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Chapter 49 The Longtan Island Massacre (20)
"After all, I am the head of a village. If something happened to this villager, I need to know more about it before I can rest assured! But if these words were to be placed in the year of Li Jun's death, I would never say it easily. After Li Jun passed away Before, I actually heard a villager tell me that the villager once saw Li Jun come back to the village with his face covered in blood. At that time, he went up to ask Li Jun what happened, but Li Jun ignored his staggering Walking home, I heard that Li Jun died. From the time he found Li Jun until Li Jun died, during this period, I didn’t hear that Li Jun’s wife said where to take him to see a doctor, so I suspected it at the time. It was Li Jun's daughter-in-law who intentionally did not take Li Jun for treatment, that's why Li Jun was killed, but doubts are suspicions. In that case, the whole village will not be able to think about peace.”

"Is the relationship between Li Jun and his wife not good?"

"Hey! It's actually Li Jun's family ugliness! But Li Jun is fine, the key is his flirtatious daughter-in-law."

The old village head shook his head, sighed lightly, and looked very sympathetic to Li Jun, and then he continued: "In the early years, Li Jun's family was poor, and the couple just made do with each other, but later Li Jun I don’t know how to find a way to start making money. Sometimes he goes out for four or five days, and when he comes back, he not only brings back money, but also brings back big bags and small bags of goods from the city. It has improved, and Li Jun's daughter-in-law has also begun to know how to dress up. Her face is painted and smeared, and she looks like a colorful cat all day long. You can still smell the perfume on her body three miles away, but don't say it. , she still looks so pretty when she dresses up, for a while, almost all the men in the village, no matter whether they have a wife or not, look at her completely changed, as if they want to pounce on her and eat her, but yes She didn't like any men in the village. She didn't know who spread the rumors at the time, saying that she had fallen in love with a man in the town, and as long as Li Jun was not at home, she would run to the town to meet him. That man was fooling around. This rumor was spread in the whole village, and everyone knew it. Later, Li Jun had a big fight with her, but the quarrel was nothing but the two did not divorce because of this. Li Jun's wife later complained about it After a few days of rioting in the village, the whole village was in a state of uneasiness, and everyone who saw her from a long distance took a detour to avoid it, for fear of causing trouble to the upper body, and then the matter was left alone."

"So you suspect that for the sake of the men in the town, Li Jun's wife didn't take him to see a doctor even though she knew Li Jun was seriously injured, and ended up killing him?"

"That's right, and after Li Jun's death, his wife disappeared and took away all the valuables in the family. The only one who didn't take away was her and Li Jun's children."

"She didn't take the child?"

"Eloped with your lover, did you bring your child?"

"How do you know she eloped with her lover?"

"People in the village saw it when they went to the town to go to the market. They saw her entering a hotel with a man on her arm. She looked like a newly married couple. I immediately ran to the town when I heard the news. Going up to find her, looking for her for nothing else, just for the sake of the child, she is flirtatious and wants to run with the man, but she can't ignore the child! No matter how you say it, the child is innocent! No one was found, and after inquiring, I found out that she and the man had left long ago, as if they had gone to another place, and no one knew where they had gone. Sigh! In the end, the poor one is still a child!" The old village head shook his head, Sigh helplessly.

"Then Li Jun's child is a boy or a girl, and what is his name? Who is he now?"

"It's a girl named Li Pingping. She was only 5 years old at the time. I saw her pitiful and adopted her. Although I told her that her mother had gone to work in other places, she seemed to know that I was lying to her and adopted her. Since that day, I have never seen her smile. She sat in this yard all day long, holding a small sign in her hand in a daze. Later, when she was 18 years old, she left a letter saying thank you for my care for so many years, She is going to do a very important thing, and there is no news about her after that. Although this baby is not my own, but I watched her grow up, and I have feelings! And this baby is very good, Although I don’t laugh or talk, but I often help me with some housework. Once I saw that I was smoking and coughing, and hid my dry bong, saying that it would be good for me to quit smoking, ha ha! Now I really want to know her whereabouts! I don’t know how she is doing now? Is she married and has a baby? I don’t know if she still remembers my old bone.”

