"Dacheng came here about four or five years ago. I can't remember the exact time."
"Four or five years ago?!"
Mu Yu and Rong Jian's eyes lit up at the same time, and they quickly followed Rong Jian's words: "Where was he four or five years ago? Huacheng?!"
"I don't know." Seeing everyone staring closely at him, Tian Mao realized that they didn't believe his words, and immediately widened his eyes and emphasized, "I really don't know! Dacheng has been a little confused since he was a child. He got separated from his family in an accident. His parents searched for him for a long time and called the police. A few months later, a homeless man in a neighboring city was hit by a car and his face was completely mutilated. The police asked them to identify the body, and they concluded that it was them. The son who went away cried so hard that he took Dacheng's ashes back to Anxi for burial. Not long after, his household registration was canceled. Unexpectedly, after so many years, Dacheng came back alive and his brain was better than before! He must have learned well outside! The only thing that hasn’t changed is his bad habit of being lazy.”
Mu Yu interrupted: "Have you known him before? I mean before he went missing."
"I do not know."
"Then how do you know that he used to have a habit of eating and being lazy?"
"I always listen to what my wife and my parents-in-law tell me about Dacheng."
"How many years have you known your wife?"
"How many years?" Tian Maocai thought for a while, "About nineteen years, eighteen years of marriage."
Mu Yu thought for a while and asked: "Have you seen Qian Dacheng's previous photos?"
"I've never seen it. They don't have a single photo of Dacheng in their family. They were afraid of seeing things and missing people, so they were destroyed after Dacheng died."
These words made Mu Yu feel very strange: "Don't his parents love this son very much? Why don't they keep a photo?"
"No. Oh, by the way, I remember that my father-in-law once scolded Xiaoyu about the photo when he was drunk. It seemed that Xiaoyu destroyed Dacheng's photo. Xiaoyu told me that he didn't want to see them holding Dacheng's photo. She is crying every day in the photo, and she looks upset. But don’t get Xiaoyu wrong, she is also concerned about her parents.”
"Did you help with Qian Dacheng's subsequent household registration?"
"It's not me. There were a lot of things going on in the quarry at that time, and it was Xiaoyu who was running the show. Alas, she went through a lot of effort to get this household registration, and spent a total of seventy or eighty thousand."
"Why do you need to spend so much money?" Rong Jian expressed surprise, "Although it is troublesome to cancel the account and then register again, let alone four or five years ago, even now it does not cost 70,000 to 80,000 yuan!"
"I must have spent a lot of money on not finding the right relationship." Wu Xing disagreed.
"No, the main thing is that in order to re-register, I have to do a paternity test with my parents."
Wu Xing understood immediately: "At that time, your father-in-law and mother-in-law were dead and their household registration was cancelled. There was no way to prove Qian Dacheng's identity!"
Mu Yu immediately interjected: "Using NDA to identify that he and Qian Xiaoyu are siblings can also prove his identity!"
"That's the problem!" Tian Maocai sighed, "Xiaoyu is not Dacheng's biological sister, Xiaoyu was adopted by their family!"
"Adopted?!"
"Yes. But the relationship between their siblings has always been very good. Although they are not biological siblings, they are better than biological siblings. You also saw how sad Xiaoyu was after Dacheng died. It is for this reason that we registered the household registration for Dacheng. It took a lot of effort to find connections.”
Rong Jian asked: "Where are your wife's biological parents from?"
"I don't know this. I asked Xiaoyu by chance a long time ago. She immediately changed her face and scolded me. She said that if I dared to ask this question again, I would never go to her bed again. She also said She hated her biological parents who abandoned her the most, and I never wanted to ask about them again in her life."
"You haven't asked your father-in-law and mother-in-law, either?"
Tian Maocai shook his head: "I don't think it is necessary to ask. I have never asked."
"Do you still have to remember which area of Anxi your father-in-law and mother-in-law lived in before?"
"When Xiaoyu and I went on a blind date, they lived in the southern suburbs of Anshan. I never asked where they lived before."
Rong Jian was surprised: "Before? You mean where did their family move to the southern suburbs?"
"Yes, when I met Xiaoyu, their family had just moved to the southern suburbs not long ago. They didn't even know the neighbors there very well." Seeing that they were asking so carefully, Tian Mao became more and more uneasy. When he said this, he was cautious. He asked them, "Are these related to the Dacheng case?"
Rong Jian didn't answer his question and knocked on the paper on the table: "Write down the address."
"At that time, the southern suburbs of Anshan were old cities. A few years after Xiaoyu and I got married, the place was completely demolished due to urban construction. Seeing that her parents were displaced, Xiaoyu and I couldn't bear it, so we lent them money to buy a house of about 30 square meters. "This is the address of the apartment. If you want to know more about the situation, it is better to go here, because they used to rent houses everywhere and had no fixed place to live, so they lived here the longest." I wrote it down and handed it to them.
Rong Jian took it and looked at it while asking: "Is this apartment still there?"
"It's long gone. After they died, Xiaoyu sold the apartment and used the money for financial management." After that, he asked sarcastically, "Do you have anything else to ask?"
