Chapter 16: A couple quarreled and murdered each other (16) A deformed person...
The car shuttled through a dark forest. Yuan Xiaohu sighed: "Okay, my ancestor, we are already on the road. Can you tell me what's going on now?"
Sang Luo did not answer, but asked Yuan Xiaohu a question: "Why do you think Shen Xueyao rented a house by herself while she was in college?"
Yuan Xiaohu said without thinking, "Is there any need to ask? Of course it's for the convenience of her sister. The two sisters go to school alternately. If they live in the dormitory, it will be easy to be exposed. And if one of them lives in the dormitory, the other one will have nowhere to live, so they have to rent a house."
Sang Luo said: "But the Shen family makes a living by farming. It is too extravagant to spend a large sum of money to rent a house in the city for Shen Xueyao."
Yuan Xiaohu shrugged: "What's the big deal? Did you notice when we were looking up information? Shen Xueyao is the only college student in the village. She is the hope of the whole village! If I were her parents, I would sell my blood to support my child!"
"But her parents didn't seem to care much about her," Sang Luo questioned again. "When we called her parents to identify the body, her mother didn't care about her death at all. She even said it was okay to feed the body to stray dogs."
Yuan Xiaohu didn't take it seriously: "He just wants to distance himself from the matter. You saw it during the interrogation. Du Lingfeng's father was about to kill someone. If Shen Xueyao's parents dared to show up, they might really be killed. I started working a year earlier than you, and I've seen a lot of this kind of thing. No matter how good the relationship was when they were alive, they will be forgotten after they die."
"There is another small detail," Sang Luo recalled, "All the classmates said that Shen Xueyao's skin has always been white, but only the class monitor said that he had seen Shen Xueyao with two skin colors. Don't you think it's strange?"
"Yes," Yuan Xiaohu began to think, "The female corpse with dark yellow skin is the real Shen Xueyao. We speculate that she has a twin sister A with snow-white skin. If the two of them went to school alternately, many classmates should have seen Shen Xueyao's skin changing from yellow to white. In addition, she is beautiful and eye-catching, so many people should remember her. However, only the class monitor brought up this point. Is the class monitor lying?"
Sang Luo shook his head: "It's not that the monitor is lying, but that only he saw two Shen Xueyaos - the real Shen Xueyao only went to school on the day of the physical examination at the beginning of the semester. After that, it was always A who appeared in the public eye. It was A who studied in college for four years, it was A who was pursued by many boys, and it was A who was in love with Du Lingfeng."
Sang Luo suddenly thought of the many news stories she had seen in modern times, in which some people would impersonate others to go to college, thereby obtaining a good diploma and completely changing their lives.
The real meaning of the word [替] is that A has been going to school for Shen Xueyao, and A has replaced Shen Xueyao's life.
The person in the classmates' impression was never Shen Xueyao herself.
Yuan Xiaohu seemed to be thinking: "So that's how it is. She has always been A, so her classmates all think that she has fair skin. In other words, Shen Xueyao was admitted to university but did not go. Instead, she willingly gave up the opportunity to go to school to her sister A. This is too... too much sisterly love. How could she make such a big sacrifice?"
Before Sang Luo could say anything, Yuan Xiaohu asked himself and answered: "It's probably not purely out of emotion, but for money. Maybe this A gave Shen Xueyao a large sum of money, so that she was willing to give up going to college."
"Or -" Yuan Xiaohu continued to analyze, "Shen Xueyao didn't volunteer. After she took the entrance physical examination, she was imprisoned somewhere by A. Then A went to college for her. Later, A killed someone and used Shen Xueyao to take the blame. If this is true, Shen Xueyao is really miserable. We must seek justice for her!"
"Hey, you've also read the autopsy report," Sang Luo reminded, "Shen Xueyao's body is very healthy, without any scars or signs of abuse. Her skin is rough, which is obviously the result of long-term exposure to the wind and sun. How can this look like she was imprisoned?"
"That's right," Yuan Xiaohu patted his head, "I think too much. Anyway, no matter what the reason is, A went to college for Shen Xueyao, but——"
"Since they look exactly the same, why doesn't A go for the physical examination in person? That way, she won't be exposed. And since she lives alone, why not live in the dormitory? That way, she can save a lot of money."
The more Yuan Xiaohu thought about it, the more strange it seemed.