Speaking of Li Pingping, the old village head was full of emotions. He stroked the dry bong in his hand, and the old scene seemed to reappear in front of his eyes.

However, what surprised Yaoshun was the gender of Li Jun's child, because before he suspected that Ma Guoming might be Li Jun's child, but now this suspicion was completely dismissed by the village chief. Li Jun's daughter, Li Pingping, as far as the suspects in the current case are concerned, none of them meet the characteristics of women.

"Then do you know what the little sign Li Pingping was holding in her hand was?"

"It was a small golden sign. If I remember correctly, there seemed to be a few words engraved on it. It seemed to be 'Qin' or something. Oh, yes, it was 'Qin Niangzi'. I asked her what it was at the time. things, but she didn’t reply to me.” The old village chief recalled.

Having said that, although there are no female suspects in the current case, apart from Li Jun and Xu Shanchuan, Li Pingping should also be one of the insiders about the "Mrs. Qin".

"By the way, old village chief, I'll ask you again. Have you ever heard of the name Xu Shanchuan?"

"Xu Shanchuan?"

The old village chief closed his eyes, frowned slightly, and began to search for the memory of the name in his mind.

After a long time, the old village chief said: "Xu Shanchuan is from the next village. If you want to know more about him, you have to go to the next village to check. In my impression, I only remember that he and Li Jun walked away. They are quite close, and they seem to have a good relationship. I often see him coming to the village to look for Li Jun. After Li Jun died, I have never seen him again. Later, some villagers said that they met him in other places, but they did not. Pretty sure it is."

"The villagers met him in other places? Can you tell me about this in detail?"

"It was the old Guotou in the village who told me. At that time, he said that his son would take him to the city to enjoy life, but he came back after a while, saying that the life in the city was too boring, and he even wanted to find someone to chat with. No one is used to it. One day when he came to chat with me, he accidentally talked about Xu Shanchuan. He said that once in the city, he heard that there was a jewelry store in an alley that sold good gold and silver jewelry. It happened to be his little grandson’s birthday soon, so he wanted to buy a piece of gold jewelry as a birthday gift, so he inquired about the address of the store and went there. As soon as he entered the store, he found that the owner of the store often came to the village as before. Xu Shanchuan, who was looking for Li Jun, looked exactly the same, so he went up to greet someone, saying that he and Li Jun were from the same village, and wanted to get close and bargain for a cheap price, but the man said he didn't know him, and he didn't know him. Knowing Li Jun, he also said that his surname was Qiu, not Xu. The old Guotou smiled and said that it was really embarrassing at the time, but he left without buying anything. He said that the man really looked like Xu Shanchuan, It's like printing out of a mold."

"Then did Li Pingping hear that when you were talking about it? Was she still with you at that time, or did she leave a letter and leave?"

The old village head frowned tightly, and tried hard to recall the situation at that time. Although his body was still in good health, after all, he was getting old, and his memory must not be as good as before. Suddenly he was asked to recall so many past events in the dusty year. It is indeed a bit strenuous.

"Didn't leave, yes, didn't leave, Pingping was still there at that time, I remember she was sitting in the yard listening to me chatting with old Guotou, and she also poured tea for us, and she was the one who sent old Guotou out later, as if she He also took old Guotou and chatted a few words at the door."

"Do you have a picture of Li Pingping here?"

"No, cameras were a luxury for us back then! None of us here have the money to afford them!"

"Then can I trouble you to accompany me to the town? I hope you can help me make a portrait of Li Pingping."

"What's the matter? Police officer, something happened to Pingping, right?" The old village head asked nervously.

"No, it's mainly because there is something related to her mother, so I want to find out about the situation from her, but we have too little information about her, so I want to ask the old village chief for a favor, you should also want to Know her current whereabouts!" Yao Shun casually found an excuse and said perfunctorily.

"That's okay, that's okay, I will definitely help with this job, I will definitely help, I really want to know how Pingping's life is now!" The old village chief said a little excitedly.

