Chapter 49 Chapter 49 The Second Drawing
Just as the child walked to Pei Qing's side, a hand suddenly stretched out in front of him and pulled him back.
The child's feet dangled in the air for a few times, and he howled, "Who are you? Put me down."
Xu An picked up the child with one hand and handed him to the child's parents. Before the parents could speak, he took out his ID and said, "Police, we are investigating a case. Stay away."
The child's parents wanted to argue, but then they saw Pei Qing firmly holding his hands on the iron bucket, with gloves on.
In an instant, the child's parents figured something out, picked up the child and ran away.
The child was unhappy and started crying again. He only became quiet after being slapped on the head.
Pei Qing heaved a sigh of relief and said to Xu An, "It's a good thing you came, otherwise I would have run away with the bucket."
Xu An asked her to stand up: "Let me see what's inside. Only an iron bucket floated up?"
The height of this iron bucket is not even as long as an adult man's arm. There is no way it can be the only one.
Pei Qing confirmed: "This is the only one. I don't know where the others are."
Xu An: "I'll ask someone nearby to try to salvage it."
He frowned and looked around.
Pei Qing asked: "Do we want to close the scenic spot?"
Xu An: "Don't make too much noise. You have to find an excuse."
He looked toward the observation deck on the mountain and soon came up with an idea.
At noon that day, Yunteng Mountain Scenic Area issued an announcement.
Yunteng Mountain will carry out further repairs inside the scenic area in the next three days. Please pay attention to the travel time. The relevant ticket refund process will be further notified.
By three o'clock in the afternoon, all the tourists in Yunteng Mountain had been cleared out.
Xu An asked the police to salvage the remains at the beach. As for the iron barrel found by Pei Qingxian, it had already been sent to the Forensic Medical Office.
When Yang Xingping returned to the Public Security Bureau from Yu Lequn's rental house, he saw a young girl pacing opposite the Public Security Bureau from afar.
He drove over and recognized it as Yu Shuixiu at a glance.
He called Pei Qing: "Where are you?"
Pei Qing: "I'm at the Forensic Medical Office. Why do I have to wait in line for an autopsy? If I go to Director Shen now, can I get the autopsy first?"
Yang Xingping asked her to wait, and said, "Yu Shuixiu is now opposite the Public Security Bureau. Did you meet her when you went to the beach today?"
Pei Qing: "As soon as I got there, I found the iron barrel was washed up, and I didn't notice anything else. Go ask her who she is looking for. If she wants to talk about her brother's disappearance, you can bring that person in. She is already at the door of the Public Security Bureau, can't she prepare her own excuse?"
Yang Xingping: "Okay."
He drove over, rolled down the window, and asked Yu Shuixiu: "Who are you looking for?"
Yu Shuixiu was pacing with her head down. She was startled by the sudden sound and raised her head in panic.
Yang Xingping saw her red eyes.
Only sixteen years old.
He pointed to the guard booth at the entrance of the Public Security Bureau and said, "The people in there have been watching you for a long time. If you don't go in, they will come over."
Yu Shuixiu looked at the people in the guard booth, hesitated for a moment, and asked Yang Pingan: "Are you a policeman? I, I want to call the police."
Yang Xingping nodded and spoke quickly: "Walk over there and wait for me at the door. I'll park the car."
Yu Shuixiu nodded.
After parking the car, Yang Xingping walked to the door, greeted the people in the guard booth, and took Yu Shuixiu into the Public Security Bureau.
First take a statement, then collect a DNA sample, these are all familiar things.
After collecting the DNA sample, Yu Shuixiu asked nervously: "I was at the beach today and saw an iron barrel being taken away by the police. What was in it?"
Yang Xingping did not give a direct answer, but pointed to a place in the transcript.
"Still testing, sign here."
Yu Shuixiu: “Oh.”
After she signed, Yang Xingping called a female police officer to look after Yu Shuixiu and turned to go to the Forensic Office.
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In the forensic office, Pei Qing argued with the old forensic doctor for about ten minutes.
The old forensic doctor said: "Xiao Pei, why are you like your brother, you keep talking."
Pei Qing was hurt: "How are Xu An and I the same?"
The old forensic doctor: "He was talking nonsense."
He talked but his hands never stopped moving.
"Why?"
He asked Pei Qing to come over and take a look: "Look at the body parts in here, something is wrong."
He hummed an opera tune, glanced at the DNA extraction results, then slapped his thigh and asked Pei Qing to come and see.
