Chapter 96 Chapter 96 The Third Drawing

After leaving the interrogation room, Pei Qing said to Xu An: "Why does this kid look weird?"

Xu An called back the two children who were swimming with Cao Shuilian, and asked them in detail about what happened during the wild swimming.

The parents of both children were present, and were very unhappy when they saw the police were coming to question their children again.

"Why are you asking? What's there to ask? We are going home."

Pei Qing saw that they were furious and hid the child behind themselves, not wanting to hand him over to the police, so he said, "We are just asking some questions, not beating them. Even if we want to beat them, it won't be us. Cao Shuilian's mother is still here. You should be worried about whether Cao Shuilian's mother will let your child go..."

After finally convincing the parents, Pei Qing and Xu An, accompanied by the parents, questioned the two children who participated in the wild swimming and were still alive.

Xu An asked carefully: "Did you go into the water together?"

The two children nodded and shook their heads.

Xu An frowned immediately: "What does nodding and shaking your head mean?"

The sixteen-year-old boy said, "We were originally planning to go into the water together, but then Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian started running while walking. Jin Ming jumped into the water with a splash, and Cao Shuilian followed him into the water."

Xu An asked them to explain: "What's going on?"

The younger boy added, "Recently, Cao Shuilian has been practicing swimming in the swimming pool every day. I heard him brag before that he would definitely beat Jin Ming. This time he came to Changze Lake specifically to compete with Jin Ming in swimming. I thought he could win, after all, Jin Ming has been playing games in the Internet cafe all night recently. This time, Jin Ming might have been irritated by Cao Shuilian. As soon as he arrived at the lake, he jumped into the water, and then Cao Shuilian followed him in."

"Didn't you go into the water with Cao Shuilian?"

The two boys shook their heads.

"No, we wanted to, but Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian swam fast and we couldn't catch up with them. Then we slowly went into the water and swam around. We didn't see Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian, so we thought they had gone ashore..."

Unexpectedly, Jin Ming went ashore, while Cao Shuilian stayed in the lake.

The two children looked listless. When they were just by the lake, they were scolded by the onlookers. When they arrived at the police station, they were scolded again. After their parents came, they were pulled by their ears and scolded again. Now they are as obedient as can be.

After answering Xu An's question, one of the older boys looked at Xu An and asked, "This time it was really an accident. Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian used to quarrel every day, but we just quarreled and occasionally fought, but we would not kill people in the lake. We are not so wicked."

There was still a look of nervousness on his face. Although he was called a gangster by He Baili, after being taught a lesson several times, and accidentally seeing Cao Shuilian's body, they both quieted down and waited for Xu An's answer.

Xu An said: "Wait! I will tell you after the investigation. Stay at home and don't go out."

After sending away the two suicidal kids, the office became quiet again.

Yang Xingping found the surveillance camera by the Changze Lake. The camera was quite far away and the footage was blurry, but the entire process could still be vaguely seen.

The two children were telling the truth. Someone did jump into the lake first, and then another person followed closely behind.

Judging from their clothes, they are Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian.

The remaining two children were frightened by the fighting posture of the two people in front of them. They froze for a moment, looked into the distance, and then jumped into the lake. They found that the people in front had swam far away, and the remaining two swam forward slowly.

Pei Qing watched the surveillance video and could see from it that Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian did not have any physical conflict at least on the shore.

So in the lake, especially when swimming towards the center of the lake, there was no surveillance, and the police had no way of knowing whether Jin Ming and Cao Shuilian had a fight or dispute in the water.

These require further autopsy by the forensic doctor to be revealed.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the forensic doctor issued the autopsy report.

The autopsy results showed that the deceased had several minor abrasions on the skin surface, which were not enough to cause the death of the deceased.

These abrasions may have been caused by the deceased falling to the bottom of the lake and being scratched by some stones and rocks on the bottom of the lake.

There were no injuries on the rest of the deceased's body, no signs of rupture of his internal organs, and no signs of fractures on his body, which ruled out death due to mechanical injury.

The medical examiner also conducted a toxicology analysis and ruled out alcohol or other toxic drugs as the cause of death.

Autopsy and histopathological examinations showed no abnormalities.

