Chapter Twenty-Six: Shen Ming's Confusion and Unease
Soon they came to the courtyard of the brigade. Ning Guanhai and Ding Jian were waiting for their arrival, and when they saw the captain's car coming, they were about to drill into the back seat of the car.
"Hey, Ding Jian, come to the passenger seat." Hong Weiping said to Ding Jian.
After getting into the car, Ning Guanhai and Ding Jian saw Yang Meiyi and hurriedly greeted them. Facing Lin Lin, they just nodded. As for Lin Lin's identity, Hong Weiping has already said it, so they naturally don't dare to speculate, let alone ask.
Shen Ming's home is in the old town of Shawan District, and it is the ancestral property left by the previous generation. Hong Weiping's car soon arrived at the door of Shen Ming's house on the edge of the bay.
As far as the eye can see, a row of low, old brick bungalows running east-west sits alongside the street, all of which are architecturally the same, and even the materials are almost the same: red bricks and green tiles.
Most of the old houses in the urban area around this row of old houses are also like this, making people feel like they are in the mid-60s, which is the backward development of Yingzhou City.
Shen Ming's house is the penultimate on the west side of this row of old houses. Because he received a notice from the school in advance, he waited at the door early. Seeing Hong Weiping and them getting out of the car, he stepped forward to the side of the road and waved, and Hong Weiping took the other four people and followed Shen Ming into his home.
The house is actually not small, with an outer hall, kitchen, remodeled washroom, two bedrooms. Such a house, for a small family, is already good.
Shen Ming courteously beckoned Hong Weiping to sit down, and immediately served the tea that had been prepared, and at this time, Hong Weiping spoke.
"Teacher Shen, sit down, we are here this time to learn about the case you reported."
"Good!" Shen Ming didn't say much, and immediately moved a stool to sit next to them.
"Can you tell us about the last time you spent time with your wife?"
"Of course, that's what I'm supposed to do. That was almost a year ago, because my wife had been at home and refused to go out to work, and the family's financial situation was very difficult. ”
"I reminded her of the old words and suggested that she start a small snack shop near our house and do some breakfast and dinner business, hoping to make some money to help the family, but she refused, and used her usual trick, saying that she was going to seek death."
"Well, every time I told her these things, she was like that, and at that time, I was really angry and quarreled with her. Coincidentally, my father-in-law came to see us that day, and when he saw that we were arguing so much, he proposed to take the two children back to Longtai Village to live for a while, and we agreed without hesitation. Everyone was angry and didn't think about it. ”
"When I woke up the next morning, I didn't see her, and at this time, she would make breakfast for me. I felt a little abnormal, and when I thought of the quarrel when she said she was going to commit suicide or something, I felt a little scared, so I hurried back to school to ask for leave and look for her everywhere. ”
"Where have you been looking for her?"
"Because of the short time, she won't be able to go home so quickly, so I went to the shore of the bay and searched back and forth several times in the direction of the high and low tide of the sea, but to no avail."
"Later, remembering that she used to quarrel in the past, she would often go back to her hometown in Longtai Village, so I went to Longtai Village and explained the situation to my father-in-law, which was already three days after her disappearance."
"My father-in-law said that he never saw his daughter come back, and from that day on, my father-in-law said that I had killed his daughter and kicked me out of Longtai Village. When I came back from Longtai Village, I searched for a long time, and after about a month, I still didn't hear from her, so I called the police. ”
When Hong Weiping was talking to Shen Ming, Lin Lin was not idle on the side, his big eyes under his thick eyebrows were shining, quietly observing Shen Ming.
The man was about forty years old and was about one meter seven tall. In the hot summer, he wore only a vest, revealing his strong and well-developed deltoid and biceps.
Combined with Shen Ming's walking posture, Lin Lin concluded that Shen Ming was a "practitioner", such a person who has both civil and military skills, both internal and external, and has a high IQ, and he can maneuver with Hong Weiping easily and without pressure.
It was his relaxation and lack of pressure that made Lin Lin see a glimmer of hope: this overly conceited person didn't take these policemen seriously!
"Whoever walks by, he will leave traces." This sentence suddenly appeared in Lin Lin's mind. Lin Lin stood up and said to Shen Ming with a smile, "Teacher Shen, can I take a tour of your house?" ”
"Of course, you are free, the humble house has a certain age, you don't mind."
"Hehe, of course I don't mind, on the contrary, I like to study some of the previous architectural styles and the materials they used, my hometown is also very old, but the materials are very good, especially the kind of bricks, very hard, you and our captain talk slowly, I can just look at it alone"
After that, Lin Lin slowly looked over from the front hall, bedroom, bathroom to kitchen one by one, and when she saw the kitchen, the scene in front of her made Lin Lin's heart move: it was a very popular stove at that time, known as an energy-saving stove, which could be built with many building materials.
This kind of stove is also very popular in Jishui Town, and it requires certain skills to build this kind of stove. It must ensure that when burning firewood, the main heat of firewood combustion can make the meals of the main stove ready, and the waste heat can heat the water or soup of the secondary stove. If this kind of stove is done well, it does have its practicality.
If you compare the energy-saving stove of Shen Ming's house with the energy-saving stove of Lin Lin's family, the energy-saving stove in Shen Ming's house can be called "luxury" level. The surface of the stove and the surrounding parts of Shen Ming's energy-saving stove are all broken porcelain pieces spliced together very carefully and with a sense of pattern, which looks smooth, clean and beautiful.
These porcelain tiles should be picked up in the decoration materials market, and then polished with tools and then pasted. Because of its cleanliness, it is difficult for outsiders to tell when this stove was built. Lin Lin inferred from the time when the porcelain pieces entered the dwelling that the stove was not built for a long time.
Looking back and forth, the impression of the whole home to Lin Lin is clean and tidy, with no superfluous objects or sundries. During this period, Lin Lin quietly opened the wardrobe in the bedroom at a very fast speed, and at a cursory glance, there were not many women's clothes. Because of the dim light, Lin Lin didn't dare to make an assertion, it was just a feeling.
Lin Lin slowly returned to her original seat and sat down, stared at Shen Ming with a smile and said, "Your energy-saving stove is very beautiful, much better than that in my hometown, ask someone to make it?" ”
"Comrade police smiled, I built this in my spare time. I picked up these porcelain tiles from the decoration materials market, polished them, and then pasted them. The sharp-eyed Lin Lin saw that when Shen Ming answered his question, a trace of astonishment and uneasiness flashed across his face.