Chapter 770
On the day the DNA test results came out, there was a drizzle in the sky of Yongcheng.
Su Miao was playing games in the living room at this time. When she threw the last hook punch and the opponent said "OK", the phone rang.
The voice on the other end of the phone was serious and restrained:
"Is this Comrade Su Miao? I'm Officer Li from the West District Police Station. The DNA comparison results are in, confirming that the deceased found at the Second Bridge on the evening of July 20th was your mother, Comrade Liu Xu."
She was stunned for a moment, and then she heard her own voice coming from far away:
"Okay, I see. Thank you for letting me know."
"Please accept my condolences."
After Su Miao hung up the phone, he stared at the winding rain marks on the window glass and thought for a moment, then decided to contact Uncle Feng.
Deputy Director Feng was very surprised to hear Su Miao's words. He didn't expect that the deceased in the floating corpse case reported at the meeting was actually Su Miao's mother.
"Miao Miao, please accept my condolences. I will always supervise the progress of the case."
The purpose of Su Miao's call to Deputy Director Feng was actually to express his suspicion of Wang Dachui to him, hoping that the police could conduct a more in-depth investigation in this direction.
She knew very well how shameless Wang Dachui was. It was too much of a coincidence that Liu Xu got into trouble at this time.
Now all his funds are tied up in Zhucheng, and it is difficult for him to use connections.
Now that I have a relationship with Uncle Feng, if Wang Dachui really has a problem, I can completely beat him to death this time.
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At the same time, the serious crime team in charge of this case was holding a meeting.
When Captain Peng pushed the door open, several young police officers were gathered together looking at photos of the scene.
The deformed corpse in the photo made the newly recruited policewoman look away.
Captain Peng threw his police cap on the table, picked up the cold tea and took a sip:
"This case had a huge impact. The rumors were becoming increasingly bizarre, with people saying things like a water ghost taking lives and a serial killer. Even the women at the market were discussing it, causing widespread panic."
Officer Xiao Xu scratched his head. "I went to the riverside today and saw many people burning paper money. One old lady insisted she saw a woman in red standing in the water..."
He said this and shuddered.
Written on the blackboard in the office was a timeline of all the key points from Liu Xu's disappearance to the present, and next to the timeline, written in blue chalk were the clues provided by Su Miao: Wang Dachui lost tens of thousands in stock trading, failed in asset sales and investments, owed the bank hundreds of thousands, and committed domestic violence against Liu Xu.
Captain Peng took another sip of his bitter cold tea and said, "Deputy Director Feng just gave new instructions, requiring us to focus on investigating family conflicts."
"Do you want to contact Wang Dachui now?" Xiao Xu asked.
Captain Peng shook his head and said, "Now that we've confirmed the deceased is Liu Xu, we need to go directly to his home and conduct a thorough search. After all, it's possible that an acquaintance or relative committed the crime."
Another officer nodded. "We might find something new if we go to the house. But when King Dachui was identifying the body, he cried like that. He seemed genuinely heartbroken."
Xiao Xu tapped Wang Dachui's name on the blackboard and said:
"Maybe she's just pretending. My grandma always said that the harder someone cries, the more they have something wrong with them."
Captain Peng was amused, but did not refute:
"You'll know when you go and take a look. You guys go make the preparations, and I'll apply."
Wang Dachui sold his shop and shares in the leather factory. Fortunately, the big house he lives in now is still there, so he doesn't have to live on the streets.
However, things are getting worse and worse in Zhucheng. If this continues, even this house will probably be taken away to pay off the debt.
Wang Yue was on summer vacation and could no longer attend the summer interest class she had signed up for. She shamelessly went to the teacher to ask for her money back.
Ever since Liu Xu's accident, she has been hiding at home every day and refusing to go out.
Hearing the knock on the door, Wang Dachui came to open it in slippers. There were dark circles under his eyes and dense stubble on his chin. He looked more than ten years more haggard than a few days ago.
Seeing the people outside the door, he was stunned for a moment, and quickly stepped aside to let them in:
"Comrade Public Security, are there any new clues?"
"Comrade Wang Dachui, we informed you this morning that the deceased has been confirmed to be your wife, Liu Xu. We now need to search your home, and we hope you will cooperate."
"Okay, okay, feel free to look around."
Captain Peng walked in and glanced at Xi Zhou calmly.
He caught a glimpse of the crooked family portrait on the wall - in the photo, Liu Xu was wearing a cheongsam and a string of lustrous pearl necklaces around her neck.
Wang Yue sat uneasily on the sofa in the living room, watching the police comrades walking around the house.
Captain Peng asked Wang Dachui:
"You said Liu Xu took two gold bracelets with her when she left. Where do you usually keep them? Take me to see."
Wang Dachui brought Captain Peng into the room and pointed at the dressing table and said:
"She usually kept it in a dresser drawer. The box is still there, but the bracelet is gone."
Captain Peng opened the drawer and saw five or six jewelry boxes inside. He opened them one by one.
The jewelry boxes contained necklaces, brooches and other jewelry, and two of the boxes were indeed empty.
Then he saw a thick photo album on the dressing table. After flipping through it and looking at it for a while, he realized something was wrong.
According to the information they had previously obtained, the Wang family was still very wealthy a few months ago, and Liu Xu always appeared in front of everyone as a noble lady.
During the visit and investigation, the neighbors all said that even after the financial situation had problems, she was still very beautiful and glamorous, and did not look down and out at all, so much so that they did not expect that the Wang family's fortune had been lost.
In these photos, Liu Xu is always wearing jewelry, and there are a lot of them, more than just the boxes in the drawer.
If that's the case, where did the other jewelry go? Why did Wang Dachui only report the two gold bracelets?
Captain Peng's suspicion of Wang Dachui gradually grew at this time.
However, after twenty minutes, the police officers did not find anything else unusual in the house.
Captain Peng walked from the room to the kitchen, then to the balcony, and then back to the entrance.
Suddenly, he turned his gaze to the brown wooden shoe cabinet. There was a lighter rectangular mark on the top of the cabinet, which formed a color difference with the surrounding dark wooden surface. It was probably caused by a rectangular object being placed there for a long time without being moved.
"Comrade Wang, what did you put on top of this shoe cabinet?"
Wang Dachui wiped his face, his voice choked with sobs:
"After the catkins left... the fish all died one after another for some reason. Every time I looked at the empty fish tank, I thought of the catkins... I felt so depressed that I threw them into the trash the day before yesterday."
The light-colored mark on the edge of the pen tip is about 30 centimeters long and wide, and it really looks like the bottom mark of a small square fish tank.
Captain Peng winked at Xiao Xu calmly.
Xiao Xu immediately understood, put on white gloves and opened the shoe cabinet door.
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