The neighbor took a look into the house and fell to the ground. Lin Shuyue quickly supported her.
The neighbor's face turned pale, and cold sweat began to appear on her forehead. She put all her weight on Lin Shuyue and thanked her: "Thank you, little girl. I'm a little dizzy."
"It's okay, I'll help you get back?" Lin Shuyue's good and evil radar was turned on. The neighbor's good and evil value was not high. As soon as Lin Shuyue proposed, she hurriedly agreed. The situation in the house was so scary that the neighbor felt her head buzzing when she thought about it.
Lin Shuyue sent her home. She was alone at home. She lay on the sofa and Lin Shuyue left. Teacher Li leaned against the wall, very scared, she didn't even dare to look at Teacher Hu's house again.
Neither of them spoke. Ten minutes later, Hang Jiabai arrived with a team of people. The forensic doctor went in to inspect the body, and Hang Jiabai questioned Lin Shuyue and Teacher Li. Lin Shuyue came with Teacher Li. They only found out that the person was dead when they opened the door, and they knew nothing else.
The neighbor had also recovered by this time. She did not dare to go near Teacher Hu's house and just received the visit at her doorstep.
"Xiao Hu and Xiao Zuo are very good people. They are usually gentle and kind. I have never heard of them getting angry or quarreling with anyone. They always discuss everything together. Before Meng Meng came, they would go to various orphanages in the city on weekends. Xiao Hu, in particular, would give most of her salary to the children in the orphanages. Tell me, who is so cruel to such good people? How much do they hate them?"
The neighbor was very sad. She had been sick several times before, and Xiao Hu happened to be at home and bought her medicine. Ye Xueyu quickly took notes and continued to ask: "Didn't they say that her family adopted a child? Where is that child?"
The neighbor raised his hand and glanced at his watch: "At this time, he should be the kindergarten, right? Xiao Hu and Xiao Zuo both have jobs, and sometimes Xiao Hu has to go to work very early, so the children are always picked up and dropped off at school by Xiao Zuo's parents. Sometimes, for convenience, the children live directly at Xiao Zuo's parents' house."
Ye Xueyu recorded this incident. At this time, the elevator stopped at the stairs on the 14th floor, and an elderly couple came up, supporting each other.
The two men entered the living room and took one look at their son and daughter-in-law lying in a pool of blood. The woman was crying and falling to the ground.
Only after the police's persuasion did she stop crying.
Ye Xueyu questioned the woman. When she asked if her son and daughter-in-law had any enemies, the woman wiped away tears and said, "Yes, of course. That woman Hu Xinxin is very restless. Isn't she a junior high school teacher? Since last year, she has been very close to the father of one of her students and even had dinner with him several times."
"The student's mother came to my house and scolded me several times." In the words of Xiao Hu's mother-in-law Zhang Guangfen, her daughter-in-law Hu Xinxin is completely different from the person described by others.
Before Ye Xueyu finished recording the last situation, Zhang Guangfen spoke again: "Xiao Hu is a filial person, but at the same time she's not. She is usually quite good to the two of us old people. She takes care of us when we are sick and gives us living expenses. But she is too stubborn."
"She is infertile. She has been with my son Xiao Zuo for more than ten years but has not given birth to a child. We asked them to divorce but they refused. We asked them to have sex but they refused. We heard that in vitro fertilization is very developed overseas, so we asked them to try but they refused."
"It's been dragging on like this. We old couple don't have any wishes. We just want to have a grandson. Tell me, is our request wrong? Is it excessive?"
Whether it is wrong or not, no one, including Lin Shuyue, will comment. It is normal for people to want to have grandchildren when they are old, but it is also normal for Mr. Zuo and his wife not to have children, and there is nothing to blame.
Ye Xueyu was very interested in the student's parents that Zhang Guangfen mentioned and asked several more questions. When Zhang Guangfen talked about this, she stopped crying and told the story of Hu Xinxin and that student's parents again.
After recording this situation, Ye Xueyu asked: "Where is the grandson your family adopted now?"
"Mengmeng is at school. I sent him there this morning." Zuo Musheng, who was standing next to Zhang Guangfen, seemed to have finally come back to his senses. This is what he said in response to Ye Xueyu's question.
