Chapter 213 Denial
Xia Mushige asked: "Did you throw the bag containing the cat into the trash can?"
Jia Xihua nodded: "Yes."
Xia Mufan stared at the tiny expression on Jia Xihua's face with a sharp gaze. Seeing her calm response, he hesitated for a moment and continued to ask, "Then why did it appear in the panda house of the zoo?"
Jia Xihua looked confused: "Panda House? I don't know."
In fact, Xia Mufan has always been wondering, from killing a wild cat that looked like coal ash, to using Cai Yutie to make a phone call, and then Zhong Yinghong and Liang Liang appeared in front of him at the right time, guiding the police step by step to arrest Jia Xihua. It was too smooth, so smooth that Xia Mufan felt that someone had deliberately arranged it.
If Jia Xihua did not lie, then someone was plotting against her.
If the police are in a hurry to close the case, Jia Xihua, the woman who viciously killed small animals, the gardener who often wore a mask and a hat, and the weird woman who deliberately approached Liangliang, does look very much like Sister Hua.
Send Jia Xihua to the police and throw her out to take the blame. From then on, the name Hua Jie will disappear in the crowd. She can put the past behind her and start a new life.
Who is the person who threw Jia Xihua out?
A person who knew Jia Xihua's whereabouts very well and took the woven bag containing the cat's body out of the trash can;
A person whose behavior trajectory overlaps with Jia Xihua.
A detail flashed through Xia Mufan's mind, and he stood up: "Take us to the scene where the cat was caught and burned."
Following Xia Mufan's instructions, everyone moved to Tieshan Reservoir.
Jia Xihua led the criminal police to the bushes near the reservoir, pointed to a crooked tree and said, "The cat was squatting there and barking at me."
Next, Jia Xihua used her hands and feet to demonstrate the detailed process of the crime.
How to catch a cat with a net, strangle it to death, sprinkle gasoline on it and burn its body, and how to put out the flames quickly for fear of causing a forest fire, and put the cat's body into a woven bag...
Xia Mufan stood by and watched Jia Xihua's every move. He watched her get in the car, come to Shanshui Haoting, and throw the woven bag into a black trash can at the corner.
After everything was restored, Xia Mufan did not find any green paint on the bottom of the woven bag.
Details determine success or failure.
Since this green paint scratch mark was not left by Cai Yutie or Jia Xihua, it must have been left by the person who pushed Jia Xihua out to take the blame.
Once again, we visited the people around Jia Xihua, including Wan Youfu's former co-worker, the owner of Dapeng Gardening Company, as well as the landlord and neighbors, and they all proved that Jia Xihua was not lying.
Ten years ago, Jia Xihua did give birth to a son, but the child disappeared after Wan Youfu fell ill and was hospitalized. Although it was announced to the public that the son died young, after Wan Youfu passed away, Jia Xihua knelt in front of the mourning hall and slapped herself in the face like a madman, saying that she should not have sold her son. So, everyone knows that Jia Xihua sold her son to pay for her husband's medical treatment, but unfortunately she failed to save her husband's life.
Everyone says that Jia Xihua is a poor person.
However, Jia Xihua is introverted and doesn’t like to talk to others. Everyone has their own lives and no one has time to understand her psychology, let alone the ability to help her.
Who is Sister Hua?
After investigating the people around Jia Xihua, the Special Operations Department focused its attention on the couple Zhong Yinghong and Jiang Zheng.
Xia Mufan came to Jiang Zheng's foreign trade company and met Mr. Jiang, who was dressed in a suit and tie.
Jiang Zheng is not tall, about 1.67 meters tall. He has a round face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a big nose, and an honest look. When he saw the police coming, Jiang Zheng did not panic. He signaled his secretary to pour tea and then leave. Only he and Xia Mufan and others were left in the huge office.
As soon as Xia Mufan sat down, he placed Jia Xihua's photo in front of Jiang Zheng: "Mr. Jiang, do you know her?"
In the photo, Jia Xihua is not wearing a mask or a hat, and the burn scars on her face and neck are obvious.
Jiang Zheng took a look at the photo and shook his head: "I don't know him."
Xia Mufan: "Look carefully, her name is Jia Xihua. In March 1990, at Xing City Second Hospital, you bought her son for three thousand yuan."
Jiang Zheng narrowed his eyes and his breathing seemed to stop for a beat.
Two seconds later, Jiang Zheng laughed: "Officer Xia, are you kidding me? Why would I buy her son? Buying and selling babies is illegal."
Xia Mufan stared into his eyes: "Jia Xihua insisted that your son Jiang Jialiang is her son."
Jiang Zheng's smile did not fade as he shook his head: "This is even more nonsense. Liangliang is Yinghong and I's child. He can't possibly be anyone else's."
Jiang Zheng denied everything.
Xia Mufan stood up and said goodbye. Before leaving, he shook hands with Jiang Zheng and said, "I hope you can cooperate with the police to do a DNA test."
Jiang Zheng did not hesitate at all: "It is my duty to cooperate with the police."
Walking out of the company, Xia Mufan looked up at the sky.
The sky is clear and blue. When the sun shines, the city is bright and beautiful.
But why are there always corners where the sun doesn’t reach? In those dark corners lie lies, deception and cruelty.
Feng Xiaoyu sighed softly: "What should I do? Jiang Zheng really doesn't recognize him."
Gong Weiguo said: "He is not even afraid of DNA testing. It seems that Jiang Jialiang is really his and Zhong Yinghong's child."
