dead innocent

Wu Xiaoshuang was brought back by Qiao Shishi before Yang Shu arrived. She didn't know that the lie was exposed and Sun Shibin was arrested, but she was alerted that Chu Xingyun looked at her suddenly with a lot of viciousness and hostility.

Chu Xingyun didn't say anything, but gave Qiao Shishi a wink, and Qiao Shishi took her into the No. [-] interrogation room where there was no one.

About 10 minutes later, Fu Yi also came back, bringing Xia Xinghan and Xia Xinghan's accompanying lawyer back from the hospital.

The moment Xia Xinghan stepped into the lobby, the sky suddenly darkened, followed by heavy rain, which instantly wet the ground.

Chu Xingyun stood at the end of the lobby, under a signboard with red letters of "Strictly enforce the law and enforce the law for the people", as if welcoming them, he silently watched every suspect who was arrested and brought to justice from all directions.

As soon as Xia Xinghan was settled, he walked into the city bureau calmly with a black umbrella, slowly walked up the steps in the shower, pushed open the glass door, and stepped into the lobby.

Chu Xingyun recognized the umbrella in Yang Shu's hand, it was the umbrella that He Cheng always kept in the trunk.

"Where's He Cheng?"

Yang Shu walked up to him, turned the umbrella upside down against the wall where the rain was pouring down continuously, hugged her arm that was wet by the water vapor, lowered her eyes slightly and said, "Mr. He sent me to the door and left. "

Chu Xingyun took a look outside under the continuous rain curtain, and he seemed to be able to see He Cheng's SUV speeding on the road with the rain rolling over it. He Cheng could see it. He asked Ji Linchuan to monitor Jiang Zhaonan, but it was just a void barrier, and the procuratorate had no idea. There was nothing he could do about it, and only He Cheng came forward to fight against Jiang Zhaonan on behalf of the power of the He family, in order to deal with him.

At this time, He Cheng rushed to the frontline battlefield. If he didn't want to be trapped in the police station by the torrential rain, he had to fight quickly.

be quick!

Chu Xingyun brought Yang Shu to the door of the interrogation room and asked her to look in through the glass window on the door: "Think about it carefully, did this woman appear at the dinner party on May 5."

Yang Shu focused and carefully looked at the profile of Wu Xiaoshuang sitting on the chair, frowned slightly, and said cautiously: "Everyone wore masks that night, and they all dressed up carefully, I'm not sure if I saw her. "

Fu Yi didn't know when he came behind them. Hearing this, he found a photo from his mobile phone, which was a dress taken by Wu Xiaoshuang in a dry cleaner, and said, "Look at this dress, is there any woman wearing it that night. "

Yang Shu took a serious look and recalled, "The style of this skirt is very common. There were two or three girls wearing this kind of skirt that night. As for her..."

As she said that, she looked suspiciously at Wu Xiaoshuang in the interrogation room again, and suddenly raised her eyebrows: "I remembered, there was indeed a girl wearing this dress that night, it should be her."

Chu Xingyun asked: "How can you confirm that it is her?"

Yang Shu looked at him and said softly, "Mr. He and Mr. Jiang went upstairs to talk about things that night. I stayed in the banquet hall on the first floor by myself. There were not many people present at the time. I remember a girl sitting in the banquet hall avoiding the crowd. On the sofa in the corner, she has been protecting her lower abdomen with her hands, I guess she may be unwell, or she may be pregnant, out of maternal instinct to protect the child in the womb, and this girl—”

She looked at Wu Xiaoshuang again: "Her figure is very similar to that girl that night, especially the way she protects her belly with her hands, very similar."

Chu Xingyun also observed Wu Xiaoshuang from the window, and indeed found habitual movements on her body that she hadn't noticed before. As Yang Shu said, out of maternal instinct, she almost always used her hands to protect her lower abdomen, because she Insufficient pregnancy, pregnant belly is not obvious, so this little trick is hard to be noticed.

