Chapter 35: I killed him (End)

    “Gu Yuwei, did you kill him?” In the interrogation room, the policeman pushed a photo in front of the girl opposite, whose hands were locked in handcuffs.The person in the photo is Qin Gufeng.

    The girl’s eyes remained calm from beginning to end.

    “You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say will be used as evidence in court.” The policeman’s tone was a bit harsh, and his eyes were sharp.

    Gu Yuwei raised her eyes and looked at the photo. After a long time, she said hoarsely, “Yes.”

    The policeman met the girl’s eyes that were as calm as dead water, then turned to face the one-way mirror and nodded. In the mirror, Bai Yang looked at the girl with piercing eyes. He didn’t know what he was thinking, and he turned around and left after a long time.

    Qin Gufeng died more than a month ago. When the police found him, he was in an uninhabited mountain forest. There was a fatal wound on Qin Gufeng’s neck. The wound was caused by a knife, and the police collected Gu Yuwei’s fingerprints on the knife.

    Qin Anan’s family rushed back from Binhai City, but they never saw Qin Qing again.The time of Qin Gufeng’s death was finally determined, half a month after Gu Yuwei turned eighteen. Gu Yuwei was taken to Binhai City’s Prison for Severe Offenders.

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    The sound of leather shoes under the man’s feet interrupted Gu Yuwei’s memories. The man took the girl in prison uniform to an intercom room. The intercom room was like a long corridor, with intercoms on the left. Each intercom was separated by a transparent plastic window, and on the opposite side were people from outside the prison.On the right side of the corridor stood a prison guard.

    After the girl was taken to the designated location, the man retreated to the wall.When the person opposite saw the girl, his eyes were full of worry, and he reached out and patted the soundproof glass gently.The girl’s eyes never met the person opposite her from beginning to end.The girl reached out and took the phone, and the person opposite also grabbed the phone tightly.

    “How are you, Yuwei?” Qin Anan looked at the person opposite with her head lowered. She had traveled a day and returned to Binhai City from Linqi County. She just wanted to see Gu Yuwei, but now that she saw her, she didn’t know what to say.

    The girl held the phone silently.

    Qin Anan looked at the girl, bit her lip, and finally said the important thing, “Don’t worry, Yuwei. Officer Bai has already obtained evidence to prove that Qin Gufeng was not killed by you. When the procedures are completed, you don’t need to stay here.”

    Qin Gufeng did die from the stab wound on the carotid artery, but it was not caused by Gu Yuwei.The real cause of Qin Gufeng’s death was the worsening wound on his abdomen. It can only be said that at the last moment when Qin Gufeng died, he wiped his neck with a knife with Gu Yuwei’s fingerprints. The purpose was self-evident.

    It can be said that Qin Gufeng was an out-and-out lunatic until his death.

    When Bai Yang received the autopsy report, Gu Yuwei had already confessed and was on her way to Binhai City as a suspect.Bai Yang compared the time of Qin Gufeng’s death in the autopsy report with the time of Gu Yuwei’s presence. During that time, Gu Yuwei did indeed appear outside various Internet cafes and hospitals, and there was no time to commit the crime.

    “Yuwei…” Seeing that the girl still didn’t respond, Qin Anan’s uneasy eyes moved again and again, and tears couldn’t help but burst out of his eyes. Qin Anan calmed down and then continued to speak, “Yuwei, sister-in-law…”

    The girl’s hand holding the phone had a slight reaction, and she held the phone tightly.

    “Today is the last day.” Qin Anan pursed her lips, her shoulders trembling violently. No one told anyone except Gu Yuwei about Qin Qing’s condition, and in the end, only Gu Yuwei was by her side.When Qin Anan found out, she was in class. She ran all the way back home from class. She questioned her parents, wanting them to tell her that it was not true, but she didn’t get the answer she wanted.

    The girl knew what Qin Anan was talking about. Today is the next day. Tomorrow, Qin Qing’s body will be cremated. This is what Qin Qing wants.The girl raised her eyes and finally met Qin Anan. There was no light in her eyes anymore, they were calm and empty.

    “I know what you are thinking. Don’t worry. I have already discussed it with Officer Bai and my parents. When the procedures are completed tomorrow, you can temporarily come out for a day.” Qin An settled down and said, “Go and see my sister-in-law for the last time.”

    Gu Yuwei’s eyes trembled, her nails holding the phone were clasped tightly, and she made a slight sound.

    For a long time, until Qin Anan finished explaining everything, thinking that Gu Yuwei would not say anything, and was about to put down the phone, the girl said hoarsely, “I’m sorry.” The girl put down the phone, stood up, and disappeared completely into the intercom room under the leadership of the man behind her.Qin Anan looked at the girl’s thin back, covered her mouth with her hand, and choked softly.

    ·

    After a sleepless night, when Gu Yuwei saw the sun again the next day, her eyes were bloodshot. The girl stretched out her hand to block the dazzling sunlight. Looking through the light, she vaguely seemed to see Qin Qing doing the same thing many years ago. She was sitting on the bench blocking the dazzling sunlight. At that time, she didn’t know why, but she wanted to run and pass the ice cream to her.

