Chapter 111 Death of the Virgin: The Bloody Boy

The office was small, but filled with things: a large bookshelf filled with all kinds of fairy tales, with a few dolls on it; a wooden filing cabinet, a brown desk, with a few books on autism intervention and all the children's files on it.

The room was clean, with no signs of a fight. But the window of the room was open, and rain poured in, soaking the wooden floor and leaving a pool of water stains on it.

Fang Rui walked over and found that the window was not equipped with a burglar alarm. As long as the glass window was opened, people outside could climb over the wall. There was a little mud and half a footprint on the windowsill.

There is also a red, dried-up balloon at the bottom of the desk.

"Hey, maybe a thief broke in." Chen Xinran said, "I persuaded the dean to install anti-theft windows before, but she refused to do so in order to save money. She also said that she was so poor that even if a thief came, he could only steal some books. If I had known, I would have forced her to install it."

"Dean Chen, what did you do before?" Fang Rui asked.

"I am an autism prevention teacher. Seven or eight years ago, I was a volunteer here, but as I got along with these children for a long time and developed feelings for them, I stayed here. I had a child before, and he died in an accident. I wanted to share my love for him with these poor children, which can be regarded as accumulating blessings for my children."

Fang Rui found that something seemed to be missing from the table. There are two circular marks on it, as if something was placed there for a long time, but now the two things have disappeared.

"Dean Chen, what were placed in these two places before?"

"Here... it seems to be two piggy dolls. Maybe some child gave them to her." Chen Xinran thought for a while, turned on her phone, and found a photo, "Look, that's it. This photo was taken when Dean Zhang was interviewed by reporters."

Fang Rui glanced at the photo. The two dolls were about twenty centimeters tall, pink, and piggy-shaped. There was nothing special about them.

If there really was a thief, why would he steal such ordinary dolls?

Mu Mian found that the eyes of the deceased were wide open, and she was looking at one place. Mu Mian lay beside her, and following the deceased's gaze, she saw the cabinet.

"Mu Mian, the floor is so cold, why are you lying down? You will catch a cold."

Mu Mian stretched out his hand to Fang Rui, "Fang Rui, pull me up."

Fang Rui pulled Mu Mian up. Mu Mian walked to the cabinet and gently opened the cabinet door with his gloved hands.

With a creak, the old cabinet door was opened.

"Ah, why is there another victim?" Xiao Zhang exclaimed.

A little boy covered in blood was exposed in front of them.

The little boy was wearing a sweatshirt with a rainbow horse printed on it. He had a pair of dark and empty eyes. He was like a frozen sculpture, without any expression or movement.

Mu Mian touched his nose, "He is breathing, not a corpse." Mu Mian simply checked his body surface with his eyes, "There are no knife wounds, and the blood is not his."

"Yuanyuan."

The boy did not respond at all.

Chen Xinran rushed over and hugged the little boy, "Yuanyuan, why are you here? Teacher Su and the others have been looking for you for a long time, but couldn't find you. She was scared to death. Yuanyuan, what's wrong with you?"

Mu Mian looked at Chen Xinran with dissatisfaction, "Acting Dean Chen, you will ruin the clues by doing this." Mu Mian was afraid that everyone would think she was cold, so she added, "If you want to hug him, you have to put on a raincoat and gloves before hugging him."

"Yuanyuan is probably stimulated. Although he couldn't speak before, he would react when he saw me. He has no reaction at all now. I guess he saw the murder and was scared silly. We need to conduct crisis intervention on him. Sorry, I have to deal with his affairs first." Chen Xinran ran out with Yuanyuan in her arms, regardless of whether Fang Rui and the others agreed or not.

Xiao Zhang looked at the bloodstains in the cabinet, and he had an amazing guess: "Do you think it was Yuanyuan who stabbed the dean to death? The dean couldn't bear to scare Yuanyuan, so even if she was stabbed by Yuanyuan, she still kept smiling, she didn't want to scare Yuanyuan."

Although Xiao Zhang's guess was outrageous, Xiao Wang and Chen Xue still thought it was reasonable. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the deceased died with a smile?

"According to your logic, it is also possible that the dean knew that Yuanyuan was hiding in the cabinet, and the dean didn't want Yuanyuan to be scared, so even if she was stabbed by the murderer, she still smiled to comfort Yuanyuan?" Fang Rui also said his own guess.

"Ah, boss, your guess is much more reasonable." Xiao Zhang admired.

Mu Mian sighed, "Eh."

"Mu Mian, what's wrong?" Fang Rui saw from Mu Mian's smug expression that Mu Mian was quietly complaining about something.

"Your guesses are so warm. Your kindness limits your thinking and prevents you from thinking about more possibilities."

Fang Rui said helplessly: "Mu Mian, just tell me your guess first."

"I don't want to. I only speak with evidence."

"..."

Mu Mian checked the body's surface. The deceased was stabbed three times in the stomach and once in the chest. Mu Mian measured the body's temperature again, which was slightly higher than the room temperature, about 25.2℃.

"The deceased died between ten and eleven last night." Mu Mian said.

Fang Rui went to the security room and wanted to retrieve the surveillance.

The security guard, Lao Liu, was in his fifties, wearing a black brand-name sportswear, and looked energetic. But when he walked, his feet were limping.

"Police comrade, is it Director Zhang who is in trouble? I didn't see her come this morning. Unless she is sick, she will definitely come to have breakfast with the children." Old Liu said with a worried look on his face.

Old Liu didn't know how to operate the computer, so he asked Fang Rui to retrieve the surveillance himself. While Fang Rui was operating the computer, he chatted with him casually, "Uncle Liu, what kind of person is your director?"

"Our dean is a very kind person. She used to be very rich and owned a KTV. She was considered a female boss in the 1990s. But her child had autism. In order to cure the child, she almost lost everything. Her husband was a useless gigolo who ran away without wanting to take responsibility. She insisted on treating the child alone, but in the end the child was not saved. She didn't keep an eye on him and the child ran into the road and was hit and killed by a truck. Hey, why don't good people get good rewards?

Later, she established She founded this welfare home to take in autistic orphans. She would take in children who have parents but cannot afford to raise them. She also spent money to take autism prevention courses so that she could take better care of these children.

Later, the Stars Home became famous, and many companies and caring people donated to us. The director also used the extra money to set up a charity fund to help autistic children with their treatment. She was even elected as a moral model in Jiangzhou City a year ago..."

When talking about Dean Zhang's deeds, Old Liu talked endlessly.

"She took me in, too. I had a deformed right foot when I was little, so I was abandoned by my parents and grew up in an orphanage. I couldn't find a stable job when I grew up, so I had to wander around here, doing odd jobs to make a living. Director Zhang felt sorry for me and let me be a security guard, paying me more than a thousand yuan a month. Although it's not much, I have food and accommodation here, so I basically don't spend any money. She also bought me a pension insurance, and after I retire, I can get a few hundred yuan a month. She is really a good person, God will have eyes and let good people be rewarded."

Xiao Zhang was deeply moved when he heard this, and he echoed, "Hey, why don't good people get rewarded!"

"Uncle Liu, why did the surveillance video from 8:05 last night to 9:17 this morning disappear?" Fang Rui interrupted their conversation.