Chapter 140 Murder in Sleep: Confirming Identity

The matching result of Zhang Mingli's grandmother's DNA and the deceased's DNA came out soon. Zhang Mingli's grandmother and the deceased are mother and son, and the age of Zhang Mingli's father Li Bao also matches the age of the deceased.

Zhang Mingli's grandmother gave birth to six daughters and two sons, and she lived with her eldest son, so this can prove that the deceased is very likely Zhang Mingli's father Li Bao.

When Zhang Mingli's grandmother received a call asking her to come to the police station to identify the body, her first reaction was that she received a fraudulent call.

"You damn liar, my son is staying well in the United States, and your son is dead. You cheated an old woman like me, you have no conscience!" Zhang Mingli's grandmother is over 70 years old, but her voice is still full of energy.

"Grandma, you said your son is in the United States. Has he called you on video? Has he ever come back?"

"My son is abroad and can't come back, but he always sends me money and clothes from abroad. This year during the Spring Festival, he also sent me a red envelope of several hundred yuan. You are a liar!"

Zhang Mingli's uncle Li Qiang was listening to the phone. He took the phone and said, "Mom, let me tell them."

"Da Qiang, he said Da Bao is dead."

"Mom, you also said he is a liar. Let's ignore him."

He took the phone and walked out of the house, then said, "Police comrade, you said my brother is dead?"

"Yes."

"Hey, I knew Dabao had an accident, otherwise why wouldn't he come back for so many years? He is the most filial! Police comrade, I will go to the police station to identify the body later. You can contact me if you have any questions, don't contact my mother, I'm afraid she will not be able to bear it after knowing the news."

"Okay."

After Li Qiang arrived at the freezer, Mu Mian opened the freezer and told him: "This is your brother's body."

Li Qiang did not cry, nor did he make any extra movements. He just stood there with his eyes downcast, looking at his body. For so many years, he always thought that his brother was really working hard abroad, and he thought his brother was living a good life, even though his brother never called back and there was no news.

The moment he heard the news of his brother's death, everything wrong was explained. It turned out that his brother had died a long time ago.

"How did my brother die?" Li Qiang asked.

"The preliminary diagnosis is that the cause of death is suffocation." Mu Mian replied.

If it were in the past, Mu Mian would tell him that his brother was first pushed down the stairs and injured his head, and then the murderer used crude salt and tung oil to preserve his body, and finally his body was poured into a cement platform. But Mu Mian now knows that the victim's family actually does not want to know the death process of the deceased.

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang took Li Qiang to the interrogation room and took his statement.

"Comrade police, was my brother murdered? But my brother is an elementary school teacher, honest and decent, and usually has a good relationship with people. How could he be murdered?"

"Mr. Li, don't worry, we have some things we need to understand from you." Xiao Zhang handed him a glass of water, "When did you completely lose contact with your brother?"

"It was probably in August 2004, during the summer vacation. My brother's wife Zhang Huanhuan suddenly called and said that my brother had cheated on her and was fussing about divorce. We didn't know what was going on at the time. We didn't believe it at first. My brother has always been an honest man, and he and his wife have a very good relationship. But that year, my family had just been allocated a house and a large sum of money after the demolition, and we wondered if my brother would spend money recklessly. We tried to appease my sister-in-law, and she finally agreed not to divorce.

We planned to open a At the family meeting, we were supposed to educate my brother properly, but he didn’t answer my calls. I went to his house to look for him, and heard that Mingli’s child was hospitalized, so I went to the hospital to see Mingli. When I left the hospital, I received another text message from my brother, saying that he and Xiaojuan had gone abroad, and asked us not to look for him.

Three months later, he sent another text message saying that he had settled down in the United States and we don’t have to worry about him. I never received any messages from him again. My brother’s sister-in-law’s family came to my house and made a big fuss. We felt that we were in the wrong, so we gave them a large sum of money, and finally we settled the matter.

“Didn’t your mother say that your brother often sent money back from abroad?” Xiao Zhang questioned.

"Well, I did this to make my mother feel better. My mother loves my brother the most. If she knew he had lost contact, she would be worried to death. I often buy some things or withdraw some cash, pack them into packages, put fake express delivery numbers on them, and then tell my mother that my brother sent them back. To increase the authenticity, I even deceived my wife and children. They all thought my brother would often send money back." Li Qiang said.

"Then haven't you thought about calling the police?"

"When my brother first lost contact with me a few years ago, I really thought he went to the United States. After all, he often told me that the United States is a good and free place, and he would definitely go there if he had money. I thought he might really have gone there. Later, I felt something was wrong. Even if he was in the United States, he could call back. I thought he was killed in the United States, but I had no connections in the United States and didn't know how to call the police. I never thought he had never gone abroad at all."

"Do you still save the text messages?" Fang Rui asked.

"I keep it. I charge the phone regularly and pay for the SIM card because I'm afraid I won't be able to answer the phone when my brother calls me." Li Qiang said, "The phone is at my house. I'll get it back later."

"Are your brother and his wife in love?"

"Pretty good. They are in a free love relationship. You may not know this because you are young, but more than 20 years ago, marriages were all arranged through matchmaking, and few people had girlfriends on their own. My brother's wife is also an elementary school teacher. They taught in the same school and gradually fell in love. So, I never thought that my brother would cheat and abandon his family and go abroad."

"How is your brother treating his daughter Zhang Mingli?"

"That's spoiling her to the extreme. Let me put it this way, more than 20 years ago, which man could smile after his wife gave birth to a daughter? When my brother found out that Mingli was born, he told us the good news one by one. People who didn't know would think that his wife gave him a big fat boy. Before the demolition, their family was very poor, but they saved money to give their daughter the best. So I don't believe that my brother would give up his wife and children because of cheating."

Xiao Zhang couldn't help sighing in his heart. If Li Bao knew that Zhang Mingli was not his biological daughter, he probably wouldn't be able to smile.

"Did your brother have any abnormal behavior before he disappeared?" Fang Rui asked.

"Abnormal behavior? He often called me during that period. When I asked him what was going on, he didn't tell me. He also always asked me to drink. My restaurant was just starting out at that time, and I was very busy every day. I didn't have much time to deal with him. So I thought about it carefully later and realized that my brother might have really cheated on me at that time."