Chapter 22 Chapter 22 The Tenth Drawing
When Xu An received Pei Qing's call, he was leading people to search Yao Dazhi's house.
Yao Dazhi's kidnapping and trafficking of women is definitely not an isolated case. Perhaps there is other evidence in his home, such as account books.
But what Xu An didn't expect was that instead of finding the account book, he found a human head in the freezer of the bedroom refrigerator.
It's strange enough to put a refrigerator in the bedroom, but now there's a human head in the refrigerator, which is even more terrifying.
The man's head was covered with frost, and like Sun Xiuxiu, there were only two holes on his face, with no eyes.
Several young police officers had never seen such a scene, and some could not help but run out and retch.
It was originally just a search, but now it's all over. Xu An made a phone call and asked the forensic doctor to come.
The forensic doctor carefully brought the head back to the forensic office, and Xu An noticed that he had more white hair.
Only after the forensic doctor took away the head did Xu An receive a call from Pei Qing.
On the phone, Pei Qing seriously told Xu An his speculation.
Xu An was in a bad mood, Pei Qing noticed it keenly and asked him, "What happened?"
Xu An squatted on the ground: "Nothing, I was just wondering how many victims there are. I just found the head of another victim in the refrigerator, and I don't know where the body is."
Pei Qing digested what he said.
"At least you have found one more, and there will be a family that doesn't have to run around in despair every day, waiting for bad news that may come at any time."
Xu An touched his face and said, "Is this a good thing?"
Pei Qing: "It's better than not finding it at all."
Xu An cheered up.
Pei Qingcai continued to ask: "The one in the refrigerator... is that Jian Mei?"
Xu An: “Not really.”
Pei Qingsong said, "That's good."
Xu An: "Don't hold out too much hope. According to what you said, how long can the victim live if he is tortured every day?"
Pei Qing encouraged him: "So you have to work hard, don't be discouraged, if you are discouraged, who will do the work?"
Xu An: "I know, I'll work hard."
The two didn't chat for long before Xu An returned to the bureau.
But his ordeal today was not over yet. As soon as he arrived at the police station, he saw Fang Jie waiting for him furtively on the first floor.
"What are you doing?"
Xu An was puzzled: "Why are you downstairs if you're not going to interrogate people?"
Fang Jie had an expression that was uglier than crying.
"We are going to be picked."
Xu An: "What? Explain clearly!"
Fang Jie: "It's Qiu Huang from the second team..."
Xu An: "Didn't he break his leg? He didn't stay at home and lie down, but came to steal our case. He must be crazy! What about the deputy director?"
Fang Jie: "Captain Ji is making a fuss up there. There has never been anything like this before. They are accusing us of being inefficient in handling cases. Damn it. It's only been a few days and the bodies are lined up one after another. How are we any worse?"
When Xu An arrived, Ji Wu and Qiu Huang were arguing so fiercely that they were almost cursing each other's ancestors.
The deputy director was having a headache and didn't say anything. When he saw Xu An coming, he waved to him to come over.
"What's new?"
Xu An glanced at Qiu Huang and said, "Our team's case has nothing to do with you, so you don't need to listen."
Qiu Huang was standing in the office. When he heard Xu An's words, he stabbed back: "It took five or six days to handle a case and a group of people were detained in the bureau. Deputy Director, why don't you hand it over to me? I'm better than them. This Xu is too long-winded when handling cases, and the results are not out yet..."
Deputy Director: “Okay, okay, okay, okay…”
He directly conveyed the requirements from above, asking them to solve the case as soon as possible and for Team One and Team Two to work together on the case.
There has never been such a thing, Xu An thought to himself, whose interests were affected by this case, causing Qiu Huang, an unemployed criminal policeman lying at home, to rush over in a hurry.
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Early morning of July 15th.
Pei Qing was on the second floor, looking at Zheng Mingxin's villa with a telescope. She had been hiding behind the curtains for more than two hours.
Yao Qin has been commuting to and from the hospital villa every day recently, and drives out of the villa at around six o'clock.
After he drove out, Zheng Mingxin carried a bucket of water and tended to his small vegetable garden.
