Hu Pingtao nodded: "Okay! Just sign the transcript, and that's it for now!"

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At around seven o'clock in the morning, it was Zhang Ligen's turn.

Hu Pingtao drank two large cups of coffee, without adding sugar and only adding a spoonful of non-dairy creamer. The taste was not bad, mainly to refresh himself.

After washing his face with cold water, he returned to the interrogation room, looked at Zhang Ligen who was already sitting on the chair opposite, and asked seriously: "How did Zheng Qianshan die?"

Zhang Ligen blinked and said cautiously: "I don't know."

"Don't beat around the bush with me." Hu Pingtao said calmly without losing his temper: "Do you know why I brought you here so early? I was busy all night last night. Wang Qingguo, Yang Dafu, and Tao Xingzheng, all three of them

Accounted for."

Zhang Ligen's thin body trembled slightly. He tried hard to control his emotions and did not speak.

Hu Pingtao saw everything and continued to put pressure on him: "He Yuxian is also controlled by us. She is next door now. When you finish asking questions, it will be her turn."

"You have always planned to deal with Zheng Qianshan, but you didn't have the ability before. To kill people, you have to rely on your own strength or spend money. In this demolition, you suddenly divided hundreds of thousands, and you want to take revenge.

So I made an appointment with Wang Qingguo, Yang Dafu, Tao Xingzheng, and He Yuxian to work together on several aspects."

"This kind of thing cannot be hidden from our eyes. The police are not just for free. You gave each of them a deposit of tens of thousands of yuan, and you only need to go to the bank and check the transfer records to find out."

Zhang Ligen pursed his lips tightly, lowered his head, and said nothing.

Hu Pingtao continued: "I know you are not a bad person. I sympathize with what happened to you back then. But this cannot be the reason for you to kill to vent your anger and commit crimes."

Suddenly, Zhang Ligen burst into a deafening roar.

"Zheng Qianshan is a scumbag, he must die!"

"God has no eyes, good people don't live long, bad people live long... Is there any fairness in this world?"

He tried his best to straighten up, but due to the constraints of the handcuffs and the fixed chair, he could only half-bend and roar.

Hu Pingtao rushed over and held him down with another policeman. In order to prevent an accident, he was shackled.

"Calm down!" Hu Pingtao yelled at Zhang Ligen: "If you have anything to say, any problem can be solved. This will not do you any good, and may even add to the crime."

The old-looking Zhang Ligen stared with bloodshot eyes: "I am already this age. If I die, I will die. Who is afraid of whom?"

"Think about your family and your relatives." Hu Pingtao repeatedly advised: "I know you are not afraid of death, but what's the point of dying like this? You are a murderer, and what about Zheng Qianshan? He is the victim!"

Hearing these words, Zhang Ligen's tears suddenly flowed down.

He lay on the one-piece fixed chair and cried loudly.

"Zheng Qianshan, this old bastard... I was not like this originally. I should have a family, a wife and children..."

"He destroyed me, I must kill him!"

"I really regret it! It would have been better if I had not gambled money!"

Seeing that his crying gradually became quieter, Hu Pingtao handed over a tissue and patiently advised: "Be more open-minded. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about the people around you."

Zhang Ligen took the tissue and wiped the corners of his eyes.

Hu Pingtao watched his emotional changes and asked coldly: "Do you like He Yuxian?"

This question was so sudden that Zhang Ligen was stunned for a moment. He raised his head and looked at Hu Pingtao. He didn't know how to answer for a while, but the panic in his eyes was very obvious and could not be hidden.

Hu Pingtao whispered softly: "I told you, the police are not for free work. Let alone you, we can find the murderer even on the rotting corpse, not to mention that technology is so advanced now, many things can be investigated

The truth comes out.”

"Zhang Ligen, you are a smart man, and you are very good at planning. From the very beginning, you wanted to shift the responsibility to our police, deliberately creating a situation where "the police caught people gambling and scared people to death." But you didn't even think about it.

There are two public surveillance cameras on the stretch from the commercial street to the alleyway of the mahjong parlor, and the stretch from outside the commercial street to the parking lot of the police box. Our patrolling comrades have sufficient alibi, and you can fool them casually.

A few words can be used as evidence?"

"Be honest! Don't even think about dragging people into the water. It's your responsibility. I know you want to bring Wang Qingguo, Yang Dafu, and Tao Xingzheng in to help you reduce your guilt... I say it fairly and justly

One sentence: You think too much."

Zhang Ligen's expression was dull, his lips were trembling slightly, but he made no sound.

He felt that his back had become stiff, and there was a pain slowly seeping from his bones toward his muscles.

"I...you..." Zhang Ligen wanted to argue, but when his eyes touched Hu Pingtao, he found that although the handsome face was smiling, it revealed an extremely dangerous element.

The young policeman's gaze was very sharp, and had a special power that could directly penetrate people's hearts. Just a simple look at each other made Zhang Ligen forced to lower his head. In an instant, he felt a real fear.

, even the hairs on my arms stood up.

Hu Pingtao sat on a chair, took out his cigarettes and lighter, took out one, lit it, and smoked slowly.

Having said all that needs to be said, confrontation in silence is also a method. Not all criminals will honestly explain the problem, but being tough is not the best choice. Psychological change is a complex and indescribable process that requires thinking and also

Need to wait.

Of course, this doesn't mean indefinite silence.

