Madness of the Heart

The air-conditioning case has been disassembled, and the internal structure has been completely destroyed. The iron box with the broken hand is wrapped in a black flannel.

According to forensic verification, the severed hand was the missing hand of Sha Chun.

No fingerprints were extracted on the iron box, but after inspecting the air-conditioning case carefully, the tracer found a set of fingerprints.

And this set of fingerprints can be compared with that of Yu Xiaocheng.

Yu Xiaocheng was terrified, his eyes trembled, "I didn't kill anyone! I didn't do it!"

"But why did your fingerprints appear on the air-conditioning cabinet of the Art Building?" Ming Shu said, "It's not that much. Room 219 on the 2nd floor has not been visited for a long time. The site is almost intact, and your footprints are also left in the dust. On the floor."

"But, it really wasn't me who killed Sha Chun!" Yu Xiaocheng's expression was a little different from before. In the past, he completely refused to cooperate, but now it seems to show a little "please believe me".

Ming Shu changed his sitting posture, "I asked you where you were and what were you doing from August 23 to August 24. You don't want to say. I also asked you, August 14, why are you and Sha Chun together? You don’t want to talk about meeting in the art building. We didn’t have any physical evidence at the time. If you don’t tell me, I can’t help you.”

As he said, Ming Shu suddenly said sternly: "But now, the key evidence has emerged. Yu Xiaocheng, you left Jiuzhong at noon on the 23rd for no reason, just to wait for Sha Chun at the Performing Arts Group!"

"No!" Yu Xiaocheng yelled: "Sha Chun wants me to help her, but I don't! She wants to die, but I don't want to! She is in her thirties and feels that hard work is the least worthwhile thing, but I I want to work hard, I haven't touched the ceiling yet!"

Fang Yuanhang took a sharp breath, "Sha Chun'persuaded' you, but you didn't accept it?"

Yu Xiaocheng nodded vigorously, "I didn't promise her, I still have a future, I don't believe her!"

Fang Yuanhang shouted: "Then why did you have Sha Chun's severed hand? Why did you hide her hand in the air-conditioning case?"

"I...I..." Yu Xiaocheng looked anxious, and the words squeezed from his throat became more unorganized, "I don't know, it was the murderer who put that thing at my door."

"Also the murderer? You are the murderer!" Fang Yuanhang said, "Why did the murderer do this? Why didn't you call the police? Instead, you hid the severed hand in your school? Do you make sense to you?"

Ming Shu stared at Yu Xiaocheng, raising his hand to interrupt Fang Yuanhang, "You go out and smoke a cigarette first."

"Master?" Fang Yuanhang was puzzled, "Why?"

"Don't be so excited." Ming Shu said, "Look, you have yelled at our suspects so much that they couldn't speak."

Fang Yuanhang said: "This shouldn't be..."

The words of Mingshu were spoken by the other party Yuanhang, but he did not look away from Yu Xiaocheng's face, "He said it all, Sha Chun'persuaded' him, and now I want to hear it regardless of whether the murderer is him or not, Sha Chun How did he'persuade' him."

Yu Xiaocheng immediately raised his head and stared at Ming Shu in a daze.

The door of the interrogation room was closed, and only Ming Shu and the recorder were left opposite Yu Xiaocheng.

Ming Shu raised his chin towards Yu Xiaocheng, "Let's talk about it, what is the relationship between you and Sha Chun."

Probably it was Ming Shu’s remarks that had an effect. Yu Xiaocheng was silent for a while, her lips twitched, and finally she said: "I thought I did a good job in the college entrance examination this year, and I should be able to pass the Beijing political law. I was in my previous class. I saw everyone saying that the students at the capital's prestigious universities are versatile and not only good grades. I don't want to be left behind, so I want to learn something during the summer vacation."

Ming Shu said, "Did you choose Guzheng by such a coincidence?"

"I studied liberal arts, and I was originally interested in traditional culture." Yu Xiaocheng's cold sweat slipped from his neck. "I have been in high school for four years. I never do anything unrelated to learning. I have been fresh by the outside world. Things are left behind. I, I only have a vague concept—to learn a kind of national musical instrument, but I don’t know where to learn. When I was a child, hobby classes and cram schools were all advertised near schools and shopping malls. Single, I went to Dongxian Square to collect some leaflets, but couldn't tell what was good from bad. I saw'Jiajia Bailu' near where I lived, so I went."

The more Yu Xiaocheng said, the lower his voice, as if he had no confidence, Ming Shu reminded: "Be louder."

"Ah? Oh." Yu Xiaocheng straightened his back nervously, "I only have one summer vacation time, so I want to find the best teacher. It doesn't matter what instrument is, but the efficiency must be high. They recommended Sha Chun to me. Said to be a professional Guzheng teacher, the most powerful one of "Jianjia Bailu"."