Pei Qing started watching it at around six o'clock, and now it's past seven o'clock, and Zheng Mingxin is still fiddling with his small vegetable garden.
Is there any magic in farming?
Pei Qing didn't understand.
Although she was a bit bored, she continued watching. As she was watching, she saw someone she knew at the door of Zheng Mingxin's house.
He was the man who followed Yao Qin in the Bridal Street, Jian Mei’s younger brother.
There was a woman next to him, who had her arm around his, and the two of them were in an intimate posture.
The woman put her arm around Jian Feizhou and brought him to Zheng Mingxin.
The two talked for a while, Zheng Mingxin washed his hands, walked up to Jian Feizhou, opened his eyelids and took a look.
It was too far away, Pei Qing couldn't hear what they were saying, but it looked like they were treating an illness.
Jian Mei's younger brother is really good. He actually found a way to get into the villa and get in touch with Zheng Mingxin.
Pei Qing continued to look at Zheng Mingxin's villa until noon. In the morning, except for Jian Feizhou and his wife, the only people who came to Zheng Mingxin's house for a stroll were old men. They all pointed at Zheng Mingxin's vegetable garden, but were all driven away by Zheng Mingxin.
It seems that he loves his vegetable garden deeply.
What kind of hobby is this for middle-aged and elderly people?
Pei Qing had heard before that when people reach a certain age, they would feel their Chinese blood and begin to love farming.
But Zheng Mingxin, a potential suspect and the dean of a hospital, is not thinking about making money but just farming here every day?
Normally, Pei Qing doesn't like to think the worst of people, but once he thinks of the miserable experiences of those girls, Pei Qing thinks it's okay to think the worst of these old guys.
Pei Qing kept watching like this for a few days, and Zheng Mingxin really just stayed in the villa and grew vegetables. Only he and Yao Tan took care of the small vegetable garden. Zheng Rong would occasionally fetch a bucket of water, but would be driven aside by Zheng Mingxin.
During this period, Xu An also called and talked about the recent farce in the bureau.
"That damn Qiu Huang asked Ma Youming to sign his own statement. He wants to convict before the evidence chain is even complete. Whose henchman is he? He's so anxious..."
"Why didn't I realize that the deputy director was so cowardly before? He's not deaf or dumb, and he's not a family patriarch. Why don't he give up his position sooner..."
In this way, Pei Qing listened to Xu An's scolding for several days in a row, and one day, good news finally came.
Xu An said happily: "Yao Shun was hit."
Pei Qing was surprised: "Dead?"
Xu An: "He's not dead. That's good news. Yao Dazhi only has this brother. Even if you don't care about anything else, you have to care about this brother. Otherwise, how would he pay for Yao Shun's battery when he stole it? Wait, show him the photo of Yao Shun lying on the bed covered in blood. You have to force him to tell you something."
After hanging up the phone, Pei Qing continued to stare at Zheng Mingxin. Gradually, she discovered that Jian Mei's brother had actually been talking to Zheng Rong during this period.
Being handsome has its advantages.
Pei Qing was just sighing when he saw Yao Qin driving back.
The three of them collided head-on.
Oh, this, Jane Mei's brother wouldn't want to break up the engaged couple, right?
It’s not impossible.
Then Pei Qing saw Zheng Rong greet Yao Tan sweetly.
It seems that it is a bit difficult to break up an engaged couple.
In the evening, Xu An sent a message to Pei Qing.
[Yao Dazhi said that the head was a gift.]
Pei Qing: [What gift? Who is sick enough to send such a gift?]
Xu An didn't reply, probably he was busy again.
It's really difficult. I have to investigate the case while being on guard against my colleagues tripping me up.
Pei Qing looked at Zheng Mingxin’s villa again.
It was evening, and it was time for Zheng Mingxin to water the vegetable garden.
Pei Qing looked at his small vegetable garden and thought of the head that Yao Dazhi had hidden in his home.
A few days ago, what Li Muxu said echoed in Pei Qing's mind out of thin air.
"Without a letter of surrender, how can others accept you?"
Yao Dazhi is part of the criminal process. He must be trusted to do such things as kidnapping and trafficking women.
So why should he be trusted?
