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"Is it my fault alone? Don't think I didn't see you and that woman sneaking around in the kitchen!"

"What's sneaking around? She accidentally cut her hand, and I'm helping her with the wound!"

"Oh! She cut off her hand, but she didn't cut off her hand. How come it's your turn to court her? Could it be that her own husband is dead?!"

"Xuehui! How can you say such a thing, you really... let me down!"

"I let you down? Then tell me, what did you expect from me? I confessed everything to you on the day I got married. Didn't you say that you don't care? Now you say that you do I'm disappointed, let me tell you, I'm disappointed in you too!"

"My God, don't you feel any guilt?"

"Why should I feel guilty? I'm protecting my marriage, I'm guarding my husband, what's wrong with me? The fault is that bitch seduced you recklessly!"

"Crazy! You... are all crazy!"

Huo Haiqiao slammed the door and left, leaving only Tang Xuehui in the bedroom.

After her husband left, Tang Xuehui stood in the bedroom blankly and angrily. She looked around anxiously, as if she was looking for something, but she couldn't find anything. She just hugged her head and screamed.

A piercing and sharp scream came from the computer, almost shaking the glass of the office window into cracks. It was a sound that could only be heard in the sound effects of horror movies.

Xia Bingyang sat slumped in the leather chair, with his feet up on the edge of the table, with a cigarette in his mouth, and the white smoke shadowily covered his face.He squinted at the video being played on the computer from a chaotic white mist, and lowered the volume with the mouse in his hand.The screaming suddenly decreased like a cliff, and the woman on the computer screen stopped screaming and sat exhaustedly in front of the dressing table. Her disheveled hair, pale face, and soul-like void s eyes.

Soon, the dazed expression on her face disappeared, and the bright red hatred gradually gushed out of her eyes. She looked at herself in the mirror, as if she was staring at an enemy she hated deeply, her face became hateful, and she could even use crazy to describe.

Xia Bingyang saw that she suddenly took an hourglass standing by the mirror in front of her, and kept changing the hourglass in her hand like a nightmare. After she turned the hourglass back and forth more than ten times, she suddenly put the hourglass on the table. With a hard fall, he got up and left the camera's shooting range, and then the sound of the wardrobe opening and closing came from outside the camera.

Lou Yue and Ren Erdong pushed open the door, and saw Xia Bingyang slumped in the chair watching the video in the same position as before half an hour ago, almost motionless.

Lou Yue walked towards him and sat leaning on the edge of his desk, squeezed out half of the cigarette he was holding in his mouth, and said, "Huo Haiqiao's transcript is finished, and now his lawyer is here too. Will he let him go or not?" Judge, say something."

Xia Bingyang remained silent, and with his left hand, he stroked back the bangs that were hanging on the tip of his eyebrows, and temporarily pulled the bangs to the back, revealing a gloomy blue face covered with a layer of reflections from the computer screen.He stared at the picture in the video, pulled the progress bar back a bit, and said, "Listen."

Lou Yue leaned back a little, looked at the video on the computer, and found that Xia Bingyang pulled the screen back to the scene where Tang Xuehui and Huo Haiqiao were arguing. 'lines'.

"I confessed everything to you on the day I got married, didn't you say you don't care?"

"Crazy, you are all crazy!"

After these two sentences were played, Xia Bingyang paused the screen, looked up at Lou Yue, his eyes were dark and dark: "Did you hear that?"

Lou Yue looked at Xia Bingyang and said tentatively: "Tang Xuehui used the word 'confession', what do you think she told Huo Haiqiao?"

Xia Bingyang nodded, and pulled the screen forward again: "There are also 'you'."

As soon as his words fell, Huo Haiqiao's roar sounded, "You are all lunatics!"

Xia Bingyang paused the recording again, and said, "Huo Haiqiao was talking about 'you', and one of 'you' is Tang Xuehui, so who is the other person?"

Lou Yue felt a headache, pressed the corner of her forehead and frowned, "Does this make sense?"

Xia Bingyang's tone was very light, but he was very firm: "Yes, Tang Xuehui's motive for killing is a crime of passion. It shows that her emotions are not easy to control, but even if her emotions are not easy to control, she did not kill Zhang Lan herself, but She tried every means to create a car accident. This woman is cruel and vicious, very irritable and able to control her emotions, and she has no regrets after killing someone. You can tell from the conversation between her and Huo Haiqiao. All blamed on the dead Zhang Lan. Ordinary murderers brainwash themselves after killing, and claim internally and externally that it is the victim's fault. They do this to alleviate their guilt and at the same time show that they are guilty But look at Tang Xuehui, she is ruthless and domineering, she is not trying to shirk her responsibility to alleviate her guilt, she has no sense of guilt at all. She really thinks she has no guilt at all."

