Chapter 70 Mrs. Wu

"You blame me again. I didn't contact that country woman about Mingzai's matter for so many years. Otherwise, Mingzai might have been found long ago, and the Liu family wouldn't have to suffer so much."

The nanny kept sighing and feeling guilty.

"It's not the nanny's fault." Lin Zhixian said.

"Are you going to look for Auntie Wu now? I'll take you there," said Auntie.

"Then I'll trouble you." Xiao Jing said.

"What's the problem? If I had known that Mingzai was taken away by that country woman, I would have told the Liu family earlier, and the Liu family wouldn't have been in such a miserable state." The nanny said, "Now that Mingzai is in such a miserable state, and old lady Liu only has this one grandson left, he is all she can think of. Of course I will help if I can."

Xiao Jing and Lin Zhixian followed the nanny to the third floor. The nanny knocked on the door and said, "A-e, are you home?"

"I'm coming." An old voice was heard in the room, and soon an old lady came to open the door: "Mrs. Kui, what's going on?"

Auntie Wu looked at Xiao Jing and Lin Zhixian behind her: "Who are these two——"

"This is the police officer who is in charge of the case." The nanny introduced Xiao Jing, and then introduced Lin Zhiyan: "This is Miss Lin, the fortune teller who has become very famous recently."

"Ah?" Mrs. Wu was very embarrassed: "Sir, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Xiao Jing showed his ID and said in a businesslike manner: "Mrs. Wu, right? I am Senior Inspector Xiao Jing of the Hong Kong Island Regional Crime Unit. I have a case that I would like to talk to you about."

"I don't know anything." Mrs. Wu looked panicked and wanted to close the door.

The nanny pushed the door open and pulled nanny Wu inside: "Don't worry, sir, I just came to find you to understand the situation, you just need to answer honestly."

Xiao Jing and Lin Zhixian followed closely in. Auntie Wu was pressed down on the sofa by Auntie Wu, feeling very uneasy. "What do you want to ask?"

Xiao Jing asked: "Mrs. Wu, in July five years ago, was there a relative from the countryside who came to you to borrow money?"

Mrs. Wu's eyes sparkled: "Who still remembers what happened five years ago?"

The grandmother said, "On the day your relatives came to borrow money, the grandson of the Liu family, Mingzai, was taken away on the street. You must remember it. That day, you were scolded by your old Wu."

Mrs. Wu's face instantly showed a panic, "Is it? Is it? I don't remember, it's been too long."

Mrs. Wu said something again in a concealing way.

"What's your relative's name? Where does she live now?" Xiao Jing asked.

"I don't know. I don't know anything." Mrs. Wu wanted to stand up and said, "I really don't know anything. Don't ask me. I still have to cook."

It's obvious that there's something fishy going on here.

Xiao Jing's expression changed instantly, and he said in a sharp voice: "Do you forget or are you deliberately hiding it? Did you kidnap Mingzai from the Liu family together with her?"

"It's unfair, sir." Mrs. Wu panicked: "I didn't conspire with anyone to kidnap Mingzai."

"Whether there is or not, come with me back to the police station and you'll know." Xiao Jing sneered and took out a pair of handcuffs, pretending to take Mrs. Wu back for interrogation.

Mrs. Wu was so frightened that she could no longer hold back: "It wasn't me who took Mingzai away, it was Zhou Mei who took him away."

When Xiao Jing and Lin Zhixian heard her say this, their faces turned very ugly.

"What's going on? Why don't you tell the truth?" Xiao Jing shouted in a deep voice.

The grandmother also advised her: "Ah'e, don't hide it anymore. The sir already has clues. Even if you don't tell him now, he will find out sooner or later. If you keep it a secret, be careful that he will sue you for obstruction of justice. And the old lady of the Liu family, her husband, son and daughter-in-law are all dead, leaving only this grandson. If she finds out that you refuse to say anything, she might kill you."

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you." Mrs. Wu was so frightened that she turned pale as she told the story: "Zhou Mei is a distant relative of my mother's family. She married a villager from Lamma Island. She has been married for more than ten years but has no children. She is always disliked by her in-laws. But I don't know her very well. I heard these things from fellow villagers when I went home to visit my relatives. Until July five years ago, Zhou Mei suddenly came to my house to borrow money. She said that her husband was very sick and wanted to borrow some money from me for her husband's treatment. I felt sorry for her at the time, so I lent her some money."

"But I really didn't know she would take Mingzi away." The Wu family's grandmother wiped her tears and said, "After Zhou Mei left, the Liu family found that the child was missing. At that time, the whole street was looking for him, but they never found him. Later, someone said that they seemed to have seen Mingzi appear at the end of our street. At that time, I don't know why I thought of Zhou Mei. I remembered that my fellow villagers said that Zhou Mei had been married for more than ten years and had no children. I actually had an idea, could Mingzi be taken away by Zhou Mei?"

"Then why didn't you tell the Liu family at that time?" The grandmother was very angry: "You saw how worried the Liu family was when they couldn't find the child."

"I'm just guessing, I'm not sure." Aunt Wu didn't dare to look at Auntie.

How could she let anyone know that she was actually thinking that the Liu family's son and his wife were still so young and could have more children. Zhou Mei was already in her thirties and was afraid that she would never have her own children in this lifetime. With Mingzai, she would have someone to rely on in the future.

She didn't expect that the Liu family's son and his wife would get into a car accident, nor did she expect that the Liu family's old man would die like this.

If she had known it would turn out like this, she would have definitely spoken out sooner.

The grandmother was very angry: "You weren't the one who took the child away, what's wrong with you? You watched the Liu family fall apart because of Mingzai, don't you feel any guilt at all? Are you still a human being?"

I feel guilty. How can I not feel guilty?

But at that time she didn't dare to tell this matter to anyone.

Mrs. Wu covered her face and said, "I really don't know. I don't know anything! Sir, it has nothing to do with me. I didn't take Mingzi away. I don't know if she took Mingzi away."

When the nanny scolded her, she would just cry.

Xiao Jing coughed, interrupted the grandmother, and asked grandmother Wu: "Where does Zhou Mei live? Do you know?"

"I don't know the exact address of her home. I just know that she lives in xx Village on Lamma Island." Mrs. Wu whispered, "But I haven't been back to the countryside for many years, and I don't know if they have moved."

Xiao Jing wrote down the address and said, "We will go to Lamma Island immediately to look for you. If there are any problems later, we will come back to find you. I hope you don't leave Hong Kong today."

Xiao Jing took Lin Zhixian downstairs, and Lin Zhixian said to Xiao Jing: "This Mrs. Wu must have guessed that it was Zhou Mei who took the child away. She didn't say a word for so many years. She looks weak, but she is actually the most vicious."

Xiao Jing did not make a comment: "We are going to Lamma Island later, do you want to go with us?"

"I'll go with you." Lin Zhixian said, "Even if we find Zhou Mei, as long as we don't find Mingzi, she won't admit that she kidnapped the child, so we have to find the child first."