Have you also submitted your own token of allegiance, such as some criminal evidence?
Why was this human head placed in his bedroom refrigerator?
Doesn’t it look ugly every day?
There is also Zheng Mingxin, who fiddles with the small vegetable garden every day, but Zheng Rong has never been seen going to the small vegetable garden to water it. Zheng Mingxin only lets Yao Tan work with him.
Pei Qing had never seen the victim's head, and Xu An would not let her see it.
Although he had never seen it before, Pei Qing was deeply impressed by this head.
Putting the human head in the bedroom so you can see it every day?
Why?
Can't we just dig a hole and bury it?
Must it be placed in the bedroom?
What kind of vicious habit is this?
These criminals are simply perverted.
Will Zheng Mingxin be the most normal one among them?
When in doubt, try your painting skills.
Pei Qing has been staring at the small vegetable garden these days and is impressed by the lush green vegetables.
She sat on the sofa on the second floor and quickly began to paint on the blank canvas.
But the strange thing is that the vegetable garden was not as green as it is now, but just a barren piece of land.
The color of the villa's exterior wall is also different from Zheng Mingxin's current home.
The tone of the drawing is dark, and it looks like night rather than day.
An old man and a young boy were standing next to a few sacks of sacks, and there was an electric tricycle next to them.
Two of the sacks had holes in them, revealing yellow sand, and the remaining sack was tied tightly with a rope.
Pei Qing stopped writing and stared at the old man and the young boy in the drawing.
Although the light and shadow were blurry, she looked at Zheng Mingxin and Yao Tan for several days in a row, and she was absolutely sure that the two people in the drawing were Zheng Mingxin and Yao Tan.
what are they doing?
Yao Dazhi put the head in the refrigerator in his bedroom.
If something similar happened to Zheng Mingxin and Yao Tan, where would they put the "head"?
Place it under the vegetable patch where you can see it every day and don't let others touch it.
I see it every day, so it’s safer?
For example, could this small vegetable garden that Zheng Mingxin loves so much also contain some evidence of a crime?
Pei Qing thought to himself, I have to think of a way to dig up Zheng Mingxin’s vegetable garden and take a look.
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Ever since she crashed Yao Dazhi's car on the road outside the small western-style building, Xu An had repeatedly told Pei Qingshao to go out with bodyguards, fearing that she would be retaliated against.
So Pei Qing has been staying in the villa in recent days and basically hasn't gone out.
A few days passed like this, Pei Qing was safe and sound, and it was inconvenient for Li Muxu to work online, so he would go to the company during the day to handle some matters.
On the evening of July 18, Li Muxu said that he had to work overtime, so he asked Pei Qing to lock the doors and windows, and the bodyguards to take turns to keep watch, and he would come back as soon as possible.
In fact, Min Rong Villa is not very close to the city. If it weren’t for the purpose of observing Zheng Mingxin’s family every day, Pei Qing would not have chosen to live here.
She assured her elder brother.
"I have also been trained since I was a child, and I have the ability to protect myself."
Li Muxu didn't want to listen to her nonsense. He had instructed her in advance that if anything happened, the bodyguards should take Pei Qing away.
That night, Pei Qing watched the bodyguard check the doors and windows, and then she washed up and prepared to go to bed.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, a figure approached the villa, and soon flames splashed and burned along the walls of the villa.
The bodyguard guarding the door quickly noticed the unusual heat and woke Pei Qing up.
Pei Qing was quickly escorted out of the villa by bodyguards.
Fire burst out from the villa, lighting up most of the night sky.
Pei Qing looked around: "Who set the fire?"
The fire woke up many people in the villa area, including several old men and women who came to stay for health care.
"Oh, why is there a fire? Where is the security guard?"
"Did you call the fire department?"
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Pei Qing was surrounded by several bodyguards. Through the gaps between the bodyguards' bodies, she saw Zheng Mingxin's family.
They seemed to be woken up by the noise and put on their coats. Zheng Mingxin stood at the front with his wife standing next to him. Yao Tan hugged the frightened Zheng Rong and looked at her.
The villa area had its own fire truck, and the fire in the villa was quickly put out. Pei Qing was warmly invited by the old men and women around him: "Come stay at my house tonight. Look at this house, it smells like smoke and fire, it's definitely not habitable."
