Chapter 34 Chapter 34 (make up for yesterday’s update) The abandoned baby girl…

Chapter 34

"Okay, I'll take this commission."

After Qin Ye answered the system, he handed Mo Linda in his arms to Aunt He, "Aunt He, I'll have to ask you to take care of this child first."

Aunt He took Molinda and weighed her gently, her face full of pity: "Poor thing, this baby is too thin. I can tell from weighing her that her mother didn't take good care of herself when she was pregnant. I'm afraid her family is poor!"

Qin Ye didn't think that Melinda's family would be poor.

Just look at the swaddling clothes she was wrapped in. They were made of high-end material that was only sold in department stores in the provincial capital. Ordinary people would not be willing to use it to make clothes, let alone use it to wrap a newborn baby.

"Let's go check out the wasteland where we found the child."

He Gongan said to Qin Ye and Li Quan, and took out a bag of milk powder from the high cabinet, which he was reluctant to open, and handed it to Aunt He, "Mother, give the baby some of the milk powder your daughter brought back, and make some for yourself too."

Aunt He took the milk powder and invited Qin Ye and Li Quan: "Ye Ye, Xiao Quan, you two should drink some before you leave."

The two of them came to my house to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year, so how could they leave in such a hurry without even having a sip of hot water?

Qin Ye waved his hands repeatedly to refuse: "No, thank you Aunt He, the case is more important, we will come back after we finish it."

…

The three of them quickly returned to the wasteland where they found Melinda.

Qin Ye discovered that a path had been trampled out in the wasteland, and the weeds pressed on the ground were dripping with blood. The bloodstains only disappeared when they reached the location where Melinda was found.

"This doesn't seem like a simple case of abandoned baby. It seems more like the person holding the child encountered some danger and had no choice but to abandon the child here."

She pointed to the wasteland on both sides with messy footprints and continued, "Look here. Judging from the footprints, this road was made by one person. But at this point... the footprints are obviously more numerous and messy."

Based on the scene, Qin Ye simply simulated the situation in his mind.

The person holding Melinda was seriously injured. He stumbled into the wasteland and hid Melinda there. After hiding Melinda, the other party seemed to have chosen to run outside the wasteland to attract the attention of the bad guys.

Obviously, the bad guy took the person holding Melinda away directly.

As for Melinda...

Perhaps those people did not find Melinda; or perhaps they thought that a baby would not survive for long in the cold winter, so they simply did not take Melinda away.

…

He Gongan nodded and confirmed Qin Ye's idea: "I just saw the tire marks of a car over there. The victim was probably forcibly taken away by the car."

Li Quan quickly responded: "Then can we start with the cars? ! ! Ask the villagers around this road if they have seen any cars driving along this road this morning!"

Based on the abandoned baby's physical condition and the current weather.

The child was left in the bushes, and it could not have been more than an hour before he and Qin Ye found the child.

In several surrounding counties, there are very few people who can afford to drive a car. If a car appears on the road, it will definitely attract a lot of attention.

Based on this clue, not only can the screening scope be narrowed down quickly, but witnesses may also be found quickly.

"Yes, through the abandoned babies, we can also investigate which families have pregnant women who have just given birth in the past month. The pregnant women or their relatives live in big cities and can afford floral cloth that costs more than ten yuan per meter and are willing to use it as swaddling cloth for their children."

Qin Ye added another sentence.

…

The three people initially investigated the scene and determined that this was not a simple case of baby abandonment, but that murder might be involved.

Public Security He first went back to the county public security bureau to file a case, while Qin Ye and Li Quan began the investigation from Waping Village, which was closest to the road.

As soon as Qin Ye entered the village, he ran into Gu Hu who was playing games with his friends.

He was wearing a brand new red cotton-padded jacket. When he saw Qin Ye, he ran over excitedly and took out candy from his pocket for her to eat: "Aunt Qin Ye, Happy New Year, have some candy. Are you here to chat with my mother?"

"No, Uncle Li and I are here to investigate a case."

She thanked him, took the candy from Gu Hu, and asked, "Huzi, did you see a car driving along this road this morning?"

Before Gu Hu could say anything, the little boy who was playing games with him raised the notebook in his hand and said, "Yes! Yes! Two cars ran by this morning, one white and one red. There were also two horse-drawn carriages, four donkey-drawn carriages, and two ox-drawn carriages!"

The little boy showed his notebook to Qin Ye, and said proudly: "Our teacher gave us a holiday homework, asking us to count the number of cars running on the road one day. Did I do a good job in my homework?"

Qin Ye didn't expect to get a clue so soon. He happily touched the top of the boy's head and praised: "Yes, you are great. Can you describe to your aunt and uncle what the two cars look like?"

The little boy was not very good at describing cars. He only said that the white one was a big car and the red one was a small car.

Children have limited cognition and can only say so much.

Qin Ye was amused, and stopped Li Quan who wanted to ask the little boy more specifically, and said, "Let's go find someone else to ask."

…

The two went to other villagers' homes along the way, and after a whole afternoon of questioning, they finally collected clues.