Mu Yu interjected: "How is the relationship between Qian Xiaoyu and her parents, uh, adoptive parents?"
"Xiaoyu is a filial woman. When I met Xiaoyu, her parents stopped working when they were in their forties and waited for Xiaoyu to get money to support the family. Their daily expenses, including medical treatment, all belong to us."
"Then you have no objection?"
"No objection. They made it clear before I married Xiaoyu. They only have one daughter, and I, as their son-in-law, have to provide for them until they die." Tian Maocai laughed when he said this, "I liked Xiaoyu very much at that time. Not to mention that they just asked me to provide for them in their old age and die, or they asked me to support them like Bodhisattvas, I was willing to do so, as long as they agreed to let me marry Xiaoyu, because my family's financial situation was not bad, and I didn't care about this little money, not to mention my father-in-law. My mother-in-law didn’t ask us to give them money to eat and drink. As far as ordinary daily expenses are concerned, they are still decent people, but they are a bit lazy, and they have passed on their laziness to Dacheng.”
After he finished speaking, he felt a little emotional, "Actually, except for being stronger in that aspect, Xiaoyu is a good woman. When I could satisfy her in the past, she was very gentle to me and never cursed me. It's a pity... alas... , There is really nothing we can do about this kind of thing.”
Wu Xing looked at him speechlessly. Mu Yu ignored this and asked him: "How good is the relationship between your wife and her brother? I mean after Qian Dacheng comes back."
"Dacheng is average to Xiaoyu, but Xiaoyu is very good to Dacheng, even better than our two children, and takes good care of him. Because she feels that her brother has suffered a lot outside in those years, and now that his parents are dead, she has to Make it up to him for his parents.”
"Can you be more specific about taking care of everything?"
"Xiaoyu is Dacheng's paid nanny. Not only does she have to supplement his daily expenses, but she also does laundry, food and hygiene for him. She is never willing to criticize him and treats him as a treasure."
"It seems that Qian Dacheng hasn't lived with you since he came back, right?"
"No. Although my house has four bedrooms, my children are all grown up and they all have to have their own space. The study room is a bit expensive and he is not willing to live in it. Maybe Xiaoyu feels that living with us will easily create conflicts. In order to facilitate care, Xiaoyu rented him a house above my house. After Dacheng came to work in the quarry, he said he didn't want to travel to the city every day and asked me to find a dormitory for him, so he could stay there whenever he came to work. I was sleeping in the dormitory and said that I could hear the noise outside while lying on the bed. I couldn't do anything about him. Fortunately, there were two people looking after the warehouse, and the other person was very responsible. She was too lazy to go out to eat. After being hungry a few times, Xiaoyu felt so distressed that she sent the children to boarding school and asked me to arrange a logistics job for her in the quarry so that she could take better care of her brother. "
Wu Xing interjected and joked: "Your wife also comes here to work, how dare you provoke Xiaotao? Aren't you afraid that she will curse you?"
Tian Maocai bared his teeth in embarrassment: "Xiaoyu and I have reached a tacit agreement on this matter. I don't care about her, and she doesn't care about me. We all pretend that nothing is wrong. For her, I can just hand over the salary card. It's enough for her to take care of me, but for me, I think it's acceptable to have such a good-looking wife who can take care of my children, not to mention she doesn't mess around anymore. Isn’t it greedy?”
Wu Xing didn't say anything, just gave him a thumbs up.
Rong Jian ignored Wu Xing and kept staring at Mu Yu. Seeing that she didn't ask any more questions, he asked in a low voice: "Forensic Doctor Mu, do you have anything else to ask?"
Mu Yu, who lowered his head, shook his head while writing on his notepad.
Rong Jian then looked at Wu Xing and saw that Wu Xing also shook his head. He then closed his notebook and stood up to look at Tian Maocai: "We will stay here for now. We will contact you if necessary."
"Hey, okay, I will cooperate fully." Tian Maocai immediately pleaded with a panic face, "I have said everything I should say, and I have not concealed a word. Regarding the matter about me and Xiao Tao, please let me know..."
"I'm not interested in gossiping about that," Rong Jian interrupted him calmly and reminded him, "There are probably many people in the quarry coveting your position as the director. If you don't want others to know about it, you have to do nothing yourself. If you don't restrain yourself, , once the incident comes to light, your good days will come to an end."
"Yes, yes, I will break up with Xiao Tao today!" Tian Maocai nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Okay, now take us to Qian Dacheng's dormitory."
"Dorm?" Tian Maocai was a little surprised, "Didn't the police check it yesterday?"
"Look again." Rong Jian said as he walked out of the office.
"It's sealed."
"This has nothing to do with you."
"Oh." Tian Maocai didn't say anything. He jogged a few steps in front of them, then bowed to guide them.
Qian Dacheng's dormitory was not the same as Tian Maocai's dormitory they had visited before. Qian Dacheng's dormitory was on the easternmost side of the warehouse. It was a separate small room. According to Tian Maocai, another warehouse keeper lived on the westernmost side of the warehouse.
"Eh? Captain Rong, look!" Mu Yu was surprised and pointed at Qian Dacheng's dormitory, which was twenty or thirty meters away, and exclaimed, "The seal is gone!"