Maid

Chen Yingsheng was puzzled: "What a weird name."

"This place was the palace of Prince Li two hundred years ago." Li Ying explained, "The Li next to the character Wang is not the Li here."

"People got used to it and kept calling it Li Wangfu. Later, an investor bought it and wanted to turn it into a scenic spot, but encountered difficulties in demolition."

Li Ying didn't explain in detail, but Chen Yingsheng could guess that it was simply that the people being relocated were raising the price and using violence to stop the construction team.

She also had a memory of this incident: "I heard that the entire site of the palace was later dug up and moved away."

"Yes, the foundation was dug out and the Liwangfu scenic area was built in the suburbs," said Li Ying. "Later, the old bungalows were demolished, but the buildings were rebuilt as they were, and the residents did not get paid."

It's a futile effort.

"It's not appropriate to call it Li Wang Fu anymore. Li Wang Fu is someone else's registered trademark, so we changed the name to Li Wang Li."

Chen Yingsheng asked curiously: "Captain Li is very familiar with Li Wangli"

"I started as a neighborhood police officer," Li Ying smiled. "I worked in this neighborhood for three years after graduation."

Chen Yingsheng looked at the scenery outside the car window in silence. It was around 5 a.m. and the sky was just getting light.

The morning should be the beginning of the day, but the community is in ruins. The buildings are red brick buildings without plaster walls, and many families have built small sheds and balconies without permission.

The stone pavement on the ground had long been broken into pieces, sewage filled the holes left by broken bricks and stones, a layer of oil foam floated on the gray-black water surface, and all kinds of small flying insects landed on the oil, sucking the hard-earned grease.

A hunchbacked old man came out mumbling to throw away the garbage. There was no trash can in the community, and a low wall made of red bricks was used as a makeshift garbage dump.

The elderly person, whose gender cannot be identified, refuses to leave after throwing away the garbage. He or she reaches into the garbage pile, trying to find some waste cardboard that can be sold.

Li Ying also saw the old man. She was helpless: "There is no place to put the trash can. All the trash cans have been picked up and sold as junk."

Chen Yingsheng sincerely sighed: "Captain Li, it's really not easy."

She thought Li Ying had risen to the top with the help of her superpowers, but she didn't expect that Li Ying had worked as a local police officer in a neighborhood like this.

Li Ying shook her head.

Lao Wang was looking for a place to park, and Zuo Xufei and another police officer stuck their heads out of the car on the side of the road.

"No one from the He family came out, and no one went in." Zuo Xufei pointed to the staircase in front.

After he came out of the Kaleidoscope, he was immediately sent to keep an eye on him, fearing that someone with super powers might come and kidnap people.

An elderly woman in a floral cotton coat was standing in front of the building doing something sneaky. Lao Wang asked: "Who is that?"

"Pulling red bricks." Zuo Xufei wiped his face tiredly.

Chen Yingsheng walked closer and took a closer look, and found that the woman was removing loose bricks from the wall, leaving pits and dents on the wall from where she had pulled them.

“What are you going to do with the bricks?”

"Build a shack or sell the scraps."

"They are so short of money." Chen Yingsheng was deeply shocked.

Logically speaking, the old town where Aku and Lolina lived was the poorest and most dilapidated place, but at least no one was pulling out red bricks there. Everyone went out to work early and came back late at night, so no one had time to mess with a brick.

"We have no shortage of money. Our pension is several thousand yuan," Li Ying said calmly. "But we have to pick up rubbish and remove bricks. Gradually, there are no young people left in the community."

No young person wants to live with a pile of junk.

A group of people walked into the stairwell, and the woman quickly protected the bag full of red bricks in her hands, fearing that they would come to rob her.

The He family lives on the top floor, the 5th floor. The stairs are narrow and steep, only half the width of an adult's foot.

Fortunately, all the people who came were strong and elite, and the group climbed to the 5th floor without breathing hard.

It was He Kang's mother Zhang Xiaona who opened the door for them. The room was filled with the stench of low-quality soybean oil, and the greasy smell permeated every crack in the bricks.

Zhang Xiaona was very impatient: "Who is it so early in the morning?"

She rubbed her eyes and looked clearly at the group of people in front of her.

"It's the police again!" she yelled into the house, "Dad, come out and take a look!"

The rustling sound of clothes being put on and the man's complaints were heard at the same time: "They say Cuifeng has returned to the village. What does the trouble she caused have to do with us?"

Li Ying showed her police ID and said succinctly and forcefully: "It's not He Cuifeng, it's He Kang. We suspect he is related to many superpower murders."