Feng Xiaoyu felt sorry for him: "Jia Xihua thought Liangliang was her child, but it seems she was wrong. Where did her son go? Did Jiang Zheng sell him to someone else?"
Sun Xianbing said, "Pah!" "What kind of foreign trade company? I think it's a human trafficking company, right?"
Xia Mufan listened to the discussion of his teammates.
Or maybe Jia Xihua had recognized the wrong person, and the man who bought her child just looked a little bit like Jiang Zhengsheng.
Or, Jiang Zheng is lying.
Hearing that Jiang Zheng denied that he had bought the child, Jia Xihua was extremely excited and wanted to jump up: "Impossible! I will never mistake him. He bought my child. He said that his wife had a postpartum hemorrhage and could no longer have children. I saw that he was dressed like an official and spoke kindly, so I believed him and gave my son to him. Oh, by the way, there is a red birthmark on the base of his right hand. There can be no mistake about this, right?"
Thinking of the red mark on Jiang Zheng's palm when he shook hands with him, Xia Mufan fell silent.
Now, there is only one possibility, Jiang Zheng is lying.
Ten years ago, he deliberately played the victim and created the image of a loving wife, tricking Jia Xihua into selling her son to him, and then... no one knew where he was sent.
If Jiang Zheng sold Jia Xihua's son, then he is very likely related to Sister Hua!
Based on the current information, the most likely person to be Sister Hua is Zhong Yinghong.
Xia Mufan came to Shanshui Haoting again.
Zhong Yinghong dismissed Wang Xiuzhen and hired an honest and hardworking middle-aged woman as a nanny. Seeing the police visit, Zhong Yinghong was a little surprised: "Officer Xia, what do you want to see me about?"
Xia Mufan said: "The person who killed Lingling has been found."
Zhong Yinghong asked the nanny to pour tea, and she sat on the sofa, looking at her beautiful new nails leisurely: "Oh, thank you for coming here to tell me."
Seeing that she didn't seem to welcome his arrival, Xia Mufan knew that she had already spoken to Jiang Zheng, so he said directly: "That person's name is Jia Xihua. Her son was bought by someone ten years ago, and she has been looking for him. She believes that Liangliang is her son who was bought by a human trafficker ten years ago, so... she is jealous of Lingling's closeness to her son and has the intention to kill her."
Zhong Yinghong lifted her eyelids and glanced at Xia Mufan, then said calmly, "This person is a psychopath, and is definitely not a good person. I think you should check her background carefully, and don't be fooled by her pitiful appearance."
Xia Mushige said, "Oh?" "Why do you think she is a psychopath?"
Zhong Yinghong smiled contemptuously: "Burying a dog alive, isn't that perverted? She lost her own son, so she thinks everyone's child is hers, isn't that perverted? Just because Liangliang likes Lingling, she kills the dog, isn't that perverted?"
Xia Mufan didn't say anything.
Zhong Yinghong became more and more excited as she spoke: "My husband said that you went to the company to look for him this morning. That ugly girl surnamed Jia said that my husband bought her son? It's hilarious! I think that ugly girl is crazy. She obviously sold her son herself, but she insisted on killing someone else to buy him. Who knows if she has two faces, pretending to be pitiful in front of people and being a devil behind people! She can even kill such a cute little animal, what else can she not do?"
Xia Mushige was very humble: "So what else do you think she might have done?"
Zhong Yinghong curled her lips and said, "She lost her own child, and she thinks other people's children are hers all day long. Maybe she was a human trafficker."
Xia Mushige nodded: "It is possible."
Zhong Yinghong placed her hands on her knees, a gleam in her eyes: "Right, you think so too? I have never seen a gardener at home before, but after hearing what you said, I remember seeing this strange woman wearing a mask and a hat. As soon as she saw Liangliang, she approached him secretly. It was obvious that she had bad intentions. Maybe she is a human trafficker."
Xia Mufan did not continue the topic, but stood up and said, "Can I visit your villa?"
Zhong Yinghong was reluctant, but couldn't refuse, so she stood up and said, "Okay, I'll show you around."
After walking around the villa from the first floor to the second floor, from the bedroom to the study, Xia Mufan's eyes finally stopped on the abandoned doghouse in the yard.
It was a small wooden house, exquisite and elegant.
Most importantly, the cabin was painted green.
Xia Mufan squatted down and looked at the cabin. He reached out and touched it, and asked casually, "Is the paint newly applied?"
Zhong Yinghong didn't know what Xia Mufan meant, so she just said "hmm", "It used to have white walls and a red roof, but Liangliang insisted on giving Lingling a green house, so it was repainted."
Xia Mufan turned his head and looked at Zhong Yinghong: "When did you paint it?"
Zhong Yinghong thought for a moment and said, "A week or two? I don't remember the exact time."
"My dad helped me brush it last Sunday." A childish voice sounded. It was Liangliang.
School was over early today and the driver just picked up Liangliang. Liangliang smiled widely when he saw Xia Mufan: "Sister Xia, where's your ice cream? Why didn't you bring it over?"
Xia Mufan put his finger to his lips and whistled loudly.
A whistle sounded, and coal ash jumped down from the treetop and landed steadily on Xia Muchan's shoulder.
Xia Mushi patted Coal Ash's little paws and said with a smile: "I didn't bring ice cream today, but I brought my best friend, whose name is Coal Ash."
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