After seeing Jin Xiaoyue's identity information, Xiao Lou finally understood why he felt awkward when he saw the hairdresser yesterday.
He'd seen similar effeminate hairdressers before at barbershops, so he hadn't thought much of it when this Ah Kim spoke. Now, recalling it carefully, he realized that Ah Kim didn't have a prominent Adam's apple, and her voice was rather soft. Even though she was deliberately acting like a effeminate male hairdresser, she was still a woman, which is why Xiao Lou found it strange.
Unexpectedly, things took such a turn. Xiao Lou immediately gave Yu Hanjiang the fingerprint comparison results and a copy of Jin Xiaoyue's ID card.
Yu Hanjiang took it and frowned, saying, "There's definitely a problem."
Xiao Lou asked curiously, "Did you already know she was a girl?"
Yu Hanjiang shook his head: "I didn't expect her to be dressed as a man either, but I felt that she was the most suspicious. Last night, I deduced repeatedly based on everyone's testimonies and finally found that none of the five members of the girl group had a motive to kill Liang Ting. However, the makeup artist and the hairdresser were out of each other's sight for a few minutes."
Yu Hanjiang paused, took out today's interrogation transcript, and said, "After interrogating makeup artist Su Shanshan just now, I ruled her out as a suspect. She just got married and is pregnant, so she has no reason to kill someone. The delivery guy also confirmed that she walked east after picking up the food. Liang Ting's dressing room is on the west side, and there wasn't enough time... So, that leaves only the stylist."
Xiao Lou remarked with emotion, "I never expected that the last one left would be the hairstylist who didn't attract much attention at first."
At the time, Xiao Lou thought the makeup artist and hairstylist were just random passersby; his main focus was on the celebrities from 505 Girl Group. Unexpectedly, 505 Girl Group was the biggest distraction, and the culprit turned out to be the unassuming hairstylist, Ah Kim.
Yu Hanjiang took out a photocopy of Jin Xiaoyong's ID card and compared it with Jin Xiaoyue's. As a professional criminal police officer, he had his own methods for comparing real people and ID cards. Jin Xiaoyong's ID card looked very similar to Akim's, but there were subtle differences in the distance between the eyes, nose, and lips. Unless the other person had undergone plastic surgery, it was difficult to explain this.
Yu Hanjiang said, " Jin Xiaoyong and Jin Xiaoyue are very likely siblings, which is why they look so alike. We can check with the household registration office to find out."
Xiao Lou nodded and went to the household registration center with Yu Hanjiang.
Just as Yu Hanjiang predicted, Jin Xiaoyong and Jin Xiaoyue are twin siblings from a very ordinary working-class family. The siblings have always had a good relationship and attended the same middle and high schools. However, the older sister has excellent grades and is often in the top three, while the younger brother has very poor grades and is often in the bottom three.
More than ten years ago, the siblings were facing the college entrance examination. However, on the day of the exam, their parents died in a car accident, and Jin Xiaoyue and Jin Xiaoyong did not take the exam.
There are no records of what happened after his parents' funerals. All that is known is that Jin Xiaoyong later enrolled in an arts school, majoring in beauty and hairdressing. After graduation, he became a hairdresser, taking the English name Ah Kim. He started as an apprentice in a hair salon in Binzhou, gradually becoming an independent hairdresser. Later, he opened his own hair salon, and his business flourished.
His hair salon gradually became famous, which attracted some minor celebrities in the entertainment industry to come to him for styling. He was very good at designing hairstyles that suited people's face shapes, and his reputation was getting better and better.
Ah Kim quickly became a well-known stylist in the industry, and celebrities often collaborated with him.
Upon seeing this, Yu Hanjiang said, "According to Sister Chen, Liang Ting's original hairstylist happened to be on his honeymoon and clashed with Liang Ting's concert schedule. Sister Chen had no choice but to ask the well-regarded hairstylist, Ah Kim, to try it out."
Xiao Lou carefully recalled Liang Ting's look at the concert and said, " Liang Ting's face is rather thin and her forehead is high. Ah Kim designed a mature and sexy curly hairstyle for Liang Ting, which could cover up the flaw of her forehead when it was down. Paired with a black fishtail dress, it suited her temperament very well... Was the person who styled Liang Ting at that time Jin Xiaoyong himself or his sister Jin Xiaoyue?"
Yu Hanjiang thought for a moment and said, "It should be Jin Xiaoyue. She may have learned some styling and perming techniques and asked her younger brother for help to design a hairstyle in advance based on Liang Ting's face shape. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to prepare the murder poison in advance."
Xiao Lou nodded in agreement: "It seems that Jin Xiaoyue replaced her younger brother as Liang Ting's stylist in order to murder Liang Ting."
Yu Hanjiang continued searching for Jin Xiaoyue's information on the computer, but strangely, there was no record of her attending school.
Jin Xiaoyong, the younger brother, attended a vocational school for three years to learn hairdressing; his records are available. However, Jin Xiaoyue, the older sister, had her academic record abruptly end in her senior year of high school.
