Lin Shuyue hadn't been at the scene for long when reporters arrived. It was at this point that she discovered the hot spring resort had been advertised in numerous newspapers.
Not to mention that it is a household name, but people in Shenzhen must be familiar with it.
Such a thing happened in a nursing home that was advertising everywhere, and reporters came here just because they smelled something.
The reason why Lin Shuyue didn't know was that she had been busy in the past few days since she came back and didn't have enough time to catch up on the previous newspapers.
After knowing this, Lin Shuyue rubbed her brows and decided that starting from tomorrow, she must finish reading all the newspapers that she had not read during this period of time.
After Lin Shuyue exchanged information with the reporters, she and Wu Dongyan left the sanatorium at the same time, with reporters following behind them.
Wu Dongyan didn't care.
They went straight to Wei Yu's residence. There were already police investigating there, and the landlord, a big man, was standing nearby.
A police officer came forward to report the situation to Wu Dongyan: "Captain Wu, we've checked. All the documents and financial belongings are gone from the house. There are no signs of theft. According to interviews with the neighbors, they last saw Wei Yu yesterday morning."
Lin Shuyue stood at the door and looked at the room whose end could be seen at a glance.
This is a single room. There is a window directly opposite the door. Under the window is a 1.5-meter-long bed covered with black sheets and the quilt folded into square tofu blocks.
The curtains were black and had black paint on the back.
Opposite the bed is a set of double-door walnut wardrobes provided by the landlord.
The desk is also neatly arranged. In addition, there is a shoe rack by the door. All the shoes on the rack are placed in shoe boxes. Except for a pair of black slippers, no pair of shoes is exposed.
The tiles on the floor are also very clean, and not even watermarks can be seen.
The furnishings in the entire room are very neat, and there is no bright color in the entire room, the overall tone is black.
This is obviously abnormal. Generally speaking, people like brightly colored things, especially girls.
Not to mention Wei Yu, according to the information, she is only 22 years old now.
Wu Dongyan put on shoe covers and went to the kitchen and bathroom to check.
In the kitchen, besides an electric frying pan and an electric rice cooker, there are two plates, two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks.
There is no trace of oil smoke on the wall.
The bathroom is just as simple, with only a red bucket besides towels, toothbrushes, cups and toiletries.
"It's so simple." Wu Dongyan looked through the desk and wardrobe, but there were only a few pieces of clothes.
Lin Shuyue wasn't a police officer, so she wasn't qualified to go in and check. But she felt that Wei Yu's life growing up might have been much harder than what Grandma Jinxiang and the others knew.
There were constant clicking sounds behind her. The reporters who came with Lin Shuyue were taking pictures inside the room.
Lin Shuyue went downstairs and saw the police interviewing the shop owners downstairs.
The person they are interviewing now is the owner of the convenience store downstairs.
The proprietress didn't want to talk about Wei Yu at first, but when she heard that Wei Yu might be involved in a murder case, she rushed over overnight even though she had already gone home to rest.
"That's right, Officer. Wei Yu has a very good relationship with us. She said she really likes the youngest son of the Huang family across the street, so she asked us to keep an eye on the Huang family."
"If a stranger comes to ask about the Huang family, tell her. She won't let us pass on the information for nothing, and will give us thirty yuan each time."
Nowadays, a bowl of vegetarian rice noodles costs only two yuan, and adding meat costs less than five yuan. Thirty yuan is already a lot, enough for an ordinary family's food expenses for a day.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Everyone will fall under such sugar-coated bullets.
No one doubted what Wei Yu said. The youngest son of the Huang family was 28 years old this year, well-educated, and was studying for a doctorate at a medical university. He was indeed handsome, so it was normal for Wei Yu to like him.
The police recorded everything they said.
Half an hour later, Wu Dongyan came downstairs with a black notebook in her hand.
The reporters around Lin Shuyue swarmed over to ask Wu Dongyan about the situation.
"Captain Wu, what are your thoughts on the mysterious death of a 60-year-old woman at the hot spring resort?"
"It is said that this is the residence of the deceased's daughter. Do you suspect that she is involved in the death of the deceased?"
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Wu Dongyan said with a cold face: "The case is still under investigation. The specific information is not clear yet. I will let you know if there is any progress."
Wu Dongyan had used this tactic many times before. It was the same tactic for every case, and when it came to handling the media, she felt she had reached the pinnacle of perfection.
She knew that the reporters would not buy what she said, but it didn't matter, she still had a plan to deal with it.
Sure enough, five minutes later, after making a few insignificant promises, Wu Dongyan successfully escaped from the circle of reporters and left with her colleagues.
What she was holding in her hand was a notebook she had found from Wei Yu's pillow. There were a lot of things written on it. It looked like a diary, but also like something else. She needed to study it carefully.
When they returned to the Public Security Bureau, Lin Shuyue had returned without them knowing when and was chatting with the police officer Xiao Li in the reception hall.
Directly opposite her was Xing Yueya's eldest son Wei Liang and her daughter-in-law Ran Manman.
Seeing Wu Dongyan and the others return, Wei Liang, with red and swollen eyes, stood up and asked, "Officer Wu, have you found my sister?"
Wei Liang's eyes were filled with anticipation. Even now, he couldn't accept that Wei Yu might be the murderer of his mother. In contrast, Ran Manman, who was standing beside him, curled her lips subtly.
Wu Dongyan met Wei Liang's gaze and shook her head.
