The matter has become clear after understanding it to this point. The rich businessman at that time fell in love with Lu Yinglan, and Zeng Xiumei fell in love with the rich businessman's wealth. So she brought back a bottle of wine from her mother's home, and took advantage of Lu Dahai and Ding Xiaohua's hatred for Lu Yinglan to set up such a scheme.
If Lin Shuyue guessed correctly, the person who forced Lu Yinglan should be from the Zeng family.
It was already noon, and Lin Shuyue sent a message to Zeng Xiaoyi's music teacher Wang Xiaowan, asking her to let Zeng Xiaoyi answer the phone.
Wang Xiaowan happened to be at school, and she went to find Zeng Xiaoyi with her cell phone. Zeng Xiaoyi had already finished lunch and was sitting in the classroom, preparing for a nap.
Wang Xiaowan called her out and called Lin Shuyue.
When the call was connected, Lin Shuyue was already sitting in the car. She waved goodbye to Officer Wang and the other officer, and asked Zeng Xiaoyi: "Xiaoyi, is there anyone in the Zeng family who treats you particularly well?"
Zeng Xiaoyi was stunned by Lin Shuyue's question. She couldn't understand why Lin Shuyue asked her that. But after she was stunned, she said, "Yes. Uncle Guoqing is very good to me. When I had no food to eat when I was a child, I would go to Uncle Guoqing's house and he would give me delicious food. During festivals, he would also give me big red envelopes."
Zeng Guoqing is the best person to Zeng Xiaoyi in the whole Zengwu Village. Zeng Xiaoyi feels warm in her heart when she thinks of his protection and love for her since she was a child.
When Lin Shuyue heard Zeng Xiaoyi's gratitude, she felt her heart tighten. She couldn't imagine how devastated Zeng Xiaoyi would be if she knew that she might be Zeng Guoqing's biological child.
She didn't tell her this first, she just hung up the phone after asking the question. In the subsequent chat with Wang Xiaowan, Lin Shuyue asked her to observe Zeng Xiaoyi's mood.
She felt that with Zeng Xiaoyi's intelligence, she might be able to guess her intentions from the few sentences she had just spoken to her.
Lin Shuyue breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to the newspaper office.
The newspaper office was still bustling, Li Mingfang and her friends were still gossiping, and there was a lot of gossip on the entire floor. After get off work in the afternoon, Lin Shuyue took Li Weisheng and Huang Qiang to the KTV near Lujia Village where she had made an appointment with reporter Zhang yesterday.
This club is located on the only way to Lujia Village. Behind this KTV is the vegetable field that Lin Shuyue saw when she went to Luwu Village in the morning.
Reporter Zhang and his team had arrived early and were standing on the side of the road waiting for Lin Shuyue and the others.
Lin Shuyue and the other two drove a car and went to the KTV. The decoration of each KTV is similar. The floor is bright, the hall is decorated with gold and jade, and there is an indescribable fragrance. Lin Shuyue opened a private room and went upstairs under the guidance of the lady in suit pants.
There is a large window at the entrance of the third floor. Looking out from inside, it has already gotten dark and only a dark outline remains of the vegetable field outside.
Li Weisheng looked at it two or three more times, then he sighed and said softly to Lin Shuyue: "I've been watching too many TV dramas recently, and I always feel that the vegetable fields down there are a good place to kill people and hide bodies."
Because Lin Shuyue has led to a new reporting direction for Pengcheng Metropolis Daily, most of the letters we receive now are from readers who love to read this type of news. Reporters including Li Weisheng have recently been reporting on this type of case.
Li Weisheng has watched a lot of crime movies of this type recently, and now he starts to imagine everything he sees in this way.
Lin Shuyue hadn't thought much about it at first, but after Li Weisheng said that, she also felt that it was similar. She couldn't help but point to the vegetable plot near the river: "I think that place is the best. The soil near the river is soft and moist. If you bury a person there, cover him with soil, and tamp it down, it will be difficult to find him under normal circumstances."
Huang Qiang looked at the two of them in a speechless manner, and reporter Zhang and others could not help but follow them to watch. Reporter Zhang also likes to read horror novels and horror movies: "I think the middle is also good. When the time comes, no one will be able to find out."
