Chapter Thirty-Three Signs of Murder
"My tears flowed out immediately. I have suffered enough. My parents gave me away to others when I was born. My adoptive parents always took it out on me. I have been a cow and a horse for them since I was a child. I can't let my daughter
She is also living a hard life, and all she asks for is an ice cream!"
"From that day on, I secretly bought food from outside and brought it home. I didn't dare to buy new clothes for my daughter, but I could let her eat more good things."
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In the office, Hu Pingtao stared at the little girl lying on the table doing homework. The policewoman and community workers bought a bunch of snacks, but she was not interested, not because she was busy studying, but "I have eaten all of these,
Not delicious.”
Lei Yue received a call from He Ping. Her tone was full of excitement and excitement: "Team Lei, we found three money bags, all in waterproof packaging. The specific amounts are being counted, they are all in RMB, and the visual estimate is more than two thousand
Ten thousand."
Lei Yue gave a few casual instructions and hung up the phone.
He felt a little emotional. In fact, Li Lihong didn't lie. She was indeed having a difficult life.
Li Guangyi felt the same way and lowered his voice: "Li Lihong was not directly involved in the drug trafficking case, she just hid the stolen money. Her daughter is too young and is only in the third grade of elementary school. I said that on the premise of complying with the rules, we should try our best to get a lighter sentence for her."
Sentence! Go back and say hello to the prison, educate her more, and strive for a reduced sentence."
Lei Yue did not agree directly. He thought for a long time and said slowly: "This is just a preliminary trial, and a lot of information still needs to be verified. You can contact the prison and it is best to interrogate Li Rongkai tomorrow. Li Lihong has always claimed that she
Li Rongkai
I didn’t know about the drug trafficking. Whether I know or not is a very important basis for judgment in court. It’s more than 20 million, which is a huge amount. We must be strict and detailed this time, and we can’t be like last time.
The case was hastily closed because the stolen money was not found.”
Li Guangyi nodded: "Okay."
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In the office, Li Na had finished her homework. The policewoman brought her a meal from the canteen. After eating, the little girl wanted to drink water. Hu Pingtao took a paper cup, took the water from the water dispenser, and handed it to her.
"Uncle, can you give me another cup?" the little girl said in a sweet voice.
Hu Pingtao smiled slightly and gave her a new paper cup. It was obvious that the little girl was playing some kind of game.
She overlapped the two cups, then separated them, poured the water in the cup into the other cup, babbling in words that no one could understand, opened the pencil case, took out the pencil, and stirred it back and forth in the cup.
The accompanying policewoman found it interesting. She leaned down and asked with a smile: "What are you playing? Are you playing house?"
The little girl raised her head, her chubby round face was very cute: "I'm mixing the medicine."
"Is this medicine?" Looking at the clean water in the cup, the smile on the policewoman's face became even stronger: "Can this cure diseases?"
"Yes!" the little girl answered simply: "My mother used to mix medicine like this and give it to my grandparents."
Hearing this, the smile on Hu Pingtao's face froze, and he felt that some pictures he had never thought of suddenly appeared in his mind.
Very vague and a lot of elusive information.
Ignoring the pain in his knee, he quickly stood up, limped to a nearby place, half-crouched and asked, "How did your mother mix medicine in the past?"
"It's the same as this one." The little girl pointed to the water in the cup and said seriously: "That kind of water smells very bad and is very choking. My grandparents fell asleep after drinking it."
Hu Pingtao felt shuddering all over his body.
He stared at the little girl's innocent eyes: "Nana, do you know that your grandparents have passed away?"
"I know." Li Na nodded, with a confused look on her face: "My mother also wore white clothes for me at that time and put a black cloth ring on my clothes."
The corners of Hu Pingtao's eyes twitched.
He stood up and said to the confused policewoman: "Please keep an eye on her while I go out for a while."
"Okay." The policewoman was a little confused: "What's wrong with you?"
"An emergency." Hu Pingtao did not explain. He pointed at the little girl who was playing the paper cup game and repeated in an emphasis: "Be sure to keep an eye on her, I will be back soon."
After walking out of the office, Hu Pingtao took out his mobile phone and dialed Lei Yue's number.
"Team Lei, there are new developments in Li Lihong's case."
Lei Yue was stunned for a moment on the other end of the phone, and then his tone became serious: "What did you find?"
Hu Pingtao said word for word: "I suspect that in the case where Li Lihong's adoptive parents accidentally drank fake wine, she herself was the murderer."
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Half an hour later, Wang Xiongjie and several police officers hurried into the office of the Anti-Narcotics Brigade. They also brought all the information on the case of Li Lihong's adoptive parents that had been temporarily retrieved from the computer.
Lei Yue had already made steaming tea, and several people were sitting in a circle around the table. Looking at Hu Pingtao sitting opposite, Lei Yue asked curiously: "Xiaohu, why do you think that Li Lihong killed her adopted son?"
parents?"
