Chapter 10: A couple quarreled and murdered each other (10) There is more than one murderer...
Sang Luo put away her guesses and continued to search other places in the room. During this time, she kept paying attention to Du Meizhen's expression with her peripheral vision. Sang Luo noticed that when she walked to the head of the bed, the expression on Du Meizhen's face was particularly nervous.
Sang Luo immediately went to the head of the bed and checked every item there. There was nothing under the mattress and sheets. The pillow was a buckwheat husk pillow. Sang Luo took it apart and looked at it, but there was nothing hidden inside. There were also some newspapers and magazines on the bedside. There was a report about a popular star on it. Sang Luo looked through it carefully, but did not find any useful information on it. It seemed that the little girl was just chasing stars.
After searching around, there was only a teddy bear left on the bedside. The closer Sang Luo got to the teddy bear, the more nervous the expression on Du Meizhen's face became. Sang Luo picked up the teddy bear without hesitation and looked it over from head to toe. Sure enough, she found a thin zipper on the bear's butt. She unzipped the zipper, reached her hand into the cotton, and fumbled around inside. Suddenly, her fingertips were pricked by something.
Sang Luo cried out in surprise, and his master immediately came over with concern. The Du couple also came over. Du Meizhen had a doomed look on her face. Sang Luo carefully reached his hand in again and forcefully pulled out the contents of the bear's stomach. It turned out to be a charred rag doll with needles in several places on its body.
Sang Luo could tell at a glance that this thing was a voodoo doll used to curse people, but she was very curious why Du Meizhen hid this thing at the head of her bed?
Sang Luo felt that there was still something in the teddy bear's belly. She dug hard and took out half a photo. There were traces of tearing on the edge of the photo. The person in the photo was Shen Xueyao. Shen Xueyao was smiling, her skin was whiter than snow, and she seemed to be holding someone with her arm.
Mother Du was very shocked. She pointed at the photo and said, "Hey, isn't this the photo your brother sent back to us with the letter? I kept it in a drawer and I don't know why it was lost. Zhenzhen, how did it end up here with you? And why did you tear up the photo?"
Du Meizhen's face turned red with shame and she was speechless. Sang Luo put the two things in his hand together and found that the photo and the voodoo doll were exactly the same size. Shen Xueyao's photo could be covered on the voodoo doll, and the needles would just pierce Shen Xueyao's facial features.
Everyone felt the chill. Sang Luo said, "I see. This photo was sent back by your brother to show his family. It was a photo of him and his girlfriend. You stole the photo, tore off the part of Shen Xueyao, pasted it on the voodoo figurine, and then stabbed the figurine with a needle, hoping to curse Shen Xueyao to death."
Mother Du gasped: "Oh my God, Zhenzhen, how could you do such a thing? You have always been very well-behaved, and when your brother brought her back to meet your parents, you were also very polite. You two get along very well, why -"
"I was just pretending, all fake!" Seeing that she could no longer hide the truth, Du Meizhen became angry and said the truth, "I don't like that woman at all, I hate her to death! My brother used to dote on me the most, but after he had her, he didn't even call me. She took away everything from me. I hate her and I wish she would die!"
Mother Du's eyes were filled with fear, and she stepped back repeatedly: "Could it be...did you really kill..."
Du Meizhen covered her ears and screamed, "I didn't do that. How could I have killed my brother? Why don't you believe me?"
"So, Mrs. Du, you gave false testimony. Du Meizhen was not at home on the night of the incident, right?" Sang Luo watched coldly from the side.
Mother Du lowered her head and said nothing. The expression on her face said it all.
After finding the breakthrough point, Sang Luo immediately took the three members of the Du family back to the interrogation room. This time, facing the police, Du's mother told the truth:
"That night, Ling Feng left at 7 o'clock. My dinner was just ready, but he left without eating a single bite. I was a little disappointed, so I turned around to call Meizhen for dinner, but I found that there was no one in her room. I didn't know when she left, and she didn't tell me. But she usually likes to go out and play, so I didn't think much of it."
"She came back at nine in the evening, looking very guilty, and smelling strange, like..."
Mother Du couldn't describe it, so Sang Luo suggested, "Is it like the smell of burning paper at a grave?"
Mother Du nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, that's the smell. I asked her where she was going, but she refused to tell me. She was acting sneaky. I thought she was out on a date. After all, at this age, everyone has their own secrets. I didn't ask any more questions. Later, Ling Feng didn't come back all night, and I found out that he had an accident the next day..."