It turned out that it was not Zhou Sisi who attended the banquet that night, but Wu Xiaoshuang.

Chu Xingyun only thinks it is absurd. They have been following the traces of Zhou Sisi going up to the mountain to attend the banquet, to prove the connection between Zhou Sisi's death and the banquet, to prove that Zhou Sisi and Sun Shibin are in the same position, and the evidence that their interests are not contradictory can only prove that Zhou Sisi and Sun Shibin attended at the same time Only the banquet can overthrow the possibility of Sun Shibin killing Zhou Sisi, because if Sun Shibin wants to kill Zhou Sisi, he will never bring him into the banquet to create many witnesses, and he will not be so stupid as to collude with Jiang Zhaonan and kill him in front of Jiang Zhaonan. Jiang Zhaonan threatened him to steal state funds.

This idea is actually very simple, but Sun Shibin still doesn't know, can't guess, and can't confirm whether Zhou Sisi's cooperation with him is part of Jiang Zhaonan's plan. In other words, he was jointly designed by Jiang Zhaonan and Zhou Sisi, please enter in the urn.

They were eager to find evidence to prove that Zhou Sisi's death had nothing to do with Sun Shibin, but they misjudged the direction from the beginning. It was not Zhou Sisi who had direct contact with Jiang Zhaonan, but Wu Xiaoshuang, the family member of the victim who had been ignored by him.

Fu Yi handed him a file he had collected, and he took it and flipped through it roughly, then rolled it up in his hand, pushed the door open and walked into the interrogation room.

The door opened, and a ray of light came in, followed by the sound of wind and rain outside the secret room.

Wu Xiaoshuang raised her head and looked at Chu Xingyun, who was walking towards her slowly and thoughtfully. Her face showed the tension and solemnity that should be in a law enforcement agency. Her white and delicate face looked so beautiful. Simple, innocent, and kind.

Chu Xingyun slowly stood in front of her, his bottomless eyes looked at her face calmly for a moment, then asked softly: "Your father killed your fiancé?"

Wu Xiaoshuang seemed a little uneasy to be alone with him, looked at the closed door and saw no one came in, so she had to answer: "Yes."

Chu Xingyun's expression became softer, and he even smiled a little, and asked again: "He still forced you to have sex with him?"

Wu Xiaoshuang's expression remained undisturbed, her clear eyes looked at him without any avoidance, and she said with a bit of shame in her voice, "I was very young at that time, I didn't understand, and I didn't resist. The relationship between my father and me has always been It lasted."

Chu Xingyun brought out a chair from behind the interrogation table and placed it in front of her. At a very close distance, he sat on the chair with his legs folded, his right hand resting on his chin, looked at her with a peaceful face and smiled slightly: " Are you not his biological daughter?"

Maybe it was because his attitude was too gentle, Wu Xiaoshuang gradually let go of his guard, unknowingly let go of his twisted hands, still stroking his lower abdomen habitually, a layer of remembrance appeared in his eyes, and said: "I don't know my own biological Who are the parents, in fact - I grew up in an orphanage, when I was very young, a couple often visited me, they said they would adopt me soon, and told me not to go with others, but I waited until I was 12 years old, They never showed up again, and then my adoptive father came to the orphanage to look for me, he seemed to know me, but I didn’t know him, I didn’t wait for that couple, they seemed to have forgotten me, so I could only talk to him Let's go, and then my adoptive father took me to Yinjiang."

Chu Xingyun squeezed his brows as if he was tired, and still whispered softly: "So you don't know who your biological parents are, what is the relationship between them and your adoptive father?"

Wu Xiaoshuang asked in surprise, "My biological parents? And my adoptive father? Is there any relationship between them?"

Chu Xingyun lowered his eyes, and his eyes fell on her thin wrist: "Who gave you that bracelet?"

