of the driver's cab, quickly came to the Santana, put his arm through the broken window, and fumbled for the combination box, but was placed on the back seat due to the impact force. I don't know where the password box crashed and flew.The driver of the big truck searched for a long time, but couldn't find the lockbox. At this time, there happened to be another big truck coming not far away, so he rushed to his own big truck, started the car, and drove the big truck away quickly.
When Yang Tietou was pulled out of the driver's seat, he was already dead. The traffic police found the combination box from under the seat. After opening it, it contained a thick dictionary.Then, I found the blood-splattered letter from him. The letter was written by a son to his mother. It was affectionate, but he didn't know who the letter was written by and who the recipient was.Even more interesting, this is a letter downloaded from the Internet.
Another two days passed, and there was still no news from Cao Xiaoyang.Luo Qiuqiu was really anxious. He called the grandmother several times a day, and there was always crying on the phone; he also called Ma Sen many times, but the answer he got was: We are looking for.
This kind of waiting is really more difficult than death.Luo Qiu even looked forward to the call from the mysterious man.At least, through him, I can find out whether Cao Xiaoyang is alive or dead.
The helpless Luo Qiuqiu no longer concealed the disappearance of Cao Xiaoyang from Wang Chaoyong.He was almost supported by Wang Chaoyong's comfort.In the past few days, when Wang Chaoyong came to take over, he always asked him first, "Have you found Cao Xiaoyang?", but he just shook his head with a mournful face.Wang Chaoyong tried his best to comfort him and said: "Cao Xiaoyang must have gone out to play with some girl, or he met someone on the Internet and went to a certain place to meet. There are many such things nowadays. The girl suddenly disappeared. After a few days The sky suddenly came back again. In any case, no accident will happen to a shrewd girl like Cao Xiaoyang you mentioned. You have to be patient and don't worry."
Listening to Wang Chaoyong's words, a glimmer of hope was ignited in Luo Qiuqiu's heart again.
This morning, as soon as Luo Qiuqiu went to work, Ma Sen hurried into the duty room.
At this time, Luo Qiuqiu's whole body and mind were occupied by Cao Xiaoyang's disappearance.Therefore, for the arrival of police officer Mason, he is no longer nervous and afraid. On the contrary, his heart is full of luck and hope.
"Have you found Cao Xiaoyang?" Luo Qiu asked eagerly as he stepped forward to meet him.
Mason shook his head: "Not yet. I have something to ask you."
Luo Qiu raised his head and looked at Ma Sen with puzzled eyes: "Do you have something to ask me?"
Ma Sen said bluntly: "The thing is like this. After I received your report, I took Cao Xiaoyang's photo and asked someone to identify it. There was a breakthrough. At the bus stop on the edge of the woods at the back gate of Meilin Garden, a The young female nurse riding there recognized Cao Xiaoyang in the photo. She said: I haven’t seen this girl for some days. A while ago, I often saw her walking out of the woods with a tall boy early in the morning. The boy usually The girl left on the bus. I work early in the morning, and there are very few people who take the bus from here in the early morning. Sometimes I am alone at the station. So, I was particularly impressed by the two of them. They seem to be in love ..."
Listening to Ma Sen's narration, Luo Qiuqiu's face has turned from white to gray.
Then Ma Sen asked suddenly: "Have you brought Cao Xiaoyang to Meilin Garden?"
Luo Qiuqiu was startled, then shook his head vigorously: "No...no!"
"You didn't tell the truth. You brought Cao Xiaoyang here, didn't you? You brought her in through the back door when you were on night shift! And the night Zhao Yuejing had an accident, the back door was always open..." Ma Sen looked directly into Luo Qiu's eyes.
Luo Qiuqiu still wanted to deny it: "No... I never brought Cao Xiaoyang here. That female nurse must have misunderstood the person... the rear... the back door has been closed... closed..."
Ma Sen raised his voice angrily: "You are still lying! Don't you understand that lying will harm Cao Xiaoyang? If the urinal at the back door was open in the early morning when the crime happened, you and Cao Xiaoyang watched it together. If the suspicious person escapes from the small door, then Cao Xiaoyang's disappearance must be related to the murderer who killed Zhao Yuejing... Don't you want to find her as soon as possible? Don't you want to save her?"
