Chapter 32
Ten minutes after Shen Shuhui drew the portrait, Jiang Aichen and his team also found the deceased's information.
Jiang Aichen and his colleagues held a brief meeting.
Gu Beizhi introduced them one by one: "The deceased, Su Cheng, female, 20 years old, from Beihai, suffered brain damage due to an accidental high fever ten years ago. Her parents were in a car accident while trying to take her to the capital for treatment and died. Before her death, Su Cheng had been fostered at her aunt's home."
After that, Gu Beizhi did not forget to ask Jiang Aichen's opinion: "Jiang Aichen, what do you think?"
Jiang Aichen: "Let's go investigate Aunt Su Cheng's house first, maybe there are clues there."
"OK."
Su Cheng's aunt's home is in Dongcheng District, some distance away from the sewer entrance on Xicheng Street where the body was found.
When Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi arrived at the address given, a middle-aged woman was washing clothes at the door of the bungalow.
"Excuse me, is this Su Cheng's home?" Gu Beizhi asked first.
Hearing the familiar name, she raised her head and asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm a police officer from the Beihai Criminal Police Team. I received a report and came to inquire about the situation." Jiang Aichen replied.
When she heard that it was the police, the middle-aged woman immediately picked up the basin and said, "I don't know who Su Cheng is. You've got the wrong person."
The tone of voice could hardly conceal the intention of chasing people away.
Jiang Aichen was about to ask something when Lin Anyu and Jiang Nan got out of the car not far away.
As soon as he saw them, Jiang Nan greeted them from a distance: "Captain Jiang, Captain Gu."
Lin Anyu walked over calmly.
Jiang Aichen frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"
Lin Anyu responded perfunctorily: "I found some clues."
After saying that, she did not forget to observe the environment and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"This is the deceased's aunt's home. The deceased was fostered here by his biological parents during his lifetime." Gu Beizhi said in detail.
"Oh," Lin Anyu rushed forward and blocked the middle-aged woman's steps, "Let's chat."
"I have nothing to talk about with you." The middle-aged woman was extremely uncooperative.
"You should know that during the investigation of a case, the police can take compulsory measures against qualified suspects and people related to the case in accordance with the law," Lin Anyu said, "but I think for police-civilian cooperation, we don't need to go to this step."
Lin Anyu glanced at the toys scattered on the floor near the door and said, "After all, it's almost time to go home from school, and you don't want to be late for picking up your son, do you?"
As if her soft spot had been touched, the middle-aged woman tightened her grip on the basin and said with difficulty, "Come in, let's talk inside."
"Okay." Lin Anyu signaled the three people behind him with his eyes, asking them to follow.
The yard of this bungalow is not big, with only land, white bricks, and a thin rope hung with freshly washed clothes.
Lin Anyu followed the middle-aged woman and asked casually, "What's your name?"
The middle-aged woman paused for a second and said, "Su Pannan."
Hearing the name, Lin Anyu narrowed his eyes that were looking around, and then subtly focused his gaze on Su Panan in front of him.
"Sit down." Su Panan put down the laundry basin, took out a few stools from the corner, and said.
Lin Anyu sat down first, crossed her legs, and stated a fact: "Yesterday, our police found 51 body parts in the West Street District. After our technical identification, we found that the victim was your nephew, Su Cheng."
Su Pannan also found a stool and sat down. She lowered her head, unable to tell any emotion from her. Her voice was choked with sobs, “I… I know.”
Lin Anyu glanced at the familiar black mud on the edge of Su Pannan's right shoe without leaving a trace. She patiently asked, "Did you go to the scene yesterday?"
Su Pannan hesitated for a second, as if she was struggling with herself. She paused for a while before nodding with difficulty: "Yes, I have been there."
Lin Anyu continued to ask: "How do you know that person is Su Cheng?"
Su Panan fell silent for a moment.
Seeing this, Jiang Nan, who was sitting behind him, became a little anxious.
Shouldn't she first ask 'does she know that the deceased is Su Cheng'?
How to ask directly 'how do you know'?
What if Su Pan knew that the deceased was her nephew Su Cheng, wouldn't this question be asked in vain?
He was about to speak out a warning, but Gu Beizhi quickly stopped him.
The yard was silent for a few seconds before Su Pannan stammered, "I don't know, I am..."
Guessing that Su Pannan had her own reasons for hesitating, Lin Anyu didn't dwell on it and said, "That's not important. Next question, you raised Su Cheng for nine years, why did you abandon him last year?"
Su Pannan was startled when she heard this. She stared at Lin Anyu in surprise: "How did you know?"
Gu Beizhi was also somewhat surprised. He tilted his head and asked Jiang Nan, "Did you investigate?"
Jiang Nan was also quite shocked. During the day, he and Lin Anyu only visited several hospitals and found the deceased's medical records. They didn't find out anything else.
How did Lin Anyu know that Su Cheng had been in foster care for nine years and was abandoned last year?