Lou Yue suddenly said: "You suspect that Tang Xuehui is..."

As she spoke, she choked on herself, an academically advanced term was in her mind, but she just couldn't remember it.

Xia Bingyang knew that her thoughts had merged with his own, but he didn't continue talking, and said to Ren Erdong: "Bring Huo Haiqiao here."

Ren Erdong went downstairs to take Huo Haiqiao, and led the people back to the office of the review team in less than 10 minutes.Huo Haiqiao was eager to leave the Public Security Bureau, and when he saw Xia Bingyang, he asked, "Officer, what else can I do?"

Xia Bingyang closed the laptop and pushed it aside, then pointed to a chair opposite the desk: "Sit."

Huo Haiqiao first rolled up his sleeves to check the time, and then spoke faster: "No, please hurry up."

Xia Bingyang lightly raised his eyes to stare at him, and suddenly accentuated his tone: "Please sit down, Mr. Huo."

Huo Haiqiao was reluctantly sitting on the chair, and since he was anxious and helpless, he said: "Officer, I have to fly to Los Angeles today, and it's almost five o'clock now—"

Xia Bingyang ignored him and interrupted him, saying: "Dongzi, pour Huo a glass of water."

Ren Erdong took a glass of water and handed it to Huo Haiqiao, and kindly gave him a piece of advice: "The police officer opposite you has a weird temper, so don't make so many demands when you get to his territory, the more you urge him, the slower you will go. "

Huo Haiqiao then closed his mouth, stopped talking, and just kept looking at his watch.

Fortunately, Xia Bingyang has a lot of business to deal with now, and he has no time to waste time with Huo Haiqiao, so he cut to the chase and started asking him for the second time: "Mr. Huo, I think you still have something to hide from me. "

Mr. Huo was taken aback for a moment, and then said anxiously: "Didn't you watch the video? The deaths of Chen Shiwen and Zhang Lan really have nothing to do with me! It's all about Xuehui—"

Xia Bingyang raised his hand a little irritably to stop him from continuing: "It is precisely because I watched the video that I suspected that you were hiding something from me."

Huo Haiqiao said: "No more! I've already given all the ins and outs of this matter—"

Xia Bingyang raised his hand again to interrupt him, with a layer of anger on his face: "Can you wait for me to finish speaking? This is my office, not yours. Now I am asking you questions, not you asking me!"

Although Huo Haiqiao knows that the police officer in front of him has a bad temper, Huo Haiqiao has at least received his courtesy from the beginning of his dealings with him until now. In addition, Huo Haiqiao has a certain status, and he will feel the wind wherever he goes. Drinking rain, so when he was in the police station, he didn't put his mind right, and he didn't seriously and solemnly accept the police's questioning.It wasn't until Xia Bingyang slapped the table and yelled angrily at him that he felt the solemnity and majesty brought by the belated law enforcement agency.

Huo Haiqiao wisely chose not to confront Xia Bingyang, because he knew that Xia Bingyang was right, this place was not his territory, and he would not get any benefit if he clashed with law enforcement agencies.He suppressed his emotions, lowered his head slightly and said, "Excuse me, officer, I'm a little anxious."

Xia Bingyang ignored him, took out the cell phone that had been vibrating from just now from his pocket, pressed it a few times, then threw the cell phone on the table with a whoosh, looked up at Huo Haiqiao and said: "I'll just say it, I found two doubts in the video. First, Tang Xuehui said that she confessed everything to you before getting married. I want to know what she confessed to you. Second, in the video, the last sentence you said before you left the bedroom It's 'you are all lunatics', the 'you' in your mouth, who else is there besides Tang Xuehui? Now answer my first question."

Huo Haiqiao received a lot of information at once, and it took him a few seconds to process it in his head before he said: "Actually, it's nothing. What Xuehui said frankly refers to that she told me that she was married to me before she married me." I have been with those people, and finally broke up because of some things. She wants to be intimate with her significant other and have no secrets from each other, so she told me everything about her."

Xia Bingyang was impatient, even a little annoyed by the afternoon's "standby" and a bunch of inextricable knots. He sneered, "Do you think you're smart? Mr. Huo."

Huo Haiqiao couldn't hold back, he looked at him depressedly, with a faint guilty look in his eyes: "Please speak directly, officer."

