Chapter 401: Mystery of the Source of Life
Judging from Xu Liu's personal situation, he is actually not much better than Lu Xiaoshuang.
To some extent, he is even worse than Lu Xiaoshuang.
The biggest difficulty Lu Xiaoshuang faces is that she has no money.
Her parents lived far away in the northwest, and their farm was a kind of reclaimed land, even more rural than the countryside.
After deducting the minimum living expenses from the annual income, all the money is sent to Lu Xiaoshuang.
Junior high school is compulsory education, and there is a subsidy for children of educated youth in high school, which is barely enough for study and living expenses. Although the money is so little, it still needs to be squeezed out by my second and third uncles.
But this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket for going to college.
So Lu Xiaoshuang was very sensible. She went out to find a job the day after the college entrance examination and worked hard to earn tuition and living expenses.
With the addition of scholarships and poverty subsidies, I can barely maintain my studies.
But apart from those short-sighted relatives, Lu Xiaoshuang's parents and grandmother loved her very much, but they did not have the ability to give her better living conditions.
But Xu Liu's family was obviously not like that. Although their place was a poor county, Xu Liu's family lived in the town, not in the mountains.
Since Xu Liu's parents can afford to raise three children, it at least means that basic living security is not a problem.
The dilemma Xu Liu faces comes from her family's ignorance.
I didn’t understand it when I was a child because Zhou Yi was born in a normal family where parents loved their children.
Later, when I became a policeman and saw all kinds of human life, I realized that some parents would break their children's wings with their own hands so that they could fly high.
It will also be called in your name.
Lu Xiaoshuang and Xu Liu, two people who also faced difficulties in life, made different choices.
Lu Xiaoshuang chose to use all her spare time to work and earn money, facing life positively and optimistically while maintaining excellent academic performance.
But there are obvious problems with Xu Liu.
Because in Xu Liu's situation, unless her grandmother secretly gave her a lot of money before and after her death, her source of income would be in question.
But even if she gave money to an old lady who could not read or write and had no pension, how much could she give? It would only be a few cents saved from her teeth.
If I really had money, I wouldn't have to use my savings to pay for my granddaughter's tuition when she was in college.
Even though my family doesn't give me money and I don't work, I still have enough money for my daily living expenses.
The task force even went to the dormitory to check all of Xu Liu's personal belongings and found that most of the clothes were new, and some of the clothes still had the tags.
In addition, two thousand yuan in cash was found in the interlayer pocket of her suitcase. After testing by the technical department, only Xu Liu's fingerprints were found on it.
Therefore, compared to Lu Xiaoshuang's self-reliance, Xu Liu is very likely to use unethical means to maintain his daily expenses.
Based on this direction, the task force conducted further in-depth investigations.
Deputy team leader Liang Wei put forward a clear opinion, believing that the possibility of soliciting prostitution was relatively small. First, Xu Liu's identity did not match the characteristics of the prostitute group.
Because most prostitutes are organized. The higher the level of the organization, the more strict it is, and the greater the control over the prostitutes' freedom, unless they are streetwalkers.
But it was obvious that Xu Liu couldn't go out to stand on the street.
There is also her proud personality. Although there is an element of inferiority in it, the self-esteem of young people who have not yet entered society is not so easily knocked down.
Therefore, we should focus on investigating her social relationships, especially married middle-aged men with relatively good economic conditions.
Liang Wei's opinion was very accurate, and Zhou Yi admired him. The label of a married middle-aged man was not surprising.
What’s surprising is that Liang Wei used the word “relatively good” in the line about the economic conditions being relatively good, which is very interesting.
Under normal circumstances, priority will definitely be given to rich people, businessmen, and bosses. These middle-aged men have a special liking for beautiful female college students.
Moreover, these people are basically married and have wives whom they married before they became rich, so they will be more cautious in the process of relationships.
But Liang Wei used the word "better". At first Zhou Yi didn't understand why, until he saw the inventory list of Xu Liu's personal belongings, he suddenly realized it.
The team's serious crime expert really has sharp eyes!
Although Xu Liu's personal belongings are all branded goods, they are of high quality and cost-effective, rather than flashy.
Especially in the eyes of Zhou Yi, who has seen the "market", these brands will be affordable for ordinary people in many years.
If these things were not bought by Xu Liu herself, but were given to her or taken by the man to buy them, it means that the man pays more attention to value for money in his consumption habits and has exercised effective control and does not touch those expensive luxury goods.
So why are they richer?
People who can afford to spend money but care about getting value for money can only be considered relatively wealthy.
This also opens up investigative thinking and does not set limits on the investigation, otherwise it would be easy to mislead. After all, investigations cannot afford to make even the slightest mistake.
The task force believes that it is very likely that this man committed the crime because this kind of immoral relationship between men and women can easily result in loss of life, and there are many such cases.
But Zhou Yi felt something was not right. The clue about Xu Liu's lover was indeed new to his previous life.
