Chapter 70 Revenge
In the interrogation room, Luo Xun and Chi Xia had been sitting opposite each other at the table for half an hour.
During this half hour, Xu Yang remained silent. Since he didn't speak, Chi Xia and Luo Xun were not in a hurry.
Silence and torment filled the interrogation room.
Half an hour later, Xu Yang finally raised his head and said the first sentence: "I killed him."
"It's not you." Chi Xia stared at him and said slowly.
"I have a motive, a very strong motive, don't I?" the boy argued.
"Yes, you do." Chi Xia smiled, still calm and composed: "But you don't have the ability."
"Don't underestimate me."
He looked at Chi Xia and Luo Xun seriously, his eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was low and hoarse: "She killed my mother! Isn't that enough? Isn't it enough for me to kill her?"
Chi Xia didn't say anything, just looked at him. What shocked Xu Yang was that there was no sympathy or compassion in those eyes, only indifference and a hint of sarcasm.
A fire rose in his heart.
"I didn't underestimate you." After a long while, Chi Xia said, "I should say I overestimated you."
Xu Yang's eyes showed a hint of doubt, but he quickly hid it: "That's your business, what does it have to do with me?"
"Of course." Chi Xia said nonchalantly, "If you want to take the blame, don't tell your friends that you will go back."
Xu Yang stared blankly, thinking instinctively.
Chi Xia continued, "If you want to take the blame, then don't let yourself worry so much. Can you leave your grandma and your dad behind?"
Xu Yang's breathing was slightly heavy and his jaw was clenched tightly.
"You can't leave it behind." She smiled: "He won't let you, a child, take the blame."
Luo Xun, who had been silent all the time, glanced at her.
Look, he says he is not familiar with the person, but at the same time he knows him so well and he is still trying to argue that there is no necessary connection.
A woman's mouth is a lie.
"Why did Li Yiming come to see you?"
The statement suddenly turned into a question, and Chi Xia's tone became more serious: "Is it to tell you something? So, what does he want you to do?"
"He didn't say anything! He didn't explain anything." The boy was a little anxious and shouted excitedly.
"He did."
Chi Xia looked at him calmly: "Besides, he asked you to tell the truth, right?"
Seeing Xu Yang's dazed look, Luo Xun knew that she was right. She had already seen through this young child clearly.
"Xu Yang."
Luo Xun coughed lightly and flipped through his information: "I don't know how much you contributed to Liang Ruqing's death, but this information shows that you are still a minor."
"What do you want to say?" He was a child after all, and he began to panic. The resistance in his expression revealed his fear of a great enemy.
"I want to say..."
Luo Xun smiled, leaned forward, and tapped the table with two fingers: "You think that minors cannot be sentenced, so you want to take all the responsibility ?"
Before the emotions in Xu Yang's eyes were fully revealed, he was startled by the sound of Luo Xun slamming the table.
"Then I'll tell you!"
Luo Xun slammed the table and stood up: "Then you really think we police officers are fools. Use your brain to think why we found you and why we arrested him to the police station. Do you think we police officers are just playing house?"
Xu Yang's heart began to beat fast, and he kept thinking about what Li Yiming said when he came to see him.
"When Liang Ruqing died, did you really want to save her?" Chi Xia spoke again.
Luo Xun looked at her and sat back on the stool.
"Why should I save her?"
Xu Yang laughed sarcastically: "The knives that stabbed her were also stabbed on my mother, my grandmother and my father. The only difference is that the knives on her are real, while the knives on our bodies are invisible."
"Anyway, Xu Yang..."
Luo Xun warned him coldly: "Remember this clearly, no matter what, this is a crime!"
"What about her? Is what she did a crime?"
Xu Yang's eyes were red, and he questioned angrily: "Is it a crime to hurt innocent people with her harsh words? Is it a crime to hurt a humble student's parent with her indifference? Is it a crime to mock a trembling mother with her condescending attitude?"
"You will surely say, no, that's not a crime... She just spoke rudely, she was just a little mean, she just had a bad temper..."
He asked himself and answered himself. The answer was already in his mind: "How can a person die after just a few words? What does it have to do with her? It's just that the person who wanted to die was too fragile, right? You think so too, don't you?"
Xu Yang also stood up. He was very emotional and his face flushed. "I asked her too! I asked her, what would you think if someone jumped off the building because of you?"
