Rong Jian nodded: "When Xiaoxia's accident happened, Ling Xiaodong went to college away from home. When he learned that his daughter had an accident, Ling Lagen took Rao Qiulan and rushed to Huacheng immediately. He didn't want to get into a car accident while waiting for the bus at the station. Ling Lagen died on the spot. Rao Qiulan, who witnessed her husband's tragic death and her daughter's accident, suffered a nervous breakdown. After Ling Xiaodong arrived in Huacheng, he didn't bother to deal with his sister's affairs and rushed back to Qingyuan County. At this time, he was sent to the hospital. His mother was unconscious when she was admitted to the hospital. While taking care of her, he took time to go home and deal with his father's aftermath. After receiving a large amount of compensation from the driver who caused the accident, he went to Huacheng alone. It was winter. It was very cold and the road was icy. To avoid traffic accidents, all buses from the county to the countryside were suspended. By the way, Ling Lagen was hit and killed by an oncoming vehicle that could not control his skidding.
"According to Ling Xiaodong's uncle, Ling Shuigen, because the buses were out of service and he couldn't go out, he planned to ask Ling Xiaodong to wait until the weather cleared before accompanying him to Huacheng to deal with Xiaoxia's affairs. Unexpectedly, Ling Xiaodong didn't expect it early the next morning. It disappeared. It is said that some villagers saw Ling Xiaodong walking towards Qingyuan County at the entrance of the village. They guessed that he couldn't wait for the weather to clear and walked to Qingyuan County. This was probably Xiaoxia's departure. Maybe it was because her family didn't arrive for a long time after Ling Xiaodong left. It cleared up four or five days after Ling Xiaodong left. Ling Shuigen thought that Ling Xiaodong would transport Xiao Xia's ashes back to Lingjiazhuang, but he didn't expect to see them until New Year's Eve. Xiaodong came back. He was very worried that Xiaodong would have conflicts with the people in the city because of Xiaoxia's death. After discussing with the village chief, he took a few young men to Huacheng to find Xiaodong. Only then did they realize that Xiaodong had taken away Xiaoxia’s ashes and belongings ten days ago. They rushed back to the hospital where Rao Qiulan was hospitalized in Qingyuan County, only to find that Rao Qiulan was also missing! "
"Then what?" Mu Yu asked with her heart clenched tightly.
"Then? Then they never saw Rao Qiulan and Ling Xiaodong mother and son again. Some said that Ling Xiaodong had a car accident with her mother on the way to take her mother to seek medical treatment. Others said that Ling Xiaodong had a mental disorder because of despair about life. His mother committed suicide. Some people said that Ling Xiaodong was afraid that taking his mother back to Lingjiazhuang would worsen her condition, so he took her away from home. Some people from other villages even said that they saw his mother and son begging for a living in a foreign land. Since then, there has been no news from the mother and son, and their lives are uncertain.”
"If there is a car accident or suicide, the traffic department will contact people in his hometown to deal with the aftermath, right?" Mu Yu didn't want to believe these two possibilities.
"If you know the identity of the deceased, you will definitely contact your relatives and friends to deal with it. If you don't know the identity of the deceased, then maybe not."
Mu Yu shook his head slightly: "I don't really believe in the theory of suicide. People in the countryside are all about returning fallen leaves to their roots and burying themselves in peace. His father was buried in Lingjiazhuang. If he really wanted to take his mother to commit suicide because he was desperate for life, he shouldn't He chose to die in a foreign country, but then again, maybe he had spent all the money on his mother’s medical treatment and didn’t have the travel expenses to come back, or maybe he still had money left but felt shameless because he couldn’t cure his mother’s disease. Father, it may not be impossible to die in a foreign country."
