FBH Chapter 36

Wu Shuqi agreed with Wu Zhi’s analysis that the cyanide search and query trace on Lü Yuchan’s phone was likely left by Xiong Tong secretly using his mother’s phone to surf the internet.

“‘7.18’ poisoning case, our task force launched an in-depth investigation into suspects Li Yuehua and Xiong Zhiyang, as well as a comprehensive investigation into their social relationships. Suspects were ruled out one by one, and we had no clue who the murderer was.

However, we uniquely ignored Xiong Tong, mainly because he was still a child. Who would point the finger of suspicion at a child?

However, the diary full of doubts, and Xiong Tong’s abnormal behavior after seeing our police officers, had to make people associate the two with the poisoning case.

I have a bold guess that the murderer of the poisoning case may be Xiong Tong. Xiong Tong was instructed by Xiong Zhiyang, and Xiong Zhiyang’s target was Li Yuehua.

It’s just that Xiong Zhiyang and Xiong Tong never expected that Li Yuehua would escape, and Lü Yuchan, Ning Yaohong, and Li Zihan would be wrongly killed.

After Lü Yuchan’s violent death, Xiong Tong must have suffered a heavy blow. He had no intention of studying, which explains why he dropped out of school.”

“Wu team, let’s go to Xiong Tong’s house now and bring him to the bureau for interrogation!” Wu Zhi seemed a little excited.

“Yes, go visit them first. If Xiong Tong is really the murderer, maybe he revealed to his classmates that he planned to poison Li Yuehua. Children are not like adults, who can keep secrets.”

Fifteen minutes ago, Wu Zhi parked the police car at the gate of a certain university.

He and Wu Shuqi entered the school and found Xiong Tong’s former sixth-grade homeroom teacher in the corridor. The homeroom teacher was a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing wide-rimmed glasses.

Wu Shuqi was responsible for the questioning, and Wu Zhi took notes on the side.

“Teacher Wang, please tell us about your impression of Xiong Tong. What kind of child do you think he is?” Wu Shuqi looked at Teacher Wang expectantly.

Teacher Wang subconsciously pushed her glasses and said with a look of recollection, “Xiong Tong is a transfer student. He transferred in the fourth grade. I followed the class, so I know the child’s situation better. This child’s grades are average, he stutters when he speaks, he doesn’t like to communicate with classmates and teachers, he often goes alone, and he doesn’t have many friends. It is estimated that it is caused by the inferiority complex caused by physical defects.”

Wu Shuqi couldn’t help but ask, “If the child is like this, don’t his parents care?”

“If his parents can pay enough attention to the child’s situation and give the child correct psychological guidance in time, I think the child’s situation will be better.” Teacher Wang shook her head with a look of regret. “In fact, his parents not only did not help him, but also caused great harm to his heart because of the intensifying family conflicts between the two, which may have invisibly fueled the child’s inferiority complex and insecurity.

His parents have no feelings and often quarrel, sometimes even fight. I know these situations because my sister and Lü Yuchan had a close relationship during her lifetime. My sister has told me many times that Lü Yuchan and Xiong Zhiyang’s marriage encountered a serious crisis.

Alas, it is his misfortune that the child encountered such a family and such parents!”

“Ah—!” Teacher Wang couldn’t help but open her mouth wide, and then shook her head, “I haven’t heard of it. The child looks very well-behaved. He shouldn’t have that kind of idea, right?”

Wu Shuqi quickly smiled and smoothed things over, “Teacher Wang, don’t be nervous, I’m just asking casually, it doesn’t mean that the child really has that kind of idea.”

Wu Shuqi asked, “Does the child really not have a single friend at school?”

Teacher Wang said cautiously, “It can’t be said that there is none. I think that Zhong Ming and he have a relatively good relationship.”

Wu Shuqi asked, “Is Zhong Ming in the same class as Xiong Tong?”

Teacher Wang nodded and said, “Yes, in the same class.”

Wu Shuqi asked, “Zhong Ming should be in junior high school, right?”

Teacher Wang said, “He is studying at Jincheng No. 3 Middle School now.”

Teacher Wang welcomed the two police officers to the school gate.

Twenty minutes later, Wu Zhi and Wu Shuqi appeared on the campus of Jincheng No. 3 Middle School.

Wu Shuqi and Wu Zhi were a little disappointed and asked why Zhong Ming didn’t come to class.

The students all said they didn’t know.

A male student suddenly came out of the crowd and said to Wu Shuqi, “Lu Hao and Zhong Ming are good friends. He may know why Zhong Ming didn’t come to school. Look, that’s Lu Hao!” Then he stretched out his hand and pointed behind Wu Shuqi.

“Um, I am Lu Hao.” He replied restrainedly.

“Is your head injured?” Wu Shuqi asked happily.

“Um.” Lu Hao nodded.

“Did you fight?” Wu Shuqi asked.

Lu Hao shook his head.

“Lu Hao was beaten by his father.” A male student walked over and said to Wu Shuqi with a smile.

“Why did his father beat him?” Wu Shuqi looked at the female student and asked in surprise.

“Lu Hao wanted to use cyanide to poison the neighbor’s dog, he was…”

Lu Hao’s face changed drastically, and he glared at the female student and shouted, “Gu Xiaonuan, what are you talking about!”

