Chapter 27: Refusing to Believe Even When the Evidence Is Slapped in His Face
Upon arriving at the police station, Huo Xiao first pulled out his credentials to locate the chief, and only then did he let Lin Wan state what had happened during the incident.
Station Chief Yang listened as his head grew twice its size. This matter involved a military dependent and an active-duty military officer!
Moreover, they were acquaintances!
Hiss…
Tricky!
Immediately after, Huo Xiao used the police station’s telephone to call the military base, reporting Guo Xuyang’s situation directly to the higher-ups and requesting the military to send personnel to investigate.
Station Chief Yang: “!!!”
A joint investigation?
Then it’s going to be even harder to handle!
During the interval spent sending officers out to investigate and bring back the suspect, Station Chief Yang made several phone calls.
At that moment.
Guo Xuyang was waiting with Zhang Qin in the train station waiting room to board their train.
The two of them had brought only a bit of food and some clothes that Zhang Qin had packed from the Zhang house. Guo Xuyang hadn’t brought a single thing for himself. He hadn’t even told his family before leaving Huacheng.
This was because his parents completely disapproved of his marriage to Zhang Qin.
Traveling light with just two simple bags was a lot easier than the large and small bundles other people carried.
Zhang Qin was extremely nervous. Her heart was in a total panic. An eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl had first cut ties with her family, and now she was about to leave her hometown for a far-off place…
She had cut ties with her family, and Guo Xuyang’s parents disapproved of this marriage. The two of them were leaving Huacheng surreptitiously, almost like they were eloping.
Facing an unknown future, she felt completely groundless and intensely bewildered. But she did not regret leaving that suffocating, loveless home.
Guo Xuyang lowered his head and said gently to Zhang Qin, “When we transfer trains at Haicheng, we’ll go to the Haicheng Department Store to buy things.”
“The department store over there has a lot more items. I’ll buy you two brand-new sets of clothes from the inside out—shirts, trousers, sweaters, knit vests… and a gauze scarf…”
“The Haicheng Department Store also has a wide selection of watches. I have a watch coupon on me. When the time comes, I’ll buy you a ladies’ wristwatch so it’ll be convenient for you to check the time.”
“I’m sorry, Qinqin, that I couldn’t give you a wedding in Huacheng. We’ll hold a make-up ceremony once we reach the base.”
“You’ve suffered a grievance!”
Zhang Qin’s face flushed red with shyness, and she waved her hand gently. “No need, no need! Let’s just buy the same things once we reach the base.” The department store in Haicheng was bound to be very expensive.
Her mother had taught her that a woman must know how to be a virtuous homemaker, thrifty and industrious, so that a household could be run well. Only then would her husband and parents-in-law be satisfied. Someone who ruined a household like Lin Wan just wouldn’t do. A man who married Lin Wan solely for her beauty would regret it before long. Very few men could tolerate a wasteful woman.
Guo Xuyang smiled and said, “Listen to me, we’re buying them in Haicheng!”
“The military supply cooperative doesn’t carry anything good. Besides, you dressing well and using good things represents my dignity as a man.”
“I can slight anyone, but I absolutely cannot slight my own wife!”
Her panicked heart was instantly soothed until it felt comfortably warm by Guo Xuyang’s few sentences, and her bewilderment about the future transformed into anticipation for a blissful life ahead.
“Train K1155 bound for Haicheng is now entering the station…”
Hearing the announcement blaring from the waiting hall’s loudspeaker, Guo Xuyang and Zhang Qin quickly stood up to head to the platform.
Just as they were about to enter the platform, they were blocked by several public security comrades. “Excuse me, are you Comrade Guo Xuyang, a deputy regimental commander of a certain military unit?”
Guo Xuyang nodded. “Yes!”
“Hello, Deputy Regimental Commander Guo. Right now, there is a case that requires your cooperation in an investigation. Please come with us to the station.”
“By the way, your military unit has authorized comrades from the Armed Forces Department to assist in the investigation. Everyone is waiting for you!”
That final sentence effectively choked any refusal right in Guo Xuyang’s throat.
He asked, “May I ask what this is about?”
The comrades shook their heads. “We belong to the station-front precinct. Our brother precinct only called to ask us to assist in delivering you there. They didn’t state what the matter was about.”
Zhang Qin tugged at Guo Xuyang’s hem. “Xuyang, our train is about to leave.”
Guo Xuyang patted her shoulder. “It’s fine. We’ll go over to cooperate with the investigation and just buy new tickets later.”
Zhang Qin anxiously followed Guo Xuyang out of the train station, hurrying to the police station near the machinery factory.