Wu Xiaoshuang subconsciously touched the silver ring that she had worn for more than ten years, her expression was very flat, and said: "The worthless silver bracelet, the dean said he found it on me when he picked me up at the gate of the orphanage, maybe It’s something my parents left me, he asked me to wear it all the time, so I’ll wear it, and if they come to me later, they’ll have a certificate.”

Chu Xingyun nodded slightly, pursed his lips and smiled slightly, and asked her: "Are you still waiting for them to come back to you?"

There are too many off-topic chats, and Chu Xingyun's attitude is too abnormal, so Wu Xiaoshuang's vigilance that was confused for a while quickly recovered, and he looked at him cautiously, the warmth in his eyes had faded, and said: "No more."

Chu Xingyun looked into her eyes, not allowing her to evade: "You really shouldn't wait any longer, because they have passed away."

For the two biological fathers and biological mothers who have never met before, let alone feelings, Wu Xiaoshuang has no impression of them at all, so when Chu Xingyun told the news of their death, she did not have rich and abundant emotions. She just stared for a while, and then lowered her eyes He lowered his head and said, "Oh."

Chu Xingyun stared at her gentle eyebrows for a while, then opened the file in his hand, picked out a photo and handed it to her: "Look, are you familiar?"

Wu Xiaoshuang glanced at him, took the photo suspiciously, and saw a pair of men and women cuddling and smiling in the photo, her eyes lit up suddenly, she pursed her lips as if trying to laugh, and said: "They are, they used to look at me often the couple."

Chu Xingyun nodded and said: "Look down, look at this woman's hand."

Wu Xiaoshuang obeyed his instructions and looked down, the faint smile on the corners of her lips froze instantly, as if the earth with the brilliance of spring suddenly ushered in the cold spring, freezing and obliterating all those fragile and fresh lives.

Chu Xingyun said: "Did you see the silver bracelet on her hand? If I'm not wrong, she is your mother. Do you want to know how they died?"

All this was too sudden for Wu Xiaoshuang, and Chu Xingyun's gentle and kind mask was torn apart, as if he didn't see the tears flashing in her eyes, he adjusted a comfortable sitting position, took a deep breath to accept Prepared for the long speech that came down, met her surprised and searching eyes, slanted her lips and smiled, and said in a cold voice without any emotion: "There was a car accident, a tragic car accident, your parents and your two-and-a-half-year-old brother They all died in a car accident, and Wu Yaowen, your current adoptive father, is the one who litigated the murder case for them."

I don't know what kind of mood Wu Xiaoshuang was in after listening to this story. When Chu Xingyun told her, he only felt desolate in his heart.

"In short, Wu Yaowen lost the lawsuit, was deprived of his lawyer's license, squeezed out by the criminal defense industry, suppressed and retaliated by local snakes, and finally had to leave his hometown. Perhaps to pay for his crimes, he adopted the daughter abandoned by the deceased client in the orphanage and brought her here. When I arrived in Yinjiang, I found a mother for her, but a few years later, my wife accidentally discovered that he was gay, which led to my wife divorcing him." Then, his voice paused, and his tone became deeper: "You know your adoptive father is Gay?"

Wu Xiaoshuang was in a stupid state at this time, receiving too much information at the moment, her emotions couldn't keep up with the reaction, and her mood couldn't keep up with the changes, so she could only look at Chu Xingyun with confused and suspicious eyes.

Chu Xingyun replied on her behalf: "You shouldn't know, otherwise you wouldn't make up the lie about being raped by your adoptive father."

Although Wu Xiaoshuang's mind was barren at the moment, when she heard the word 'lie', the blood on her face faded, her eyes suddenly became calm, she looked at Chu Xingyun as if she wanted to explain, but because her inner emotions were too turbulent, too It is complicated, and the defense that has been contacted in advance cannot be said.

