On July 30, the funeral of the deceased Song Yuwen was held at his parents' home. Chen Shi called all the police involved in the case to guard nearby, and he went to the funeral with Lin Dongxue and Xu Xiaodong.
Lin Dongxue kept asking him: "Are you sure that the murderer is among the people who are coming today?"
"Very sure."
"It's actually Ms. Song, right?"
Chen Shi made a silent gesture, "Knowing in my heart, don't make too much noise. Be careful to startled the snake."
Song Yuwen’s parents and younger brother stood in front of Song Yuwen’s spirit. His mother was already crying and her eyes were red and swollen. Whenever someone came forward to worship, the family of the deceased bowed in return. Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue also deliberately wore black clothes today and bowed before the spirit. Bow three times, and burn three sticks of incense.
The Song family’s house was very large, and the living room was filled with a sad atmosphere, but the other rooms were different. Chen Shi walked back and forth and saw some relatives in the master bedroom chatting together, talking and laughing. They were all middle-class from their clothes. class.
There were also some relatives gathered outside the door, including Ms. Song and Mr. Shi. They smoked cigarettes and talked and laughed, and they were very ordinary in terms of clothing.
Lin Dongxue commented in a low voice, "Poor relatives and rich relatives will always consciously divide into two groups. The differentiation between the rich and the poor can block family affection more than the blood relationship."
"Relatives are just strangers linked by blood," Chen Shi said.
At this moment Song Yuqiang came out and said, "Two police officers, you are here!"
Chen Shi asked, "Don't you need to guard your brother?"
"My dad asked me to rest for a while and greet you. Those who are here today are relatives. You two don't know anyone. It's so embarrassing to stand here."
Chen Shi glanced at Lin Dongxue with a smile, and said, "It's okay, I'm with her, I don't feel embarrassed anywhere."
"Ha, you two are really good matches, by the way, what I said before."
"Talk to another place!"
There are people in every room in the house. They can only go to the kitchen. Even the kitchen has a few uncles smoking cigarettes, and they move when they see someone coming in. Song Yuqiang took out a tablet and said, "This is what you want to see."
Lin Dongxue leaned over to look, "What?"
"I asked Yuqiang for all the photos of his brother since childhood." Chen Shi looked through it in his hand.
Song Yuqiang looked very attentive to Lin Dongxue and said, "Officer Lin, would you like a drink? I'll get it for you."
"No need, ask you something... You have a lot of relatives."
"It's quite a lot. After all, the two grandpas, my grandpa and uncle, are brothers, and there are more than a dozen children below."
"I noticed... Uh, it may be a bit inappropriate to say that. Your relatives are quite divided between the rich and the poor."
"Haha, you deserve to be a policeman. He is really insightful." Song Yuqiang's flattery was very unskilled. "You look at these richer uncles and aunts. They belong to my grandfather. The poorer relatives are all Uncle's over there."
"It seems that the root problem lies in your grandpa's generation."
"Yes, my family was poor before liberation. My grandfather could only let one of these brothers study, and the two brothers caught lots, and then my uncle caught..."
"I heard you right, isn't it because your grandfather has the opportunity to study, and all offspring have different fates?"
Chen Shi interjected, "Don't look at his grandfather's age?"
Song Yuqiang continued: "That's the way my father and uncle told me. At that time, it was my uncle who went to school. My grandfather had to stay at home and work as a farmer. Later in the XX Revolution, the uncle who had studied was criticized for fighting. After the bullpen, my children were unlucky, but my grandfather escaped because he was a poor, lower-middle peasant and made a clear distinction with his brother. The children were assigned good jobs because of their good composition. When my grandfather died, he said it was fate , Uncle grandpa accounted for good luck in the first half of his life, and good luck in the second half of his life. Sure enough, for a lifetime, if you run out of luck early, you will have bad luck in the second half of your life. Because of this historical reason, plus some other factors, until now, My grandpa is generally better at mixing, but uncle's mixing is worse."
"A little thing can change a life, and even the destiny of future generations. The world is really impermanent." Lin Dongxue sighed.
Chen Shi handed the tablet, pointed to a group photo and said, "When did your brother take this?"
"His eighteenth birthday."
"This is you?"
"right."
"This is that cousin?"
"is her."
"what about this?"
"Cousin."
"The eighteenth birthday is so grand? Isn't it generally over twenty?"
"Isn't my brother's birthday summer? It happened that he did well in the college entrance examination that year, and when he was 18 years old, he took us out to play and rented a holiday villa in Moon Bay. We stayed there for a few days."
"It seems that your family is indeed quite rich. You can rent a villa for your birthday when you enter university... What did you do?"
"Drinking, didn't my brother just come of age at that time, so he suggested that everyone drink once. The drink was red wine, but we were all drunk."
"Then what?"
"My cousin and I went online. We would be in our teens. We were full of our brains to play online games. We went online as soon as we got the chance. We played all night and we went back."
"So your brother and Wanjun cousin stayed alone in the villa? And drank alcohol."
Song Yuqiang's expression changed, and he said, "Damn! Your idea is too dirty, right? We are cousins, how could it be..."
"I didn't say anything, where did you want to go?" Chen Shi observed the subtle changes in Song Yuqiang's expression, "Or what do you actually know!?"
Song Yuqiang bowed his head and said nothing, Chen Shi said, "Your expression has already told me."
"That..." He stubbornly said, "When I left the villa, my brother was really a little bit wrong. He asked me if the girl and I would get pregnant or something... I didn't think much at the time, after all, we I usually talk about this together, and now I think about it, it's true that they might have something to do with each other."
"Cousin Wanjun is clearly on the side of the poor relatives, but you are often together."
"Because my second aunt took my brother before, and Wanjun's cousin was also in school at the time, but the second uncle was going to work again. She often went to my house for dinner, so we often stayed together when we were young. My brother often said that when we grow up, we want Marry her..." Song Yuqiang's expression changed, "Don't you suspect that she killed my brother!"
Chen Shi avoided answering, saying: "I will ask you one last question. Since that trip to the villa, have you ever met her in person once?"
Song Yuqiang said in a daze, "Have a phone call, chatted on QQ, and played online games..."
"I'll just ask if you have met in person."
"Maybe not."
Lin Dongxue's eyes widened, and she seemed to understand, Chen Shi said to Song Yuqiang: "Send your parents, second aunt and second uncle outside, and let's have a good chat."