Grandma Lu was too excited, and Lu Xingquan was a little worried, so he quickly went inside.
"Mom, please don't do this."
Ruan Qiao was stunned when she came in and saw the person on the dissection table.
How could that be? Her husband was clearly dead; she watched him being cremated with her own eyes.
The old lady's commotion was so loud that it brought her to her senses for a moment, and she blankly went forward to pull the old lady away.
"Mom, maybe this isn't Xingmin, it's just that people look alike."
The detective standing nearby comforted them, saying, "We will definitely find out the truth."
These words only made things worse, as they only made Old Mrs. Lu angrier.
"This is impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Grandma Lu gripped Lu Xingquan's hand tightly, staring intently at the person on the dissection table.
Her gaze was somewhat frightening, and Lu Xingquan was momentarily stunned, also somewhat puzzled by his mother's reaction.
Logically speaking, my older brother has been dead for twenty years, and it wasn't a sudden death, so why is he so agitated?
But it's hard to guess; perhaps he's gone mad with longing for his son after all these years.
After a moment, Grandma Lu regained her composure.
She straightened her clothes and once again became the aloof and superior Old Lady Lu.
"Let's go." She said, her voice restrained and sounding somewhat hoarse.
As she left, Old Mrs. Lu took one last look at Lu Xingmin on the dissection table, a fleeting, indescribable emotion flashing across her face.
Lu Xingquan happened to be standing at the right angle and noticed it.
A vague thought flashed through his mind quickly.
If this person really is the eldest brother, then the most likely person to have switched his body back then could only be the mother.
But why would Mother do that?
The police collected their DNA samples, and with the rapid advancements in technology, the test results came back quickly.
According to the test results, the person lying on the autopsy table was indeed Lu Xingmin, who died twenty years ago.
Furthermore, the autopsy results indicated that Lu Xingmin died approximately one week prior, and the cause of death was a sudden heart attack, which he could not be resuscitated.
At the time, Lu Xingmin followed custom and kept the coffin for seven days.
In other words, after Lu Xingmin's body, time essentially stopped, and the events of twenty years ago seemed to have never happened to him.
Looking at the results, forensic doctor Lai had doubts about his professional competence.
Director Liao and Criminal Investigation Team Leader Li took a deep drag on their cigarettes, looking so worried they almost turned gray.
How could such bizarre things happen after Lu Xingmin, an ordinary businessman, died?
Captain Li exhaled a puff of smoke: "Could it be that he went to some parallel universe, or traveled through time or something?"
Forensic doctor Lai gave him a disapproving look and said, "I wish the truth were like this."
"Anyway, my work is done, the rest is up to you."
"The most urgent task now is to find out if his body was stolen back then." These unscientific things are beyond their control for the time being.
Jiang Si and her group were released and allowed to return home.
Jiang Si remained silent throughout the journey.
As she watched the trees rushing past, memories deep within her mind were gradually unearthed.
When the original owner was a child, Lu Xingmin doted on her. Unfortunately, after Lu Xingmin passed away, the old lady disliked her even more. Coupled with the prediction that she was destined to bring misfortune to her family, she deliberately abandoned her in the deep mountains during a family trip.
They never intended to let her live, and her cowardly mother could only cry and turn a blind eye.
Whether it was to continue their previous affluent life or for the sake of her younger siblings, they ultimately abandoned her completely.
Based on her memories, Jiang Si recalled that around the time Lu Xingmin passed away, there seemed to be strangers coming and going from her home.
She also remembered that one of the men looked at her with a particularly intriguing gaze.
They seem to be scheming or plotting something.
Jiang Si thought about her feelings at the time and concluded that the person must have some Taoist skills, otherwise, Old Lady Lu, a woman, would not have been able to do such a thing.
Han Yunluo patted her gently and comforted her, "Don't be sad."
Jiang Si composed herself and forced a smile.
"I feel like I'm living in a huge conspiracy, as if someone knew I was coming in advance."
Even without Jiang Si saying anything, Han Yunlu could sense it.
But being caught up in the situation, they found it difficult to see through it all.
"Don't think about it too much."
Twenty years ago, although things had changed and people were no longer the same, many things were still archived.
After several days of investigation, the criminal police finally found a breakthrough among the staff of a funeral home.
Shortly after Lu Xingmin's cremation, Chen Yi resigned and left for another place. Under interrogation by the criminal police, she finally confessed to the truth.
It turns out that the coffin sent by the Lu family was originally empty. The Lu family bribed him to say that they had a family custom of wanting him to be buried in peace.
In those days, management was not very strict, and many people still had the idea of being buried in peace, especially the wealthy. It is not surprising that they had this idea.
"Officer, you have to believe me. I really only took some money and didn't do anything else," Chen Yi cried out, claiming his innocence.
With the testimony in hand, the detectives, carrying their identification, went to the Lu family's residence.
Grandma Lu seemed to have anticipated this, and calmly accepted it, accompanied by the Lu family's lawyer.
In the interrogation room, Old Mrs. Lu appeared more anxious than usual, but her eyes revealed sorrow.
“A master once said that my son’s element is water. If he is cremated, it will be no less than torture for him, and he will have no blessings in his next life.”
At this point, Mrs. Lu became somewhat agitated: "My son died young. As his mother, am I not even allowed to do something for him in his final moments?"
In her words, Old Lady Lu was implying that she was just a superstitious old woman.
"As for why it was at Qingtang Reservoir, it's because the master calculated that the feng shui there is favorable to my son."
That's an impeccable argument.
"And what about that master?" the detective asked.
“That was a wandering Taoist priest,” the old woman took a deep breath. “So many years have passed, I don’t even know if he’s still alive.”
His explanation seemed flawless.
Director Liao looked on, and his already habitually furrowed brows furrowed even more deeply.
He always felt there was something inside, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
In fact, it's not that Old Mrs. Lu committed a serious crime; she couldn't really be arrested and imprisoned for harboring her son's body.
This matter also reached the higher authorities.
As to why Lu Xingmin's body had not changed at all, they thought there might be something in Qingtang Reservoir, so they sent an underwater robot down to investigate.
The Bixi was slowly swaying at the bottom of the lake when it saw the thing that was shimmering with a little light, and its brows immediately furrowed.
Why do these four-legged crawling creatures always bother him?
Bixi was very angry, so he took action and sent away those underwater robots one by one, or pairs of them.
He refused to believe it; how could anyone come to something so bizarre!
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