Chapter 8 Section VIII

In the interrogation room of the Municipal Criminal Police Force. "Name?" Wang Gang's voice was not loud but powerful. Wei Pengfei, who was sitting on the opposite stool, trembled slightly and slowly raised his head. "Wei Pengfei." "age?" "34." "Profession?" "Part-time jobs, no permanent job." Wang Gang's sharp gaze swept over Wei Pengfei's gradually pale face. "Do you know why you were invited to the criminal police team in this way today?" Wei Pengfei was stunned for a while, then shook his head feebly.

"Of course it's not about your drug use. People from the anti-drug brigade will let you explain clearly after those things. We are a criminal police team here, and we are in charge of criminal cases, such as murder, arson, and poisoning." Wang Gang deliberately bit the word "poisoning" very hard, and then stared intently at Wei Pengfei's face.He wanted to see panic and fear from this face, but no, there was only a deep tiredness on this face, so tired that it was numb. Wang Gang decided to go straight to the point. He wanted to find Wei Pengfei's weakness: "You said last time that you haven't seen Song Zixin since she got married. However, when we checked several accounts of Song Zixin, we found that one of them was in In the past three months, I have remitted money to your bank card many times, with a total amount of more than 50,000 yuan. How do you explain it? Could it be that she was so stunned that she wanted to stuff it into your hand?"

There was a short silence... "Yes, I met her recently. Three months ago, we met at the ten-year graduation party. I didn't ask her for money. But she saw that I was in financial distress. To be honest, I have After I sucked that thing, the money I got from working part-time was not enough. She insisted on remitting the money to me, and I had no reason to refuse it again and again. It was agreed that it was a temporary loan, and I will pay it back to her when I have the ability.” "Then why did you lie last time? Don't you know that lying to the police is equivalent to perjury?"

"I... I was very scared at that time. Song Zixin died, and you suddenly found me. I thought that telling this matter would only cause trouble for myself. So I decided to hide it." This seems to be quite reasonable. Wang Gang paused, and continued to ask: "Tell me, what were you doing on the 25th of last month, the day Song Zixin jumped off the building? Be more specific." "Go to the restaurant in the morning, get off work at 5 pm, ride back to my own home on Shenyuan Street, and then I haven't gone out." "Who can prove that you have been staying at home since 5 o'clock?" Wang Gang's stern tone made Wei Pengfei move on his chair uncomfortably.

"Rabbit, a friend of mine, he came, around 7 o'clock in the evening, and stayed until very late." Wang Gang thought for a while, and whispered a few words to a policewoman next to him, who got up and left the interrogation room. Interrogation continues.In another office, Su Yu was sitting on a particularly comfortable armchair, staring at the CCTV screen with a focused expression.Qin Yang, the captain of the criminal police team, was not as steady as he was. He tapped his fingers on the desk table anxiously from time to time.Obviously, the progress in the interrogation room was far from satisfactory to him.

"Su Yu, this kid has been prepared for a long time, and he answered the questions without leaking, and he didn't panic at all. I think he is very difficult to deal with, and I'm afraid he won't tell the truth." "Captain Qin, judging from Wei Pengfei's performance just now, his body is relaxed, his voice has no ups and downs, and his mood is very calm. Either he is telling the truth, or he is a very good actor." Qin Yang's brows immediately twisted into a knot: "Wei Pengfei is Song Zixin's ex-boyfriend, so he was abandoned by Song Zixin. Why did Song Zixin suddenly and inexplicably offer to give him money? And this person is also a drug addict, and drug addicts go crazy for that white powder. He dared to kill his own mother, so what else could he not do? Moreover, it has been confirmed that the last call to Song Zixin was made from a public phone at the corner of Bingdong Street. This Wei Pengfei's home is in a unit across the street. In the neighborhood."