"...You...what do you want to know?" It was a very simple sentence with a hoarse voice, but it revealed Zhang Ligen's thoughts at the moment.

Hu Pingtao's eyes began to turn cold, and his tone and tone of voice were no longer as gentle as before, and became as cold and hard as rock: "I remind you again, this is not an ordinary case, let alone manslaughter. You

, He Yuxian, Wang Qingguo, Yang

Da Fu and Tao Xingzheng conspired to kill Zheng Qianshan. Even if Zheng Qianshan had defrauded you of a large amount of money, his crime was not worthy of death. And the most important point is that you are just an ordinary person.

The power to decide a person’s life or death.”

Zhang Ligen curled up, no longer as wild and ferocious as before. His voice was a little weak, and he asked timidly and unconvincingly: "I...if I said...I mean, confessed everything...how many sentences would I get?"

Year?"

"It depends on your attitude." Hu Pingtao looked directly at him, his tough tone unchanged: "If you confess, you will be lenient, if you resist, you will be strict."

Zhang Ligen no longer has any trump cards in his hand.

After a long silence, he finally gave up resistance.

"Sanshan Village is a poor place. Although it is just on the edge of the city, every household is the same. The biggest problem is finding a wife."

"He Yuxian and I were classmates in elementary school, but we lost contact after we entered junior high school. In the fall of that year, I went to the grain depot of the Agriculture Bureau to sell grain and met her. At first, I thought she looked familiar and I didn't dare to recognize her. She took the initiative to call me.

Talking about women’s transformation, she is really beautiful... Of course, the difference between whether a woman was beautiful at that time and now is very different. She has a thick waist, is good at crop work, has fair skin, and has a big butt.

She also has a big braid, which shows that she is well-kept."

"Once we go back and forth, we will be fine."

"Actually, I didn't know what love was at that time. I just felt happy to be with her. We kissed each other, and we barely took off our clothes and slept together. She urged me to go to her house to propose marriage, saying that it couldn't go on like this.

, sooner or later something will happen, you still have to get married, and only after receiving the red book can it count."

"He Yuxian's father looks down on me, saying that I am too poor, and is afraid that my daughter will marry and live with me to suffer hardship... This is the truth, and it is not a deliberate attempt to embarrass me. I thought that living people can't suffocate to death, just like Yuxian

We discussed and asked her to wait for me for a few years, and I gave up the farm work and went to work outside. I have to work hard, but I have to make something of myself."

At this point, Zhang Ligen's eye circles turned red again: "In those years outside, I lived like a beggar. Steamed buns were cheap, only a dime a piece, and later they went up to 2 cents. I ate steamed buns all the time, morning, noon, and night.

Two each. Flat

I often work on the construction site, and occasionally eat some vegetables with my co-workers. Most of the time I buy a bag of salt, go to the vegetable market to pick up unwanted vegetable leaves, bring them back, pick off the rotten spots, wash them, and tear them into small pieces.

Pickle the pieces and eat them with steamed buns."

"When you are thirsty, drink tap water."

"In this way, I finally saved more than 20,000 yuan. This was a huge amount of money at the time. It was enough to buy one in the city, let alone build a house in the village."

"Zheng Qianshan is a very conscientious person... I went home that year and met him at the entrance of the village. This person has been wandering outside for a long time and is homesick. He will feel that the people he knows, especially fellow villagers, are particularly friendly. Zheng Qianshan is here

The village has a bad reputation, being a second-rate man, gambling, and seducing widows... But I didn't think about that at that time, I just said whatever he asked."

Hu Pingtao sighed secretly: "You told him that you are going to build a new house?"

"I said I wanted to marry a wife." Zhang Ligen lowered his head, shrugged his shoulders, and sobbed softly: "I...I am a man, and I have not let down Yuxian. When I said I would save money to marry her, I really meant...

Wuwu... She really made a lot of money with her own skills... I... I want to use the money to build a house... Wuwu, and it is the best and biggest house in the village. I want her to be prosperous.

Get married and be the envy of all women."

"When I set off from Guangzhou, I called Yuxian and told her the approximate time of my return. In fact, I panicked on the phone and delayed my arrival home by two days."

As someone who has experienced this, Hu Pingtao understood this quite well and asked sympathetically: "Do you want to give her a surprise?"

Zhang Ligen wiped away his tears with his sleeves, raised his head, and said stubbornly and painfully: "Yu Xian's father looks down on me, and I want to give Yu Xian some face. Let her father take a good look at it. I, Zhang Ligen, am an upright man."

, is a real man."

The self-exaggeration in these words was higher than reality. Hu Pingtao twitched the corner of his mouth and said nothing. He even complained a little in his heart——Zhang Ligen seemed to be a sensible guy, but why did he go there so early? The slogan was loudly shouted.

Tian Xiang, in the end, was not down and out. He said he was nice, but in fact he was a useless person with no hands-on ability.

"Zheng Qianshan said he hadn't seen me for many years and wanted to invite me to dinner." Zhang Ligen continued: "I couldn't help but go with him. It happened to be the market that day, and he made an appointment to drink with a few people. I ate with them.

Listening to Zheng Qianshan and those two guys keep talking about all kinds of things about playing money and playing cards. They even took out a deck of playing cards and started gambling at the dinner table."

"A deck of cards is spread out on the table, and each person draws one card. Whoever has the higher point wins. Nine points is the highest, and the one wearing clothes (jqk) counts as half a point, which is smaller than a. Draw once to press
To be continued...