Tiger Police

Chapter 319 Recognition
Hu Pingtao watched him, and said flatly: "Brake failure is indeed a very good excuse. But we have checked the wreckage of that car, and there is no problem with the mechanical system."

"Then how do I know." Xu Yongde's face was full of innocence: "At that time, a car came from the opposite side, and the road was narrow. I honked my horn, but there was no response from the other side. I could only turn the steering wheel to the right. I thought I could I avoided it, but I miscalculated the width of the road, and it turned out...Officer, I admit that I was wrong, but I really didn't mean it!"

Hu Pingtao stared at Xu Yongde for a long time, giving him enough time to calm down.

"Xu Yongde, let me remind you. Every word you say will be recorded and become evidence in court." Hu Pingtao picked up the tape recorder on the table: "You said before that because the brakes failed, So it led to a car accident. Then you said that in order to avoid the oncoming vehicle, you were forced to turn the steering wheel to the right and caused the car accident. Hehe... It only took a few minutes, and your confession did not match up. After all, is that sentence true? of?"

Xu Yongde was stunned, and quickly changed his words: "I'm talking about the brake failure! It's because the brakes are useless, so I turned the steering wheel to the right."

Hu Pingtao looked at him with elusive eyes: "You are an old driver with more than 20 years of driving experience. You have been driving a school bus in school for more than ten years. You have rich knowledge about how to deal with various situations. Experience... It was indeed rainy and slippery on the day of the accident, but this was not the reason for the accident."

"I remind you, five children died. A whole five lives! Can you sleep at night with all your deliberation?"

Xu Yongde was startled by his cold words, subconsciously flinched, and hurriedly denied: "I... I don't understand what you said. You... What do you mean?"

Hu Pingtao picked up a document from the table and raised it in his hand: "The results of the accident investigation show that you are mainly responsible for the car accident. Please note that the "responsibility" I mentioned refers to the traffic accident, not deliberate accident. Murder. There is a big difference between the two. The former only needs to serve his sentence in prison, and the judge will make a judgment according to the actual situation for how long. The latter is different, hehe... Even if it is not the death penalty, it is at least life imprisonment."

Xu Yongde screamed reflexively: "I didn't kill anyone! I didn't do it on purpose!"

Hu Pingtao's eyes were cold, and he locked Xu Yongde firmly like an awl: "The width of the school bus that happened that day was 2540mm. Even if there is an oncoming vehicle, you are not completely sure. You can stop at that time and wait for the other party to move slowly. Move over. But why didn't you stop and evade according to the operating regulations? Do you have to drive through under such circumstances?"

"The car accident you chose is ingenious. Although it is going downhill, the drop from the bottom of the ravine is not that big. More importantly, when sliding from the top of the slope, the car body just leans forward and slides down the slope. The chance of rolling over is very small. The students will be injured more or less, but the possibility of death is not high."

Unprecedented fear was released from Xu Yongde's eyes, and he was shaking all over: "...you...you are talking nonsense!"

Hu Pingtao ignored him, and continued the topic in a cold and menacing tone: "We have checked the school's maintenance records. Although this school bus has been in use for 14 years, it is in good condition overall and is very reliable in safety. Airbags and emergency braking systems are the focus of every annual inspection and maintenance. In fact, your plan is very smart, and the accident location you choose is not a problem. If everything goes well, at most the students will be injured, and you will be sentenced to prison because of a control error. Prison... for half a year, or even a few months."

"But you have calculated thousands of times, and you have missed the most important link that you have ignored, and that is the weather."

"During the period before the accident, Hong Kong City experienced continuous rainfall. The road to Xiaofeng Mountain was refurbished on the original basis, and the middle and lower parts of the ravine slope were not covered by vegetation. When the top layer of floating soil was washed by the rain, the buried area was exposed. It's rocky down there. So you'd expect the car to roll down the slope and it didn't happen, especially in the middle of the ravine ramp where the wheels hit the rocks and that caused the car to roll over."

"I didn't!" Xu Yongde's eyes were red, and he screamed desperately: "It's not like this, you are making it up on purpose. You want to frame me!"