Chu Xingyun suddenly left the back of the chair, leaned his upper body towards her, and put himself at a very close distance to her, so close that he could almost hear her rapid breathing, asking in a tone colder than the rushing rain outside. Her soul: "How did you lie to your adoptive father, let him willingly abandon the professional ethics he has adhered to for half his life, challenge the law to falsify the truth, and let him stand up and bear the crime of murder? How did you do it? Oh—— I get it, you take advantage of his love for you, the love of a father for his daughter, even though he is not your biological father, but he loves you very much, you lied to him that Sun Shibin is dead? And you killed him ?So he volunteered to stand up and take the blame for you? Your adoptive father is very pitiful—until just now, he still insisted that he killed Sun Shibin. He thought that Sun Shibin was really dead. He completely trusted you, no Doubt anything you say, even if you tell him that you killed your fiancé, he will try his best to help you get rid of the crime without hesitation. Say, isn’t he very pitiful? The first half of his life was deprived of his career for defending your parents, and the second half of his life was deprived of his innocence in his later years for defending you. If you knew his relationship with your family, wouldn’t you lie to him? gone?"

Wu Xiaoshuang still didn't speak, but her breathing became more rapid, and the mist in her eyes became thicker.

Chu Xingyun's eyes were dark, cold, without a trace of light or heat, and looked at her expressionlessly, and said: "No, you will still lie to him, because you are already in the relationship between your fiancé and your adoptive father. I have made a choice, but I just don't know what else you can't do to protect your fiancé."

With tears in her eyes, Wu Xiaoshuang struggled bitterly and feebly for the last time, and said with trembling pale lips, "Shibin is already dead."

Chu Xingyun looked at her motionless for a moment, showing a cold smile from the corner of his lips, stood up suddenly and walked to the glass wall behind the interrogation table directly opposite her, knocked on the wall, the wall The color light flashed, and the whole picture of the interrogation room next door was reflected in the transparent mirror.

So, Wu Xiaoshuang saw that the man sitting on the chair with handcuffs was Sun Shibin who she said had been killed by her adoptive father, and his adoptive father was standing by the wall with the support of Qiao Shishi, with his back bent and his hands out of place. Naturally held stiffly in front of him, even though the shackles on his hands have been removed, it seems that there are still an invisible shackles on his hands, which are so heavy that he can't let go of his hands or straighten his back. Leaning on Qiao Shishi like a bloody old animal, panting heavily, he looked at Sun Shibin with those stiff and cloudy eyes. His eyes were like mirrors covered with dust, reflecting the old and dirty There was no sign of anyone, no emotion of anger or sadness. He had been tortured by his children's lies and deceptions, like a walking dead pulled out of a coffin.

This old man who could have been hidden from the world, lost the merits accumulated in his life, repaid the guilt, and upheld the goodness, just like this in a scam set by his children, he disappeared without a trace.

The moment Wu Xiaoshuang saw Sun Shibin, she stood up from the chair as if she was frightened, because the movement of getting up was too fast, the sky was dark and dizzy, and she almost fainted.

She raised her limp arms and leaned on the back of the chair to support her heavy body. Tears fell down unexpectedly, but her face was still blank, as if she didn't even know where the sadness came from, and why she shed tears .

Chu Xingyun gave her a deep look, then went to the door and opened the door of the interrogation room, and called Xia Xinghan who had been waiting outside the door for a long time. Xia Xinghan's lawyer wanted to follow, but he stopped him.

Xia Xinghan still didn't trust Chu Xingyun, and regarded him as a monster of the same kind as Zheng Xihe, and was about to refuse to talk to the police alone, when Chu Xingyun said to him: "Don't you want to know who the real murderer of Chen Xuan is? ?”

Xia Xinghan looked at him suspiciously: "Isn't it He Cheng?"

Chu Xingyun looked into his eyes and said word by word: "If He Cheng is the murderer, I will accompany him to die in front of you."

