The Case of Love

Chapter 30: Guilty Heart
"He gave me money, but in the past few months, he said he was having difficulties in his business and stopped giving me money. I wanted to give him my savings, but he refused," Guo Lei recalled.

"It seems that you are truly in love!" Su Xiaohan said sarcastically.

Guo Lei's face darkened and she looked embarrassed when she heard what she said.

"Guo Lei, do you know that Zhao Xiaogang bought insurance? 200 million accidental injury insurance." After a long silence, Li Zhisong suddenly asked.

"I know, he told me. I was quite surprised at the time and asked him why he bought this. I thought it was unlucky. Why would a healthy person buy this insurance? Maybe my ideas are too conservative." Guo Lei does not agree with Zhao Xiaogang's approach.

"You asked him why he bought this insurance, what did he answer?" Li Zhisong asked again.

"He told me not to think too much about it and said he had his own plans. Seeing that he didn't want to talk about it, I didn't ask in detail." Guo Lei glanced at Li Zhisong and then looked away.

"Was Zhao Xiaogang with you the night before last?" Li Zhisong stared at her.

Guo Lei's eyes sank slightly as she thought: "The night before yesterday, he said the woman at home was looking for him, so he didn't come back to me. Yesterday morning, he called me and said he was coming to pick up the car. But he was in a hurry to leave, so he didn't go home with me."

"You also have a car, why don't you lend it to him?" Su Xiaohan quickly grasped the point.

"My car had a minor problem and I haven't driven it for several days and haven't had it repaired yet. I was afraid something might happen, so I didn't dare drive for him," Guo Lei explained.

After Guo Lei finished speaking, Li Zhisong turned to look at Su Xiaohan. Su Xiaohan was also looking at him. They looked at each other and were both stunned.

If what Guo Lei said was true, there must be something wrong with Zhao Xiaogang, because he neither went home nor went to Guo Lei's place. Moreover, his car appeared in Village A that day, and the car's driving trajectory was also from Village A to the dry ditch on the outskirts of Beijing.

A few dozen minutes later, Zhou Yifeng and his team arrived at F Community. According to the location shown by the surveillance, they quickly found the car driven by Zhao Xiaogang. F Community is not large, with only six buildings. Through the surveillance of the community property, they locked the unit and floor where Zhao Xiaogang was located.

"This Zhao Xiaogang is really a cunning rabbit with three burrows! He even has a house in this place!" They exclaimed as they went upstairs.

There were two households on the 12th floor where Zhao Xiaogang lived. After they got off the elevator, they knocked on the door on the left first, but no one opened the door for a long time. Zhou Yifeng asked Xu Jungang and Zhu Xiaofeng to guard the door, and he and Ma Nan went to knock on the door on the right. After a while, a man's voice came from inside the door.

"Who is it?"

"Sir, there is a express delivery for you." Zhou Yifeng still used the same old routine.

The door opened and the man reached out to take the express delivery. Zhou Yifeng looked and saw that the person standing in front of him was Zhao Xiaogang.

"Zhao Xiaogang, right?" Zhou Yifeng pressed the door.

"Yes, what's wrong?" Looking at Zhou Yifeng and the people behind him, Zhao Xiaogang looked puzzled.

"We are the police. You are suspected of murder. We hope you will cooperate with the investigation!" Zhou Yifeng took out his police ID and said sternly. When Zhou Yifeng mentioned "murder", Zhao Xiaogang's expression froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal: "Comrade police, you have the wrong person, right? How can I be suspected of murder?"

"The night before last, you drove a van to Village A, then went to the dry ditch on the outskirts of the city, and then burned the car. There was a dead person in the car, but the dead person was not you. Do you need me to explain it more clearly?" Without giving Zhao Xiaogang a chance to say anything, Zhou Yifeng motioned for Ma Nan to go in and check.

Zhu Xiaofeng and Xu Jungang had heard the noise and came over, and together with Ma Nan they searched Zhao Xiaogang's house. On the balcony, Ma Nan found two hammers used for renovation and a barrel of gasoline.

Zhao Xiaogang stood at the door, no longer as calm as before. He didn't expect that the police could find his trace in such a remote place like Village A.

Zhou Yifeng and others took Zhao Xiaogang back to the bureau for interrogation. In the corridor, Zhao Xiaogang and Guo Lei met unexpectedly.

Seeing Guo Lei, Zhao Xiaogang's eyes darkened a little. He thought he had hidden it well, and no one knew he had a lover, but he didn't expect the police to not only find out about his lover, but also find her.

After a brief eye contact, Guo Lei followed Li Zhisong away, and ultimately did not ask the questions she wanted to ask.

In the interrogation room, watching the video, Zhao Xiaogang had to admit that he had been to Village A and had driven towards Hanshuigou. However, he said that he went to Village A to do some work and drove towards Hanshuigou because that was the only way for him to go home, and he did not kill anyone.

"Who can prove that you went to Village A to do business? Also, you neither went back to your shared home with Wu Yan nor went to Guo Lei's place. Why did you come to this community? What are you doing here? Besides you, who else was in the car?" Zhou Yifeng asked several questions in succession, speaking very quickly and in a very powerful voice.

It was already dark, and the cold light in the interrogation room shone on Zhou Yifeng's face, adding a bit of sharpness to his handsome face.

Zhao Xiaogang was silent for a long time before he stammered, "I just wanted to be alone, so I didn't go home or go to Guo Lei's place. I was the only one in the car, no one else."

He only answered Zhou Yifeng's last two questions, but avoided the first question.

"But there was a dead person in the car. He was beaten to death, and then that person set the car on fire. Moreover, your cell phone and lighter were also in the car. How do you explain this?" Su Xiaohan also pressed.

"Answer me, what on earth did you go to Village A for?" Zhou Yifeng no longer had the patience to listen to his nonsense.

"If you don't want to tell me, let me help you recall what you were doing! The afternoon before yesterday was not your first time to go to Village A. You had been there twice before to scout the place. You owed a large debt and were unable to repay it, so you thought of a way to buy personal accident insurance. However, to have this money, something must happen to you, but how can you let something happen to yourself? So, you wanted to find someone to get into trouble in your place, and you thought of homeless people or scavengers. You knew there was a landfill on the outskirts of Beijing, so you wanted to try your luck. There, you met a man, and you learned that he was alone and helpless, and no one would care even if he disappeared from this world, so you set your sights on him." Zhou Yifeng had a cold face and told his speculations as if he was telling a story.

Zhao Xiaogang's face looked worse and worse. It was obvious that he was tense all the time. The string was tight and had not broken yet, but it was on the verge of breaking.

"Don't be nervous, help me think about it, am I right?" Zhou Yifeng smiled cunningly, and Zhao Xiaogang didn't dare to look at him.

Just when the atmosphere was tense, Zhu Xiaofeng knocked on the door and came in. The hammer brought back from Zhao Xiaogang's home had been professionally processed, and the blood stains on it were revealed. Sun Yidan said that the hammer matched the marks of heavy blows on the victim's head, and it was the murder weapon.

Faced with the evidence, Zhao Xiaogang finally admitted the crime he had committed.

He failed in his investment, owed loan sharks and couldn't pay them back, and also had a mistress. In order to get money, he thought of killing people to get insurance. He planned for a long time and thought of targeting homeless people and scavengers without relatives.