Chapter 51 Mysterious Disappearance
Based on Officer Miao Cheng's description, Zhou Yi basically understood the circumstances of the missing case.
Zhang Hui disappeared on March 17th, but the more accurate time should be the night of March 16th.
Because this was also the last time she appeared in the sight of others.
Zhang Hui and Xu Jiaguang are both 46 years old this year. They live in Room 401, Unit 4, Donghai Community. They have an eight-year-old daughter named Xu Xinxin.
Zhang Hui is a salesperson at the Red Sun Food Store. According to her neighbors and colleagues, Zhang Hui is a very powerful person with a hot temper. She doesn't have very good interpersonal relationships and therefore doesn't have many close friends.
Xu Jiaguang, on the other hand, has a completely opposite personality to hers. He has a good temper and personality, rarely loses his temper, and always has a smile on his face.
He is a mechanic in a car repair shop. According to his colleagues, he is a good guy, works hard, and is also notoriously afraid of his wife.
This family is a typical structure where the woman is strong and the man is weak.
On March 16th, Zhang Hui went shopping for groceries after get off work as usual and then went to pick up her children from school.
Because it was her daughter Xinxin's eighth birthday, she also bought a six-inch cream cake from the cake shop across the community.
Xu Jiaguang returned home at 5:30. After returning home, the family happily ate, cut cake, and finally coaxed the children to sleep.
But the next morning, Xu Jiaguang woke up and found that his wife Zhang Hui was missing.
He thought his wife had gotten up early to go to work, but strangely, the leather shoes his wife usually wore were placed on the shoe rack at the door.
He searched the house but couldn't find his wife, and her work clothes from the grocery store were hanging neatly on the hanger.
Xu Jiaguang said that although he was very confused, he didn't pay much attention to it because he was anxious to send his daughter to school.
After sending his daughter home, he went to work at the auto repair shop.
At noon, Xu Jiaguang felt a little worried, so he went to the factory office to borrow a phone and called the grocery store.
It turned out that my wife didn't go to work today.
Only then did he realize that something was wrong and quickly asked for leave to go find someone.
He drove a motorcycle and searched almost every place he could think of, but found nothing.
Finally, exhausted Xu Jiaguang walked into the Qishan Road Police Station and reported the case.
"After receiving the report, we immediately dispatched police."
"We also visited the scene, took notes, and interviewed and investigated the surrounding residents."
"Since the evening of March 13th, no one has seen Zhang Hui, including the community security guard."
"No suspicious clues were found at the scene, so we can only follow the normal procedures."
"As you two know, in order to file a missing persons case, the conditions for filing a case must be met."
"Zhang Hui is an adult, and she hasn't been missing for long, so she doesn't meet the criteria for filing a case."
Miao Cheng felt somewhat helpless when he said these words, thinking that Xu Jiaguang had made a fuss about this matter many times.
This matter is just like the disappearance case of Li Youqiang. No signs or clues of abuse were found, there were no major conflicts or disputes with others before the disappearance, and the adult was missing for no more than three months. Therefore, it does not meet the standards for filing a case.
Zhou Yi asked Chen Yan to help inquire about Li Youqiang's case because he suspected that he might be involved in drug trafficking.
"We understand the family members' feelings very well, but there can be no order without rules."
Miao Cheng spread his hands and sighed.
"But let's be honest, Zhang Hui's disappearance is indeed a bit strange. She didn't take any documents or belongings with her, and she disappeared inexplicably. It's really strange."
Qiao Jiali asked, "Have you searched the trash cans in the neighborhood or nearby?"
"Trash can?" Miao Cheng was stunned and didn't understand what she meant.
Zhou Yi understood instantly that Qiao Jiali was hinting at the possibility of disposing of the body or even dismembering it.
"Sister Qiao, that's unlikely. There's no large-scale waste disposal plant near the Donghai Residential Area. Ordinary trash cans are collected and processed by sanitation workers every day. It's impossible for them not to be discovered."
"And I saw several scavengers on the way here today. Even if they had scattered the body parts and dumped it, it's impossible that they hadn't called the police for so long."
Miao Cheng finally understood and his expression changed: "Dismembered body? Have you discovered something?"
"I'm just asking casually, don't be nervous, Lao Miao."
"Your serious crime squad has been dispatched, don't you really have any important clues?" Miao Cheng asked suspiciously.
"Officer Miao, are Xu Jiaguang and Zhang Hui remarried?" Zhou Yi asked.
Miao Cheng asked in surprise: "How did you know?"
"Really? I'm just guessing. Since both of them are forty-six years old, and their daughter is only eight, the probability of a second marriage is probably quite high."
Zhou Yi did make a guess, but there was one point he didn't mention, which was the differences between the times.
If it were the era before rebirth, in the 21st century, getting married and having children in your thirties would be perfectly normal. The more economically developed a place is, the more common this phenomenon is.
But in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in underdeveloped small cities like Baicheng, the social environment and conceptual cognition were still very traditional.
A man who is still unmarried at the age of thirty-seven or thirty-eight is considered a bachelor, and the person he is most likely willing to marry is a divorced woman with children who has little ability to live independently.
This kind of marriage is more like a transaction. The old bachelor gets sexual resources, and the woman finds someone who is willing to help her raise children.
Divorce often occurs when children grow up and become capable of self-preservation.
As for unmarried girls in their thirties and thirties, the ones who can get married in this era are either older bachelors, disabled people, or those who are getting married for the second time and becoming mothers.
Judging from the situations of Xu Jiaguang and Zhang Hui, neither of them obviously conforms to this norm.
Then the possibility that both of them are remarrying is relatively high.
"I don't know if you have investigated the previous marriage relationship between these two people. I guess they both divorced after having extramarital affairs and then remarried," said Zhou Yi.
Miao Cheng's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "Hey, this is amazing! You got it all right."
Qiao Jiali standing by was both proud and surprised. Could it be that this guy could really tell fortunes?
"Lao Miao, I'm not bragging, am I?"
Miao Cheng gave Zhou Yi a thumbs-up and said, "We learned from Zhang Hui's ex-husband that Zhang Hui and Xu Jiaguang were classmates in junior high school. They fell in love early in middle school and dated for several years until they were ready to get married."
"But Xu Jiaguang's family wasn't well off, and he couldn't come up with a betrothal gift that would satisfy Zhang Hui's parents, so they broke up. Later, probably at a class reunion, their old love rekindled, and they divorced. Zhang Hui and her ex-husband had a daughter, who was awarded to her ex-husband during the divorce."
"Although no case was filed, we still investigated Zhang Hui's interpersonal relationships, which is why we learned about these things."
Miao Cheng asked curiously, "But Officer Zhou, how did you know that?"
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