Chapter 20: Reducing Damage
Judging from the situation they can grasp so far, Zhang Yiyao's family background is obviously not very compatible with the expensive clothing and jewelry in her rental house, her parents are ordinary enterprise employees, not even management cadres, just grassroots workers, work and household registration are not far from City A in a neighboring city, only a few hours by car, you can reach it on the same day, that place was originally a county, it became a county-level city a few years ago, the economic level is average, not poor, but it is far from rich, Based on the average income level of the people there, I am afraid that the entire salary income of Zhang Yiyao's parents for a month without eating or drinking is not enough to buy a brand-name leather bag in the wardrobe of her rental house.
If you just listen to other people's discussions, it's hard to say whether it is objective and fair enough, and now after seeing the good things in Zhang Yiyao's room with your own eyes, and then learning about her parents' work and income, such family conditions are obviously not quite consistent with Zhang Yiyao's living expenses. The girl who was strict with her boyfriend mentioned the different good cars that different people drove to pick up Zhang Yiyao, and it invariably appeared in the minds of several people, but verifying this matter is still a later story, the first thing that needs to be done is to contact Zhang Yiyao's parents and ask them if they have been in contact with Zhang Yiyao recently, if not, then you can only inform the other party of the situation here, and ask them to come over to identify it.
The phone called, and it was Zhang Yiyao's father who answered the phone, his job is three shifts, and today he happened to take the night shift and rested at home during the day, while Zhang Yiyao's mother was normal from eight to five in the morning. When he was not at home, Dai Xu asked him about the situation first. The first question was about whether he had been in contact with Zhang Yiyao recently, and Zhang Yiyao's father's answer was similar to what they expected. Zhang Yiyao returned to school early after the New Year, and she has not been in contact with her family until now, but the family has called her twice, and the first time she was connected, she said that she has been very busy recently, and she will call home when she is free. The second time I went home, I called her about four days ago, and the phone didn't go through at all. However, Zhang Yiyao's parents thought that their daughter was about to graduate, so they were very busy with the internship, so they didn't bother. sent a text message to ask Zhang Yiyao to pay attention to her body, and to call home to report her safety when she was free, and Zhang Yiyao replied. Say yes. But the phone never came back, and she didn't answer the call, and her parents didn't think much about it, just when she was too busy to answer the phone, she didn't bother again.
In this situation, Dai Xu had no choice but to give a general description of the situation on their side, and found that the female deceased was recognized as very similar to Zhang Yiyao's appearance. The family needed to come over to further confirm the identity of the deceased, and Zhang Yiyao's father heard the news. There was silence on the phone for a long time, and it took a long time before a sentence came out: "...... Could it be a mistake? ”
"We are just afraid that others will make a mistake, so we need to contact the family members and come here for further identification, I hope you can come over as soon as possible." Dai Xu could understand the other party's mood, so he didn't show the slightest impatience.
"Oh, okay, then I'll contact my wife first, and then I'll get over," Zhang Yiyao's father was obviously still digesting such disturbing news, he wrote down Dai Xu's address to him, and before hanging up the phone, he hesitantly added, "I don't know if there is a need to tell you first, my wife's person...... She doesn't have a very good heart, and she has been sick when she has been stimulated before......"
"Okay, I know that I'll take this into account." Dai Xu understood what he meant.
Zhang Yiyao's father hung up the phone, and about less than an hour later, he called Dai Xu again, saying that he had purchased a bus ticket to City A with Zhang Yiyao's mother, and the train would depart immediately, and it was estimated that it would arrive in more than three hours.
Originally, Dai Xu was more worried about identifying the corpse, if it was a complete corpse, then it would be easier to solve, just identify it directly, even if it was like the case of the corpse fragmentation they had dealt with before, at least they could only let the family identify the head, and they could not see the situation on the torso of the body. Now this situation is the most difficult to do, the deceased has been cut a long wound on each side of his cheek, the body is covered with all kinds of scars, and even the organs in the abdominal cavity have no way to guarantee that they will not be exposed from the inside of the body, such a picture is a little too cruel for the identifier in any case, if the deceased is really their family, seeing their family die in this way, the mental blow will be incomparable, if after identification, the deceased is not their family, and was frightened in vain for no reason.
What's more, the current situation is that Zhang Yiyao's mother also suffers from heart disease, and she does not have enough tolerance for fright and stimulation, so how to minimize the damage is a big problem, and for Dai Xu, they only have three hours to come up with a suitable solution.
