Siheyuan: Hang Jia Dongxu, smash Banggeng to death!

"Zhu Zi, it's Sister Qin's fault that you were arrested. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been arrested."

After calming down, Qin Huairu was filled with hatred, but now that she was imprisoned, revenge seemed impossible.

Moreover, the evil spirits will not let them go. Now they can only wait to die in this dark room, unable to do anything.

Silly Zhu said carelessly, "Sister Qin, it's okay, I did it willingly, I don't blame you."

"Thump!"

"Qin Huairu, He Yuzhu, come out here."

Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu were taken into two adjacent interrogation rooms. The officers in charge of interrogating Sha Zhu were Wang Gang, a veteran criminal police officer from the police station, and Xiao Li, a young recorder.

"Name."

"He Yuzhu... People in the compound and the factory call me Silly Zhu."

"age."

"Twenty-eight."

"Do you know why I brought you here?"

Sha Zhu sat on the cold iron chair, the handcuffs on his wrists gleaming coldly. He swallowed hard. "I...I just acted on impulse...I wanted to scare those two kids..."

"Stubborn to the end!"

Wang Gang sneered, "Trying to commit a crime in front of the police in the police station? Do you think we police are blind?"

The recorder, Xiao Li, buried his head in his pen, which scratched softly.

"Tell me honestly, what deep-seated grudge do you people from the courtyard have against the Lin family?"

Wang Gang leaned forward, his eyes piercing. "What could make you want to kill someone even in a police station? Don't tell me it's for a married woman."

Sha Zhu's forehead was sweating: "No...no deep-seated hatred, just a neighborhood dispute, and Sister Qin is a widow now, not a married woman."

widow?

Wang Gang was taken aback. Was this the key point?

Something's off about you, kid.

"Neighborhood conflict?"

Wang Gang slammed his fist on the table, the loud bang echoing in the cramped space. "He Yuzhu, if you're going to kill someone, you call this a neighborhood dispute?"

Sha Zhu shuddered.

"Confess and you will be treated leniently; resist and you will be treated severely."

"If you confess now, it counts as a voluntary surrender, but once we investigate... that's a different story."

A long silence.

In the interrogation room, Sha Zhu was sweating profusely...

Next door, Qin Huairu was also facing interrogation.

"Comrade Qin Huairu, what did you mean by what you just said in the duty room?"

"What do you mean by 'asking your parents to let Xiao Dang off the hook'? Aren't Lin Tian's parents already deceased?"

Qin Huairu, with her hands handcuffed, placed her hands on the table, looking as if all her strength had been drained away.

She knew she might not be able to get out.

Instigating murder, especially in the police station—that's a serious charge against her. Since that's the case...

She suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with a desperate, crazed look: "I'll tell you... I'll tell you everything, but you have to promise me you'll help me find my child. I need to see Xiao Dang alive or dead..."

The interrogating officer said, "Finding the child is our duty, but your statement must be true."

Qin Huairu gave a bitter laugh and began to tell her story.

At first she hesitated, but as her memories deepened, details she had deliberately forgotten came to mind.

Or rather, the sins she once participated in with a clear conscience have come to light one by one.

Two hours later.

Qin Ming's expression grew increasingly grim as he looked at the two interrogation records that had just been compiled using the Great Memory Restoration Technique.

"You beast..."

He slammed his fist on the table. "A bunch of beasts!"

Qin Ming's hands were trembling, not from fear, but from anger.

He had been a police officer for over a decade, and had seen vicious criminals, heartless human traffickers, and inhuman Japanese soldiers, but this was the first time he had ever seen an entire compound full of beasts.

The key point is that this No. 95 courtyard house has been recognized as an outstanding and civilized courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang every year.

That hat is covering me up.

The records show that the testimonies of Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu corroborate each other, and the contents are appalling:

The death of Lin's father was not an accident at all.

Due to a work-related conflict, Yi Zhonghai falsely accused Lin's father of stealing factory supplies to Factory Director Yang.