"Hurry up and ask your brother to fish it out in the sea. These are two completely independent and different DNAs. Ask Xu An to fish it out carefully. This time we have to fish out the bodies of two people."
Pei Qing looked at the iron barrel beside him and suddenly felt a chill.
When Yang Xingping arrived, the forensic work was just coming to an end.
Pei Qing called Xu An and asked him to concentrate on retrieving the bodies. Now there were two bodies instead of one.
Xu An complained on the phone, saying that he hadn't caught any fish yet, and now he had to try to catch two. If he had to put them all in iron buckets, how many iron buckets would it take?
After listening to Pei Qing and Xu An on the phone, Yang Xingping handed the DNA sample in his hand to the forensic assistant and asked someone to help match it to see if there was a match.
The forensic assistant was surprised: "The deceased's family came to identify the body so soon? The results from the missing persons database haven't come out yet, and there's no complete body. How did you know?"
Yang Xingping thought that Yu Shuixiu must not be in the missing persons database, and she had never reported her missing.
He evaded the forensic assistant's question and said, "Help me test it."
The forensic assistant was not difficult to deal with: "Okay, I'll tell you the results when they come out."
Yang Xingping followed Pei Qing out of the Forensic Office.
On the way back to the office, Pei Qing saw Yu Shuixiu waiting in the reception room.
Her eyes fell on the floor, holding a disposable paper cup in her hand, not knowing what she was thinking.
Yang Xingping: "I went to Yu Lequn's house this morning and saw a layer of dust at his door. He must have not been back for a long time."
Pei Qing: "According to Yu Shuixiu, Yu Lequn has not responded to messages since July 15th. It has been a month and a half now. It is normal for dust to fall on him. I just don't know when the incident happened to Yu Lequn."
Yang Xingping: "It's normal for dust to fall. The problem is, I asked Yu Lequn's neighbors."
He showed the photos he took to Pei Qing.
Yu Lequn rented an apartment with four households living on one floor.
Yang Xingping: "I asked several of his neighbors, and when I asked them when they last saw Yu Lequn, they all gave different answers."
Pei Qing was surprised: "Didn't they meet Yu Lequn on the same day? That's possible. What do you think is strange?"
Yang Xingping showed Pei Qing the house that Yu Lequn rented.
"Yu Lequn's neighbor across the street is a white-collar worker who goes to work at 9 a.m. and gets off work at 6 p.m. He said his working hours are very regular. July 20 was the last time he saw Yu Lequn.
The neighbors next to Yu Lequn are a family of three. When I went there, their child was making a fuss and didn't want to go to kindergarten. He was making a fuss for the whole morning, and the noise was so loud that it hurt my ears.
I asked them when they last saw Yu Lequn, and they said it was August 2nd. The hostess had just paid the electricity bill that day, so she had a deep impression of him. I asked them what time they saw Yu Lequn, and the hostess said it was 11 o'clock in the evening. Her husband said he forgot to bring his keys, and she was waiting at the door to open it, and heard the door next door open.
Pei Qing frowned: "She didn't see anyone?"
Yang Xingping: "No, she just wanted to say hello, but the door of Yu Lequn's house was closed. I have to say, she is very lucky."
Pei Qing: "If you don't see his face, you can't say that it was Yu Lequn who opened the door that day. What about the other household?"
Yang Xingping said calmly: "The last house was a young woman. I knocked on the door for a long time before she opened it. She smelled of alcohol. It must have been her habit to drink for a long time.
I asked her when she last saw Yu Lequn, and she spoke incoherently, once saying last month, and once saying the 10th of this month. I don't believe it. I'll ask her when she wakes up."
Pei Qing: "What is Yu Lequn's daily routine?"
Yang Xingping: "He left early and came back late, often only coming back after a few days. So the neighbors just felt strange after not seeing him for so long, and didn't think of calling the police. They weren't that familiar with each other, and Yu Lequn didn't talk much, and he didn't have any social interactions with the neighbors."
Pei Qing: "Then he must have a job, otherwise how could he give money to Yu Shuixiu."
She found Xu An's computer in the office, entered the password and clicked on it. Xu An had left a folder on the desktop, which contained all the calls Yu Lequn had received before her phone bill was in arrears.
Pei Qing looked at the densely packed call records and said to Yang Xingping, "No matter what job Yu Lequn does, he has a lot of social circles!"
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