It was at this moment that Luo Qiu's mental defense collapsed.Mason's decisive words and unwavering gaze told Luo Qiu that the castle of lies he had built up with great care was destroyed by this sharp-eyed policeman, and everything was over.
Almost in an instant, while Luo Qiu's spirit was crushed, his body also collapsed immediately.His once strong and powerful body began to shrink little by little. In the end, as if he couldn't bear the sudden shrinkage, his whole body rolled down to the ground like a snowball.
Ma Sen bent down and helped Luo Qiuqiu to the sofa, looked at the trembling boy and said, "I hope you can tell the truth." After he finished speaking, he closed his lips tightly and remained silent.
Luo Qiu covered his face with his hands, and tears of regret flowed down through his fingers.
"I've told you everything, you...can you keep it a secret for me?" Luo Qiuqiu asked with a sob.
Mason didn't answer, still staring at him with majestic eyes.
"I'm telling the truth." Luo Qiu couldn't help crying.
Cao Xiaoyang's body was discovered six days after her death.
She was packed in a huge woven bag with red and green stripes specially used for clothing vendors, and thrown on Fushan Mountain not far from Tianhu Garden.
Fukuyama said it was a mountain, at best it was just a small hill, and the height of the mountain was only about 50 meters.In spring and summer, retired old people often come here to climb mountains and exercise.When it comes to autumn and winter, it is deserted.Xiaowei, a migrant worker, and his girlfriend came to the secluded place on the hillside of Fushan to fall in love.Xiao Wei is a migrant worker from Anhui. He usually lives in the underground garage of a building with dozens of fellow villagers who work on construction sites. Not even a tile in this city belongs to him. Therefore, he and his girlfriend Dating, only in the open-air park.When the weather turned cold, Xiao Wei thought of the sunny place on the hillside of Fushan where he and his fellow villagers came to play last year.
The woven bag that Cao Xiaoyang slept in was placed on a large rocky rock in the sunny part of Fushan Mountain.
As soon as Xiao Wei and his girlfriend came to the middle of the mountain, they saw this big woven bag.At that time, it was bathed in the cold but bright sunshine of late autumn, and the woven bag with red and green stripes looked colorful.However, at the beginning, they both thought that someone put it here temporarily, so that it would be convenient for them to go to the hiding place.So sat down next to it.Later, when the two talked about forgetting their love, they put the bag behind them.
At noon, Xiao Wei's girlfriend complained that she was hungry and wanted to eat beef ramen.Xiao Wei said that his girlfriend was a greedy cat, and the two laughed and started to fight again. You pushed me, I pushed you, three times and two times, Xiao Wei pushed his girlfriend onto Cao Xiaoyang.
"My god, what's in this bag, why is it so hard?" Xiao Wei's girlfriend shouted in surprise.
When his girlfriend called out, Xiao Wei also felt curious, so he walked over and touched the bag with his hands.It doesn't matter if you touch it, Xiao Wei immediately breaks out in a cold sweat.Because his hand just touched Cao Xiaoyang's forehead.
Xiao Wei withdrew his hand back as if he had been burned by fire, and without saying a word, grabbed his girlfriend's hand and ran away.
"Why are you running away! Are you crazy!" Xiao Wei's girlfriend was puzzled and asked while struggling to free her arm from Xiao Wei's hand.
Xiao Wei didn't say anything, but dragged her away desperately.When he came to a flat grassland at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Wei said to his girlfriend with lingering fear: "It's bad! That bag contains a dead person!"
At first, Xiao Wei's girlfriend didn't believe it, thinking that Xiao Wei was playing a prank to scare her, so she punched Xiao Wei on the back and said, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Xiao Wei, who usually has a good sense of humor, is no longer humorous at this time.With a dark face, he said to his girlfriend in a changed voice, "I'm really not trying to scare you. There is indeed a dead person in that bag. I touched the dead man's spirit cover just now."
Xiao Wei's girlfriend believed Xiao Wei's words when she saw Xiao Wei's serious face and frightened expression.The two didn't even bother to eat lunch, so they hurriedly called the public phone to report to the police.
