Chapter 39
The next morning, an alarm sounded.
Lin Anyu turned over uncomfortably, then slapped away the squeaking phone with one hand and continued to sleep.
After just a few minutes of sleep, Lin Anyu suddenly remembered that he came here last night to look for clues with Jiang Aichen.
Lin Anyu regained most of his consciousness immediately.
She looked around until she saw Jiang Aichen leaning against the driver's door.
"Captain Jiang." Lin Anyu leaned towards Jiang Aichen.
Jiang Aichen looked back with cold eyes.
The moment he saw her disheveled hair, Jiang Aichen couldn't help but say, "You can't even wake up with the alarm clock, no wonder you're always late."
"This was an accident." Lin Anyu said.
Jiang Aichen seemed unwilling to listen to her explanation. He said, "There are soy milk and fried dough sticks in the storeroom. I just bought them."
Lin Anyu didn't hesitate. She picked up a fried dough stick and stuffed it into her mouth, muttering, "Captain Jiang, did you go to the village this morning?"
"Well," Jiang Aichen said, "I investigated some things."
"What did you find?"
"There are not many people left in this village. Most of the young people have gone to the city." Jiang Aichen looked into the distance and said, "The mother-in-law we investigated yesterday is named Cong Yanping. She has a stupid son named Cong Qi. He lives at the innermost part of the village."
"This is the route map of the village." Jiang Aichen handed a floor plan to Lin Anyu.
Lin Anyu took it, looked at it and asked, "Captain Jiang, did you draw this?"
Jiang Aichen: "Well, I drew it while buying breakfast."
Lin Anyu took a bite of breakfast and said vaguely: "You didn't draw this topographic map to make it easier to find the location of Cong Yanping's house, did you?"
Jiang Aichen didn't say anything.
Lin Anyu asked again: "Is this the escape route you prepared for me?"
Jiang Aichen tilted his head and did not answer directly. Instead, he said indirectly: "A powerful dragon cannot defeat a local snake."
What he meant was that no matter how powerful they were, it would be difficult for them to deal with the local forces.
Lin Anyu's eyes were calm and without any ripples; she just stared at him quietly.
Jiang Aichen: "Why are you staring at me like that?"
Lin Anyu shook his head: "Nothing, I just think you make a lot of sense."
Jiang Aichen: "Hmm?"
Lin Anyu retracted his gaze and said casually: "When some people are young, they always think that everything in the world is possible."
But later I realized that human power is limited, and even a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake.
Lin Anyu was silent for a while, then said, "But we are young and frivolous, so who cares about these things?"
Jiang Aichen was confused by Lin Anyu's confusing words. He frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Lin Anyu shook his head and replied roughly: "Nothing, just a casual comment."
Jiang Aichen didn't ask any more questions. He said, "We'll think about those things later. The key now is to go into the village and find evidence."
Lin Anyu nodded: "Yes."
Jiang Aichen: "How is Gu Beizhi's contact with the Zecheng Branch going?"
Lin Anyu said: "He just sent me a message saying that the negotiations are basically done and the Zecheng Criminal Police Team is willing to help us arrest people."
"Okay, do you have the real-time recorder with you?"
Lin Anyu: “I brought it.”
Jiang Aichen instructed: "Contact the Zecheng Criminal Police Team in time. Once we have any clues, have them go out and arrest the person immediately."
Lin Anyu: “Yeah.”
Everything has been explained.
Jiang Aichen did not forget to add: "I will pretend I didn't hear you saying to catch the criminal first last time. Remember to protect yourself when you go on a mission."
"Catch the criminal first" probably refers to what Song Luo said before using her body. Even if she was killed by the suspect on the spot, she hoped that Jiang Aichen would focus on catching the murderer.
He actually remembered it?
Lin Anyu nodded: "Yes."
After the two men discussed the plan, Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen went to the village. It was morning and there were not many people in the village. A few middle-aged and elderly people in their forties and fifties came out from each household and gathered together to chat.
The two men walked to a red iron gate, stopped, and knocked on it.
"Hello, is anyone home?"
Not long after, a middle-aged woman of about the same age walked in.
She had a hunched body and scars all over her face, and it was obvious that she was quite old.
She looked at Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen several times and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Lin Anyu was the first to show his police badge: "Excuse me, are you Cong Yanping? I'm from the criminal police team. Recently, a murder occurred in Beihai City. A few days ago, we found through surveillance video that you had been to the hospital with the deceased, so we came to you to find out the situation."
Cong Yanping looked at Lin Anyu several times before saying, "Come in and talk."
"Okay," Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen walked in through the crack in the door opened by Cong Yanping.
Cong Yanping's yard is not big, it is a square shape, and Lin Anyu can see the environment inside the yard clearly at a glance.
Compared with Su Pannan's courtyard, Cong Yanping's courtyard is obviously cleaner.
Large tiles are laid on the ground, and the ceiling of the courtyard above is covered with pure glass, which allows sunlight to penetrate while keeping warmth.
At first glance, you can tell that he comes from a wealthy family.
At Cong Yanping's invitation, Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen sat down on a stool.
She poured a glass of water for the two men and asked, "Comrade police officer, what do you want to ask?"