After all, Fang Yuan and the others were inexperienced in dealing with this kind of thing, and they couldn't give any proper advice at the moment, let alone make random moves, so they could only wait for Dai Xu to come up with an idea, after Dai Xu thought about it repeatedly, he suddenly slapped his head, and ran to find Forensic Doctor Liu alone, and it took a while to come back from there, and at this moment, it was less than an hour before Zhang Yiyao's parents arrived in City A.
"Is there a way?" Fang Yuan was also very worried that if she didn't handle this matter well for a while, it would greatly stimulate Zhang Yiyao's mother, in case her heart was really fragile, and she caught up with another person for no reason, it would really be a human tragedy, looking at Dai Xu's appearance now, she should have thought of a way to deal with it.
Dai Xu nodded, and took out two printed photos, one is a photo of Yiyao's head from above the collarbone, and the other is a recent photo of the face, but the slight difference with the corpse is that the wound on the cheek has obviously been retouched in the picture, and there are no two hideous wounds, and the multiple scars on the collarbone and chest have not been taken on the photo, it looks like the corpse they found is right, there is no modification or misrepresentation in terms of physiognomy and characteristics, but there are no two scary openings.
"Ma Kai, you go and bring up the photo with the birthmark that Zhong Han took, take a screenshot, don't show the smoke scars, burns and bruises around you, highlight the birthmark, plus you can roughly see where the birthmark is, and then print it out and give it to me." When he handed the two pictures to Fang Yuan and the others, he asked Ma Kai to print the other one by the way.
When Fang Yuan heard this, he understood his intentions, it seemed that he didn't want Zhang Yiyao's parents to directly face the horrific corpse, instead looking at the retouched face photos, and the same help to determine whether the deceased was really Zhang Yiyao's birthmark features.
"Then do you plan not to tell the family about the injuries on the deceased's body, as well as the torture that may have been suffered before death?" Fang Yuan asked Dai Xu's opinion, she herself was quite confused about this issue, on the one hand, she felt that as a family member, if it was really their daughter who encountered such a thing, they had the right to know, on the other hand, she felt that even if she knew it in detail and specifically, it would be useless, it would only increase her sadness.
"It's definitely not okay to conceal it, it's just a selective infiltration, or unreserved pouring out, that's another question, I personally think it's better to infiltrate it tactfully, so let's stop it. Zhang Yiyao's father said that her mother's heart is fragile, which is one thing, and the other is that he is afraid that knowing too specific will easily arouse strong hatred in the hearts of the victim's family. Dai Xu said his point of view, and did not forget to take the opportunity to explain to them, "Stay for a while, you listen more and talk less, be mentally prepared at any time, and be prepared to deal with emergencies, heart disease is not good when it will attack, although we think that compared with the actual situation, the photo has weakened the impact a lot, it does not mean that the family also feels that way, so be prepared with both hands, if Zhang Yiyao's mother's state is really not good, quickly call an ambulance, you can't delay the time." ”
Thinking that the time was almost up, Dai Xu simply called Zhang Yiyao's parents again, and then drove to the passenger station to pick up the two of them, Zhang Yiyao's parents looked very ordinary, and there was nothing particularly outstanding, especially Zhang Yiyao's mother, probably because she had been working hard for a living for many years, as if she was a few years older than her actual age, Zhang Yiyao's appearance can be said to concentrate the advantages of her parents' appearance.
Zhang Yiyao's parents were in a very tense state, the two of them sat in the back row along the way, holding each other's hands, without saying a word, Dai Xu understood their situation, and did not try to ask anything in this situation, the three of them silently returned to the public security bureau all the way, and when they arrived at the office, Fang Yuan and Lin Feige had already helped them make tea, and Ma Kai also went to someone else to borrow something like cool oil and put it in his pocket, just in case.
Zhang Yiyao's parents naturally had no intention of drinking tea, and as soon as they sat down, they asked to identify the corpse, Dai Xu took out the three photos prepared in advance, Zhang Yiyao's father took it with a trembling hand, his eyes swept over the photos in his hand, and his eyes dimmed instantly.
"Yes......" he nodded in a trembling voice, "This is our family Yaoyao." ”
Zhang Yiyao's mother was even more blue, her lips were white, she stared at a few photos in her husband's hand for a long time, and suddenly raised her eyes to look at Dai Xu who was standing aside, and said, "I want to see my daughter." (To be continued......)