The moment they arrived at the police station, they spotted Lin Wan.
It’s Lin Wan stirring up trouble again!
Guo Xuyang’s face turned black in an instant.
He pointed at Lin Wan and barked in rage, “Lin Wan, you just have to keep pestering us relentlessly, don’t you?”
“Is there any point in acting like this?”
“Qinqin and I are already married. Do you have any idea that your behavior constitutes disrupting a military marriage?”
Zhang Qin also felt incredibly miserable upon seeing Lin Wan. Why? Clearly, she and Xuyang were about to board the train to embrace a new life, yet Lin Wan had taken the matter to the police station, forcefully dragging them back!
“Wanwan, I really have never done anything to cross you. Why can’t you just let Xuyang and me go?”
“Just to accommodate you, I’ve already left the Zhang family…”
“I’m begging you, okay?”
“Please, just leave us alone!”
The comrades at the police station were completely baffled by what they were hearing. What on earth was the situation here? It looked exactly as if this Comrade Lin Wan had severely bullied her. This female comrade was as fragile and weak as a reed in the wind, and the way she shed tears looked truly pitiful.
Guo Xuyang pulled up Zhang Qin, who looked ready to drop to her knees before Lin Wan. “Qinqin, you don’t need to beg her. She is courting her own disaster. You have already done everything required by honor!”
“I am going to sue her!”
“Disrupting a military marriage is a crime!”
“A person like her absolutely cannot be indulged. The more you indulge her, the more violently she acts up!”
“She must be made to pay the price before she can learn to behave!”
Lin Wan rolled her eyes. She completely ignored this pair who lived entirely in their own world.
Guo Xuyang was right about one thing, though. A person must pay the price for the things they had done. Otherwise, they would never learn to behave.
Station Chief Yang came over to invite Guo Xuyang into the interrogation room.
He explained the sequence of events to him: “Comrade Lin Wan reported the crime, stating that Jin Cuicui drugged you… Our comrades have already gone to the hospital to verify it, proving that what Comrade Lin Wan stated is the fact.”
Guo Xuyang said in a hurry, “Uncle Yang, Lin Wan did deliver me to the hospital, but she was the one who instigated Jin Cuicui to do it!”
“She bears the primary responsibility in this matter!”
Station Chief Yang held up Jin Cuicui’s interrogation record for Guo Xuyang to see. “Little Guo, don’t be anxious. Everything relies on evidence. The time and location where Comrade Lin Wan instigated her, whether there are eyewitnesses, and the source of the drug—not a single one of these can be missing.”
“Additionally, we have already interrogated Jin Cuicui.”
“It states here that according to her statement, the time and location Lin Wan egged her on was during their meeting at the lakeside park on the afternoon of August 28th. We verified this with Comrade Lin Wan, and Comrade Lin Wan said we should wait until you arrived to discuss it.”
“She stated that at this specific point in time, you and Zhang Qin know exactly where she was.”
The Armed Forces Department had also dispatched personnel to assist. Since the matter concerned the wife of an Air Force deputy regimental commander, the efficiency of the investigation on both sides was exceptionally high. Of course, the suspect in this case was an ordinary citizen, making it incredibly easy to investigate.
Guo Xuyang’s gaze fell upon the interrogation record. It explicitly wrote that the two had met and spoken at the lakeside park on the afternoon of August 28th. He recalled for a moment—on the afternoon of August 28th, he had spotted Lin Wan near the city post office and had even bickered with her for a few sentences.
Guo Xuyang let out a cold sneer. This is far too deliberate!
To get her hands on him, this woman Lin Wan truly stopped at nothing!
He said with utter disdain, “Uncle Yang, she and Jin Cuicui are in league together!”
“The testimonies were definitely coordinated between them beforehand!”
Station Chief Yang let out a sigh. How can Little Guo be this completely impervious to reason!
He said, “Our comrades have already investigated all the movements of Comrade Lin Wan and Comrade Jin Cuicui after August 28th. They have not met at all.”
“In fact, the time the two actually met has to be traced back two months prior.”
“Two months ago, did you even know you would be returning on family leave?”
Guo Xuyang fell silent. His family leave was a vacation he had applied for only a month ago.
But he refused to believe Lin Wan. Lin Wan truly knew how to act up far too well, and she was far too good at it! She was nothing but a vicious, cunning person without a single shred of a moral baseline!
“Uncle Yang, I want to confront Jin Cuicui face-to-face.”
“Bring Lin Wan along.”
“A three-way confrontation.”