"Her daughter has been playing the drug-matching game." Hu Pingtao said seriously: "Games are an important part of a person's childhood. Generally speaking, the logical thinking formed around the age of three will affect a lifetime. During this time period
, children have no ability to judge good and evil. Their worldview and thinking mainly come from their parents and people close to them. For example, close relatives or kindergarten teachers. They will imitate the language and behavior of these people, even in their brains
A lasting mark is formed deep down."
"There are many games suitable for children, but few people teach children to play with medicine. Of course, this possibility is not impossible. Children of doctors or pharmacists will play this, and engineers or mathematics teachers will also teach their children to use different methods.
Containers were used to mix liquids and carry out early logic training. But Li Lihong was different. She had no education level.
The degree is not high. It can be seen from her attitude towards food that it is impossible for her to reach this level in the early education of her children. Rather than saying that she has a vengeful consumption desire for food, it is better to say that she has a strong possessive desire.
It was a sense of inferiority hidden deep in poverty, a fanatical impulse that could not be suppressed after suddenly becoming rich, and exploded in a spurt."
"One roast chicken, only the drumsticks and wings were eaten. One box of egg tarts, four and a half were eaten. One box of chocolates, only one third was eaten. These foods are not cheap, and ordinary working-class people don't dare to say that they are.
She bought them every day, and bought them in whole boxes. Li Lihong was very careful in the past few years, not daring to eat or use them, for fear of spending money to attract our attention. Later, she felt that the limelight had passed, so she
She began to consume revenge. I believe that the stories she told about her daughter are not false. However, here is the problem: Li Lihong never thought of changing her life in a smarter way. She would rather wear tattered old clothes every day.
She also secretly spends money on clothes and luxurious food that are beyond the reach of ordinary people. She satisfies her deepest desires in an extremely greedy and wasteful way."
"Her adoptive parents accidentally consumed fake wine and died, but the police never arrested the suspect. Information at the time showed that the source of the wine may be a winery in the village, and a certain proportion of alcohol and essence was mixed with it during the wine-making process.
And those drinks are early
It was bought by Li Lihong's adoptive parents two months before the incident. They originally planned to drink it during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Li Lihong bought some liver and pork from the town that day and cooked a few dishes, so they took out the wine.
I was unconscious after drinking it.”
"The autopsy results at that time showed that the cause of death was ethanol poisoning." Wang Xiongjie stopped laughing when talking about the case. He took out some information from the document bag and handed it to Lei Yue who was sitting next to him: "We were at the scene, that is, Li Lihong was at the scene.
In the old house in Nanquan Village, a small half barrel of loose wine was found that had not been finished. After testing, it was found that the proportion of industrial alcohol was extremely high. This kind of wine
Not to mention drinking, you can just use a lighter to ignite it. At that time, we also suspected that this case might be a homicide, but we couldn't find the source of the alcohol. Li Lihong and the people in the village said that the deceased couple had been drinking alcohol all year round, and they used a big drink every time.
We went out to buy wine in plastic buckets, and the quantity was huge. People in the village once asked them where they bought the wine, but they refused to tell them."
"The technical department has conducted tests on the remaining wine. Drinking less will not be a big problem, but drinking more will make the difference."
Lei Yue was confused: "It is better to be a distant relative than a close neighbor. Generally speaking, as long as the relationship is not very bad, you should not hide information such as buying wine."
"You don't know, that couple really don't know how to behave." Wang Xiongjie took the document in Lei Yue's hand, pulled out one, and tapped the middle part with his finger: "This is the transcript made for their neighbor at that time.
As I said, Li Lihong’s adoptive parents have been
I sold wine to him several times. The quality of the wine was not good, but the price was not cheap either. It was obvious that they made a profit in the process. The couple did not run a wine shop and obviously bought it from outside at a low price. This mainly made them
Drink it yourself and sell some on the way."
Li Guangyi looked at the document attentively. He pressed his temples gently with his fingers, and his brows furrowed unconsciously as his brain was thinking: "Since the neighbor bought wine from Li Lihong's adoptive parents, he should have some leftovers at home.
Lao Wang, why didn’t you think of this when you were investigating the case and conduct a comparative test on the wines from the two families?”
"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you think I have been doing nothing for so many years?" Wang Xiongjie was very unhappy when he said: "The neighbor's wine was all drunk more than a week ago, and the empty bottles were not thrown away.
Where did it go? This is one of the doubtful points in the case. I led people to search for it in Nanquan Village for several days, but found nothing. There was no result from the interrogation of Li Lihong, so the case could only be temporarily closed according to the procedures."
"Li Lihong is an extraordinary woman." Hu Pingtao's eyes revealed deep thoughts: "Judging from her handling of food packaging and various garbage, Li Lihong has a certain degree of anti-reconnaissance ability. Especially on that day.
On the shuttle bus to Nanquan Village, she pretended to sleep the whole time. This shows that she has developed a sense of alert to the external environment by self-isolation, and "pretends to sleep" as a method of self-protection."
Chapter completed!