"I was the one who sent Mengmeng to school in the morning. He was in the second kindergarten. I came to pick him up in the morning. My son and daughter-in-law were still sleeping in the room at that time." Old Zuo is only in his fifties, and he remembers what happened in the morning very clearly.
"So when you were sending your grandson to school, did you encounter anything unusual?"
Zuo Musheng thought about it and shook his head: "No, everything is normal. I didn't see anything wrong."
Zuo Musheng came to pick up his grandson today, just like usual. He got up at seven in the morning, bought his grandson his favorite meat buns and steamed buns on the way, knocked on his son's door, picked up his grandson who had been waiting for him obediently, then sent the child to school, took a walk in the park, bought some vegetables, returned home to have lunch, took a nap, and waited until half past three to pick up his grandson and eat directly at home. He will wait until eight o'clock in the evening when his son and daughter-in-law got off work for them to pick up his grandson.
Zuo Musheng has been living like this for a year, and he really doesn't feel anything unusual.
Zhang Guangfen was crying breathlessly beside her.
At this time, another group of people got off the elevator. The couple walking in front were crying, and the one behind them was a man in his early thirties.
The couple walking in front first took a look at the scene inside the living room. When they saw the tragic death of their daughter and son-in-law, their eyes widened, and they turned around and rushed towards Zhang Guangfen who was still crying.
"Zhang Guangfen, did you kill my daughter? You old hag, you immortal dog." Zhang Guangfen couldn't dodge in time and was scratched hard, and blood immediately came out.
Lin Shuyue's face hurt from the cruelty. Ye Xueyu frowned and said, "The police are investigating a case here. Don't be so presumptuous. You are Hu Xinxin's mother Luo Xuemei, right? Come on, tell me how Zhang Guangfen killed your daughter."
Luo Xuemei was pulled away by her husband and son. With the police present, she did not dare to make a scene. When she heard the police's words, she wiped away her tears and looked at Zhang Guangfen hatefully.
"My Xinxin has been married to Zuocheng for twelve years, but she still has no children. In the early years, they always thought that it was my Xinxin's problem that they couldn't have children, so they forced her to take a lot of folk remedies for having children. This old hag even found boy's urine, black ants and black centipedes for my Xinxin to eat."
"This year, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, my Xinxin got food poisoning and went to the hospital. It was because this old hag gave Xinxin wine soaked with centipedes. She was in the hospital for four or five days, having her stomach washed and receiving intravenous drips. It was so pitiful!"
"We are really scared, police comrade, tell me, now it's centipedes soaked in wine, what will it be next time? Is it DDT? But my daughter just won't listen, no matter how much we persuade her, she insists on living with Zuo Cheng and refuses to divorce."
"As parents, what could we do? As soon as she was discharged from the hospital, I took her to the have a check up at infertility hospital in Yangcheng. Guess what happened? Xinxin was fine, so we asked Zuocheng to go, but he refused to go. Xinxin asked again and again, and he finally said that he had known for a long time that he was infertile."
"He has wanted to tell Xinxin for a long time, but his mother won't let him. It's not like our Xinxin hasn't been to the hospital for treatment before. Where did those infertility certificates come from?" Luo Xuemei's back teeth were about to break when she said this.
She pointed at Zhang Guangfen and said, "It was this woman who, in order to pin the blame of infertility on my daughter and to control my daughter Xinxin, she used her connections to change the report. Tell me, how vicious is her heart?"
Before she knew that it was Zuo Cheng who was infertile, she felt guilty towards the Zuo family. After all, in the concept of thousands of years, if a woman cannot give birth to a child after getting married, it is the woman's fault. Hu Xinxin cannot give birth to a child, and the Hu family also has no confidence.
She could only watch her daughter eat so many strange things in order to have a baby. Those prescriptions smelled disgusting, let alone eating them. Sometimes when Hu Xinxin took the medicine, Luo Xuemei was there too. She wanted to vomit just by watching them, but Hu Xinxin had to drink those things mouthful by mouthful.
They also advised Hu Xinxin to divorce, but she didn't want to. As parents, they didn't say anything, but they blamed all the mistakes on the Zuo family.
Especially after finding out that it was actually Zuo Cheng who was infertile, the resentment turned into hatred.
