Yao Zhenhua, Daxiong, Luo Haotian and the three comrades of the district bureau, under the leadership of the village director Meng, walked together in the direction of the deceased Yuan Yong's house.

Following the director, turn right out of the village committee, walk along the road to the edge of the village, and walk about 400 meters to the door of Yuan Yong's house.

The home of the deceased Yuan Yong is on the side of the winding mountain road, and on the side of the road there are two bungalows and a gate archway, which are built together. The two bungalows had a small door open to the road, but the door was closed, and it was not known if it was locked.

Many wreaths and elegiac couplets were placed at the door, and the mourning music played by the suona team could be heard outside, and the mourning music was mixed with the sound of crying and mourning. Among them, there was a woman's voice that could be heard more clearly, although it was crying and mourning, her voice revealed a weak side.

Several people in the group stood outside the gate and did not immediately enter the courtyard.

The village director, Meng Jinsong, had already entered the gate, but now he retreated back and asked, "Captain Yao, Captain Luo, aren't we going in?" ”

"You have to go in, but you can't rush in. Please Director Meng go and inform the owner of this house first. Yao Zhenhua explained as he replied.

"Okay, everyone, wait a minute, I'll go and inform you right away." Director Meng agreed quickly, because he was not only touched by Captain Yao's politeness, but also felt a trace of shame for his recklessness and rudeness just now.

In less than three minutes, Director Meng led a young man who looked to be in his twenties out. The young man was wearing a white and yellow filial piety clothes, a filial piety hat on his head, and a hemp rope tied around his waist.

Director Meng hurriedly introduced to Yao Zhenhua: "Captain Yao, this is Yuan Yong's son, Yuan Bao. ”

Yao Zhenhua nodded.

Director Meng said again: "Yuan Bao, this is Captain Yao of the Criminal Police Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, I came here to investigate the facts again, you and your family must cooperate well." ”

"Yes, yes. Captain Yao, let's all go and sit in the courtyard. Yuan Bao politely beckoned everyone to his home.

"Wait a minute." Yao Zhenhua stopped everyone.

"Director Meng, Yuan Bao, after going in for a while, please ask everyone not to move in place, and the suona team will rest for a while."

"Yes, yes." Director Meng hurriedly replied.

But Yuan Bao was stunned and didn't speak, so Director Meng pulled him. Yuan Bao, who came back to his senses, said, "You can ......"

Although Yuan Bao was a little reluctant, he still agreed.

Yao Zhenhua entered the courtyard and saw: there was a table of eight immortals and some sacrificial supplies on the left, there were suona team members sitting around the table of eight immortals, and on the right was the spirit shed, and there was a spiritual position in the spiritual shed, and there should be a coffin behind the spiritual position, because it was blocked by the spiritual position, and it could not be seen for the time being.

The suona team stopped, the mourning also stopped, and the whole courtyard suddenly fell silent. Because Luo Haotian and several police officers of the sub-bureau were wearing police uniforms, the people in the courtyard did not dare to be restless.

By this time it was already dark, and the electric lights were lit in the courtyard, which was very bright.

Director Meng and Yuan Bao were discussing something, and after a while, Director Meng walked over to Yao Zhenhua and said, "Captain Yao, they are about to have dinner, why don't you let them go to Yuan Bao's courtyard to eat first, and they can work here?" ”

"Except for Yuan Yong's relatives, others can go to eat." Yao Zhenhua's answer was firm, and he felt that there was no room for maneuver.

Director Meng said to Yuan Bao again: "Yuan Bao, do what Captain Yao asks." ”

In the blink of an eye, the people working in the yard and the suona team members were gone.

The village chief closed the door for the time being.

"Yuan Bao, I want to see your father, is the coffin sealed?" Yao Zhenhua asked.

"Not yet, the coffin can be sealed tomorrow." After Yuan Bao answered, tears welled up in his eyes, but he didn't cry.

Yuan Bao cried silently, and took Yao Zhenhua and them to the hall where the coffin was parked.

Yao Zhenhua first saw the spiritual position in the spiritual shed, bypassed the spiritual position, and a pitch-black coffin came into view, in front of the coffin there was an ever-bright lamp and a porcelain basin that burned paper money, and the two sides of the coffin knelt and guarded the spirit according to the rules of men on the left and women on the right.

Luo Haotian, Daxiong, Director Meng and others lifted the coffin lid open a wide slit together. Luo Haotian took out the flashlight in the police suit and handed it to Yao Zhenhua.

Yao Zhenhua turned on the flashlight and shone it into the coffin, only to see an old man lying quietly in a shroud, he was very thin, almost skinny, and his skin was dark yellow.

At this moment, the living room suddenly lit up. It turned out that Director Meng turned on the light in the living room.

Yao Zhenhua looked around and saw the men and women kneeling on both sides of the coffin, almost all of them were looking at him in unison, except for a middle-aged woman, who was still sobbing softly.

Next to the middle-aged woman, there was also a little girl kneeling, about fourteen or fifteen years old, who was also looking at Yao Zhenhua, and when Yao Zhenhua's gaze met her, she deliberately looked away.

