Chapter 115 Ruirui
Xia Mufan and Feng Xiaoyu lingered in the clothing store for more than ten minutes. After confirming that Boss Mo had left, they walked out of the store, took the ice cream that had been waiting outside the store, and returned to the Huancheng Criminal Investigation Brigade as quickly as possible.
The Criminal Investigation Brigade attached great importance to the Huang Yongkang family massacre. Not only did they send Fan Yangping to fully cooperate with Xia Muchan, they also arranged an office on the first floor for their daily use. The office was equipped with filing cabinets, conference tables, and telephones.
As soon as Xia Mufan made the call, Fan Yangping, who was busy outside, came back like a flash with Gong Weiguo and others.
As soon as he entered the office, Fan Yangping asked anxiously, "Did you find the person? You actually ran into the murderer while walking the dog? One person or two people? Who was it?"
Gong Weiguo hugged Xuegao and said, "Good fellow! You are a good police dog! I will apply for a police dog license for you when I get back."
Gong Weiguo was too enthusiastic. Xuegao struggled hard with a huff. He finally got rid of Gong Weiguo's embrace. Sun Xianbing ran over again and rubbed Xuegao's head vigorously: "You found someone so quickly? Xuegao is amazing!"
Only Yu Jing was relatively steady. He dragged a chair to sit down at the conference table and waited quietly.
Feng Xiaoyu saw that their backs were soaked with sweat, and knew that they were tired from running outside, so she poured each of them a glass of water and said, "Take a break first, and I'll explain it to you in detail later."
After everyone had caught their breath, Xia Mufan told everyone everything that happened during the shopping trip.
As soon as she finished speaking, Fan Yangping's eyes widened and he shouted in disbelief: "Impossible! How could Boss Mo kill someone?"
Gong Weiguo glanced at him and said, "How is that impossible? Xue Gao is very smart and will definitely not admit his mistake."
Ice cream accompanied everyone on the journey, and Gong Weiguo really fell in love with ice cream.
Observe discipline, obey orders, be considerate, never stand when told to sit, and never make a sound when told not to bark. Ice cream never made any noise or movement, but squatted quietly at Xia Mufan's feet, walking with them all the way. Ice cream was so well behaved that everyone felt happy.
Fan Yangping said that it was impossible for Boss Mo to kill anyone. Doesn’t that imply that Xue Gao recognized the wrong person? snort! Gong Weiguo was the first one to disagree.
Fan Yangping was still thinking about adopting Xue Gao after the case was over, but of course he couldn't let Gong Weiguo and the others misunderstand him, so he hurriedly explained, "It's not that I don't trust Xue Gao, I just think that with Boss Mo's wealth and status, there's no need to kill people to silence them."
Fan Yangping couldn't understand why Boss Mo wanted to kill Huang Yongkang eight years ago and now traveled all the way to Hui City to kill Bai Jiaying. Logically speaking, Boss Mo is now worth tens of millions and should have lived a rich and leisurely life. Why would he risk being shot to do such a bloody and cruel thing?
The Serious Crime Unit 7 often discusses cases freely. As long as the topic is related to the case, everyone speaks freely. Even if there is a lot of arguments, it is about the matter, not the people. Afterwards, everyone is still friendly and united. Gong Weiguo, who had been trained in such an atmosphere, reacted very quickly and immediately refuted Fan Yangping: "Are there no criminals among people of different wealth and status? Maybe they made their money by murder and arson in the first place."
Gong Weiguo's rebuttal made Fan Yangping slowly calm down. He glanced at the young criminal police from Hui City and began to speak out what was in his mind.
"The Mo family has four children. The eldest is Mo Yumeng, the second is Mo Yuyong, the third is Mo Yugang, and Mo Yuhua is the fourth sister. The Mo family has been doing the work of butchers for generations, and all the sons are strong and powerful. Don't be fooled by the thin appearance of the eldest son Mo, he is actually very strong."