Just as Su Yu was about to say something, a pretty policewoman opened the door and walked in.Her name is He Li, and she is Wang Gang's fiancée.He Li nodded to Su Yu with a smile, and reported to Qin Yang crisply: "Captain Qin, according to Wei Pengfei's confession just now, we found the man nicknamed Rabbit. He is a drug dealer and a small character. On that day, the 25th of last month when Song Zixin died, he was very sure that he had delivered drugs to Wei Pengfei's home at 7 o'clock in the evening, and watched Wei Pengfei take drugs with his own eyes. He stayed there until around 12 o'clock just left."

Qin Yang lowered his head and listened carefully, and ordered: "It's been almost a month, how can he remember this rabbit so clearly? You need to ask more times and ask for details. If there is inconsistency, it may be perjury." "Understood, Captain Qin. But he also said that the reason he remembered clearly was that he had promised to help a escort lady who lived with him go shopping that day, but he didn't have enough money. At this time, he just received a request from Wei Pengfei to buy goods phone, so he hurriedly took the opportunity to sneak away, and hid at Wei Pengfei's house until very late. He didn't even dare to answer the phone call from the escort lady. Later, he was ruthless by that so-called girlfriend for this matter. I repaired it hard. That's why I remember it deeply." As she spoke, He Li unconsciously twitched her lips and almost laughed.

Qin Yang nodded, expressing his satisfaction with He Li's work.But in an instant, his eyebrows frowned again. Su Yu knew in her heart that so far, Wei Pengfei was the biggest suspect in Song Zixin's mysterious suicide case.But apparently now that he has an alibi, the case seems to be at a dead end once again. "Captain Qin, can you let me talk to Wei Pengfei alone?" Su Yu's words seemed to give Qin Yang a shot in the arm. Qin Yang took out a cigarette and threw it to Su Yu, and asked eagerly: "Did you hear any loopholes in Wei Pengfei's words? I know you are best at this, and you have a quick brain. The case last time was your few words." The words pried the suspect's mouth open."

Su Yu caught the cigarette, didn't smoke it, just twirled it between his fingers, and said with a smile: "Captain Qin, Wang Gang's question is already on point. I want to talk to Wei Pengfei about a suicide case ten years ago A girl named Ye Xuan committed suicide by jumping off the bell tower of the Normal University. She and Song Zixin were college classmates and members of the same poetry club. Moreover, I suspect that this girl is the third party who intervened between Wei Pengfei and Song Zixin .” "What? The case ten years ago, a third party? Is this related to Song Zixin's case now?"

