The Vanished Wife (10)
Mr. Liang hesitated for a moment: "This isn't a good idea...it makes it seem like I'm suspicious of her..."
“She was already a suspect, and if she wants to clear her name, she has to prove her innocence. As for the damage caused by the wall breaking through, we are willing to compensate her.”
"Okay, I'll try to communicate with her."
Mr. Liang sent a message to Golden Rose to discuss this matter.
After a while, Mr. Liang said, "Rose has agreed. You can go directly to her house and break through the wall. She doesn't care about the losses and doesn't want you to pay compensation."
Seeing Golden Rose's cooperation, everyone's spirits sank. Did this mean there were no clues hidden in Golden Rose's walls either?
However, I'll only feel at ease if I see it with my own eyes.
So, everyone went to Golden Rose's house.
Jian Tanxi personally took the interstellar triangular pyramid and chiseled open the newly renovated wall.
She gave Xie Wei the barber's rusty scissors and asked him to help her chisel the wall.
These scissors are second only to the interstellar triangular pyramid in sharpness; they are also a formidable weapon.
The others watched from the side, checking to see if anything fell out of the wall.
Golden Rose sat to one side, leisurely looking at her phone, not worried at all.
After scraping off the plaster on the walls of her house, all that was underneath was a large piece of sheet metal; nothing else was found.
Golden Rose said, "Look carefully, there's really nothing inside the wall. I have money, and you don't need to compensate me. You should hurry up and find another direction for your investigation, don't waste time. Your suspicion of me only shows your meticulousness, and I won't blame you."
Jian Tanxi said, "Thank you for your cooperation, Miss Rose. But aren't you worried that Ms. Jin might be inside the Jin family's walls?"
Golden Rose stood up in fright: "What do you mean? You suspect that my brother-in-law killed my sister? But I've been to my sister's house several times and I didn't smell anything."
"If you remove all the flesh from a corpse, leaving only a skeleton, of course there will be no smell."
“But it’s normal to renovate walls here. And the renovation of my sister’s wall did happen before she disappeared.”
Professor Pan said, "Perhaps Mr. Liang renovated it twice? He renovated it once before Ms. Jin disappeared, and then he renovated it again after Ms. Jin disappeared. He could have buried your sister's remains in the wall during the latter renovation."
“But ever since my sister went missing, I’ve been going to her house every few days. If my brother-in-law had done something as big as renovating the wall, I couldn’t have missed it.”
"He doesn't need to renovate all the walls, just one. And if it's just one wall, it won't take much time at all."
“That’s true… If he wanted to hide my sister’s body, all he needed was a wall…”
Golden Rose decided to check if there was anything hidden in her sister's walls, so she personally spoke to Mr. Liang.
Mr. Liang showed no reluctance and quickly agreed.
This time, Professor Pan and Qin Man were in charge of chiseling the wall, while Jian Tanxi and Xie Wei observed from the side.
During the process of chiseling through the wall, Mr. Liang said, "I don't believe Mingyue is dead... However, if she is really bricked up in the wall, it must be someone else's conspiracy, a conspiracy against my husband and me... If Mingyue is dead and I become the prime suspect, then others will benefit."
Jian Tanxi said, "Mr. Liang, you're right. But you don't need to be so nervous, after all, we haven't found anything yet."
"you're right……"
At this moment, Qin Man said, "Mr. Liang, could you please ask your gardener and nanny to dig up the garden and see if there's anything inside?"
Mr. Liang said, "You want to dig up the garden? You suspect my wife... is in the garden?"
“We don’t have concrete evidence, but generally speaking, gardens are good places to bury bodies. If she really did have an accident, she might have been buried in the garden. Could we dig her up now?”
"No problem, I'll have the gardener dig it up right away."
"The garden is too big; one gardener might not be able to manage it. Why not hire two nannies to dig it up together?"
"OK."
By now, the nanny and gardener had already gone to rest. Mr. Liang woke them up and asked them to dig in the garden.
Han Ma said, "Sir, it's too late now. Why don't we dig it up tomorrow? To put it bluntly, if Madam is really buried in the garden, it doesn't matter whether it's a day earlier or later."
Mr. Liang said, "I know you've worked hard all day and are very tired, but please work a little harder. I'll only feel at ease if you dig a little more. At most, I'll give you a raise."
"All right."
So the two nannies went with the gardener to dig in the garden.
The other players were somewhat surprised by Qin Man's suggestion, but they quickly understood her thinking. The garden was indeed a good place to bury the body. Since they had already started work at the Jin family's house today, they might as well work on the garden as well, thus avoiding having to do it in two separate sessions.
Furthermore, players recalled that when Qu Chen first entered the Jin family, he seemed somewhat afraid of the gardener and the nanny, for reasons unknown.
Perhaps Qu Chen has a special intuition, but can't quite put it into words. Then, the gardener and the nanny might be the problem; it wouldn't hurt to investigate.
Jian Tanxi and Jin Meigui went to the garden to watch, while Xie Wei stayed inside the house, watching Qin Man and the others smash the wall.
A few hours later, the new wall of Ms. Jin's house was completely demolished, and the soil in the garden was turned over.
