Chapter 41 Arson (VI) Her Diary
Ye Bai searched in front of the bookcase and unexpectedly found that all the stationery items belonged to Yu Mengmeng.
In the dim light, his eyes were attracted by a cardboard box in the corner.
He noticed that Yu Xixi did not have her own desk. All her books and stationery were piled haphazardly in cardboard boxes, in stark contrast to the items that Yu Mengmeng had neatly arranged on her desk.
Han Jianye also noticed this detail, which reminded him of an old saying: "A child without a mother is like a weed."
Ye Bai dumped out all the books in the carton. Han Jianye squatted beside him and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Captain Han, I think Yu Xixi might write a diary. I'm looking for her diary." Ye Bai replied.
Han Jianye pushed Yu Xixi's suitcase and schoolbag out from behind the door and raised another possibility: "Is it possible that the diary is here?"
Because the fire happened very suddenly, they were sent directly to the hospital. Afterwards, Yu Xixi was picked up by her uncle and had no chance to come back to get her schoolbag.
"Do you suspect that Yu Xixi set the fire?" Han Jianye questioned Ye Bai.
"Yes." Ye Bai answered while rummaging through his schoolbag.
"No way?" Qi Xiaolei interrupted in disbelief.
Ye Bai continued to explain: "This is just my guess, because I don't think Yu Si looks like he is lying."
"But he deleted the records on his mobile phone. Isn't this a sign of guilty conscience?" Qi Xiaolei continued to ask.
Ye Bai turned to look at her and proposed another hypothesis: "Is it possible that he is just afraid, worried that this matter will implicate him? If the police find out that he has a lover outside and the chat records of premeditated murder are found, then he will be finished, and he will not be able to clear himself even if he jumps into the Yellow River."
"Then they also attempted a crime." Qi Xiaolei said.
"Yes, I do."
Han Jianye asked Ye Bai directly: "So you think Yu Xixi might be the murderer who killed Mi Chuchu and set the fire?"
Ye Bai raised his head, looked at Han Jianye firmly, and said, "Yes, this is my bold assumption. I was not sure at first, but after observing Yu Xixi's performance tonight, I think she is not telling the truth."
Finally, he added: "We should never underestimate a child's IQ, especially a junior high school student. Moreover, Mi Chuchu is the third party, and Yu Xixi's mother died of illness after the divorce. We should not underestimate a child's love for his mother."
After saying that, Ye Bai began to rummage through the schoolbag, and finally found a locked A5 leather-covered diary at the bottom of the bag. The password was three digits. After trying the password several times, he finally opened the diary using her mother's birthday, 621.
Yu Xixi's handwriting is neat, and every page she opens is filled with her longing for her mother and her dissatisfaction with the current situation.
Han Jianye took the diary, especially the last few entries. They felt that Yu Xixi was not as simple as she seemed.
[Summer vacation is coming, and I am very anxious. I just want to live in the school dormitory and never go home. There is no bed to sleep on when I go home, so I can only sleep on the floor. That woman also throws a lot of housework to me, saying that this is her home and I have to listen to her in everything. She also wants me to teach my sister to do homework during the summer vacation, but that room and my bed are obviously my room, but now they have become someone else's. 】
[I told my dad that I wanted to go to my grandma's house for the summer vacation, but my dad said he was busy and couldn't take me there. I said I could take the bus to my grandma's house by myself. Then he scolded me, saying that it was rare for me to go home during the summer vacation and that my sister liked me very much. He asked me to spend more time with my sister, but I didn't like her. She was not my biological sister, she was not born by my mother, and whenever she cried, that woman would beat me. 】
[Today, my father left his cell phone in my room to charge, and he went to take a shower. A lot of messages popped up on his phone, sent by a man named Manager Li.
I was shocked when I saw the message, and my hands were shaking at that time, because the man named Manager Li actually called me dad, husband, and dear, and told him not to come home for dinner tonight.
This immediately made me think that my father must have a lover outside, just like when my mother was at home, my father brought that woman home and forced me to call her mother. 】
[That woman is good at acting. She was very nice to me in front of my dad, but after my dad left, she often glared at me and rolled her eyes at me. I wanted to go back to the school dormitory. 】
[My sister is very clingy to me, but I hate her. However, she listens to me very much. Sometimes I think it would be better if they died, so that I could have the room back and no one would bully me and make me sleep on the floor. 】
[Mom, I miss you very much. Sometimes I really want to find you, but I won’t give in. Yes, I wish they would die. I want to avenge you, no matter what the cost. 】
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Qi Xiaolei couldn't help but sigh after reading the diary, "How pitiful! This was originally her home, her room, but because of her father's cheating, she has to bear all this unhappiness."
Ye Bai's eyes were fixed on the last page of the diary, and he said in a heavy tone: "Yu Xixi mentioned that she wanted to avenge her mother."
Han Jianye found a worn-out mobile phone in a hidden compartment of the schoolbag. It obviously belonged to Yu Xixi, but the phone had been turned off and the screen was black because the battery was exhausted.
On the way back, Qi Xiaolei still found this idea unbelievable. She said to Ye Bai, "Ye Bai, how could a 14-year-old girl be able to suffocate an adult to death?"
"But she is 158cm tall, already a little adult." Ye Bai continued: "Don't underestimate a person's explosive power when she is extremely angry, especially when facing someone she hates."
Qi Xiaolei continued to ask: "So how do you think she did it?"
Han Jianye proposed a hypothesis: "Is it possible that Yu Xixi sat on Mi Chuchu's chest, covered her mouth and nose tightly with a pillow while she was sleeping, until she suffocated?"
Ye Bai followed Han Jianye's line of thought and analyzed: "If this is true, there should be traces of struggle on Yu Xixi's body."
Han Jianye nodded in agreement, then turned to Qi Xiaolei and said seriously, "I'll leave this matter to you tomorrow. If Yu Xixi has any scars from Mi Chuchu's resistance, she should have purple and broken skin by now."
"Got it, Captain Han."
After Ye Bai returned, he looked at the photos taken with his mobile phone and kept simulating the crime scene in his mind. He didn't even notice Han Jianye calling him.
It was only when Han Jianye snapped his fingers in front of him that he was brought back from his mind.
"Captain Han, do you think I am biased? Yu Xixi is so pitiful, but I still doubt her."
Han Jianye sat beside his bed and said nonchalantly, "No, I've dealt with a 15-year-old boy who recharged his game account before, but his mother refused to recharge him. Then he stabbed his mother to death.
Afterwards, he pretended as if nothing had happened and continued to confuse us. Because of his false confession, we took a lot of detours. Who would have thought that he would kill his own mother?
So sometimes they seem to be a vulnerable group and it is easy to be misled by their appearance, which is a big taboo in handling cases. ”