Chapter 71: The Bizarre Truth

  When Tan Rongjie finished listening to Liu Li's analysis, he stared at him for a moment, then lowered his head and sighed: "No need to go on, your analysis is all correct. At this moment, my mobile phone is indeed playing the sound of snoring in my home."

  Tan Rongjie admitted, Liu Li waved his hand and had Tan Rongjie taken back to the squadron. After giving Yang Zhengcai a few simple instructions, Liu Li also drove back to the squadron. As he watched Tan Rongjie being taken away in a police car, a hint of regret flashed across Yang Zhengcai's face.

  In the interrogation room of the third brigade, Liu Li looked at Tan Rongjie sitting in the interrogation chair and asked seriously: "Since you are already here, I hope you can truthfully describe your own criminal process. Now tell me about the details of killing Chen Baotang. Until now, I still can't figure out why you would take action against Chen Baotang."

  "Chen Baotang wasn't killed by me, he scared himself to death. However, his death does have something to do with me." After saying this, Tan Rongjie's face revealed a hint of complexity: "Actually, my family was quite happy before."

  My wife may not be very beautiful, but she's still presentable, and I also have a son. My son's academic performance is very good. When I get home from work, my wife and son both come over to play with me. Thinking back on it now, those days were actually quite happy too.

  But I didn't cherish all of this, I'm a bit of a flirt, usually can control myself, but as long as there's some spare money in my pocket, I'll go to those entertainment places and fool around, because of this, my wife has had many arguments with me.

  Although my wife and I quarreled fiercely, my philandering habit couldn't be changed. I continued to do as I pleased, and when my wife saw me like this, she angrily took the child back to her parents' home, saying that she wanted a divorce.

  Originally, my wife and children were at home, and I had some constraints. When the two of them left, there was no one to take care of me by my side, and I became uncontrollable all at once. After work, I didn't even go back home, and I wished I could live in those entertainment venues.

  Recently, I met a young girl named Xiaohui at a bath center. She was very pretty and claimed to be a student. She had a sharp tongue and could sing well.

  Because I'm a regular customer, every time I go there, I ask her to give me a massage. Over time, I got close with that little Hui, but I didn't expect that two days ago when I went to the bath center looking for little Hui, she told me she's pregnant.

  We've only been together for a few days, right? Although she's pregnant, I know the child can't be mine. After hearing this, I wanted to break up with her, but Xiaohui kept pestering me, asking for 10,000 yuan in breakup fees, otherwise she wouldn't agree to break up with me.

  The day before yesterday, Xiaohui somehow found out the address of my unit and said that if I didn't give her a breakup fee, she would come to my unit to find me. I thought she was trying to scare me, so I told her that if she had the guts, then come on.

  As a result, I waited until yesterday afternoon, but Xiaohui didn't come to find me either. Seeing this situation, I thought she might have heard that this was a crematorium and was too scared to come. Just as I was about to head home, the traffic police department sent over a body, saying it was someone who had died in a car accident.

  At that time, Dong Chengjin, who was in charge of the morgue, had already left. Having no other choice, I led the traffic police officer who came to deliver the body to store it in the morgue. But what I never expected was that when it was time to put the body into the freezer, I discovered that the corpse was actually Xiaohui's.

  Upon hearing this, Liu Li and Wang Mingzhong, who was in charge of recording, couldn't help but feel shocked: "Is there still such a thing? This is truly unbelievable."

  "This is indeed unbelievable, but even more unbelievable things are yet to come." Tan Rongjie continued: "At the time, because there were traffic police on the scene, I didn't show any expression, and after following procedure to put the body in the freezer, I left."

  By the time night fell, I couldn't sleep no matter what. As soon as I closed my eyes, Xiaohui's corpse would appear in my mind. We people who work at the crematorium may not be timid, but we are all quite superstitious.

  The image of Xiaohui's appearance has been lingering in my mind, and I'm worried that her ghost will haunt me. So I decided to go to Xiaohui's body and burn some paper money, then offer two incense sticks to ask her not to entangle me.

  Thinking of this, I immediately called Old Chen who was on night shift at the crematorium and told him that I wanted to go to the crematorium. I asked him to leave the door open for me because Old Chen usually studied some Taoist books and knew some ways to ward off evil spirits, so in our eyes, he was a master.

  If someone in the nearby village "bumped into" something or was possessed by an evil spirit, they would ask Old Chen to help drive it away. Whether he could actually cure them or not, having such a master around made everyone feel more at ease.

  The wooden door of the crematorium office is usually not opened at night. It's said that opening the peach wood door at night is unlucky, so people on the night shift generally don't open the door for anyone. But my business couldn't be seen by others, and it wasn't convenient during the day, so I could only take care of it under the cover of a quiet night.

  So I called Old Chen in advance and finally got him to agree to open the door for me after some persuasion. After knocking on the office area door, I found Old Chen and told him everything about what happened between Xiaohui and me from start to finish.

  Then I told him that I wanted to go to Xiaohui's body and burn incense, asking Old Chen to accompany me. Mainly because I was not at peace in my heart, worried that I would encounter some evil things, with Old Chen there, at least it could boost my courage a bit.

  After Old Chen agreed, I took the flashlight and led the way in front, while he followed behind me. When we arrived at the morgue, I found the freezer where Xiaohui's body was stored and carried her body out.

  But I hadn't even had time to burn the paper yet, when I encountered a strange thing, I don't know why? Old Chen saw Xiaohui's body and suddenly his expression became shocked, terrified, and disbelieving. He pointed at Xiaohui's body with an incredulous look on his face.

  Lao Chen's heart was originally not good, under that stimulation, he actually died of shock. Seeing Lao Chen's corpse, I was stunned for a moment, and before we even started "doing the ritual", one life had been lost.

  After seeing what happened to Old Chen, I didn't dare burn paper anymore. After putting Xiaohui's body back in the freezer, I originally wanted to notify Manager Yang to come and take a look, but I was worried that this matter couldn't be explained clearly, so I hesitated for a moment. I decided to conceal this fact.

  First, I found his mobile phone on Old Chen's body and deleted the call records that I had dialed for him. While fiddling with Old Chen's mobile phone, I inadvertently discovered a familiar number. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Xiao Hui's number.

  Xiao Hui's name is actually Duan Juanhui, but on Old Chen's phone, her name was saved as Chen Juanhui. However, when I found his ex-wife's number on Old Chen's phone, I saw that his ex-wife's surname was "Duan".

  It wasn't until then that I understood everything. It turned out that Xiaohui was actually Old Chen's biological daughter. After Old Chen's wife divorced him, she changed Xiaohui's surname to Shan. I guess after Xiaohui's mother remarried and took her with her, she never changed her surname back.

  Having thought this through, I dare not make all of this public. In order to make Old Chen's sudden death seem more reasonable, I carried Little Hui's corpse out from the previous ice box and put it into another one.

  This way, everyone saw that the morgue was empty and would assume that the body had been stolen. No one would think that Xiaohui's body was still in the morgue.