Hu Pingtao turned a deaf ear to this, and asked coldly, "What's your relationship with Zhang Yacui?"

A very simple sentence made Xu Yongde stunned on the spot, speechless.

It never occurred to him that the police would mention it.

"Zhang... Zhang... I don't know her." Xu Yongde felt his mind was muddled, he denied it under the control of his subconscious, but his hands were shaking uncontrollably, and the corners of his eyes twitched extremely frequently.

"At this point, is there any point in denying it?" Hu Pingtao sneered and sarcastically said, "You are the school bus driver. According to the school's regulations, you have a list of all the students who will take the field trip that day. Che's students were named and confirmed one by one. Hehe...you actually said that you don't know this person."

Xu Yongde forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, his expression looked very embarrassed, especially the element of "sudden realization" seemed hypocritical: "...that... I remembered... I know her, but... just not very familiar with her. "

"The relationship between you and Zhang Yacui is not as simple as it seems on the surface." Hu Pingtao deliberately stimulated Xu Yongde, and asked quickly without giving him time to think: "Not familiar? Hehe, Xu Yongde, why are you squeezing toothpaste? , I squeeze a little bit, you talk a little bit. Shall I give you some hints: one is a student, the other is a school bus driver, and the age gap is more than 20 years old. Hehe...you can be her father now."

Without waiting for the other party to answer, Hu Pingtao picked up another document: "You and your wife divorced half a year ago, and you live alone now. But according to the results of our investigation, the relationship between you and your ex-wife is very good. As usual It's a strange thing to say that you shouldn't get a divorce."

Xu Yongde lowered his head, not daring to look at Hu Pingtao again.He felt a nameless flame rising in his heart, burning himself alive from the inside out, and might turn into ashes at any time.

"I advise you not to keep hiding it. It's really boring to do so." Hu Pingtao said seriously: "The police will not wrong a good person, nor will they let a bad person go. Since they brought you here, it shows that we I have already grasped the details. Some things have been made clear and the evidence is conclusive. It doesn’t matter whether you say it or not.”

He stared at Xu Yongde and sighed deeply: "Five people, five lives. Even if you get away with it, can you feel at ease when spending money? Those victims...including Zhang Yacui, they will not let you go if they are ghosts." !"

Xu Yongde lowered his head, still refusing to speak.

Hu Pingtao picked up the evidence bag containing the documents from the table, and suddenly raised his voice, almost roaring: "Xu Yongde, raise your head, and take a good look at what this is?"

His eyes made contact with the evidence bag, and the documents contained in it were too familiar.Xu Yongde's whole body was shocked, and his face turned ashen.

"Do you think we have nothing to do with you if you don't open your mouth, so we don't know anything?" Hu Pingtao slapped the table hard, pointed at the opposite side and roared angrily: "Even if you win the money, you have no life to spend! You ... The nature of this case is really bad. Since you refuse to explain, then I will ask the judge to file a public prosecution and give a strict sentence."

"You will stay in prison forever for the rest of your life. Don't even think about getting out. You will have to eat in prison until you die!" Hu Pingtao was really angry.

Xu Yongde was frightened, trembling and shaking his head again and again: "...I...I said...I said."

……

In the room separated from the interrogation room by a wall, Lin Zhiheng and Lu Xiaoxu stood in front of the window, watching the entire interrogation process through the large coated SLR glass.

Lin Zhiheng admired Hu Pingtao's interrogation methods very much, and praised in a low voice: "The mainland police still have a lot to learn from. When this case is over, I will report to the above and promote exchanges and cooperation with the mainland police as soon as possible. Learn from each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses."

Lu Xiaoxu lowered his head halfway, said "um", and stopped talking.

Lin Zhiheng turned his head and glanced at him: "Don't be so discouraged, think about everything."

The entanglement in Lu Xiaoxu's heart could not be untied, he let out a long sigh: "I didn't expect that Uncle Xu..."

Shaking his head, he couldn't say anything later.

Lin Zhiheng said seriously: "Actually, this is not your fault alone. We were all deceived. From the very beginning, the whole incident was classified as a traffic accident, and no one thought about criminal cases. Speaking of which, if If it wasn't for the Guo Group's involvement, I'm afraid this case will not be investigated at all, even if Xu Yongde is sentenced to prison for "traffic accident", at most he will only be locked up for two years before he can be released."

