sincerity of lies

"I...we..." Xi Zhigao hesitated for a while, and then suddenly said, "We did chase you, but it was because you exhumed the corpse and robbed the grave. Whose child was exhumed by you and didn't want to beat you to death? Besides We didn't beat you, we just chased you, you walked without looking at the road, fell into a trap, and we didn't save the tomb robber?"

"Correct!"

"Exactly! When we saw our child's body being dug up, our hearts were all broken. It's lucky he didn't kill him!"

After being reminded by Xi Zhigao, all the villagers came to their senses and gave circumstantial evidence one after another.

Xi Zhigao yelled at the police again: "Comrade police, you have to trust us. Although there are a lot of corpses of those girls, that happened many years ago. The conditions in the valleys at that time were poor. Go to the nearest one." The town has to walk over mountains and ridges for two days and two nights on both legs. The girls are weak and out of breath after birth. We don’t want to. It’s a custom here to bury them together to let them go underground. With a companion, you won’t be alone when reincarnated. You said that they are all our seeds, that they can feed with a mouthful of food, and they can help the family when they grow up. Why should we kill them?”

"Go back to the bureau if you have something to say." The policeman next to him scolded sullenly.

"Okay, let's not talk about infanticide; let's not talk about chasing me to fill the soil, just think that I was walking and didn't look at the road, and accidentally fell into a pit, which weighed a ton, caused an earthquake, and caused local landslides. ..."

Anyone can hear the sarcasm in Ji Xun's words.

Xi Zhigao didn't realize it, and felt that he had caught Ji Xun's words. He was overjoyed and said, "Comrade policeman, you see he also said it, everything is a misunderstanding!"

"--how do you say this?" Ji Xun followed Xi Zhigao's words slowly.

He spread his hands.

An old hairpin with a red bow was lying in his palm.

Xi Zhigao's eyes straightened, his pupils narrowed to pinpoints, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, and he stared straight at Ji Xun's palm. That's right. He didn't show such a terrifying expression when he saw Ji Xun just now.

"I found this in a trap. An old woman's barrette."

He smiled teasingly at Xi Zhigao with a terrifying face, closed his palms, wiped off the dirt on the hairpin with the bow with his thumb, and then gently put it into Huo Ranyin's hand.

"It seems that you understand what this means. It means that if the police are asked to go to the mountains to search the mountains now, there will be some great discoveries."

"There will not be only one trap on the mountain, and there will not be only one bow in the trap. After all, you have played countless vicious cat-and-mouse tricks on many poor women over the years. You think the mountains are deep enough, and there are enough traps. Evidence will be buried in time..."

His smile faded away, and his voice turned cold, cold to the bone.

"Evidence of crimes cannot be buried. No matter how long it takes, they will stare at you in the cave. Even if your body is shed of flesh and blood, your sins will be engraved with bones."

"No." Xi Zhigao exclaimed in panic.He was about to jump up, but the policemen on the left and right sides not only had faces like steel, but also their palms were like steel, they firmly pressed him to the ground, forcing him to face the truth and face the trial.

Not only him, but all the men in the village panicked.

Xi Zhigao is their leader and the embodiment of their will. The will of this remote village has reached unprecedented unity—shameful and despicable unified into a collective oppression and mutilation of women.

"I didn't." Xi Zhigao panicked for a moment, and quickly calmed down. He stopped struggling, kept himself in place, squatted down again, and spoke with that simple and honest face. "Comrade police, you can ask the women to see if they have mobile phones and can freely communicate with the outside world; just a few days ago, they went to Ning City together, and there is this kind of trafficking law." ?"

He said later, even complacent.

"If they were really abducted, wouldn't they be so stupid that they wouldn't call for help, wouldn't they take the opportunity to go to the city and escape?"

It was Xi Zhigao who was talking.

It was all men talking.

Since Ji Xun reminded, Wen Yangyang was already going to bring the women into the house, but the women were stuck in place like logs, no one responded to Wen Yangyang, and no one entered the house.

Helpless, Wen Yangyang could only stand beside the women and accompany them.She felt the women tremble.

They didn't speak, their expressions were indifferent, as if they were used to it, but their bodies were still trembling, trembling with fear.

She was so angry that she was about to speak, but Ji Xun stood in front of her.

To be more precise, Ji Xun stood in front of the women.

"You looked in the wrong direction. I'm such a big man standing in front of you, don't look at me, look at women?"

Ji Xun's voice was still dragging, listless, and slow. Judging from his loose standing posture, he had nothing to do with Wei An's perseverance, but Wen Yangyang suddenly understood why until three years later, Tan Mingjiu said Starting from Ji Xun, he kept saying:

"That guy has a lot of problems. He's hypocritical and a princess. He can do whatever he wants. But in terms of reliability, he is really reliable."

Huo Ranyin also stood up, and the rest of the policemen also stood up. They stood in front of them, forming a human wall, blocking the sight of Xi Zhigao and others.

The women were all blocked, Xi Zhigao could only rush towards Ji Xun.

The resentment on his face could no longer be concealed:

"You said you were a novelist, right? A novelist can talk nonsense? Why are you stopping me to watch my wife? What hunting, what imprisonment, what kind of nonsense, I can't understand! Here They are all serious old couples who have served wine, and the children are all too old to know how many. Those children are now working outside, and their lives are prosperous. Some of them have grandchildren and grandchildren, and they will send them back. Raise, my dear granddaughter is right there."

He pointed to the place where children gathered outside the cordon.

It was the little girl Ji Xun had given lollipops to. There was no girl of the same age around her. The little girl stood alone, with no place to shrink back. She just stepped on her toes and lowered her head in a daze.