Xia Bingyang's right hand stroking his bangs suddenly landed heavily on the table, looking like he was angry, but not like: "I don't have time to talk to you right now, so listen carefully. Your wife Tang Xuehui must have told you something These things have something to do with her later killing of Chen Shiwen and his wife. This kind of relationship is deep or shallow, but it must exist anyway. And it is a kind of connection that makes you suspect your wife immediately after you find out that Chen Shiwen and his wife died of a trick. You said she only confessed her ex-boyfriend to you? Stop talking nonsense, she said she confessed to you and you accepted her, so I suspect that she killed Chen Shiwen and his wife with your permission .Or, she thought she had your permission."

After finishing speaking, Xia Bingyang suddenly left the back of the chair and leaned forward. He stared at Huo Haiqiao, but his eyes were extremely powerful: "I will give you one last chance, this time you must tell me all the inside information, otherwise I will Throw you into the detention center and detain you for a few days first."

Huo Haiqiao was taken aback: "How could you!"

Xia Bingyang sneered: "Why can't I? The evidence you present now can only prove that you did not participate in the murder of Chen Shiwen and his wife. But you took six years to present the evidence, which is equivalent to concealing evidence and covering up the real culprit. I can even put you As another accomplice to the crime to investigate. Your identity is very sensitive | Mr. Huo, no matter what your reason for hiding the evidence is? The fact is that you hinder the investigation work and judicial justice. In court, even if you Ask the best lawyer in the country to defend yourself, and I can guarantee that you will have to fight for at least a year from the beginning to the end of this lawsuit."

Xia Bingyang suppressed the ending, and said without emotion but full of threats: "Can you afford it?"

Huo Haiqiao has always been law-abiding, and the only thing he has done that is suspected of a gray situation is to hire a lawyer to manage his property and avoid taxes reasonably.So Xia Bingyang frightened him firmly, he really couldn't afford to fight a lawsuit for a year.

"Officer Xia, I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just wanted to save Xuehui a bit of face behind—"

Xia Bingyang was already tired of seeing his crowned and selfish face, and said: "You don't need to say beautiful words, you know what I want to hear."

Huo Haiqiao, whose self-esteem has seldom been crushed for many years, blushed, but his tone was more modest: "I know, I know, but I didn't mean to lie to you—" before he finished speaking, he heard Xia Bingyang cry out impatiently. After taking a breath, she quickly changed the subject: "Xuehui did tell me some things before she married me. At that time, I thought it was her imagining too much and guessing for no reason, so I didn't take it to heart. But I found out later that she It might be true what was said—”

Xia Bingyang tapped the table with her finger: "Mr. Huo, please cut straight to the point."

Huo Haiqiao glanced at him, let out a breath again, and finally revealed Xia Bingyang's long-awaited secret: "Xuehui told me that she saw her mother kill her father with her own eyes."

Even though Xia Bingyang had made a presupposition in his heart, he still couldn't help feeling nervous when he heard from Huo Haiqiao that Tang Xuehui saw her mother kill her husband with her own eyes.He calmly gave Lou Yue a look, and then said: "Say exactly what Tang Xuehui said to you back then."

Huo Haiqiao lowered his head slightly in fear, his face turned pale: "Xuehui said that when she was 15 years old, one night when her father and friends came home after eating out, it was midnight. Her father drank too much , began throwing up from the door. She was sleeping in the room and was woken up by that sound very quickly. She wanted to come out and help her mother, clean up the floor and bathroom that her father made a mess. But she didn't look in the bathroom Seeing her parents, she thought that her father had been brought back to the room by her mother, so she wanted to go to her parents' bedroom. Then she saw... her mother helped her father to the balcony of the bedroom , At that time, the balcony guardrails of their house were open and close, and the two guardrails could be pushed open. She saw her mother unplug | unplug the two guardrails, and then let her father stand by the guardrail..."

Huo Haiqiao stopped halfway through his speech, shivering slightly.

Xia Bingyang waited impatiently and snapped his fingers twice to urge him.

Huo Haiqiao understood, and continued to say in his humble and slow tone: "Xuehui said that she was standing at the door of the bedroom, saw her father standing by the balcony, and fell a step forward after a while, smashing through the guardrail and falling from the second floor. The upstairs bedroom fell down. She was startled, and hurried downstairs to see that her father fell in the garden, and her mother was trimming the garden in those few days, and piled up some hand saws and gardening shears at the corner of the garden wall Tools, her dad just fell on those tools, and a pair of scissors with a fork went through her dad's throat and stuck|into his neck... She said she saw blood all over the place, Soaked into the roots|stems of the roses in the garden. She stood next to her father's body and looked up, and saw her mother standing by the fence, looking down too. She said she thought her mother would say something, but her mom didn't say anything, and she didn't say anything. The ambulance came later that night, and the police came the next day. Seven days later, her dad was buried. She and Her mother lived alone for five years, and when she was 19, she moved out of the house to live by herself, and basically lost contact with her mother."

