Bai Shenyan is undoubtedly a liar.
But in fact, Dong Yinghong can be regarded as a liar. But her scam was a bit narrow, because she only deceived herself.
Although the villagers saw that Dong Yinghong behaved as usual, her cheap husband's usual lies had been exposed, and with the communication between the villagers and the outside world, she no longer had such "unique" attributes.
Plus, staying at home, living on his wife's dowry, doing nothing but drinking, and accomplishing nothing.
Although they didn't know the inside story of the domestic violence, everyone else felt that it was not worth it for her, and it was a pity that a flower would marry such a guy in a daze. Perhaps only Dong Yinghong herself firmly believes that she is still happy in the eyes of others.
But when it comes to children, others don’t know much about it. Although Bai Shenyan was full of words but no concrete actions, he brought over some of the city's habits. The folk customs in the village are simple, and there are not many people waiting around for miles around. Others almost keep their doors closed at night. The village committee persuaded them to close their doors at night after emphasizing safety awareness education more than a dozen times. They were thirsty and thirsty.
Bai Shenyan, on the other hand, consciously went too far. As long as she was at home day and night, she locked the door tightly. Dong Yinghong had to unbolt several doors when she went out to buy groceries, let alone a seven-year-old child. .
"That's it." When the old man in the village heard that there was something important to explain, he came over to a table to help the police comrades, and one of the representatives spoke. He seemed to have just got off the card table, rubbing his hands from time to time, and looking very excited, "That's not true. It’s not that we didn’t want to say it, firstly, it took too long, and secondly, we were really not familiar with each other. There was indeed a boy, but he moved away soon. We also found out that Xiaodong was leaving, so we didn’t pay attention until we went to see her off. As for the doll... As for the girl, we don’t know.”
Lu Yao couldn't help but take the time to look around.
This village is not only the suspected former residence of Yu Xuanyi, but also the location of the Dawn 1 case. Because in the previous investigation, the villagers only described the suspicious family and did not remember which one it was, and the village committee's files were not easy to access, so they did not notice this connection at the first time.
But as soon as Liu Che, who had read relevant case files countless times, especially the first few cases that were very close in time, arrived at the place, he recognized this place that had been quoted and compared countless times in various meetings.
The former male owner of the family who had left long ago was Bai Shenyan, and the woman who left with a boy was Dong Yinghong.
And the woman who first suggested that there was such a girl also came to this place.
"I helped take care of Xiao Dong for a few days when he gave birth to the baby." The woman was a little embarrassed when she explained her vague memories in front of strangers. She kept stopping to think about it, for fear that she had said something wrong, "At that time...she He said that he had no experience in raising children, so he asked me to help him for a few days and give her a demonstration. At that time, her husband was still in charge of some things. The second time, I only went there for a day or two and Xiaodong said no. Yes, I remember clearly that her husband wasn’t that keen either.”
"Two times..." Lu Yao pondered for a few seconds, "How long was the interval?"
"The first time it was a boy, the second time it was a girl. The difference was about one or two years, right?" The woman hesitated, "Yes, that should be right. I remember when the second child was born, the first one was I just learned to walk, and I can still make babbling calls. It’s a pity that my stay was too short, and I was too focused on that girl, so I didn’t have time to take a few more looks. She looks like their mother, and she’s lovable. very."
Liu Che interjected from the side: "You and Ms. Dong knew each other before?"
The woman nodded: "We are classmates in elementary school. I often took her to school with me when I was a child, although we didn't have much contact with her after a few years. Although I was three or four years older than her, you also know that in those days , there are few people in the village who want to go to primary school, and they have to make up enough people to go to school, and the age gap between the people who are crammed into one grade is very large. I am the oldest in the group, Xiaodong is the youngest, but he is also the smartest. I really don’t know why I ended up like this That way..."
Lu Yao had done preliminary research and knew that most of these villages had such educational characteristics decades ago. This woman stayed at home to work after graduating from elementary school. She got married quite early when she became an adult. There are six people in the family, three children, all grown up. One is still working in the village, and the other is a factory owner. , and another is working as a white-collar worker in the city.
When it comes to raising children, she should indeed be regarded as someone who can be referred to, and what she said before can be said to be reasonable and well-founded.
"Their family used to live here." Since she knew the best, the woman volunteered to lead the two police officers to the address of the original residence. "No one has lived here for a long time. Half of the surrounding houses have been demolished. This is because I can't contact the owner and there is no news. I really don't know how Xiaodong is doing now... Well, we don't know each other very well, but it's really hard for such a big girl to be widowed like this and encounter so many things. She did."
It’s not surprising that she didn’t know about domestic violence. Because although some women in the village reported their suspicions at the time, the police did not allow such news to spread after the investigation was completed - out of protection for Dong Yinghong.
After all, at that time, Dong Yinghong could only say that she had the motive for murder because of domestic violence, and because the multiple door locks in her home made it difficult to break into, she was heavily suspected of murder. Once this grudge spreads out at this time and speculation takes root in the village, Dong Yinghong will be faced with indiscriminate doubts and suspicions. She will definitely be greatly affected, regardless of whether she is innocent or not.
Including the peasant woman who first mentioned the matter and the lady who assisted in the inspection, all people familiar with the matter were ordered not to speak about it. And looking at the current effect, even the woman who paid relatively close attention to this tragedy did not know the inside story. This kind of blocking of information should be pretty good.
"The reason I felt something was wrong was on the day Xiao Dong took the children away." The woman sighed, "I'm not being nosy, but I was curious because the two children really didn't go out very often. That day I suddenly heard that Xiao Dong was going to Let's go, I also want to see how the children I took care of back then are doing now. But there was only a little boy with her, so I thought that the girl might have been sent to her husband's house. It is impossible for the village to have no children who died young. There is a little bit of news, but it is not impossible that Xiaodong’s husband died and her husband’s family came to take away one of her.”
Liu Che continued to ask: "What does that boy look like? Do you still remember?"
