Chapter 1048 Sweet Lies

In order to deceive Zhao Xiaowan out of the rental house, Gao Feng told him that he wanted to elope with him.

But in reality, Gao Feng’s plan was to kill and take the money.

"I can’t keep him anymore. If he doesn’t have the money, I thought about sending him back to his hometown in Dongjiang, so that with his husband watching, I would have nothing to do with him afterward. I also plan to quit the job at the mooncake factory and not work there anymore. Anyway, wherever I go, I’m just working."

Gao Feng’s original idea was to trick Zhao Xiaowan back to Dongjiang Province, so they would never contact each other. Change the phone number, quit the job, and they wouldn’t be able to reach him.

As for whether Zhao Xiaowan might find his furniture, Gao Feng actually didn’t really care.

After all, as long as the two aren’t together, even if the other goes looking, what can they do?

Moreover, Zhao Xiaowan only roughly knows the location of Gao Feng’s hometown, not the specific place, so even if she goes looking, it would take quite a long time.

Also, if the person is sent back to Zhongjiang Province, whether he can run out or not is another matter.

But when he learned that Zhao Xiaoman still had 17,800 yuan, everything changed.

"You and I originally had a friend working in Nangang Village, I have been to that place and know of that pond."

It was not Nangang Village where the murder and disposal of the body took place that Gao Feng had long planned.

That night, Gao Feng tricked the person to Nangang Village, telling him they were going to elope and had rented a house there, staying there for a while first.

But when they reached the east end of the village, he tricked Zhao Xiaowan to the pond.

"I told her that while it was dark without anyone around, we could go by the pond for a moment, she agreed, so we went over there..."

Gao Feng began to narrate his actual process of murder.

"Actually, I didn’t go to work on the morning of the crime but came to Nangang Village ahead of time to scout at the pond. I found a reservoir next to it that hadn’t been used for a long time. I thought to kill him beside the reservoir and then throw him into it. The location is quite hidden, surely no one would discover it."

The location of that reservoir was indeed secluded, and many young people in Nangang Village had gone out for work in the last two years. The ones remaining were elderly, and the land had been contracted out, so no one would come to see the reservoir at all.

If it weren’t for the young people returning to the village during the New Year, visiting the pond where they used to play, pacing around and taking a glance, eventually seeing something shiny in the reservoir, opening it up, who knows when Zhao Xiaowan’s remains would see the light of day.

Later, Gao Feng took the opportunity when Zhao Xiaowan was by the pond, picking up the stone he had prepared beforehand and striking the back of her head.

"The first strike didn’t knock her out, she turned around and looked at me, her gaze I’ll never forget in my life."

Gao Feng asked for another cigarette.

"At that time, blood was all over Zhao Xiaowan’s forehead, she reached out her hand trying to grab me, I looked into her eyes..."

Gao Feng’s expression suddenly showed some pain.

"Actually, I didn’t intend to kill her. If she hadn’t had so much money on her and hadn’t been forcing me to divorce, how could I have killed her?"

Gao Feng suddenly cried, just like a child leaning on the table, wailing painfully.

"You all don’t know how I’ve lived these past nine years, every night when I sleep, I dream of Zhao Xiaowan. She’s staring with her eyes, reaching out trying to grab me, and I just keep hitting her on the head."

Gao Feng’s mood, Wang Zhaokai could understand.

Murder is not something an ordinary person can do.

Most murder cases are actually done by acquaintances.

And the first time killing someone you know, that scene and plot can likely never be erased in a lifetime.

On one hand, Gao Feng suffers every day from the torment of killing Zhao Xiaowan, recalling the murder details, and Zhao Xiaowan appears in his dreams every day.

"Do you know? For these nine years, I’ve been hoping every day that the police would catch me. Once caught, I’d be relieved."

But at the same time, Gao Feng tirelessly evades the police’s pursuit, hoping nobody would ever know and the police would never find him.

He hopes the police catch him, granting him spiritual redemption and release, yet on the other hand hopes. The police never find him, thus escaping legal punishment.

Though seemingly contradictory, it actually conforms to the logic of couples, and is within rational thoughts.

"I slapped him once, turning her face down, I didn’t dare look at her eyes, then continued striking the back of her head, hitting her repeatedly."

Gao Feng’s tone calmed down again.

It seemed he wasn’t talking about killing Zhao Xiaowan but merely describing something very mundane, like reading a piece of news.

"I hit her about ten times; when blood and flesh were blurred, Zhao Xiaowan stopped moving. I checked her breath and found she was finally gone, already dead, then threw Zhao Xiaowan’s body into the reservoir nearby."

Gao Feng continued to talk about what happened next.

"Because there was blood on the stone, I took the stone away directly, sealed the cement cover over the reservoir, and surely no one would discover it. That place isn’t really visited by anyone, so I felt it was definitely safe now. Later, I resigned from the mooncake factory job."

In the early years, Gao Feng feared his murder would be discovered, so he escaped for a while, not working in the province but going down south for work.

Later, after three or four years, he found that nobody was looking for him, not even the police contacted him, gradually, Gao Feng let his guard down and returned from the south.

The past two years, he worked in Haizhou City, saving quite a sum, then brought his wife and child from the hometown over and even had a second child.

Gao Feng lived safely and peacefully for another four or five years, believing the matter would never be discovered, only unexpectedly the police...

The case is considered completely solved now, the entire process of the crime is already clear.

Moreover, Gao Feng’s description of the murder process corresponds with Lu Chuan’s reconstruction based on the skull marks of the remains.

The next morning, Wang Chaokai gave a detailed report on the situation to Lu Chuan in the conference room.

"This Gao Feng was initially dishonest, specifically concocting a lie that they had a dispute, and Zhao Xiaowan attacked him with a stone. That’s why he retaliated, snatching the stone back from Zhao Xiaowan and accidentally killing her."

"Turns out, the real reason this guy killed Zhao Xiaowan was because when Zhao Xiaowan fled Linjiang years ago, she had 17,800 yuan with her. This guy, driven by profit, wanted to claim it for his own. Add to that Zhao Xiaowan’s threat that he had to divorce and elope with her, multiple reasons combined pushed Gao Feng to premeditated murder."

Lu Chuan listened and sighed, as did others.