The death oath he swore gave Xia Xinghan the impetus to step into the interrogation room, so he saw a woman standing in the center of the room. This woman was in a daze, with surprised eyes. Although she was crying, there was no sadness on her face. It's like a dedicated actor who can't get rid of the sad emotions after entering the play for a while, but has already pulled away from the role, forgetting why he is sad, and just shed tears in vain and pale.

Chu Xingyun stood between the two of them, and the positions of the three formed a triangle, and each side refused to move closer to any one, and each side was very strong.

"Now, recount the process of you killing Zhou Sisi."

He said to Xia Xinghan.

Xia Xinghan was not afraid of committing a murder case at all, he was even very proud and proud, Zhou Sisi's soul was just an insignificant memorial to him, if not for Chu Xingyun's intervention, he could even kill He Cheng smoothly.

"You can tell me as many times as you want."

Xia Xinghan's eyebrows, which were similar to Chu Xingyun but completely different, were filled with blood-red mist. The killing had already turned this handsome boy into a monster that devoured the essence.

"Sister Xuan has a good relationship with me. She told me everything, including that she was coaxed by Zhou Sisi and introduced her to some big shots. It was she who told me that he met a man wearing a butterfly mask at a masquerade banquet. That man I like her very much, and I asked her out for dinner the next day, but I never received her call again, until her body was found on the floating beach in the lower reaches of the river. I knew who killed her, but the police did not. , you policemen are even inferior to me, the mask I found in He Cheng's study is enough to convict him, but you turn a blind eye to it—"

Chu Xingyun interrupted him coldly: "Don't change the topic."

Xia Xinghan snorted coldly, and continued: "I approached Zhou Sisi because I wanted to know who the people Sister Xuan was in contact with before she died. Later, she introduced me to Jiang Zhaonan, and Jiang Zhaonan introduced me to He Cheng. I actually had enough time to kill him that night, but it was too cheap to kill him quietly. I wanted to reveal his true colors, so I stole the mask, took his fingerprints, and drove him Zhou Sisi was picked up by his car and taken to the highway in the blind spot, just like He Cheng's way of killing people, first raped her and then killed her."

"So you admit that you killed Zhou Sisi, imitating the method of Duke Butterfly, in order to lure Duke Butterfly out."

Xia Xinghan confessed: "That's right."

Chu Xingyun looked at Wu Xiaoshuang again: "Now you retell what you saw and heard at the banquet in Rose Manor."

It took Wu Xiaoshuang a long time to realize the situation she was in. She still couldn't believe that Chu Xingyun had dismantled her lies to the last layer, leaving only the last layer of truth. Chu Xingyun seemed to know everything, he was like a The monster who can read people's mind, the horror with precise insight, and the weirdness with keenness, she suddenly felt a deep fear of this policeman whom she had always kept at a distance, a deeper fear than a lie being exposed.

She stepped back to the wall, covered her belly with her arms, buried her head, and resisted stubbornly.

However, Chu Xingyun didn't have time to reason with her at this time, he frowned suddenly, with a fierce and sharp attitude: "If you don't tell the truth, we have the right to detain you, and even put you in a detention center. So, do you think you still have the conditions to let your child stay in your womb until delivery?!"

This trick may work for every new mother, and Wu Xiaoshuang is no exception. It's just that she is smarter than ordinary women. When she is in a desperate situation, she still doesn't forget to deal with the police, saying: "If you give me leniency , I will cooperate with you."

Chu Xingyun narrowed his eyes slightly, as if amused by her, he sneered and said, "What kind of leniency do you want?"

Tears welled up in Wu Xiaoshuang's eyes, but she was still stubborn: "I don't want to go to jail."

Chu Xingyun was unmoved and said: "You are not qualified and have no position to negotiate with me now. If you don't say it, your fiancé will also say it. Anyway, your fiancé is involved in economic crimes and the amount is huge. He doesn't care if there is one more charge. , maybe I can’t wait to confess you to share the criminal responsibility, do you want to try? Try how despicable and selfish human nature is? Just look at yourself and you will know, you can’t stand the test at all!"