Luo Xuemei became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. She struggled to attack Zhang Guangfen again. "You don't know how hateful Zhang Guangfen is. She clearly knew that it was her son who couldn't give birth to, but she still felt at ease to torture my daughter. If those centipedes and ants can help one get pregnant, why don't you eat them? Don't you always say you are still young? Why don't you have another child?"
When Zhang Guangfen heard this, she subconsciously looked at Lao Zuo. Lao Zuo was staring blankly at the snow-white door, oblivious to the quarrel around him.
Zhang Guangfen breathed a sigh of relief, but then became angry and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? When did I ever say I was young? You are old and still talking about having children. Aren't you ashamed?!"
"Why should I be ashamed? I'm not ashamed! Besides, weren't you the one who talked everyday about having children? Why? Isn't it you who keep on talking about my daughter being a woman who can't have children is not a complete woman? You keep on saying about my daughter who can't have children, let your son find someone outside to have one, and bring the baby home after the birth."
"Zhang Guangfen, you are such a piece of shit. Your son is obviously infertile, but you ask him to find another woman outside to have a baby. What is the purpose of having a baby? Having Nezha?" Luo Xuemei couldn't help but say some things.
She had wanted to say these words in front of Zhang Guangfen many times before, but out of consideration for her daughter and the persuasion of her husband and son, she endured it. In the end, she endured it and ended up with this result.
Luo Xuemei didn't even wait for Zhang Guangfen to reply and started crying again: "Xinxin, my dear, why did you leave? What will mom do if you leave?"
Luo Xuemei cried on her husband's body, pounding her chest with her hands. The sorrow in her crying made everyone present feel sad.
Zhang Guangfen lost the best opportunity to retort and stomped her feet in anger. Lao Zuo looked at her and she immediately dared not move.
Ye Xueyu walked past Luo Xuemei who was crying loudly and asked Hu Hongxuan who was crying silently on the side.
Hu Hongxuan glanced at his mother Luo Xuemei, who was crying so hard that she almost sat on the ground, and said, "My brother-in-law and my sister were college classmates and got together when they were in school. They had a good relationship until later when my sister found out that my brother-in-law and she couldn't have children. That's when they had their first quarrel."
"But later, they reconciled quickly." The feelings of youth are the most profound, not to mention that the two have been through so many ups and downs for so many years. Zuo Cheng was very good to Hu Xinxin, except that he had kept the fact that he was infertile from her.
Hu Xinxin is an emotional person. After Zuo Cheng knelt down to admit his mistake and said a lot of nice things, Hu Xinxin softened her heart.
"When did you know that Zuo Cheng was infertile?"
This incident was undoubtedly a huge earthquake in the Hu family at that time. Hu Hongxuan blurted out without even thinking because the memory was too vivid: "During the Chinese New Year last year."
After hearing about the New Year period, Luo Xuemei, whose eyes were red from crying, started to glare at Zhang Guangfen again.
During the Chinese New Year, Zhang Guangfen got a folk remedy from somewhere, saying that drinking centipede wine could help one get pregnant. However, she was reluctant to go to a regular place to buy processed centipede wine, so she asked someone in her hometown to catch a few centipedes, soak them in white wine for a month, and then served them to Hu Xinxin on the fifth day of the New Year.
After drinking a glass of wine, Hu Xinxin collapsed and was sent to the hospital. Zhang Guangfen didn't say what she had eaten, and it was not until Zuo Cheng went home and brought back some wine that they found out that it was that thing she had eaten.
At that time, Zhang Guangfen was still stubborn, but Luo Xuemei didn't want to argue with her anymore. As soon as Hu Xinxin recovered from her illness, she dragged her to Yangcheng. The truth was revealed during the examination.
"That is to say, not long after you found out that Zuo Cheng was infertile, you adopted Meng Meng from the orphanage, right?"
"Yes." Hu Xinxin's father Hu Zhixiong said at this time: "This matter was discussed by our two families after we sat together. But the child was chosen by the old Zuo family. We saw the child for the first time after he was adopted back."
Because of the child, the Hu family and the Zuo family had many conflicts. The Zuo family felt that the Hu family was too controlling and that it was a bit like a dog trying to catch a rat. The Hu family felt that the Zuo family was too arrogant and that they could do anything with a clear conscience even though it was clearly their family's fault.