"In the 1980s, the Mo family's pork stall grew bigger and bigger. At first, there was only one, and then each of the three brothers had one. Later, under the management of Mo Yuhua, they simply contracted the town's slaughterhouse and started a one-stop service of purchasing, slaughtering and selling."
Hearing this, Feng Xiaoyu couldn't help but interjected with a sigh: "So, Mo Yuhua is the business genius, right? Huang Zhongliang might have become rich with her support."
Fan Yangping said, "You have a point. We locals have a serious preference for boys over girls, but the Mo family is different. The three brothers of the Mo family all listen to Mo Yuhua. Huang Zhongliang was just a poor boy before he got married. He started doing business to make money after he got married. Although Huang Zhongliang was the one who showed up in public, the big decisions at the beginning were all made by Mo Yuhua, so Mo Yuhua had a very high status in the family. Even the company they started is called Hualiang Group."
Xia Mufan asked, "Old Fan, Boss Mo should have retired to the second line now, right? I see he's living a very carefree life, wearing slippers and shorts, and buying stewed food and drinking wine at the delicatessen on Ping An Street before lunch time."
Fan Yangping said: "This is a habit he inherited from when he was running a pork stall. Pork stall owners all get up early, and by mid-morning their stomachs are already growling with hunger. They take advantage of the lack of customers to eat some cooked food and drink some wine, which is considered a break from their busy schedule."
Thinking of Boss Mo's leisurely appearance in the delicatessen, Xia Mufan snorted: "He seems to be living a comfortable life, but what about the family of four he killed back then?"
Feng Xiaoyu's eyes flashed with Boss Mo's fierce gaze, but she still felt uncomfortable: "Boss Mo's eyes are very fierce."
Fan Yangping looked at Feng Xiaoyu and said, "People who kill pigs have fierce auras. Although Boss Mo no longer kills pigs himself, he has been influenced by them since he was a child. He has been running a pig-killing stall for more than ten or twenty years, so it is normal for him to have fierce eyes."
Xia Mufan raised his hand and refocused the conversation: "Now that Boss Mo has made enough money to live a carefree life as a wealthy man, why would he go and kill Bai Jiaying?"
Feng Xiaoyu curled her lips, "What else could it be? To stand up for my sister. Huang Zhongliang and Mo Yuhua only have one daughter, so their property will definitely belong to their daughter in the future. But now that Huang Zhongliang has a son, maybe he wants to leave the family business to his son. Didn't Old Fan say it just now? Huancheng is particularly patriarchal. In order to prevent the property from falling into the hands of others, the Mo brothers took action themselves."
Gong Weiguo clicked his tongue twice: "No wonder he was killed with one blow, it turns out he was a butcher."
Sun Xianbing used his hands as a fan to fan his sweaty cheeks: "Although the Mo family is rich, when it comes to murder, they still go into battle personally."
Gong Weiguo sneered, "Everyone knows that killing someone means paying with one's life! First of all, the Mo family is doing a legitimate business, and they don't have the channels to hire assassins; secondly, there are many people and they are afraid of being exposed and sued. Anyway, the Mo family is doing a business where they take money with a knife, and they are not afraid of blood."
Fan Yangping listened to their chatter and had already regarded Boss Mo as the murderer. He couldn't help but raise his hand and said, "Wait a minute, what you mean now is that Xue Gao recognized Boss Mo, so Boss Mo is the murderer who broke into Bai Jiaying's house, killed Bai Jiaying, and took away the one-year-old child?"
Xia Mushi looked at him confidently: "Yes! Ice cream will not make mistakes."
When Xuegao heard what Xia Mufan said, he raised his head proudly and barked twice in response.
Fan Yangping glanced at Xue Gao and said, "But Xue Gao is a dog, not a human. The fact that he recognized Boss Mo cannot be used as valid evidence that Boss Mo killed someone."
As soon as these words were spoken, the Serious Crime Unit 7 fell into collective silence.
Yes, Ice Cream is a dog, and its identification cannot be used as evidence.