The anticipation in Wei Liang's eyes dimmed little by little. He sat back in his chair dejectedly, scratching his hair. "You must have made a mistake. Although my mother wasn't that kind to Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu would never do such a thing. She's well-behaved, obedient, and cowardly."
Wei Liang muttered to himself.
Lin Shuyue and Wu Dongyan exchanged a glance. They put themselves in Wei Yu's shoes, and their feelings towards Wei Liang became complicated. After all, as two women, if another woman suffered injustice due to her gender, while another enjoyed all the favors that came with it, anyone would feel unbalanced.
Lin Shuyue had looked at Wei Liang's good and evil values. His sin value was less than 20%, while his good value was quite high, at 30%. The value in the gray area did not reach the criminal line. The system evaluated him as an ordinary person.
Lin Shuyue found it quite ironic.
Wei Liang continued to nag, "My mom was not nice to Xiaoyu. Even if she had a thousand faults, she was the one who gave birth to her and raised her. How could she be so cruel? My mom is paralyzed, why won't she let her go?"
The more Wei Liang spoke, the more aggrieved he felt.
The police officers at the scene all understood how Xing Yueya had treated Wei Yu. While the men might not have felt it so deeply, the women were different. Wei Liang's father, despite his high position and salary, had still allowed his daughter to be left without sanitary pads for her period.
Who wouldn't be angry after hearing this?
Ran Manman had had enough of Wei Liang's nagging. Wei Liang had been crying since he learned about his mother's death. When he learned from the police that the caregiver Fan Damei was one of the people who murdered Xing Yueya, he had repeated these words over and over again.
"Okay, do you think your parents are so good to Wei Yu! Wei Yu waited until today to take action, she is really patient. If it were me, I would have killed Xing Yueya eight hundred years ago." Ran Manman never called Xing Yueya mom because she felt that Xing Yueya was not worthy of it.
When the police heard this, they immediately looked at Ran Manman like searchlights.
Ran Manman was a little nervous, but she felt that things had come to this point and Wei Yu could basically be confirmed as a criminal suspect. There were some things that Ran Manman really had to say.
She looked at Wu Dongyan: "Officer Wu, are you sure Wei Yu is the suspect?" Before speaking, Ran Manman asked again.
"It's not yet determined, but it's very likely."
Ran Manman took a deep breath, and under Wei Liang's accusing gaze, she said, "I want to talk to Officer Wu alone."
"Okay." Wu Dongyan took Ran Manman to the reception room.
Lin Shuyue had no way to follow in, so she waited outside.
Ran Manman sat on a chair, facing Wu Dongyan who was taking notes in a notebook. She clenched and unclenched her hands on the table.
After a while, she felt numbness in her hands and feet. Seeing that she was really nervous, Wu Dongyan poured her a cup of warm water. The warm water flowed from her mouth into her stomach, warming her whole body.
The numbness in her hands and feet finally eased a little.
"Wei Liang and I fell in love in college and got married. Wei Yu was only seventeen when I married into the Wei family." Ran Manman's voice tightened a little. "Because I didn't spend much time with Xing Yueya before we got married, I knew she might have a bad temper, but I didn't think much of it. After all, there are so few good mothers-in-law in the world. You need luck. I always felt that I was a person with bad luck."
Ran Manman is not liked by Xing Yueya. In Xing Yueya's heart, her son Wei Liang is the son of a high-ranking official, and the marriage must be between people of equal social status. Ran Manman's family owns two stores and has some assets, but it is far from Xing Yueya's standards.
"She's probably read too many novels and wants his son to marry the daughter of some wealthy family, preferably one with no brothers or close relatives." Ran Manman said this with a sarcastic smile. "She always makes things difficult for me, trying to get me to serve her like a daughter-in-law in the old society. I didn't want to, so I moved into the house my parents gave me as a dowry when I got married."
"Wei Liang couldn't bear to leave me, so he moved in with me, but Xing Yueya came over every now and then. Our arguments and conflicts have never stopped. It's just for the sake of superficial family harmony that we go back during the holidays. Because if we don't go back, we'll be criticized, and Xing Yueya might even tell my parents and say I have no manners."
"I remember when my daughter was just five months old in my belly, it was the Spring Festival, so we went back home to celebrate the New Year. Wei Yu was probably not even 18 years old at that time."
"That night, I woke up in the middle of the night and had to pee so badly that I went to the bathroom. Because the moon was bright, I didn't turn on the bathroom light. When I came out of the bathroom, I saw my father-in-law, Wei Rongzhen, coming out of Wei Yu's room."
"My mother-in-law Xing Yueya was standing at the door of their room, holding a blanket in her hand. When my father-in-law approached, she draped the blanket over him. My father-in-law pinched her cheek with his hands."
When Ran Manman said this, she couldn't help but dry heave twice and leaned to the side. Wu Dongyan's hand, which was holding the pen, turned white from exerting so much force.
"After they all left, I slowly walked to the door of Wei Yu's room. Wei Yu was lying on the cold ground without any clothes on. Her body was covered in bruises and purple, and there were some men's things on her body."
"She saw me, too. I was so scared I quickly went back to my room. The next morning, we met in the kitchen. She told me not to go back because there were two beasts at home. She also told me not to bring a daughter home if I gave birth, and it would be best if Xing Yueya and Wei Rongzhen didn't see her."
Ran Manman took a deep breath. "Since then, I've never been back during the holidays. I rarely let my daughter see me. But Wei Liang is an idiot. When my daughter was three and a half years old, he took her to meet Wei Rongzhen."
"When my daughter came back that night, she told me that Wei Rongzhen kissed her on the mouth and touched her body."