"I think..."
The waitress who led Lin Shuyue and the others was so frightened that her hands went limp.
After arriving at the treasure chest and turning on the lighting and sound equipment, she went downstairs lightly after hearing how many orders Lin Shuyue and the others had placed. After placing the barbecue order and the wine order respectively, the young lady couldn't help but told the foreman about the matter.
The foreman took this matter very seriously and immediately called 110.
Thirty minutes later, just as reporter Zhang was passionately singing Thirteen Kisses for everyone, the door of their box was knocked open. Lin Shuyue and reporter Shi were sitting on the sofa next to them drinking. When they heard the knock, they walked over to open the door, and then she met Hang Jiabai's eyes.
"Why are you here? What's going on?" Lin Shuyue leaned over to take a look. Wow, there were more than ten policemen, all fully armed. Several familiar faces, including Jiangzhou's Ye Xueyu, were holding loaded wooden rifles in their hands.
Hang Jiabai had never expected that the person whose been mentioned in the extremely urgent police report they received would be Lin Shuyue and her friends. After seeing who was in the box, he signaled the people behind him to withdraw. Just as he was about to speak, Huang Qiang came. Huang Qiang did not drink tonight and was communicating with his colleagues. When he saw this scene, he turned on the lights and turned off the speakers.
Without the original accompaniment, reporter Zhang's hoarse voice was clearly revealed when he sang. After realizing that he was exposed, he closed his mouth.
Huang Qiang had already walked to the door: "Officer, what's going on?"
Huang Qiang's gaze fell on the two policemen holding shields behind Hang Jiabai.
The waiter who was trembling with fear next to Hang Jiabai came out to explain: "Comrade police, it was them who were discussing how to kill and dismember the body."
As soon as these words were spoken, the dozen or so reporters in the box already knew what was going on. It turned out that the conversation they had just had when they went upstairs was heard by the waitress, who reported it to the manager. The manager was afraid that something might happen, so he called the police directly.
Huang Qiang was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "Little girl, we are all reporters from the newspaper. We have been watching too much TV recently. When we saw these things, we couldn't help but discuss them."
The waitress stared and exclaimed, and the reporters obediently took out their press cards to show Hang Jiabai and the others.
Ye Xueyu behind Hang Jiabai put the wooden box back on her waist and took their ID cards to check one by one. Although everyone was acquaintances, they still had to go through the process.
After checking the documents, Hang Jiabai and the others also left. Lin Shuyue sent them downstairs and asked about Lu Yinglan again.
Hang Jiabai said: "Our people were at the port this morning and caught Feng Junpeng and the nanny Ruan Xuling who were about to leave. They were brought back in the afternoon and are being interrogated now. Lu Yinglan will be released tomorrow morning."
Lin Shuyue was relieved now. Lou Fengqin sent two messages today, both asking when Lu Yinglan would return.
When they got downstairs, Hang Jiabai and Lin Shuyue didn't say anything else. After explaining the situation to the manager and others at the service desk, Hang Jiabai led the police away. The police lights flashed on the street.
Lin Shuyue returned to the private room. Li Weisheng, who first proposed the best place to hide people in the "killing and dismembering" method, was being forced to drink. He thought he was indeed wrong in this matter and had already drunk several glasses.
Huang Qiang did not stop him. Lin Shuyue sat back down next to reporter Shi. As soon as she sat down, reporter Shi said, "Ah Yue, I'm getting married next month."
Lin Shuyue looked at her and congratulated her after the accident: "Congratulations!"
"Thank you, Ah Yue." Reporter Shi raised her glass and took a sip. "We've been dating for three or four years, and our relationship has passed its most intense stage. If we don't get married now, we won't be able to get married. We'll hold the wedding in his hometown, Huawan District, Yangcheng. You must come. I'll give you the invitation then."
"Okay, I'll definitely go then." Lin Shuyue also raised her glass and took a sip with her.
There was another knock on the door of the private room. This time the door was not closed. The manager of the KTV pushed the door open and came in. Behind her were four waiters. One was holding an extra-large fruit plate, one was holding a grilled fish pot, one was holding a large platter of side dishes, and the last one was holding a tray full of barbecue that was so high that it was bubbled up.