"It may or may not be related. Captain Qin, I have no evidence, only intuition." Su Yu said truthfully. Qin Yang looked at Su Yu in confusion. He was not satisfied with this answer, but he admired the young man in front of him so much. He had all the qualities that a criminal policeman should have.Except for being a maverick at times, he felt that Su Yu was almost perfect. "Well, then you go and talk to him, but you must pay attention to the method and scale of the question. After all, you are not our official police officer." "Understood. Captain Qin, before I go, I would like to read the file of Michelle Ye's case ten years ago." Qin Yang waved his hand: "He Li, help Su Yu go to the file room to look up the information. Those old files haven't been saved in the computer yet." "Yes, Captain Qin!" He Li smiled sweetly, turned around and left.She is a ray of spring breeze in the criminal police team, often making everyone forget some of the depression at work. "Come here, Su Yu, try the Biluochun I brought from my hometown." Qin Yang said with a smile. Before Su Yu had a few sips of tea, He Li brought the files.It was a thick dossier with some yellowed paper, Su Yu hurriedly took it and flipped through it. Suddenly, a familiar name came into view, ah, him! "It really is him!" Su Yu couldn't help blurting out.There was a trace of uncontrollable excitement in his eyes, and he hurriedly spread the interrogation transcripts on the table one by one and read them carefully. Time passed by every minute.Qin Yang sat opposite Su Yu, looking at him worriedly.The suspect can only be detained for 24 hours. Can Su Yu really find clues in these old files to force Wei Pengfei to speak?If he is released this time, this hard-won clue will be broken again. In the interrogation room, Wei Pengfei sat calmly.He closed his eyes slightly, lost in thought.Anyone can get tired after a long period of questioning.Although there was a box of lunch and water brought by the police in front of him, Wei Pengfei didn't have much appetite.At this moment, the scene when he saw Song Zixin for the first time appeared in his mind.Black ponytail, moon white dress, holding a book of Xi Murong's poems.On the campus under the setting sun, at that moment, he thought he had met his goddess.This woman changed the fate of his life. Some mistakes can't be undone once! "Wei Pengfei, do you need to take a break?" Wei Pengfei opened his eyes suddenly, a familiar face, although his tone was gentle, but the determination and wisdom exuded from those eyes made people dare not look directly at him.Wei Pengfei lowered his eyes and said softly: "You are the police officer who talked to me that day, I still remember. Your colleagues have already asked me, and I have said everything that needs to be said. You can investigate whether it is true or not. Song Zixin His death really has nothing to do with me." "I believe the testimony you provided today. You did not see Song Zixin on the 25th, because the rabbit has proved that you stayed at home from 7 o'clock to 12 o'clock that day. He has been in prison and knows what it is like. Besides, his mother is sick Hospitalized and needs his care, he will never risk perjury to help you." Wei Pengfei looked up at Su Yu in surprise. Su Yu smiled and said, "I talked to Rabbit just now and found out that he is really a filial son. It seems that everyone has another side that others cannot understand. What about you, do you have a secret that others do not know? " Wei Pengfei was taken aback for a moment, he opened his mouth, but stopped talking. "You told Police Officer Wang just now that you met Song Zixin at the reunion of your 10-year-old classmates three months ago, right?" "yes." "You're lying, your college classmates did have a ten-year graduation party, but it wasn't three months ago, the date was this month. Although they sent you an invitation, you didn't attend that party at all, let alone Maybe there I met Song Zixin who was no longer alive at that time." Under Su Yu's gaze, Wei Pengfei slowly lowered his head and kept licking his lips, as if suddenly becoming extremely thirsty.Typical lying expression! Su Yu didn't continue to ask, but picked up the glass and filled it with water: "Drink a glass of water, and think about it." Wei Pengfei took the cup that Su Yu handed over, cast a grateful look, and drank most of the cup in one gulp. After a moment of silence, he slowly opened his mouth: "Officer, I lied. I met Song Zixin three months ago, but it was not at the ten-year graduation party, but at Shenxiantai Cemetery. The two of us met by accident And when I met, I went to pay homage to an old classmate who passed away a long time ago. "I'm telling the truth, officer. I really didn't expect to meet her there. She probably felt a little guilty when she saw me, and felt that she caused me to be in this situation, so she gave me a few thousand dollars at that time. Later, she asked for my bank card number and remitted some money to me one after another. I knew I shouldn’t ask for her money, but, you also know that when we are addicted, we are really