After confessing to Ma Sen, Luo Qiuqiu took sick leave and stayed at home with a lot of worries, not daring to go out.
This morning, as soon as he got up from bed, his father called him to answer the phone.
An inexplicable panic suddenly hit him.Although, he still holds a glimmer of hope for finding Cao Xiaoyang.However, this morning, the phone call to find him at home still made him feel a kind of fear of impending disaster.
Luo Qiuqiu took the microphone from his father tremblingly, and said "Hello", Ma Sen's deep voice came from the other side: "Is it Luo Qiuqiu? You will come to the Criminal Investigation Brigade right away."
Luo Qiu put down the microphone and walked outside.
Father chased to the door and looked at his pale face: "Qiu, who is looking for you? Where are you going?"
Luo Qiu opened the door bang, walked out, and said without looking back: "Don't worry about it!"
Luo Qiuqiu stumbled towards the office building of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Brigade.
Half an hour later, Luo Qiu, who appeared in front of Ma Sen, was already nervous and lost his mind.When Mason asked him to sit down, he sat down, and Mason told him not to be too nervous, so he let out a long sigh of relief.
Ma Sen handed him a photo: "We found Cao Xiaoyang!"
Luo Qiuqiu accepted the photo in a daze.
In the photo, Cao Xiaoyang was lying on a bed in a white room with a black face——
Luo Qiu slowly raised his head and asked, "Is she dead?"
Mason nodded: "Yes, she is dead."
Luo Qiu asked woodenly, "How did she die?"
Mason: "The throat was choked."
Luo Qiufu picked up the photo again and looked at it carefully: "Was that man killed her?"
Ma Sen shook his head: "The murderer has not been found. However, from the clues left at the scene, the murderer who killed Cao Xiaoyang should be Yang Tietou. Cao Xiaoyang actually died on the bed in Yang Tietou's apartment. After the murder, Yang Tietou hurriedly used a The snakeskin bag put Cao Xiaoyang’s body in it, and threw it on Fushan, not far from his home. He even left his mobile phone in the snakeskin bag... and then stole a car that came to the city from other places for business. Absconded in fear of crime..."
"This damn guy!" Luo Qiu gritted his teeth, "Did you catch Yang Tietou?"
Mason said slowly, "No."
"You actually let him run away?"
"Yang Tietou didn't run very far when he was hit and killed by a big truck..."
"He deserves it!"
Ma Sen seemed to be talking to himself, but also to Luo Qiu: "You shouldn't have said that. Just now, what I told you was just what the crime scene deliberately told us. It's not the final conclusion."
Luo Qiu blinked: "Then who is the murderer?"
Mason repeated: "As I said, the murderer has not been found yet."
An unknown fire rose rapidly in Luo Qiuqiu's heart.He put the photo on the table and stared at Ma Sen: "I told you everything about the mobile phone number and the white silk scarf, but you didn't find the murderer—"
Luo Qiu gritted his teeth angrily.
Ma Sen walked over and patted Luo Qiuqiu's shoulder: "That mobile phone number is of no help in solving the case. It belongs to the dead Zhao Yuejing."
Luo Qiu couldn't help repeating: "Zhao Yuejing's? What about the white silk scarf?"
Mason went on to say: "Don't worry. We have found the owner of this white silk scarf."
"who is it?"
"A student of the Academy of Fine Arts named Xie Xiaoxue. She has been modeling for Jiang Yuan."
Hearing what Ma Sen said, Luo Qiuqiu suddenly remembered the process of verifying the owner of the white silk scarf that Cao Xiaoyang had told him: "That Xie Xiaoxue has a gold card from Baiyang Mall?"
"Yes. We found her photo and ID card in the computer library of Baiyang Mall."
Luo Qiufu became excited again: "Then...why didn't you arrest her?"
Ma Sen sat back to the original place and calmly replied: "It's not as simple as you imagined. Why should we arrest Xie Xiaoxue? It's because she bought a French-imported Paulina with a gold card from Baheal Mall." Silk scarf?"
Luo Qiuqiu said angrily: "That..." He only said one word "that", and he didn't know how to express it when he was in a hurry.
