After arriving at the Huaya Villa community, Suiyi and Li Hao knocked on the door of the house closest to the Zheng family. A woman around fifty years old opened the door.
"Excuse me, ma'am, we have a few questions we'd like to ask you, is that alright?" Sui Yi asked with a polite smile.
"Oh! Sure, sure, please come in!" The middle-aged woman said, then stepped aside. After Suiyi and her companion went in, they were invited to sit down, and a cup of tea was poured for them.
"Young lady, do you have a boyfriend at such a young age?" The older woman sat down, looked Suiyi up and down, and seemed extremely satisfied.
Suiyi felt her gaze, her flesh trembled slightly, and she shook her head somewhat awkwardly.
The older woman became even more excited and sat down next to Suiyi, extremely excited. "What's your name? I have a son who is studying abroad. I think you're about the same age and have a lot in common. Here, I'll give you his WeChat ID. Get to know each other more often."
Sui Yi was speechless; this woman was acting as a pimp for her own family. Sui Yi glanced at Li Hao, who was struggling to hold back his laughter, and winked at him.
"Speak up, what are you laughing at?"
After laughing for a while and calming down, Li Hao cleared his throat. "Ahem! Auntie, we're here today mainly to ask you some questions about the neighbors next door."
The middle-aged woman finally released Suiyi, smiled at Li Hao, patted her chest with her thick hand, and said heartily, "Haha! Okay, no problem, ask me anything."
"It's like this, do you know who the Zheng family has hired as maids? Starting three years ago."
The middle-aged woman frowned, her face contorted into a puffy shape due to her obesity. She thought for a moment, "I don't remember too clearly, maybe seven or eight. Usually, families like ours hire maids to do household chores. But I remember three years ago the Zheng family hired a caregiver, a young woman in her early twenties, very pretty. I heard she was hired to take care of their mentally ill son. But she only stayed for a month before quitting. They hired several more maids after that, but they all left, until this current part-time worker."
Based on the woman's description, Suiyi suddenly grasped some useful information.
He hurriedly asked, "Then do you know why that girl didn't do it?"
"I heard that she spent too much time with her mentally challenged son, which caused her to have mental problems! Once, I saw the little girl screaming as she ran out of there. Her screams were so loud that they scared us. When we went over to check, we found out she had gone mad!"
"And then what?"
"The girl went home and never came back, but some people say she was sent to a mental hospital."
Is it St. Ann?
"Yes, isn't this the only one around here?"
Having received important information, Suiyi suddenly stood up, thanked the old lady, and took her leave.
Back at the police station, Suiyi walked over to Chenchen.
"Chenchen, investigate the caregiver the Zheng family hired three years ago, a woman in her twenties. We suspect she's the murderer."
"Li Hao, go to the hospital and retrieve the records from three years ago to see if that girl is still there."
"Okay!" Li Hao said and went out. Sui Yi sat in front of her computer, preparing to hack into Huaya's surveillance system to view records from three years ago.
As Sui Yi's fingers flew across the keyboard, strings of code flashed across the screen, filtering out surveillance video from three years ago. Sui Yi clicked on it. The video showed the Zheng family and a young girl. Zooming in, she felt the girl looked remarkably like someone she had seen before.
"Chenchen, have you found out anything?"
"We've found out. Feng Chunhe, 22 years old, a local resident, works as a nurse."
"Take a look and see if it's her."
Chenchen leaned closer to take a look and, sure enough, it was the same person.
She took out her phone and called Li Hao. After the call connected, Sui Yi spoke quickly, "Li Hao, now you should focus on Feng Chunhe's information. We'll be there soon."
"Where did the captain go?"
"I'm with Shang Zhihang," Chenchen said.
"Go and find the captain for me. I have something to say to him."
"Okay." Chenchen went out to find someone, and Suiyi recalled that the hourly worker Jin Mei, who discovered the tragic state of the Zheng family, looked like Feng Chunhe. She found Jin Mei's information and discovered that her husband's surname was Feng and his given name was Yuan.
All of Sui Yi's doubts were finally resolved. It turned out that the acquaintance she saw at the hospital today was this Jin Mei.
Sui Yi quickly got up and strode out, bumping into Leng Tianyi at the door.
"Captain, I know who the killer is?"
"She is Feng Chunhe, the daughter of Jin Mei, the hourly worker at the Zheng family."
"evidence".
Sui Yi was disheartened; she still hadn't found any evidence. "I need to go to Jin Mei's house to investigate."
Shang Zhihang: "Miss Bai, could you explain your reasoning?"
Sui Yi explained her reasoning in detail: "I connected the hospital murder case with the Zheng family's case. I speculated that if the two cases were committed by the same person, then the murderer should have killed the nurse, put on her clothes to cover herself, and because it was nighttime, her face wouldn't be clearly visible. After leaving, the murderer first had Zheng Hao open the door for her, so this person must be someone Zheng Hao knew. Then the murderer stayed at the Zheng family's house until night, figuring out how to kill the entire family before leaving. Perhaps she had outside help; she handed the blood-stained clothes and murder weapon to this helper and returned to the mental hospital. This fully demonstrates..." "Now I understand why the surveillance footage showed a female nurse leaving and then returning, only to be found dead the next day. And today, during our visit, the neighbors mentioned that three years ago, the Zheng family hired Feng Chunhe as Zheng Hao's caregiver, but she went insane after a month. Therefore, I asked Li Hao to check if Feng Chunhe's name was on the list of mental hospitals. Jin Mei's husband's surname is Feng, and Feng Chunhe is Jin Mei's daughter. I think that outside help is Jin Mei. And three years ago, Feng Chunhe definitely suffered harm from everyone in the Zheng family; it seems it's related to rape." Sui Yi stopped, looking at Leng Tianyi, and said, word by word.
"So I think the captain should apply for a search warrant to check Jinmei's house."
Just then, Suiyi's phone rang. It was Li Hao calling. She clicked the answer button, and good news came from the other end.
"Xiao Bai, just as you predicted, there's a girl in her twenties who came to the hospital three years ago named Feng Chunhe. And I just saw Jin Mei, who also saw me and left in a panic without saying goodbye. So I think this case is probably closed. All that's left is to come and catch the culprit."
Upon hearing this, Leng Tianyi turned and ran to the bureau chief's office to apply for an arrest warrant.
"Dispatch the police immediately, and split into two groups: one to Jin Mei's house, and the other to the hospital. Captain Shang, I'll trouble you to make the trip to Jin Mei's house!"
"Okay, I'll definitely get the person to you. You can go to the other side without worry." After saying that, he turned and left. Leng Tianyi then called to the others, and they headed to the hospital.
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