Lu Xiaoxu nodded silently.

The whole thing is just too deceptive.

The reason for the misjudgment was that Xu Yongde was in the car at the time of the incident.He is the driver, and he has no motive to intentionally create a traffic accident.

If the accident is intentional, the vehicle's mechanical system will be damaged to some extent.Because that's the only way to get away with it.

However, the police repeatedly searched the wreckage of the vehicle and found no problems in this regard.

As for the "brake failure" repeatedly claimed by Xu Yongde during the previous interrogation, it can be understood as his panic and misjudgment when the accident happened.

There are many similar examples all over the world.

Lin Zhiheng raised his hand and patted Lu Xiaoxu's shoulder lightly, persuading him: "If you want to open up, listen to what Xu Yongde said first!"

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trial room.

Xu Yongde asked for a cigarette.

He took a deep breath, and the cigarette shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon burned to a position very close to his finger.

"Can you give me another one?" Xu Yongde raised his head and looked at Hu Pingtao who was sitting opposite, his eyes full of begging.

Hu Pingtao put the cigarette case on the table and tapped it rhythmically with his fingers a few times.There was seriousness and indifference in his eyes at the same time: "You have already smoked one. You can also want to, but not now."

Xu Yongde understood the meaning of his words, lowered his head, and looked at the cigarette butt between his fingers.With a bitter face on his face, he reluctantly brought the cigarette butt close to his lips, with indescribable greed and nostalgia, with deep force, he sucked the last tobacco completely.

Let go of your fingers, and the shiny cigarette butt falls to the ground.

"I... need money!"

His opening remarks are very straightforward, mixed with undisguised self-deprecation, and more sad and helpless.

"Peiping... is my wife. She is a good woman. She is my classmate in middle school, her family is better than mine, and she is also beautiful. Speaking of which, it was a coincidence that we were able to get together."

"That year during the summer vacation, I asked Peiping to go out to watch a movie. An old movie, Liu Dehua and Wu Qianlian's "If There Is Love". The movie was good. We all felt very moved after watching it, so we didn't go home and lived outside. "

"Later, Peiping's parents found out and wanted to separate us. Peiping was unwilling to live or die, and determined to marry me."

"Thinking about it now, we were really too young at that time. If the current social environment were changed, Peiping would not look down on me at all."

"I didn't get good grades, so I came out to work after graduating from middle school. Peiping's parents gave us some money. At that time, I didn't even think about planning my future life. With the money, I ate and drank, and spent all day with friends. We played together...mainly for gambling. At first we played cards and mahjong, but later we felt that this was too slow, so we just played Pai Gow."

"When Peiping gave birth, the family's savings were only a few thousand yuan, and I lost everything else at the gambling table."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. If it weren't for Peiping and her parents to help her, life would have been difficult for a long time."

"My parents kept scolding me, saying that I was a prodigal. My father was a ruthless man. When he heard that I had lost all my property, he came to the house with a steel pipe and a knife to find me, and almost beat me to death."

As he spoke, Xu Yongde twisted his body, revealing a large old scar on the left side of his shoulder: "This was cut by my dad with a knife at that time, but fortunately the wound was not deep."

"I can be regarded as someone who died once. Since then, I have a complete understanding and never gamble again."

"Thanks to a friend, I learned to drive and found a job driving."

"Although I want to live a good life and work hard to make money, Peiping has changed."

"Speaking of it, it's not her fault. Because of gambling, I broke her heart, and her attitude towards me is no longer the same as before."

"I know she got involved with a middle school classmate from the past. I've seen that guy before. He's thin, fair-skinned, and he got very good grades in school. He's pursued Peiping before, but the same It’s different, middle school students at that time admired people from the society. It was because of this that Peiping followed me.”

"The man went to study in the UK after graduation. When he came back a few years ago, he got Peiping's phone number from other classmates. I don't know the details. I only know that they got together."

"Peiping proposed divorce, but I said nothing. I begged her to give me a chance, and I swear I will change."

(End of this chapter)