Chapter 179: Thousand Miles Home 01 I Can’t Remember
Chapter 1
It is scorching hot in July and students have already gone on vacation. The hot weather makes people feel uneasy and even in an air-conditioned room.
Yue Fanglin came in from outside: "There is mung bean soup in the kitchen today."
Lu Changfeng said "oh".
Yue Fanglin sat down, but before he adjusted himself to a comfortable position, the phone on the table rang.
After the call was connected, Yue Fanglin immediately stood up and said to Lu Changfeng, "There is a case. Let's go."
Lu Changfeng put down his pen, stood up and followed Yue Fanglin out.
Yu Chu was waiting in the office.
Yue Fanglin knocked on the door and entered the office, asking, "What case?"
Yu Chu handed the document to Yue Fanglin: "Take a look at it yourself."
Yue Fanglin took it and opened it. The brief description of the case read: The deceased had his hands and feet bound and was kneeling in front of the grave with a confession card on his body, and on the confession card the judge's mark was signed.
The crime scene was in Huaijiang.
Huaijiang is a border city in Yuexi Province. Across the Huaijiang River is the Kingdom of Yue.
"There happens to be a flight flying over the river this afternoon. Just pack up and leave. I'll have someone book your tickets."
"good."
A team of four from the serious crime squad quickly rushed to Huaijiang City, Yuexi Province.
The crime scene was in Jiaya Village, Xiangnan Town, Huaijiang City.
Judging from the zombies on the body of the deceased, the time of death was at least three days ago.
The place where the deceased was found was the grave of a woman named Kong Xiaolian.
Kong Xiaolian died of illness 20 years ago. She had two daughters and one son. Her son got lost when he went to the market with Kong Xiaolian to buy things more than 20 years ago. The Kong family has been searching for him but has never found him.
After losing her son, Kong Xiaolian's mood collapsed. She looked for her son everywhere. She searched for her son within hundreds of kilometers but couldn't find him. As her hope gradually faded, her spirit collapsed and she became insane. At first, she was locked up at home and her condition was controllable. Later, she went crazy at home and couldn't control it anymore, so she was sent to a mental hospital.
In the second year in the mental hospital, Huaijiang encountered a flood that occurred once in a century. The mental hospital was flooded, and she also drowned in the flood in this natural disaster.
Later, her family took her body home and placed it properly.
Kong Xiaolian's husband never gave up looking for his son. He died accidentally while saving someone during the search. Only two sisters and an elderly woman were left at home.
After graduating from junior high school, the eldest sister went to Yuedong to work. Over the years, she has never forgotten her parents' last wish and has been looking for her lost brother.
The eldest sister works hard to support her younger sister. Now her younger sister is a social reporter who specializes in tracking information of abducted children and has helped many parents who have lost their children find their children.
After reading this information, the serious crime squad found it difficult to calm down.
Child trafficking has led to the breakup of many families, and cases like Kong Xiaolian's are not uncommon in society.
Ultimately, these human traffickers are despicable and deserve to die.
Based on the current situation, Lu Changfeng made a bold guess: "Could this be a case related to trafficking?"
Yue Fanglin said: "It is very likely that trafficking is rare in today's society, but it was still rampant ten years ago, and the social infrastructure at that time was not as complete as it is now."
Zhou Yu said: "When I was a student, I went to the supermarket to buy daily necessities and saw with my own eyes a mother who had a breakdown. Her child was in a stroller and she was selecting ingredients to make complementary food for the child. When she finished, she turned around and found that the child in the stroller was gone. The human traffickers at that time were really rampant."
Yue Fanglin called the local criminal police who was in charge of investigating the case and asked about his current situation.
The identity of the deceased has not yet been confirmed. We are currently working to match him with missing persons in the province, hoping to quickly confirm his identity.
The incident happened on a mountain in the village. Normally, there are not many people living in the village. All the young people are in the city or have moved to the town. Only some elderly people still live in the village for their retirement.
Without surveillance and eyewitnesses, it would be extremely difficult to identify the murderer.
It was already dark when the serious crime team arrived in Huaijiang. The body had been transported back to the municipal bureau, and the forensic doctor was performing an autopsy.
The criminal police in charge of the case are from Huaijiang City Criminal Investigation Team, whose captain is Wang Chong.
Captain Wang was in charge of receiving them and reported the current situation to them as quickly as possible. "The identity of the deceased is still being confirmed. Nothing that can prove his identity was found in his belongings. The two daughters of the tomb owner, Kong Xiaolian, are out of town and are now on their way back. I showed them the appearance of the deceased, and they said they didn't recognize him. We don't know what crime the deceased is confessing to Kong Xiaolian. Based on our investigation of Kong Xiaolian, I suspect it is related to the disappearance of Kong Xiaolian's son."
"This is also what we speculated about this matter." Yue Fanglin said truthfully.
This case is very directional. Child trafficking is indeed a major pain point in society. It is reasonable for the judge to use this as a starting point based on the current social themes.
Lu Changfeng said: "That child was five years old when he went missing. If he is still alive now, he would be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. Could it be that the child is seeking revenge?"
"More than 20 years have passed. How can you remember your childhood so clearly?"
Before they found out the identity of the deceased, they had no direction to investigate.