Xia Mufan had thought about this problem a long time ago.
Before coming to Huancheng, Yue Yuan had warned her: "Being able to understand the voices of animals can only be used as an auxiliary means to solve the case. Whether the murderer can be brought to justice in the end must rely on scientific criminal investigation technology and professional criminal investigation theory."
Xia Mufan took a deep breath and took the initiative to break the silence: "If there is no evidence, then we will work hard to find evidence!"
Feng Xiaoyu always follows Xia Mufan's lead: "Yes, then let's find evidence. Anyway, Boss Mo must be the murderer, and Xue Gao will not admit his mistake."
Gong Weiguo and Sun Xianbing nodded together: "Yes!"
Yu Jing, who had not participated in the discussion, also expressed his opinion: "Team leader, just tell me what we should do next."
Fan Yangping was actually a little curious why the leader of the Serious Crime Unit 7 was the youngest Xia Mufan. Seeing that they were united and very obedient to Xia Mufan, he couldn't help but look up to Xia Mufan: "Xiao Xia, then tell me, how should we find evidence?"
Xia Mufan stood up and said in a clear voice: "In the case of Bai Jiaying's murder, the key evidence is Ruirui. If we can find Ruirui at the Mo family, we will have evidence."
Feng Xiaoyu suddenly thought of something and said in a trembling voice, "I have a bad idea."
Everyone looked at Feng Xiaoyu: "What do you think?"
Feng Xiaoyu said, "We thought it was Huang Zhongliang who did it before, so we guessed Ruirui was still alive. After all, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. But now it's Mo Yuhua who did it. Do you think she will tolerate Ruirui's existence given her tolerance?"
Gong Weiguo felt a little reluctant and kept silent.
Sun Xianbing was quick-witted and blurted out: "The Mo family even killed Bai Jiaying, how could they leave Ruirui alive?"
Thinking of the cute child on the photo wall in the room, Xia Mufan's heart sank.
I'm afraid there is no woman in this world who can be generous enough to tolerate the children born to her husband and his mistress?
This is not the old society anymore where only sons can inherit the family business.
Since Mo Yuhua was so fierce that he made his own brother travel thousands of miles to kill people, how could he possibly spare Ruirui's life?
But why did Boss Mo take Ruirui away? Is it just to divert the police's attention and pretend that human traffickers came to snatch the child?
wrong!
Suddenly, an idea came to Xia Mushi's mind: "No! Ruirui may still be alive."
When he thought of this possibility, Xia Mufan's heart beat faster and faster.
"I'm afraid Mo Yuhua hates Huang Zhongliang more than she loves him. But her interests are too deeply tied to Huang Zhongliang's, and they have a child together, so she can't make up her mind to divorce."
"Once Bai Jiaying dies, even if the police can't find Huang Zhongliang, Huang Zhongliang will definitely suspect her. Now she has Ruirui as her trump card, and Huang Zhongliang dare not act rashly. She can also use this to threaten Huang Zhongliang, put forward various conditions, and slowly firmly control the Hualiang Group in her own hands."
"If the police find Huang Zhongliang, they can successfully frame Huang Zhongliang and make him bear all the charges just by relying on Ruirui's existence."
At this point, Xia Mufan looked up at everyone, his eyes shining brightly: "So, Ruirui must still be alive, and in the hands of someone close to Huang Zhongliang."
After listening to Xia Mufan's analysis, Fan Yangping tried hard to search in his mind for other close relatives of Huang Zhongliang: "Huang Zhongliang's parents have passed away. The people closest to him are only his brothers and sisters, except Mo Yuhua and his daughter Huang Yaoling. I will contact the police at the police station this afternoon and send them to investigate the Huang family brothers and sisters to see if there is an extra one-year-old child."
Xia Mufan looked at Fan Yangping and said, "We are unfamiliar with this place, so I have to trouble you with the investigation."
Fan Yangping waved his hand: "It's all for the sake of solving the case, no need to be polite. But right now the situation is tense, I think they hid the child very well, and they are afraid they won't be able to find him for a while."
