Early the next morning, several people had breakfast and set off at seven o'clock. Lu Beicen was surprised to find that Master Du was in good spirits, but Xue Feng was a little depressed. He said he slept too soundly after being drunk and snored all night.
Master Du is noisy.
The next stop is a small county town called Yishui. The county town is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and a large river runs through the city. The county town is built on both sides of the river, and it has a beautiful picture of green water and green mountains.
The subject to be interviewed is a case of a man who killed his wife.
Because it was already Friday, Wen Mengran arranged to go to the detention center first. On the way, after briefly understanding the case with the policeman handling the case, he met Zhang Lei, the suspect in the case.
Zhang Lei is not tall and has a relatively thin body. His complexion is not very healthy and his hair is a little yellow. There is nothing special about him, and his face does not look violent.
But it was such a man who killed his wife of ten years with a pillow.
Originally, Lu Beicen was worried that it would be difficult for him to speak to such a person.
Who knew that Wen Mengran actually found a pack of cigarettes from the big bag he brought with him, handed one in, and lit it for him at the same time. The smoke instantly filled the interrogation room that was not yet equipped with air conditioning.
It spread, making Lu Beicen feel a little more knowledgeable.
Zhang Lei took two puffs of cigarette and started talking.
Eleven or twelve years ago, Zhang Lei met his wife Wang Shuilian while working in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
At that time, an ordinary man like Zhang Lei caught up with Wang Shuilian, who was quick at work and good-looking. After all, he spent a lot of effort and finally brought Wang Shuilian back to his hometown to get married.
Yishui, a place with green mountains and green waters, is not very developed. Some of the young people in the county went to big cities to go to college, and some went to work in more affluent places. Generally, family weddings are held during the Chinese New Year.
As the only son in the family, Zhang Lei's family still made the wedding a grand affair.
Red wedding invitations were sent out all over the sky, and relatives and friends came back. On the night before the wedding, Wang Shuilian confided a secret to Zhang Lei.
Wang Shuilian got married once when she was eighteen years old, and gave birth to a daughter. Because she was not old enough, she did not get a marriage certificate. Later, due to personality incompatibility, the two separated when the daughter turned one year old. The daughter belongs to Wang Shuilian.
The child has been raised by Wang Shuilian in his hometown in the southwest, living with his grandmother.
Wang Shuilian asked Zhang Lei, should the marriage be concluded or not? If not, she would leave that night. If the wedding was to continue, Zhang Lei would have to accept her daughter. Even one day in the future, for example, if her grandmother could no longer take care of her daughter, she might have to
Bring your daughter to live with you.
Zhang Lei instantly felt like he had been deceived. When he went to Wang Shuilian's parents' house, he went to her brother's house and met her mother, but no one mentioned such a thing to him.
Zhang Lei didn't know what to do. He said that he felt lonely and desolate at that time. He woke up his sleeping parents and told them what Wang Shuilian had said. Seeing the old couple's faces turn from ashen to death, Zhang Lei could not wait to see them.
Just like that, Wang Shuilian was driven away.
To be fair, the old couple were actually very satisfied that their son could marry such a quick and hard-working wife, but this time it felt a bit like eating a fly.
However, in a small place as small as a palm in the county seat, the old couple still wanted to save face. They bit the bullet and went ahead with the wedding as usual the next day.
After getting married, Wang Shuilian was very grateful to her husband's family for accepting her. She was like the leader of the family and outside the family, and she was able to serve her parents-in-law and Zhang Lei very comfortably.
Soon Wang Shuilian was diagnosed with pregnancy again, so she stayed at home to raise the baby and serve her parents-in-law, while Zhang Lei embarked on the road of going out to work alone.
Later, Wang Shuilian also had a good belly and gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
Four or five years later, Wang Shuilian worked conscientiously in the Zhang family, taking care of the elderly and children, and tidying up the house and home very well. She won the favor of her parents-in-law, and every relative and friend in the city who came to their home would praise her as their daughter-in-law.
They found it well, and the old couple also thought it was really good.
The old couple in turn persuaded Zhang Lei that everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Forget about the mistakes you made when you were young. Now that they live with you wholeheartedly, your daughter will be older in a few years. She shouldn't need to receive Yishui. Since
At that time, he chose to get married, so that he could let the past go, live a good life, raise his children, and become a happy little family.
Zhang Lei didn't say anything. In fact, he and Wang Shuilian have lived in two places in recent years. They have been together for a few months every year during the Chinese New Year. There is no mutual mingling between ears and temples in those long years. Occasionally, in the dead of night, he thinks of his wife who is far away in his hometown.
What's more gentle than water is the seemingly scam-like confession on the eve of the wedding. It pierced the throat, like a foreign body sensation like a fish bone. It couldn't be swallowed and couldn't be spit out. It was there, flickering from time to time under the cold white moonlight.
The resentment within.
When her children entered middle school in kindergarten, Wang Shuilian had been planning for a long time and opened a kindergarten on the edge of the county town. The business was quite prosperous. Later, she persuaded her parents-in-law to use the house they built at home to get a mortgage loan from the bank and expand the business.
Increased area and recruited more students.
The days are getting more prosperous, and their daughter-in-law is always at home and abroad. The old couple of the Zhang family feel that everything is going smoothly and they are even more satisfied with their daughter-in-law. Sometimes the old couple chat in private, and their biggest emotion is that life is still about caring about people.
The woman who lives in the Zhang family has the right son to marry.
In the seventh year of their marriage, Wang Shuilian still bought a new house in the best community in the city, which solved the problem of the school district where her son would go to school.
Those flaws in the past seem to have been shielded from memory by the thick years.
Since the eighth year, Zhang Lei has not sent money home. During the Chinese New Year this year, Wang Shuilian had a big quarrel with Zhang Lei for the first time after their marriage. In Zhang Lei's words, he felt that Wang Shuilian had done something wrong because he knew she was wrong.
So she kept her tail between her legs, and when she finally won over her parents, relatives and friends at home, she showed her true colors.
During the Chinese New Year that year, Wang Shuilian asked Zhang Lei for a year's savings in order to pay off the family's mortgage. Zhang Lei felt that Wang Shuilian wanted to start controlling him.
But Zhang Lei not only refused to hand over the money to Wang Shuilian, but also deliberately bought a car.
Wang Shuilian felt that for a skilled assembly line worker like Zhang Lei, who was in the factory during and after work, it was a waste to buy a car. She asked him to sell it to pay off the mortgage. Zhang Lei was too lazy to care about her. After the New Year, Zhang Lei happily drove the car and went out to work.
went.
From then on, every time the two people called, they would argue about the car.
During the Chinese New Year this year, Zhang Lei went home and filed for divorce from Wang Shuilian. He was very determined to get a divorce. No matter how the two elders of the Zhang family, relatives and friends tried to persuade him, they just silently expressed their desire for divorce.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, which was the couple's ninth wedding anniversary, Wang Shuilian committed suicide by slitting her wrists.