Ji Xun looked away.

He narrowed his eyes slightly: "You are really old, and your brain is not working well. Some victims will be silent, and some victims will not. Look at me, I seem to be born without a tongue to knock out teeth and blood Is that the kind of person who swallows? Or - you have done too many sinful things, and you forgot so quickly that just an hour ago, you committed a felony and almost made me and Mu Tu love each other?"

"This whole night, you are the one who can say the most...Since you want to say so, let's chat."

Ji Xun slowly started chatting:

"You guys besieged and chased me tonight. This is a vicious group incident, divided into principal offenders and accomplices. I am very impressed with you. I remember you commanding other people to chase and intercept me. I still remember when you filled the pit with soil. When you were in prison, you put your face in and talked to me—from every point of view, you are the mastermind, and your crime is one level higher than others. Death penalty. Happy or not, accident or not?"

A subtle seed fell among the iron-clad village men.

Interest always divides people—and so does fear.

"That's more than that, let me think about it again...Death, it's actually not that scary. Death is a momentary thing. What's scary is the preparation before death. Have you ever been in a situation? Let me talk , Let me talk about the interrogation you will accept soon. There is no light or sound in the interrogation room, no water or food, no one cares about you, you are alone, you don’t know the day and night, and you don’t know when it will end. Why? Because you used to be in those pits What the cave did to them is retribution."

Ji Xun's voice was soft and cold.

"After the interrogation, you will be detained by the judiciary. No lawyer is willing to help you bastards who are inhumane and have no money. All prisoners are entitled to despise you. They follow you every day. Your cries are ignored, and the judicial trial is far away. Indefinitely, all of this slowly destroys your will, just as you destroyed them. This is also retribution."

The policeman standing next to him wanted to stop Ji Xun, but what Ji Xun said did not comply with the regulations. Police inquiries must follow the rules and regulations, and bullying is never allowed in the prison.

But they looked at the panicked man and at the silent woman, and finally chose silence with contempt and disgust, and let Ji Xun threaten and intimidate them.

Ji Xun's words are like knives, and the knives are cut to the bone.

"Look, the reincarnation of the heavens, the retribution is not good, now, it's time for you to go to hell."

"I won't go to hell, it's you, you gravedigger! I didn't kill the baby girl, it happened decades ago, and I didn't hurt you, I don't need to go to the bureau Here, no one can catch me, there is no evidence——" Xi Zhigao panicked, and then shouted louder as if he was brave enough, but with a click, the silver handcuffs locked his wrists, and Huo Ranyin pulled the handcuffs directly from the Pull up on the ground.

There is no temperature in his face or eyes, and his temperature never leaves scum.

"The evidence is on the mountain, don't worry, we will send a large number of police forces into the mountain to conduct a carpet search, find every trap you made, and everything in the trap one by one, and fix them one by one—then, we will use the present If you have evidence, submit it to the procuratorate to prosecute you. The public prosecution does not require others to sue you, and those criminal evidences will never be silent."

Xi Zhigao was finally crushed and completely panicked, but his panic was still barbaric and oppressive. He jumped up, and when Huo Ranyin grabbed him, he did not forget to apply these things to the woman next to him: "You give me Come out, the people in charge of your family are going to be taken away, what are you looking at! Come out and explain to the police, tell the police that there is no abduction, no infanticide, we are married normally, and those dead girls died of illness—you come out -"

"Take people away." Ji Xun said sternly, "Don't cause any further harm."

Huo Ranyin and Ji Xun looked at each other.

A trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and he raised his steps slowly for a few seconds... Ji Xun's urgent attitude made him suspect that Ji Xun had hidden something.

Behind the human wall formed by the police, footsteps could be heard, and a woman stood up. Ji Xun looked back and saw that it was An Xinhe.

"Don't—" He immediately raised his voice to stop, but his stopping didn't have any effect.

An Xinhe spoke with a blank face.

Huo Ranyin noticed that Ji Xun's expression was very strange at this moment, his expression was evasive, his cheeks turned away, as if he couldn't bear to hear and didn't want to hear; but his eyes were full of clear insight, and there wasn't much on his face. Unbearable pity and sorrow—this is something that he doesn't really want to face but knows that it will inevitably happen in the end.

Ji Xun's lips moved.Huo Ran didn't hear the sound, so he tried his best to discern Ji Xun's expression, but the other party returned to that sleepy look, as if he was about to fall asleep at any moment, eager to go home.

Then, Huo Ranyin's ears caught An Xinhe's voice.

"All the women here are trafficked. Those who are obedient will marry and live; those who are disobedient will become their public property..."

There was a brief commotion at the scene, and then quickly quieted down. The glued air made everyone feel suffocated.

"The people standing here are all obedient. They did not kill the baby girls, but I did. I am a nurse, and when I delivered the baby girls, I killed them all."

She said it so calmly, so simply:

"Don't go our old way. Come clean, go clean."

A sudden choked sob sounded, breaking the frozen air.

Wen Yangyang finally couldn't help crying, she wiped her tears and said: "It's okay, you are forced, there are special circumstances, find a good lawyer, talk to the judge, the judge will give a lighter sentence, everyone will understand your."

Find a good lawyer, announce the case, peel off the scars, state the pain, and let everyone use a magnifying glass to study her pain... Ji Xun has already withdrawn his gaze from looking at An Xinhe and the others, he is looking ahead, the lights here It is bright, but the mountain in front is still dark, and I don't know when it will be illuminated.

"……yes?"

An Xinhe smiled.She is tall, strong, and she stands here, with shadows running across her face.

"But I also killed other people."

"I killed Tang Jinglong."