The KTV manager apologized as soon as he entered the room: "I'm sorry, everyone. We called the police without verifying the situation clearly. We are sorry for causing trouble to everyone. These side dishes and grilled fish fruit platter are our Lanqi KTV's apology gifts to everyone."
Those who were able to come here tonight were all relatively honest journalists. They were not angry about being raided by the police, but rather found it very amusing. The KTV manager sent so many things that they felt embarrassed.
They all started to persuade him that there was no need to, and their attitude made the KTV manager relax a lot, and the expression on his face became more sincere.
As the host today, Lin Shuyue said directly: "Manager, please take these back and serve us what we ordered. I think you did a great job today, especially that little girl, who was very alert. Very good."
Lin Shuyue gave a thumbs up.
The reporter from Southern Daily next to Huang Qiang suddenly had an idea: "Where is the girl? Can I interview her?"
Lanqi KTV had just opened not long ago, and although the business was OK, it was not as good as those old KTVs. The manager was overjoyed to be famous in the newspaper, and he didn't refuse at all. He said directly: "Okay, I agree to this matter."
He took out the intercom, and soon the girl who had just led Lin Shuyue and the others came up. The lights in the box were bright, and under the nervous state of the little girl, an extraordinary interview began. Because it was the reporter from the Southern Daily who first proposed to interview the little girl, Lin Shuyue and the others did not rush to do so.
They stood aside and watched the reporter from Southern Daily carefully, trying to learn something from it.
The interview ended in more than ten minutes. At the strong request of Lin Shuyue and others, the manager reluctantly took back the apology gifts he brought, but what he served to Lin Shuyue and others was more than what they ordered.
They ate barbecue, drank wine, and sang songs. In the blink of an eye, it was midnight. Everyone got drunk and left. Lin Shuyue went downstairs to pay the bill while going to the toilet, only to find that the bill had been paid by reporter Zhang. Lin Shuyue went upstairs.
Reporter Zhang had drunk a bit too much. When he heard Lin Shuyue say that she should pay for the dinner, he laughed and said, "Xiao Lin, we'll be in Pengcheng from now on. We'll see each other every day. Are you afraid that you won't have the chance to treat me?"
"That's true. Then next time it's already decided that it's my treat." Reporter Zhang had already paid the bill, but Lin Shuyue didn't mention giving him the money. Instead, she agreed with what Reporter Zhang said. They would meet each other sooner or later, and there would be plenty of opportunities.
"Okay, okay, okay."
It was getting late, so everyone packed up and went downstairs. On the way downstairs, reporter Zhang said to Lin Shuyue, "In the past few days, several agents in the circle called me and asked me if I had Zeng Xiaoyi's contact information. They all want to make Zeng Xiaoyi famous."
Most of the popular singers nowadays are from Hong Kong and Taiwan and some overseas Chinese. There are also people from the mainland, but the number is far less than theirs. This is actually easy to understand. After the first ten years, the mainland was indeed behind Hong Kong and Taiwan in terms of entertainment. Now the Korean and Japanese waves are coming, and the living space of singers in the mainland is being squeezed again and again.
The singing industry is a huge pie, who wouldn't want to take a bite? These few days were enough time for the agent in the industry to thoroughly analyze Zeng Xiaoyi's various talents.
After Lu Ercai explained the matter about the Hong Kong agent, Lin Shuyue had already anticipated all of this. The entertainment industry has always been like this, casting a wide net and focusing on training.
She said, "I'll go back and talk to Xiaoyi and see what she wants."
Reporter Zhang nodded and stopped trying to persuade her, mainly because the people who came to him were not that good.
Lin Shuyue had already called a taxi in advance. When they got off, the car was already waiting downstairs. After dividing the taxis according to their residence, everyone went home.
Lin Shuyue went directly back to Xijiang Apartment.
The next morning, when she got up, it was already nine in the morning. Hang Jiabai had called her ten minutes ago, and Lu Yinglan had also sent a message. After Lin Shuyue went back to each other, she simply washed up and went to the Public Security Bureau. Lu Yinglan was waiting for her at the door, and Lin Shuyue opened the passenger door and asked her to get in.