"Guess what she said? She said that person was too fragile. She said that the person who said that might not have meant it that way... it was the person who was trying to commit suicide who was too fragile!"
His tears finally flowed, but they were filled with even greater grief and indignation: "That's not what I meant at the time. This meaningless explanation is the most disgusting! It's extremely disgusting!"
"That woman's husband lost a leg, and the unscrupulous boss didn't give them a penny in compensation! She has been ill for a long time and can't even take medicine on time! Even my grandmother doesn't dare to get sick! We live on a small steamed bun shop. Yes, we are poor and miserable, and we have no ability, but our life is already hard enough. Why does she think she is so high and mighty? Why!"
"She has a bad temper, she's mean, she speaks rudely, but are we going to have to put up with it? Why? Ah? Why? What does she know? What does she understand?!"
"Aren't teachers supposed to teach and educate people? But what did she teach me? Hatred! Crime? When your loved ones died in front of you, would you still say this to me? It's just that the knife didn't stab you!"
After saying these words, Xu Yang sat back on the stool, breathing heavily. These were words he had been holding in his heart for a long, long time. No one knew what he was thinking except his heart which was becoming increasingly tired from the burden.
He was silent for a long time, and the rest of the words he didn't say flowed down his cheeks as uncontrollable tears. In the end, he couldn't help but sob softly.
Luo Xun remained silent for a long time.
Until Chi Xia spoke.
She asked Xu Yang: "When you saw her stabbing herself with a knife, were you happy? Did you feel the pleasure of revenge? When she jumped down with blood all over her body, were you happy in your heart?"
Xu Yang was stunned, his eyes were vague and unfocused. He nodded heavily almost instinctively: "Of course!"
Chi Xia smiled and shook her head: "No, you are not happy, let alone cheerful, Xu Yang. Facing that scene, you are shocked and scared. You can't even sleep at night. You still can't stand a person dying in front of you."
"But I witnessed my mother die in front of me." Xu Yang gritted his teeth and said, "Thanks to Liang Ruqing!"
“This is not revenge.”
Chi Xia frowned slightly: "If you want revenge, you have to find her weak spot, you have to make her live a life worse than death, you have to make her live in pain, you have to let her know blatantly why she is living such a miserable life."
She shook her head, not quite agreeing with Xu Yang and the others' approach: "When a person dies, everything is gone. It's meaningless. You still feel very upset until now, don't you? You didn't succeed in your revenge. You spent so much effort just to let her die . She didn't even feel the pain before she died."
Luo Xun was horrified when he heard her words. This woman is... isn't she playing with fire?
Worried that she would continue talking, Luo Xun stood up and said, "The brother who took you to see the principal was Li Yiming, right?"
Xu Yang seemed to have not yet reacted to what she had just said. He remained silent for a long time before looking at Luo Xun: "Yes, that's right."
"Who proposed the plan of revenge?" Luo Xun asked.
Xu Yang lowered his eyelids and said nothing.
"He knows very well that with your ability, you are simply not capable of performing any of the steps of hypnotic murder."
Chi Xia said: "So the only thing he will ask you to do is to tell the truth."
Xu Yang looked up at him, his eyes full of surprise. He seemed curious, why did she know?
" Since he has decided to help you, he won't let your hands get bloody in this matter."
Chi Xia stood up: "Whether you should say it or not, and what to say, think about it carefully."
When she stood up, she exchanged glances with Luo Xun, who put away his notebook at the same time.
He also stood up, and before leaving, he said to Xu Yang : "Your father is still in the hospital, and your grandmother is still waiting for you. Think carefully about why your mother jumped off the building in the first place."
"Xu Yang, no matter how hateful Liang Ruqing is in this matter, you must be clear about one thing." Luo Xun said.
"What?" Xu Yang asked him until they reached the door.
Luo Xun turned around and looked at him for a while before speaking.
He said: "Your mother struggled to live so that you could have a better life. She chose to leave so that you could have a better life. But on the second point, she was wrong in her thinking and doing. But what was your original intention and what choice did you make?"
Chi Xia and Luo Xun walked out, and Xu Yang looked at the door of the interrogation room with empty eyes.
What did he do? He did nothing wrong...
His original intention was to kill Liang Ruqing...