When Yao Zhenhua set his eyes on the middle-aged woman next to the little girl, several women kneeling on the same side all looked at the middle-aged woman with some hatred in their eyes.

Yao Zhenhua said: "Put the coffin on the lid." ”

Everyone was working together to cover the coffin, Yao Zhenhua observed the middle-aged woman attentively, felt that her sobbing seemed to stop, and slowly raised her head.

Yao Zhenhua analyzed before that this middle-aged woman should be Yuan Yong's daughter-in-law Fu Yixin. But when he saw the middle-aged woman's face, he couldn't help but be shocked, it turned out that her face looked very young, as if she was in her early thirties, and her fair skin reflected the luster, even more tender than the skin of the little girl beside her.

This is the countryside! How can there be a woman who is so well maintained?

Yao Zhenhua and his party came out of the hall.

"Director Meng, Yuan Bao, do you have any spare rooms here, and we have to make a record?" Yao Zhenhua asked.

Yuan Bao replied: "Captain Yao, there is another room here, which is my sister's bedroom, can you see it?" ”

Yao Zhenhua hesitated for a moment, because he didn't want to invade the child's private space, but after thinking that there was no alternative for the time being, he said, "Okay."

Yuan Bao took Yao Zhenhua to his sister's bedroom. The bedroom was clean and tidy, and there happened to be an old table, which was probably used as a desk by the child.

"Captain Luo......" Yao Zhenhua shouted a few times.

Luo Haotian came in and asked, "Captain Yao, what's the matter?" ”。

"This case is a case filed by the sub-bureau, so it is up to your sub-bureau to inquire and make a record, and when the record is completed, just make a copy and file it with the municipal bureau." Yao Zhenhua is worried that the subject of the case is not qualified, and it will be troublesome if this record cannot be used in the future.

"Okay." After Luo Haotian agreed, he immediately arranged for two team members to come in, one to ask with him, and the other to lie on the desk and prepare to make a note. Yao Zhenhua, Luo Haotian and his two team members were left in the bedroom.

"Yuan Bao......" Yao Zhenhua shouted Yuan Bao a few times.

"Nobita, let Yuan Bao in, and then close the door." Yuan Bao didn't respond, so Yao Zhenhua called Nobita again.

"Okay, Team Yao." Nobita responded.

After a while, Yuan Bao came in, and Nobita moved in a few more benches, and closed the door when he went out.

Yao Zhenhua asked: "Yuan Bao, you and your relatives called the police, and the sub-bureau came to a conclusion, but you didn't accept it, and called the police to the city bureau, I want to know why?" What is your reason? ”

Yuan Bao thought for a while and said, "Captain Yao, I don't have direct evidence to prove anything, but I can feel that my stepmother has something to do with my father's death." ”

"My dad himself is in good health, cheerful and cheerful, but since he and my stepmother got married, he began to be depressed, and then they often quarreled, which is something that the neighbors know, and then my father became ill, angry out of gastroenteritis, has not been better, often have to go to the hospital to get medicine to eat, this time it is because of the illness, not rescued, only ......"

After Yuan Bao finished speaking, he shook his head and wiped his tears.

"You mean, your stepmother Fu Yingxin's relationship with your dad is not good, at least since soon after they got married, right?" Yao Zhenhua asked again.

"Yes, it's something that neighbors and relatives know."

Why is this so? Do you know why? Yao Zhenhua continued to ask.

"Maybe it's because my dad's money is spent, because my dad saved some money before, but how can he afford three people to spend, and my sister's school expenses are not small, and my stepmother is also a person who only spends money and doesn't make money."

"Doesn't your stepmother work?"

"Yes, she only occasionally helps my dad sell something at the supermarket and doesn't do anything else."

"Doesn't she even cook?"

"I still cook often, because my sister also has to eat."

"Have you heard or seen that your stepmother has ever said or acted unfavorably to your father?"

"This ...... Not really. "Because my stepmother seems to be very modest, although my sister and I usually have some opinions about her, but we all held back and didn't break out, maybe it's because of her."

"Just because of this, you think your stepmother killed your father?"

"I think she has something to do with my dad's death, and I can't say to what extent."

"Okay, you can read the transcript, and if there are no errors or omissions, you can sign and confirm it."

"Nobita, let the next male relative come over."

I asked them one by one, and I asked them for more than an hour, and I finished asking all the seven male relatives present. The content of what other relatives said was basically the same as what Yuan Bao said, and there were no valuable new clues, so they were not all made into detailed records and repeated one by one.

It was about to be eight o'clock in the evening, when Director Meng knocked on the door and came in, and said, "Captain Yao, Captain Luo, the village committee has prepared dinner, do you think you should go to eat now, or go back after asking?" ”

"Director Meng, these people in the house will go after asking, you can go to eat first." Yao Zhenhua said to Director Meng.

"Captain Yao, how many more people do you want to ask?"

"The last two."

"Then let's go back to dinner together, we'll wait for you." After Director Meng finished speaking, he slowly withdrew from the bedroom.

"Nobita, let Fu Yixin come over with her daughter."

"Okay, Team Yao."