After seeing off Ma Bond, Chen Yan returned to the study on the second floor, locked the contract in the safe, turned around and went to the bedroom, only to find his wife kneeling in front of a Buddha statue, clasping her hands together and muttering something.
"What are you doing again?" Chen Yan felt inexplicably angry when he saw his wife's superstitious look.
Mother Chen stood up and said with tears in her eyes: "Husband, because of Jia Luo... so many people died this time, why don't we all eat fast together as a family in the future to alleviate some of Jia Luo's karma?"
"Absurd!" Chen Yan has always disliked his wife's superstitious practice of praying to gods and Buddhas, so he threw her arm away and said in a deep voice: "Those gods and Buddhas in the sky that you believe in always only choose poor people to torture.
!But I only believe that fate is in my own hands, and you are not allowed to say such things to me again in the future!"
Just when Chen's mother did not dare to speak, she suddenly heard Chen Jialuo's shouting in the next room. The two immediately ran over and found Chen Jialuo huddled in the corner, pointing tremblingly out of the window and saying: "Here it goes again... again!
That woman is here again!"
Chen Yan suppressed his anger and said in a deep voice: "You bastard! Cheer up!"
Chen Jialuo was still trembling and said: "Li...Li Xianglan...that woman is here again!"
Chen Yan could no longer suppress his anger and slapped his son hard on the face.
This slap was so heavy that a clear palm print almost appeared on Chen Jialuo's face, but at this time he still had a look of horror on his face and kept mumbling: "Here he comes...here he comes...she comes again"
Got it!"
Seeing her son's appearance, Mother Chen couldn't help but become worried. She hugged her son's trembling body tightly and whispered comforting words.
Chen Yan angrily scolded the two of them: "None of you are allowed to mention that woman's name from now on! And you! Chen Jialuo! If you want to die, get out of here! Don't hurt us here!"
Mother Chen did not dare to disobey her husband, so she could only hug her son harder and comfort her: "Luo'er, it's okay! It's okay! Those people are gone and won't come to you again, so just relax."
,ah?"
After a long while, Chen Jialuo seemed to have regained consciousness. He pointed to the window and said with trembling words: "No! No! Just now I found another red dot shining on my window, so I took a look outside.
, and found that she was still at the gate! That woman named Li Xianglan! She...she's back again! She's still wearing that red dress! She must have turned into a ghost and came to me! I saw her!"
Chen Yan looked out the window and saw that there was no one on the quiet street, so he loudly reprimanded his son: "You are so fucking scared that you are dizzy!"
Chen Yan raised his hand and was about to hit again, but Chen's mother cried and stopped him: "Stop hitting Luo'er! It's hard enough for him to bear these things alone! I beg you, please stop talking!"
Chen Yan looked at the mother and son in front of him with disappointment. For the first time, he felt so disgusted with his family. He cursed in a disappointed voice: "Trash." After cursing, Chen Yan left the room. He didn't want to see this pair again.
mother and son.
…
Late at night, Mobei City Public Security Bureau, Criminal Investigation Detachment.
In the office, everyone looked solemn, with a depressed expression on their faces. Du Yongzhi sat behind the desk, frowning and said: "Deputy Director Jin gave you time to investigate the case, but why did it end up like this?"
The result? Also, wasn't Li Xianglan involved in a shooting case? Why was she with Xu Tiannan, and they fell into the cliff together! This kind of news about the collusion between the police's assisting investigators and the suspect, if the media found out
what to do!"
Wen Sibao lowered his head, stood up like a child who had done something wrong, and explained: "Detachment leader, we really don't want to see this situation today, but you also know that Tiannan person, once He will not give up until he achieves his goal once he has determined something, so we speculate that Xu Tiannan was helping Li Xianglan secretly, but as a result... he suffered retaliation from the Chen family."
"You're confused!" Du Yongzhi punched the table and muttered to himself, "Tiannan, why did you have to wade through this muddy water? Now you've even lost your life."
After saying that, Du Yongzhi asked again: "Why did their vehicle fall off the cliff this time?"
Li Mengxue explained: "The damage to the vehicle was too severe, so it is difficult to determine the cause of the cliff fall, but I guess it was not an accident."
There is only one day left before the deadline given by Deputy Director Jin of the Public Security Bureau to solve the case. Not only has there been no progress, but the case has become more complicated and complicated. This is simply an impossible task.
Du Yong said: "Li Mengxue, now we only have the last day left. You put down everything you are doing tonight and check the two corpses overnight. I don't care how the corpses were burned, you must be inside." Find the clues! As long as there is any evidence to prove that they were threatened or drugged, this accident case will be classified as a criminal case, and Deputy Director Jin will definitely give us more grace time. "
"Understood." Li Mengxue nodded in agreement.
