i must be in hell

At 07:30, just after the round nurse left, Zhang Ming was lying on the bed, looking out the window dully.

He seemed to be very quiet tonight. Except for a few words he answered when the nurse came, he remained silent for the rest of the time.If it weren't for the fact that he was still breathing, others would have thought he was just a corpse.

"Old Zhang, someone is looking for you."

At this time, a patient came in through the door.

"I don't know what's urgent in the middle of the night. I'm waiting for you in the reception room."

Zhang Ming slowly straightened up from the bed, turned to look at him, "Looking for me?"

"Yeah, it's urgent, you go, or it's time for the gate control."

After Zhang Ming listened, he slowly stood up from the bed. His hands were wrapped in bandages, which made it very inconvenient to get up.Seeing this, the people around him stretched out their hands to help him.

"No need." Zhang Ming endured the pain and propped himself up with his bandaged hands. "I can do it myself."

Then, facing the strangely concerned eyes of the people around him, he walked out of the ward with his bandaged hands.

He has suffered so much from this kind of sympathetic look, it has become numb.

Two months ago, when his wife came to him and said that he was going to divorce, he began to bear the sympathy of the people around him.For a man of his age and without much assets, how can he find a second wife after divorce?Even he couldn't even win the custody of the child.

A week ago, when the doctor confronted him to announce the death of his wife, he also saw the look of pity in the other's eyes.

And just today, the father-in-law told him that when the police found out that his wife did not commit suicide, but was murdered.The father-in-law's tone on the phone was also slightly pitiful.

Zhang Ming noticed all of this.

These people sympathized with him, pitied him, and thought he was a worthless man who had lost his wife.How could he argue!Can't refute, because what they think is the truth.He is really useless.

It was past seven, and there was still about an hour before the hospital's access control time.Before Zhang Ming entered the reception room, the doctor carefully examined his condition before opening the door to let him in.As he entered the door after the doctor, he heard the voice of the doctor talking to someone.

"Mr. Ning, the patient's mental condition is not very good. If there is anything to do, press the call bell next to the door, and we will rush over as soon as possible."

"OK, I see."

Zhang Ming heard a young man's voice. He looked up and saw a young man sitting on the seat facing the door. He looked only 23 or [-] years old, very young.

"Okay, I'll go first." The doctor checked the time before leaving, "The nurse will pick you up in half an hour, remember, don't have too much emotional ups and downs."

Zhang Ming nodded and watched the doctor close the door and leave before turning his gaze to the young man.

This time, he looked at the stranger carefully.With a handsome appearance, clear eyebrows and eyes, he looks very comfortable.Just by looking at his appearance, it would make people feel that he is still a young man who is not deeply involved in the world.Soon, Zhang Ming paid the price for his contempt.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang." The young man stood up and stretched out his hand to shake him. "I'm Ning Xiao, I'm here to inform you about the progress of Li Aihua's case."

"Hello, I'm really sorry, it's a bit inconvenient for me to do this." Zhang Ming waved at him with some embarrassment. His hands were all bandaged and he couldn't shake hands.

"Mr. Zhang is injured?" Ning Xiao looked at the bandage on his hand, "It looks serious, is it okay?"

"It's okay, it's just a burn. I accidentally got it myself a few days ago." Zhang Ming shook his head, changed the subject to the point, and said, "Regarding my wife's case, how is your investigation...how is it?"

"That's the point, I came here specially for this today." Ning Xiao walked up to him and sat down again. "I have good news for you, Mr. Zhang, the murderer of your wife has been caught by the police."

At that moment, Zhang Ming's pupils suddenly constricted.

"Caught it?" He leaned forward uncontrollably, his expression agitated. "It actually caught... who is it?"

Ning Xiao focused on every change in his face, raised his right foot to his left knee, and clasped his hands.

"I think you know that person, he is your wife's cousin, Li Aiguo."

"Patriotic!" Zhang Ming showed obvious astonishment, and then couldn't believe it. "No, no, it's impossible, how could it be him?"

"Why can't it be him?" Ning Xiao asked back, "According to the evidence currently in possession of the police, Li Aihua and Li Aiguo once had a fight over a month ago because of the allocation of funds for the demolition of old houses in their hometown. This can be regarded as the motive."

"As a relative of Li Aihua, he can freely enter and leave her apartment without attracting attention. This is the condition for committing the crime."

"Kaihua, he... He, that's his sister, how could he be so cruel to do this." Zhang Ming still couldn't believe it: "Have you asked him? What did he say? Is there any difficulty?" ?”

"Yes, we asked." Ning Xiao said, "He said..."

"What?" Zhang Ming became visibly excited.

Ning Xiao intentionally paused for a while, and said with a smile: "He didn't say anything, but even so, as long as the evidence is sufficient, the court can still convict him. Doesn't Mr. Zhang want to watch the real murderer come to justice?"

