Naturally, I wouldn't take the threat of a thief seriously.
But as I watched the policeman and the thief gradually walk away, I felt doubtful for no reason. I felt that the policeman's words and behavior just now were a little abnormal. I was about to catch up and ask for more information, but the cell phone in my pocket rang.
I took it out and took a look, and the person looking for me turned out to be Gao Liang.
On the phone, he told me that their investigation of the school teachers was not going well. What they learned from the principal or Xie Tianhao’s counselor was similar to what we had heard from the police before. He asked me about the situation here.
How was it? I thought about it and told Gao Liang what I had learned.
"You said Xie Tianhao mentioned ghosts before he died?" On the phone, the bright voice suddenly became a few degrees louder. I said yes, and then told him about the suspicious things about the student named Zhang An.
On the phone, Gao Liang pondered for a long time and then asked me to wait at Xie Tianhao's dormitory building. They would rush over immediately.
After hanging up the phone, I looked back at the policeman and found that he and the thief had disappeared out the back door.
Ten minutes later, when Gao Liang and I met in the dormitory, Gao Liang asked me, shouldn't I be near the dormitory? Why did they arrive first instead? I told them what I had just done about chasing the thief.
After Gao Liang heard this, he immediately sneered: "It seems that you were deceived."
Cheated? I don’t understand what Gao Liang’s words mean.
He told me that thieves in today's society often travel in teams, with one person responsible for stealing and the other covering up. The policeman I just met is probably the thief's accomplice.
Gao Liang said: "After the real police catch a thief, they will definitely bring the victim to make a record, otherwise they will not be able to convict the thief. There are so many thieves in society now because many people are afraid of getting into trouble and have caught the thief.
I don’t want to go to the police station with the police either. The policeman who let you off so easily just now was probably just pretending."
I opened my mouth wide and thought, no, in this society, some people even dare to pretend to be policemen? But the third fat man said from the side, pretending to be a policeman is not that difficult, just spend a few hundred yuan to buy a fake police uniform, get a fake
Just the documents will do.
I curled my lips, still not convinced. I was about to call the young policeman at the police station and ask him to investigate for me, but Gao Liang held my hand down.
"It's just a thief. We have more important things to do now. Sijiu, where is Zhang An's bedroom?"
I reported my dormitory number, and then asked Section Chief Gao what he planned to do. When Zhang An and I tried to test him before, he didn't seem very willing to speak.
The third fat man said: "Should we take him back to the police station? He is just a student. As long as we arrest him and interrogate him, we will not believe that he will not tell the truth."
I immediately objected. After all, Zhang Liang is just a student. If we really take him back to the police station for no reason, there is no guarantee that some rumors will not arise among his classmates.
But Gao Liang snorted: "Don't bother me. Don't say anything for a while. Let me do it. If he really knows something, I have plenty of ways to make him tell the truth."
When we arrived on the fifth floor, Zhang An was still washing clothes there. Seeing that I was back with three strangers, Zhang An suddenly stopped what he was doing and wanted to drive us away.
"I told you. I don't know anything!"
"I'm sorry..." Gao Liang pushed Zhang An away, took out an ID card from his pocket, and said to him: "We are the police, you have no right to refuse our questioning."
Zhang An was dumbfounded when he saw the police ID in Gao Liang's hand. He took a few steps back and sat on the stool.
"Police? You, what on earth do you want to do? Xie Tianhao committed suicide. Didn't you, the police, say that yourself?"
Gao Liang smiled and said: "This classmate, we haven't said anything yet, how do you know that we came to you because of Xie Tianhao?"
Zhang An immediately knew that he had said the wrong thing, lowered his head and said nothing.
At this time, I saw Gao Liang also holding a stool, and then sat in front of Zhang An.
He grabbed Zhang An's head with his big hands, looked at him and said, "Zhang An, what do you know about Xie Tianhao's death?"