The key is that she was right!
Lin Anyu said calmly to Su Pannan: "First of all, I am a police officer. I am the one questioning you, not you. I have no obligation to tell you my investigation process. Secondly, I don't think this simple reasoning is difficult to guess."
Su Pannan's eyes darkened. She covered her face with her hands and said, "Actually, I don't want to send Xiao Chengzi away. It's just that our family can't afford to raise a fool."
Jiang Nan stood up directly: "Idiot?"
Su Pannan raised her face and roughly wiped away the tears on both sides of her cheeks with her hands: "Yes, Xiaochengzi is Su Cheng's nickname, and she is my brother's daughter. Ten years ago, she had a serious illness and her brain was damaged. She can't take care of herself. Originally, my brother and sister-in-law planned to take her to a big city for treatment, but on the way, they both had a car accident and died."
"Of their entire family, only Xiao Chengzi managed to survive, but why did it have to be her? Why is it that the one who survived is a fool who can't take care of herself?"
Lin Anyu stared at her and said without any context, "You are not telling the truth."
Wiping away her tears, Su Pannan didn't know what she was saying. She ramblingly recounted the pain she had experienced in her life: "My family values boys over girls. I am the first child in the family, the eldest daughter. My parents named me Pannan specifically to give birth to a boy."
"But what if they want to have a boy? Didn't their son die long ago? And after all the hard work of getting a wife and having a child, the daughter they gave birth to is still a fool."
"When I was little, my parents always let my younger brother eat anything good first, and they also let my younger brother play with anything fun first."
"I only deserve to eat the worst and play the worst."
"Why! Why!"
"They have treated me so badly, and I still have to raise their granddaughter for them!"
It's a completely irrelevant complaint.
It has nothing to do with the question asked by Lin Anyu.
Lin Anyu stood up and gently stroked Su Pannan's back, as if to comfort him: "Calm down, we will come back to ask you another day."
After she finished speaking, Su Pannan did not answer her immediately.
She asked again, "When is your male master usually at home?"
Finally, Su Pannan responded, and his tone instantly calmed down: "After 9 o'clock in the evening."
"Okay." Lin Anyu stood up and led Jiang Aichen and the others out of the yard.
After they left, Su Pannan didn't say anything polite. The moment they stepped out of the door, she slammed the door shut.
Lin Anyu, Jiang Aichen and the other two walked a few steps further away. After making sure that Su Pannan had not caught up, Lin Anyu stopped first and asked, "Did you bring the test bag?"
Jiang Aichen replied: "Yes."
Jiang Aichen silently handed a transparent testing bag to Lin Anyu. Lin Anyu carefully pulled out the hair stuck in the gap between his right index finger and stuffed it into the testing bag.
He handed it to Jiang Nan and said, "Give it to the Forensic Department later and ask them to test the relationship between this hair and the DNA sequence of the deceased."
Jiang Nan took it with doubt: "Lin Anyu, whose hair is this?"
Before Lin Anyu could say anything, Jiang Aichen replied, "Su Pan is a man."
Gu Beizhi also came to his senses: "You took the opportunity to stay while you were patting her on the back to comfort her?"
"Well," Lin Anyu did not hide anything, "I just suspected something."
Jiang Aichen: "Do you suspect that Su Pannan is not Su Cheng's aunt?"
Lin Anyu denied: "No."
"What is that?"
"I suspect that Su Pannan is not Su Cheng's biological aunt."
Lin Anyu emphasized the word "darling".
Jiang Aichen: "What do you mean?"
Lin Anyu: "What I mean is that I suspect that Su Cheng and Su Pannan have no blood relationship. To go even deeper, I suspect that Su Pannan and Su Cheng's father are not real siblings."
"I suspect that Su Cheng's father was adopted by the Su family."
When these words were spoken, everyone at the scene was stunned.
Gu Beizhi seemed to believe what she said very much: "Why do you come to this conclusion?"
Lin Anyu: "I have observed Su Cheng's appearance and Su Pan'nan's appearance, and found that no matter which facial features are removed, these two people have no similarities. This is simply impossible in the field of genetics."
Jiang Aichen frowned, as if he had discovered something: "Have you studied portrait painting?"
Lin Anyu knew that Jiang Aichen's words were a trap, in order to capture evidence from a few clues that she and Song Luo were the same person.
However, she had promised her other personality that she would not cause any trouble for her during the time she was present.
How could she go back on her word?
Lin Anyu raised the corners of his lips confidently, and his bright eyes seemed to see through his cold gaze and see through his thoughts: "You don't still think I'm your master, do you?"
Jiang Aichen said nothing.
"Investigate the case carefully, young man."
"Who am I..." Lin Anyu sneered and answered nonchalantly, "It's not that important."
After saying that, she did not forget to remind him: "Also..."
"Jiang Aichen, I hope that in the future, even if I am killed by the suspect on the spot, you will still make it your priority to catch the murderer."
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