When they received the autopsy report, Xu An and Pei Qing specifically asked, "Does this mean that Cao Shuilian really died of drowning? There is no possibility that someone else murdered him?"

The old forensic doctor said nothing and asked Xu An, "Did this child go swimming in Changze Lake?"

Xu An nodded.

The old forensic doctor sneered, "People who drown can always swim. Look at him swimming more than once or twice. I know that Changze Lake is divided into shallow and deep water areas. If this child swam to the deep water area, he was lucky not to die once. If he does it twice, three times, or four times, he will die sooner or later."

His words woke Xu An up.

Xu An and Pei Qing interrogated Chu Shuang again.

Chu Shuang was still the same as before, with a blank expression on his face, his hands on his knees, looking at Xu An and Pei Qing.

This time Xu An did not speak, nor did he let Pei Qing ask first. Instead, he handed Chu Shuang a photo first.

It was a photo of Cao Shuilian lying on the morgue, taken from above.

Seeing the photo, Chu Shuang suddenly laughed. She picked up the photo, leaned back in her chair and asked, "Is this Cao Shuilian? Is he dead?"

She laughed very suddenly. Pei Qing saw the lively smile on her face and suddenly touched his arm.

"why are you laughing?"

Pei Qing didn't understand.

Chu Shuang placed the photo on his knees and stopped laughing in a restrained manner.

"Did it scare you?"

Chu Shuang returned to her previous quiet state, but her fingers kept stroking Cao Shuilian in the photo.

Xu An did not urge him, but let Chu Shuang speak himself.

"This is Cao Shuilian. He went out swimming with others this afternoon and drowned in the lake."

The smile on Chu Shuang's face reappeared.

It can be seen that she and Cao Shuilian do have a grudge. If not, she wouldn't be smiling so happily.

Pei Qing asked: "Did anything happen between you and Cao Shuilian?"

Chu Shuang: "There is nothing I can't say."

She said very frankly: "Last April, I just found out that I was pregnant and told Cao Tian the news. Since then, we have been discussing getting married.

Later, I don’t know how this matter was discovered by Cao Tian’s ex-wife, and not long after, Cao Shuilian came to my house.

Although Cao Shuilian is Cao Tian's son, he has always lived with Cao Tian's ex-wife. Usually, Cao Tian would go to his son's house to have a meal, go shopping, and buy things. I don't really care about this, and Cao Tian's ex-wife never sent the child to Cao Tian.

But during that period, Cao Shuilian came to our house very frequently. Originally, Cao Shuilian didn't come, but now that I was pregnant, he suddenly started coming. I was a little unhappy, but Cao Shuilian was just a kid who hadn't even graduated from junior high school, so I didn't do anything to him.

But Cao Shuilian——"

Chu Shuang endured it again and again before he cursed, "This kid has a dark heart. I didn't have anything to do with him, but he bought a bubble gun online and the stairs were full of bubbles! The light at the stairwell was broken at the time, and I didn't pay attention and went downstairs directly. Then he stood at the stairwell and watched me fall down the stairs!"

When Chu Shuang thought back to the way Cao Shuilian looked at her at that time, she still felt the chill in her heart.

Chu Shuang: "I was bleeding a lot, and I begged him to call Cao Tian, ​​and he was just there watching me..."

Chu Shuang touched his face and said, "My child died when he was only four months old."

She held back her tears and continued, "Later I woke up in the hospital. I wanted to call the police to arrest Cao Shuilian, but Cao Tian wouldn't let me! He said Cao Shuilian was just a child and didn't understand things. Later Cao Tian's ex-wife also came. She was very happy and said that their Cao Shuilian was just too lively and asked me not to bother with a child. Haha—"

Chu Shuang held the photo in his hand, his eyes full of relief.

"I made a fuss for a whole day, and Cao Tian took my phone away and transferred me to another hospital. Later, I came to terms with it. Why should I bother with a child? Cao Tian didn't let me call the police, so I thought of other ways!"

After Chu Shuang finished his story, he suddenly became interested and asked, "Can I meet He Baili? If you let me meet her, I will tell you how Qin Man died."

The smile on her face reappeared. "I really want to see her. After so long, I can finally say what I said to her. Why is she arguing with a child? Is it that only her child is a child, and my child is not a child?"