"By the way, Ling Shuigen also provided me with a clue. Qingyuan County has the habit of picking up soil for the tombs of ancestors on the winter solstice and then sweeping them. Since Ling Lagen's death, Ling Xiaodong has not returned to Lingjiazhuang. By the third year, Ling Lagen's cemetery was not only overgrown with weeds, but even the grave was almost flat. Ling Shuigen guessed that Ling Xiaodong would not come back. At the winter solstice that year, he called his two sons to bring dustpans. Shovel was going to clean up Ling Lagen's grave when he accidentally discovered that there were traces of paper money being burned in front of the tombstone. "
Mu Yu was surprised: "Ling Xiaodong has gone back?!"
"It shouldn't be him. Because there is an urn with his name engraved in front of the tombstone."
"Engraved his name?! Is he, is he really dead?!"
"A total of three people's names were engraved on the urn: Rao Qiulan, Ling Xiaodong, and Ling Xiaoxia. However, when Ling Shuigen found the urn, it had been turned over in front of the tombstone, with only a little ash inside. They were one meter away from the tombstone. I found the lid, and I guess the jar was knocked over by some small animal. The cemetery is a wind outlet, and the wind is particularly strong after autumn. It is normal for the ashes in the jar to be blown away by the wind. "
"Is that urn still there?"
"Ling Shuigen believed that the urn belonged to Rao Qiulan, mother and son, and that Ling Xiaodong asked a friend to send it back. In order for the mother and son to be buried in peace, he scraped a layer of soil around the urn and put it into the jar, and then picked out On an auspicious day, I opened the coffin for Ling Lagen and put the urn into Ling Lagen's coffin, which reunited the four of them. I originally wanted to open the coffin and take a look at the urn, but Ling Shuigen firmly disagreed. , he said that country people are most taboo about opening coffins. Opening coffins indiscriminately will definitely bring disaster, ranging from harm to the whole family to harming the whole village at worst. The reason for opening coffins last time was because of their rural custom: couples who have lived together for a long time must be buried together after death. Together, otherwise the husband and wife will not be harmonious in future generations, and the ghosts of the deceased will not have peace in the ground. Because the ashes of Rao Qiulan and her two children are stored together, there is no way to separate them, so they can only be buried together in this case. Not only would there be nothing wrong with the opening of the coffin, but everyone would be prosperous as well. I was afraid of offending the villagers in Lingjiazhuang, so I didn’t mention the matter of opening the coffin. Besides, I didn’t think the urn was anything. The useful clues cannot prove that Ling Xiaodong and Rao Qiulan are really dead. "
"Do you suspect that they are not dead? This urn is just a cover?" In fact, Mu Yu also had this kind of speculation in his heart, but it was just a guess without any evidence.
Rong Jian nodded: "The ashes in the urn should be the ashes of Rao Qiulan and Ling Xiaoxia. Ling Xiaodong should not be dead. He should be the one who sent the urn back! In other words, when he took his mother away from Huacheng, he kept He took Xiaoxia's ashes with him. After his mother passed away, he packed their ashes together and sent them back to Lingjiazhuang. With no more worries, he began to plan this revenge serial murder. "
Mu Yu agreed with his words: "Ling, two dots of water, one horizontal line, completely consistent with the starting point of the bloody character written by Li Jianyun before he died. It should be that when he killed Li Jianyun, he made Li Jianyun a fool, and Li Jianyun knew about him Who is it that took the opportunity to write those words secretly? But where is this Ling Xiaodong now? By the way, Captain Rong, do you have any photos of him? "
"There are photos, his university file photos, I asked someone to enlarge them." Rong Jian said as he took out a photo from his bag and handed it to her.
This is a black and white half-length photo. The boy in the photo looks quite handsome, but he is too thin and his eyes are sunken deeply into their sockets, making his already big eyes look a bit scary.
"Xiao Xia is also very thin. She should look similar to him, right? By the way, are there any old photos in his old house?" Mu Yu imagined Xiao Xia's appearance on his own. The police station did not have a file on Xiao Xia's case. She had never I have seen Xiaoxia’s photos and only heard Xie Xiaojing describe them.