That evening, the Huaijiang City Police Department received a cooperative investigation notice.
They hope they can help find a 56-year-old woman named Lin Cuiying who took the high-speed train from Biluo City to Huaijiang City four days ago and has now lost contact with her family.
After seeing the detailed information sent by the Biluo City Police, which was exactly the same as the victim they were investigating, the Huaijiang City Police immediately told the serious crime team the news.
Lin Cuiying is 56 years old this year. She lives in Linjia Village, Yangfang Town, Biluo City. She is the fourth of seven brothers and sisters in her family.
There are a lot of brothers and sisters.
After she got married early, she gave birth to three children. Now all three children work in Biluo City and the family environment is quite good.
Lu Changfeng searched the distance from Biluo City to Huaijiang City, which was more than 2,100 kilometers. Why would an old man in his 50s suddenly run from Biluo City to Huaijiang City and be killed in Huaijiang?
Perhaps only her family knows the inside story.
Huaijiang City police immediately informed Lin Cuiying's family of the news of her death.
Like Kong Xiaolian, Lin Cuiying also has two daughters and a son. Her son was in a car accident early last month and is still in the hospital.
Both my grandson and granddaughter have immune system diseases and have been weaker than normal people since childhood.
Upon learning that their mother had died thousands of kilometers away, both daughters were shocked and could not understand why their mother would go thousands of kilometers away.
Lin Cuiying's eldest daughter was very confused: "My mother is already old, why would she go to such a far place?"
Lu Changfeng answered truthfully: "We are still investigating why she came to Huaijiang."
"My mother seldom travels far."
Lu Changfeng: "Has your mother shown any abnormal behavior recently?"
"She usually lives with my brother. I don't know much about her. After my brother had a car accident last month, she has been taking care of him in the hospital. If you want to talk about any abnormal behavior, I don't remember any."
Lin Cuiying's youngest daughter also said that she didn't know the reason. She was married and had her own family, and she paid very little attention to her mother. If her sister-in-law hadn't called to tell her that her mother was missing, she would not have known at all.
Lu Changfeng could only ask for their sister-in-law’s phone number and find out the situation from her.
Lin Cuiying's daughter-in-law Zhang Ni and her son Tan Yong have been together for almost ten years. They have two children who both have immune system diseases. The couple has almost no savings and has spent it all on the treatment of their two children.
When Zhang Ni learned that her mother-in-law had died thousands of kilometers away, she completely broke down.
Her husband had an accident, her two children are sick, and now her mother-in-law has also had an accident. She doesn’t know how she is going to survive.
"Has your mother-in-law been behaving unusually recently?"
Zhang Ni thought about it carefully and said, "When my husband first got into the accident, my mother-in-law was very emotional. She found it hard to accept it at first, but she gradually accepted it. She never believed in gods and Buddhas before, but now she not only believes in gods and Buddhas, but also goes to worship gods and Buddhas every day and invites people to perform rituals at home. I naturally don't believe in these things, but my husband has been lying in bed like a living dead. I have no choice but to try my best. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, my mother-in-law goes to the mountain to pray and fulfill a vow. She didn't get to the hospital on time that day, so I thought she went to the mountain to fulfill a vow and didn't take it too seriously."
"If I have to say what her recent abnormal behavior is, it's that she goes around looking for fortune tellers."
"Fortune telling?" Lu Changfeng asked, "What do you tell fortunes about?"
"Calculate when my husband will wake up and what I need to do to make him wake up."
Lu Changfeng understood. If he wasn't desperate, he probably wouldn't have gone for fortune-telling.
"Do you know who she consults for fortune-telling?"
"They are just fortune tellers in parks and vegetable markets."
Lu Changfeng and his team were thousands of miles away, so it was not an easy task for them to find out who Lin Cuiying consulted for fortune-telling. However, if they handed it over to the local police, the investigation would be much faster.
Yue Fanglin requested the local police to assist in the investigation and find out as soon as possible who Lin Cuiying consulted for fortune-telling and what the fortune-teller said.
Jing Jue said: "We still need to find out what the relationship is between Lin Cuiying and Kong Xiaolian. She came from such a long distance and was killed in front of Kong Xiaolian's grave. It is very likely that Kong Xiaolian's lost son is related to Lin Cuiying."
"Maybe Lin Cuiying is a human trafficker, and she was the one who abducted Kong Xiaolian's son."
Lu Changfeng felt that what Jing Jue said made sense, but now Kong Xiaolian’s husband and mother-in-law had both passed away, and only Kong Xiaolian’s two daughters had some understanding of the past.
Lu Changfeng asked someone to retrieve Lin Cuiying's early photos and sent them to Kong Xiaolian's two daughters to ask them to identify whether they looked familiar.
The younger daughter didn't have any impression of this person, but the older daughter said after seeing the photo that she had some impression of him but couldn't quite remember where she had seen him.
Lu Changfeng asked her to think about it carefully.
The eldest daughter thought for a long time before vaguely remembering something. "This person seems to be a singer who went to the countryside to perform. He stayed at our house for one night."
"Are you sure?"
"This..." The eldest daughter thought for a long time but still couldn't be sure. "It's been so many years, I can't remember it clearly. Maybe ask the elderly in the village, they may have some impression."
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