Yu Hanjiang stroked his chin thoughtfully: " Jin Xiaoyue didn't go to university?"
Xiao Lou said, "Their parents died during their senior year of high school. With their parents gone so suddenly, and the siblings having no stable jobs or income, as far as I know, the tuition fees at vocational colleges like the one Jin Xiaoyong is attending, which teaches hairdressing, are very high every year. How could the two of them afford it?"
He paused, then guessed, "Could it be that Jin Xiaoyue gave up her studies to support her younger brother's education?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "That's possible. Her academic records can't be found at all, proving that she didn't continue her education after graduating from high school."
Her grades had always been good; even if she missed the college entrance exam, she could have chosen to retake it, but she didn't… Perhaps, as you said, she gave up the opportunity to continue her education, worked to earn money, and sent her younger brother to vocational school.
Xiao Lou thought with some regret that Jin Xiaoyue's grades were actually good enough to get into a good university, but at that time, her parents passed away, and the two siblings suddenly lost their emotional support. Both repeating a year of high school and going to vocational school required a lot of money. Given the choice, she chose to give her brother the opportunity.
Xiao Lou asked in confusion, " What grudge does Jin Xiaoyue have against Liang Ting? Logically speaking, she goes out to work to support her younger brother's schooling, so she shouldn't have any interaction with the big star Liang Ting."
Yu Hanjiang said, "We can't find any relevant information yet. We need to find Liang Ting's previous manager and sort out all the activities Liang Ting has participated in over the years."
Xiao Lou asked, "What are you planning to do with this Ah Kim?"
Yu Hanjiang said, "She's the prime suspect, so we'll detain her first. Also, I'll send two colleagues to look for Jin Xiaoyong. If I'm not mistaken, the siblings have probably swapped IDs. Jin Xiaoyong is holding his sister's ID and might not be in Binzhou right now."
Xiao Lou agreed, saying, " If Jin Xiaoyue really is the murderer, she probably wouldn't tell her brother about her plan. Instead, she would find an excuse to send him away and then impersonate him, so as not to arouse suspicion. However, she underestimated us too much. She thought she was clever by disguising herself as a man, but forgot about checking fingerprints."
Thanks to Yu Hanjiang's keen observation, he deduced Jin Xiaoyue's suspicious points and had Xiao Lou verify the fingerprints.
The most important thing right now is to find out her motive.
After discussing it, Yu Hanjiang assigned Xiao Wu a task: to check the information on the ID card of " Jin Xiaoyue ".
Xiao Wu quickly found out: " Jin Xiaoyue went to Yue Prefecture a week ago. She didn't buy a high-speed rail ticket, but a city bus ticket."
Since vehicle ticket checks are not so strict, it's clear that Jin Xiaoyong took his sister's ID card and went to the neighboring city.
Yu Hanjiang said, "Immediately notify the Yue Prefecture police to search all hotels and guesthouses. Once they find him, take him into custody immediately. Xiao Wu and Xiao Li, you two go to Yue Prefecture personally and bring him back to me."
Two young Criminal Police Officers immediately set off to arrest the man in the neighboring city of Yue Prefecture.
Yu Hanjiang took Xiao Lou back to the interrogation room.
Ah Kim was still sitting there, looking visibly impatient. She tapped her fingers repeatedly on the table, as if she were playing the accompaniment to a song. Upon seeing Yu Hanjiang, she immediately looked up and said, "Officer, can I go back now?"
Yu Hanjiang pushed a photocopy of Jin Xiaoyue's ID card in front of her and asked in a low voice, "Do you know this person?"
Kim's expression stiffened slightly, but she forced herself to remain calm and said, "Of course I know her, this is my sister."
Yu Hanjiang asked, "Where is she?"
Ah Kim frowned unhappily: "What does this have to do with my sister? Why are you investigating her?"
Yu Hanjiang asked casually, "Why didn't your sister repeat a year after graduating from high school?"
Ah Kim clenched her fingers tightly under the table and bit her lip, refusing to answer.
Xiao Lou said, "My sister originally wanted to repeat a year of high school, but at that time, the fees for repeat students were very high. My brother also really wanted to go to a vocational school to learn some skills. The family's savings were only enough for one person to go to school. After considering it, my sister decided to work so that her brother could go to vocational school. Am I right?"
Kim suddenly looked up, her face pale: "How...how did you know?"
Yu Hanjiang added, "Back then, you made sacrifices because you loved your younger brother. You went out to work at such a young age to support his schooling. But as you grew up, seeing those glamorous girls who graduated from prestigious universities, you must have always felt very unbalanced, right?"
A-Kim's lips began to tremble slightly: "What do you mean by that?"
Yu Hanjiang showed her the fingerprint comparison record: "Stop pretending, you are Jin Xiaoyue. You and your brother exchanged ID cards, and your brother took Jin Xiaoyue's ID card to Yue Prefecture next door. I have already sent a colleague to look for him."
Jin Xiaoyue: "........."
Yu Hanjiang asked bluntly, "Tell me, why did you kill Liang Ting?"
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