She was not in a very good mental state, and it was obvious that she had seen her husband yesterday.
Lin Shuyue drove home. Lu Yinglan looked out the window at the figure that was rapidly retreating. After a long while, she suddenly wiped away her tears and said, "I actually suspected him for a long time."
There was a traffic light ahead, so Lin Shuyue stepped on the brakes and turned her head to look at her.
Lu Yinglan said: "It has been more than ten years since I married him, but we didn't get a marriage certificate. He treated me very well. Whether it was money or luxury goods, he would buy me whatever I wanted. But he never took me back to his home."
Transportation is quite developed now. It only takes one or two hours to fly from Guangzhou to Taipei. Once you are in Taiwan, you can travel around the island in one day. But Feng Junpeng never took her back for many years. Lu Yinglan was not without doubts.
"I asked him, and he kept saying that all his relatives in Taiwan, except his two children, had passed away. I have already met his two children, so there is no need to visit his hometown." Lu Yinglan knew that this was a problem.
But she had only thought that Feng Junpeng had two wives and actually didn't think of him as a criminal.
"He spends half a year traveling around the country, sometimes staying in Southeast Asia for two or three months. Sister Ling and I are the only ones at home. Sister Ling takes good care of me, but sometimes she is always careless and hurts me accidentally. Now that I think about it, she was just taking my blood sample."
Lu Yinglan is not a fool. Ever since she found out how the two cases happened to her, she has recalled every detail of the past few years. When she looks at the film with the answers, many details that she didn't pay attention to will emerge one by one.
Lin Shuyue opened the armrest box of the car seat and handed her a pack of tissues. Lu Yinglan took it and burst into tears.
When they were almost at Pingsha Village, Lin Shuyue asked Lu Yinglan: "Aunt Lu, when you were at home and hadn't gotten married yet, how did you get along with your sister-in-law Zeng Xiumei?"
After crying for so long, Lu Yinglan calmed down a lot. She put the tissues she had used in the trash can in the car and said, "We're fine. She's a very kind person. She never had any conflicts with me."
Lin Shuyue nodded. This was the same as she had guessed. If Zeng Xiumei didn't get along well with Lu Yinglan, Lu Yinglan would have suspected her after the incident.
Lin Shuyue turned the steering wheel and entered Pingsha Village: "Yesterday morning, I went to Lvwu Village with two police officers to visit. I asked about your past. Your mother said that the reason she asked you to look after the field water was because your sister-in-law brought back a bottle of good wine from her parents' home."
Lu Yinglan was stunned. She really didn't know this. Because her twin brother died at birth, she had always been a thorn in Ding Xiaohua's side. Lu Dahai also treated her as nothing. Since she was a child, they had treated her like a thief to be guarded against.
Unless she saw where the things in the house came from, she had no right to ask. She only knew that she went to see field because her father asked her to go because he and Lu Chungang were drunk.
Lin Shuyue continued, "Your father, Lu Dahai, said that at that time, a boss from another place who opened a factory took a fancy to you and wanted to marry you. The betrothal gift was four thousand."
"I have inquired about it. The one who married the wealthy businessman later was Zeng Xiuju. I think you should know her?"
A pretty girl with a round face and round eyes emerged in Lu Yinglan's mind. She once stood by the well in their village, waved at her and told her that the water in the well was very cold.
"I know her."
Lin Shuyue hummed: "I asked Xiaoyi if anyone in Zeng's house treated her particularly well over the years. She said that Zeng Guoqing would give her delicious food when she was hungry and would give her a big red envelope during the Chinese New Year."
Lin Shuyue stopped there. She believed that with so many coincidences, Lu Yinglan would know what she was talking about.
Lu Yinglan was already shocked. When Lin Shuyue parked the car at the door of her house, she asked, "Are you saying that when I was raped, it was a trap set by someone?"
Lin Shuyue looked at her: "Why not? Just do a paternity test for Xiaoyi and Zeng Guoqing."
There is nothing more scientific than this.
Lu Yinglan got out of the car with Lin Shuyue in a daze. Before she stepped into Lin Shuyue's house, she suddenly remembered something. When she was twelve years old, Zeng Xiumei's family was brought to her house by a matchmaker for a blind date. Zeng Guoqing was already twenty-two years old and married at that time, but on that day, he kept looking at her.
