Chapter 90 Their relationship? 4. Refrigerator
Taoxi Village was very quiet at nine o'clock in the evening, and the villagers all went to bed early.
Lin Ximei's home was a two-story self-built house. The house was dark without a single light.
Han Jianye found a cadre from the village committee to inquire about the situation. "Zhao Ximei is from this village. She had previously recruited a live-in son-in-law, but he ran away for some reason. Later, she adopted a daughter."
The village cadres also found Zhao Ximei's neighbor Aunt Huang, who was a little uneasy at the moment. "Ah Ximei hasn't been home for several days. Maybe she went to the city to look for her daughter."
Ye Bai asked: "How many days exactly? Do you have her contact information?"
After all, Zhao Lingxue once mentioned that when she came to her adoptive mother's house, she did not see Zhao Ximei and returned.
Aunt Huang recalled: "I haven't seen her for five or six days."
She immediately took out her cell phone and tried to call Zhao Ximei, but only a cold female voice came from the other end of the line: "The number you dialed is turned off."
Ye Bai calculated the time silently in his mind, "Today is October 3rd. Zhao Ximei hasn't come back for four or five days, so she must have been out of contact between September 28th and October 2nd."
Han Jianye felt that something was unusual, so with the presence of village cadres, he decided to unlock the door and enter Zhao Ximei's home.
Except for the people from the criminal police team, everyone else was kept outside the door. They wore shoe covers and entered the house carefully.
The windows in the house were closed, and the air was damp and stuffy, mixed with an indescribable odor.
Han Jianye walked into the bedroom first and found that the bed was messy, but the clothes in the closet were still hung neatly.
Ye Bai went straight to the kitchen, where the smell was even more pungent. Even through the mask, the smell was unbearable.
He noticed dried water on the ground, which seemed to have flowed from under the freezer.
What was even more disturbing was that there were shoe prints on the water stains in the kitchen, which made Ye Bai frown and a bad feeling arose in his heart.
He stood in front of the freezer, his brows furrowed, staring solemnly at the dried water stains that seeped silently from the bottom of the freezer, as if telling an unknown secret.
His heartbeat involuntarily quickened and his hand reached for the freezer door handle, nervous and expectant.
The cabinet door seemed to be sucked by a mysterious force. He had to use all his strength to finally open the cabinet door. Then a thick white mist poured out from the inside of the freezer and quickly spread.
Ye Bai held his breath and stared at the gradually dissipating white mist. As the mist dissipated, the scene he least wanted to see appeared before his eyes: there was a dead body lying in the freezer.
The corpse was obviously a female, wearing pajamas, her body curled up in a twisted posture, with her face and knees almost folded together, looking extremely strange.
The corpse was covered with a thick layer of white frost, as if it had been frozen for a long time, cold and stiff. This scene made Ye Bai feel creepy.
He turned around and shouted excitedly outside: "I found Zhao Ximei."
At 9:30 p.m., Mai Shaozhen's forensic team rushed to Zhao Ximei's home overnight.
The body has been carefully removed from the freezer and is ready to be transported back to the laboratory for a detailed examination and dissection after thawing.
Before leaving, Mai Shaozhen patted Han Jianye on the shoulder and praised him, "So efficient! You guys found it all."
Han Jianye responded to her: "Luckily you have a sensitive nose, otherwise no one would know that there is a body hidden in the freezer."
Mai Shaozhen said: "I am really awesome, right? Why don't you worship me now?"
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Han Jianye glanced at her and said, "Boring."
Ye Bai's eyes wandered between the fruit on the kitchen table and the shoe prints on the ground, and his mind gradually pieced together a conclusion that needed to be verified.
He turned to the village officials and asked a key question: "Was there a power outage in the village last night?"
The village official nodded and replied, "Yes, yesterday the power company needed to perform regular maintenance and inspections on the power equipment, so they notified the village that there would be a power outage from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.."
After hearing this information, Ye Bai's guess became more certain.
He looked at Han Jianye and said slowly: "In this way, my speculation is more reasonable. Zhao Ximei may have been murdered long ago, and the murderer hid her body in the freezer in order to cover up the crime.
Last night, Zhao Lingxue returned home to look for her adoptive mother. It happened that there was a power outage in the village. The thawed corpse water seeping out from the bottom of the freezer should be the corpse water, and Zhao Lingxue stepped on it without knowing it. So they left shoe prints. Since Zhao Lingxue suffered from rhinitis, she was not sensitive to smells, so she didn't notice anything unusual.
She might have called Zhao Ximei before she came, but her phone was turned off and no one answered at home, so she thought Zhao Ximei was out, so she returned and went to the hotel again. This explains why Sister Shaozhen could smell the stench of corpse, because the body in the freezer began to thaw, the corpse water leaked out, and the stench of corpse spread. ”
Han Jianye agreed with Ye Bai's point of view, and continued to analyze according to his speculation: "The deceased died in her own home in her pajamas, the bed in the bedroom was messy and showed signs of being turned over, and the deceased was a single woman. The murderer could be her partner in private, and there is also the possibility of burglary. It is very likely that the crime was committed by an acquaintance."
So, he turned to look at Su Wan, "Go and find out who was the last contact on Zhao Ximei's phone?"
"receive."
Then he looked at Liao Wei and said, "You are responsible for taking people to check the surveillance. If Zhao Ximei had been killed for 5-6 days, the surveillance would not have been covered at this time. In particular, the street-side surveillance leading into Lane 8 must be checked."
Then he looked at Qi Xiaolei and said, "You will be responsible for summoning Zhao Lingxue to the police station for questioning again."
He, Ye Bai and others will continue to stay at the scene to continue the investigation.
At this time, Aunt Huang at the door began to whisper with her neighbors: "Could it be that A-mei's ex-husband did it? I saw her ex-husband come back to see her last time, and they even had a quarrel at that time."
Ye Bai happened to hear their conversation, so he stepped forward and asked, "What did you just say about Zhao Ximei's ex-husband?"
Aunt Huang said: "It was Zhou Huijin, the son-in-law that A-Mu invited in when she was young. They lived together for more than 10 years but had no children. I heard that it was because the boy couldn't have children. Anyway, the two of them often quarreled and fought. A-Mu also had a bad temper and often beat and scolded Zhou Huijin. Anyway, Zhou Huijin ran away on his own later."
Ye Bai asked, "So you just said you saw Zhou Huijin coming back, and they had a fight. When did it happen?"
"Well, it was a few days ago, and the quarrel was so fierce that it felt like they were going to chop each other with knives next." Aunt Huang still feels a little scared when she recalls it now.