The files of several people selected by Mo Haiyou from the past incidents in Luoquewu have already been sent to be investigated, but these people have either left the city and are missing, or they have died, and their relatives and friends know little about what happened back then. Among them, the most important object of investigation is Fei Gu's adoptive father Fei Yong.

Fei Yong's parents have died, he is an only child, and he has no past friends, and the only remaining relative is his cousin Fei Fanghong, who married out of town when he was young. He is now seventy-nine years old.

After the police learned that she was still alive, they immediately called Fei Fanghong's daughter Fei Ling, who told her mother that she was now paralyzed in bed because she had been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis for many years, and her brain was not very bright, and she didn't remember much about the past.

But the police decided to drive to meet Ms. Fei Fanghong, because they really didn't want to give up the only clue. This time, because I was facing a sick elderly woman, the bureau sent Zuo Lan to bring an assistant over.

Fortunately, the city where Fei Fanghong lives is not far from S City, and after driving on the national highway for more than four hours, the car arrived at the destination, and then according to the location of the community indicated by Fei Fanghong's daughter on the phone, Zuo Lan and his assistant found the community where they lived very smoothly.

It's a very humble old new village, with a narrow road to enter and a street stall selling all kinds of small commodities. There is also a small vegetable market around the corner, and the road is very dirty and messy.

The car managed to squeeze through the messy road and stop in front of a five-story building.

Fei Fanghong's daughter was already waiting at the bottom of the building, and when she saw two policemen getting out of the car, she hurriedly greeted her.

"Hello comrade policeman, I have had a good time all the way."

It was a haggard, middle-aged woman, very thin, much older than her age, gray, neatly combed behind her head, and a pair of rough hands, which were covered with calluses and scars from chilblains after years of toil.

"Hello, Auntie, we won't bother for too long, just have a few questions for your mother, so that you can take us upstairs right away?" Zuo Lan said. Her man-like appearance was very eye-catching, and Fei Ling may not have recognized it as a policewoman at first, but she was a little surprised to hear the voice at the moment.

"Yes, yes, my mother is in good health today, you can come up with me." Fei Ling replied, and then hurriedly led Zuo Lan and them upstairs.

Although Fei Ling is not walking slowly, her footsteps in old cloth shoes are a little fragmented, not as large as Zuo Lan's footsteps, so Zuo Lan, who is following her, can only stop and go, and try not to step on her heels.

A few people climbed up the narrow corridor, and the corridor was very dark during the day, Zuo Lan asked: "Auntie, why don't you have a corridor light here." ”

"Oh," Fei Ling replied, "there used to be, but after it broke, no one cared about it, but there were almost no people who came home in the middle of the night here, and everyone had a normal schedule, so I went with him." ”

"I see, isn't there any property here?" Zuo Lan continued to ask.

"Yes, but it's basically gone, because I often can't collect property fees, so ...... Yes! It's here. ”

As they spoke, they arrived on the third floor, Fei Ling and Fei Fanghong's home was in the middle of the third floor, and the gate was still old-fashioned, with a wooden door inside and an iron security door on the outside.

Fei Ling picked out the key to the security door from a large pile of keys, it looked very difficult, maybe it was presbyopia, she leaned her head close to the key, and her back naturally bent down.

Zuo Lan waited patiently on the side, it took several minutes for both doors to open, and as soon as he stepped into the room, Fei Ling immediately turned around and said, "Come in quickly, my mother is in the back room, she is usually very quiet, but her memory is not as good as a year." ”

Seeing that Zuo Lan and his assistant were about to take off their shoes, Fei Ling hurriedly said: "No, no, we are not so particular about it at home, you see that I entered the house without taking off my shoes, come in quickly, otherwise my mother will fall asleep after a while." ”

"Auntie, then we'll go straight in." After Zuo Lan said hello, he took his assistant and walked towards the back room that Fei Ling pointed to.

The space in this room is very small, the door is a very small living room, there is a kitchen on the right hand side of the living room, about only a few square meters, from the corridor connected to the kitchen to go in, close to the living room is the bathroom, and then inside is the only room and bedroom, Zuo Lan They want to see the grandmother lying in the bedroom by the window.