Without conducting an investigation, Director Yang directly transferred Lin's father to the most dangerous boiler-turning position.

The day before the accident, Lin's father reported to the workshop director that there was a problem with the boiler safety valve, but Yi Zhonghai suppressed the repair request on the grounds of "delaying production".

After Lin's father died, Yi Zhonghai took all the compensation money that the factory had given to Lin's father under the pretext of "helping with the funeral".

He spent less than a dollar to buy a tattered mat, hired a cart to take him to the crematorium, and used the remaining money to set up an eight-table banquet in the courtyard.

Everyone in the hospital ate meat and drank alcohol.

Lin Tian and his two children didn't even get a sip of soup.

That wasn't all. Jia Zhangshi was the first to rush into the Lin family's house, and together with the neighbors, they ransacked the Lin family's entire savings. Lin's mother died of anger as a result.

Three elderly men tricked eight-year-old Lin Tian into signing a lease agreement.

Yan Bugui was in charge of drafting the document, and he deliberately wrote the words very sloppily; Liu Haizhong was in charge of intimidation, saying, "If you don't sign, we'll kick you out and make you sleep on the streets."

After Lin Tian pressed his fingerprint, Yi Zhonghai secretly modified the contract: he added a checkmark to "2 rooms" to change it to "3 rooms", and rented one of the rooms to the Jia family; he added a vertical line to "one-year lease" to change it to "ten years".

Worried that Lin Tianxiao's lease agreement was not legally valid, Yi Zhonghai also pressed his fingerprint on it with the finger of Lin's deceased mother and handed it to Director Wang of the street office.

Afterwards, Lin Tian was falsely accused of being a chicken thief and was beaten to death by Jia Dongxu, Liu Guangtian, and Yan Jiecheng. He was sent to the crematorium by Yi Zhonghai, but somehow he came back to life and was sent back.

The nightmare for the courtyard house began that very night.

Evil spirits commit crimes...

Four people died in one day...

Qin Ming put down his notes, his voice icy: "Wang Gang, this is no longer an ordinary neighborhood dispute."

This is premeditated murder, fraud, robbery, child abuse... enough to warrant several executions.

I will immediately report to the Municipal Bureau and conduct a full investigation into all those involved in the case at the courtyard house, and arrest them all.

Furthermore, the strangeness of this matter is beyond what can be determined through investigation alone; the culprit is most likely an evil spirit...

"besides,"

As Qin Ming was speaking, the on-duty police officer, Xiao Zhang, knocked on the door and came in: "Captain Qin, Captain Qin, Director Wang from the neighborhood committee is here, and he brought the body of the child we've been searching for..."

What?

Where?

Qin Ming rushed out of the office, with Wang Gang following behind.

One hour ago.

Exhausted and having barely slept all night, Qin Huairu fell into a short sleep after returning to the small dark room following the end of the interrogation.

Just now, she woke up from a nightmare, covered in cold sweat.

In the dream, Little Dang stood in complete darkness, reaching out to her: "Mommy...I'm so cold...it's so dark..."

"Little Dang!"

Qin Huairu sat up abruptly, panting heavily.

Sha Zhu, standing nearby, was startled: "Sister Qin? What's wrong?"

"I dreamt of Xiao Dang...she was calling me..."

Qin Huairu started crying again, "Zhuzi, do you think Xiaodang might already be..."

"No way! Definitely not!" Sha Zhu hurriedly said, "Dreams are always the opposite of reality, Xiao Dang will definitely be fine."

Despite saying that, Sha Zhu wasn't really sure himself.

She's been missing for almost six or seven hours. Where could a two-year-old girl have gone?

"Qin Huairu, your child Xiaodang has been found. Come out and see her one last time."

Wang Gang opened the iron door of the small dark room, and a beam of light shone into the confinement room, bringing Qin Huairu not hope, but despair.

She collapsed to the ground, then scrambled to her feet and stumbled out of the small, dark room, crying out in anguish, "Xiao Dang! Mommy's Xiao Dang! Don't leave Mommy, sob sob..."

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