willing to do anything just to take a sip I couldn't control myself, so I used the money to buy drugs. But I really didn't kill Song Zixin. At least she is still the woman I loved. I was surprised to hear that she committed suicide. She doesn't look like that A woman who will commit suicide. But no one can tell, everyone always has the most vulnerable time, and once I also wanted to leave this world. Living too depressed, there are always shadows that cannot be shaken off. " Wei Pengfei stopped suddenly, he also felt that he was too far away from the topic.Strangely, he seemed to relax himself unconsciously in the presence of this officer. Su Yu had been listening to him attentively, and then she interjected: "It's been ten years, and you haven't forgotten to pay homage to this old classmate of yours. It seems that she is very important to both of you. Can you tell me who she is?" Why? Why did you and Song Zixin go to worship her at the same time?" "She...she was just a very ordinary girl. Ten years ago, because of some trivial family matters, she couldn't think of committing suicide. Because she is a member of Liuyun Society, we will pay homage to her. As for meeting Song Zixin, it should be Coincidence." "No, she is not a very ordinary girl, but a very talented girl who can write poems and draw pictures. She is still the girl you never forget. The Liuyun Club you wear every day Didn't she design the badge herself?" Su Yu's voice was not loud, but it was very clear, and in Wei Pengfei's ear, he almost snorted. His nerves were strongly shaken, and his left hand subconsciously reached out to his chest to hold the badge: "How do you know... how do you know that this badge was designed by Michelle Ye?" Su Yu said calmly: "All the members of your Liuyun club knew this back then. It's not a secret. But there is one thing, maybe only you can tell me, that day ten years ago, that rainy night, in Xuan Ye What happened to him?" Wei Pengfei stood up suddenly.After being silent for a while, he sat down again, and said slowly: "I don't understand what you said at all. I passed the clock tower that night. I was going to the library to check the materials for writing a thesis. I just passed by and happened to see it. Michelle Ye who jumped off the stairs. I... I called 120, but it was too late. I felt guilty and couldn't save her. But I... I don't know what happened to her. I heard that she had a fight with her stepmother , She has never had a good relationship with her stepmother." Su Yu didn't speak immediately, but picked up a stack of case files and flipped through the pages.Wei Pengfei suddenly felt hot all over, and he tried his best to hold his hands to restrain some evil desire in his body. "You were the first eyewitness to arrive at the scene of the Michelle Ye incident ten years ago. You said this in your testimony that day. You were in a hurry to go to the library to check some information, so you rode your bicycle alone despite the storm outside. Enter from the north gate of the Normal University. It was dark and it was raining again, and you didn’t see a single acquaintance along the way. When you were riding to the school’s bell tower, you suddenly heard a loud bang, as if a heavy object had fallen. You hurriedly stopped the car and ran over to see that a person had fallen from the clock tower. So you immediately called an ambulance. When you arrived at the hospital, you realized that it was Michelle Ye from your poetry club, so you quickly notified her Family. Is that so?" At this point, Su Yu stopped and looked at Wei Pengfei. Wei Pengfei nodded slightly and said, "That's right. It was too late when I saw her." Su Yu put down the case file and looked directly at Wei Pengfei with burning eyes: "Wei Pengfei, what you said sounds logical and reasonable at first glance. In fact, there are three loopholes, and the chain of evidence formed by these three loopholes in series can prove that you lied. told a big lie." Wei Pengfei felt that something exploded in his head.The day has come, albeit ten years late.He swallowed and whispered, "What loophole?" "The first loophole is that when you ride a bicycle from the north gate of the school to the library, you have to ride up the hill. The clock tower is at the bottom of the hill, which is the only way to go. So it seems reasonable for you to say that you saw Michelle Ye falling there. But in fact, it is impossible. Because the place where Michelle Ye fell was not the front of the clock tower, but the back of the clock tower. There is now a large green space, but ten years ago, it was the old wall of the Normal University .I just called and asked the person in charge of the General Affairs Office of the Normal University. They proved this point. Suppose you really rode a bicycle straight to the library, of course passing by the front of the clock tower. It is impossible and should not be there. Duan usually went to the old fence where few people go. Then did you really stop the car and go to the fence when you heard the sound of Michelle Ye falling?" Wei Pengfei's face gradually turned gray, and