Faced with Hu Jiaxiang's accusations, Wu Xiu Lian said nothing.
Just as they were talking, a woman came out from the door behind the tea table. She had delicate makeup on and was wearing a tight sweater dress and tight leggings.
She was dressed very fashionably. Seeing a police officer there, her surprise was fleeting: "Old Hu, come and take your medicine."
She spoke, her voice sweet and gentle, with an indescribable softness.
She doesn't look particularly good, but she knows how to play to her strengths and avoid her weaknesses, so her appearance of five points becomes ten.
Lin Shuyue checked her goodness and evil values: [ Name: Luo Dongqin, Sin Value: 30%, Good Value 30%, Gray Area: 40. Overall Evaluation: Wow, her goodness value is so high! Is she the legendary hypocrite? ]
Because of this questionable kindness, Lin Shuyue looked at her a few more times, and then she found that Wu Xiu Lian looked at Luo Dongqin with a look of extreme cruelty.
Lin Shuyue could understand this; there wasn't a woman who didn't resent the third party who interfered with her family. It was just that some people were more rational and knew that while the third party was at fault in infidelity, the fault lay more with the man.
But there are also some people who blame all the mistakes on a third party, and Wu Xiu Lian is obviously one of them.
Over there, Hu Jiaxiang smiled at the police officers and said, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. I haven't been feeling well lately and have been taking Chinese medicine."
The rich smell of Chinese medicine mixed with the wood smell of the wooden furniture and the incense in the house has an indescribable smell.
It smelled a bit bad, and Ye Xueyu couldn't help but wrinkled her nose.
"Old Hu, you guys have something going on here, I'm leaving first, let's get together again later," said one of Hu Jiaxiang's friends.
Hu Jiaxiang kindly let them go and arranged to meet again next time. The three of them went outside and drove away the three cars parked on the roadside.
Hu Jiaxiang didn't take the reporter's medicine. He stood and answered Ye Xueyu's question: "It's like this, officer."
"A client came at noon that day. We had some food and some drinks, and then he ran out. I also knew that Wu Xiulian couldn't leave her child and would come to see him that day, so I didn't interfere."
"Who knew that when we woke up at five or six in the evening, he still hadn't returned. We were very worried and searched everywhere in the village, but we couldn't find him. It must have been taken away by this woman, Wu Xiulian."
Hu Jiaxiang said confidently, "Officer, you don't know. Wu Xiulan has no skills at all. She can't do anything except wash clothes and cook. If I give her the child, will she be able to take care of it? When she gets married again, won't my child have to call another man father?"
When Hu Jiaxiang said this, he glanced at Wu Xiulian with disdain. When he was still poor, marrying a wife like Wu Xiulian, who was beautiful and virtuous, was a feat he had accomplished. But after he became rich, such a wife was like a nanny in his eyes.
Hu Jiaxiang had long disliked her for being so dull and inert. He couldn't let his offspring call someone else "Dad."
Wu Xiulian was so upset by Hu Jiaxiang's words that tears welled up in her eyes. She ran over and said, "Hu Jiaxiang, you're such a piece of shit! Have you forgotten that when I married you, you even lived in a broken-down house? If I hadn't given you the money to build a house, then taken care of the household expenses, and even went back to my parents' house to beg for money when you needed it, would you have achieved what you have today?"
"You've been messing around outside since you became rich. When did I ever say anything against you? You didn't give me a penny in the divorce, so what's wrong with me suing you for it?"
"Hu Jiaxiang, why can't you understand that I am different from those women out there. Those women out there are only after your money. Only me, no matter whether you have money or not, I am willing to be with you!" Wu Xiu Lian almost shouted out the last few words.
Hu Jiaxiang looked very impatient. Why do so many men in the world divorce their wives after becoming rich? Isn't it because their wives have seen them at their lowest point?
Not to mention that Wu Xiu Lian often talked about what happened back then over and over again.
This was undoubtedly an insult to Hu Jiaxiang, and it was a denial of his ability. He didn't want to be called a loser who made his fortune by relying on his wife.
So after finding a woman he liked, he divorced Wu Xiulian. To him, Wu Xiulian was a stain he wished to get rid of as far as possible. Besides, the little startup capital Wu Xiulian had given him wasn't even enough to build connections; he had to borrow some more money to establish connections. Otherwise, he'd still be sawing wood in a carpentry factory. How could he have achieved what he has today?
Luo Dongqin, who was standing next to Hu Jiaxiang, smiled at Wu Xiulian contemptuously after hearing her words.
Ye Xueyu was too lazy to listen to their arguments. She had discovered that compared to looking for her son who had been missing for many days, Wu Xiu Lian cared more about Hu Jiaxiang.
From the moment she entered the door until now, she had not said a single word to her son, like a quail. She did not retort when Hu Jiaxiang belittled her. Only when the topic of their divorce was brought up did she stand up like a zombie and start arguing with Hu Jiaxiang.
When Ye Xueyu looked at Wu Xiu Lian, she felt a sense of hatred for her lack of ambition.
