Chapter 184

【She dropped her doll at the orphanage.】

[Don’t think too much. If you don’t find it, you just don’t find it. ]

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Song Hui, 52, former vice president and director of education at Dahai Welfare Home, graduated from Xiangcheng University with a bachelor's and master's degree in psychology. After graduation, she worked in psychology and child education for many years. When she was 28, she met her husband Su Fengxiong and they got married the following year.

Su Fengxiong is a rural man, a son of a poor family. He also graduated with a master's degree from a 985 university and later worked in a public institution in charge of social welfare. When Su Fengxiong was 40 years old, he took over a public welfare home and became the director. Because of the standardized management and various activities, it has won praise from all parties and has an excellent reputation in the industry. Song Hui followed his husband and later also went to work in the welfare home.

Later, the former director of Dahai Welfare Home passed away. Under the coordination and assignment of the superior unit, Su Fengxiong served as the director of the smaller Dahai Welfare Home. However, the person who was actually responsible for the overall management and stationed in the home was Song Hui. Su Fengxiong only came twice a week to guide the work.

On the night of June 6 seven years ago, Song Hui personally killed her husband Su Fengxiong, with whom she had been married for 15 years.

The crime scene was in Su Fengxiong's private room in the backyard of Dahai Welfare Home. According to Song Hui's confession, she usually lived in the front yard, which was closer to the children's dormitory, making it convenient to deal with emergencies at night. Only when Su Fengxiong came, the two would live in the room at the back. This room is far away from the other rooms, and there is a separate door for entering and exiting the welfare home. So the other teachers didn't hear the noise that night. The welfare home only installed surveillance at the gate, the children's daily activity room and the dormitory. That night, all the surveillance was turned off in advance. So it wasn't until the next morning when Song Hui turned himself in that everyone knew someone was dead.

Li Qingyao and Xia Yongze looked through the files of that year, which recorded everything in detail. Song Hui first used a vase in the room to hit Su Fengxiong on the back of his head when he wasn't paying attention. When he lost the ability to fight back, he stabbed him several times until he died. The murder weapon was a sharp meat-cleaver from the kitchen of the welfare home.

When the police arrived, Song Hui had already washed the bloody clothes on his body, cleaned the scene, and changed into clean and decent clothes. He calmly let the police handcuff him. Only Su Fengxiong was thrown on the ground casually, like a chopped pig.

According to the investigation results and Song Hui's confession, she suffered domestic violence from Su Fengxiong many times. Su Fengxiong often visited prostitutes and gambled on football, and even invited prostitutes to this room in the welfare home, which made Song Hui feel humiliated. Song Hui is a native of Xiangcheng and has a good family. Su Fengxiong's career has been so smooth, and the Yue family has made great contributions. Song Hui wanted to divorce, but Su Fengxiong firmly opposed it. He was afraid of losing the support of the Yue family and was also afraid that Song Hui would expose his affairs.

The police found the accounts and funds used by Su Fengxiong to participate in overseas gambling, as well as records of soliciting prostitutes. In addition to Song Hui's large number of fingerprints on the murder weapon, they also found fingerprints of four people in the room. Two of them were compared with two nightclub ladies. The other two were not compared, and if nothing unexpected happened, they should also be call girls of the same identity.

Two months before the incident, Song Hui had filed for divorce. According to Song Hui, they had a heated argument over Su Fengxiong's gambling that night, and she killed him in a rage.

Although Song Hui was the victim of the marriage, from all the signs that night, she showed premeditation, planning and high calmness, and it was not out of self-defense. The evidence was conclusive and the motive was clear. So in the end, she was sentenced to life imprisonment.

After Song Hui was detained, all the staff of the welfare home jointly wrote a petition, recounting the five years of hard work Song Hui had put in at the welfare home. She had no children, but she took care of those helpless children like a biological mother, and even used all her savings and income to improve the living conditions of the children and teachers and caregivers. Each employee wrote a petition of thousands of words, which was sincere and heartfelt. Those children with cerebral palsy and autism signed if they could, and put their fingerprints on if they couldn't. The thick stack of petitions was filled with tears.

However, the law has no mercy.

——South City Women’s Prison.

Li Qingyao was a little surprised when Song Hui sat down at the table.

She was wearing a prison uniform, but it was very clean. She had white hair on her temples, and her short black and white hair was also neatly groomed. She was very thin and very white, with her hands gently folded on her legs and her back straight. Her face was not made up, and there were many wrinkles, but it also had a delicate and elegant temperament.

You would think that if she changed into decent clothes, this woman should be sitting safely in a university lecture hall or an elegant tea room, instead of being a prisoner like she is now.

Song Hui was also very quiet. He didn't ask why they came, but just sat and waited.

"Hello, Song Hui." Li Qingyao said, "We are here today because we want to ask you for help."

"Please go ahead." Her voice was also gentle and pleasant, but a little hoarse. "If there is anything I can do to help, I will do my best."

It was as if they were just two equals communicating, not police and prisoners.

Li Qingyao felt a little bit of favor in his heart.

She pushed the photo of Liu Tingmei in front of Song Hui and asked, "Have you seen this girl?"

Song Hui stared at the photo, stretched out his thin white hand to pick it up, looked at it intently for a few seconds, and said, "Sorry, I don't remember it."

"Think about it carefully." Li Qingyao stared into her calm eyes. "On June 2017, 6, a staff member of the Chaoyang Home Residential Committee named Liu Fang, who has been a good friend of yours for many years, sent her to Dahai Welfare Home. She said very clearly that you took her in."

Song Hui thought for a while and replied: "I remember what you said. It is true. I'm sorry, it's been too long and I've been in prison. I rarely come into contact with people and things from the past. I have forgotten a lot of things."

Li Qingyao smiled but said nothing.

"Can you tell us what Liu Tingmei does every day after coming to Dahai Welfare Home? What are her performances?"

"She...she's very good. After Liu Fang sent her here, she explained her situation. I felt sorry for her because she had nowhere to go, so I let her work as a handyman in the welfare home. But she performed better than I expected. She was the first one to get up every day and cleaned the welfare home very well. She also cooked delicious food. She was even willing to help the teacher look after the children. Her English was also very good. We have several autistic children whose intelligence is better than all the children. They can do some simple learning. She taught them simple English, ABCD. Those children were very happy and said that they could talk to foreigners in the future."