"He! Hahahahahaha——" Zhang Xiaona laughed out loud, "What a fool! He killed people!"

She had her hair down and looked crazy: "Why don't you say that the eunuchs raped the palace maids?"

Li Ying said coldly: "Zhang Xiaona, watch your words!"

He Kang's father, He Dayong, stepped out with his pants on: "He killed someone, take him away quickly. I have already called the mayor's hotline and proposed that the elderly disabled people should be raised by the state."

Zhang Xiaona pushed open the bedroom door and said, "Kang Kang, the police are here to pick you up!"

He Kang didn't sleep. He sat at the desk, drawing under a dim desk lamp.

Chen Yingsheng walked over and saw him drawing the sun.

He was carefully drawing the sun in the upper left corner of a small piece of yellow straw paper.

First, draw a circle with a pencil, then draw eight rays around the circle, and finally fill the circle with a red crayon.

He Kang worked very hard to draw a small red sun. After he finished it carefully, he put down his crayons and admired it carefully.

Then Chen Yingsheng stared at him. What else would he draw?

He Kang didn't draw anything. He curled his hands in front of his chest, staring blankly at the blank space on the paper, completely immersed in his own world.

In the living room outside, He Dayong and Zhang Xiaona were chattering incessantly with Li Ying about something, their voices so sharp that they irritated the eardrums.

Chen Yingsheng's senses automatically blocked out all sounds. At this moment, she seemed to be in sync with He Kang's perception.

He Kang marked "159" in the upper right corner of the straw paper.

Chen Yingsheng then discovered that there was a thick stack of paper on his right hand side, on which was drawn an identical sun in the same position, using the same method and the same color.

This is the 159th painting he has made.

"Did you sleep tonight?" Chen Yingsheng lowered his body slightly and asked softly.

Without any warning, He Kang suddenly raised his hands and started dancing.

The back of his hand inevitably hit Chen Yingsheng.

"Are you okay?" Zuo Xufei pulled Chen Yingsheng away.

Chen Yingsheng didn't move. She stared at the air in front of He Kang.

He seemed... so excited because he saw something.

Zhang Xiaona saw her older autistic son hitting someone and started crying sadly: "Take him away! Please take him away, he has seen something unclean again!"

Chen Yingsheng was very calm: "It's not something dirty, it's the abnormal perception of autism."

"You know so much, why don't you take him back and treat him!" Zhang Xiaona screamed.

Li Ying held Zhang Xiaona's shoulders and said, "Calm down and cooperate with the investigation."

Perceptual abnormalities are a symptom of autism, in which patients are particularly afraid of or have a particular liking for sounds that are difficult for normal people to perceive.

He Kang's dancing and gesticulation clearly showed his love for the song. Chen Yingsheng said to Zhang Xiaona, "Be quiet, he heard the sound."

Zhang Xiaona calmed down and Chen Yingsheng listened attentively.

Nothing at all.

"Can I see the medical records?" Chen Yingsheng asked He Kang's parents.

The silent He Dayong stuffed a large bag of medical records into Chen Yingsheng's hands.

He began to complain to Lao Wang: "You see, the situation in my family."

"What Cuifeng did has nothing to do with us. We don't know what Kangkang did. It would be best if he really did something and you take him away quickly."

"You are He Kang's guardians and He Cuifeng's employers. If something really happens, you can't escape responsibility. No one can escape." Li Ying stood aside with her arms folded indifferently.

He Dayong was anxious: "I'm talking to your boss, why are you butting in?"

Lao Wang smiled and said: "She is my boss, and I am an ordinary police officer."

This was a lie, but it worked. Li Ying and Lao Wang worked together to control He Dayong, who shut his mouth in embarrassment.

Lao Wang moved closer to He Dayong and lowered his voice: "Answer whatever she asks, cooperate with the investigation immediately, and don't delay your lunch break at the school gate."

He Dayong nodded gratefully.

Li Ying is very tough: "When will He Cuifeng come to Danjiang City to work?"

"Kang Kang when he was a child." He Dayong rolled his eyes upwards, lost in distant memories.

"He got this disease from his mother's womb, and it can't be cured. We originally planned to have another child, but we always felt that was too cruel. The second child has a burdensome brother since he was born, and he will scold us to death when he grows up!"

"When Kang Kang was ten years old, I went back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year alone. My family told me that there was a girl in the village who refused to study and marry, and insisted on going out to work. They asked me if I had any help."

He Dayong grinned, revealing his yellow teeth from smoke: "What connections do I have? I've ended up like this!"

"I asked the girl how old she was, and she said she was only 15. What can a 15-year-old do?"