he bit his lips tightly. Su Yu paused, took a sip of water, and continued: "Assuming that the weather is normal that day, maybe you will really hear a loud noise, because the impact of a person falling from a high place is very strong. But that day The night is a stormy night, and there should be thunder from time to time. If you don't listen hard, you won't hear the loud noise. Unless you have super hearing, unless you know that something will fall at that moment, Be mentally prepared, otherwise it is impossible to hear it. Even if you hear it, you will think it is a thunder rolling in the sky. The investigation record here has the answer of the residents in the row of bungalows outside the old fence. When the police asked Did they hear or see the girl falling from the building? Everyone said they didn’t see it. Two of them said that they heard a loud muffled thunder and didn’t know that someone jumped from the building. Of course you can insist that you have excellent hearing and you just heard Yes. But there is a second loophole, and that is time." Wei Pengfei's complexion had turned very bad. He raised his head and looked at Su Yu in confusion, and asked, "What time? What time?" "You said in your testimony that you ran over and saw Michelle Ye lying on the ground, and immediately used your mobile phone to make an emergency call. The police retrieved the phone records of the emergency center at that time, and the time when you called in showed that it was nine o'clock. Thirty minutes, and a quartz watch on Michelle Ye's wrist when she fell from the building was frozen at 9:15. There is a difference of 15 minutes, what are you doing in these 15 minutes? Are you helping? As an experienced college student, and facing such an emergency, you should not take any first aid measures. The first reaction of ordinary people in this situation is undoubtedly to call for emergency services immediately. But you, you have delayed it by a full ten Five minutes. Is it because you are not in a hurry to rescue Michelle Ye? Judging from your behavior in the hospital later, it doesn't look like it. According to the testimony of the emergency personnel, you almost knelt down in the hospital and begged the doctor to rescue Michelle Ye. Then the ten-year delay Where did the five minutes go? This reminds me of an episode today. It took me ten minutes to trot up the bell tower of the Normal University. But you should be no slower than me when you were only in your twenties. Suddenly I With a bold assumption, if you didn't pass by the clock tower and saw Michelle Ye lying on the ground, but ran down to rescue her after watching Michelle Ye fall from the top of the clock tower, then it would be completely understandable. In the dark corridor, it took you five minutes longer than usual to run downstairs before calling the ambulance. Maybe this is the truth, isn't it?" Su Yu's words were like some kind of chemical, which made Wei Pengfei His lips trembled involuntarily, and he began to tighten his body, but said nothing. Seeing this, Su Yu got up and went out, and whispered a few words to Wang Gang who was waiting outside. When he returned to the house, Wei Pengfei had slowly closed his eyes, resigned to his fate. Su Yu leaned into his ear and said softly: "Wei Pengfei, I know what you're thinking now. No matter what, it's been so long since this matter, and you've worked so hard to hide it for so long. You're never willing to give up all your previous efforts. I just now No matter how reasonable it is, it’s just guesswork. You think I can’t produce evidence. But you’re wrong, there’s a witness whose testimony you can’t refute.” "Who?" "Yourself." Su Yu said, went back to the table and picked up the file and turned to a page. "This is the testimony of the emergency personnel who arrived at the scene that day. The emergency doctor said that it took them 20 minutes to arrive at the gate of the Normal University due to the darkness and slippery roads. , beside the pitch-black wall, they could only vaguely see a person squatting there, and there seemed to be a mass on the ground. When they got closer, they realized that it was a person lying on the ground. In fact, it was already a corpse at that time. A corpse lying face down. The doctors quickly turned it over, and saw that the face of the deceased was covered in blood, and he could no longer see the original face. At that time, you squatted there blankly, as if you were stupid. A doctor I ask you, what is going on, and who is the deceased. Note, your answer at that time was: You save her, she is only twenty years old. Please, save her quickly." Su Yu stopped, He stared deeply at Wei Pengfei. Wei Pengfei opened his eyes suddenly, and in an instant, he understood his fatal loophole. Su Yu said slowly: "This is your third loophole. Before the doctors turned over Michelle Ye who was lying on the ground, it can be said that in such a dark environment, it is impossible for anyone to recognize who it is. ...but your answer proves that you know that it is Michelle Ye. Why? The only reasonable explanation is that you didn't