Ming Shu asked, "Who are'they'?"

"It's'she', not'them', I'm used to saying that." Yu Xiaocheng corrected: "It's the receptionist."

Ming Shu remembered that it was Wu Tong, the silly Baitian receptionist that "Jianjia Bailu" met for the first time.

"Sha Chun is indeed very good. After she learned that I was a repeater in the Ninth Middle School, she asked me a lot about my studies." Yu Xiaocheng said: "I didn't know her plan at the time. I just said what she asked. what."

Ming Shu said: "So she gradually figured it out, you worked very hard."

Yu Xiaocheng nodded several times, "She enlightened me, and I am very grateful to her. But after the college entrance examination results came out, she just..."

Speaking of this, Yu Xiaocheng seemed to be in extreme pain, his face buried in his palm, his shoulders and back trembling visibly.

The recorder looked at Mingshu, but Mingshu said nothing.

"I can't get my grades in Jingzheng Law. If I volunteer to fill a lower school, I can certainly go to it, but I repeat it for the sake of Jingzheng Law. If I go to other schools, it will be meaningless." Yu Xiaocheng said, "I am not reconciled. ."

Ming Shu knew the result a long time ago—Yu Xiaocheng still filled in the Jingzheng Law even knowing that he could not enter the Jingzheng Law, and finally failed the ranking.

"It is at this time that Sha Chun instilled her thoughts into you?" Ming Shu asked, "Do you still remember your conversation?"

Yu Xiaocheng’s reaction was not so straightforward, “That was when I was most depressed. On the one hand, I decided to repeat it again. On the other hand, I didn’t know what should I do if I failed to repeat it. Sha Chun, Sha Chun gave it to me. It's a heavy blow."

"How did she hit you?"

"She talked about her life for more than 30 years, and I found that..." Yu Xiaocheng, like a drowning person, quickly inhaled, "Her past experience is too similar to mine now."

Sha Chun's mother once said that Sha Chun has worked extremely hard since he was a child, but because of his lack of intelligence, lack of talent or understanding, his grades have been hovering in the middle.

"Sha Chun told me that for people like us with dull talents, our efforts are in vain. The harder we work, the more we find ourselves inferior to others. If we don't work hard, we can comfort ourselves,'I'm just lazy, not stupid'." Yu Xiaocheng repressed: "She said, we are stupid! She also said that I have not stepped into the society now, and I don’t know how hard-working but mediocre people are looked down upon in this society. Talented people work hard, and others boast, “I’m still so smart. Work hard, you deserve to be successful. People who are not talented work hard and are ridiculed as “people who have no ability will only use diligence to find a sense of existence”!"

"He..." Fang Yuanhang was not in the interrogation room, but through the display screen, he could also feel the despair erupting from Yu Xiaocheng, frowning and said: "Why do I hear him so uncomfortable?"

The clues of the art building were discovered by Zhou Yuan, and Zhou Yuan was also staring at the surveillance at this time.

For a moment, Zhou Yuan said in a very small voice: "I understand him, because I am also a person who has no talent, but works very hard, very hard."

Yu Xiaocheng continued: "Sha Chun said that she understands me, seeing me is like seeing her past. She has been fighting for so many years, and the more desperate she fights, I will be just like her..."

"She said, people like us shouldn't waste our efforts anymore. The harder we work, the more jokes in others' eyes." Yu Xiaocheng raised his face to prevent the tears in his eyes from falling out, and his voice appeared slightly choked. "She Ask me, why can others easily get admitted to the two best universities in the capital, and I have been in the third year of high school for two years, but I can't get into Beijing politics and law? What else can I say besides admitting that I am mediocre?"

"So she asks you, do you want to get rid of mediocrity? Do you want to be noticed? Do you want to be free from this hopeless desperation?" Mingshu's eyes were sharp as a blade, "When trying to be the laughing stock of others, it is better to stop all of this lively. "

Yu Xiaocheng looked at Ming Shu in surprise, his apple rolling several times.

Ming Shu said, "That's what she told you?"

A few minutes later, Yu Xiaocheng said: "It is a similar meaning. She said that people like us should unite and help each other to fight against this world that is full of malice for the ‘average hard work’."

"Bao Tuan?" Ming Shu asked, "Do you know her partner?"

Yu Xiaocheng nodded, "Sha Chun wants me to help kill her, just like she helped her'friend'."

Fang Yuanhang excitedly said: "Come!"

Ming Shu asked, "Which ‘friend’?"

Yu Xiaocheng lowered his head again and said nothing for a long time.

Ming Shu said: "You've all said this, do you need to conceal it?"