Mother Du started to cry again while talking, so Sang Luo had to change the subject: "Has Du Lingfeng's attitude towards Du Meizhen changed a lot since they started dating?"
Mother Du recalled: "Yes, he was very devoted after falling in love, like a possessed man. He ignored his sister and us, and didn't even call home. But it's nothing, it's just love, it's like this. We adults can understand, but Meizhen is still a child, her thinking is too narrow, she can't understand, but I believe Meizhen is not a bad child, she will definitely not kill anyone!"
After the interrogation, Sang Luo and the master summarized the currently known information. Although Du Meizhen looks well-behaved and cute, she is actually a bit dark in her mind. She has a morbid dependence on her brother. In modern terms, she is a "yandere."
This explains why she secretly read her brother's letters. It was not simply out of gossip, but an act of "jealousy".
The master nodded slowly: "So her mother said that she never interacts with the opposite sex. Perhaps, she already has someone she likes in her heart, and that is her brother."
Sang Luo continued to analyze that after Du Lingfeng fell in love, he was no longer as good to Du Meizhen as before, and Du Meizhen felt a huge psychological gap. She blamed all of this on Shen Xueyao. She believed that Shen Xueyao had taken her brother away. She regarded Shen Xueyao as an enemy and even made a cursed doll, wanting to curse Shen Xueyao to death. From this point of view, Du Meizhen had sufficient motive to kill.
Ma Shi Tu said, "Do you think the woman who quarreled and fought with Du Lingfeng that night and accidentally killed Du Lingfeng was Du Meizhen?"
"It's very likely," Sang Luo emphasized, "During the interrogation this morning, I noticed that Du Meizhen has long nails. She could have caused deep wounds to Du Lingfeng. Moreover, Du Meizhen lives in the room next to Du Lingfeng. She could have eavesdropped on their date time."
"Du Lingfeng and Shen Xueyao had a quarrel and separated. The one who should be the happiest about their breakup is Du Meizhen. On the night of the murder, Du Lingfeng called Shen Xueyao to make an appointment for a final conversation. Du Meizhen overheard the news and decided to kill her in order to prevent them from getting back together."
Sang Luo started to imagine: "Du Meizhen first called Shen Xueyao and lied that the date was cancelled, asking Shen Xueyao to stay at home and not go out. Then she disguised herself as Shen Xueyao and went to the date location to meet Du Lingfeng."
"In Du Meizhen's original plan, she would have a big fight with Du Lingfeng, and then the two would separate. Du Meizhen would return to the grain and oil family building where Shen Xueyao lived, knock on her door, and then threaten Shen Xueyao to exchange clothes with her. She would then use some method to hang Shen Xueyao on the fan, and finally she would disguise herself and leave the grain and oil family building."
"In this way, even if people find Shen Xueyao's body, they will only think that she committed suicide out of anger after a quarrel with her boyfriend. No one will associate it with homicide, let alone report it to the police, and the police will not intervene in the investigation at all."
"For Du Meizhen, this is the best ending. She got rid of that annoying woman, and her brother became single again and will still dote on her as before."
"From a motivational point of view, this makes sense, but if we put it into practice," Ma Shi Tu frowned, "there are problems everywhere."
"Du Lingfeng made an appointment to meet his girlfriend, but it was his sister who showed up. How could he not recognize his own sister?"
"He was drunk!" Sang Luo explained, "According to the fruit vendor, he saw Du Lingfeng drunk that night. Du Lingfeng went out at 7pm and arrived at the meeting place after 8pm. He must have been drinking in the hour in between. He went to the meeting after being drunk."
"He may have been in a state of confusion after getting drunk and mistook the other person for his girlfriend. The two women happened to be very similar in stature and back view. There is a saying in my hometown: if you drink half a catty of wine, you won't recognize acquaintances; if you drink one catty of wine, you won't be able to tell men from women; if you drink two catties of wine, you won't be able to tell humans from animals!"
"Okay," Ma Shi Tu sighed hesitantly, "Even if Du Lingfeng and the passers-by were all wrong and mistook Du Meizhen for Shen Xueyao, do you know how difficult it would be to implement the next steps?"
"Du Meizhen wants to hang Shen Xueyao, but Shen Xueyao is not stupid. She is a living person who can move and struggle," Ma Shi Tu made a gesture of carrying something. "To lift a living person, climb onto a chair, and then hang her on the rope, it takes a huge amount of strength. Even the strongest man here may not be able to do it, let alone a slender girl like Du Meizhen."
"Could there be an accomplice?" Sang Luo suddenly had an idea, "Maybe there is more than one murderer in this case."
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