Zheng Mingxin also followed the crowd and said, "Why don't you go to my house and be with Rongrong? We are all young people and girls, so it's convenient."
Pei Qing blinked, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
Did Zheng Mingxin do it on purpose?
Does he think I'm suspicious?
Or maybe the current owner of that small villa has finally remembered to take revenge on me?
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Zheng Mingxin looked at Pei Qing warmly. Pei Qing saw Jian Mei's brother standing not far away. She thought to herself, this is a good opportunity. Someone invited her to live with them, so why not go?
If you don't learn the tiger's training, how can you get a tiger cub?
Pei Qing quickly said, "Then please trouble Uncle Zheng. Uncle Zheng should have a medical kit at home. I, the bodyguard, just got my arm burned."
She pointed to the burn marks on the bodyguard's body.
Zheng Mingxin smiled and nodded: "Of course, a doctor's house would never be short of ointment."
Pei Qing: "Sorry to bother you then."
Zheng Mingxin took Pei Qing back to his villa.
Zheng Rong was looking at Pei Qing all the way. When Pei Qing noticed her, he winked at her.
Zheng Rong was amused by her.
Pei Qingcai asked: "Is my face dirty?"
Zheng Rong: "A little bit. Your chin is a little dark."
Pei Qing rubbed his hands twice, and the back of his hands were covered with dust.
Zheng Rong: "I'll go home and get some wet wipes for you. You can't wipe it clean with your hands."
Pei Qing nodded: "Can I use the bathroom?"
Zheng Rong smiled gently: "Of course."
Pei Qing: "I'm glad I didn't disturb you."
Min Rongxiangju's villa has three floors. Zheng Mingxin arranged guest rooms on the second floor for them, and he and Zheng Rong and Yao Tan lived on the first floor.
Zheng Mingxin and his wife live on the first floor.
As soon as Zheng Rong got home, she found the medicine box. After Pei Qing gave the bodyguard medicine, she asked him to rest. She softened her tone and talked to Zheng Rong.
"I'm a little scared to be alone, how about you sleep with me tonight, sister?"
Pei Qing hadn't acted like a spoiled child for a long time, so she didn't do it well for a moment. However, she was pretty, and Zheng Rong felt a little sorry for her. Pei Qing looked younger than her, so Zheng Rong nodded and agreed to accompany Pei Qing in the evening.
Pei Qing originally wanted to ask some questions. Although Zheng Rong looked gentle and sweet and was not very old, she should know something about her family affairs, especially the financial aspect.
Pei Qing asked, "Sister, how long have you moved in? Have you ever encountered a house fire like this before? I'm so scared. If it weren't for the bodyguards, I would have died in there today."
She covered her chest with her hands, looking frightened.
Zheng Rong hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, this is the first time I've seen this either. Don't be afraid. We've moved in here three or four years ago and nothing has happened. What happened tonight must have been an accident. The security will definitely be stepped up. Don't be afraid."
After saying this, she also helped Pei Qing calm down.
Have you lived here for three or four years?
Pei Qing wanted to ask more questions, but Yao Tan knocked on the door and told Zheng Rong to go back to bed.
Pei Qing joked: "Sister Zheng Rong, you and your fiancé have a really good relationship. When are you getting married?"
Zheng Rong said shyly: "It's still early, there's still half a year left, I'll send you an invitation then."
Pei Qing said happily: "Okay, I'll go with my brother."
She shook Zheng Rong's arm and said, "Are you really not going to sleep with me tonight? Look, you and your fiancé will be together for so long in the future, can you pity me tonight?"
Zheng Rong's face softened. She was an only child and her friends were not as good at acting like a spoiled child as Pei Qing. She immediately looked at Yao Qin embarrassedly.
Yao Qin was mild-tempered and did not object. He just said, "Boss Li is talking to Uncle Zheng downstairs."
There was no choice but for Pei Qing to let go of Zheng Rong.
Pei Qing: "I'm going to see my brother."
