The Case of Love

Chapter 44 Found the Suitcase

Zhou Yifeng and his companions searched separately, and Li Zhisong found traces of recent excavation under a tree.

"Boss, something's happening here!" Li Zhisong shouted.

Zhou Yifeng and others hurried over, and Xu Jungang and Ma Nan started digging with shovels.

Soon, a zipper appeared, and they dug a few more times, and the top of a box appeared in front of everyone.

"Boss, this is the suitcase in the surveillance video!" Li Zhisong was very sure.

"That's right, keep digging and take out the box!" Zhou Yifeng was anxious and snatched the shovel from Ma Nan and dug with Xu Jungang.

The box was very heavy, and it took three of them to lift it out.

Sun Yidan had already put on her equipment and came over. Through the mask, she could smell that familiar smell, the smell of a rotting corpse.

Zhou Yifeng went forward and opened the suitcase. Just as they had guessed, inside the suitcase, a girl was lying on her side in a curled-up position. Her white dress had been stained red with blood, and her exposed skin had obvious signs of corpse spots and decay. The stench was so strong that everyone held their breath.

In the suitcase, besides the girl's body, there was also a fruit knife and a broken mobile phone. Sun Yidan initially determined that the fruit knife was the murder weapon.

Although it was not the first time that Su Xiaohan had seen such a tragic scene, she was a newcomer in the police force after all and had little experience. She subconsciously took a few steps back, her stomach churning.

"Xiao Han, go over there for a while. Leave this to Sister Sun." Zhou Yifeng saw that she was uncomfortable, walked to her side and whispered.

Su Xiaohan looked at him gratefully, agreed and left.

Sun Yidan went forward to check and made a preliminary assessment: the girl had been dead for more than three days, and there were several knife wounds on her body, the fatal one being on her neck.

Although the girl's face was decayed, her outline and facial features looked very similar to Feng Xiaoxue in the photo. Next, they would transport the body back to the bureau, where Sun Yidan would conduct a further autopsy.

On the way back, Zhou Yifeng called Xia Chunhong and asked her to go to the police station to identify the body. Zhou Yifeng described to Xia Chunhong what the body was wearing, and Xia Chunhong burst into tears. According to her, Feng Xiaoxue liked to dress up, and she liked white the most. There was a white long skirt that was her favorite.

Xia Chunhong's crying made Su Xiaohan feel sad. She understood the friendship between them best. A few years ago, when Xia Mo disappeared, she also cried like this, crying heartbreakingly, but she was powerless to do anything.

She felt the same pain as Xia Chunhong, and she only hoped that when she found Xia Mo one day, she would still be a living person instead of a rotten skeleton.

A few dozen minutes later, the car drove towards the gate of the Public Security Bureau. From a distance, Su Xiaohan saw a woman lingering at the gate, and when the car got closer, she recognized the woman as Xia Chunhong.

"Captain Zhou, let me get out of the car and go in with her." Su Xiaohan volunteered.

"Okay, you go and keep her company!" Zhou Yifeng said.

The car stopped at the door and Su Xiaohan got out. As soon as she saw Su Xiaohan, Xia Chunhong walked over quickly. There were clear traces of tears on her fair face.

"Comrade police, was Xiao Xue really murdered?" Xia Chunhong was very sad. She would rather they found someone other than Feng Xiaoxue.

"Ms. Xia, we need your help to confirm whether the person we found is Feng Xiaoxue. However, you have to be prepared. She has been dead for more than three days. She looks... a little scary." Su Xiaohan couldn't bear to say such cruel words. She could feel Xia Chunhong's hand holding her arm pressed down a little. Su Xiaohan was afraid that she would lose her balance, so she quickly supported her.

Ma Nan parked the car at the side door of the office building. He and Xu Jungang worked together to lift the suitcase out of the car and took the exclusive elevator directly to the forensic autopsy room.

Su Xiaohan deliberately walked very slowly to help Xiao Chunhong calm down. More than ten minutes later, they arrived at the door of the forensic room.

Standing behind the door, Xia Chunhong felt mixed emotions, feeling uncomfortable and nervous, but also had a glimmer of hope, hoping that the deceased was just someone wearing the same clothes as Feng Xiaoxue.

But when the door was pushed open and she walked into the inner room, she saw the girl in a white dress on the dissecting table. Her face was so unrecognizable that she could barely make it out. She completely collapsed.

"Ah--" With a sharp scream, Xia Chunhong collapsed to the ground like a puppet with its strings pulled out.

Su Xiaohan and Sun Yidan hurried over to support her, but her body was very heavy, so Li Zhisong came over to help and pulled her up from the ground.

"Ms. Xia, I know you are very sad now. I just want to ask you a question, just nod or shake your head, and then I will take you to rest." Su Xiaohan's voice was soft and warm.

Xia Chunhong took a breath and said in a weak voice: "Yes, it's her, Xiao Xue!"

After saying this, her tears flowed uncontrollably like beads from a broken string.

Su Xiaohan couldn't bear to see her like this and almost cried with her. She hurriedly helped her to the lounge to rest.

As Zhou Yifeng walked out, he called Zhu Xiaofeng and asked him to bring Wang Xiaowu to the interrogation room.

Faced with evidence, Wang Xiaowu still argued that he had not driven his brother's car recently, let alone been to the abandoned factory in the suburbs of Beijing.

Zhou Yifeng had seen many people who would not cry until they saw the coffin. He was not angry, but said casually: "Are you so sure that we have no evidence to prove that you are the murderer? Feng Xiaoxue is lying in the autopsy room right now, she will tell us who the murderer is."

In the autopsy room, Sun Yidan is working hard to make the dead "speak".

In the monitoring room, Li Zhisong was looking for surveillance footage of the route the silver van had taken.

Sun Yidan detected a trace amount of human tissue in Feng Xiaoxue's fingernails. She inferred that Feng Xiaoxue must have scratched the murderer when she resisted. She compared the human tissue DNA she extracted with Wang Xiaowu's.

At the same time, Li Zhisong in the monitoring room finally captured the front surveillance video of the silver van. After zooming in on the video, he saw the face of the driver clearly, who was Wang Xiaowu.

Faced with the evidence, Wang Xiaowu could no longer argue and confessed to killing Feng Xiaoxue.

Just as Su Xiaohan guessed. Feng Xiaoxue didn't let him go upstairs that day, and her expression was not right, as if she was deliberately hiding something. After he walked out of the community, he became more and more suspicious. In a fit of anger, he jumped over the wall and entered the unit where Feng Xiaoxue's home was. Through the door, he heard the sound of Feng Xiaoxue and Liu Jiakai cooking and chatting together. He waited in the stairwell until Liu Jiakai left, and then he knocked on Feng Xiaoxue's door.

He didn't want to kill her, but when he saw Feng Xiaoxue's smiling face and the messy bed sheets in the bedroom, he said a lot of nasty words, quarreled with Feng Xiaoxue, and even hit her.

(End of this chapter)