Chapter 126 Yeats
Just now, Xia Mufan noticed that the right pocket of Ye Cong's trousers was bulging, and his right hand was touching it intentionally or unintentionally. Such small movements made her suspicious, and she immediately took out the watch.
Seeing his nervous face, there must be a problem.
Feng Xiaoyu, who was standing next to Xia Mufan, looked excited and snatched the watch.
She remembered this watch very clearly. Ye Rong had saved up for a year to buy it when he first started working. Because it was not cheap, he cherished it very much.
The leather strap has turned white from being worn every day. This year, Feng Xiaoyu gave Ye Rong a brand new silver chain watch strap on his birthday. Ye Rong was very touched at the time. He hugged her and said that he had never received a birthday present in his life.
It was also because of this gift that the relationship between the two quickly heated up.
Feng Xiaoyu turned the watch strap over and pointed at a spot on it and shouted, "This is Ye Rong's watch! Look, I gave him this strap. The back is engraved with Y&F, the initials of our last names."
Xia Mufan glanced at Ye Cong coldly: "Kill someone and take the watch?"
Qian Huifen suddenly rushed over like crazy and tried to take back the watch from Feng Xiaoyu: "What's wrong with giving Ye Rong's watch to his brother? Give me the watch!"
Feng Xiaoyu pushed Qian Huifen away and put the watch back into her pocket. Her face was pale and her eyes were filled with hatred: "Ye Rong said that he would wear this watch for the rest of his life and would never give it to anyone!"
Ye Cong then realized that the policewoman who handcuffed him was not his brother's girlfriend, but the round-faced girl in front of him. However, it doesn’t matter who Ye Rong’s girlfriend is now. What matters is that he is suspected by the police and has been handcuffed!
Ye Cong made a "mmm" sound from his mouth and struggled hard while kneeling on the ground.
Seeing that Ye Cong was so eager to speak, Xia Mufan bent down and tore off half of the tape on his mouth.
Ye Cong finally found a chance to speak and started to complain loudly: "My brother gave it to me. This watch was given to me by my brother. I'm getting married and my brother won't give me money. Can't he even give me a watch?"
Hearing this as nonsense, Xia Mufan put the tape back on.
Ye Cong experienced Xia Mufan's dominance and became anxious like an ant on a hot pan. He shook his head and signaled Xia Mufan to tear off the tape on his mouth.
Xia Mufan's eyes were sharp and his voice was calm: "I don't want to hear any nonsense. If you tell me where Ye Rong is now, I can treat it as a family conflict and give you a lighter sentence. If we wait until we find out where Ye Rong is, you will be sued. Think it over carefully."
After waiting for three seconds, Xia Mushige tore off half of the tape.
Ye Cong yelled: "I didn't..."
He had just said two words when Xia Mufan sealed his mouth again.
At this moment, Meihui jumped to Xia Mufan's feet and pulled her trouser leg. Meow, meow.
In the eyes of outsiders, this is just a cat that every household in the village keeps to catch mice, a very ordinary tabby cat, and it is gray and dull.
But in Xia Mufan's eyes, this is her treasure.
Xia Mufan squatted down, touched Meihui's head, took out two small dried fish from his pocket and put them into Meihui's mouth. He seemed to be playing with the cat heartlessly, but in fact he was listening carefully to every word Meihui said.
As soon as Coal Ash entered the village, he ran around everywhere, meeting and chatting with cats in every household, and indeed learned a lot of information.
However, no matter how smart the coal ash is, it is impossible for it to summarize and organize the collected information like humans and find the most useful information. So that’s what Coal Ash is talking about today. It sounded rather confusing to Xia Mushi.
[There was a man who was very fierce and beat his wife every day. 】
[There was a man who tied an iron chain to his wife's ankle and wouldn't let her go out. The wife was very pitiful. 】
[There is a gambling den here, and they gather together to gamble every few days. 】
Trafficking in women!
Alarm bells rang in Xia Mushi's mind. Considering what the village committee director Ye Jingfu said about many bachelors in the village and girls refusing to marry because the village is poor, Xia Mufan was basically certain that the phenomenon of buying wives existed in the remote Hongfeng Village.
The Ye family asked Ye Rong for money, saying that they wanted to marry a wife, but in fact they wanted to spend money to buy a wife.
The reason why Ye Rong disappeared might be because he disagreed with the human trafficking and expressed his anger, and might even have said something like calling the police.
[Oh, by the way, there is also a little girl hiding in the bamboo forest behind the house and crying. She said she was the one who harmed her eldest brother, but she didn't dare tell the police for fear that they would arrest her second brother. 】
Hearing Meihui's words, Xia Mufan seemed to be thinking about something. Did he harm her elder brother? Could it be that the person who said this was Ye Rong’s sister Ye Zhi? Why did Yeats say that she was the one who harmed her eldest brother?
Xia Mufan also realized that she had met three members of Ye Rong's family, but she had never met Ye Zhi, the youngest sister that Ye Rong was said to love the most.
very good.
Now Xia Mufan can be sure that Ye Zhi is an insider.
Xia Mufan's gaze fell on Ye Cong, his eyes full of ridicule and contempt. If Ye Cong refuses to tell the truth, then let's find someone else.
Xia Mufan stood up and handed Ye Cong to Gong Weiguo: "Keep this man under guard. Don't let him get away. If anything happens to Ye Rong, make him pay with his life."
After hearing this, Ye Cong was so frightened that he looked at Xia Mufan and nodded desperately, as if begging for mercy. But there was tape on his mouth and he couldn't say anything.
