"Old Mrs. Xiao is back?"
Feeling sorry for her, she ran to Mrs. Xiao's house every day. Qin Jinhuan sent a younger brother to stay there 24 hours a day for her. It was this little brother who called her, so she was a little excited. For her, Mrs. Xiao's side was the last hope.
"Yes, madam, Mrs. Xiao is back. Do you want me to take her to see you now?"
"No, no, no, I'll go see her right away." Afraid that Qin Jinhuan's little brother would scare the old lady, Mu Yu repeatedly stopped her, and after thinking about it, she said, "Just watch over there. Don't disturb her, just in case. The old lady walked around and told me in time, I'll be there right away."
"clear."
She hung up the phone and immediately called Rong Jian again. Unexpectedly, Rong Jian's first sentence when he answered the phone was "Mrs. Xiao is back."
She was surprised: "You know?"
"You also know?" Rong Jian was also a little surprised.
"Well, Ah Huan sent a younger brother to guard near Mrs. Xiao's house."
"Oh. I heard from Mrs. Xiao's neighbor Aunt Zhang. I'm going to meet Mrs. Xiao now."
"I'll go with you!"
"You... okay. I'll be in the parking lot right away. Now come to the main entrance of the hall."
"Okay." She responded and ran back to the forensic room to say hello to Nie Yunkang and said she had to leave beforehand - she had left the forensic room after calling Rong Jian before.
Jogging to the main entrance of the hall, she saw Rong Jian's car parked at the foot of the steps. She couldn't help but quicken her pace, taking two steps at a time.
Seeing this, Rong Jian quickly rolled down the window and reminded: "Sister-in-law, don't be in a hurry, be careful!"
"It's okay." She rushed down the steps, panted, opened the door and got in the car.
"Don't worry about these few seconds. If I fall, it will be very serious. Ah Huan will definitely chop off my legs to vent the anger."
"It's not that serious. I'm not a child."
When Mu Yu answered, Rong Jian had already started the car and asked her: "Sister-in-law, did you say Ru Bing would Li Jianyun?"
Only then did he think of the guess he made before hanging up the phone. Mu Yu hesitated for a moment and changed the subject with a dry smile: "This case is really a headache for us. I don't know if Mrs. Xiao can provide any useful clues."
That was just an unfounded guess, and she still placed her hope on Mrs. Xiao.
Rong Jian suddenly sighed: "I guess there's not much hope. I asked Aunt Zhang, and Aunt Zhang said that Mrs. Xiao's eyesight couldn't be seen clearly and her ears were good and bad. I didn't hear Mrs. Xiao mention anything about it to her. The bad things Ru Bing said in the past were always good things for Ru Bing.”
But even though he had no hope, he still decided to take this trip. After all, there were too many things that disappointed him, and he didn't care to go one more time.
Mu Yu didn't say anything after hearing the words. He just stared straight ahead, silently praying in his heart for a sudden turn of events.
About half an hour later, Rong Jian parked the car outside the small alley, got out of the car with Mu Yu and went straight to Mrs. Xiao's house.
"Hey! They're here!" Aunt Zhang, who was sitting under the tree with Mrs. Xiao, saw them and immediately shouted, "Aunt Xiao, Captain Rong and the others are here."
"Oh." Mrs. Xiao stood up in response, but her eyes were confused and she didn't know which direction to look in.
Rong Jian ran up to her and said hello quickly to introduce himself: "Hello, Mrs. Xiao, I am Rong Jian, the captain of the Municipal Criminal Police Team."
"Oh, hello, captain." Mrs. Xiao immediately looked in his direction, looking a little nervous, "You are so anxious to ask me about Bingbing. Did something happen to Bingbing?"
"Teacher Feng, she..."
"She's fine!" Rong Jian immediately interrupted Mu Yu and said lightly, "We just encountered a little trouble. I hope Mrs. Xiao can cooperate with us in our investigation."
Only then did he realize that if he directly told the elderly Mrs. Xiao that something had happened to Feng Rubing, it would cause the old lady to panic, or even have more serious consequences. Mu Yu hurriedly pursed her lips and kept silent.
However, Mrs. Xiao seemed to have realized something. She looked around with cloudy eyes and responded very calmly: "Just ask me what you want to ask me. I will definitely tell you what I know."
"Thank you." Seeing the neighbors watching, Rong Jian immediately lowered his voice and said, "Mrs. Xiao, can we go in and talk?"
"Okay." Mrs. Xiao immediately reached out to touch the crutches placed on the side of the stool, and turned towards her home.
"Slow down!" Aunt Zhang wanted to step forward to help her, but when she saw that Mu Yu had already stepped forward, she shrunk her hand wisely and said to Rong Jian, "Captain Rong, I'm going home first. If you need me, just take care of me." "Squeak."
"thanks, thanks."
"You're welcome." Aunt Zhang then waved to the other neighbors, "Don't watch around, everyone. This is a relative of Aunt Xiao's family. Let's go and visit her during the Chinese New Year. Please disperse."
Here, Rong Jian and Mu Yu helped Old Mrs. Xiao into the house together. After she sat down, Mu Yu went to close the door, while Rong Jian bent down and directly asked Old Mrs. Xiao about Feng Rubing's past.
Mrs. Xiao didn't respond, just stared at him.
