Madness of the Heart

The air conditioner case had been disassembled, and the structure inside had been completely destroyed. The severed hand was contained in an iron box wrapped in a piece of black flannelette.

According to the forensic examination, the severed hands were Sha Chun's missing hands.

No fingerprints were extracted from the iron box, but the trace inspector found a set of fingerprints after carefully inspecting the air-conditioning case.

And this group of fingerprints can be compared with Yu Xiaocheng's fingerprints.

Yu Xiaocheng was terrified, his eyes trembled, "I didn't kill anyone! I didn't do it!"

"But why did your fingerprints appear on the air-conditioning box in the art building?" Mingshu said, "It's not the only one. Room 2 on the second floor has not been visited for a long time. The site is almost completely preserved, and your footprints are also left in the dust. on the floor."

"But, it's really not me who killed Sha Chun!" Yu Xiaocheng's expression was a little different from before. In the past, he completely refused to cooperate, but now it seems to reveal a little "please believe me".

Mingshu changed his sitting position, "I asked you, where and what were you doing from August 8rd to August 23th, you don't want to say. I also asked you, on August 8th, why did you and Sha Chun You didn't want to tell me when we met in the art building. We didn't have any physical evidence at the time, so if you really don't tell me, I can't do anything about you."

As he said that, Mingshu suddenly said harshly: "But now, the key evidence has appeared. Yu Xiaocheng, at noon on the 23rd, you left No. [-] Middle School for no reason, just to wait for Sha Chun at the Performing Arts Group!"

"No!" Yu Xiaocheng yelled, "Sha Chun wanted me to help her, but I didn't! She wanted to die, but I didn't! She was in her 30s, and she felt that hard work was the least worthwhile thing, but I still wanted to help her." Trying hard, I haven't hit the ceiling yet!"

Fang Yuanhang took a deep breath, "Sha Chun 'persuaded' you, but you didn't accept?"

Yu Xiaocheng nodded vigorously, "I didn't promise her, I still have a future, I don't believe her way!"

Fang Yuanhang shouted: "Then why do you have Sha Chun's severed hand? Why did you hide her hand in the air conditioner box?"

"I...I..." Yu Xiaocheng looked anxious, and the words that came out of his throat became more and more disorganized, "I don't know, the murderer put that thing at my door."

"Return the murderer? You are the murderer!" Fang Yuanhang said, "Why did the murderer do this? Why didn't you call the police? Instead, you hid the severed hand in your school? Do you make sense?"

Ming Shu stared at Yu Xiaocheng, raised his hand to interrupt Fang Yuanhang, "You go out for a cigarette first."

"Master?" Fang Yuanhang was puzzled, "Why?"

"Don't be so excited." Mingshu said, "Look, you yelled our suspect speechless."

Fang Yuanhang said, "This shouldn't be..."

Mingshu’s words were said by the other party Yuanhang, but his gaze never moved away from Yu Xiaocheng’s face, “He said it all, Sha Chun ‘persuaded’ him, now whether the murderer is him or not, I want to hear it, Sha Chun How to 'persuade' him."

Yu Xiaocheng immediately raised his head, staring at Mingshu in a daze.

The door of the interrogation room was closed, and only Ming Shu and the recorder were left opposite Yu Xiaocheng.

Ming Shu raised his chin towards Yu Xiaocheng, "Tell me, what is your relationship with Sha Chun?"

Probably what Mingshu said just now had an effect, Yu Xiaocheng was silent for a while, pursed his lips repeatedly, and finally said: "This year's college entrance examination, I thought I did well, and I should be able to be admitted to Beijing Political Science and Law. I was in my previous class group I saw people say that the students of prestigious universities in the capital are versatile, not only have good grades. I don’t want to be left behind, so I want to learn something during the summer vacation.”

Mingshu said: "It's such a coincidence that you have chosen Guzheng?"

"I majored in liberal arts, and I was interested in traditional culture." Yu Xiaocheng's cold sweat rolled down his neck one by one, "I have been in the third year of high school for four years, and I have never done anything unrelated to study. Things have been left behind. Me, I only have a vague idea - to learn a national musical instrument, but I don't know where to learn it. When I was young, whether it was interest classes or cram schools, they were all distributed near schools and shopping malls. Regarding the leaflets, I went to Dongxian Square to collect some leaflets, but I couldn’t tell the good from the bad, so I saw that ‘Jianjia Bailu’ was close to where I lived, so I went.”

The more Yu Xiaocheng spoke, the lower his voice, as if he had no confidence, Mingshu reminded: "Speak louder."

"Ah? Oh." Yu Xiaocheng straightened his back nervously, "I only have one summer vacation, and I just want to find the best teacher. It doesn't matter what musical instrument, but the efficiency must be high. They recommended Sha Chun to me." , said to be a professional guzheng teacher, the most powerful of 'Jianjia Bailu'."