Ma Sen said calmly: "This is a very complicated case within a case. From Zhao Yuejing's unprovoked fall to Cao Xiaoyang's murder, the only clue in between is the white silk scarf. We can assume that the case happened The woman wearing a white silk scarf you saw from the duty room early in the morning is Xie Xiaoxue, even if Xie Xiaoxue pushed Zhao Yuejing downstairs. But who is the man who left you Zhao Yuejing's mobile phone number?"
A puzzled look appeared on Luo Qiu's face.
Ma Sen continued: "Actually, the last time you told me that Cao Xiaoyang often went to the Paradise Nightclub, I had a premonition——I went there to ask Yang Tietou about Cao Xiaoyang's whereabouts, and Yang Tietou died that night. On the surface it looks like it was a car accident, but we found all sorts of suspicious things in Yangtietou’s relics - a lockbox containing a dictionary and a letter downloaded from the Internet without a name and address. Yangtie headband that fled in a hurry after the murder What are these things for? We immediately searched Yang Tietou's apartment and found this white silk scarf from behind the radiator—"
As Mason said, he took out the white silk scarf wrapped in a plastic bag from the drawer: "Look, is it it?"
Luo Qiu nodded.
Ma Sen continued: "Also, after investigation, we found that Xie Chuan, the owner of Paradise Nightclub, is Xie Xiaoxue's brother..."
Luo Qiu couldn't help but exclaimed: "My God——"
Ma Sen continued: "Look, through these few people, we can almost connect the two cases together. First, the model Xie Xiaoxue fell in love with the painter Jiang Yuan and pushed Jiang Yuan's wife downstairs. I want to fulfill my dream of being a painter's wife. Xie Xiaoxue fled to the back door in a hurry after killing someone, and was discovered by you by accident. So, in order to protect his sister, Xie Xiaoxue's brother Xie Chuan used his subordinates at the Paradise Nightclub to seduce you He threatened Cao Xiaoyang and threatened him, and searched for the missing white silk scarf... Finally, he murdered Cao Xiaoyang and Yang Tietou who had blackmailed him, and painstakingly created the scene where Yang Tietou killed Cao Xiaoyang..."
Luo Qiu couldn't wait: "Then you should arrest Xie Chuan's subordinates first."
Ma Sen spread his hands towards Luo Qiuqiu, with a helpless expression on his face: "Unfortunately, these are only inferences, and what the law respects is evidence. To arrest the murderers who killed Zhao Yuejing, Cao Xiaoyang, and Yang Tietou, we must have a lot of evidence." Evidence. In other words, we still have a very difficult investigation and evidence collection work to do."
Luo Qiu thought thoughtfully: "There is also Zhao Yuejing's cell phone number... That man let me go because he suspected that the other person was jealous..."
Ma Sen nodded: "There is indeed a person who followed Xie Xiaoxue because of jealousy, and has many unknown secrets, including Zhao Yuejing's mobile phone number... How should I put it, the two of you may have saved each other. It can be speculated like this : That man has been unable to find out whether the stalker is at the crime scene, so he has not attacked her for a long time; it is also for this reason that he delayed the time to attack you..."
Luo Qiuqiu finally remained silent.
Mason wrote something in the notebook with a pen.
After a while, Luo Qiu stood up: "Can I go?"
Mason waved at him: "I'm sorry, you have to stay here tonight. It's not detention, but to protect your safety."
Luo Qiu stood there in a daze.
Ma Sen raised his head and looked at Luo Qiu with complicated eyes: "You sit down first. I still have a few words to say."
Luo Qiu asked in fear, "You want to convict me?"
Mason said word by word: "Whether you are convicted or not is a matter of the law. What I want to tell you is, never lie to the police in the future. If I go to the duty room at the back door of Merrill Garden for the first time When I asked you to understand the situation, you told the truth, Cao Xiaoyang would not die; if you told me the truth when you first came to me to help you find Cao Xiaoyang, Cao Xiaoyang would not die; if I went to Paradise Nightclub When I asked Yang Tietou about Cao Xiaoyang's whereabouts, Yang Tietou told me the truth. Neither Cao Xiaoyang nor Yang Tietou would die. However, you deceived the police with lies. He sacrificed his own life for this..."
Luo Qiuqiu listened silently, his endless remorse made him burst into tears.