"Hu Jiaxiang, I see there are surveillance cameras in your store. Do you have the surveillance records for that day?" Hu Jiaxiang sells solid wood furniture.
Solid wood furniture is expensive, and Hu Jiaxiang's shop is equipped with surveillance cameras. There are also cameras outside the door.
When Hu Jiaxiang heard this, he touched his nose awkwardly and said, "I'm sorry, officer, our camera just happened to be broken these past few days."
There is an office area on the side of the tea table with a desktop computer on it. It is used for monitoring the surveillance, but the computer screen is black.
Jiangzhou put on gloves and turned on the machine, but the monitoring didn't start. He checked the circuits and found they were all good, so it must be a software malfunction.
Jiangzhou didn't think much about it. This is the flaw of many surveillance systems in the world today. The software will always go on strike due to various accidents.
After Ye Xueyu said that, Hu Jiaxiang finally stopped talking and all his subsequent questions were very successful.
Zhao Youcheng and his friends also came back from outside. Opposite the Hu family furniture store, there is a building materials store. It is not yet closing time, so Zhao Youcheng and his friends are asking questions much faster.
Ye Xueyu had just finished her work. She closed her notebook and was about to leave.
It was already past nine o'clock and Hu Jiaxiang's neighbors had all gone to bed. They still needed more evidence to define the case.
Wu Xiulian got anxious when she saw they were about to leave: "Officer, aren't you going to take Hu Jiaxiang and that little bitch away?"
Wu Xiulian looked anxious.
Before Ye Xueyu could say anything, Hu Jiaxiang sneered, "I told you that you were no good. You took my son away and then called the police to arrest me, didn't you? I only realized today that you are such a vicious woman."
Wu Xiulian turned her head and yelled at him, "I'm vicious! How am I vicious? Can I be more vicious than you? You are such a heartless man."
Ye Xueyu rolled her eyes: "Okay, Ms. Wu, it takes time for the police to investigate the case."
Ye Xueyu was the first to leave. Before leaving, Lin Shuyue took a special look at the two large bottles standing at the door and asked, "Are these vases also sold in your store?"
Hu Jiaxiang took a look and nodded in agreement: "This kind of large vases is usually ordered by the customer. If the customer doesn't order it, we dare not take it. The price is too high."
Lin Shuyue walked over, reached out and knocked on it, and a muffled sound of porcelain came out.
Where Lin Shuyue couldn't see, Luo Dongqin was nervous for a moment, but quickly returned to normal.
Lin Shuyue continued to ask, "Who usually decides on this kind of design?"
"For those who run companies or shopping malls, this kind of plum vase is beautiful and also symbolizes peace, safety, good fortune and happiness. Generally, wealthy bosses will order it."
Lin Shuyue nodded and followed Ye Xueyu and the others.
They got in the car, and Wu Dongyan walked over to Lin Shuyue and asked, "Have you figured out what's going on?"
Wu Dongyan and Ye Xueyu are no longer in the same team. When they were working on a case, Wu Dongyan did not come in, but stood outside smoking.
She has been under a lot of pressure recently, so she learned to smoke.
Lin Shuyue was not surprised by this, as her father in her previous life was a heavy smoker.
"Did you figure out anything?" Lin Shuyue asked back.
"Among these three people, there must be someone who knows where the child is, but I don't know who it is." Wu Dongyan felt that one of the three people must have hidden the child.
If we were to take it a step further, it would be that the child is missing.
Wu Dongyan analyzed: "Look, the child has been missing for many days, but neither the biological father nor the stepmother is worried. Especially the biological father and the stepmother."
"The mother reported the child missing today, saying she looked for him but couldn't find him, so she filed a report. But it's been three or four days since they last saw him. Do you think they're worried?"
"Even if they speculate that Wu Xiulian took the child away, have they looked for her?"
"Wu Xiulian is also a suspect. She went to the police station to report the case, saying she was looking for her child, but more importantly, she wanted to teach the two people who betrayed her a lesson. I'm more inclined to believe that she hid the child and deliberately reported the case."
Lin Shuyue looked back and saw that Hu Jiaxiang and Luo Dongqin had already packed up their things and were closing the rolling door.
Wu Dongyan's analysis was spot-on and made perfect sense. If she hadn't been burdened with the good-evil system, she would have certainly thought so based on Wu Xiulian's actions.
"I think there's something wrong with that couple." Lin Shuyue said to Wu Dongyan.
"If there's any problem, just check it out and you'll know."
Ye Xueyu came over at this time. They had already called their colleagues in the bureau to check the surveillance footage of the day Taotao disappeared.
Now everyone was a little hungry, so they decided to go to a nearby food stall for dinner.
They ordered a table full of seafood and sat together to chat. Because they had a case to attend to, none of them ordered any alcohol.
Ye Xueyu and the others were already used to this kind of emergency. The only person she felt a little sorry for was Lin Shuyue.
She called her out so late, but she didn't get anything good to eat.
