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  Twenty-eight.

  In a small interrogation room, Yan Li flipped through the files in his hand and asked routine questions without any emotion. Xiao Liu from the new department next to him bowed his head and wrote hastily.

  Across the interrogation table was a woman with a dull and lifeless complexion, her face sallow and prematurely wrinkled at the corners of her eyes. She wore a tattered and patched cotton-padded jacket that seemed to have been worn for seven or eight years, yet she still appeared to be in her prime, but somehow had already reached the twilight years of her life.

  The prisoners who came here were either scolding or crying for mercy, but this woman kept her head down from start to finish and only occasionally nodded or shook her head in response, quietly cooperating with the interrogation.

  Yan Li didn't mind either.

  As the second-in-command of the Guilin Municipal Public Security Bureau, he handles thousands or even tens of thousands of cases every year. His heart has long been tempered into a hard and rough stone that is not easily shaken.

  What's more, he is a murderer who killed six people in one family.

  Yan Li thought of the Mid-Autumn Festival a year ago, when he received the report and rushed to the scene, the six charred bodies pulled out from the ruins were unrecognizable.

  This is one of the rare major criminal cases in recent years.

  But thinking of the customs in Heyang County, I feel that such a thing is bound to happen sooner or later. Especially in the southeastern corner of Sangjiadang, which is nestled in the mountains and has little contact with the outside world, it's still as poor as before liberation, and every household relies on selling their daughters-in-law.

  After the incident, the men of Sangjiadang stood up with righteous indignation, saying that this bought-in daughter-in-law was a born white-eyed wolf, who had run away five or six times and still had the audacity to follow the goods after being beaten by Quan Gen and breaking her leg. She was just a good-for-nothing. A few gossiping women also angrily said that this daughter-in-law was a fox spirit who loved to seduce men into bed, saying with certainty that something would happen sooner or later, and everyone became wise after the event.

  A one-legged woman was wanted nationwide for a year, and somehow managed to conceal herself, hiding for a whole year until she surrendered today - making the entire Gui City police station almost a laughing stock in the industry.

  "After fleeing for almost a year, why did you suddenly think of surrendering?"

  Jiang Xi looked up at him with a glance.

  Yan Li suddenly realized that the woman had a pair of sparkling eyes, even with a large scar under her eye, and even if the sparkle was just a stagnant pool of water, it still gave off an air of past charm, making people unable to help but pause for a moment.

  "Officer," Jiang Xi's coarse voice was like sandpaper scraping against wood, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time: "What are you asking all this for?"

  "The case requires."

  Yan tightly handed over the file, and passed the mineral water on his side to the front. Little Liu also stopped writing, curiously looking over.

  Jiang Xi didn't respond, as if she had lost interest in everything in this world. After a while, she managed to say: "I... went back home for a bit."

  Yan Li suddenly understood.

  Last year, when the wanted notice was just released, he went to Shen City on purpose to catch people. During the investigation, it was found that within two months of Jiang Xi's kidnapping, her parents had died. It is said that his father was spiritually confused on the way to find someone outside, and was crushed to death by a large card, with extremely tragic death, Jiang Xi's mother could not bear the blow, suffered from depression, and directly jumped off the building.

  Yan Li could almost imagine that when Jiang Xi finally returned home after overcoming countless difficulties, he found that his parents had long since passed away due to the accident back then.

  He suddenly felt a little sympathy for this murderer.

  Jiang Xi fell silent for a moment: "Being alive doesn't have much meaning either."

  "Why kill?"

  "If you can't live, then just die."

  Jiang Xi slightly closed her eyes, and only then did Yan Li notice that she still had a row of curled and raised eyelashes.

  He suddenly remembered the personal data sheet from Shen City, which was said to be able to reveal the true form of all demons and monsters. On the ID photo, a bright-eyed and smiling girl with a lively spirit was reflected, and just by looking at it, one could feel the surging spiritual energy.

  If fate hadn't taken a turn for the worse, it would be too cruel to this woman. She should have had a bright and happy future instead of carrying an infamous name to the end of her life.

  Yan Li felt a slight sense of regret.

  He thought of his own daughter who was in high school, full of energy and vitality, about the same age as Jiang Xi when she went missing. The mere thought sent shivers down his spine.