Indeed, it is too easy to hide a one-year-old child in such a vast crowd. After a while, the child grew up and his face changed, making it more difficult to find him.
Xia Mufan pursed his lips and said, "Do your best."
Feng Xiaoyu had come across several cases of child abduction and knew how difficult it was to find a child: "Old Fan and the others are looking for Ruirui, are we just going to sit there and wait?"
Xia Mufan looked at everyone and raised another question: "Boss Mo killed Bai Jiaying to help Mo Yuhua get rid of his competitors. His motive for the murder is very clear. However, Huang Yongkang has no grudges against them, so why did he kill his entire family?"
Fan Yangping had been thinking about this question just now: "Speaking of which, Huang Yongkang is a distant relative of Huang Zhongliang, and they don't usually have much contact. Huang Yongkang is six or seven years younger than Huang Zhongliang. His father died early, leaving only a widowed mother in the family. His family was very poor before, but later he opened a dry goods store in the town, and the business was neither good nor bad. He and his wife Xie Qinghe only had one boy, and after making some money, they bought a piece of land in the northern suburbs of the city to build a house. As a result, the family of four had just moved there for half a year when they suffered such a disaster."
After introducing the basic situation, Fan Yangping sighed: "We visited the surrounding people at the time and investigated all of Huang Yongkang's social relationships. The conclusion is that Huang Yongkang is a decent person, hardworking and honest, has a good relationship with his wife, and has never offended anyone. So at the beginning, I didn't believe that this was done by the Mo family."
"In 1988, the Mo family had already contracted the slaughterhouse and their business was booming. In comparison, Huang Yongkang was just a small business vendor, not worthy of their attention. Why did they want to wipe out Huang Yongkang's entire family?"
When it comes to the motive for the murder, Gong Weiguo and Sun Xianbing were the most active. They spoke one after another and listed all the possibilities.
"Is it possible that Huang Yongkang helped Huang Zhongliang do something that went against the wishes of the Mo family? For example, transferring marital property, pimping, etc.?"
"Is it possible that Huang Yongkang offended Huang Zhongliang when he was young, or that Huang Yongkang's elders did something that made Huang Zhongliang hate him, and the Mo family took revenge on him?"
Fan Yangping knew the case best, and he immediately shook his head: "No, no, no, Huang Yongkang and Huang Zhongliang are just acquaintances, and they don't have any private dealings. They are distant relatives, and it is impossible for the old grudges you mentioned to occur."
Destroying an entire family, what kind of hatred is this?
What is it? What caused Boss Mo to take personal action and kill Huang Yongkang's family of four?
Xia Mufan narrowed his eyes: "If it's not Huang Yongkang's grudge, then is it possible... that it was Xie Qinghe who caused the hatred?"
Sun Xianbing's eyes lit up: "You mean, a murder of passion?"
Xia Mufan said, "Forensic Doctor Gu has studied similar cases of slitting throats. Boss Mo has only done two of these cases. Eight years ago, he wiped out the entire family, and eight years later, he killed the mother and took the son away. The Mo family killed people cleanly, fiercely and cruelly. The methods and wounds were consistent. Is it possible that the motive for the murders was also the same?"
After saying this, Fan Yangping suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "You mean, Xie Qinghe is Huang Zhongliang's mistress? The son she gave birth to is Huang Zhongliang's child?"
No one had thought of this angle before.
Xie Qinghe is from another place. After marrying Huang Yongkang, she has been taking care of the children at home. She never goes out of the house and has a very low sense of presence. Huang's relatives and neighbors all say that she is honest and simple and a good daughter-in-law.
Therefore, the criminal investigation personnel never suspected Xie Qinghe.
But now, Xia Mufan provided a new idea for investigation.
Fan Yangping was excited for a while, then suddenly became depressed: "It's been eight years, and the bodies have been cremated. Even if we suspect it now, we can't find any evidence."
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