However, at this moment, a member of the forensic team hurried over and reported: "Li, Director Li, take a look at this!"
A member of the forensic team inserted a USB flash drive into the computer and explained: "Our on-site personnel just found a metal lucky cat in the burned car."
Li Mengxue asked: "Lucky cat? What is that?"
The other party said: "It is an ornament placed under the front windshield of the vehicle. It is usually used for decoration. But just now our people discovered that the ornament was made of metal, so they took a closer look inside and found it. A candid camera device!”
While talking, members of the forensic team played the video recorded in the candid camera equipment. The total length of the video was about an hour. The other party directly pulled the progress bar to 55 minutes, and Mabond's figure immediately appeared on the screen.
Mabond walked to the front of the car, looked around, then put his fingers into the hood, and quickly opened the hood. Although the subsequent pictures were blocked, when the sound of the video was turned to the maximum, there was a faint sound. Some sound of tearing open the packaging bag could be heard, and then Mabond poured something into the vehicle.
The video suddenly cut off at this point, and a member of the forensic team explained: "I don't know why, but the video only ends here, but in this accident, it was most likely Mabond who caused the vehicle to fall off the cliff."
At this time, Du Yongzhi's eyes seemed to be filled with fire. After a long time, he clenched his fists and ordered: "Everyone immediately! Set off immediately! Capture Mabond overnight!"
…
The next day, before dawn, Chen Yan heard her son's exclamation again. Chen's mother, who was still sleeping, suddenly woke up and ran towards her son's room.
Before Chen Yan and his wife entered the room, they heard Chen Jialuo's muffled screams.
Chen's mother couldn't wait to open the door and rush in. She found Chen Jialuo curled up on the bed and crying non-stop. It looked like he was overly frightened, and his whole mind had returned to the level of a child.
After Chen's mother repeatedly called, Chen Jialuo seemed to have finally regained his mind. He pointed to various places in the room in a panic and said in horror: "That woman... that woman came to my room last night!"
Hearing such words, Chen's mother was also frightened. She hurriedly turned around and said to Chen Yan: "Husband! What is going on? Come and take a look!"
Chen Yan suppressed his anger and decided to believe his son for the last time. He said in a deep voice: "Jia Luo, say what you just said again!"
After a while, Chen Jialuo dared to get up from the bed. He first pointed to the ground, then pointed to some toy figures placed on the bedside, and finally fixed his eyes on the desk, tremblingly saying: "Look
...This, here...are all traces of Li Xianglan's visit!"
Looking along the direction, Chen Yan and his wife discovered that there was a small blade inserted in the crack of the wooden floor. There was still a trace of blood on the edge of the blade. It seemed that the son had accidentally stepped on it and scratched it.
foot.
Looking around the bedside, there are usually some doll figures that Chen Jialuo likes, but these figures have undoubtedly had their heads and limbs screwed off now, as if they were divided into pieces by five horses.
Chen Yan and his wife finally looked at the desk. There was a selfie of Chen Jialuo on the desk, but the person in the photo had his eyes wiped out with a red marker.
Chen Yan felt that all this was a bit strange, but when he looked at his son, he suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his son's wrist and asked: "What is this!"
The first joints of Chen Jialuo's index finger and middle finger were stained with a little red paint at some point. Next to his pillow, there was an uncapped crimson marker pen, which stained the surrounding sheets.
Added a little color.
At this time, Chen Jialuo himself was suddenly confused. He didn't know why this red marker appeared on the bedside. Logically speaking, these things were obviously placed on the desk. He hurriedly explained: "How...how could this happen?
Why is the pen here with me! Why do I have these things in my hand..."
Suddenly, Chen Jialuo seemed to understand, and immediately said: "I know! It's Li Xianglan! These things were all done by that woman Li Xianglan, yes! It must be her..."
"That's enough!" Chen Yan could no longer bear his son's psychotic suspicion and scolded loudly: "From now on, if you are doing these unnecessary things, get out of this house! Your future life and death will be ruined.
It has nothing to do with me!"
Chen Jialuo saw that his father didn't believe him, so he turned around and looked at his mother for help, "Mom! Believe me, this is really the fault of that woman! That woman must be hiding in our house! I will go find her! I will definitely find her.
!”
"Luo'er!" Mother Chen took the other person's hand and said with a disappointed look on her face for the first time: "Mom, I beg you, don't... don't go on like this."
Chen Jialuo wanted to say something else, but the landline phone at home suddenly rang. Chen Yan walked to the tea room on the second floor, picked up the phone and said, "Hello."