pass by there by chance at all, you watched Michelle Ye fall from the top of the bell tower with your own eyes. Why did you go out of your way to hide all this ? There can only be one reason, you have something to do with her death. It can even be speculated that she did not commit suicide, but someone pushed her downstairs on purpose." After a long period of silence in the room, Wei Pengfei finally spoke: "It was me, I killed her. I shouldn't have asked her to go to the bell tower that night, otherwise she wouldn't have died. I killed her." Wei Pengfei suddenly put his head in his hands and shook uncontrollably.He seemed unable to control himself, slipped from the chair and fell to the ground, curled up in a ball. "Hurry up, the suspect has a drug addiction, come in!" Su Yu yelled towards the door. A doctor who had been waiting outside the door rushed in quickly, skillfully took out a syringe and injected Wei Pengfei with a sedative.Wang Gang and He Li, who rushed in together, hurriedly helped Wei Pengfei, who was no longer conscious, out of the interrogation room, and temporarily sent him to a nearby medical clinic, where several policemen took turns watching. Qin Yang patted Su Yu's shoulder excitedly: "Good boy, what a chain of reasoning, it just broke through Wei Pengfei's psychological defense line, and the case has been dug out for so long. However, I am still a little worried, this Wei Pengfei just now Admit that he is the murderer, but tomorrow when he regains consciousness, he may turn back. How about we have another overnight trial at night?" Su Yu shook her head: "Probably not. Everyone has a psychological limit. After breaking through this limit, it's like a flood bursting a bank, and you can't take it back. For Wei Pengfei, the deep guilt for Ye Xuan is his In fact, I just used his sense of guilt to destroy his psychological defense a little bit. If he is really a cold-blooded killer, that set of reasoning may not be effective. After all, it has been difficult for many years I don't have any evidence at the scene anymore. But Team Qin, I don't think Wei Pengfei is the real murderer who killed Xuan Ye." "What? Didn't you tell Wei Pengfei just now that someone pushed that girl down the bell tower? Did he admit it?" "Captain Qin, what Wei Pengfei just said was, 'I killed her. I shouldn't have asked her to go to the bell tower that night. Otherwise, she wouldn't have died.'" Su Yu bit his words hard. Qin Yang thought for a while and said carefully: "You mean that Wei Pengfei just asked Ye Xuan to go to the bell tower, and didn't deliberately push her down. Or they had some dispute on the bell tower that day, and they pushed her down by mistake. Or Or they got into a quarrel, and Michelle Ye couldn't think about it for a while and jumped off." "I can be sure that he didn't kill Xuan Ye on purpose, otherwise he wouldn't have ran downstairs as fast as he could to try to save her. It shouldn't be Xuan Ye who jumped down by himself, otherwise Wei Pengfei didn't have to deliberately hide the truth from everyone. However, What I am most interested in is not this, but his bicycle, the bicycle left by Wei Pengfei that was mentioned in the case file when the police arrived at the scene." "Bicycle? What's wrong with the bicycle?" Qin Yang was puzzled by Monk Zhanger for a while. "Qin team, I don't want to explain this for the time being. I need to go home and take a hot bath to give my brain a good vacation. Let's relax. I will come to the team tomorrow and interrogate Wei Pengfei with you. This confirms some of my incomplete conjectures. If my conjectures are true, then Song Zixin's case may have opened a gap." Qin Yang understood Su Yu's temper, he was used to thinking independently rather than working in a team.This is also the main reason why he was unable to work in the police force and insisted on being a private detective. "Okay then, you go back and rest. Tomorrow, tomorrow we must take down this Wei Pengfei in one fell swoop. You don't know, even the mayor personally intervened about Song Zixin's case. After all, her husband Qin Haotian has considerable influence in Jiangcheng .We're under a lot of pressure." Su Yu nodded, he understood this invisible pressure.The case is a labyrinth of twists and turns, before you can't find the exit, you can only bump into walls everywhere inside. "Captain Qin, I think that as long as the case of Ye Xuan's suicide is solved, the breakthrough of Song Zixin's case will be found. I believe that the evil will prevail and the truth will be revealed one day." Qin Yang didn't say anything, but shook Su Yu's hand tightly.There is no need for more expressions among men, sometimes the greatest trust is just a look. Wang Gang, who walked in from the door, sighed deliberately and said, "Captain Qin is biased, seeing Su Yu with a smile in the corner of his eyes." Qin Yang glared at him: "What are you talking about, you are not as smart as Su Yu. Hurry up and let He Li take care of you." The interrogation room burst into laughter immediately. A blush appeared on He Li's face, she turned her head and ran away.