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When Li Muxu rushed to Min Rongxiangju, the fire in his villa had been put out. Fortunately, Pei Qing was fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The security guard checked the surveillance and caught the arsonist, who turned out to be a gangster who took money to do the job, and they didn't get anything out of him.
Li Muxu asked someone to send the arsonist to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Xu An would find a way to investigate it after knowing it.
He went to the Zheng family villa. Zheng Mingxin was as enthusiastic as ever. After a few polite words, Pei Qing came down from the second floor.
Li Muxu took a look and confirmed that she was intact and had no injuries, then he said to Zheng Mingxin: "Thank you, Dean Zheng, for your trouble tonight."
Zheng Mingxin: "It's really hard to guard against setting a fire in the middle of the night. Mr. Li should be more careful. Did you offend anyone somewhere? Sigh, you still need to be more careful."
Li Muxu: "Min Rong's security is good. He has already caught the man. This arsonist is extremely vicious. Who knows who he will burn next time. I have asked someone to send him to the Municipal Public Security Bureau. I believe the police will find out who did it."
Zheng Mingxin agreed with a smile, his face showing nothing: "Mr. Li is right. Relax tonight and stay at our house. My daughter Rongrong is the same age as your sister, and they can still chat."
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An arson case starts quickly and ends quickly.
Xu An did not know about the arson until the next day. By then, Pei Qing had already gotten into the car. She had been woken up early this morning by Li Muxu and went to the company together.
He was asked to leave Pei Qing alone at the Zheng family, and he felt uneasy during the meeting.
Pei Qing was dissatisfied: "I want to get some more information."
Li Muxu: "With Zheng Mingxin's daughter? What she knows is not the key point. This kind of only child who is ready to get married after graduation is spoiled by her family, and they won't tell her important things."
Pei Qing took out last night's drawing.
"Then I can at least get some information and find out when the Zheng family had this small vegetable garden. I suspect they buried a body underground. As for that small vegetable garden, Zheng Mingxin never allowed Zheng Rong to water it. Only Yao Tan worked with him."
Li Muxu glanced at Pei Qing's draft and asked, "How do you plan to dig? Will Zheng Mingxin let you dig?"
Pei Qing was also distressed: "This is a problem. I see Zheng Mingxin and his wife rarely go out, so it's really hard to dig them up. I originally thought that on the day of Zheng Rong's wedding, there should be no one at the Zheng family, but Zheng Rong won't get married until half a year later, and I can't wait that long."
She couldn't think of any good ideas and just scrolled through her phone.
The phone still heard Han Heyue wailing about not wanting to go to work. When he opened the background of Panda TV, it was all red dots. There were too many unread messages. Pei Qing clicked on a few of them and saw that they all asked why there was no live broadcast.
Even "Orange Biting Its Tail" came to ask her if she was going to quit the Internet.
Pei Qing took a look and was about to open his homepage to edit a leave notice when a news interface suddenly popped up above his phone.
"Explode! The century-old western-style building is full of filth and the three-story building has become a den of prostitution."
"Breaking news! The young master of the Cai Group revealed the secrets of the wealthy Blood and Tears Group in a live broadcast."
"Business affairs and financial affairs are all in the Big J live studio."
"Decoding the bloody history of blind prostitutes, starting from the Ming Dynasty..."
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Pei Qing sat up straight immediately.
"What's wrong with these media? This young master of the Cai family is Cai Xinran? What a bloody and tearful history he has."
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Back to two days ago, Cai Xinran heard from his friends that his small villa had been occupied by someone, and he was immediately furious.
The market value of his small Western-style house is over 100 million yuan. He was reluctant to sell it when he left, and now someone else lives in it.
So as soon as he came back, he brought a few big internet celebrities and rushed into the small western-style building carrying guns and cannons.
A woman saw a group of people rushing in and started cursing.
Cai Xinran was so angry. He looked at the woman in silk pajamas. Where did this woman come from? She actually treated this place as her own home. So he slapped the woman to the ground with a few slaps.
He originally wanted to settle accounts with this woman of unknown origin, take a thorough photo of the small western-style building inside and out, and then ask this woman for compensation.
His little western-style house! It was given to him by his grandmother when she was still alive!
As a result, when I took the internet celebrity to shoot the photos, problems were found.