The other end of the phone seemed to be calling from the security guard of the community, but not long after that, Chen Yan refused and said: "We are not seeing guests now!"
The phone still hung up, but I didn't know what the other party said. After a while, I heard Chen Yan say in a deep voice: "Then bring him in."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yan immediately walked into the house, pointed at Chen Jialuo and whispered in a threatening tone: "Listen up! The police are indeed here! Get dressed and go downstairs immediately! What are you saying?
Lao Ma has already told you what you should and should not say! Do you understand?"
When he heard the police coming to the door, Chen Jialuo's face turned pale with fright. He no longer had time to care about what had just happened. He stood up and put on his clothes tremblingly, and followed his mother downstairs.
In the living room, Wen Sibao was wearing a police uniform, staring at the family of three in front of him with a steely face. He exuded a formidable look just sitting there.
Wen Sibao stared at the other party for a while, took the initiative to show his ID, and said seriously: "Mr. Chen, the purpose of our visit today is that we need to understand some situations from you. I hope you can answer truthfully. If today
There are discrepancies between the information you provided and our follow-up investigation. If the circumstances are serious, your family may be prosecuted in court for harboring the crime. Do you understand what I said?"
When Wen Sibao spoke, he deliberately used "the whole family" in a strong way to increase the psychological pressure on the other party. He found that Chen Yan still had a calm expression on his face, but Chen Jialuo and Chen's mother were already scared to death.
whitish.
Wen Sibao pushed out a photo of Xu Tiannan and asked: "Okay, let's start the conversation. The first question is, do you know this person?"
Chen Yan glanced down and said without any concealment: "I have seen this man. The man who came with you during the shooting the night before yesterday. Is he a policeman?"
Chen Yan's answer was very clever. He neither directly said the other person's name nor said he didn't know the other person. Instead, he answered with an uncertain rhetorical question. At least in the eyes of the other police officers around him, this answer was not obvious.
There's nothing illogical about it.
Wen Sibao took out another photo of Li Xianglan and placed it in front of him, and said bluntly: "I don't need to introduce it too much, you all know her."
Chen Yan seemed a little anxious and asked: "Officer Wen, please allow me to say a few words. This woman Li Xianglan is armed. Capturing her as soon as possible is also responsible for the citizens of Mobei."
Wen Sibao did not respond, just stared into the other person's eyes and said solemnly: "She is dead."
"Ah?" Chen Yan said with a look of uncontrollable doubt on his face: "She is dead? How did she die?"
"Is she really...dead?"
Chen Jialuo's sudden words attracted everyone's attention. When he realized that he had lost his composure, he realized that his father was staring at him with a look that could kill someone.
Chen Yan immediately took over the conversation and said to Wen Sibao: "Officer Wen, please don't mind. After all, this child has never experienced life and death. In addition, he has been frightened by this woman Li Xianglan during this period. I couldn't believe it for a while.
This kind of thing is normal.”
Wen Sibao stared at Chen Jialuo for a while and said in a deep voice: "Although the forensic team is still confirming the identity of the deceased, from the vehicle's license plate and surveillance along the way, we can basically confirm that it is Xu Tiannan and Li Xianglan."
Chen Yan nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Excuse me, how did they die?"
Wen Sibao moved his body closer to the family in front of him and whispered: "Murder!"
Chen Yan was startled again, "Murder?"
Wen Sibao said: "Yes, they died of murder! This car accident was even reported on the news yesterday. Don't you know about it?"
Chen Yan pretended to be trying to remember, and after a long while he smiled and said: "I'm sorry, Officer Wen, since the shooting happened a few days ago, our family has not dared to go anywhere. Naturally, we have never heard of the outside world.
But in this case...has the murderer been found?"
Wen Sibao stared at the other person, but slowly pushed the third photo over in his hand. Chen Yan lowered his head and immediately stopped laughing, and his expression became serious, "Officer Wen, there are some things I still hope you won't do.
What a joke."
"Do you think I'm joking with you?" Wen Sibao turned to Chen's mother with a cold face and asked, "Mrs. Chen, do you think I'm joking?"
Wen Sibao's aura was so overwhelming that Chen's mother did not dare to say a word. She just held her son's hand tightly and her body was trembling.
"What about you?" Wen Sibao finally fixed his eyes on Chen Jialuo and said almost in a questioning tone: "Chen Jialuo! You and your father should know something about Butler Ma's murder, right? What do you think, do you want to talk to him?
Shall I tell you?"
"I..." Chen Jialuo's heart was in his throat at this moment, his hands were tightly clamped between his legs, and his endurance had almost reached its limit.
