Xiao Gengwu thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know who this person usually associates with?"
Wu Tianxiang shook his head: "He didn't get close to anyone; he always stayed hidden in the house!"
Hiding in a house? Xiao Gengwu's heart skipped a beat: "Is there anyone around here like him, hiding in a house and rarely coming out?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hai and Xiao Shan immediately looked at Wu Tianxiang with bright eyes. Wu Tianxiang's heart pounded as he looked at them: "I... I heard that there is someone just like him in the back street."
"But that guy is a good-for-nothing who often goes out gambling at night and only comes home to sleep during the day. Isn't it normal that there's no sound coming from the house if he doesn't come out?"
"It's not normal!" Xiao Gengwu had a thought in his mind: the two people who hadn't made a sound must be connected, it's just that the back street was a bit far from here.
Can these two homes be connected? If they are, then the situation is not good; there must be many people living below!
Xiao Gengwu, Xiaoshan, and Xiaohai exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with disbelief. Could their suspicions be true? If so, the situation was not good!
The household registration check didn't stop; they continued forward and soon arrived at the target courtyard. There were no abnormalities on either side of the target courtyard.
Xiao Gengwu turned around: "Those hooligans over there on the back street, didn't you find them just now?"
"Yes! I knocked on the door several times, but no one answered. He often doesn't come back for days at a time, so I stopped knocking!"
Xiao Gengwu glanced at Xiao Hai, who immediately nodded and left!
Wu Tianxiang was sensible and didn't ask why Xiao Hai left. He continued to do the household registration investigation seriously, thinking it would be the same as before, without any problems.
But a big problem was discovered: he found that one person's age did not match the age on the household registration book, and his heart sank.
The woman who owns this house is Xia Xiaohua. According to her household registration, she should be 35 years old, but the person in front of her says she is Xia Xiaohua and looks only about 16 years old.
With such a clear 20-year age gap, how could they not notice? Yet, despite their panicked expressions, the family insisted that the young-looking person was Xia Xiaohua.
They even said that their family dotes on their daughter-in-law, and that she can defy the laws of nature to grow taller, so why can't that be? But how is that possible?
Wu Tianxiang called the neighbor next door to inquire, but the neighbor said that Xia Xiaohua had been bedridden due to a difficult childbirth and they hadn't seen her for several years!
An older woman stammered, "This person looks a lot like Xia Xiaohua, especially like her when she was young, but I remember Xia Xiaohua had a mole on her lower left chin!"
This younger version of Xia Xiaohua clearly doesn't have a mole on her lower left chin. Then an old lady jumped out and said, "You must be mistaken! Our Xiaohua doesn't have any moles on her face!"
The older woman took a step back, frightened by the fierce look in the old woman's eyes: "I... I might have misremembered. I still have soup cooking at home! I'm leaving!"
Xiao Gengwu immediately sensed something was wrong: "Tianxiang, go call the police. They all say this person is Xia Xiaohua, so they're probably not afraid of being investigated. If it turns out she really is Xia Xiaohua, I'll apologize to you!"
The old lady immediately blocked the gate: "No one is allowed to go out. This is my daughter-in-law, Xia Xiaohua. Anyone who dares to say a word will have all their chickens killed!"
The old woman's words silenced everyone present. They were all neighbors, people who saw each other all the time; who would want to gamble with people's hearts and minds?
So the neighbors all left in a flurry, and the old lady said triumphantly, "This is my daughter-in-law, you can all leave now!"
Xiao Gengwu sneered: "Xiaoshan, go and call the police. Tell them someone impersonated someone else and caused a death. Arrest their whole family and interrogate them. I don't believe we won't find anything wrong!"
The old lady was now agitated: "This is my daughter-in-law, why don't you believe me?"
Xiao Gengwu didn't believe it at all. This old lady looked so mean and mean, how could she possibly care about her daughter-in-law? If she really had a magic formula to make people young again, she would use it on herself first!
Xiao Shan darted out in an instant. The old woman's hands and feet were trembling. She looked at the two teenage women standing on the other side, dressed in tattered clothes, and shouted, "Why didn't you stop her? Are you all dead?"
The two women who had been called dead flinched, lifted their feet, and then, seeing the person who had already run far away, put their feet down again, trying to minimize their presence.
But the old lady was in a fit of rage and wanted to vent her anger on someone, so she naturally took advantage of these two ready-made punching bags. She rushed over and started hitting the two women hard.
Judging from the way she hit people, she must have done it quite often. The two people being hit reached out to protect their heads, because when this old lady hits someone, she'll hit them no matter what she can grab.
They had no way to escape, and could only try their best to protect their heads to avoid serious injury! But the old woman was clearly strong.
The two women's faces quickly swelled up, and the old woman's fingernails left marks on their hands. As she hit them, the old woman continued to hurl insults: "You two sluts, you're nothing but trash, you've only come to ruin our family!"
The old woman hit him too fast. Although there were many movements, it was actually only a blink of an eye. Wu Tianxiang couldn't stand it anymore: "Stop it right now!"
The old lady wouldn't stop, so Wu Tianxiang went over and pulled her away. The old lady was still dissatisfied: "You're so nosy, why should I discipline my own granddaughter?"
Wu Tianxiang knew, of course, that these two were his granddaughters. He had heard people say before that the old lady often abused her granddaughters, but this was the first time he had ever seen it!
“It’s really illegal to hit or scold your granddaughter now. When the police arrive, that will make your crime even more serious!”
The old woman seemed to be listening to a fairy tale: "Are you kidding me? Hitting your own granddaughter is illegal? What if I beat her to death?"
"No good! You'll die if you beat her to death!" Wu Tianxiang was really annoyed by such ignorant people who thought it was the old society, where you could beat your own people and not take any responsibility!
As they were talking, Xiaoshan came in with two police officers!
The two police officers were clearly a veteran officer with a new officer. The veteran officer looked at the old woman and frowned: "Where is your former daughter-in-law? Where did this person come from?"
The old lady visibly stiffened for a moment: "There's no such thing as 'original' or 'original'. Our family has only ever had this one daughter-in-law from beginning to end!"
The police officer sneered: "Look at your new daughter-in-law, she's the same age as your granddaughter, and you still dare to argue?!"
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