He does not respect Hu Xinxin or their own family.
But the person that the Hu family was most dissatisfied with was Hu Xinxin. Her brain seemed to be bitten by a dog. She couldn't see those who were good to her, but she would lick those who were not good to her.
No matter how badly Zhang Guangfen treated her, she always treated her well for ten years. In fact, Luo Xuemei, her biological mother, was not that important in her heart.
Hu Hongxuan couldn't stand Hu Xinxin's behavior. He had a big fight with her because of this matter. The two siblings haven't been in contact for nearly a year. If he hadn't received a call from the police today, he wouldn't have come to see Hu Xinxin.
After Ye Xueyu finished asking questions, the forensic doctor had already carried the bodies of Hu Xinxin and Zuo Cheng out.
Hang Jiabai and others have also finished inspecting Zuo Cheng's house, and the forensic doctor is also telling him the preliminary results of the diagnosis.
"The time of death of the deceased should be between 8 and 11 in the morning. There are no signs of a fight in the house. The deceased was killed by a single blow."
It is now half past twelve, which means that if Lin Shuyue and Teacher Li had come an hour earlier, they would have been able to meet the murderer, or they could have call for an ambulance to save Hu Xinxin and Zuo Cheng.
Zhang Guangfen was the most unreasonable. She could think of things that others could think of. She glared at Teacher Li and asked, "Why didn't you come earlier?!" Then she started crying again.
Teacher Li was not to be trifled with, "Why don't you watch over your son 24 hours a day? What's wrong? Let's go, Lin Ji."
Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai looked at each other, smiled at him, and left with Teacher Li.
When they got to the elevator, Teacher Li was no longer angry. She was more worried about Mengmeng.
"I guess Mengmeng will have to go back to the orphanage again." Teacher Li feels sad for every child who leaves the orphanage and returns to it.
"Generally speaking, for children whose parents have passed away, their grandparents won't raise them under normal circumstances." After all, there is always a layer of distance between grandparents and parents.
"That's understandable. But do you think that Zhang Guangfen is a little weird?" Lin Shuyue discussed with Teacher Li.
Her radar of good and evil is always on, whether it is the people of the Hu family or the people of the Zuo family, their good and evil values are not high.
So the question is, who would go to Zuo's house in broad daylight and hack Hu Xinxin and Zuo Cheng to death?
Lin Shuyue had just seen that the two men's necks were only connected by a layer of skin. What kind of hatred, resentment, or grudge could have caused such a heavy blow?
"I didn't notice." Teacher Li's legs were weak now. The scene she saw when she opened the door was too horrifying.
Hu Xinxin and the other person were facing the door, their heads and necks twisted at 70 degrees, their eyes were still wide open, blood was flowing out from their bodies, most of it was absorbed by the carpet under the coffee table in the living room, but some of it also flowed out.
It was dark red, and a thick film had solidified on it.
The two took the elevator and went up and down the stairs. There were a lot of people gathered by the flower bed downstairs. They were standing in groups of three or five. Several policemen were visiting and investigating them. Their main investigation was to see if there were any suspicious people appearing in the community between 8 and 11 o'clock.
Lin Shuyue and Teacher Li listened for a while. Today was colder than usual, so people who usually liked to go out stayed at home.
However, there were a few old men who, despite the severe cold, were playing chess in a pavilion not far from Building No. 3.
In response to the police's question, an old man thought carefully and said, "It was around 10 o'clock when I saw a man wearing a black hooded jacket coming out of Building 3 and walking out of the community."
"I said at that time that the man was covering himself so tightly that he must be shameful to be seen. I didn't expect, I didn't expect, that someone really was killed in Building No. 3. Tell me, how great it would have been if I had stepped forward to stop him at that time." The old man slapped his thigh in regret.
But the old man also said that no one has a prophecy. If he could go back in time, he still would not step forward to stop the man in the hooded clothes, otherwise wouldn't he be regarded as a lunatic?
"Yes, I scolded Lao Wang when he said that. I said he was crazy." The old man's chess friend testified for the old man and also complained about him.