Mu Yu just said that she didn't hear clearly, and quickly reminded Rong Jian in a low voice: "Captain Rong, Mrs. Xiao's ears are not working well, please speak louder."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Rong Jian just remembered this and was about to repeat what he just said, but Mrs. Xiao waved her hand instead.
"I can hear clearly, I'm not deaf."
"Don't recite it?" Mu Yu was surprised, "But Aunt Zhang..."
Mrs. Xiao smiled and explained: "I can hear clearly what I want to hear, and I can pretend not to be able to hear what I don't like. It's so quiet. I am a lonely old woman and I don't have the energy to argue with others. But don't get me wrong. I pretended to be deaf even to Xiao Zhang because I didn’t trust her. She is a good girl, as kind-hearted as Bingbing, and she takes special care of me, but sometimes she talks too much. "
"Then, did Ru Bing tell you about the special things she encountered when she was fifteen or sixteen?" Rong Jian was more concerned about this issue.
Mrs. Xiao did not answer him directly, but asked him: "Are you really the captain of the criminal police team in the bureau?"
"Yes." The old lady questioned her identity, and Rong Jian quickly explained, "If you don't believe it, you can ask Aunt Zhang next door. She knows my identity."
"Don't get me wrong, that's not what I meant," Mrs. Xiao became cautious when she spoke again, "I want to ask how big of a crime Bingbing committed? Even the criminal police captain was alarmed!"
"Don't get me wrong. Although I am the captain of the criminal police, I am also a good friend of Ru Bing. When she encounters difficulties, I am willing to help her as a friend."
Mrs. Xiao smiled bitterly and shook her head: "Comrade police, although my eyes are blind, my heart is not blind. Please don't lie to me. Just tell me what happened to Bingbing. If nothing happened to her, she wouldn't have been alive for so long. If you don't come to see me, you can't even call me for so long. To be honest, I have always regarded Bingbing as my granddaughter. I even asked a lawyer to write a will. The savings will be left to her, so I really want to know what happened to her."
"She..." Rong Jian glanced at the wrinkled old lady, hesitated, and subconsciously looked towards Mu Yu.
Mrs. Xiao seemed to be aware of his concerns and sighed: "When I was forty, my lover died in the line of duty, and when I was fifty, my only son also died in the line of duty. I have seen all kinds of storms."
"sorry."
The old lady waved her hands and looked solemn: "Please tell me what happened to Bingbing. If you tell me, I can answer your questions better."
Seeing that the old lady looked calm and spoke in an orderly manner, Rong Jian had no worries and told her the key points about Feng Rubing becoming a murder suspect. By the time he finished speaking, the old lady was already in tears.
"My poor Bingbing, why did you suffer such a crime? God is so blind! God is so unfair!"
Mu Yu, who couldn't help crying, quickly used a tissue to wipe the old man's tears, and asked with a choked voice: "Grandma Xiao, think about it carefully, has Teacher Feng told you about what happened between her and Li Jianyun?"
The old lady lowered her head and thought for a long time before raising her head and gently responded: "Bingbing didn't tell me specifically what happened with anyone, but she drank some wine on the anniversary of her grandma's death seven or eight years ago. After she came to my place, she lay in my arms and cried for a long time. Later, she told me that there was something that had been buried in her heart for many years, which made her particularly painful, but she could not tell it because she was afraid that it would be spread. Going out will make Qiqi unbearable, and may make Qiqi unable to hold her head up as a human being for the rest of her life. I think this is what you want to know. I saw that she didn't want to say it at the time, so I didn't ask her. I just advised her to tell her since she couldn't. , then forget it, but she said she couldn't forget it, her mind would often think of it uncontrollably, and it would hurt her every time she thought of it. What made her even more painful was that she couldn't show any pain in front of Qiqi. I felt very sorry for her and was afraid that she would have a mental breakdown if she kept tolerating it like this, so I told her to come to me to cry and vent if she felt uncomfortable.”
Rong Jian asked: "Did she tell you when that incident happened?"
The old lady shook her head helplessly: "No, she didn't tell me anything specific. She probably didn't want me to share her pain. This silly girl, ugh..."
The old lady let out a long sigh and shattered Rong Jian's last hope. He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. The pain was evident in his eyes, which made Mu Yu feel heartbroken. However, she was even more heartbroken for Feng Rubing, who was about to be imprisoned, but she couldn't help it. Nothing can be done.
"Captain Rong, let's go back."
"Snapped!"
The sudden sound startled Mu Yu, but when he looked closely, it was Rong Jian who had twisted the car key in his hand. He slammed the key to the ground, then squatted on the ground with his head lowered, tearing his hair and growling: "Why did we spend so much effort but get nothing? Why did she completely ignore our efforts? Why is she torturing me like this?"
Mu Yu hurriedly stepped forward to persuade her: "Captain Rong, please don't do this. Don't scare the old lady."
"That murderer is so hateful! He killed someone when he killed someone. Why did he blame it on a miserable woman? What was even more hateful was the heavy snowfall on Sunday night! If it hadn't been for that heavy snowfall, Ru Bing wouldn't have been a time witness. Can’t find it!”
"It's useless to talk about it now, and it's useless to complain. Let's go back and think about whether there are other ways to help Teacher Feng."
Rong Jian finally calmed down a bit, said sorry to the old lady, and then walked out, followed closely by Mu Yu.
"Wait! Wait!" Just when they opened the door and were about to go out, Mrs. Xiao suddenly called out to them urgently.