Chapter 324 Wang Shufen

Zhou Yi suddenly woke up from the nightmare!

He was soaked and sweating profusely.

He looked around and found himself still in Anyuan's hotel. The TV was still on, but the screen was full of flying snowflakes.

The room flickered with snowflakes filling the screen.

Zhou Yi picked up the watch on the bedside table and looked at it. It was 3:20 in the morning.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling exhausted, got up, drank a glass of water, and turned off the TV.

Outside the window, it was the darkest moment of the day.

In the second half of the night, Zhou Yi slept very uneasily. He was afraid that if he fell asleep, he would see something that scared him again.

When the first ray of light appeared in the sky, he got up and went out for some exercise and a run.

After he ran until he was sweating profusely, he felt that his body had been exercised and he felt much more comfortable, so he ate something at a nearby breakfast stall.

I went back to the hotel, packed my things, and headed to the municipal bureau.

As he passed by the hotel front desk, his eyes swept over the calendar on the counter.

April 27th, Friday.

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When Zhou Yi arrived at the Anyuan Municipal Bureau, most people had already left, even Pan Hongjie was gone.

According to yesterday's deployment, just in case, all police forces set off for Shigu Township at dawn.

With so many people almost out in full force, there is no reason why Jiang Wei cannot be caught, unless he simply does not show up.

Xia Yu was already waiting in the office. When he saw Zhou Yi coming, he stood up.

"Officer Zhou, should we go to Wang Shufen first, or go to Zheng Guangming's company?"

"Let's go find Wang Shufen first."

Xia Yu nodded, then asked, "Officer Zhou, did you not sleep well last night?"

"It's okay, I have dark circles?"

Xia Yu nodded again. "This is Wang Shufen's information. She's a local and 52 years old."

Zhou Yi took it and looked at it: "Okay, let's go find her first to find out the situation."

Afterwards, the two drove to Wang Shufen’s registered address, an ordinary old residential building.

Before I reached the upstairs, just while climbing the stairs, I heard a quarrel coming from upstairs, accompanied by the sound of a woman crying.

Zhou Yi and Xia Yu immediately quickened their pace.

The door of Wang Shufen's house was open, and the noise and crying came from inside the house, accompanied by the sound of things being smashed. A man was yelling, but he was using the local dialect, so Zhou Yi couldn't understand what he was saying.

When the two walked in, they saw the room was in a mess and there were three people in total.

A skinny man in his thirties was smashing things, including pots, pans, and everything else, cursing as he went along.

A middle-aged man in his fifties was sitting in a wheelchair, pointing at the man and cursing.

There was also a middle-aged woman in her fifties who was sitting on the ground crying loudly.

The scene was in chaos.

The man who was smashing things saw two strangers suddenly walk in. He immediately widened his eyes, pointed at the two people and cursed in dialect.

Xia Yu pointed at him and shouted in Mandarin: "Police, watch your mouth!"

When the skinny man heard the word "police", he wanted to run away without saying a word.

Zhou Yi turned sideways, stretched out his leg, tripped the opponent, and then grabbed him with his backhand and pinned him to the ground.

The man on the ground was cursing, and the middle-aged woman who had been crying and the man in the wheelchair who had been cursing at him started yelling anxiously: "What are you doing? Don't touch my son!"

The middle-aged woman even got up and rushed towards Zhou Yi.

Although Xia Yu is relatively inexperienced in handling criminal cases, he still has a strong aura when facing ordinary people. After all, his identity as a criminal policeman gives him natural self-confidence.

Pointing at the other person, he shouted, "Wang Shufen, right? What are you doing? Are you trying to attack the police?"

Wang Shufen immediately froze in place after the police called out her name. She stamped her feet anxiously, "Don't arrest my son! Don't arrest my son! He promised he wouldn't do drugs again."

Zhou Yi was happy. What a good mother! She confessed before we even asked her anything.

Zhou Yi handcuffed the man and pulled him up.

He found that the young man was very thin, almost skin and bones.

So he pulled up the man's sleeves and saw that both of his elbows were covered with needle holes, blue and purple.

Well, this guy is totally hopeless.

Zhou Yi handed his mobile phone to Xia Yu and asked him to call for reinforcements from the nearby police station.

Soon, the police from the police station arrived and took the family of three back home after understanding the situation.

The only one who broke the law was the son, but it was Zhou Yi's idea to take the old couple back because he wanted to question Wang Shufen, but the messy scene was not appropriate.

After arriving at the police station, Zhou Yi borrowed an interrogation room and began to question Wang Shufen with Xia Yu.

Wang Shufen was in tears and kept wiping her eyes.

"Wang Shufen, are you working as a nanny in Zheng Guangming's house?" Zhou Yi asked.

Wang Shufen nodded and said, "Yes, before."

Zhou Yi was stunned and asked hurriedly: "What do you mean before? You don't do it now?"

"Hey, it's my Huanhuan. If you force me to steal things from my boss, then I will..."

"What?" Zhou Yi and Xia Yu were shocked again.