After Huo Haiqiao finished speaking, he sighed: "That was the only time I heard her talk about her parents from her mouth. She never mentioned her parents in a few steps, and she never arranged for me to meet her mother. I asked her several times, and she always said that her mother was traveling abroad, and then I stopped asking."

Lou Yue, who had just received Xia Bingyang's eye signal, came back from the outside. She had an extra document in her hand. She walked up to Xia Bingyang and handed it to him, saying, "Look at the place marked in red."

Xia Bingyang opened the file, quickly scanned down, focused on the paragraphs marked with fonts, and asked: Why didn't you say it before? "

Huo Haiqiao said: "Before what happened to Chen Shiwen, I really thought it wasn't true, maybe it was something she imagined after being stimulated. Until I found Chen Lan's spray in the drawer of her dressing table, I asked She, she confessed frankly again, and I realized what a terrible woman I married, and what was even more terrible was that everything she told me before was actually true. I think they are all crazy, but I don't want to be judged by others Knowing that I married a crazy woman who also killed my colleague, that's why I..."

While listening to him, Xia Bingyang looked at the documents and quickly extracted the key points from the marked text: Tang Xuehui's father was named Tang Youjian. Tang Youjian died in 1992. The cause of death was that he accidentally fell from the balcony after being drunk, and his carotid artery was severed.Back then, the police treated the case as an accident and did not file a case. Tang Youjian's family took back the body after a simple process and buried it seven days later.

It wasn't that the police were careless back then. If he hadn't heard Huo Haiqiao's account with his own ears, Xia Bingyang would never have imagined that Tang Youjian's death was caused by his wife.

After Xia Bingyang finished reading the documents, he handed them to Ren Erdong, looked at Huo Haiqiao and asked, "Do you have evidence?"

Huo Haiqiao looked embarrassed: "No, but Xuehui told me this matter, I didn't lie."

Xia Bingyang lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then suddenly stared at him again: "Where did Tang Xuehui go?"

Huo Haiqiao was a little dazed: "What?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Your video ends at the scene where Tang Xuehui leaves the camera range, but the sound of her opening the closet comes from the voice-over. She obviously opened the closet to change clothes and go out. You recorded and edited the video, why did you Cut off the second half? Or are you deliberately hiding Tang Xuehui's whereabouts?"

Huo Haiqiao sweated anxiously: "Officer, I did edit the video, but I don't know where she went. I also saw her leave the camera range and deleted everything behind."

"Even if your camera didn't catch it, don't you know where she went?"

"I really don't know. I left the house after we quarreled with her, and I didn't go back until I drew up the divorce agreement two days later."

After speaking, he seemed to be afraid that Xia Bingyang would not trust him, so he quickly assured him: "I'm telling the truth, and I never concealed it."

Xia Bingyang did not doubt the truth of what he said, because he could tell that Huo Haiqiao's thoughts had been hollowed out, and he was in a state of exhaustion, helplessness and emptiness after he had finished speaking.But Tang Xuehui's later traces were something he had to dig out, because he had an intuition that it was unusual for Tang Xuehui to leave rationally and crazily.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the office, and Lang Xixi appeared at the door immediately, took a peek inside, and closed the door and walked in when she saw Lou Yue nodding to her.She went around to stand on the other side of Xia Bingyang, handed him a document, and said softly: "This is the document of Tang Xuehui's mother, Ruan Yulan. She lived in Jingcheng Nursing Home in 09 and is still living in the Nursing Home."

Xia Bingyang took the information and didn't read it, and asked her directly: "Ruan Yulan is still alive?"

Lang Xixi knew what he wanted to do, and said more softly: "She's still here, but she probably won't be able to accept questions."

"why?"

"In 11 years, she accidentally fell down the stairs, paralyzed from the waist down, and lost her speech ability."

Xia Bingyang almost immediately associated the accident of Ruan Yulan's fall from the stairs to the accident of Tang Youjian's fall from the balcony, and suddenly grasped a clue in his mind: "The detailed time of Ruan Yulan's accident."

Lang Xixi immediately said: "February 11, 2."

Xia Bingyang didn't say a word, but cast her cold eyes on Huo Haiqiao again.

Huo Haiqiao seemed to have noticed something, and said almost subconsciously: "The day I recorded was also February 2th."

Xia Bingyang immediately stood up from the chair, picked up the car keys on the table and strode towards the door: "Sister Lou, you stay in the team to take charge of the work, Xixi will continue to investigate the photo studio, and if you find any clues, tell me immediately. Walk!"