Mingshu asked: "Who are 'they'?"

"It's 'she', not 'they', I'm used to saying that." Yu Xiaocheng corrected: "It's the receptionist."

Mingshu remembered that it was Wu Tong, the silly and sweet receptionist he met when he went back to "Jianjia Bailu" for the first time.

"Shachun is really nice. After she learned that I was a repeat student in Ninth Middle School, she asked me a lot about my studies." Yu Xiaocheng said: "I didn't know her plan at the time. Whatever she asked, I just said What."

Mingshu said: "So she gradually figured out that you worked very hard."

Yu Xiaocheng nodded several times, "She enlightened me, I am very grateful to her. But after the results of the college entrance examination came out, she..."

Speaking of this, Yu Xiaocheng seemed to be in extreme pain, his face was buried in his palms, and his shoulders trembled visibly to the naked eye.

The recorder looked at Mingshu, but Mingshu remained silent.

"My score can't get into Beijing Political Science and Law. If I volunteer for a school with a lower score, of course I can get into it, but I repeat it for Beijing Political Science and Law. If I go to another school, it's meaningless to repeat it." Yu Xiaocheng said: "I'm not reconciled .”

Mingshu knew the result a long time ago - Yu Xiaocheng filled out the Beijing Political Law even though he knew he would not be able to get into the Beijing Political Law, and finally failed.

"It was at this time that Sha Chun instilled her thoughts in you?" Mingshu asked, "Do you still remember your conversation?"

Yu Xiaocheng's reaction was not very straightforward, "That was when I was most depressed. On the one hand, I decided to repeat the exam, and on the other hand, I didn't know what to do if I failed to repeat the exam. Sha Chun, Sha Chun, she gave me Very hard blow."

"How did she hit you?"

"She talked about her life for more than 30 years, and I discovered, discovered..." Yu Xiaocheng breathed in like a person who was almost drowning, "Her past experiences are too similar to mine now."

Sha Chun's mother once said that Sha Chun has worked extremely hard since he was a child, but because he is not smart, lacks talent or understanding, his grades have always hovered in the middle.

"Sha Chun told me that for people like us who are stupid, hard work is useless. The harder we work, the more we find ourselves inferior to others. If we don't work hard, we can comfort ourselves 'I'm just lazy, not stupid'." Yu Xiaocheng suppressed: "She said, we are stupid! She also said, I haven't stepped into the society now, I don't know how much this society looks down on hardworking but mediocre people. Talented people work hard, others praise 'smart and so good' Work hard, you deserve to succeed', people without talent work hard, and are ridiculed as "people without talent only use hard work to find a sense of existence"!"

"He..." Fang Yuanhang was not in the interrogation room, but through the monitor, he could feel Yu Xiaocheng's outburst of despair, and frowned, "Why do I feel so uncomfortable hearing his words?"

The clue to the art building was discovered by Zhou Yuan, who was also watching the surveillance at this time.

For a moment, Zhou Yuan said in a small voice: "I understand him, because I am also a person who does not have much talent, but works very hard."

Yu Xiaocheng continued: "Sha Chun said that she understands me, and seeing me is like seeing her past. She has been fighting for so many years, and the more she struggles, the more desperate she becomes. I will be like her..."

"She said, we people should stop wasting our efforts in vain. The harder we work, the more we will be a joke in the eyes of others." Yu Xiaocheng raised his face to prevent the tears from falling out, and his voice was slightly choked, "She Ask me, why can others easily get into the two best universities in the capital, but I can't get into Beijing Political Science and Law after two years of high school? What else can I say besides admitting that I am mediocre?"

"So she asked you, do you want to get rid of mediocrity? Do you want to be noticed? Do you want to get rid of this hopeless desperate effort?" Ming Shu's eyes were sharp like a blade, "When trying to be the laughing stock of others, it's better to end all this lively. "

Yu Xiaocheng looked at Ming Shu in surprise, his Adam's apple rolled several times.

Mingshu said, "Is that what she told you?"

A few minutes later, Yu Xiaocheng said: "It's a similar meaning. She said that people like us should help each other and fight against this world that is full of malice towards 'mediocre hardworking'."

"Baotuan?" Mingshu asked, "Do you know her partner?"

Yu Xiaocheng nodded, "Sha Chun wants me to help kill her, just like she helps her 'friend'."

Fang Yuanhang excitedly said: "Here we come!"

Mingshu asked: "Which 'friend'?"

Yu Xiaocheng lowered his head again and didn't speak for a long time.

Mingshu said: "You've already talked about this, so is it necessary to hide it?"