When I entered the room, I immediately smelled a faint smell of medicine, the room was cleaned very clean by Fei Ling, and everything was neatly placed.

Fei Fanghong's face was facing out of the window, her hands were placed outside the quilt, the whole person was motionless, she couldn't tell if she was asleep, there were a few yellowed letterheads pressed under her palms, although they were old, but the paper was still flat and neat, and it could be seen that they were usually placed carefully, and they cherished these stationeries very much.

Zuo Lan motioned to her assistant not to be too loud, she looked around and moved two wooden square stools to the side of the bed.

Not long after sitting down with the assistant, Fei Ling came in with two cups of tea, she saw this situation, put the tea on the bedside table, walked to the head of her mother's bed, leaned down and whispered something in her mother's ear, Fei Fanghong turned around as if she had woken up from a dream, looked at Zuo Lan, her eyes were empty, but there were muddy tears in her eyes.

Seeing that her mother had reacted, Fei Ling whispered to Zuo Lan: "You talk, I still have a little thing to do, it's in the outhouse, you can call me at any time if you have anything." ”

Zuo Lan immediately stood up, smiled and said, "Thank you, Auntie, you are busy, you don't need to take care of us." ”

Waiting for Fei Ling to leave, Zuo Lan leaned forward slightly, and said to Fei Fanghong in a gentle tone as much as possible: "Grandma Fei, hello, we are criminal policemen from S City, I want to know something about your brother Fei Yong's past, do you remember?" ”

While Zuo Lan was speaking, the assistant next to her took out a small tape recorder, pressed the on/off button, and put it on his lap to listen to the conversation between the two of them.

Regarding Zuo Lan's words, Fei Fanghong didn't answer all at once, she just continued to look at Zuo Lan blankly, with some confusion in her expression.

A few minutes later, Zuo Lan asked again: "Grandma Fei, do you remember what happened to your brother Fei Yong in the past?" Can you tell us a little bit about that? ”

This time, Fei Fanghong heard Fei Yong's words clearly, her expression suddenly became sad, and she muttered repeatedly: "Evil... Iniquity...... Those children are really evil......"

"Which children? Grandma, can you elaborate on that? Zuo Lan immediately asked.

"Iniquity, he, iniquity! …… After repeating a while, Fei Fanghong slowly understood, and she began to say without a preface: "Xiaoyong is so well-behaved............ Xiao Yong is the most beautiful, he drinks...... Drinking, and then stopped writing...... The little sister was hungry and was thrown in the hallway...... Also, there are nosebleeds...... Yes, a popsicle is a popsicle...... Later, the woman ran away...... Ran ......"

Suddenly, Fei Fanghong looked at Zuo Lan very excitedly and said, "I haven't been able to find Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu has no mother to take care of...... Xiao Chu is missing, comrade police, are you here to help find Xiao Chu? …… He is a iniquity! Iniquity! ”

"Okay, okay, Grandma Fei, we'll help find Xiao Chu, but can you tell us more about the process of Xiao Chu's disappearance? Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to look for it. Zuo Lan could only follow the old man's meaning, hoping to get some specific information.

"This ...... Letter ......" Fei Fanghong suddenly raised his trembling hand and handed the letter paper that had been pressed in the palm of his hand to Zuo Lan, because the joint was deformed and the hand was unstable, the letter paper suddenly slipped off the quilt, and Zuo Lan hurriedly caught it with both hands.

Then, after reassuring the old man, she carefully unfolded the letter and began to read the contents.

These letters were written by Fei Yong's wife, in which she recounted how difficult she and her two children had and how she divorced Fei Yong, among whom the older girl was named Fei Xiaomei, and a baby was only six months old and named Fei Yong.

Fei Yong participated in the interior renovation of the Luoque House and was then interrogated by the police. This paragraph also mentions that further down is that Fei Yong was afraid of being implicated and secretly left S City, because life outside was not going well, Fei Yong became more and more bad-tempered, especially after giving birth to the second child, almost every three or five days he had to get drunk and beat their mother and son.

