veneno Gu

Capítulo 46

"That woman was going home alone. I followed her and stood downstairs watching her go upstairs. The light on the top floor came on. I climbed out of the window from the fifth-floor landing, stepped onto the fifth-floor balcony, grabbed the sixth-floor balcony, and climbed in. She was sleeping, sleeping."

What shoes are you wearing?

He shifted uncomfortably:

“I took off my leather shoes, put them in a bag and left them on the first floor. I wore my work boots.”

Why did you close the balcony window after you went inside?

"I'm afraid of making a noise and having others hear it."

"Do you know her? Why did you break into her house?"

It seems like that matter is already far in the past; he needs to think about it:

"I don't know her. I don't know why I went into her house, I don't know what I was thinking at the time, I don't know."

What tools did you bring?

He seemed to have thought about it for a long time before he remembered:

"Hammer, balaclava, gloves."

What color is the hood?

"Black."

What color are the gloves?

"White."

Where are these things hidden now?

“There’s a pile of stones outside my little shed, and I usually hide in the pile of stones.”

"Tell me about how you committed the crime."

"I don't know, I climbed into the balcony and squatted for a while, but there was no movement. I went into the living room, tripped over something, and got a fright. A woman came out of the bedroom with a fruit knife and looked around the door, as if she was looking for me. I don't know what I was thinking, but I jumped up, pushed her down, and fell onto the bed. I hit her a few times in the face. She was still panting. She covered her head with the quilt. I know I was pretty angry. You fucking want to stab me with a knife? I turned on the light, rolled over, lifted my pajamas up, pulled down my pajama pants, grabbed the fruit knife from my hand, and slashed my back a few times."

"How were they marked? What were they marked?"

Qu Baoyuan shifted his body, as if he were being bitten by lice and felt very uncomfortable.

Why not say what was being drawn?

He squinted, his gaze unfocused, looking at something no one could see, as if he had returned to a dream:

"I don't know what I was thinking, I took a fruit knife, first I drew a '人' (human) shape, then a '女' (woman) shape, then a square below, and then an 'X' inside the square. I stabbed her down there twice with the knife, and then I stabbed her in there, stabbed her in there..."

Wang Liguo suddenly noticed a faint smile on his face. He was listening intently to him and watching him explain the character he had drawn. How could he miss such a subtle change?

Wang Liguo suppressed his anger and had to ask a question he didn't want to ask:

Why did you insert a knife into the victim's vagina?

Qu Baoyuan seemed distracted, his eyes fixed on something.

"I don't know where that energy came from, I just kept thinking about it."

He finished speaking in a daze, as if he had returned to the real world.

"What character did you write?"

Qu Baoyuan suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Wang Liguo, as if he had just noticed that Wang Liguo was sitting opposite him:

"I didn't write it down, I didn't write it down, I crossed it out, I don't know why at the time, I don't know."

"Didn't you just say that you were angry because she tried to stab you with a knife, so you crossed out this word?"

"It's not a word, it's not."

What is that?

"I don't know, I just scribbled something randomly, so I definitely can't say."

Why can't I say?

"What's the big deal? I don't know what you're thinking."

Wang Liguo understood that Qu Baoyuan valued this word highly because it could reveal his motive, which was why he was unwilling to confess easily. Despite repeated questioning about the word during later interrogations, Qu Baoyuan insisted that he had just scribbled it randomly and didn't know what it was.

Later, during the interrogation of Qu Baoyuan, including when the prosecutor questioned him, they repeatedly asked him about the character he had drawn on the victim's back. He never changed his current statement, that is, the second radical is the character "女" (woman) instead of the grass radical.

What else did you do on site?

Qu Baoyuan became absent-minded again, looking up at something, a faint smile gradually appearing on his face:

"Stir-fried tofu with green peppers, stir-fried kelp strips, pickled mustard greens in chili oil, canned fruit, biscuits, instant noodles, a beer bottle, two glasses—placed in front of her, placed in front of her," he said, his Adam's apple bobbing as if he swallowed something, "Give her three clubs, give me three hearts..."

Why did you do that?

He smiled and shook his head:

"I don't know what I was thinking, I don't know."

Why did you give her three clubs and give yourself three hearts?

"I don't know, I don't know..."