She was still young at that time and didn't think anything of it, but now thinking about it, the way Zeng Guoqing looked at her was clearly greedy.
Lu Yinglan couldn't bear it any longer, so she ran to the trash can in the yard, leaned against the wall, and vomited all over the place.
Lou Fengqin came out after hearing the noise and saw this scene. She cried out and immediately went to bring her a glass of water. "What happened?"
While Lou Fengqin patted Lu Yinglan on the back, she looked at Lin Shuyue. Lin Shuyue shrugged and said nothing.
This matter is Lu Yinglan's privacy. Lu Yinglan can choose to tell others, but these things cannot come out of her mouth.
Lu Yinglan rinsed her mouth and wiped away the tears from vomiting. She said, "Investigate and do a paternity test. If Xiaoyi is his child, I will take him to court. Anyway, I don't have any reputation to speak of, so I'm not afraid of this."
When Lou Fengqin heard this, she asked, "Have you found out who that beast is?"
Lu Yinglan nodded: "Ah Yue, if it is really as you speculated, I will definitely kill the Zeng family."
Lu Yinglan said viciously, and her eyes were red from crying, which made her look particularly scary.
Lou Fengqin was shocked: "Sister, sister, you are still so young, there is no need to do this for a scumbag. If you really kill them, won't it dirty your hands? You are still young and have a bright future."
Lu Yinglan clenched her fists. The resentment in her eyes grew. Lou Fengqin advised: "If you don't think about yourself, you should think about Xiaoyi, right? Xiaoyi is still young, she studies so well, if something happens to you, what will she do?"
When Lu Yinglan heard Zeng Xiaoyi's name, she relaxed a little. Lou Fengqin hugged her and went into the house, telling her about the inhuman abuse Zeng Xiaoyi had suffered in the Internet addiction school. Lu Yinglan covered her face and cried bitterly.
But soon, she cheered up: "Sister, don't worry about me. I just said something in anger. I won't do anything wrong. I'll make a phone call and wait a minute, all the blood and hair of that beast Zeng Guoqing will be delivered to me."
Although Lu Yinglan rarely came back, she had a few friends she had found online. Within an hour of Lu Yinglan calling, someone sent Zeng Guoqing's hair and blood. Lin Shuyue drove her to find Zeng Xiaoyi.
When Zeng Xiaoyi saw Lu Yinglan and thought of the call from Lin Shuyue yesterday, she didn't ask anything. She just took out a pencil sharpener she carried with her, cut her hand, and dripped blood into the transparent sealed bag that Lu Yinglan brought.
Lu Yinglan opened the seal bag and thanked her softly. Zeng Xiaoyi felt her eyes sore. She shook her head and said to Lu Yinglan softly, "You don't have to worry about me."
Lu Yinglan nodded and said, "Let's go." She walked around to the car and sat in it. Lin Shuyue waved at her.
Zeng Xiaoyi watched Lin Shuyue driving the car and disappearing on the street with her biological mother, and looked up at the sky.
She knew that she and Lu Yinglan would never be close to each other, but after she finished her studies, she would not abandon Lu Yinglan.
•••••
There are several paternity testing centers in Pengcheng. Before going there, Bai Wenhua introduced a more reliable one, and Lin Shuyue just drove there.
When Lu Yinglan went to fill in the registration information, the voice of the good and evil system sounded in Lin Shuyue's mind:
[ Ding ~~~ The limited-time mission 'The dead but still alive' has been started, the start progress is 0.2%.... ]
Lin Shuyue was confused. It was the first time she encountered such a situation. Just when she was about to ask, her cell phone rang. Lin Shuyue picked up the phone and saw that it was a message from Hang Jiabai. Hang Jiabai said, Feng Junpeng, confessed. The "identity information trading case" that they had been groping for months but had no clue about finally opened up in Feng Junpeng's mouth.
"Ah Yue, do you know? In Taiwan, the identities of Feng Junpeng and Ruan Xuling are actually dead. And Ruan Xuling's real identity is Feng Junpeng's original wife. The two robbery and murder cases involving Lu Yinglan have also been solved. Ah Yue, guess who did it."