Yu Xiaocheng hurriedly said: "I, I'm not trying to hide anything, I really don't know who that person is, Sha Chun only told me that that person, just like us, worked hard for half his life, and finally thought about it when he was over 40 years old. Understand that hard work is a disgrace to those who work hard."

Mingshu said every word, "Effort is a disgrace to those who work hard."

Effort is a positive attitude towards life, and diligence is a valuable quality.

But for Wu Zhen, Sha Chun, and Yu Xiaocheng, hard work has become a shame.

Yu Xiaocheng shook his head with a wry smile, "Sha Chun said that I haven't been out of society yet, so I don't understand the malice and contempt for people like us in society. In fact, why don't I understand? I took the exam with the top ten grades in the county. When I arrived in Ninth Middle School, I was quite swollen at that time, but the basic test in the first week of school stunned me. I took the bottom of the whole class... I didn't know that the class was full of top students. Ten is nothing compared to them."

"So after the basic exam, you rejected all activities and devoted yourself to studying." Mingshu said: "You almost broke away from the group."

"I have no choice." Yu Xiaocheng kept shaking his head, "I also want to play football and basketball, I also want to go to Internet cafes to play games on weekends, and I also want to win glory for the class in group activities - around the male students who win glory There are always a lot of female students around. But I can't, if I don't devote all my time to studying, I will be on the bottom, really, don't believe it."

Mingshu sighed, "I believe it."

Yu Xiaocheng's expression became more and more painful, "I can only keep my grades in the middle class if I work hard to the extreme. But those who are smarter than me, date female classmates, participate in sports games, and sleep in class, can all be admitted to the top [-] of the grade .I really... envy them."

Beside the monitor, Zhou Yuan's hands unconsciously clenched into fists.

"My teacher told me in a roundabout way that three years of high school study is not all, and I should still participate in appropriate activities; my classmates called me 'Diligent Cheng', because I was studying all the time except sleeping-even practicing English while eating Listening." Yu Xiaocheng said: "I know they all look down on me, those who persuade me to relax don't know that once I relax, I will be the last one."

Fang Yuanhang noticed Zhou Yuan's reaction, "Hey, what's wrong with you? Was he brought in?"

Zhou Yuan's face paled slightly, knowing that he had lost his composure, he quickly shook his head, "You didn't feel affected at all by what Yu Xiaocheng said?"

Fang Yuanhang thought for a while, "It's a little sad, but it won't be affected."

Zhou Yuan pressed his temple, "You don't have the same experience and understanding as him, so you can't empathize with him, but I do."

Fang Yuanhang was inspired and said to himself: "So they can easily influence each other."

"I can feel their malice." Yu Xiaocheng said with his head down, "They look down on my hard work, especially when the monthly exam results come out, I often hear people say——Yu Xiaocheng didn't do as well in the exam if he worked so hard. Whoever is good. People like us can only be understood by "similar". The person Sha Chun killed was a screenwriter, I don't know which screenwriter, I don't have time to watch TV dramas."

Mingshu said: "She even told you this."

"I want to prove to me that my hard work really won't lead me out." Yu Xiaocheng was depressed, "But, but... I still don't want to give up!"

"You turned her down?"

"I can't do it, she asked me to kill her, and then tell the next person our pain, and ask that person to help me finish it, but I still want to live!"

Mingshu asked: "Shachun went to No. [-] Middle School to find you, to persuade you to turn around?"

"Yes. I don't want others to see, so I went to the art building with her." Yu Xiaocheng said: "I made it clear to her that time, I will not participate in this matter, I have to prepare for the college entrance examination, please don't disturb her again I."

Mingshu didn't speak for half a minute, then suddenly said: "Impossible."

Yu Xiaocheng was startled, "What?"

"Sha Chun even told you about killing a screenwriter, so how could he let you go so easily?" Mingshu said, "You are already in the same boat. She told you about the screenwriter not to further convince you, but to let you go." It makes you unable to get off the boat again. You have no other choice but to help Sha Chun!"

Yu Xiaocheng opened his mouth, and his pupils shrank rapidly.

Ming Shu pressed, "Where were you on the night of August 8?"

After a short period of stiffness, Yu Xiaocheng lay down on the interrogation table with a very slow frequency.

Soon, a dull voice came from between his arms, "Sha Chun said, I should at least do her a favor. I didn't know at the time that she was harming me..."

Mingshu asked: "What's busy?"

"She said that she has found someone who is willing to help her, and she will be free soon." Yu Xiaocheng said: "She loves her hands, so she wants to keep them in the cleanest place in her heart."

"The cleanest place?" Mingshu said, "School?"

Yu Xiaocheng said: "Well, I can only help her. I have to take the college entrance examination again in less than a year, so I can't be disturbed anymore. She and I agreed, as long as we agree to this matter, we will settle the matter. .”

Fang Yuanhang said angrily: "Lie!"