"No. I went to the Ling family's old house to look for it. Although the Ling family's house has been taken care of by Ling Shuigen and his wife over the years, because no one has lived in it for many years, and the house is already very dilapidated, it is already crumbling and has been destroyed by the villagers. It is designated as a dilapidated house. The village chief said that if Ling Xiaodong does not come back this year, the village committee will decide to demolish the house. "Rong Jian sighed, "The villagers are very sympathetic to the situation of Ling Lagen's family. We often hear all kinds of bad rumors about them, but the kind-hearted villagers still hold on to the slightest hope that Ling Xiaodong can come back."
Mu Yu stared at Ling Xiaodong's
After looking at the photo for a long time, he sighed deeply: "Look carefully, his facial features are very regular. If he can grow some flesh on his face, he should be a handsome guy."
"That's for sure. Didn't Xie Xiaojing also say that Xiaoxia is good-looking? I heard Ling Shuigen said that his brother and sister look very similar."
"Captain Rong, have you checked Ling Xiaodong's identity information?"
Understanding what she meant, Rong Jian nodded: "As soon as I learned that Ling Xiaoxia had a brother named Ling Xiaodong, I asked someone to check it, along with Rao Qiulan's ID card information, but nothing was found. It seems that they were there six years ago It just disappeared into thin air.”
"Could it be that he changed his identity before taking his mother to leave Huacheng six years ago? Maybe he was planning these murders at that time? I remember you said that he changed his identity before leaving Qingyuan County After receiving a large amount of compensation for his father's car accident, it shouldn't be difficult to spend money to get a fake ID six years ago, right? If he had thought about revenge, he would have thought of a way out for himself, for sure. He won't show his true identity to the world. If he uses a fake ID, I guess... Hey! Even if the identity information is fake, the photo must be real! Look! Will you find that if he has money to eat, he will definitely gain weight. "
Rong Jian had obviously thought of this before: "I've asked someone to do this, but there's no good news yet. What I'm most worried about now is that not only has he changed his identity information, but what if he also does something wrong? Rong, it will be extremely difficult for us to find him. If the murder really started six years ago, we would have thought about the escape route. The person who killed Ling Lagen was a rich man. After learning that Rao Qiulan was crazy and learning about the Ling family's situation, Ling Xiaodong paid half a million yuan to the Ling family. At that time, Ling Xiaodong used the five hundred thousand yuan to slightly change his face. "
Mu Yu suddenly felt a headache: "I thought that after finding out Xiao Xia's identity, I could follow the clues to find out the murderer, but I didn't expect it to be so complicated."
Hearing her frustration, Rong Jian laughed disapprovingly: "At least we are no longer headless flies."
"But when can we..."
"Xiaoyu!" The ward door was pushed open, and Qin Jinhuan rushed in, "How are you?"
"Ah Huan, are you here?" Mu Yu hurriedly greeted him, "Don't worry, I'm fine and I'm discussing the case with Captain Rong."
"Stop discussing, let's rest first." Qin Jinhuan pushed her onto the bed, while expelling Rong Jian with a cold face, "Xiaoyu is going to rest, don't disturb her."
"Ah Huan!"
"Sister-in-law, you can rest. I'm going to ask them how their investigation went. I'll tell you if there's any news." Rong Jian, who had long sensed Qin Jinhuan's murderous intent, ran away after saying that.
"Hey! Captain Rong!" Seeing that the ward door was closed, Mu Yu felt helpless. When he turned to face Qin Jinhuan's worried and annoyed eyes, he hurriedly lay down obediently, fearing that he would anger Cheng Xiang and Weng Yun.
"Don't think about anything else. The doctor said you need to rest." Qin Jinhuan tucked her in, "Close your eyes."
Without her needing to say anything, he already knew clearly what she did and said.
She closed her eyes obediently.
Satisfied with her obedience, he sat down beside her, held her hand, and looked at her with concern and affection.
Understanding his worry, she felt guilty, but she didn't open her eyes and just held his hand.
While the two were communicating silently, a burst of noise suddenly came from outside, which was actually mixed with the sound of a woman yelling Mu Yu's name. Mu Yu suddenly opened his eyes and sat up.