But the deceased in the previous life was Lu Xiaoshuang. Could it be that Xu Liu's lover is inside Hongda? Otherwise, how could he be related to Lu Xiaoshuang?
But the problem is, Xu Liu started disguising herself on the first day of college. She is not a native of Hongcheng, so how could she have any connections with people on campus before going to college?
Normally, unless their family has connections, ordinary college students don’t even know who their counselors are before they enter campus.
But Zhou Yi will not interfere with this direction of investigation, because the investigation of the task force should be as comprehensive as possible, and there are indeed doubts in this line.
But Xu Liu hid this matter quite well.
The classmates around her had never heard her talk about it or noticed anything, and there were no men in the school who were close to her.
Therefore, the task force had no choice but to expand the scope of the investigation.
One is to visit the surrounding population to see if there are any witnesses who have an impression of Xu Liu.
The second is to investigate Xu Liu's social relations in high school and her whereabouts during the summer before going to college, because Xu Liu's parents said that Xu Liu worked in Huaixing City for a while last summer.
As for the specific address and situation, her parents knew nothing about it. They only knew that she worked as a waitress.
However, both of these investigation directions are time-consuming and laborious.
So there's no progress yet.
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The second part of the meeting's information was about Lu Xiaoshuang.
Although Lu Xiaoshuang is currently being held as a criminal suspect, the task force has not disclosed this information to the public.
This was mainly due to the confidentiality of the case, and Lu Xiaoshuang did discover many logically inconsistent points during the investigation.
Therefore, in the eyes of the teachers and students of the Hongda Financial Management Department, Xu Liu is clearly known to have been murdered, and Lu Xiaoshuang is missing.
Lu Xiaoshuang was last seen at 12:40 p.m. on April 30th. She was captured on the surveillance camera at the school gate. At that time, she was carrying her old schoolbag that she had been using since high school.
But the surveillance clarity is too low, making it impossible to see the people's expressions and details.
From then on, all the surveillance cameras were checked until the school gate was closed at night, and no evidence of Lu Xiaoshuang returning to school was found. Of course, entering through the side door or back door was not ruled out.
Liang Wei asked Chen Yao to process the surveillance footage from the noon period on the 30th with technical means to improve the clarity, and then search for suspicious targets in it.
No findings yet.
Although Lu Xiaoshuang was identified as a suspect, as the investigation progressed, more and more unexplained questions arose.
First, there is the motive for the crime.
It is true that Lu Xiaoshuang and Xu Liu had conflicts, and there are a lot of witnesses.
But the roommates also proved that before this, Lu Xiaoshuang and Xu Liu had never had any friction or quarrels, and neither of them had expressed their dissatisfaction with each other to anyone.
The only two quarrels were on April 14th and 15th.
Mo Youyou also proved that although Lu Xiaoshuang was very angry about the sweater being cut, her greater emotional expression was that she did not understand how she had offended Xu Liu and felt that this person was very inexplicable.
Therefore, based on the comprehensive investigation, the conflict between Xu and Lu was not a long-term grudge, and it is extremely unlikely that this conflict would turn into a criminal motive for murder and dismemberment.
Unless Lu Xiaoshuang has a mental illness and can't stand the stimulation.
However, after investigation by the task force, this possibility did not exist.
A special psychologist will be arranged to conduct a psychological assessment on Lu Xiaoshuang to confirm this.
Next, there is the alibi.
Xu Liu disappeared on the night of April 28th and her whereabouts are unknown after she left the girls' dormitory.
At that time, Lu Xiaoshuang was in the girls' dormitory building, and everyone could prove it.
In other words, Lu Xiaoshuang did not have the time to kidnap Xu Liu.
Of course, judging from her height and build, Lu Xiaoshuang does not have the ability to quickly subdue Xu Liu, unless she controls him through drugs.
But drugs that can cause coma are all controlled drugs, and she, an ordinary girl, does not have the ability to get them.
On the night of the 28th, Lu Xiaoshuang did not leave the dormitory. From the 29th to noon of the 30th, she was also in school. She only appeared in three places: the dormitory, the classroom, and the cafeteria. There were also a large number of witnesses.
So after this investigation, even a fool can see that Lu Xiaoshuang is more like another victim than a criminal suspect.
However, there were also voices of opposition within the task force. Although it was not stated at the meeting who proposed it, Zhou Yi suspected it was Ni Jianrong.
The objection is that it cannot be ruled out that Lu Xiaoshuang conspired with others to murder Xu Liu, and then in the process of disposing of the body, disagreements or conflicts arose among the murderers, resulting in Lu Xiaoshuang being thrown into the mine.
Therefore, we should focus on investigating the men who have close contact with Lu Xiaoshuang.
Although from Zhou Yi's perspective, this speculation is nonsense.
But from the perspective of handling the case, as long as there is no evidence and clues to rule out this possibility, it must be investigated.
Therefore, Zhou Yi had sufficient alibi when he went on a business trip to Anyuan, which, from some perspectives, cleared him of suspicion.
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