Yu Xiaocheng hurriedly said: "I, I don't want to conceal, but I really don't know who that person is. Sha Chun only told me that that person was the same as us. He worked hard for half a lifetime. It was only in his forties. Want to understand that hard work is a shame for hardworking people."

Ming Shu said every word, "Working hard is a shame for those who work hard."

Hard work is a positive attitude to life, and hard work is a valuable quality.

But for Wu Zhen, Sha Chun, and Yu Xiaocheng, hard work has become a shame.

Yu Xiaocheng smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Sha Chun said that I have not yet left the society, so I don't understand the malice and contempt for people like us in society. In fact, why don't I understand? I tested it with the top ten scores in the county. By the ninth middle school, I was quite swollen at that time, but the first week of the first week of the test stunned me, I took the countdown to the whole class... I realized that the class is all top students, my county is the top ten Compared with them, they are not farts at all."

"So after the basic exam, you refused all activities and concentrated on studying." Ming Shu said: "You almost broke away from the group."

"I can't help it." Yu Xiaocheng kept shaking his head, "I also want to play football and basketball. I also want to go to Internet cafes to play games on weekends. I also want to win honor to the class in group activities. It's surrounded by many female classmates. But I can't. If I don't spend my time on studying, I will count down. Really, don't believe me."

Ming Shu sighed, "I believe it."

Yu Xiaocheng's expression became more and more painful, "I can only keep my grades at the mid-level if I work hard to the extreme. But those who are smarter than me, dating female classmates, participating in sports meets, and sleeping in class, can be admitted to the top 20. . I really... envy them."

Next to the surveillance, Zhou Yuan's hands clenched into fists unknowingly.

"My teacher told me in a roundabout way that the three years of high school study is not all, but I should participate in activities appropriately; my classmates called me'diligence and sincerity', because apart from sleeping, I study all the time—even when I eat, I practice English listening. "Yu Xiaocheng said: "I know they all look down on me. Those who persuade me to relax don't even know. Once I relax, I will be the countdown."

Fang Yuanhang noticed Zhou Yuan's reaction, "Hey, what's the matter with you? Did he bring it in?"

Zhou Yuan's face paled slightly, knowing that he was in a gaffe, and shook his head quickly, "You listened to Yu Xiaocheng's words, and weren't affected at all?"

Fang Yuanhang thought for a while, "It's a bit sad, but it won't be affected."

Zhou Yuan pressed his temple, "You and him don't have the same experience and experience, so I can't empathize with him, but I do."

Fang Yuanhang was inspired and said to himself: "So they can easily influence each other."

"I can feel their malice." Yu Xiaocheng lowered his head and said, "They look down on my efforts, especially when the monthly test results come out. I often hear others say-Yu Xiaocheng is not as good as anyone in the test with such hard work. Good. People like us can only be understood by the "kind". The person Sha Chun killed was a screenwriter. I don't know which screenwriter. I don't have time to watch TV series."

Ming Shu said: "She even told you this."

"Want to prove to me that there is really no way out for me to work hard." Yu Xiaocheng was depressed, "but, but...I still don't want to give up!"

"You rejected her?"

"I can't do it, she asked me to kill her, and then tell the next person about our pain, and ask that person to help me with it, but I still want to live!"

Ming Shu asked: "Sha Chun went to the Ninth Middle School to find you, to persuade you to turn back?"

"Yes. I don't want others to see it, so I went to the art building with her." Yu Xiaocheng said: "I made it clear to her that time. I will not take this matter. I want to prepare for the college entrance examination. Please stop disturbing her. I."

Ming Shu didn't speak for half a minute, and suddenly said, "Impossible."

Yu Xiaocheng was surprised, "What?"

"Sha Chun even told you about the murder of a screenwriter, how could he easily let you go?" Ming Shu said, "You are already in a boat. She told you about the screenwriter, not to further persuade you. It makes you never get off the boat again. You have no other choice but to help Sha Chun!"

Yu Xiaocheng opened his mouth and his pupils shrank rapidly.

Mingshu forced him to ask, "Where were you on the night of August 23?"

After a brief period of stiffness, Yu Xiaocheng fell on the interrogation table with a very slow frequency.

Soon, a dull voice came from between his arms, "Sha Chun said, I should at least do her a favor. I didn't know at that time, she was harming me..."

Ming Shu asked, "What is busy?"

"She said she has found someone willing to help her, and she will be free soon." Yu Xiaocheng said: "She loves her hands, so she wants to keep them in the cleanest place in her heart."

"The cleanest place?" Ming Shu said, "The school?"

Yu Xiaocheng said: "Well, I can only help her. I will take the college entrance examination again in less than a year, so I can't be disturbed anymore. She said it to me. As long as we agree to this matter, we will get the two clean. ."

Fang Yuanhang said angrily: "Lie!"