Zhang Ming felt unspeakable. On the one hand, he was surprised that the police knew the murderer so quickly. On the other hand, he felt a little sorry for patriotism.

"No, I just didn't expect it to be him. He is patriotic and has a good relationship with his sister. He..."

"No matter how good the relationship is, it can't stand the temptation of interests and the instigation of others. Husbands and wives are still in trouble, so it's not surprising that people do some stupid things occasionally, don't you think so, Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Ming looked at the young man in front of him, and felt that he seemed to mean something.

Ning Xiao smiled, "By the way, I seemed to have accidentally missed a word just now. I said that Li Aiguo was the murderer, but this sentence was not accurate. It should be said that he was just an accomplice."

Zhang Ming was taken aback, "Accomplice?"

"Yes, the mastermind is someone else. In fact, I also want to ask the real murderer."

Ning Xiao looked at him and smiled.

"How does it feel to kill your own wife, Zhang Ming?"

Rumble boom!

A flash of lightning struck Ning Xiao's final note.

Zhang Ming's face turned pale under the electric light, and he looked at Ning Xiao with a forced smile.

"Stop joking with me, Officer Ning. It's not funny."

"Let me correct you on two points."

Ning Xiao stood up and walked in front of him.He approached Zhang Ming and said slowly, "First of all, I wasn't joking. I was just trying to test it out, but you exposed too many flaws, and you were immediately convicted."

"Officer Ning, there must be evidence for what you say." Zhang Ming frowned, "Why should I kill my own wife?"

"Oh, there are many reasons for this. Because of divorce, because of the distribution of family property, because of child custody, or because of your stupid self-esteem." Ning Xiao said: "There are too many reasons, you have to ask yourself, not I."

"You are slandering me! You..."

"Slander?" Looking at Zhang Ming with black eyes, Ning Xiao smiled. "If you want evidence, I'll give you the numbers one by one."

"First of all, the cause of Li Aihua's death. At first everyone thought she committed suicide by eating raw almonds, but when the police returned to the scene, they found that only the table in the whole house was abnormally clean, which aroused our suspicion. Not surprisingly, the table in her living room was found At first, I was also confused, thinking that Li Aihua died of cyanide poisoning, and the murderer had returned to the scene to destroy the evidence, but unfortunately left clues instead. From this point of view, only her very close Only people can do it, and the only relative who has entered her home within a month, except her father, is Li Aiguo."

"If the case continues like this, Li Aiguo will undoubtedly be considered the murderer. This is exactly what you planned, isn't it?"

Zhang Ming retorted: "You also said that Aihua died of chemical poisoning, but I didn't go home at all during that time, so I don't have time to commit crimes."

"This is the point. Why is Li Aiguo suspected? Because he did put a small amount of potassium cyanide in Li Aihua's home. If you interrogate him, the final result is that he admits to poisoning, 'the truth is revealed'." Ning Xiao said. "But the truth, is that really the case?"

Ning Xiao shook his head and continued: "Think about it carefully, a murderer who can cleverly disguise himself as a suicide. Why did he reveal such a big flaw? Unless, he did it on purpose. Thinking about it the other way around, maybe the murderer didn't return to the scene to eliminate evidence, but to falsify evidence. The potassium cyanide on the table may not have been left over from the previous incident, but added on purpose by the murderer later. "

"Then the question is, why did he do this?"

Ning Xiao looked at Zhang Ming and said, "What do you think?"

There was lightning and thunder outside, and Zhang Ming sat motionless, like a stiff mummy.Hearing Ning Xiao's question, he just turned his eyes to him, and there was a red thread in the white of his eyes.

Ning Xiao said lightly: "Since you don't want to answer, then I will speak for you. That's because the cause of Li Aihua's death was not potassium cyanide poisoning at all! The trace amount of potassium cyanide Li Aiguo injected was not enough to kill him, it was just a pity for him. A small punishment for my sister. The murderer took advantage of this and deliberately attracted our attention. He intentionally left a large amount of potassium cyanide residue on the table in order to mislead the police during investigation."

When Ning Xiao said this, he looked at Zhang Ming without blinking. "To be honest, I almost fell for your tricks by accident. All this is to divert our attention. The real murder actually started the moment you entered the house! You took advantage of the chaos and secretly put the syringe The air in the air pushed into Li Aihua's veins, and you thought it was perfect, and you even encouraged Li Aiguo to throw potassium cyanide to vent his anger on his cousin, you were the only one to make him your shield!"

Zhang Ming trembled all over, and raised his head to look at Ning Xiao in disbelief.

"Using suicide to delay time, it is not easy to find a small pinhole when the body is already covered with spots. It is not easy to find out that Li Aiguo is just a scapegoat, and the real culprit is someone else." Ning Xiao look at him. "But no matter how difficult it is, it's not absolutely impossible. In fact, the pinholes on Li Aihua's body were discovered, and the real cause of death was also investigated. The French Open is back, and you still cannot escape the blame."