Wu Shuqi couldn’t help but be taken aback, and exchanged a tacit glance with Wu Zhi, who was also very surprised. Then she grabbed Lu Hao and called him to a place where no one was, and she asked him seriously, “The male student said that you planned to use cyanide to poison the dog, is it false?”

“Student Lu, confess honestly, where did you get the cyanide!” Wu Zhi asked sternly with a fierce face. He didn’t have as good a temper as Wu Shuqi.

Lu Hao was so frightened that he lowered his head and dared not speak.

Lu Hao said in a low voice, “Yes.”

“Then why don’t you tell the truth!” Wu Zhi was a little impatient.

Lu Hao admitted that he was beaten by his father for preparing to use cyanide to poison the dog. Then he told why he wanted to poison the dog and how he got the poison cyanide.

Last Wednesday, he told his classmate Zhong Ming that the neighbor had recently raised a vicious German Shepherd dog. Every time he passed by the neighbor’s door, the dog would bark at him non-stop, and the iron chain that tied it would rattle as it struggled. He was afraid that the dog would break the chain and pounce on him to tear him apart, so he thought of getting a pack of rat poison to poison the dog to death. Zhong Ming said that he had a poison called sodium cyanide at home. Just get a piece of chicken, apply sodium cyanide on it and throw it to the dog, and it would guarantee that it would die within a few minutes after eating it, and he encouraged him to buy sodium cyanide from him.

He was tempted and immediately decided to buy sodium cyanide to poison the dog. He returned home and secretly took 200 yuan from his father’s drawer. The next day, he went to school and gave the money to Zhong Ming. The next day, Zhong Ming brought the sodium cyanide from home and handed it to him, instructing him not to tell anyone about this matter.

He thought that his father would spare him after admitting his mistake, but he did not expect that after his father heard that he was going to use cyanide to poison the dog, he hit him on the head with a stick. His father said that if I poison the neighbor’s dog, then our family will have a feud with the neighbor’s family. After his father finished speaking, he took away the cyanide from his room.

After listening to Lu Hao’s narration, Wu Shuqi immediately called the nearby police station and asked the police station to send four or five police officers over. She wanted the police officers to take Lu Hao to his home, find the cyanide taken away by the child’s father and dispose of it properly.

Wu Shuqi handed Lu Hao over to the police officers from the police station, and then called Wu Zhi and two police officers to get in the car. Two cars drove one after the other towards the village where Zhong Ming lived.

Along the way, Wu Shuqi involuntarily fell into thinking, thinking about the “7.18” poisoning case. She felt like there was a blind box waiting for her to open. She hoped that the truth would surface as soon as possible, but at the same time she felt uneasy, because once the truth was as she imagined, she would feel very cruel and would sigh.

She recalled Teacher Wang’s comments on Xiong Tong’s personality and his story of being hurt by family changes. If Xiong Tong really bought cyanide from Zhong Ming, then the “7.18” poisoning case was likely committed by him under the drive of self-consciousness. That was just his personal behavior – he was lonely, inferior and lonely, not good at communicating with people, did not establish a correct “three views”, and the negative emotions accumulated in his heart could not be relieved. In this case, he would often do things that were unbelievable.

The two police cars drove out of the school for six or seven minutes and stopped next to a civilian house. Then Wu Shuqi, Wu Zhi and others got out of the car and walked towards the open yard of the civilian house.

Just as the five people entered the yard, a middle-aged woman wearing an apron came out of the house, followed by a twelve or thirteen-year-old fat boy. The two looked at the unexpected guests with surprise.

“Police comrades, is there anything you want to see my son about?” The woman looked at the police officers with a nervous expression and asked.

Wu Zhi scolded the woman, “Others will not falsely accuse your son for no reason. Otherwise, they will be held legally responsible! Privately hiding the highly toxic substance sodium cyanide, which is strictly controlled by the country, is a very serious matter. You should honestly hand it over, so that we will deal with it at our discretion. If you do not actively hand it over and let us search it out, then our public security agency will severely punish you!”

The woman trembled uncontrollably when she heard this and didn’t know what to say.

Wu Shuqi gave the woman a heartfelt education, asking her to actively hand over the sodium cyanide and not be stubborn, otherwise she would only shoot herself in the foot. After learning that the woman’s husband was not at home, she also asked the woman to quickly find an excuse to call her husband back for investigation.

The woman lowered her head and struggled for a long time before saying, “The sodium cyanide is… is hidden by his father, in a wooden cabinet in the house. His father used to mine gold, so he used… it to extract gold. Later, he stopped doing it and took the remaining sodium cyanide back…”

“Where is it placed? Take us to see it, we need to dispose of it!” Wu Zhi ordered.

The woman said “Follow me” and then led Wu Zhi and the two police officers towards the side room.

Since Wu Shuqi was not wearing a work uniform and her voice was relatively soft, Zhong Ming didn’t feel much pressure, so he looked up at her and said, “Yes, what’s wrong?”

Zhong Ming immediately became nervous and quickly argued, “He begged me to sell it to him…”

Suddenly, an indescribable feeling surged into Wu Shuqi’s heart…

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