The son takes drugs and the mother steals things. It's true that birds of a feather flock together.

"Tell me in detail what happened?" Zhou Yi said sternly.

Wang Shufen hesitated for a moment, and when Zhou Yi asked, she told him the whole story.

She had known Zheng Guangming for a long time. She had worked with Zheng Guangming's first wife before. At that time, Zheng Guangming was just an ordinary person with no money or power.

Later, Zheng Guangming became rich and became a big boss. When she heard that the Zheng family was looking for a nanny, she volunteered to go.

Zheng Guangming knew that she was hardworking, and since they had known each other for a long time, he hired her.

Being a nanny in the home of one of the richest bosses in the area is like being a seventh-rank official in the prime minister's family.

Logically speaking, this life should be pretty good.

Especially the youngest son born to Zheng Guangming and his second wife. From the time he was in confinement until he became this old, she raised him with great care. He can almost be considered half a member of the Zheng family.

Unfortunately, she has a husband who is bedridden due to a work-related injury, and a son who is uneducated and addicted to drugs.

Drug addiction is something that can suck up even mountains of gold and silver, let alone ordinary people. It's like a bottomless black hole, and in the end there is only one way out, which is death.

Her husband's compensation, the money she had worked so hard to save over the years, was all sucked away by her son.

At first they used coaxing and deception, but later they just beat and scolded him. What they witnessed today was completely commonplace.

There is only one purpose, to get money.

Many drug addicts, when they are really out of money, resort to stealing and robbing, causing serious chaos in social security.

After squeezing his parents dry, Wang Shufen's son finally set his sights on the Zheng family.

He threatened his mother that if she didn't steal money from the Zheng family, he would kidnap the Zheng family's youngest son and ask Zheng Guangming for money.

Wang Shufen was so scared that she had to compromise, so she started stealing things relying on the Zheng family's trust for many years.

At first, he only stole small amounts of money, two or three hundred yuan. After all, the Zheng family was wealthy and they would not notice if a few hundred-yuan bills were missing from the wallet occasionally.

But when it comes to stealing, your appetite will gradually grow.

Until one day, the hostess Huang Yanli discovered that the gold bracelet on her son's hand was missing.

Wang Shufen was frightened and lied that it might have been dropped when she went out to play.

But Huang Yanli insisted on calling the police, and finally scared Wang Shufen so much that she knelt down and kowtowed to admit her mistake, admitting that she was the one who stole and sold it.

She said that in the end, Zheng Guangming did not call the police because of their long-term master-servant relationship, but asked her to leave.

She was still a little indignant, thinking that she had only stolen a few times, and yet they treated her like this. She had been working like a slave for the Zheng family for so many years, and was simply being fed to the dogs.

Zhou Yi felt sick after hearing this. He finally understood why he gave birth to such a good-for-nothing son. It was because he had a good-for-nothing mother.

"When did this happen?" Zhou Yi asked.

"March... March 12th, I guess." Wang Shufen replied.

Damn, it happened just a few days before Zheng Guangming was murdered.

It would be impossible to find a new nanny in such a short time.

Zhou Yi took a deep breath and asked, "Wang Shufen, you've worked for the Zheng family for so many years. Do you find anything unusual about their situation? But I must warn you first: don't exaggerate or distort the facts out of revenge. We will investigate, and if we find that you lied, you will be held legally responsible, understand?"

Judging from this person's character, this warning is necessary, otherwise she will talk nonsense and mislead their investigation.

Xia Yu slapped the table at the right time and asked her to think it over carefully before speaking.

"Zheng Guangming has many mistresses. I'm not making this up, am I?" Wang Shufen asked.

"How exactly is it more? Tell me."

"I don't know how many mistresses he has, but his wife has had a lot of arguments with him about this, and she even cursed him to die soon."

"Are Zheng Guangming and Huang Yanli having a bad relationship?"

"Well, Zheng Guangming doesn't come home every day. Huang Yanli also knows that he has other women outside. Her requirements are that he can't bring other women home or to the company, and that Zheng Guangming can't have children with others."

Zhou Yi asked, "If that's the case, why is Huang Yanli still arguing? And why is she even cursing him to death?"

"What you said is true. It's not like she thought this way the first day she married him. She argued a lot and realized there was no other way, so she had to do this. Think about it, Huang Yanli is only a little older than her. What's the point of marrying a man who is more than 20 years older than her?"

Zhou Yi immediately remembered the joke, because he was old and didn't take a shower.

Wang Shufen clapped her hands and said, "It's all because of his wealth. When the old man dies one day, all the money will be hers."

She was purely assuming. Zheng Guangming had an older son who was also involved in the management of the company. How could it be possible that all the family property would be left to Huang Yanli and her son?

Zhou Yi didn't want to waste time arguing with her about this kind of thing. Rich people might be bad, but they could never be stupid.

"Is there any woman who can threaten Huang Yanli's position?" Zhou Yi asked.

Wang Shufen answered without hesitation: "Yes!"