The police wrote down the situation on paper, and Lin Shuyue and Teacher Li started to go to the parking lot.
After driving out of the parking lot, at the gate of the community, Lin Shuyue saw Ye Xueyu waiting for her colleague to drive over on the roadside. She rolled down the window and chatted with Ye Xueyu.
"What's the inside story?"
Ye Xueyu glanced at Teacher Li and said, "There are no signs of rummaging in the house, no important financial assets are missing, and no suspicious signs have been detected in the house, so we have initially ruled out burglary. The deceased only had one fatal wound, and there were no signs of struggle, so we now suspect that the crime was committed by an acquaintance."
Lin Shuyue nodded. This was exactly what she thought. She looked at Ye Xueyu and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go to Zuo Mengmeng's kindergarten and check out the parents of the student who was close to Hu Xinxin." Ye Xueyu said.
"We also want to go see Mengmeng."
"My colleague is here. You go first and we'll meet at the kindergarten gate." Ye Xueyu said to Lin Shuyue when she saw a police car slowly approaching.
Lin Shuyue made an OK gesture and drove away from Ye Xueyu.
After they were some distance apart, Teacher Li asked, "Reporter Lin, do you know that policeman?"
"Old acquaintance." Lin Shuyue answered casually while paying attention to the road conditions.
Teacher Li took out a sip of water from her bag, then started calling the dean and others to report the situation.
The second kindergarten is not far away, and it takes less than ten minutes to drive there.
The kindergarten was having lunch break at that moment, but the Public Security Bureau had called the kindergarten before and the kindergarten teachers were already waiting there.
Lin Shuyue had just parked her car when Ye Xueyu and the others arrived.
Lin Shuyue hurriedly followed. Teacher Li had met Mengmeng's teacher in the kindergarten before. When they saw her coming, they nodded to greet her and then waited for Ye Xueyu to ask questions.
The kindergarten teacher truthfully described what happened when Mengmeng's grandfather brought Mengmeng to school in the morning.
"Grandpa Mengmeng sent Mengmeng here today just like usual. Mengmeng also did not have breakfast at school. Instead, he ate the buns that Grandpa Mengmeng bought on the way. He came neither early nor late. After sending Mengmeng here, he left. Before he left, I heard him call his friend and said he wanted to go to the park to play chess." The kindergarten teacher said as she recalled.
"So usually, when Grandpa Mengmeng sends Mengmeng to school, does he also call his friends to tell them about playing chess in the past?"
"It happened many times. We also asked curiously, and Grandpa Mengmeng said that Mengmeng's grandmother was strict and didn't like him playing chess, so he had to fight for every minute and every second." Mengmeng's Grandpa has a good personality and is usually cheerful. He also likes to chat with the teacher when he sends Mengmeng here.
"What about Mengmeng? How is Mengmeng doing?"
"Meng Meng was just like usual, whether he was eating, playing games or taking a nap, no one was too worried. In the morning, the teacher taught them to recite the poem "Quiet Night Thoughts", and he recited it the fastest."
Teacher Li said, "When we were in the orphanage, we also taught the children some simple knowledge. We happened to have taught this poem before."
Ye Xueyu asked if they can have a look at Mengmeng. It happened that the students had just finished their lunch break and Mengmeng was brought out by another teacher.
Lin Shuyue turned on the good and evil radar, and found that Mengmeng's good and evil value was very low, just like a normal child, no different.
This dispelled the speculation of "orphan resentment" in Lin Shuyue's heart.
Lin Shuyue watched the horror movie about the orphanage when she was in junior high school. She still remembers the plot to this day, which is why she came when she heard that Teacher Li was coming to see Mengmeng.
Ye Xueyu was going to run to meet the next person, so she left after asking the question.
After Lin Shuyue sent Teacher Li back to the newspaper office, she remembered that Lin Shuxing said last night that she wanted to eat coconut chicken, so she went to the market and bought chicken and coconuts. When she came out of the market, Lin Shuyue saw Zhang Guangfen, whom she had seen in the morning, get into a silver van.
Her son died in the morning, but there was no trace of sadness on her face at the moment. Instead, she had a smile on her face when she got on the car.
Lin Shuyue frowned, thinking of what she had noticed in the morning, she stepped on the accelerator and followed.