After more than an hour of hard work, the portrait of Li Pingping was finally completed. Yao Shun also sent the portrait back to the police station immediately, so that the scouts could seize the time to search. The hope is not great. After all, Li Pingping has been missing for decades, and looking for it with only one portrait is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.

Then Yao and Shun went to the village where Xu Shanchuan lived to learn about the situation, but what he learned was very ordinary. After all, it has been decades, and the villagers have a very vague impression of Xu Shanchuan, and what they can provide is only a few. It happened ten years ago, and these things were nothing more than his gambling. Later, he went out to do business with Li Jun from the next village and made some money, but no one knew what kind of business he did.After that, his family disappeared in the village, and no one knew where he went.

Sitting in the car on the return journey, Yao Shun took Li Pingping's portrait and looked at it carefully.

Li Pingping's face is a standard oval face, round at the top and pointed at the bottom, with two braids on her head, big eyes, a low bridge of nose, and even a bit flat, her mouth is moderate in size, but her lips are a bit thick. There are also some small freckles.In terms of appearance, Li Pingping was an average-looking girl, not pretty, but not ugly either.But Yaoshun always felt weird, and this weird feeling came from Li Pingping's cold expression that didn't match her age at all.

Yao and Shun couldn't see a smile on Li Pingping's face at all, not even a slight upward movement of the corners of his mouth.Of course, this is not because the master of painting is not good enough. On the contrary, when the master of painting is painting, the old village chief specially asks the old village chief to say as much as possible about Li Pingping's facial features, especially the expression, so that the drawn portrait can be more vivid. It is vivid and lifelike, and has a higher degree of resemblance to the person.But at this point, the old village head was very helpless, because he had never seen any other expressions on Li Pingping's face except for this cold expression.

But compared to Li Pingping's expression, Yao Shun is more concerned about her whereabouts and the role she played in a series of cases.

Judging from the current situation, besides Qiu Yize, the only person who knows about the "Qin Lady" should be Li Pingping, and it is because of Xu Shanchuan (Qiu Yize's father) that she lost her father and her mother Abandoning her, it is reasonable for her to hate Xu Shanchuan, not to mention that she once had a private chat with the villagers who met Xu Shanchuan, and then she left a letter to bid farewell to the old village chief. If she didn't know the inside story, If he didn't want to seek revenge from Xu Shanchuan, he would definitely not have so many abnormal behaviors.

"Is she really the real culprit behind the two cases?"

Yao Shun was thinking, and once again focused his attention on Li Pingping's portrait.

As soon as he returned to the police station, before Yao and Shun had time to sit down, Wang Yuekai knocked on the door of his office in a hurry. He was full of joy, and he must have found some important clues.

Seeing this, Yao and Shun couldn't care less about the exhaustion of the journey, and asked impatiently, "What did you find?"

"Sure enough, as we expected, Ma Guoming does have problems, and there are quite a lot of them." Wang Yuekai said excitedly.

"Tell me quickly." Yao Shun urged.

"Ma Guoming was an orphan. His father died in a car accident when he was 4 years old. His mother remarried and sent him to an orphanage. He was adopted and left the orphanage when he was 15 years old. This seems to be what Qiu Yize said. There is no discrepancy, but it was not an overseas Chinese couple who adopted him back then, but a Chinese woman."

"Chinese woman?"

"Yes, according to the memory of the director of the orphanage, the woman looked like she was in her early 20s at the time. She visited the orphanage, and after learning about the situation of the orphan, she said she wanted to adopt Ma Guoming, because The woman was young, and the dean would naturally have concerns about her wanting to adopt Ma Guoming, especially the reason why the other party adopted Ma Guoming and Ma Guoming's future life. The woman explained that because Ma Guoming looked like her younger brother, and her younger brother She died in a car accident in a foreign country in her early years, but she has never dared to tell her father who has heart disease. Recently, her father's condition is getting worse and she wants to see his son, so she wants to adopt Ma Guoming and fulfill her father's wish. She also assured the dean that she would treat Ma Guoming like her own brother. As for Ma Guoming's future life, it would not be a problem. In order to make the dean trust her, she also took out a bank passbook with millions of dollars in it. , the dean saw that the other party was sincere, so he agreed, but there was one request, that is, to meet the woman's parents, and to see if they recognized Ma Guoming face to face. After all, Ma Guoming and her younger brother only look alike. Recognized by the old man, what should I do if I disagree with Ma Guoming entering their house? The woman saw that the dean had made up her mind, so she didn't say anything more. In the next week, the woman would go to the orphanage to chat with Ma Guoming every day. Play with him, and tell him something about her brother's life, and teach him to say something when he saw her parents. After Ma Guoming memorized it, she took Ma Guoming and the dean to the hospital to meet her parents. The whole process went very smoothly, and the woman's parents did not doubt Ma Guoming's identity, so the dean agreed to the woman's request to adopt Ma Guoming."