Qian Huifen screamed and pulled her husband's arm: "Old Ye, Old Ye, listen to what the police said!"
Ye Xianfu said nothing, took out the pipe from behind his waist, stuffed some tobacco into the mouthpiece, lit it, and continued to puff away smoke.
Xia Mufan didn't want to watch the ugly behavior of the three members of the Ye family anymore, so he winked at Gong Weiguo and said, "Xiaoyu and I will go to the bathroom."
Gong Weiguo was a little anxious. In his opinion, now was the critical moment of the interrogation. If Xia Mufan left, Ye Cong would have room to think, wouldn't all his previous efforts be wasted? But people have three urgent matters, Gong Weiguo couldn't say anything, so he just nodded and said, "Okay, you two go quickly and come back soon."
The toilet in the mountain village is a small, roofless latrine built next to the house. There is a large pit of manure inside. As soon as you walk in, you can't open your eyes because of the pungent smell.
Xia Mufan grew up in the countryside and is no stranger to this type of dry toilet. Feng Xiaoyu, however, is the son of a real city worker. He has lived in tube-shaped buildings since he was a child and used flush toilets. When he stepped on the two wooden boards above the toilet, he felt trembling and a little nervous.
After the two of them went to the toilet, Xia Mufan pulled Feng Xiaoyu towards the bamboo forest of the Ye family's old house. Seeing this, Coal Ash immediately understood what was going on, jumped off her shoulders, and ran happily ahead.
[You are looking for that little girl, right? 】
[I'll take you there!] 】
There was a large bluestone deep in the bamboo forest, on which sat a timid girl with two pigtails and tattered clothes. Her eyes were slightly red with tears in them. When she saw Xia Mufan and Feng Xiaoyu appear in front of her, she opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something to them, but quickly closed her mouth, pinched the corner of her clothes and lowered her head.
Xia Mushige asked: "Are you Ye Zhi?"
Yeats nodded.
Feng Xiaoyu and Xia Mufan had worked together on several major cases, and they had already formed a tacit understanding. She quickly approached Ye Zhi and said, "Hello, I'm your brother Ye Rong's girlfriend. Do you know where he is?"
Ye Zhi did not answer her question immediately, but raised her head and looked at Feng Xiaoyu, with a hint of intimacy in her eyes: "I heard from my brother that you are going to get married soon, is it true?"
Feng Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes."
"My elder brother brought me a gift this time. Look." Ye Zhi spread out her palms, revealing something she had been holding tightly in her hands. It was a bow hairpin inlaid with rhinestones. It was sparkling and very beautiful.
Seeing the hairpin, Feng Xiaoyu's eyes were filled with tears, and she said in a trembling voice, "Your brother and I bought this hairpin together. He said that his sister has always liked shiny things since she was a child, and she must look very beautiful with this hairpin."
Hearing what Feng Xiaoyu said, the girl's tears began to fall and a slight whimpering sound came from her throat, like a wounded little animal.
Xia Mushige said, "You know where your brother is, right?"
Yeats nodded, but said nothing.
When Feng Xiaoyu heard this, she excitedly held Ye Zhi's arms and asked, "How is Ye Rong? Is he still alive?"
Ye Zhi looked at Feng Xiaoyu with tearful eyes, neither nodding nor shaking her head.
Feng Xiaoyu was so anxious that her heart was about to jump out of her chest. Unfortunately, she was not familiar with the little girl in front of her. Seeing her pitiful appearance of tears before she spoke, Feng Xiaoyu was afraid that if she pressed too hard, she would get more scared, so she could only continue to ask with a trembling voice: "Ye Rong is still alive, right?"
Ye Zhi is sixteen years old this year. She dropped out of junior high school after only one year. Ye Rong once had a quarrel with his father about this matter, but in the end he could not overcome the insistence of his father and stepmother. This incident has become a regret in Ye Rong's heart. Whenever he talked about it with Feng Xiaoyu, his eyes would turn red and he would blame himself.
Feng Xiaoyu stared at Ye Zhi's eyes seriously: "Help me find Ye Rong, and I will take you to the city to continue your studies."
Feng Xiaoyu's words were like a match that lit up Ye Zhi's hope, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
However, the light only flashed for a moment and soon dimmed.
Ye Zhi choked up and shook her head: "I, I am a burden. I harmed my elder brother."
Meihui just said that Ye Zhi was worried that after she told the truth, the police would arrest her parents and second brother. After knowing Ye Zhi's worries, Xia Mufan had an idea.
She said softly, "You are a kind girl, how could you harm your elder brother? Is it because you want to help those women who were abducted from the village that Ye Cong pushed Ye Rong down?"
Ye Zhi was startled, his eyes full of panic: "You, how did you know?"
Xia Mufan pretended to be mysterious: "I am a policeman. I can tell what happened by just taking a look at this village. If you tell us now, you will save Ye Cong's life. Otherwise, Ye Cong will be the first suspect and will be taken back to the police station for interrogation. By then, neither your eldest brother nor your second brother will survive!"
Ye Zhi seldom went down the mountain. His contact with the world depended on his elder brother and the books he sent him. His mind was as pure as a blank sheet of paper. He was frightened by Xia Mufan and cried, "My elder brother is not dead yet, but he has a fever. I am very scared!"
Hearing the news that Ye Rong was not dead, Feng Xiaoyu was so happy that she almost burst into tears. She stretched out her arms and hugged Ye Zhi, tears streaming down her face. "It's good that he's alive! Take me there. Don't worry if he has a fever. I'll take him to the hospital."
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