"On the 23rd, I met Sha Chun at the Jiangnan Theater. She was about to be relieved and said she wanted to meet me." Yu Xiaocheng said, "She suddenly became very gentle, patted me on the shoulder, and said I want to work hard. Go work hard, but you must fulfill her last wish. I watched her get in the car and felt very at a loss. I didn’t want to go home or review it. I thought of my classmates who played games on weekends, and suddenly wanted to try it. What is the game like."

Ming Shu said, "You went to the Internet cafe? Which Internet cafe?"

"I can't remember the name of an internet cafe near the Ninth Middle School."

"You need to swipe your ID card to surf the Internet in an Internet cafe. But there is no record of your Internet access on the system."

Yu Xiaocheng rolled his eyes awkwardly, "I dare not use my ID card. It is too close to the school. The boss said that I can use my ID card on behalf of him, as long as he spends five yuan more."

"You didn't pay with your mobile phone?"

"I happen to have change."

According to Yu Xiaocheng’s confession, he “wandered” all the way from Jiangnan Theater back to No. 9 Middle School. He had a barbecue at a roadside stall on the way, and went to the riverside to breeze and drank. He played in the Internet cafe from night to noon the next day. , Bought a pack of cigarettes for ten yuan in a convenience store and went back to the rental house. He was awakened by the knock on the door until he fell asleep. When he opened the door, there was no one outside, and a package was on the ground.

Inside the package, there was a **** severed hand.

"Yu Xiaocheng's level of storytelling is really lame, absurd and strange, it sounds like it is made up, but..." Ming Shu slumped on the sofa in the deputy director's office, his posture was extremely casual, his fingers in both hands were pointed one by one. Point, "But... hey, **** me."

Xiao Yuan lowered his eyes, "But apart from the absurdity, you haven't been able to find too many loopholes."

Ming Shu turned over at once, "Since Yu Xiaocheng began to talk about his acquaintance with Sha Chun, I felt that he was lying, but from the beginning to the end, no obvious loopholes were found. Some people's behavior is weird, so what do you think? False, but TA did just that."

"The field team has checked it out. Yu Xiaocheng entered the Shangxue Internet Cafe at 3 am on the 24th." Xiao Yuan said: "This time is very embarrassing. Yu Xiaocheng may rush back to the 9th Middle School immediately after committing the crime. Time is enough But Yu Xiaocheng has no means of transportation. He returns from the Performing Arts Group to the No. 9 Middle School and can only take a taxi. It is almost impossible to get a taxi at the Performing Arts Group in the early morning."

Ming Shu hugged a pillow in his arms, "This can be checked through road monitoring."

"If Yu Xiaocheng didn't lie, then the murderer was someone else." Xiao Yuan said: "Sha Chun'persuades' Yu Xiaocheng to fail, so he turns to another person. This person's motive is very impure."

Ming Shu rubbed the pillow tighter, "None of them has pure motives."

"No, Wu Zhen is not pure, but he didn't deliberately blame anyone. Wu Zhen's last notebook was in Sha Chun's room. It wouldn't be someone who hid it quietly, right?" Xiao Yuan said, "But Sha Chun' Before committing suicide, Yu Xiaocheng must agree to help hide his hands. What is this intention?"

Ming Shu thought about it when interrogating Yu Xiaocheng just now, "Yu Xiaocheng knows Sha Chun's secret, and Sha Chun wants to be at ease, so...wrong!"

Xiao Yuan nodded, "I found the problem. What Sha Chun asked Yu Xiaocheng to promise was to hide her hands after her death. Her anxiety was that Yu Xiaocheng knew her secrets and worried that Yu Xiaocheng would one day expose her. But after her death, does she still need to worry about this? In this detail, there is a contradiction between cause and effect."

"So this request shouldn't be made by Sha Chun. It was the one who did it to Sha Chun?" Ming Shu beat the pillow, "TA asked Sha Chun to threaten Xiaocheng, and Yu Xiaocheng was busy with the college entrance examination, and didn't want to get involved. Trouble, I can only agree in a hasty. In this way, the evidence will only point to Xiaocheng, and it is difficult for the police to find TA?"

"Do not rule out this possibility." Xiao Yuan said: "In this way, the dominoes are actually stuck, because this person is not the'kind' of Sha Chun and Wu Zhen, but a person with other thoughts."

The desperate kills one by one, and the tragedy keeps repeating. This is only an ideal state that exists in the theory. There are countless unknown factors in reality. It is already a rare situation for Wu Zhen to successfully pass the "baton" to Sha Chun.

Ming Shu said: "This is more in line with reality."

"But if you only look at the physical evidence, the probability of Yu Xiaocheng being the murderer is still 90%." Xiao Yuan picked up the trembling cell phone and said before connecting: "After all, his'story' is hard to believe."