Detective Files II

Chapter 174
Hou Qiang's body trembled, he raised his eyes to look at Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong, with a slight pleading tone in his tone, but he said to them rationally: "I hope you can believe me, I admit that I am a person who should People who have been condemned by morality, but I am not a murderer, I have not violated any criminal law, and my conscience has always been condemned. I hope you can treat things fairly and don’t preconceive me as a criminal. Look at it, okay?"

"If I were you, I wouldn't talk so much nonsense." Tian Mi didn't say a word, and Lu Xiangdong answered coldly from the side.

Hou Qiang's face turned red in an instant, and he looked at Lu Xiangdong dissatisfied for a while, but because of his status as a "policeman", he dared not speak out.

"I did lie that day," Hou Qiang calmed himself down a little before speaking again, "The director of the political and educational department took Zhou Xiaoyue to my office and asked me how the class teacher managed the students, and asked her to put cosmetics , nail polish brought to the class, and I was still smearing it in a big way. The director said that I couldn't hold back my face, so I criticized Zhou Xiaoyue angrily. Talk back, and mock me for being inferior to a dog, a dog wags its tail for anyone who knows how to raise it..."

"How much did you take her in total?" Lu Xiangdong asked Hou Qiang mercilessly.

The expression on Hou Qiang's face almost froze.

"Does this have anything to do with Zhou Xiaoyue's case?" He asked dissatisfiedly, while avoiding the question.

Lu Xiangdong slightly twitched the corner of his mouth: "You're right, the amount is really not important anymore, ten yuan and ten thousand are both charges, and your behavior will not be changed because of the amount." Be brighter."

Hou Qiang was so choked by him that he couldn't refute it, and because he was wronged, he could only bear it and couldn't attack.

"So, Zhou Xiaoyue and you had a dispute after the director of the Political and Educational Office left that day. The central issue of the dispute was that you accepted the benefits from her?" Tian Mi was afraid that Hou Qiang would be stabbed repeatedly by Lu Xiangdong. Fanlian didn't cooperate, so he interrupted the confrontation between the two.

Hou Qiang nodded reluctantly: "Well, in fact, I didn't take her any favors, she is a little kid, where did she get the money! It's her father, please help me take care of his daughter! As a result Zhou Xiaoyue felt that since I took the benefits from her father, I couldn't care less about her asking her, and I had to greet her with a smile!"

"Facts have proved that you don't care much about her." Lu Xiangdong continued to fan the flames as if he was afraid that Hou Qiang would not be angry.

Hou Qiang took a deep breath to calm his emotions: "How do you know that I don't care too much! I was very responsible to Zhou Xiaoyue before! But she played truant and missed classes. I talked to her, but she wouldn't listen! Go to her parents, Her mother pushed it to her father, and her father said that it is inconvenient for her daughter to be a father when she grows up, and then pushed it back to her mother. After a long time, of course I don’t want to care! But anyway, she gave my class It was very difficult for me to be discredited and caught by the director of the political and educational department. I should educate a few words, right? Her father asked me to discipline his daughter well! I have no shame in my heart. Among the teachers who do the same job as me, it is estimated that there are not many who dare to say that they have never received any benefits from the students..."

As he spoke indignantly, Lu Xiangdong suddenly stretched out his hand to signal him to stop, and asked impatiently: "Just now you kept saying that you were guilty and condemned by your conscience, why didn't I hear it at all now?"

Hou Qiang was stunned. What he said just now was full of anger, and now his mouth was slightly open, as if his soul had been taken away suddenly. After about a full minute, he suddenly slumped on the chair weakly. On, slowly shook his head.

"I'm sorry, I..." He put his hands into his hair with complicated emotions and pulled his hair, "I'm also in a mess right now. On the one hand, I feel that I have something to do with Zhou Xiaoyue's murder, so I feel special. Fear and anxiety. On the other hand, I don’t want to suffer from this kind of mental torture all the time, and I’m also afraid that others will look at me through colored glasses, so I keep persuading myself, trying to make myself feel that I just did what any teacher would do. ..."

Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong were in tacit understanding this time, neither of them spoke, they faced Hou Qiang silently.

Hou Qiang let go of his hair, and when he lowered his hands, Tian Mi found that the corners of his eyes were wet. His hands changed from grabbing his hair to lowering them, and began to knead his pants.

"After you left that day, I kept thinking, you said that Zhou Xiaoyue was killed around six o'clock in the evening, and then I was very panicked." Hou Qiang's voice began to tremble, "I quarreled with her that day, I kept her until about [-]:[-]. At that time, everyone in the school was gone, and even the watchman was not there. I was angry at the time, so I drove away alone, and I didn't even think about Zhou Xiaoyue's safety. As a result , she had an accident after I left, and she was still at school. So I kept thinking, if I hadn't left her so late, if I hadn't left her and left alone, would she not have been You won't lose your life if you spoil people... Although I don't like Zhou Xiaoyue, she is my student in the final analysis, which teacher would want his students to encounter such a thing!"