The letter said that Fei Yong's wife informed Fei Fanghong that she had remarried, and the paragraph came to an abrupt end, and there was no signature or date in the end, so there should be a follow-up.

After reading the letter, Zuo Lan handed the letter to his assistant and asked him to look at it too, and he approached Fei Fanghong again and asked, "What is the name of Xiaoyong and Xiaomei's mother?" Do you remember? ”

“…… Song Weiyi"

Listening to the name reported by the old man, Zuo Lan felt as if he had heard this name not long ago, but he couldn't remember where he heard it. So she continued to ask: "Did Xiaoyong and Xiaomei change their names or surnames later?" Did you know this? ”

This time, Fei Fanghong opened his cloudy eyes and did not react, Zuo Lan waited for a long time before he heard a faint voice coming from his mouth: "Xiao Yong...... Younger sister...... Xiao Chu, have you found Xiao Chu? ”

The old man asked incorrectly, and Zuo Lan had no choice but to follow her meaning and say: "You didn't mention Xiao Chu in this letter, you have to explain it to us clearly, and we can help you find the child." ”

"If you find Xiao Chu, you must ...... Find Xiao Chu ......" Fei Fanghong said again and again, it seems that her brain is starting to get confused again.

Zuo Lan endured his temperament and waited for Fei Fanghong to sober up again, at this time, Fei Ling, who had just finished washing her clothes, walked in, her hands were still dripping with water, and her hands were a little white.

Zuo Lan turned around and asked, "Your mother keeps saying that she wants to find a child named Xiao Chu, is he also Fei Yong's child?" Do you know what's going on with Xiao Chu? ”

Fei Ling sat on the small stool by the door casually, and said helplessly: "Xiao Chu is the child of my uncle's second wife, because my uncle can't change his habits of drinking and beating, and his second wife ran away after a few years with him." I heard from my mother that Xiao Chu disappeared after his mother ran away from home and has never been found. I don't know much about Uncle Fei Yong, Uncle Fei Yong left two children when he divorced for the first time, one is called Fei Yong, and the other is called Fei Xiaomei, I heard that the two children changed their names with their stepfather, as for what they are called, I don't know. I have never met Uncle Fei Yong and his children. ”

"Then did your mother still have contact with Fei Yong later? Do you have any other letters in your house besides this one? Zuo Lan asked.

"No, I don't remember how many years I haven't been in touch, this letter was sent more than twenty years ago, and then there has been no contact, my mother once went back once, and that was when she learned that her uncle had remarried and gave birth to a boy, in fact, alas! It can't be regarded as a remarriage, because the second aunt didn't get a marriage certificate with my uncle at all, Xiao Chu's child disappeared on the same day as his mother, and he never found it, and my uncle didn't report the case back then. My mother has always been worried about Xiao Chu's child. ”

"So is your uncle still alive?"

"I don't know, I haven't heard from me all this time."

"Do you know anything else?" Zuo Lan asked.

"No, that's all I know, my mother is like this a lot of the time," Fei Ling said, referring to her mother's stupid and stupid appearance. She continued: "She doesn't necessarily remember more than I do, just a few words over and over again. ”

Zuo Lan said: "Let's wait a little longer and see what your mother can remember, thank you for the information you provided, it will help us a lot." ”

"If only I could help." Fei Ling said: "Then I'll go out first, it's not early, wait a while for you to eat here, I'll go buy some food." ”

"No, what's so embarrassing, we have to go back in a hurry to report the results, we can't delay, we'll leave after a while, I've been bothering you for so long today, I'm causing you trouble." Zuo Lan very politely rejected Fei Ling's kindness.

It wasn't until the sun went down that they came out of Fei Ling's house. As soon as he got into the police car, Zuo Lan directly called and informed the police officers left behind in the Pinglong Public Security Bureau all the information he got today, especially Fei Yong's wife and three children.

There are also a few pages of stationery from Fei Ling's hand, Zuo Lan decided to take them back to the police station together, the car quickly left the community and drove onto the road, Zuo Lan looked out the window, a little frustrated, she felt that this time the harvest was not big, and she didn't even know the names of the three children now, so it was difficult to carry out a follow-up investigation. [.]