    Gu Yuwei took back her hand. Qin Anan rushed back to Linqi County last night. The girl sat alone in the police car bound for Linqi County. She felt that time flew by and the people around her finally left her one by one.The girl was leaning against the window all the way, wondering what she was thinking.

    The police car finally stopped on a road in Linqi County. Every road here was deeply engraved in that person’s memory and imprinted in Gu Yuwei’s heart.The man in the car told Gu Yuwei to come back at this time tomorrow. The girl nodded silently, turned and left.

    The girl walked many places, and Qin Qing’s shadow was everywhere. The last part of the girl’s journey was from the entrance to Shizhong to the downstairs of Qin Qing’s community. The girl raised her head and looked at the window that would no longer be opened, and turned around while resisting the sore eyes.It was getting dark, and both sides of the Linqi River were filled with colorful neon lights.

    Gu Yuwei came out of a drugstore, put her hands in her down jacket, and shrank her neck from the cold.The girl stopped in front of a funeral parlor.Outside the funeral home, I heard the girl announce the name of the person who came to see her. I saw that the girl was pretty and well-behaved, and her red eyes had obviously been crying. After all, I felt some pity for the girl and let her in.

    It was very cold in the funeral home at night, the kind of cold that would jump up from the soles of your feet.It was quiet all around, with only the occasional cry coming from a few mourning halls.Gu Yuwei walked toward the place where the corpse was parked. The person looking at the corpse was a middle-aged man with a big heart. The man had fallen asleep long ago, with his legs resting leisurely on the table.

    The girl took a bunch of keys from the man’s small office. The heating in the office was turned on a little sultryly. The girl took off her down jacket and put it in the corner behind the cabinet. This place was covered with dust and the man hadn’t been there for a long time.The girl came out of the small office. The cold wind outside instantly made her shiver. She rubbed her hands, breathed a sigh of relief, and headed forward with the key.

    The door of the room was opened from the outside. The girl kept the door ajar, turned around and put the key back in the small office where the man was before returning to the door again.The camera on the corridor glowed red in the darkness, like the eyes of a devil from hell.The girl held the doorknob with one hand, turned to look at the camera, and quickly turned back and disappeared through the door.

    The air inside the door was several times colder. The girl’s lips had turned purple from the cold, and the frost marks were clearly visible on the back of her fair hands.Gu Yuwei walked to the corpse storage room and reached out to pull out the people inside. There was only a black body bag on the cold corpse rack. The body bag was large enough to accommodate two people.

    Gu Yuwei opened the zipper of the body bag and looked quietly at the person who seemed to be sleeping inside. After a long time, the girl stepped into the bag.The corpse moved slowly and lowly, burying the girl’s figure.The girl cut off the last trace of air on the bag, reached out and took out the pills hidden in her pocket and swallowed them.

    After everything was done, the girl turned around and hugged the cold person beside her, with the last tear shed from the corner of her eyes, “Teacher Qin, can you hug me again?”

    There was no answer in the dead silent room, and the girl could no longer wait.The girl’s weak breathing finally disappeared into the darkness, without any knowledge, but the girl smiled.

    When the man who looked at the corpse woke up, it was already early the next morning. The man rubbed his sore muscles and looked around the small office out of habit. He stood up and walked out with the key. The sound of turning the key made a “ringing” sound in the empty corridor.

    The man pulled out the corpse frame and pushed it out of the morgue with a yawn. When the body was sent into the fire, the man was still rubbing his sleepy eyes. From beginning to end, he found nothing unusual and never opened the body bag.

    Gu Yuwei disappeared completely.The policeman who sent the girl found out and quickly found the local police station. Baiyang called up the last scene where the girl appeared on the road camera, which was downstairs in Qin Qing’s community.

    More than half a month later, the person who checked the surveillance of the funeral home sat on a chair and looked through the video leisurely as usual. It was not until he saw the girl who disappeared in the door and never appeared again in the surveillance that the man stood up from the chair in panic. The man took the video to the police station. Baiyang found the man after learning about it.

    At this point, Gu Yuwei’s escape case ended with the death of the girl.

    The man who attended the morgue was fired for neglecting his duties.

    It’s been more than half a month, everything is in the past, everyone in the past has left Linqi County, the office, Baiyang is unpacking the express box sent from the young man.The express box was wrapped very delicately, but there was no name or contact information of the sender on the box, only Baiyang’s name.

    A sharp knife quickly opened the seal of the express box, and inside was a book that was not very thick.The book was wrapped in layers of plastic wrap. Bai Yang tore open the plastic wrap and opened the first page, his eyes shaking in shock.

    This is a diary, to be precise, it is a diary written in Gu Yuwei’s handwriting.Baiyang fell down on the sofa chair and looked at the contents of the diary carefully.

    The sun set, and it wasn’t until Bai Yang turned the last page that he stood up with a frown.Bai Yang took the diary to the back of the yard, leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette. The diary burned slowly in the smoke and finally turned into ashes.

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