In the basement, there were four or five women locked in different cages. When they heard the noise, the women opened their eyes. Cai Xinran and the internet celebrities he brought with him realized that these women were blind and could not see.
I felt a surge of anger in my heart.
Cai Xinran cursed, "My little western-style house has been ruined by these bastards! Fuck Cai Baokun, he even said I was a playboy, what kind of a jerk is he? He looked down on me because he was born in the previous marriage, he just wanted to steal my house! But he ended up doing much dirtier things than me. I am a playboy, but that's what everyone wants, but he is so hypocritical, he has so many dirty deeds of his own, and he still has the nerve to say that about me!"
The internet celebrity who was live-streaming excitedly said, "Mr. Cai, please speak more. Everyone is watching us. Everyone is listening to your grievances."
It’s going to be popular! It’s going to be popular!
After today, he will definitely become very popular.
I knew there were a lot of dirty things in wealthy families!
Cai Xinran was so angry: "Call the police, I want to call the police!"
He hated the miserable life he had led in Australia these years.
Cai Baokun, if I'm not good, you can forget about it!
We are born from the same father. I am in the mud. How can you be better than me?
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The commotion was so big that the live broadcast clips were quickly circulated online. Da J's click volume skyrocketed and he saw the dawn of his own sudden popularity.
Soon, the Internet police noticed it and reported it to the serious crime team.
When Xu An got the news, he couldn't help but look at Qiu Huang, whose face turned pale.
The director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau convened an emergency meeting on the case. Under the pressure of the rising online public opinion, this thousand-year-old turtle finally made a move.
At this time, the serious crime team that Xu An was in had already strung the chain of evidence together.
The woman captured in the small western-style building was named Peng Yue, a native of City A. According to the confessions of several victims imprisoned in the basement, Peng Yue and Yao Dazhi were engaged in kidnapping and trafficking of women, forcing them to have sex and engaging in some power-for-sex transactions.
Kidnapping cases often occurred in the Hongmen. According to the recollections of several victims, they were all migrant workers who came to City A. After being kidnapped, they were given anesthesia and put on the operating table. When they regained consciousness, they had lost their eyesight and could only sense faint light.
They had heard Peng Yue mention several names before, and they were all famous figures.
When the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau saw the names of several people in the transcript, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
At the same time, the gradually fermenting public opinion attracted the attention of the Discipline Inspection Commission.
The situation is turbulent. Cai Baokun wants to find Cai Xinran, but finds that Cai Xinran has disappeared.
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Pei Qing saw the news and sent the drawing he had drawn last night to Xu An.
Pei Qing: "I suspect there is a body buried in the Zheng family's vegetable garden. Did Yao Dazhi say anything? Does he know Zheng Mingxin? Can he go and dig out the body in Zheng Mingxin's vegetable garden?"
Xu An was very busy, and after Qiu Huang was visited by the inspector, the whole team felt refreshed.
Xu An: "According to Yao Dazhi's confession, he just looked for beautiful women on the street, kidnapped them and sent them to the designated location mentioned by Peng Yue, and the middleman was always Peng Yue."
But Peng Yue was a person who would not give up until she reached the Yellow River, and she firmly believed that she would be saved.
Xu An didn't think so. The director and the deputy director both had bags under their eyes recently. I heard someone from the provincial department was taken away by the Commission for Discipline Inspection. What if something bad was found out...
Xu An thought about it and felt that it was truly gratifying.
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Pei Qing thought about it and decided to send the drawing to Jian Mei's brother.
Her paintings are interconnected, from Zhu Wang to Sun Xiuxiu, because they know each other and have a deep connection with each other, and the two of them can be said to have committed a crime together.
And when she looked at the Yao Tan drawn by Jian Mei from the photo, she knew that he must be related to Jian Mei's disappearance.
So what is in the sack in this new drawing may also be related to Jian Mei.
Without evidence she couldn't secretly dig up the Zheng family's vegetable garden.
But Jian Feizhou is Jian Mei's younger brother and a relative of the victim. If he reports the case, the police will definitely accept it.
At least Xu An had a legitimate excuse to dig up the Zheng family's vegetable garden.
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