The white one is an SUV with a license plate from this city; the red one is a Santana with a license plate from another province, and the owner is Du Zhen, the daughter of Du Anqing from Dujia Village in the neighboring Shuiquan County.

According to insiders, Du Zhen returned to Dujia Village two months ago. She was pregnant at the time and looked to be eight or nine months pregnant.

Qin Ye discussed it with Li Quan and decided to start the investigation from Du Zhen.

When the two rushed to Dujia Village, it was already dark. There were six big red lanterns hanging at the door of Du Anqing's house, illuminating the entire country dirt road and making his vermilion double-door door look even more imposing.

Du Anqing's family conditions are first-rate, not only in Dujia Village but also in the entire rural area.

Qin Ye walked forward and knocked on the lion-shaped pull ring on the door. Soon a young man in his twenties came to open the door.

When he saw Qin Ye's beautiful face, his breathing paused for a moment, and his speech became halting: "Hello, who are you looking for?"

"The police are investigating the case."

Qin Ye took out the ID he carried with him and waved it in front of the man. "Are Du Anqing and Du Zhen at home? We have something to ask them."

The man hesitated for a moment, and seemed reluctant to let her in. "My sister had a big fight with my parents a few days ago and has returned to the provincial capital. My father is still angry and doesn't want us to mention my sister in front of him."

"It's okay, then we'll just look for your father."

Li Quan interrupted with a smile.

Hearing this, the man hesitantly made way to let the two of them in.

After the two entered the yard, he did not forget to remind them again: "My father is in poor health, you must not use my sister to provoke him!"

The moment Qin Ye entered the Du family's yard, he quickly scanned all the scenes in the yard.

There was indeed no Du Zhen's red Santana parked in the yard, and a quick glance did not reveal any other suspicious points.

So she asked, "What did your father and your sister quarrel about?"

The man answered truthfully without thinking: "My father wanted my sister to remarry, but she didn't want to. She said she wanted to take her daughter and live with my dead brother-in-law forever. My father got angry. My brother said that the two quarreled for the whole morning, and finally my sister took Yaya and drove away."

As the man spoke, he lifted the heavy door curtain for Qin Ye so that she could enter the house smoothly.

…

Although it is already evening, there are still many people gathered at Du Anqing's house.

The women were sitting around the fire, eating melon seeds and chatting, while the men were sitting on the kang drinking wine. There were several dishes on the kang table.

When Qin Ye entered the room, someone was praising Du Zhen to Du Anqing: "Old Du, you are so lucky. Look how good Xiao Zhen is to you, bringing back so many delicious foods. I am only able to enjoy my life because of you!"

Du Anqing listened to the other party's praise, took a puff of his pipe, and waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it, don't mention that unfilial daughter to me..."

He bent down and was about to knock on his pipe when he met Qin Ye's eyes at the door. He was stunned for a moment: "Who is this girl... Why haven't I seen her before?"

"I am a police officer. Are you Comrade Du Anqing?"

As soon as Qin Ye finished speaking, Li Quan showed his ID to everyone in the room, "This morning, someone picked up a baby girl. I heard that your daughter had just given birth, so I wanted to ask if there are any clues about the baby girl's relatives."

She deliberately omitted some parts and simply described some unimportant situations.

Du Anqing slowly knocked off the cigarette ash on the edge of the kang, then raised his head and squinted at Qin Ye: "This has absolutely nothing to do with my family. My daughter will drive Yaya back to her province on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month."

Qin Ye didn't respond, but turned his head to look at Li Quan.

Li Quan understood what she meant immediately. He took out the bloody swaddling clothes from the bag, and covered the bloody side, showing the clean side to everyone in the room: "Have you seen this swaddling clothes?"

Click——

The pipe in Du Anqing's hand fell heavily to the ground.

The women who were chatting around the fire also stopped talking and stared at the swaddling clothes in Li Quan's hands.

Soon, a woman with her hair tied in a bun and an apron came trotting over, mumbling, "Isn't this the swaddling clothes I made for Yaya? What happened? That damned girl just abandoned Yaya? What a sin! What a sin... How could she be so cruel?"

The woman blamed Du Zhen and reached out to take the swaddling clothes from Li Quan's hand. "I embroidered a little red flower on the back of the swaddling clothes, right here...Ah——!!!"

The woman turned over the swaddling clothes to look for the flowers she had embroidered, but before she found the flowers, she saw bloodstains all over the swaddling clothes.

She screamed in fear, threw away the swaddling clothes, and sat down on the ground, as if she had lost her soul. Her pale lips moved: "Blood, blood, so much blood..."

Qin Ye bent down and picked up the swaddling clothes, and sure enough, he saw a small red flower at the location the woman said.

She had a clue in her mind that Melinda's biological mother should be Du Zhen.

Du Anqing was also shocked when he saw the blood on the swaddling clothes, but he was still rational and asked: "Comrade from the Public Security Bureau, what's going on? You said you found Yaya, but where is my daughter Du Zhen?"

Li Quan looked around at the people in the room celebrating the New Year, and had to bite the bullet and tell the cruel truth: "We suspect that Du Zhen has been murdered."