"At night, I found a place with signal and called my wife to tell her about it. She asked me to take the girl home."

Zhang Xiaona continued while sobbing softly: "I felt sorry for her and wanted to give her a meal so that she could help me take care of Kang Kang and give me time to do other things. She can work or return to the village in the future, whatever she wants is fine."

Li Ying said calmly: "She is underage."

"I'm her uncle!" He Dayong shouted, "I'm bringing my niece to the big city to see what's wrong."

"No problem." Lao Wang looked like a Maitreya Buddha, his bald head reflecting light. "Keep talking."

"Cuifeng..." Zhang Xiaona looked at her husband secretly, and when she saw that he didn't stop her, she said, "Cuifeng is actually a good child. She has been sleeping on the floor in the living room since she came. She gets up early in the morning to help me prepare meals, and when Lao He and I go to the stall, she helps Kang Kang wash and eat."

He Kang is 20 years old this year. He Cuifeng has been taking care of He Kang for ten years, and now he is 25 years old.

Li Ying questioned: "She doesn't have any vacations and doesn't go home. How can we pay her?"

"She has a holiday and rests on Sunday." Zhang Xiaona explained, "The senior high school students have tutoring on Saturdays, and the school is closed on Sundays. We don't open the stall on Sundays, and I will pay the wages-"

"What salary?" He Dayong interrupted her, "It's pocket money I give to my niece."

"What does she do on her days off?" Li Ying asked.

"Put your bag on your back and go play with your friends."

"She seems to have joined some hometown group and has a few friends."

He Dayong and Zhang Xiaona's answers were fragmented and no one knew what He Cuifeng was doing on Sunday.

Lao Wang interrupted: "Did she say she had a boyfriend?"

"How is that possible! She has a boyfriend outside," He Dayong shouted.

Then, He Dayong realized that he had overreacted, and he hurriedly explained: "It's not that I can't have it, I'm her uncle, and I'm afraid she will be deceived by bad people."

Zhang Xiaona stared into Lao Wang's eyes: "So she has it?"

Lao Wang looked at them thoughtfully.

"Let me remind you that arranged marriages are illegal." Li Ying was not going to indulge the two of them, "especially when it comes to arranged marriages for people with disabilities who suffer from autism."

The word "illegal" finally frightened Zhang Xiaona. She changed her previous madness and lowered her voice: "No, I just think the two children have feelings for each other and want to let them develop."

He Dayong still looked nonchalant: "He Cuifeng eats my food and lives my house, so what's wrong with marrying my son?"

Lao Wang said kindly: "When registering a marriage at the Civil Affairs Bureau, they must ensure that the registrant can clearly and independently express his or her intention to get married and clearly understand the meaning and responsibilities of marriage, otherwise it will not be registered."

The He couple huddled together in silence, like two quails.

Li Ying showed a screenshot of a surveillance camera at a script-killing store: "Identify, is this He Cuifeng?"

The couple shook their heads at the same time.

"Wait!" Zhang Xiaona suddenly shouted, "That's her! Did she steal my cosmetics?"

In the screenshot, He Cuifeng is wearing fashionable clothes and light makeup. She doesn't look like a country nanny but a vibrant college student.

Zhang Xiaona was cursing excitedly, and Li Ying interrupted her: "Have you seen the clothes on He Cuifeng?"

"No." Zhang Xiaona stiffened her neck, "How can she afford this?"

"So why has she been working as a nanny in your house?" Lao Wang asked suddenly.

"She sleeps on the floor of your house for a tiny amount of money, gets up earlier than chickens and goes to bed later than dogs, and has to take care of the excrement and urine of an autistic man who is only a few years younger than her. She is so young, why doesn't she do something else?"

He Dayong and Zhang Xiaona couldn't give an answer.

To be fair, He Cuifeng is not bad looking. Although she is not a great beauty, she is still eye-catching among ordinary people after dressing up.

Girls like this are ambitious. She could have left the He family immediately after she became an adult and found a normal job to support herself instead of being a maid in the He family.

Unless the He family has something that makes her have to stay, something that makes her give up her pursuit of a normal life, something that can allow her to reach the sky in one step.

Chen Yingsheng looked at the couple coldly. They were stunned by Lao Wang's quick change of expression.

Lao Wang asked in a deep voice: "Does He Kang have super powers?"

"No"

"Think it over before you answer!" Li Ying shouted, "Hiding any facts is an act of covering up!"

Zhang Xiaona was so scared that her voice trembled: "No way! If only my family could be like this"

"Come back to the Super Management Bureau with us and think about it carefully." Li Ying pressed her solar plexus.