I looked on and felt something was not right, so I asked in Lin Qianyi's ear if it was appropriate for Section Chief Gao to ask like this? Lin Qianyi shook her head and motioned for me to be silent.
Under Gao Liang's glare, Zhang An's face became more and more uncomfortable, and he said he didn't know. But the expression on his face seemed to tell us all that he was lying. I don't need to remind him, Gao Liang
He had already told all the flaws that Zhang An had exposed in his previous conversation with me, and then asked: "Zhang An, did you attract ghosts and kill Xie Tianhao? If you continue to conceal it, I will charge you with obstructing official duties.
If you are locked up for a crime, when will you tell the truth, I will release you."
A calmer person would definitely ignore Gao Liang's ridiculous-sounding threat. But Zhang An was completely frightened at the moment, so under the bombardment of Gao Liang's constant questioning, he finally came up with a bamboo tube.
Pouring the beans, everyone confessed.
"I really didn't mean it, I thought it was just my imagination..."
Starting with this sentence, Zhang An shed tears of fear and began to organize the language with difficulty.
After sorting out his confusing words, we got an unbelievable fact.
As I learned from the glasses student before, Zhang An has indeed been bullied by Xie Tianhao for a long time. But because of his cowardly character, Zhang An has always dared to be angry and dare not speak out against Xie Tianhao's bullying. It's just his cowardice
It did not win Xie Tianhao's sympathy, but instead made him become more aggressive.
This kind of bullying finally reached its peak one day before Xie Tianhao's death.
Because he encountered a thief in the dormitory, Xie Tianhao placed all the responsibility on Zhang An and took this opportunity to sign a slave contract with him. In the name of the contract, Xie Tianhao often asked Zhang An to do some errands for him for free.
These tasks could not be paid, and they also took up Zhang An's working time. As a result, Zhang An's daily income dropped by more than half in just a few days.
Zhang An could endure other people's unreasonable troubles and the beatings and curses he received from others, but what Xie Tianhao did this time finally made him unable to bear it anymore.
"Why am I being treated like this?!"
The sudden roar made us stunned. Zhang An's face turned red and he said: "I work for others honestly, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. I wash clothes for my classmates every day until two o'clock at night. Why does Xie Tianhao have to do this to me?"
Me?! Why! Why!"
After roaring with excitement, Zhang An lowered his shoulders and fell into silence.
Gao Liang raised his head and waited for a moment before saying, "So you had murderous intentions towards him?"
"That's right." Zhang An admitted with his head lowered.
However, just having murderous intent is of no use, because Zhang An knows very well that he cannot really kill Xie Tianhao, not only because it is illegal, but also because he does not want to disappoint his parents who have worked hard to support him in college.
Originally, he thought that he could only endure it like this until one day, when he couldn't bear it anymore and broke out, he would be relieved. But he didn't expect that God made a joke with Zhang An and gave him something that could kill him.
It’s something that Xie Tianhao dies without taking any responsibility.
"It was the night before Xie Tianhao died... That day, Xie Tianhao suddenly found me at about ten o'clock in the night and said he wanted to take me to a courage test meeting. I originally wanted to wash clothes in the dormitory, but he
He took out the slave contract and forced me to go..."
After Zhang An left the dormitory, he discovered that the so-called courage test was just a game between Xie Tianhao and his roommates, and the target of their game was naturally Zhang An, who was often teased.
They took Zhang An to the construction site of a new dormitory building that was under construction near the school, and then asked Zhang An to enter the construction site and stay there for an hour before returning.
"Let you go to the construction site in the middle of the night? What's the point?" Gao Liang frowned.
Zhang An shook his head and explained: "That's not the case. In fact, you don't know that the dormitory building where we are now is rumored to have been the cemetery of nearby farmers. Bacheng is a mountain city, so in the past, many local farmers took them
Their graves were placed on the mountain, and this dormitory area was built on such graves. I originally thought this was just a rumor, but Xie Tianhao told me that day that the graves of former farmers were found in the newly started construction site.