"On the 23rd, I met Sha Chun at the Jiangnan Theater. She was about to be relieved and said she wanted to meet me." Yu Xiaocheng said: "She suddenly became very gentle and patted me on the shoulder, saying that if I wanted to work hard, I would Go work hard, but you must fulfill her last wish. I watched her get in the car and felt very at a loss. I didn't want to go home or review. Thinking of my classmates who played games every weekend, I suddenly wanted to try playing games. What the game feels like."

Mingshu said, "Did you go to an Internet cafe? Which Internet cafe?"

"An Internet bar near No. [-] Middle School. I can't remember the name."

"You need to swipe your ID card to surf the Internet in an Internet cafe. But there is no record of your Internet access in the system."

Yu Xiaocheng rolled his eyes in embarrassment, "I don't dare to use my ID card. It's too close to the school. The boss said that I can do the ID card for me. It only costs five yuan more."

"You didn't pay with your phone?"

"I happen to have change."

According to Yu Xiaocheng’s confession, he “wandered” all the way back to No. [-] Middle School from the Jiangnan Theater, ate a barbecue at a roadside stall on the way, went to the riverside to enjoy the wind, drank wine, and played in the Internet cafe from night to noon the next day. , I bought a pack of ten yuan cigarettes at a convenience store and went back to the rental house. I slept until night when I was awakened by a knock on the door. When I opened the door, there was no one outside, and there was a package on the ground.

Inside the package was a bloody severed hand.

"Yu Xiaocheng's level of storytelling is really lame, absurd and strange, it sounds like it's made up, but..." Ming Shu collapsed on the sofa in the deputy director's office, his posture was very casual, his fingers moved a little A little, "But... hey, fuck me."

Xiao Yu'an lowered his eyes, "But apart from absurdity, you haven't been able to find too many loopholes."

Mingshu suddenly flipped the page, "Ever since Yu Xiaocheng started talking about how he met Sha Chun, I thought he was lying, but from the beginning to the end, I didn't find any obvious loopholes. Some people's behavior is unimaginable, no matter how you look at it False, but TA did just that.”

"The field office has checked it out. Yu Xiaocheng entered Shangxue Internet Cafe at 24 am on the 3th." Xiao Yu'an said: "This time is very embarrassing. Yu Xiaocheng may rush back to No. [-] Middle School immediately after committing the crime. There is enough time. But Yu Xiaocheng has no means of transportation, he can only take a taxi when he returns to No. [-] Middle School from the Performing Arts Group, and it is almost impossible to get a taxi casually at the Performing Arts Group in the early morning."

Mingshu hugged a pillow in his arms, "This can be checked through road monitoring."

"If Yu Xiaocheng didn't lie, then the murderer must be someone else." Xiao Yu'an said, "Sha Chun failed to 'persuade' Yu Xiaocheng, so he turned to another person. This person's motives are not pure."

Mingshu rubbed the pillow tighter, "None of them have pure motives."

"No, Wu Zhen is not pure, but he didn't intentionally set the blame on anyone. Wu Zhen's last notebook is in Sha Chun's room, so it doesn't mean that someone secretly hid it there?" Xiao Yu'an said, "But Sha Chun' Before committing suicide, Yu Xiaocheng must agree to help hide his hand. What is the intention?"

Mingshu thought about it when he was interrogating Yu Xiaocheng just now, "Yu Xiaocheng knows Sha Chun's secret, Sha Chun wanted to be at ease, so...wrong!"

Xiao Yu'an nodded, "You've found the problem. What Sha Chun asked Yu Xiaocheng to promise was to hide her hands after she died. Her anxiety was that Yu Xiaocheng knew her secret, and she was worried that Yu Xiaocheng would expose her one day. But after her death, does she still need to worry about this? In this detail, cause and effect are contradictory."

"So this request should not be made by Sha Chun, but the one who did it to Sha Chun?" Ming Shu beat the pillow, "He asked Sha Chun to threaten Yu Xiaocheng, who is busy with the college entrance examination and doesn't want to offend anyone. Trouble, I can only agree in haste. In this way, the evidence will only point to Yu Xiaocheng, and it will be difficult for the police to find him?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Xiao Yu'an said, "In this way, the dominoes are actually stuck, because this person is not the 'similar' of Sha Chun and Wu Zhen, but someone with other thoughts."

The desperate people kill one person one by one, and the tragedy keeps repeating. This is only an ideal state that exists in theory.There are countless unknown factors in reality, it is already a rare situation for Wu Zhen to successfully pass the "baton" to Sha Chun.

Mingshu said: "This is more in line with reality."

"However, if we only look at the physical evidence, there is still a [-]% chance that Yu Xiaocheng is the murderer." Xiao Yu'an picked up the vibrating mobile phone and said before connecting, "After all, his 'story' is hard to believe."