Chapter 65

Hu Jinquan asked, "Did he reveal to you that he was going to the Jiangdong Branch the next day?"

Xiao Long nodded and said, "Yes, yes, Officer, you are truly amazing. You guessed right. At the time, we were all especially envious of him for being able to help the police. After that, who would dare to bully him!"

Hu Jinquan looked at Chang Huaqiang with an amused expression. The latter appeared somewhat embarrassed and said, "What nonsense are you spouting, kid?"

Xiao Long shrank his head in fear and said, "Brother Qiang, I was just using a metaphor. In Lühua, who would dare to bully us?"

Chang Huaqiang clearly did not want to continue this topic. He just glanced at him, and it was impossible to tell if he was displeased.

Hu Jinquan couldn't be bothered with their affairs and continued to ask, "Do you mean that all of you who were eating late-night snacks that day heard Little Jiang say he was going to the branch the next day? Were there others present at the time? I mean other people eating snacks."

Xiao Long denied it directly. Hu Jinquan couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Master's judgment was correct!

"Do you know the full name of that Xiao Yong?"

"Um, yes, I do. His name is Tao Xiaoyong!"

Hu Jinquan thought to himself, That's it! It must be him! For the sake of caution, he asked Xiao Long to describe Tao Xiaoyong's appearance. Xiao Long had a good way with words and described him vividly, which was highly similar to the characteristics of the suspect that Hu Jinquan had seen who had just been caught by You Xinfa.

He finally asked, "Where does Tao Xiaoyong usually live? Does he know where Little Jiang lives?"

"We all rent rooms together, right at Jiangjiatai, not far from the dance hall."

Now that the conversation had reached this point, Xiao Long also sensed that there was something going on between Xiao Yong and Little Jiang! The young man's curiosity was piqued, and he asked, "Officer, did that kid Tao Xiaoyong commit some crime?"

Hu Jinquan asked vigilantly, "What kind of crime do you think Tao Xiaoyong would commit?"

Chang Huaqiang, who was on the side, saw that Xiao Long was becoming a bit unruly and was about to open his mouth to stop him, but Hu Jinquan raised his hand to stop him, waiting for Xiao Long's answer.

The young man didn't notice Chang Huaqiang's movement and said bluntly, "That kid is a bit slow! How should I put it? He's just a bit stubborn, and his desire for revenge is especially strong!"

Hu Jinquan found it interesting upon hearing this. He smiled and asked, "How do you know?"

Seeing Hu Jinquan smile, Xiao Long wanted to show off even more. He said proudly, "This guy hasn't been in Lühua long, but I saw him secretly kill the dog belonging to the 'Informer.' It just so happened that I ran into it. However, that Informer is too ruthless, and we all hate him, so I didn't want to make a scene. But I still had to ask why. Tao Xiaoyong said the dog kept chasing and biting him, which annoyed him, so he secretly put rat poison in the dog food. Not only did he poison it to death, but he also used a knife to chop the dog into pieces! I saw it when he was chopping the dog."

Hu Jinquan thought of the method Tao Xiaoyong used to dispose of Shao Tianyang's body, and looking at Xiao Long, who was talking eloquently, he couldn't help but sigh: Fortunately, all you saw was him chopping a dog!

Asking up to this point, Tao Xiaoyong's suspicion in Little Jiang's death was even greater! If Master's hypothesis held true, then the reason for Little Jiang's death was that he had clearly seen what that girl looked like. Thinking of this, a sense of guilt arose in Hu Jinquan's heart! If they had taken Little Jiang away directly that night, would that young man not have been harmed?

But it was meaningless to think about these things now!

Hu Jinquan quickly cast aside distracting thoughts. He knew that finding the scene of Little Jiang's murder, finding the murder weapon, and finding witnesses to nail Tao Xiaoyong was what he should be doing! He wondered how Master and Old Gu were doing at the Jiangnan Branch meeting that pervert.

Gu Changzheng, who was at the Jiangnan Branch, suddenly sneezed. He thought his body was fine, so could someone be talking about him? But he couldn't afford to let his mind wander at this moment. The Tao Xiaoyong in front of him was indeed as the Captain You had said: no matter what you said, he had the same expression: sitting there like he was in a trance, not saying a word!

Lu Haoxuan looked at him and suddenly said coldly, "Tao Xiaoyong! Do you think we don't know about your affairs just because you don't open your mouth?" Tao Xiaoyong remained indifferent, as if Lu Haoxuan didn't exist.

Lu Haoxuan sneered, "I'm telling you! The person you didn't hesitate to kill Jiang Weimin (Little Jiang) to protect is now in our control!"

At this moment, Tao Xiaoyong's body gave a start! He suddenly raised his head and stared at Lu Haoxuan with resentful eyes! Then he tilted his head as if thinking about something, and suddenly he showed a contemptuous smile: "Humph! You can't catch her. I am not the only guardian!"

"Guardian?!" Tao Xiaoyong's first sentence was a bombshell! Originally, Lu Haoxuan was trying to trick him into admitting he was the murderer of Little Jiang, but he didn't expect that he didn't care about these things at all, and instead attached extreme importance to the news about that girl!

Lu Haoxuan knew that the girl was not simple, and now it seemed she was not just ordinarily not simple! He quickly calmed his shocked mood and said coldly, "Tao Xiaoyong, no matter how many of your so-called guardians there are, we will catch them one by one! Let me tell you! Soon, you will meet those guardians of yours in prison!"

"I know I can't live anymore. You will have a hundred, a thousand ways to convict me, but I don't care!" Tao Xiaoyong, who had been silent, was now like someone whose language function had been switched on. He looked at Lu Haoxuan indifferently and said, "Alan is the god in our hearts. No one can desecrate her! Yes! The one we guardians are protecting is Alan. I'm not afraid to tell you her name. Anyway, you will never catch her! Heh heh! That young master! That 'whoever' whose head was in my refrigerator, I killed him. He deserved to die! He actually, actually, heh heh! He could die a hundred times and it wouldn't be enough. He's just like a rat in the sewer! He had to go into the sewer, right?"

Lu Haoxuan looked at Tao Xiaoyong, who was somewhat excited, and couldn't help but feel a chill! What kind of magic did that girl have to make him so devoted to protecting her, even at the cost of killing for her?

Tao Xiaoyong was immersed in his own world and continued, "I, the Butcher—oh, right, Butcher is a code name. You know the story of 'Pao Ding Dissecting the Ox,' right? You must have heard it! Hahaha! The Butcher has the ability of Pao Ding. That time, after he dismantled the limbs of that rat, I was very unhappy because this rat actually dirtied my goddess! So I had to deal with him myself! Hahahaha! It was so satisfying! In my house, I treated him like a dog and... as for that Little Jiang, I didn't want to kill him, but after he saw Alan, he stared at her lustfully all night! What's more hateful is that he actually wanted to go to the Public Security Bureau to report her! Humph! He was looking for death! I had no choice but to fulfill his wish!"

Lu Haoxuan looked at him coldly, while a police officer from the Jiangnan Branch on the side was recording continuously! With Tao Xiaoyong's narration, the veil of the truth of the whole incident was about to be lifted!