Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu were not in a hurry to leave, so Ye Xueyu took her in to ask.
Lin Shuyue sat on a stool in the reception hall, listening to the woman who came to report the case.
"My name is Wu Xiulian. My ex-husband and I divorced at the beginning of last year because he had someone else. During the divorce, I didn't get custody of our child. His family refused to give it to me. To prevent this, they even contacted my parents. My parents took his money and decided on my behalf, giving the child to them."
Wu Xiu Lian must have not slept for a long time. Her voice was filled with deep fatigue, her hair was messy, and her eyes were slightly red.
"I couldn't leave my children, so I never left Shenzhen. After my divorce, I worked as a stock clerk in Pioneer Supermarket. Every week, I would visit my son two or three times. My son knew that I would go there at a fixed time, and he would always wait for me at the intersection. After seeing him, I would take him to eat what he wanted, and sometimes I would take him to the roadside to sit on the rocking car in front of the convenience store." Wu Xiu Lian's hands were pinching the corner of her clothes a little uncomfortably.
"Although I don't have much money, I have given him my best. I also bought him two sets of clothes. His previous clothes were all broken, and his father didn't even think of buying him a new one. Not to mention his stepmother, she didn't even want to give him food, let alone clothes. When I took him out to play before, I saw that he had injuries on his body. He was beaten by his stepmother." Wu Xiu Lian wiped away her tears when she said this.
"Tell me, his dad is such a jerk, right?Taotao is his own son!!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Shuyue activated her good and evil radar. Wu Xiulian's sin value was 10%, her goodness value was around 40, and her gray area was 5.
This is the range for normal people.
Ye Xueyu sat next to the reception police on the first floor, watching the reception police take notes.
Wu Xiulian didn't hear the police officer's question and continued, "I went to see my son the day before yesterday. As usual, I went again this afternoon after get off work. But I waited for a long time at the intersection where we usually meet, but he didn't show up."
Wu Xiu Lian was a somewhat timid woman. When she married her husband, he was just a carpenter in a lumber mill.
Later, her husband opened a furniture factory. The business became better and better, and bigger and bigger. Wu Xiu Lian still took care of her husband and children as before.
When a man has no money, having a woman like Wu Xiu Lian is a face-saving thing for him. Everyone who meet her will praise her for her virtuousness.
But when a man has money, he feels that his wife who has been with him through thick and thin is not presentable to him, so he indulges in extravagant entertainment outside and becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his wife at home. Wu Xiulan is such a wife who has been with him through thick and thin.
The man she met was also extremely cruel. Wu Xiu Lian got nothing, not even her savings, house, store, or even the custody of her child.
Perhaps because of the setbacks in her life, she was a little depressed, and her beautiful appearance became much more ordinary because of this.
Her story was rambling, and after recounting her divorce from her ex-husband, she got back to the point: "I asked an aunt who was kind to me before, and she said my son hadn't been home for four or five days. My ex-husband and his wife both said the child left with me."
"I heard from my son that his stepmother is pregnant, and I was a little worried that something might happen to him. So I came to report the case." When Wu Xiu Lian said this, she raised her eyes and glanced at the two policemen opposite.
But she was also really anxious. Her son was only six years old. Where could a six-year-old child go? This afternoon, she had searched all the places her son often went, but still couldn't find him.
She had no choice but to come to the police station.
The police officer who received her wrote down everything she said and began the routine questioning. Ye Xueyu sat beside her, observing her calmly.
Lin Shuyue listened to her words, and they sounded more and more familiar. She waved to Ye Xueyu and said, "Ah Yu, ask her if her ex-husband's current wife works in a factory during the day and in a bar at night."
Ye Xueyu glanced at Lin Shuyue several times: "Do you know her?"
Lin Shuyue shook her head: "I don't know her. I just heard someone at the next table discussing this matter while I was having lunch today."
"What a coincidence." Ye Xueyu said, made an OK gesture and walked over.
Wu Xiulian was stunned for a moment: "Yes, that woman of his does work in the factory during the day and sells alcohol in the bar at night."
"Officer, do you know them?" Wu Xiu Lian seemed very excited. She stood up and tears fell down.