Lin Shuyue didn't care about it: "Why say all this? If you really feel bad, just treat me to a big meal later."
Ye Xueyu smiled and said, "It's settled then. There's a new seafood restaurant that's opened in Xijiang District. The food is really good. I'll take you there when the time comes."
"OK."
That's how it was settled.
The food came quickly, with seafood porridge sprinkled with coriander and chopped green onions. Jiangzhou gave each person a bowl, and pepper and salt mantis shrimp were also served.
After drinking a bowl of porridge, Lin Shuyue got up and went to the toilet.
The toilet of this seafood stall happened to be broken, so they had to go to a public toilet in the residential area opposite. Lin Shuyue took out the flashlight from her backpack and went there.
The public toilet was very clean. Lin Shuyue squatted in the innermost cubicle and sent messages to Hang Jiabai.
The two were chatting happily when a male voice came from behind the public beta.
"Ah Biao, didn't we agree on this? As long as the birth dates match, the price won't be a problem!"
"You all know that things haven't been going well for my construction site since we started. I consulted a fortune teller, and he said the feng shui of my construction site isn't very good, and I need to place a vase inside the company to calm it down."
"It doesn't matter how much money I pay, as long as it keeps me safe."
The man's words faded away. Lin Shuyue seemed lost in thought. After replying to Hang Jiabai's message, she stood up, washed her hands outside, and walked towards the food stall.
The man who had been talking behind the toilet had disappeared.
She always felt that the birth date, feng shui master, and fortune telling mentioned by the man were somewhat related to today's case.
This feeling is subtle, but it lingers in her heart.
After dinner, Ye Xueyu and others returned to the police station. Before Lin Shuyue opened the car door and got in the car to go home, she set her sights on an antique shop opposite.
Lin Shuyue thought about it and walked over.
An old man in buttoned clothes sat in a rocking chair in the store with his eyes closed. On the low table next to him, there was a pot of tea and a plate of mosquito coils.
Yes, this is very Guangdong Province. Mosquitoes are really the lifelong enemy of everyone in Guangdong Province. They are present all year round.
Lin Shuyue looked at the incense and yellow paper on the shelf and asked the old man, "Uncle, do you have any amulets?"
"Yes, what is it for?" When a customer came, the old man got up from the rocking chair and walked behind the counter.
"This is what happened. My husband and I contracted a construction site. It had only been open for less than half a month when a lot of strange things started happening. Workers were injured every few days. I went to see a Taoist priest, and he told me to wear a peace amulet. I was just wondering where to get one when I heard someone say that your amulet is effective, so I came here overnight."
It was already past eleven o'clock, and there was nothing wrong with what Lin Shuyue said.
"Yes, the amulets at my house are very effective. We had them blessed by a master at Lingshan Mountain. But pretty girl, your family had an accident at the construction site, which has nothing to do with the amulets. You need to change your feng shui."
Lin Shuyue pretended to be surprised and opened her mouth. "I have to change the Feng Shui? My husband and I just came to Pengcheng and have never consulted a Feng Shui master before."
The old man's eyes fell on the gold ring and gold bracelet that Lin Shuyue had specially put on on the way here, and he smiled: "I know someone who is very spiritual. You can go and ask him."
"You know about the Lucun Bridge, right? When it was first built, a lot of problems happened. The contractor at the time tried everything, but nothing worked. So he went to see Master Wuwo, whom I know."
"Master Wuwo went to the construction site and took a look, and he solved the problem. Look at the Lucun Bridge now, it's so beautiful."
Lucun Bridge is very large and is one of the roads connecting Pengcheng and Guancheng.
"So amazing?" Lin Shuyue pretended to be very surprised: "Then uncle, you must recommend Master Wuwo to me."
"My husband and I have invested most of our fortune in this project. If anything goes wrong, we can't afford the responsibility even if we sell ourselves off. Master Wuwo is so powerful, we'd have to hire him even if we had to spend everything we have!"
Lin Shuyue's words obviously pleased the old man, and the old man gave her the address of Master Wuwo. Lin Shuyue returned the favor by buying the amulet, and then when she went out, she took out five red bills from her wallet and put them into the merit box at the door of the antique shop.
When she reached the street, Lin Shuyue looked back while fixing her hair.
The old man was talking on the phone behind the counter, with a smile on his face as bright as a blooming old chrysanthemum.
[ Name: Ding Sanqiang, Sin Value: 60%, Good Value: 10%, Gray Area: 40, Overall Rating: Wow, so this is the ceiling for pimps? ]
There were no cars, so Lin Shuyue walked to the opposite side of the road and got in a car. She looked at Master Wuwo's address again and again with the help of the car lights.
The address is on the Xiangjiang River. As long as you have a pass, you can take a boat from the Xijiang Ferry, which is very convenient.
But behind Master Wuwo's address, there was also a phone number for the Hong Kong ferry. The old man didn't specify the ferry's information, but Lin Shuyue knew that this kind of ferry could be used without a pass.
The prerequisite is that the money must be enough.