  "Can't live on? Did they beat you?"

  "Why not beat her? Every day, three meals a day, take the whip and hit. At any time, if you're not in the mood, also hit. In that place, wives bought are their own belongings, beating to death is not a problem."

  Jiang Xi rolled up her sleeves, revealing a small section of her wrist, and Little Liu let out a cry of surprise.

  A short paragraph, crisscrossing with no good flesh, all are potholed and layered scars, obviously left by years of flogging, a glance is frightening.

  "Doesn't look good? Nothing's wrong."

  Jiang Xi casually pulled her sleeve back down, but Yan Li noticed that her right thumb was slightly bent outward, as if it had been twisted and not properly reset.

  "Getting beaten is a daily routine, often being punished by going hungry and sleepless all day and night – it's nothing."

  Under the bright red flag and in broad daylight, Little Liu grew up luxuriantly. He couldn't understand that if this was nothing, then what was something. Soon, Jiang Xi let him know - the evil that could be spawned from land irrigated by ignorance and poverty.

  "Do you know where Sang Quan Gen got the money to buy me? He's the eldest, and there are three younger brothers under him. The four brothers pooled their money together to buy me. On the surface, I'm Sang Quan Gen's wife alone, but do you know how many people sleep in this bed?"

  "How many?"

  Xiao Liu's throat is tight.

  Yan Li looked at him and didn't scold him.

  "Four, ah, no, later there was even one more, that old invincible father of his."

  Jiang Xi's throat emitted a strange laugh, short and cold.

  It was as if he had stumbled into a bizarre reality that only existed in ghost stories told at night, leaving Little Liu stunned and speechless, his voice trembling: "Th-th-this..."

  He was at a loss for words.

  "Why didn't you call the police?"

  "Report an alarm?"

  Jiang Xi's gaze made Xiao Liu feel a wave of heat on his face, and for some reason, he suddenly didn't dare to listen anymore.

  Yan Li understood in Jiang Xi's silence.

  In that poor and remote Heyang County, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, for the sake of local security management, most police officers turn a blind eye to this.

  Jiang Xi didn't say anything, but in her almost mocking gaze, it was as if she had said everything.

  "Officer, is there anything else you'd like to ask?"

  Jiang Xi was the kind of prisoner Yan Li rarely encountered.

  She is elegant and courteous, with clear speech, obviously well-educated. When confessing to the crime, her logic remains very clear. She confessed in great detail, from pre-incident preparations to post-incident escape methods, without any deceit or concealment. Her attitude was calm and composed.

  Yan Li was very clear, this is a person who seeks death with all his heart ——

  She lost her footing in life.

  Life for Jiang Xi was nothing but pain and desolation.

  Yan Li felt a slight tingling in his nose, he rubbed his nose, and his voice became a bit thicker: "It's gone."

  He picked up the file and stood up, as if he had thought of something again, turned his head and said: "If... there's anything or letters that need to be delivered, you can call Little Liu."

  Jiang Xi fell silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed:

  "No."

  The case was approved very quickly from the time it was submitted to the time the approval document came down, which was not unexpected. In any case, there is a good reason for this, and what awaits Jiang Xi is just a bullet.

  In the midst of complex and complicated news events, even a piece of tofu can't get any attention.

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  "Hmm——"

  Jiang Xi suddenly opened his eyes.

  The back of her head throbbed with increasingly severe pain, and she dazedly thought: Didn't I die?

  The sound of sobbing, like a symphony, made her feel uneasy even in death. Jiang Xi couldn't help but "resurrect" and forced herself to look ahead, only to be stunned into stupidity by what she saw:

  "Little, Little Ling?"

  A round-eyed and round-faced little girl asked her with a half curious and half naive expression: "Sister, how do you know Xiaoling's name?"

  Jiang Xi had an unconscious feeling that something was wrong.

  Propped up his body, behind him was a cold and hard earth wall, under him was a thick layer of straw mat, in the small room, dozens of big and small children were herded like pigs, the whole scene was bleak and dismal.

  In her tears, Jiang Xi squinted - wasn't this the room where she was temporarily placed for a period of time after being abducted all those years ago?

  "Sister, does your head still hurt?"