"Officer, please judge for me. I've been with Hu Jiaxiang for nine years. When I first married him, his family was extremely poor. Even the house they lived in was leaking. I used my dowry to build him this house."
Ye Xueyu was grabbed by the arm before she knew it. "He works as a carpenter in a woodworking factory. Sometimes he doesn't get paid for half a year. I had to shamelessly borrow money from my parents!"
"He told me at the time that he would remember my kindness to him and would treat me well forever."
"But look at him, he has no conscience. He's only been prosperous for a few years and has some money, but he's already looking for women one after another outside. In the end, he divorced me for that bartender. Not only did he not give me the money and the house, he also didn't give me the child."
"He has no conscience. Officer, please give him some justice, don't you think?" Wu Xiu Lian complained to Ye Xueyu with tears and snot.
As Ye Xueyu listened to her narration, her hands were pulled so hard that they hurt, her head also ached, and she vaguely felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what exactly was wrong.
"I don't know them. Someone went out to eat today and heard about it by chance, so she told me about it." Ye Xueyu's words made Wu Xiu Lian very disappointed.
The light in her eyes that had brightened up because she wanted Ye Xueyu to judge the case, dimmed.
Ye Xueyu's colleagues came down and after hearing about Wu Xiu Lian's story, they decided to go to Feng'an Village that Wu Xiu Lian mentioned to investigate first, and then go to eat.
Ye Xueyu pulled Lin Shuyue's arm and said, "Originally, I decided to invite you to sing a song after dinner."
Ye Xueyu felt very regretful. She want them to start eating at around nine o'clock, continued eating until ten o'clock, went out to sing some songs, and left on time at twelve o'clock. Now it seemed that this was not going to work.
"It's okay, I'm not that hungry." The two of them walked outside together and happened to meet Wu Dongyan who hurried in from outside.
Wu Dongyan changed into casual clothes and had her hair cut short, looking particularly heroic. She was very happy to see Lin Shuyue coming back and gave her a bear hug as soon as she came up.
"I've been wanting you to come back for a long time. I was just thinking of giving you a call." After Wu Dongyan was promoted to team leader, she was doing very well and her daily work was quite challenging.
She even compresses her sleeping time.
"Do you have something to talk to me about?" Lin Shuyue has a good relationship with the criminal police team. Sometimes when she encounters a case or a key clue, she will take the initiative to contact Wu Dongyan and others.
Wu Dongyan and other people in the criminal police team regarded Lin Shuyue as a lucky star and mascot.
This year, Pengcheng handled so many major and special cases, most of which were discovered by Lin Shuyue. Furthermore, Wu Dongyan and the others had privately said countless times that as long as Lin Shuyue was around, their case-solving speed was like riding a rocket.
Lin Shuyue also knew Wu Dongyan. She was looking for her so anxiously, so there must be something wrong.
Wu Dongyan followed Lin Shuyue into her car, while Ye Xueyu and Zhao Youcheng Jiangzhou got into the back seat.
Wu Xiu Lian followed the front desk police officer who received her and got into another car.
As soon as she got in the car, Wu Dongyan told Lin Shuyue about what she had encountered recently.
"Aren't we investigating old cases right now? Those cold cases. One of them was about an old man who fell ill and suddenly passed away one day."
Lin Shuyue drove quietly.
Ye Xueyu and her team work in the same office as Wu Dongyan, and they have discussed the case that Wu Dongyan's team encountered before.
"His children believe that he did not die of natural causes. They believe that someone must have murdered him. The person who murdered their father was the young nanny who took care of him."
"But after the police investigation, they found few suspicious points. Although the nanny was only in her thirties, she had a husband and children, and she was very conscientious and responsible during her work, keeping the house clean inside and outside."
"When visiting neighbors, most people praised this nanny, and she has a very good reputation."
"After an autopsy of the old man's body, no abnormalities were found. He died of natural causes. There is no doubt about the cause of death."
Lin Shuyue nodded: "Then what?"
The reason why an unsolved case is an unsolved case is that there must be something unclear in it before it is closed.
"According to the elderly man's children, their father was a cadre at a garment factory and had a good pension after retirement. When he was ill, his son took his passbook to withdraw money, which still had 10,000 or 20,000 yuan in it. But after the elderly man passed away, the passbook disappeared."
