Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Adoptive Mother's Secret
"I'm sorry, but if I don't say that I have evidence, I'm afraid I won't be able to get everyone gathered here, and if everyone can't gather here, I won't be able to reveal the other truth behind Changqing's case," Ran Sinian was still unhurried and calmly to the end, "After our inference was finished just now, Mr. Tan pretended to be surprised, pretended to be funny, and pretended to be angry, but in fact, in this room, there is one person who pretends to be surprised besides him, and that is you, Ai Qin." ”
Ai Qin was like being stabbed by a cold arrow, first stunned and stiff, and then launched a counterattack, asking Ran Sinian: "What nonsense are you talking about?" ”
"1884078****," Ran Sinian quietly spit out a string of numbers, "Do you remember this number?" It was this phone number that inspired me, so that I finally figured out what role you Ai Qin was in Changqing's case, and let me review and interpret your three meaningful dreams again, and finally came to a deeper conclusion, that is, you, Ai Qin, are the culprit who killed Changqing, the driving force behind the scenes, and you are the director of this whole drama. ”
Qu Zichong finally reacted and asked Ran Sinian in a low voice: "Si Nian, I remember that this number is the ...... on the note paper in the guest room."
"That's right," Ran Sinian looked at Ai Qin playfully, "It's worth mentioning that I wouldn't have noticed this number, but it was Ai Qin who asked me about the objects in the drawer of the bedside table in my guest room in order to verify whether I had the ability to remember, and by chance, I remembered this number." And that night, my subconscious has extracted some fragments of my memory for me according to this number, and some clues related to the case are also related to this number, which is what I told you here before, my fourth dream, the dream about the nursing home. ”
Qu Zichong said while reminiscing: "I remember, at that time, you said that the dream had a meaning, but the time was not enough, and the real meaning could not be deciphered. Why, now, do you understand the true meaning of that fourth dream? ”
Ran Sinian nodded solemnly and replied, "Yes, this is thanks to the reminder I received in my dream this morning, and I didn't miss the trip to the nursing home with Miss Rao in the morning." The nursing home we went to in the morning was the Anxiang Nursing Home, which was the nursing home that appeared in my dream, and we saw the photo of Director Zhang Xiaoli in the propaganda board, and the mobile phone number of Director Zhang under the photo, which was the mobile phone number on the sticky note paper in the guest room. I thought, since this number was left on the sticky note paper in the guest room, and the sticky note paper was torn off, leaving only the marks on the next piece of paper, then this phone number, Bacheng, is his own phone left by the person who lived in the guest room, and left it to the owner of the house, Ai Qin. The guest who stayed in the guest room was Zhang Xiaoli, the owner of the number. ”
Ai Qin snorted disdainfully, "That's right, I know Zhang Xiaoli, she used to be my old neighbor, we met by chance a while ago, I invited her to my house for a stay, she left me her mobile phone number, what does this mean?" ”
"Lie, you and Zhang Xiaoli didn't just get back in touch recently, you kept in touch with her more than a year ago. At that time, you were still an unknown author, and you didn't know Chang Qing yet, so you found Zhang Xiaoli in order to find themes and curious stories. At that time, Zhang Xiaoli was already working in the Anxiang Nursing Home, and she told you that there was an old man who seemed to have a story living in the nursing home, and she matched you with a bridge to help you pretend to be a volunteer and infiltrate the nursing home to interview the old man. Unfortunately, on the day the volunteers went to the nursing home, you were also treated as a volunteer and filmed in a promotional video. My fourth dream was not a dream with an allegorical meaning, but a dream of a recurring nature, a reproduction of the promotional video I had watched, because my subconscious still remembered that in that promotional video, there was a young female volunteer with a difference, and the last two words of the old man before he shut up—clown. ”
Ai Qin stroked her hair, showed a bright smile in a large arc for the first time after Changqing's death, and asked, "This is just your inference, what evidence do you have?" ”
Ran Sinian took out his mobile phone unhurriedly and broadcast it to Fan Xiao, and after answering the phone, he pressed the speakerphone button and said, "Xiao Fan, Zhang Xiaoli, I believe you have already asked the questions I sent you, how did she answer?" ”
Fan Xiao's voice was full of passion, and he said loudly: "I have taken Zhang Xiaoli back to the interrogation room of the police station, and she has recruited them all." ”
Ran Sinian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, then you can play the key part of the interrogation recording." ”
After a while, Zhang Xiaoli's voice came from the earpiece of Ran Sinian's mobile phone.