Sang Luo leaned against the window and said, "There must be some reason why this A cannot take the physical examination or live in the dormitory."
Yuan Xiaohu suddenly realized: "She is sick! She has some kind of infectious disease or skin disease! That's why she doesn't dare to live in the dormitory. She is afraid of infecting others and being disliked by everyone. She can't go for a physical examination either, for fear of failing."
"When Shen Xueyao and A were dating, they agreed not to have sex before marriage. The most explicit thing they had done was holding hands," Sang Luo reminded again, "When I was recording the witness' statement, he said that Du Lingfeng kept scolding A, and there was one word that really concerned me."
"Which word?" Yuan Xiaohu asked hurriedly. He had also read the witness's statement, but he could no longer remember such specific details.
"Monster." Sang Luo said slowly.
The car drove out of the woods and entered a field. The two looked forward together. Yuan Xiaohu frowned, thinking about the hint given by Sang Luo.
There are so many insulting words, such as "idiot", "cheap X", etc., why did Du Lingfeng choose the word "monster"?
He must be onto something.
"A must have some physical problems," Yuan Xiaohu became more certain of his guess. "This couple agreed not to have sex before marriage, but they may have tried after they got engaged. That night, Du Lingfeng went to the grain and oil family building to give A a surprise. Maybe something happened between them that night—"
"Naked!" Yuan Xiaohu finally figured it out. "The key reason why Du Lingfeng's attitude changed was that he saw A's naked body!"
"That night they tried to make further contact. It was the first time Du Lingfeng saw A's naked body. Her body must be different from that of an ordinary person, so Du Lingfeng called her a 'monster'."
"So after returning home, his attitude changed drastically and he wanted to cancel the engagement immediately."
"That's what I thought at first, too. I even suspected that A was a deformed person," Sang Luo said calmly. "It was precisely because A was deformed that the Shen family sent him away immediately after giving birth to the twins."
"A is unwilling to make friends at school, not because she is a loner, but because she is afraid that her female friends will see her body. The same applies to living in the dormitory and taking physical examinations."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Yuan Xiaohu agreed very much.
Sang Luo changed the subject: "But this will bring up new problems."
"We didn't find A's name in the population registration. There are two possibilities: one, the Shen family has been raising A at home but just didn't register her; two, the Shen family gave A away."
"Let's talk about the first one first. If A had been living in the Shen family, why would Shen's parents let their deformed daughter go to college instead of their healthy daughter? Moreover, they are poor and they still pay a large sum of money for rent. It seems that they are too partial to A. Why do they ignore Shen Xueyao, a healthy and excellent daughter, and love a deformed daughter instead?"
"Yes, rural concepts are backward, and people with deformities or infectious diseases will definitely be discriminated against in rural areas. To put it bluntly, some people will drown their babies when they see they are born with disabilities. How can they be so kind to them?" Yuan Xiaohu shook his head. "It seems that A must have been sent away. His adoptive parents are particularly good to A."
Sang Luo continued, "If that's the case, then it's the second scenario. Shen Xueyao is the only child of the Shen family. Shen Xueyao is their only hope. A replaced Shen Xueyao to go to college. Why didn't the Shen family's parents pursue the matter? Shen Xueyao is dead, why did her parents have that attitude..."
Sang Luo has always been bothered by this. Although the attitude of Shen's parents can be explained by "severing ties", she still has doubts in her heart. She is too familiar with this attitude. She has experienced it countless times in her own family.
If a mother doesn't care about her daughter, there is a high probability that it is because she has a son.
Sang Luo remembered what Grandma Gao said after she was arrested for stabbing the voodoo figurines. She was willing to do anything for her son.
"You also saw when we went to check the information that all the children born in Gaoliang Village in those years were boys, and the only girl unfortunately died of illness," said Sang Luo.
Yuan Xiaohu nodded: "In rural areas, there is a strong trend of favoring boys over girls, but does this have anything to do with this case?"
Sang Luo said carefully: "Under this kind of atmosphere, the one who can be favored by Shen's parents so much is probably not a girl, but a boy."
Yuan Xiaohu slammed on the brakes, his mouth opened as big as an egg: "Wait, you mean - A is a man?"
Sang Luo nodded slightly:
"Not twin sisters, but twin brother and sister."
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