"When they went to the bank with the old man's ID, they found that there was no money in his passbook. The withdrawal records showed that the money was withdrawn in small amounts. The frequency of withdrawals was very high. At the most frequent time, the old man would withdraw at least 200 yuan twice a day."
"His pension was withdrawn as soon as it arrived at the card. The police checked the surveillance footage and found that the old man had gone there in person to withdraw the money every time."
As for who the money was given to and how it was spent, no one knows except the nanny and the elderly.
But once the old man died, this was no longer a solution. These withdrawal records, along with the bank teller's testimony and the old man's most recent withdrawal record, were presented to the children of the complainant, who were speechless. Thus, the case was closed.
"After the case was closed, the police officer in charge investigated the woman again and found no suspicion. But five years later, in 2001, she was involved in another similar case."
"But this time, the victim was a woman in her seventies, and the cause of death was normal. But there was also no money in her bank card or passbook. The bank's withdrawal surveillance and records all showed that the elderly woman had gone to the bank herself, and the teller could also prove that she was conscious when she withdrew the money."
If the death of one elderly person was an accident, then two would be clearly unusual. However, after a week of investigation, the police came to the same conclusion as they had five years ago: they were all natural deaths.
Furthermore, the money in the card was withdrawn by the old man himself, using the same method. Furthermore, after the old man died, no cash was found in the house.
This is too much of a coincidence.
"During this time, we went to look for the elderly's children, but neither family wanted to say anything about what happened. When we pressed them, they said they wanted the elderly's property but couldn't find it, so they went to the police station to report the case."
"However, the police who investigated their case said that was not the case and that they had never argued over property."
Wu Dongyan and her colleagues visited many parties involved in this case, but the feeling of knowing that there was a problem but being unable to move the case forward was really distressing.
When she was at a loss, Wu Dongyan thought of Lin Shuyue.
"Have you looked for the nanny from that time?" Lin Shuyue asked.
"We have. She now works as a caregiver at the Yunzhou Sanatorium. She's been completely thorough in her testimony about the case, even parts of it are the same. But we can't find any evidence of her guilt."
Wu Dongyan took out her photo and showed it to Lin Shuyue: "Look, that's her, her name is Fan Damei."
Lin Shuyue took a look at the photo while she was at the traffic light. It must have been a newly taken photo. The woman in the photo was wearing a purple turtleneck dress, her hair was tied into a low ponytail, and she had no earrings or makeup on.
She is very simple and gentle, and she has a pair of very beautiful eyes, like a crescent moon, very beautiful.
Lin Shuyue remembered her appearance: "When you go to visit her again one day, come find me okay?"
This was exactly what Wu Dongyan was waiting for, and she nodded in agreement.
After this case was explained, Ye Xueyu and others spoke, this time talking about the case they were going to investigate.
Feng'an Village is called a village, but it has become a mountain commercial village. There are tall buildings and many villages here. Wu Xiu Lian's ex-husband's shop is located on the roadside.
It is about 500 square meters. Judging from the floor-to-ceiling windows and doors on the outside, it is filled with mahogany furniture.
In the front of the furniture, three or four men sat together smoking and drinking tea.
Hu Jiaxiang, who was sitting in the host seat, was chatting and laughing with everyone.
But when he saw Wu Xiu Lian and the police officers walk in, the smile on his face instantly fell, and the men who were just talking and joking also stopped talking.
"How dare you come here! I've been going crazy looking for Taotao these past few days. You don't even have a phone number or a contact address. Bring Taotao back quickly, Taotao needs to go to school."
Hu Jiaxiang turned the tables, and Lin Shuyue looked at the Good and Evil Discrimination System: [ Name: Hu Jiaxiang, Sin Value: 55%, Good Value: 2%, Gray Area: 35. Overall Evaluation: Wow, this man is dangerous, stay away from him!!! ]
Lin Shuyue shut down the system. Hu Jiaxiang was complaining to the police: "Comrade police, you're so kind! I was just about to report this to the police. This woman kidnapped my son."
Lin Shuyue didn't look at him, but looked at the decoration of the store. Her eyes were quickly attracted by two huge, two-meter-high floor-standing plum vases on both sides of the door.