Hu Pingtao looked at him and said calmly: "Brake failure is indeed a good excuse. But we have inspected the wreckage of the car and there is no problem with the mechanical system."

"Then how do I know?" Xu Yongde's face was full of innocence: "At that time, a car came from the opposite side and the road was narrow. I honked the horn desperately, but there was no response from the other side. I could only turn the steering wheel to the right. I thought I could

I avoided it, but I misjudged the width of the road, and as a result... Officer, I admit that I was wrong, but I really didn’t mean it!"

Hu Pingtao stared at Xu Yongde for a long time, giving him enough time to calm down.

"Xu Yongde, let me remind you. Every word you say will be recorded and used as evidence in court." Hu Pingtao casually picked up the recorder on the table: "You said before that because of the brake failure,

So it led to a car accident. Later, you said that in order to avoid the oncoming vehicle, you were forced to turn the steering wheel to the right, which caused the car accident. Haha... It has only been a few minutes, and your previous and later confessions are inconsistent. Is that statement true?

of?"

Xu Yongde was stunned and quickly changed his words: "What I'm talking about is that the brakes failed! It was precisely because the brakes didn't work that I turned the steering wheel to the right."

Hu Pingtao looked at him with a somewhat elusive look: "You are an experienced driver with more than twenty years of driving experience. You have been driving a school bus in school for more than ten years. You have rich experience in how to deal with various situations.

My experience...it was indeed raining and the road was slippery on the day of the accident, but this was not the reason for the car accident."

"I remind you, five children died. That's five lives! You did this deliberately, can you sleep at night?"

Xu Yongde was startled by his cold words. He recoiled subconsciously and hurriedly denied: "I...I don't understand what you said. You...what do you mean?"

Hu Pingtao picked up a document from the table and raised it in his hand: "The accident investigation results show that you bear the main responsibility for the car accident. Please note that when I say "responsibility", I refer to the traffic accident, not intentional

Murder. There is a big difference between the two. The former only needs to be imprisoned and the specific length of time will be decided by the judge based on the actual situation. The latter is different, haha... Even if it is not the death penalty, it is at least life imprisonment."

Xu Yongde screamed reflexively: "I didn't kill anyone! I didn't mean it!"

Hu Pingtao's eyes were cold, locking onto Xu Yongde like an awl: "The width of the school bus that happened that day was 2540mm. Even if there is an oncoming car and you are not completely sure, you can stop at that time and wait for the other side to move slowly.

Move over. But why didn't you stop and give way according to the operating procedures? Did you have to drive through under such circumstances?"

"The spot you chose for the accident is very clever. Although it is downhill, the distance from the bottom of the ravine is not big. What's more important is that when you slide from the top of the slope, you just lean forward and slide down the slope.

The chance of causing tumbling is very small. The students will be slightly injured, but the possibility of death is unlikely."

Xu Yongde's eyes revealed unprecedented fear, and he trembled all over: "...you...you're talking nonsense!"

Hu Pingtao ignored him and continued the topic in a cold and threatening tone: "We checked the school's maintenance records. Although this school bus has been used for fourteen years, its overall condition is in good condition and its safety is very reliable, especially

It is the airbag and emergency braking system, which are the focus of every annual inspection and maintenance. In fact, the plan you made is very clever, and there is no problem with the location of the accident you chose. If everything goes well, at most the student will be injured, and you will be sentenced for control errors.

You can be released after being imprisoned for... half a year or even a few months."

"But you have calculated everything, and you have missed the most important aspect, which is also the aspect that you have ignored, and that is the weather."

"During the period before the car accident, it rained continuously in the port city. The road to Xiaofengshan was renovated on the original basis. The middle and lower parts of the ravine slope were not covered by vegetation. When the surface soil was washed away by the rain, the buried soil was exposed.

There are rocks underneath. Therefore, the situation you expected for the car body to slide down the slope did not occur, especially in the middle of the ravine slope, the wheels hit the rocks, which caused the car body to roll over."

"I didn't!" Xu Yongde's eyes turned red, and he screamed at the top of his lungs: "That's not the case, you are deliberately making it up. You want to frame me!"

Hu Pingtao turned a deaf ear to this and asked coldly: "What is your relationship with Zhang Yacui?"

A very simple sentence made Xu Yongde stunned on the spot and speechless.

He never thought the police would mention it.

"Zhang...Zhang...I don't know her." Xu Yongde felt that his mind was confused. He denied it under the control of his subconscious, but his hands were shaking uncontrollably, and the corners of his eyes were twitching at an extremely high frequency.

"At this point, is there any point in denying it?" Hu Pingtao sneered and sarcastically said, "You are a school bus driver. According to the school's regulations, you have a list of all students taking the bus for an outing that day, and you must cooperate with the leading teacher to check all the students on the bus.

Check out the students in Che's name one by one. Haha...you actually said you don't know this person."

Xu Yongde forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart. His expression looked very embarrassed, especially the element of "sudden realization" which seemed even more hypocritical: "...that...I remembered...I know her, but...just not very familiar with her.

"

"The relationship between you and Zhang Yacui is not as simple as it seems on the surface..." Hu Pingtao deliberately provoked Xu Yongde and asked questions quickly without giving him time to think: "Not familiar? Haha, Xu Yongde, why are you squeezing out toothpaste?

, I’ll squeeze a little, and you’ll talk a little. Do you want me to give you some more hints: One is a student, the other is a school bus driver, and the age difference is more than twenty years. Haha... you can be her father."