"Where did you go after you left school that day?" Lu Xiangdong didn't give Hou Qiang any chance to breathe, and immediately asked after finishing his sentence.

"I drove back to my parents' house in Jiangkou District." Hou Qiang said.

"Anyone else with you?"

"There's no one else," Hou Qiang finished, and quickly changed his words, "But I stopped by a relative of my family to help my parents bring things back. I'll take the relative's house to a 10-[-]-minute drive from here. It's almost time to reach their house!"

"Why did you lie that day?" Although Tian Mi could see that Hou Qiang was in a mess, she still couldn't help asking him why he lied.

Hou Qiang showed a bit of embarrassment: "One is, I am afraid that you will suspect me because I was the last person Zhou Xiaoyue came into contact with before her death. You understand that people's words are scary. Another point, I was also afraid that the director of the Political and Education Department was there that day. It won't be good for him to hear..."

The conversation with Hou Qiang was not pleasant, but it went smoothly anyway. After asking him about his whereabouts after leaving school that day, Tian Mi said goodbye to Lu Xiangdong and left 21st Century Middle School.

When driving down the mountain, Tian Mi finally gave up her previous persistence, ignored the awkward things on the way and Lu Xiangdong, and couldn't help asking him: "You just kept prodding Hou Qiang, so you are not afraid of his impulsiveness, and you don't want to let him go." Cooperate well and tell the truth?"

"I don't see that Hou Qiang is an impulsive person," Lu Xiangdong pouted, "I only see that he is a very self-centered person who always wants to protect himself. This kind of person knows that his lies will be exposed. If you don’t give an explanation, you can’t get rid of the suspicion, so he will never say nothing, but if you don’t push his emotions to the point of collapse, he will still play up for himself, cover up, and try his best not to reveal himself real emotions."

"Oh! I see, you want to make him irritable, so you reveal your true inner feelings, and then you can use this to judge the truthfulness of what he said!" Tian Mi suddenly realized, and glanced at Lu Xiangdong contemptuously , "You are so insidious!"

"You can also use cunning, or, given the justice of my actions, a more accurate adjective should be clever."

"So? What's your conclusion?" Tian Mi tried her best to restrain her urge to argue with him, and decided to finish the business first before talking.

"From Hou Qiang's performance, I can't see any flaws. Of course, unless it's a coincidence, he, like Xing Junting, had his face burned and filled with silicone gel." Lu Xiangdong replied confidently.

"It's not proven, I still have to verify it to be sure!" Tian Mi knew that Lu Xiangdong hadn't made any mistakes in judgment before this, so saying this was to anger him on purpose, and it was also necessary for the procedure.

Of course, Lu Xiangdong would not take her tricks to heart, and would not respond to Tian Mi's words.

It was lunch break when they left 21st Century Middle School. Because of the traffic jam, the two of them were delayed for a while on the road, and halfway received a call from An Changpu, saying that he had some clues about the first scene, and he was driving there.

An Changpu also said that he called his classmate who worked in the newspaper office in the morning and told him about the case. He did not reveal any details that should be kept secret, but he emphasized the issue of the pink clothes. I believe it will be resolved soon. There will be reports in the newspapers, and the media effect they want will soon be obtained.

Back at the Public Security Bureau, Li Yun's parents hadn't arrived yet. Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong took advantage of this gap to rest for a while, mainly Tian Mi, who stayed up late one after another, which made her feel very tired, and returned to the office without much care , Sitting at the table and fell asleep with his arms on his head.

She didn't know how long she had slept for, but she felt someone knocking on the table, and she woke up immediately, and when she looked up, it was Lu Xiangdong standing beside her table.

"Li Yun's parents are here," he said.

"Ah? Where's the person?" Tian Mi was startled, fearing that she would sleep in and delay the matter, she looked around and saw no one.

"I've already taken them to the reception room inside." Lu Xiangdong pointed at his back, turned and walked towards the reception room, "I'll go there first, hurry up."

Tian Mi didn't dare to delay, she sat up straight quickly, stretched out her hands and rubbed her cheeks, trying to drive away Chaos.

The moment she straightened up, a coat slid down her back onto the chair. Tian Mi turned her head and saw that it was Lu Xiangdong's coat.

"I can't tell, this freak can take care of people." Tian Mi muttered softly, feeling hot in her heart.

(End of this chapter)