"Yes, it was about a year and a half ago, when Ai Qin was still single, and she wanted to become a writer, but she didn't have any inspiration, so she was anxious to find material for inspiration, and she asked me for help. I told her that an elderly person came to our nursing home recently, and he was only 55 years old on his ID card, but he looked as old as 75 years old, and his physical condition was also very poor. I heard some gossip that this old man was a dusty woman when he was young, and it was because of the indulgence of his youth that he accelerated his old age and made him sick all over. However, such an old man can live in the most advanced room in the hospital, with two special nurses to care for him, and the identity of the person who pays for the elderly is strictly confidential, and he has also signed a confidentiality agreement with the hospital. So I thought that this old man didn't have a special identity, and maybe there was something Ai Qin wanted about him, so I arranged for Ai Qin to interview her. Because of the rules of the hospital, and the relatives of the old man repeatedly told the old man to refuse visitors, I had to take the opportunity of volunteers to volunteer in the hospital and let Ai Qin disguise herself as a volunteer to interview the old man. I don't know what kind of water grinding work Ai Qin used, but the old man who never said much was really willing to tell her his story. After that, Ai Qin seemed very excited, I thought she could finally write a good story and publish a book, but she didn't move for a long time. I called her to ask her, it turned out that she met the famous director Chang Qing by chance at that time, and she was busy patting and dragging. She told me that she didn't plan to write a book, and that she was going to focus on Chang Qing now, and that becoming Mrs. Chang was her goal. As for the story that the old man told her, she had another use. ”
After listening to the recording, Ran Sinian hung up the phone and stared at Ai Qin, waiting for her heart to collapse.
Rao Pei'er took advantage of everyone's silence and asked, "Ran Sinian, how did you guess that old man used to be a dust girl?" ”
Ran Sinian retracted his gaze and didn't answer Rao Pei'er, but asked Bai Yifeng instead, "Mr. Bai, you once told us that you haven't seen Uncle Huang for ten years, and the people in the circus said that he didn't say goodbye and ran away with a dusty woman." ”
"Yes, but it's just a rumor from the circus, and since Uncle Huang is my father, then this rumor is self-defeating, isn't it? Because my father didn't elope with any dusty woman. Bai Yifeng was anxious to clarify.
"Don't underestimate the observation skills of those aunts in your circus, they have also seen that you are similar to Huang Yong's charm, and suspect that you are Huang Yong's son. Since it is rumored that Huang Yong ran away with a dusty woman, and Huang Yong is your father at all, it can be proved that your father Bai Lin had contact with a certain dusty woman. After the role of Huang Yong disappeared, this dusty woman also faded out of the sight of the circus aunts. And Huang Yong disappeared shortly after the end of the clown serial case, that is, this dust girl also left at that time. Ran Sinian seemed to be inspired, and looked back and forth at Bai Yifeng, Qu Zichong and Rao Pei'er as he spoke, hoping that they could understand the meaning of his words.
Qu Zichong was the first to wake up, "Si Nian, do you mean that Bai Lin entrusted his other son to this dust girl back then?" In other words, the dust girl back then was Tan Jiansheng's adoptive mother? ”
Rao Pei'er also suddenly realized, "I see, so the old man's guardian relative is Tan Jiansheng?" The reason why the nursing home is kept secret is because Tan Jiansheng wants to keep the secret that his adoptive mother used to be a dust girl? ”
Several people's eyes were all focused on Tan Jiansheng, who had been silent, and these eyes were different, some sympathetic, some surprised, and some hypocritical. But Tan Jiansheng still did not change his face, and sat firmly on Mount Tai as silent.
"I think it's probably like this, a woman who is willing to take in the oil bottle is naturally a woman who likes children, but she is also a poor bottom of society. This Fengchen girl was also forty-five years old back then, and she didn't have any children of her own because of physical reasons, so she naturally agreed to Bai Lin's request and regarded Tan Jiansheng as her own. From Bai Lin's point of view, he was also extremely helpless, but as long as there were others who were willing to take in that child, how could he give the child to a dusty girl? But because of this, this child, that is, Tan Jiansheng, became even more jealous and hated Bai Yifeng, the brother who had always been by his father's side. Qu Zichong, who is still the eldest in the living room, and Qu Zichong, who can best understand Bai Lin's bitterness back then, was the first to lament.
Ran Si coughed young, signaling Qu Zichong not to sigh in a hurry, or to return to the topic, he continued: "Just like Zhang Xiaoli said, in the nursing home, I don't know what kind of water grinding work Ai Qin used, so that the old man who is silent is willing to tell the story about her adopted son, the sad one person plays two roles, and the two play one role of the story. I don't think the old man is so confused as to tell this true story by name, but she underestimated Ai Qin's ability, Ai Qin not only found out the current identities of the two brothers in this story, but also linked the murder ten years ago to this story. Ai Qin, like me, captured the motive for the murder from this tragic story, and she had already come to the conclusion that the murderer of the clown serial case ten years ago was Tan Jiansheng, who was only fifteen years old at the time. ”
"Hmph." Ai Qin pretended to snort easily and cocked Erlang's legs.