He was right, Wu Xiaoshuang did not dare to try, Chu Xingyun beat back her bluff, fell into a moment of mourning, silently squatted down and hugged herself, the armor all over her body was dismembered like a peeling wall of fragmented.

Chu Xingyun glanced at the watch irritably, the pointer was about to point to seven o'clock.

He suddenly approached Wu Xiaoshuang, wrapped in a strong evil spirit: "Who brought you to the banquet? Sun Shibin? He helped Jiang Zhaonan transfer Jiang's property, so he got an admission ticket? Then he has no reason to take you to the banquet, unless you come from At that time, the idea of ​​creating Sun Shibin's fake death and letting your adoptive father take the blame, so you need a motive to kill Sun Shibin, and being taken to a banquet by him to make obscene insults is a good motive. You stayed to attend the banquet, right? So you have seen Jiang Zhaonan, the man with the butterfly mask!"

Recalling that night, Wu Xiaoshuang couldn't lift her head with hatred and shame, and tremblingly said: "Yes, I have seen him."

"Continue to say, he was also the one who helped you create video perjury and put Zhou Sisi's death on Sun Shibin?!"

"Yes, it's him."

After winning over a witness, Chu Xingyun turned to Xia Xinghan again, aimed at Xia Xinghan's eyes full of surprise, and said, "Did you hear that? Jiang Zhaonan was the one wearing the butterfly mask at the banquet, and he pushed Zhou Sisi to a dead man body, in order to end this crime and make Duke Butterfly, who was brought out of the water by you, sink into the water again. Only a real murderer will do everything possible to cover up all the clues that can lead to the murderer. Can’t you figure out such a simple logic? ?!"

Xia Xinghan was in a trance for a while, and then became sober for a while. The murderer he had always believed in was overthrown by Chu Xingyun, which made him unwilling to believe and dare not believe it.

"Why should I trust you, you and He Cheng are—"

"you are right."

As Chu Xingyun approached him, he sneered and said: "He Cheng and I are in a relationship of physical and mental collusion. Both of us are both prosperous and damaged. Neither of us can escape, so what the hell are you still afraid of? No matter what If you beat me or He Cheng, we are both finished. Now there is evidence that Jiang Zhaonan was also the murderer of Chen Xuan. Why don't you dare to stand up and identify him? You are a witness, and I guarantee you the strictest protection. , and I am a policeman, of course I will do the thing of going up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire. If I pull Jiang Zhaonan off the horse, I will avenge you. If I can't pull Jiang Zhaonan off the horse, I will die. As long as I die, He Cheng Surely life would be worse than death, anyway, you benefit from both sides, and you have avenged Chen Xuan anyway, why are you still hesitating?"

Xia Xinghan was persuaded by him, blood-red mist appeared in his eyes again, and he said harshly: "Who says I dare not, I will accuse Jiang Zhaonan of being Duke Butterfly and a murderer right now!"

"Okay, then shall we file a case?"

"Stand up now!"

Chu Xingyun suddenly yelled out the door: "Brother Fu!"

Fu Yi opened the door and walked in.

"File a case and immediately lead someone to search Rose Manor!"

Chu Xingyun strode out of the interrogation room, took out the mobile phone that had been vibrating in his pocket 15 minutes ago, and the caller ID was He Ying.

"Where are you?"

He Ying's tone remained calm.

Chu Xingyun hurried to the entrance of the lobby, "Jiang Zhaonan's case can be investigated, where is he now?"

He Yingdao: "I lost contact half an hour ago. Didn't I ask you to contact the procuratorate to come forward? Why did He Cheng get involved?"

Chu Xingyun looked at the gust of wind and rain outside the glass gate, picked up the black umbrella erected by Yang Shu in the corner of the wall, a layer of scorching heat appeared in his dark eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, He Cheng will be fine."