Without waiting for the other party to answer, Hu Pingtao picked up another document: "You and your wife divorced six months ago, and you now live alone. But the results of our investigation show that you and your ex-wife have a very good relationship. As usual

To say, you should not divorce, this is a very strange thing."

Xu Yongde lowered his head, not daring to look at Hu Pingtao anymore. He felt an unknown flame rising in his heart, burning himself alive from the inside out, and might turn into ashes at any time.

"I advise you not to continue hiding it. It's really boring to do so." Hu Pingtao said seriously: "The police will not wrongly accuse a good person, nor will they let a bad person go. Since we have brought you here, it means that we

We already have the details. There are some things that have been made clear and the evidence is conclusive, it doesn’t matter whether you say it or not.”

He stared at Xu Yongde and let out a deep sigh: "Five people, five lives. Even if you get away with it, can you feel at ease when spending money? Those victims... including Zhang Yacui, they will not let you go even if they are ghosts.

!”

Xu Yongde lowered his head and still refused to speak.

Hu Pingtao picked up the evidence bag containing the documents from the table and suddenly raised his voice, almost shouting: "Xu Yongde, raise your head and take a good look at what this is?"

His eyes came into contact with the evidence bag, and the documents contained in it were too familiar. Xu Yongde was shocked, and his face suddenly turned pale.

"Do you think we can't do anything to you if you don't open your mouth, and we won't know anything?" Hu Pingtao slammed the table hard, pointed at the opposite side and roared angrily: "Even if you win the money, you will lose your life! You

...The nature of this case is really bad. Since you refuse to explain, I want the judge to file a lawsuit and impose a strict sentence."

"You will stay in prison for the rest of your life and never think about getting out. You will have to eat in prison until you die!" Hu Pingtao was really angry.

Xu Yongde was frightened and shook his head repeatedly: "...I...I said...I said."

…

In a room separated by a wall from the interrogation room, Lin Zhiheng and Lu Xiaoxu stood in front of the window, watching the entire interrogation process through the large coated SLR glass.

Lin Zhiheng admired Hu Pingtao's interrogation methods very much and praised in a low voice: "The mainland police still have a lot to learn from. When this case is concluded, I will report to the superiors and promote exchanges and cooperation with the mainland police as soon as possible.

Learn from each other’s strengths and weaknesses.”

Lu Xiaoxu half lowered his head, said "Yeah" and stopped talking.

Lin Zhiheng turned his head and glanced at him: "Don't be so discouraged, think about everything."

The tangle in Lu Xiaoxu's heart could not be resolved, and he let out a long sigh: "I didn't expect that Uncle Xu..."

Shaking his head, he couldn't say anything else.

Lin Zhiheng said seriously: "Actually, this is not your fault alone. We were all deceived. From the beginning, the whole thing was characterized as a traffic accident, and no one thought about it as a criminal case. Speaking of which, if

If it weren't for the involvement of the Guo Group, I'm afraid this case would never have been investigated in depth. Even if Xu Yongde was sentenced to prison for "traffic accident", he would only be released after being imprisoned for two years at most."

Lu Xiaoxu nodded silently.

The whole thing is just too confusing.

The misjudgment occurred because Xu Yongde was in the car at the time of the incident. He was the driver and had no intention of causing a traffic accident.

If the accident was deliberately caused, the vehicle's mechanical system would be damaged to some extent. This is the only way to get away with it.

However, the police repeatedly searched the vehicle wreckage and found no problems in this regard.

As for Xu Yongde's repeated claim of "brake failure" in previous interrogations, it can be understood as his panic and misjudgment at the time of the accident.

There are many similar examples all over the world.

Lin Zhiheng raised his hand and patted Lu Xiaoxu's shoulder gently, and advised: "Be more open-minded and listen to what Xu Yongde said first!"

…

Interrogation room.

Xu Yongde asked for a cigarette.

He took a long puff, and the cigarette shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon burned very close to his fingers.

"Can you give me another one?" Xu Yongde raised his head and looked at Hu Pingtao sitting opposite, his eyes full of begging.

Hu Pingtao put the cigarette case on the table and tapped it rhythmically with his fingers. His eyes showed seriousness and indifference at the same time: "You have already smoked one. You can if you want, but not now

.”

Xu Yongde understood the meaning of his words, lowered his head, and his eyes fell on the cigarette butt between his fingers. With a bitter look on his face, he reluctantly brought the cigarette butt to his lips, with indescribable greed and attachment, deeply

Use deep force to smoke out the last tobacco completely.

He loosened his fingers and the shiny cigarette butt fell to the ground.

"I... need money!"

His opening remarks were very direct, mixed with unabashed self-deprecation, and more of sadness and helplessness.

"Pei Ping... is my wife. She is a good woman. She is my middle school classmate, her family is better off than mine, and she is also pretty. Speaking of which, she and I got together because of a strange combination of circumstances."

"That year during the summer vacation, I made an appointment with Peiping to go out and watch a movie. It was an old movie, Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian's "Love". It was a good movie. We both felt very moved after watching it, so we didn't go home and lived outside.

"

"Later, Peiping's parents found out and wanted to separate us. Peiping was unwilling to do anything but decided to marry me."

"Thinking about it now, we were too young at that time. If the current social environment were changed, Peiping would not look down on me at all."

"I didn't get good grades, so I started working right after I graduated from middle school. Peiping's parents gave us some money. At that time, I didn't even think about planning my future life. With the money, I ate and drank, and spent all day with friends.

We played together... mainly for gambling. At first we played cards and mahjong, but later I felt it was too slow and just started playing Pai Gow."
To be continued...