Who is the real culprit of arson? A few days after the fire, a citizen named Lin Qing from Dongjiang County, Dongtu Kingdom, was driving under the Dongjiang Bridge. Suddenly he smelled a fragrance. He looked up and saw a beggar with dark spots on his face under the bridge hole holding a paste in his hand. The roasted chicken cooked in the fire is being torn into pieces with relish and put into the mouth piece by piece. After chewing for a while, he took a sip of wine. Without a cup, he took the wine bottle and put it in his mouth, leisurely.
Lin Qing was nosy and suspected that the chicken and wine the beggar ate were stolen. This is what he thought about. It is impossible for ordinary people to give away a whole chicken and a whole bottle of wine to a beggar. At most, they give out a few pieces of chicken. It is impossible to give out wine at all. He thinks that it is good for a beggar to fill his stomach. If he wants to drink, , doesn’t it seem too luxurious? Besides, beggars are rarely seen drinking, let alone drinking from bottles, which indicates something is wrong.
Lin Qing was an old man about fifty years old. He was short and fat and had difficulty walking. He walked slowly over, looked at the beggar and said, "Where did the chicken you eat come from?" The beggar just ate chicken and sipped wine without answering. Moreover, the color from his cheeks to his neck was purple, which was of course due to drinking.
Lin Qing asked again, was the chicken you ate stolen? The beggar opened his mouth, smiled, and answered. Did he steal it? Do you want to arrest me? Last time I burned chicken in the cargo shed of the cargo station and set the whole shed on fire, causing a fire, but no one caught me. This time I lit a fire and roasted chicken in the bridge hole without incident. Will anyone arrest me? I see you're not wearing a uniform and you don't have a gun. You don't look like an arrester. What do you care about me?
Lin Qing was surprised for a moment, stared at him and asked, was it you who set the fire at the Dongjiang Railway Freight Station? The beggar said, I didn't set the fire intentionally. I was just roasting chicken to eat. It was considered a mistake.
When Lin Qing heard this, she ignored him eating chicken and drinking wine, turned around and left, and immediately went to the train station police station to report the crime, expecting to receive a reward for reporting the crime.
Unexpectedly, the police at the police station said that the arsonist had surrendered and had been locked up for a long time. Why was there another arson? When Lin Qing heard this, he felt puzzled, and then told the policeman that the beggar who stole the chicken clearly admitted that he accidentally started the fire that burned down the cargo station. How could someone else surrender? The policeman replied calmly, since this situation occurs, I have to report it to Director Xue.
After a while Director Xue heard about this and was also very surprised. He asked Lin Qing to lead the way, and led two policemen, Xiao Wu and Xiao Jiang, to drive to the Dongjiang Bridge, parked aside, and went directly to the bridge to find the beggar.
The beggar was sleeping lazily on his back on a cement panel, holding the back of his head with both hands and snoring lightly. Some eaten chicken bones were scattered around him.
Lin Qing pointed at him and said, this beggar stole a chicken from somewhere, battered it with mud, and brought it here to burn it. Director Xue didn't seem to care much about what he said and signaled Lin Qing to wake up the beggar.
The beggar was actually just sleeping lightly. Unexpectedly, someone grabbed his hand holding the back of his head. He opened his eyes only after the pain was too much. When he saw Lin Qing and several people in police uniforms standing in front of him, he sat up and couldn't help but give in. . Director Xue looked at him and shouted, sit upright and don't move.
As expected, the beggar stopped moving, but his mouth was moving, and he was also saying, the chicken I ate was not stolen, but came from a chicken owner in the suburbs who was building a house and invited me to move bricks. I didn't pay for it. How many times can I do it? In addition to providing me with meals every day, I was also given a chicken. If you don’t believe me, you can ask. The chicken I ate was not stolen, so don’t catch me.
We will not pursue this matter for the time being. Director Xue looked at him and asked, was it you who set the fire in the cargo yard of Dongjiang Railway Station?
no no. As the beggar spoke, he stretched out a dirty black hand that looked like a turtle's claw and shook it constantly.
Director Xue glanced at Lin Qing, who quickly said, Damn it, when you were eating chicken and drinking wine, you clearly admitted that you set the fire, why don't you admit it now?
When I burned chicken, it was a fire, not a fire. I didn't set the fire. The beggar argued, obviously he did not understand the law and thought that he should not be held responsible for the fire caused by the fire.
Director Xue understood immediately and continued to ask, "There was a fire in the cargo shed. Why didn't you put it out?" The beggar replied, the fire was getting bigger and I couldn't put it out. At that time, the chicken I had cooked had already been cooked. I was hungry, so I just ate the chicken. If the fire got bigger, I would run away. If I didn't run away, I will be burned to death.
A policeman also took out a piece of paper and wrote to take notes. Director Xue asked again, are you telling the truth? The beggar replied, I told the truth. I did not set the fire, but accidentally burned the goods shed.
Director Xue had a few words with the beggar and found that he had a low IQ and what he said should be the truth. Thinking of Xu Sijin, who had surrendered and admitted setting fire to the goods yard and was already in jail, he felt that he had been deceived, and he felt bad. But he couldn't leave this beggar alone for causing a fire in the goods yard, which was a crime of negligence. He called police officers Xiao Wu and Xiao Jiang aside and gave instructions quietly, and they left. Lin Qing approached Director Xue and asked, will I get a reward if I report the crime?
Let’s talk about it after the case is settled. You continue to watch him. Director Xue said as he walked up the steps under the bridge to the bridge.
For about 20 minutes, police officers Xiao Wu and Xiao Jiang invited some big-bodied men to suddenly hold down the beggar. The beggar let out a burst of howls. They tied him with a rope and carried him from under the bridge to the highway. The car was transported to a bathhouse in the city, where he was forced to wash in several basins of sewage, put on a set of clean clothes that he had purchased temporarily, and then sent to a detention center to be temporarily detained, pending trial and sentencing.
Soon, Xu Sijin, who was imprisoned in the cell, was interrogated again. Director Xue looked at him and sneered, saying Xu Sijin, you just surrendered to the police just to earn a living in prison, right? Now there is evidence that the goods yard was burned down and it was not you who set the fire. It seems that you have to get out of your cell and you will not be able to earn a living in prison.
Xu Sijin became nervous, frowned, pretended to be calm, put his hands on his head, leaned slightly and said, Director Xue, what evidence do you have that I didn't set the yard on fire?
Director Xue was stunned for a moment, because he really couldn't produce any real evidence, so he told Lin Qing's report and the details of the man who begged to admit that the fire destroyed the goods yard, saying that this was the evidence. Xu Sijin let go of his hand and smiled lightly, then kept shaking his head.
Director Xue asked him why he was shaking his head. He asked Director Xue, "Do you believe what a beggar says? Nine out of ten beggars are crazy and stupid. Are the words of such a person worthy of being believed?"
Director Xue was stunned by the question and thought to himself: It is really questionable whether the beggar's words are credible or not. He pondered for a long time, then suddenly stood up and said, Xu Sijin, the trial will not be held for the time being. I will always figure out the problem. Xu Sixin smiled and said, Director Xue, isn’t my question very clear? I am an arsonist, and I will be sentenced to ten or eight years. I have only just joined the cell now, so I will definitely get this prison sentence.
Don't be too happy too early. Director Xue left the interrogation room without saying a word. Xu Sijin was escorted back to his cell by the prison guards.
