The murder weapon matching up, it's like giving everyone a reassurance.

"This way we just need to wait for Li Jun to bring the person back for direct interrogation."

"Luo Fei, once you get down there, immediately reorganize all existing evidence. Let's aim to solve this case by next Friday."

"Understood, Captain Zhao."

...

Although the Zhou Dahua father and son were in the neighboring province, there's still some distance between the two places.

It would take Li Jun and the others roughly until the early hours of the night to get back.

Given this, Zhao Donglai simply decided to lock them up for the night and wait until office hours tomorrow for the interrogation.

This way everyone can rest well and handle the case better.

Moreover, making the father and son wait a bit could also create more psychological pressure, making the interrogation relatively easier.

And so, a night passed.

At eight o'clock the next morning, after Zhao Donglai arrived at the police team, he first called Luo Fei and several team leaders for a meeting.

Then he arranged, "Luo Fei and I will interrogate Zhou Dahua, you three will handle Zhou Guohua."

"No problem, Captain Zhao."

The father and son had already been taken to separate interrogation rooms.

When Zhao Donglai and Luo Fei pushed the door open, they saw Zhou Dahua with dark circles under his eyes, his gaze full of guilt and evasion.

"Zhou Dahua, do you know why we're looking for you?"

"I don't know."

Zhou Dahua felt uneasy inside but instinctively wanted to deny it.

"Don't know? Then let me remind you, do you still remember your cousin's child, Zhou Kaieri?"

"That, that child was already killed, wasn't he?"

"Oh, you remember. Then tell us, how did you and your father kill that child, and why?"

"Po-police officer, words... you can't just say anything. Da Ming is my cousin, and that child is my nephew, why would I harm him for no reason?"

"Besides, during that time, my child was having surgery in the city hospital. I was staying at the hospital the whole time, so when would I have had time to kill someone?"

"So you're saying that during that time, you never left the hospital at all?"

"Of course."

"Then why did the doctor and nurse who initially treated your child say that you weren't at the hospital on the afternoon of May 18th? And your middle school classmate Li Dayong also said he saw you in the village that evening and even gave you a ride to the town?"

"I... oh, I remember now. At that time, my child needed surgery but we didn't have my and my child's mother's household registration book, so I went home to get it. If you don't believe me, you can ask my wife and them."

It seems that they had already coordinated their story regarding this matter.

So Zhou Dahua's answers became more and more smooth, eventually full of confidence.

"So how do you explain these things?"

Zhao Donglai calmly tossed out a stack of photos, "These were dug out by the police under the big tree in your yard."

"Identified by your uncle Zhou Guo'an, this jacket was exactly what Zhou Kaieri was wearing when he disappeared. Can you explain why these items were found in your home?"

Seeing the photos, Zhou Dahua, who had been full of confidence just moments ago, instantly turned pale and couldn't speak.

In fact, yesterday morning he was at a construction site working when he suddenly got a call from his mother-in-law.

Learning that the police were investigating their family, his heart skipped a beat, secretly thinking that perhaps the incident from three years ago had been discovered by the police.

In a panic, he couldn't concentrate on work, made an excuse to leave the site, and called his parents and wife to pack some things and go into hiding.

But before they could even pack their things, the local police arrived and took him and Zhou Guohua away.

However, the other party was quite courteous, only saying that some situations needed them to come back and cooperate with the investigation.

At the time, Zhou Dahua still harbored a glimmer of hope, thinking that since the ones who came weren't the public security from Jiangzhou City, it might not be what he thought it was.

But after being held at the local police station for a few hours, some police officers came to say he was being taken back to Jiangzhou City.

He knew then, it was all over.

More importantly, since being brought back, he and Zhou Guohua were separated and held alone.

During the transport back, the father and son sat in separate cars, and he had no opportunity to align their stories.

Under such anxiety and fear, after being left alone for a night, his mental state was nearly at a breaking point.

Especially when faced with solid evidence, he knew he could no longer argue, so he finally confessed his crimes truthfully.

Zhou Dahua got married at twenty-seven, and it took him two years post-marriage to finally have Zhou Yucheng.

However, the good days didn't last long. When the child was three months old, he was diagnosed with congenital heart disease.

At that moment, it felt like the sky had fallen for the whole family...

Zhou Dahua wasn't well-educated; he didn't even finish middle school before dropping out.

Zhou Guohua and his wife were even less educated, illiterate in fact.

So when they heard the doctor say that this disease, as long as surgery was done, had a high recovery rate.

But the family only cared about the risks, and there's also the fact that there was an old man in the village who had died on the operating table due to surgery failure.

Therefore, the family was even more resistant to let the child undergo surgery, insisting that finding alternative treatments was more reliable.

But over the course of four years, they tried all sorts of alternative treatments, ate plenty of pig and cow hearts, and even the hearts of some rare wild animals. As long as they heard it was effective, no matter how much it cost, they would find a way to get it for the child to eat.

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