The Chen family was devastated and wanted to take the remains home for burial, but the police still needed to investigate the case and could only persuade them to go back first.
The body has been found, and with Lin Yingyu's own confession, the fact that Bai Xiangdong and his accomplice committed the murder is now clear.
However, she only admitted to murdering Chen Hongxia, remaining tight-lipped about her true identity and refusing to discuss it.
Bai Xiangdong had completely gone mad. In prison, he laughed as he picked at his already scabbed wounds, shouting that the police had wronged him and wanted to torture him.
"Bai Xiangdong, did you kill Chen Hongxia?"
"It's not that I didn't do it, I don't know anything about it."
The couple, one delirious and the other silent, seemed to have brought the case to a standstill.
The police officers went to look for the Bai family's children that very day. Bai Jiaying had already gone to the south, while Bai Jiahe was sneaking back to Bai Xiangdong's hometown.
His father has been drinking a lot lately, and when he's drunk, he talks nonsense.
At first, Bai Jiahe didn't take it to heart. He was just tired of the family and wanted to move out immediately. But later he discovered that what Bai Xiangdong said seemed to be a big secret.
He even used his salary to buy several bottles of liquor for his father. After getting information out of him a few times, he learned that his mother had a large sum of money.
His father also had one, which is buried in the ancestral grave.
When Sister Chen first went to see Lin Yingyu, she happened to see Bai Jiahe questioning his mother about whether she was hiding something from him.
Lin Yingyu hated Bai Xiangdong to death, and also hated these children who resembled him, especially Bai Jiahe, who was a spitting image of Bai Xiangdong.
Extremely impatient, she scolded him and went back. Bai Jiahe knew his mother didn't like him, and thought that he could deal with the portion his mother had later.
He first needs to go to his ancestral graves in his hometown and dig out the remains his father left there, and also to confirm whether this matter is true.
He asked for leave from the factory and sneaked back to Bai Xiangdong's hometown. He asked the village elders how he had finally found the ancestral graves, but before he could dig more than a few times, he was surrounded by the police who had arrived.
"stop!"
Bai Jiahe was arrested just like that. He was terrified and knelt on the ground, saying that he had only come to the ancestral graves to kowtow to his ancestors.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have engaged in feudal superstition."
The police officers, of course, did not believe him, but after questioning him for a few minutes, he confessed everything he knew.
"Here to find gold?"
"Yes, yes, my father is buried here."
"Your father was just an ordinary worker, and his ancestors weren't landlords. Where would he have buried gold bars here?"
Bai Jiahe drank with his father for several nights, and the truth was gradually pieced together from his mouth. He dared not believe it and dared not speak, so he knelt there and mumbled a few words.
"...I don't know, I don't know anything, please let me go."
After the fact that Bai Xiangdong and his wife committed murder was established, the police immediately began to investigate them. In addition to the Bai family's children, several families who had close ties with them were also investigated.
With a pair of murderers and their mysterious identities, the Bai family's case has garnered unprecedented attention from the police department.
He Shuyue and Lu Weiguo, a married couple, have both been suspended from their jobs, and Lu Yang is also under investigation.
Zhou Qi had previously confessed that some of the jewelry belonged to the Bai family. At first, no one believed him, but now everyone realizes that Zhou Qi may also know the secret.
This matter is now very complicated. An unidentified woman has been hiding in the country for more than 20 years. Her husband is a worker in a machinery factory, and her friend is a leader in the machinery factory.
Her friend's husband was a high-ranking official who possessed many secrets, and even Zhou Qi was implicated in numerous corruption cases.
Starting with her, she became entangled in many things in Xin'an, like a spider web.
This matter is no longer just a criminal case for the public security department; it has now involved intelligence agencies.
The others are still under investigation, but the Bai family's lack of resolve might be the key to their success.
“Your parents are murderers, and we have the evidence.”
"What?!"
Bai Jiahe looked up in shock, staring at the police officers in disbelief, thinking they were just trying to scare him, but the officers all looked very serious.
"If you don't tell us what you know, that's considered covering it up. You should know your parents' background, right?"
"We have basically obtained the evidence; now we're just giving you a chance."
Bai Jiahe collapsed to the ground. How could that be? He had actually heard Bai Xiangdong say some seemingly plausible but ultimately untrue things.
But he couldn't believe it at all, and subconsciously put it out of his mind, only remembering that there were valuables at home.
If the parents' murder is true, then are all the other things true as well?
The police have all the evidence, so there's no use in him hiding it anymore. The most important thing he should do now is to distance himself from these parents. He's still young and has a long life ahead of him; he can't be associated with them anymore.
"Officer, I'll tell you everything."
Li Mei has been trying to get information from Zhou Qi's former colleagues these past few days, but they all avoid her like the plague.
“These ungrateful wretches! Zhou Qi gave them so many benefits back then, they were practically clinging to our family forever. Now that our family is in trouble, they’re all running away faster than rabbits.”
She used the hundred-plus yuan her son gave her to buy gifts, but no one accepted them.
They could only carry these things back to the dilapidated house. Looking at the run-down house, Li Mei was overcome with sorrow.
Just a few months ago she lived in a beautiful house, but now she's like a rat in the street, and some people wish they could kick her.
She called her son, but couldn't reach him, and the letters she sent wouldn't arrive for several more days.
The fact that the Bai couple had been arrested was no secret in Xin'an. Although Li Mei had moved away, she had been keeping an eye on the situation there.
Hearing that the old vixen had also gotten into trouble, a wave of pleasure washed over him. How wonderful! Why was it that the old vixen who took all the money Zhou Qi had embezzled got away scot-free?
It would be best if something happened to them. If that old bastard Zhou Qi doesn't get out, it would be best to have all three of them executed.
Li Mei had been hitting roadblocks these past few days, and she vaguely knew that Zhou Qi wouldn't be able to get out this time. She was almost ready to give up, but she was still persisting for her son's sake.
"Have you heard? The Bai family couple are murderers."
"What? They've lived there for so many years, and we've always thought they were good people."
Everyone had automatically ignored the messy affairs between the Bai and Zhou families during this period, and were filled with emotion.
We've been neighbors for almost 20 years. I never imagined that they were murderers. I heard they came to Xin'an after killing someone.
“That woman is not Chen Hongxia. The Chen family came looking for her, saying that their daughter was killed by the couple. They still don’t know the woman’s identity.”
"Could he be a Kuomintang spy?"
Everyone wasn't stupid; they immediately realized this. What was initially a sigh turned into anger.
This person has been lying in wait here for over 20 years, and no one has ever discovered her. We don't know what she has been doing in private, or how many state secrets she has betrayed.
"Hongxia's body has been found. The identities of the Bai couple are still under investigation. Zhou Qi has always been involved with their family. We don't know if he is a spy."
At this point, the others lowered their voices as well.
"I think the Lu family is also a suspect."
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