Even at this moment, Zhang Ming still wanted to quibble. "No, it's not me! All this is your guesswork, there is no evidence!"

"I want evidence!" Ning Xiao sneered, stepped forward, grabbed his bandage-wrapped hands, and said, ignoring Zhang Ming's wailing, "Isn't the evidence in your hands, Zhang Ming, tell me about your hands?" How did you get injured, was it really a burn? Actually, you were burned by potassium cyanide!"

His dark eyes stared at Zhang Ming closely, like a hunter staring at his prey. "It just so happens that this is a hospital. Do you want a doctor to do a careful examination? I bet you didn't notice the volatility of potassium cyanide when you poured it on the table, so you hurt yourself too. Not only your hands , Your skin, your airway, every part of your body, has left evidence."

"Do you still want to quibble?" Ning Xiao looked at him, and suddenly raised the corners of his mouth. "Ah, I forgot, there is another important witness—your son."

Hearing these words, Zhang Ming's eyes became flustered.

"Wei Wei, what did you do to him! Where is Wei Wei, where is my son!"

"Don't worry, he's fine." Ning Xiao said, "It's just that this child probably won't want to see you for the rest of his life."

"At first, I wondered why a child disappeared at this time, and his family didn't care. Only now did I understand that it wasn't missing at all, but that he was avoiding you!" Ning Xiao approached Zhang Ming and defeated him. Generally speaking: "Do you really think that children don't understand anything?"

That's right, Zhang Weiwei, who rushed into the room with his father, happened to be a witness who witnessed all the crimes.Zhang Ming thought that the scene was chaotic and the child was still young, so he thought that Zhang Weiwei didn't understand anything.

If you really don't understand, will the child hide?

If he really didn't understand, Li Aighui would be unwilling to say anything after he took the blame for it?

In fact, perhaps, Li Aihua's family had discovered the truth as early as when the child went to his relatives to report his father's strange behavior in a ignorant manner.But they chose to remain silent and let Zhang Ming's scheme succeed.Because they don't want to lose their father after their children lose their mother.They don't want Zhang Weiwei to bear the pain of Zhang Weiwei's life, they don't want the child to suffer the truth that his father killed his mother, and they don't want him to bear the notoriety of being the son of a murderer!

Therefore, Li Aihua's natal family chose to hide the child.The day the child is thought to be hiding, the truth will be discovered one day later.They are to protect Zhang Weiwei.

Similarly, Ning Xiao can also use this to get Zhang Ming to plead guilty.He looked at Zhang Ming and said his last words of punishment.

"If we still need evidence, we can find Zhang Weiwei. Tell him face to face that what he saw that night was actually his father killing his mother."

"No! Please, don't!"

This sentence finally defeated Zhang Ming completely.

"Don't tell him, please don't tell him! I plead guilty! Plead guilty!" He choked up when he said this. "It's my fault, I'm obsessed with ghosts. Aihua always looks down on me, thinks I'm poor, and wants to divorce me and take the child to live with another man. I can't let the child have a stepfather, and I don't want him to be wronged But I can't persuade Aihua, no matter how much I beg her! I, I can only snatch the child here...I thought that if I killed Li Aihua, I could live with Weiwei...I..."

Ning Xiao looked at him with sarcasm in his eyes. "No, you are not obsessed with ghosts at all. You have planned so many schemes intertwined with each other. Even if you give up the idea of ​​murder in one step, Li Aihua will not die. Zhang Weiwei will not lose his parents. , became the son of a murderer."

"You are angry, you want to kill Li Aihua, just because the woman who belonged to you defied you. But you dare not seek revenge on the man who snatched her, and you only choose to kill a woman who is powerless. In this way You are timid and cowardly, no wonder Li Aihua looks down on you."

"Your humble self-esteem not only hurt yourself, but also your son, Zhang Ming!"

Zhang Ming trembled all over, covered his face with his hands, and couldn't help crying bitterly any longer.Ning Xiao leaned against the window, watched the rainy night quietly, and only sighed after a long time.

The cause of this murder turned out to be a man's small self-esteem.

As for Li Aihua's family, were they really kept in the dark, or did they choose to keep silent for the sake of their children?It is estimated that it is mostly the latter.Sometimes people's feelings are really strange. If you lose one, you don't want to lose more. For this reason, you don't hesitate to make mistakes even if you cover it up.

They thought it was protection, so they would rather wrong the deceased and let Li Aihua die forever without knowing why.After all, the dead are not as important as the living, and the truth of the case is not as important as the future of the child.If Zhang Ming is the murderer and Li Aiguo is the accomplice, then everyone who knows the truth and chooses to hide it is not the murderer?

They choose to be silent, but the truth is there, it stands brightly above everyone's head and cannot be ignored.

[Even if it is buried with all the soil on the earth, the crime will eventually be exposed to the eyes of the world. 】