The result was the same as before: nothing was found. The Jin family's wall also ran out of material when they tried to break through the sheet metal.
Mr. Liang breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness... Mingyue must still be alive. You must find her..."
Seeing that Mr. Liang's expression did not seem to be faking it, the crowd's suspicions about him lessened somewhat.
If Ms. Kim is still alive, that would be a good thing for the players.
As for the construction waste generated, Mr. Liang said he would find someone to move it away another day, and there was no need to rush it now.
Jian Tanxi asked Mr. Liang, "Mr. Liang, may I borrow something from your refrigerator?"
Mr. Liang: "Okay."
Jian Tanxi went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and was somewhat surprised. The refrigerator was nearly empty, with almost no vegetables or meat, only cookies and fruit.
She had no choice but to take out cookies and fruit.
She wasn't eating it herself, but she thought the nanny and gardener must be hungry after digging for hours, so she gave it to them to improve their relationship.
She offered the food to the nanny and the gardener, but they refused it.
Han's mother said, "We're not hungry."
Aunt Zhang added, "Yes, we usually take nutritional supplements, which are quite filling, so we rarely eat anything else."
Jian Tanxi said, "Then the gardener brother must eat, right? I saw you were working the hardest when you were hoeing the ground just now."
Gardener: "I'm not hungry either. I usually take nutritional supplements."
Jian Tanxi asked, "What are nutritional supplements?"
Mr. Liang said, "It's a pill rich in various nutrients. After taking it, you won't feel hungry all day. Everyone in my family takes it, so we don't need to keep too much food in the refrigerator."
"Really? But you can't stand eating like this every day, can you? You should eat some normal meals."
"We've eaten too many delicacies, so we're not picky about food. As long as we have nutritional supplements, we're fine."
"So, nannies and gardeners don't need to eat regular meals either?"
The nanny, Han Ma, said, "Yes, when we first came, we ate a lot of good food, but we got tired of it later. So we started taking nutritional supplements with my husband and wife. This way we can cook less and wash fewer dishes, which reduces our workload."
Jian Tanxi said, "I see."
Golden Rose said to Mr. Liang, "Brother-in-law, I'm sorry I doubted you just now, but I did it for my sister's sake."
Mr. Liang said, "I understand."
Then, Mr. Liang said to the players, "It's very late now, you should all get some rest. We can talk about it tomorrow."
Jian Tanxi and the others all said, "Okay, thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Liang."
Back in the room, everyone continued their discussion.
Qin Man said, "We've already broken down the walls of all the suspects' houses... Does that mean they're all innocent and Ms. Jin has truly disappeared? Then where is Ms. Jin? Why are there no witnesses?"
Professor Pan said, "It's not that there aren't problems, it's just that the problems aren't inside the wall. During the last discussion, we also listed many doubts. And most of those doubts have not been resolved."
Jian Tanxi pondered, "I just remembered a detail... When I investigated Yu Antai before, I found that his refrigerator was also empty, with only some fruit, biscuits, milk, oatmeal and the like, just like the Jin family's refrigerator."
Xie Wei said, "Yu Antai is a bachelor, and his mother has passed away. He probably doesn't know how to cook or doesn't like to cook, so he just eats whatever he can find every day, like milk and oatmeal that don't need to be cooked."
Jian Tanxi said, "But his mother passed away not long ago... How come there's not a single leftover food in the refrigerator? Usually, in families with elderly people, the refrigerator is always packed full, for example, there will always be frozen meat and dumplings in the freezer..."
Xie Wei: "Perhaps, during the time his mother was gone, he ate all the leftover food in the refrigerator. Or, Yu Antai, like the Jin family, takes nutritional supplements every day and doesn't need to eat anything. I think we shouldn't worry about these details."
Although Xie Wei's words made sense, Jian Tanxi vaguely felt that something was not right.
Jian Tanxi said, "If the nutritional supplement were a relatively cheap product, I don't think a family like Ms. Jin's would buy and consume it in large quantities. The nutritional supplement can provide most of the nutrients a person needs and keep them from feeling hungry, so it must contain advanced technology and be expensive. Therefore, it's not something someone like Yu Antai can afford. So, whether the nutritional supplement is expensive or cheap, it has a flaw."
Qin Man said, "Why don't we ask Mr. Liang about it tomorrow? Perhaps these nutritional supplements are indeed very cheap, and there aren't any expensive varieties, so whether you're rich or poor, you're buying the same kind of nutritional supplements."
Professor Pan frowned and said, "Actually, Wu Yaoyao's family is the same... When I inspected her house, her refrigerator was similar to those of the Jin and Yu families. Xie Wei, when you investigated Jin Meigui's family before, did you look at her refrigerator?"
Xie Wei: "I looked at it, but I didn't look closely. I mainly checked to see if there were any corpses or anything. If there weren't, I closed it. I only remember that Jin Rose's refrigerator had very few things, but I don't remember exactly what they were."
Qin Man said, "Since the refrigerators of these people are similar, it further proves that nutritional supplements are something that people in City B commonly take, just like how people in City B are always renovating their walls."
Professor Pan said, "Perhaps this is a reasonable explanation..."
Qin Man said, "Wait, there's one more question..."
Jian Tanxi asked, "What's the problem?"
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