Wang Yuekai finished the whole process in one breath.

"Do you know the identity of that woman?"

"The dean said that the woman's registered name at the time of adoption was Li Bing."

"Li Bing? Are you sure?" Yao Shun frowned, wondering.

"It seems that you also doubt the authenticity of this 'Li Bing''s identity?" Wang Yuekai asked.

Yao Shun nodded.

"I asked the dean to find out the registration book of the adoption materials of the year, and found the registration information of this woman named 'Li Bing' from it. After verification, the name of this 'Li Bing' was fake, and even the ID card registered at that time was fake. is fake."

"This is also expected. Since she came prepared, she will naturally not leave real information."

"So I asked the dean if I knew about Ma Guoming's life afterwards. She said that not long after Li Bing adopted Ma Guoming, Ma Guoming wrote a letter saying that he was going to live abroad, so she didn't have to worry about him. , He is living a good life now, and she has no news of Ma Guoming after that. We searched according to the address Li Bing left at that time, but the place has long since changed, and we can't find any clues at all. Finally, we found the hospital. According to the hospital records, we found the information of Li Bing’s father who was hospitalized that year. Following this clue, we found the old man’s residence, but the old man has passed away, but fortunately his wife is still there. , we found an old man in a nursing home. According to her, she has no blood relationship with Li Bing, and she has no children studying abroad. She only has one son, but he was sentenced to death for robbery and murder. After that, she and her wife She and Li Bing met each other in the hospital. After learning about her situation, Li Bing said he could pay for her husband's medical treatment, but he asked her to do her a favor by pretending to be her parents. Ill, I agreed."

"Then have you found any information about Li Bing's appearance? Such as photos and portraits."

"Have."

While speaking, Wang Yuekai took out a yellowed black and white photo from his bag and handed it to Yao Shun, saying: "This is the photo provided by the director of the orphanage. The photo was taken by Li Bing when he took Ma Guoming away. I also I checked with the old man, and she also confirmed that the woman in the photo is the woman who asked the old couple to pretend to be their parents."

Yao Shun took the photo, and after just a glance, he already recognized the woman in the photo, because that cold face and Li Pingping in the portrait provided by the old village head were printed out of the same mold.

"Do you know Li Bing?"

Wang Yuekai saw some clues from Yaoshun's dignified expression.

"Yes."

Yao Shun took out the portrait of Li Pingping from his bag and handed it over, saying, "This portrait is provided by the old village chief of Li Jun's village. Take a look!"

Wang Yuekai took the portrait and compared the photos carefully.

"It really is the same person." Wang Yuekai said after putting down the portrait and photos.

"The woman in the portrait is Li Pingping, Li Jun's daughter."

"Daughter?" Wang Yuekai asked in surprise.

"Yes, and judging from the current investigation, this Li Pingping should now be a major suspect in a series of cases."

Afterwards, Yao and Shun recounted in detail what he had investigated in the hometowns of Li Jun and Xu Shanchuan.

"So, it's no wonder that Li Pingping adopted Ma Guoming. The two of them had very similar childhood experiences. If this series of cases was really planned by Li Pingping, then she should have planned every step before adopting Ma Guoming. How to play chess, and adopting Ma Guoming is just the beginning of his game of chess. From this point of view, this woman's city is very deep, and her scheming is also very terrible, and she really took great pains for revenge."

(End of this chapter)