  Jiang Xi only felt a large bulge at the back of her head, and suddenly remembered that when she was first thrown into this room, she had a fiery temper and was indeed smashed against the wall by that woman with a handful of hair.

  "Sister doesn't hurt."

  Jiang Xi looked at his own excessively pale and tender hands, these hands had never had the calluses of middle-aged labor, nor any frightening missing fingers.

  It suddenly occurred to her: coincidentally, she... had been reborn?

  Chen Jing bit her lip, her innocent apricot eyes darting back and forth, seemingly unable to make up her mind.

  "You——"

  For Sun Ting, who had always regarded Jiang Xi as a goddess, the goddess was humiliated, and she must have rushed forward to tear her apart, but was pulled back by Jiang Xi's sleeve. She shook her head: "Wait."

  "Are you sure it's gone? It could be on the ground or in the classroom, couldn't it?" Jiang Xi said slowly and calmly, "When something is lost, the normal reaction should be, ah, I might have put it somewhere else. Or maybe it fell to the ground."

  "Liu Yun, you came up and shouted that it was stolen, but you're quite certain."

  Jiang Xi rarely spoke so much at once, and only felt a slight dryness in his throat. Liu Yun's expression changed slightly, and without waiting for Jiang Xi to continue speaking, he said directly: "It's useless to quibble, I saw Jing Jing put the necklace away myself, and it was fine when we left."

  "Have you two made up?"

  Jiang Xi felt that these young girls' emotions were really hard to fathom.

  Chen Jing's eyes moved slightly: "Yunyun apologized to me, we——"

  "What's the point of saying all this?" Liu Yun interrupted her: "Whether or not we've stolen anything, just search our bags and that's it."

  If Jiang Xi were an ordinary high school student, she might have given up, but she wasn't. After years of training in observing people's words and expressions, her skills had been honed to perfection. As soon as Liu Yun's eyes moved, she knew that the necklace was probably still in her bag. If they searched now, she would be speechless.

  At such a young age, yet so venomous!

  Jiang Xi decided to give her a profound lesson.

  Who would have thought that the heroic woman Lu Zhu'er would speak up, she thinks Jiang Xi's current temperament is very much to her liking, just like someone of our generation: "You say search and then search? Even if it's the police arresting someone and searching, they still need to apply for an arrest warrant and a search warrant first, Liu Yun, your methods are excessive."

  "Yes, yes, people are not criminals now, if you want to search, just search, isn't that treating people as bad guys?"

  Jiang Xi decided not to take the lead for now.

  Lu Hao stood at the door watching this farce, his heart inexplicably clenched.

  He didn't care about the boundaries of the first and second shifts anymore, and directly entered the door, standing on one side of Jiang Xi: "I believe Jiang Xi won't steal."

  Jiang Xi glanced at him, and Lu Hao felt even more that he was the prince who had split reeds and cut evil dragons, and it was time to support the princess, his youthful heroic blood boiling up.

  The young man's vigorous demeanor warmed Jiang Xi's heart, memories...

  Liu Yun's face turned pale for a moment, seemingly struck by the fact that Lu Hao had stood up, but quickly returned to normal: "Then let's search together."

  "From me." She returned to her seat, rummaged through her bag and took out books and textbooks until it was empty, then opened each of the hidden pockets of her bag and shook them: "Alright? You all saw that. According to your suspicions, everyone in the class is a suspect. Whoever doesn't want to be searched must have a guilty conscience!"

  The little girl is quite clever.

  Jiang Xi is now very certain that the necklace must be in her own school bag or pencil case, and it must be in a shallow layer, just shake it out.

  Think about it, today I was lying on the desk all the way, only leaving in the first half of physical education class, and the other party only had this opportunity to frame me.

  Just then, Liu Yun rushed over, no one expected that she would be so rough, like a bullfight, Jiang Xi was rushed into a daze, almost fell to the ground, Lu Hao reached out to help her up, but was dodged by her.

  "Whoosh!" The backpack and textbooks all fell to the ground.

  "You——" Sun Ting was about to scold, but found that all her classmates' eyes were cast downward.

  Among the messy pile of schoolbags and textbooks, a glint of light caught everyone's eyes - it was Chen Jing's lost necklace.

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