Jiang Aichen glanced at the crystal clear glass of water inconspicuously, neither accepting nor refusing.
He said, "What did you and Su Cheng do at Beihai Women's and Children's Hospital last December?"
Cong Yanping was obviously relieved: "Oh, you asked about this."
Jiang Aichen observed her expression: "Yeah."
Cong Yanping thought for a while and said, "When I saw Su Cheng, it was in our village. She was wearing tattered clothes and squatting next to a garbage can in the village to eat."
"I felt sorry for her and actually intended to adopt her."
She hesitated for a second and said, "Since you can find me, it means you must have investigated my family."
Jiang Aichen did not answer.
Cong Yanping continued, "In fact, my son is born mentally retarded, and his behavior is basically the same as that crazy Su Cheng. I thought it was no different to raise one idiot or two, so I brought her home."
"Who knew that her belly kept getting bigger and bigger, and when we checked, we found out she was pregnant, so I immediately took her to the hospital for a checkup."
Jiang Aichen asked: "Do you know whose child it is?"
"I heard it belonged to his uncle Li Cheng." Cong Yanping said.
Lin Anyu was surprised: "Do you know Li Cheng?"
"Everyone knows Li Cheng. He delivers vegetables to the market in our village. Everyone in the village knows him," Cong Yanping said. "When Su Cheng came to our village, he was the one who brought him here."
Lin Anyu grasped the important information in her words: "Are you saying that it was Li Cheng who abandoned Su Cheng in your village?"
"Yes," Cong Yanping thought for a while and said, "But after he threw Su Cheng into our village, he hasn't been here for a long time."
The content of Cong Yanping's words is clear and logical, and it is basically impossible to find any confusion in the information.
But this seems to be the most wrong thing. How could a person who has been staying in the village for many years speak so casually with such strong logic, unless this is the wording that has been prepared for a long time.
Jiang Aichen: "How do you know that Su Cheng's child is Li Cheng's?"
Cong Yanping: "Someone saw Li Cheng and Su Cheng doing that in the field. How could it be wrong?"
Jiang Aichen naturally knew what Cong Yanping was referring to, and even Lin Anyu understood it instantly.
Lin Anyu: "So Su Cheng was with you guys before he died?"
Cong Yanping immediately denied it: "That's right, she disappeared a week before she gave birth. I thought she went to look for the biological father of the child."
Jiang Aichen: "What evidence do you have? Did Su Cheng leave your home before he died?"
"Everyone in our village knows about it," said Cong Yanping.
"How could your villagers know about your family's affairs?" said Lin Anyu.
"In order to help Su Cheng take care of her pregnancy, I let her take two walks around the village every day. But one day, it happened that I was harvesting cabbage and didn't accompany her for a walk in the village. Then she never came back," said Cong Yanping.
"Have you never gone to look for her?" Lin Anyu said.
Cong Yanping: "I did look for him. I gathered all the young and strong men in the village overnight and asked them to help look for him. But who would have thought that they searched until dawn and still couldn't find Su Cheng."
Lin Anyu's eyes darkened.
Jiang Aichen: "Su Cheng's actual age is 20, why did you fill in 25 for her on the medical examination form?"
Cong Yanping: "How would I know her actual age? The medical examination form was just written casually."
While Cong Yanping and Jiang Aichen were chatting, Lin Anyu asked, "Would it be convenient for us to meet your son?"
For the first time, Cong Yanping showed some hesitation on her face. She hesitated for a moment and said, "My son is quite shy."
Lin Anyu: "It doesn't matter, we'll try our best to make him unable to see us."
Cong Yanping: "He doesn't really want to go out either."
Lin Anyu: "It's okay, we can go inside and find him."
Cong Yanping paused for a few seconds and said, "Okay, follow me."
As she spoke, Cong Yanping led Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen to the main room.
They are both obviously fools. Cong Yanping's son lives in a room with a big window where the sun shines everywhere, while Su Cheng lives in a small, shabby woodshed.
Even the woodshed is cleaner than that shabby little house.
Lin Anyu hid behind the wall at the door, quietly watching the big fool curled up in the corner of the house.
He was of stocky build, and every expression he made revealed a kind of naivety, with even the corners of his eyebrows and mouth twitching from time to time.
As if he had been seriously frightened, he curled up in the corner, looking defensive.
Jiang Aichen retracted his gaze: "How long has he been like this?"
Cong Yanping sighed: "He has been like this since he was born. His father and I took him to many hospitals but there was no effect. Later, his father felt embarrassed to have such a son, so he divorced me and let me raise him alone."
Lin Anyu had just withdrawn his gaze and was about to ask something else, but when he raised his eyes, he noticed a wooden plaque in the corner.
There were no words on the wooden sign, just all kinds of fish and meat laid out in front.
"What is this?" Lin Anyu asked.
Cong Yanping glanced at it and replied, "It's just a custom in our village. We worship the nameless god to ensure safety."
While observing the environment, Lin Anyu asked, "Do you believe in religion?"
Cong Yanping answered frankly: "Yes, I believe in the nameless God."
Lin Anyu asked casually, "Is it true?"
Cong Yanping immediately replied: "Of course it is true."
Lin Anyu fixed his eyes on Cong Yanping: "But why do I feel like you are lying to me?"
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