Fu Xiujin motioned for the two of them to sit down and talk. Mr. Chen then pulled Mrs. Chen to sit down. Mrs. Chen was still wiping the tears on her face.
"Mr. Chen, our sudden visit indeed revealed new doubts. How did you identify the charred corpse at the scene as that of Chen Suqing? The bones we found did not belong to Chen Suqing. You identified the corpse at the scene and identified the wrong person."
As soon as Zhao Shaobai said this, the shock on Mr. Chen's face was indescribable. His eyes widened and the flesh on his face trembled slightly due to shock, but the next second he calmed down and shook his head.
"It's impossible. There's absolutely no way we can admit our mistake. Although she was burned into a charred corpse at the time, the jade pendant I bought is still on her body, and her birthmark cannot be faked."
"Mr. Chen, he was burned into a charred corpse. What happened to the birthmark?"
Yao Shu found it unbelievable that the charred corpse could not still retain the birthmark, it should have been burned long ago.
Only then did Mr. Chen notice Yao Shu standing aside. Seeing that Fu Xiujin didn't stop her from speaking, he continued to explain.
"When Qing'er was born, she had a plum blossom birthmark on her left foot the size of a fingernail. Perhaps because of God's mercy, when the body was cremated, a water tank next to it broke. A piece of tile covered her left foot, and the rest of the body was burned. It was turned into charcoal, but only the left foot remained intact..."
Yao Shu and Fu Xiujin looked at each other, and she shook her head.
"I only saw the skull and pelvis in the government office just now. What I can confirm is that these two parts definitely do not belong to Chen Suqing. As for other clues, I can only make a determination by going back and carefully examining all the bones."
Yao Shu's brain was running fast. Even if it was covered with tiles, it was impossible for the left foot to survive if part of the body was on fire. There must be some details that Mr. Chen didn't notice.
When several people were silent, Fu Xiujin took the lead to break the silence.
"Although the body cannot be identified for the time being, the murderer still has traces. Since he kidnapped Chen Suqing to seek money, why did he kill and burn the body and leave the jade pendant in the end? Mr. Chen, you definitely will not buy defective products, so why didn't the murderer take away valuables? The jade pendant. It’s possible that the jade pendant was left behind to confuse your vision and make you identify the wrong body.”
Now three years have passed since the incident. The scene was burned down and rebuilt again. There are basically no clues left at the scene. We can only rely on witnesses and bones to continue to dig clues. So Fu Xiujin proposed to sort out the whole story of Chen Suqing's kidnapping first. Madam immediately sent someone to call the maid Zhu'er who was following Chen Suqing.
Zhuer knelt down as soon as she arrived and recounted the whole story of her kidnapping with tears in her eyes.
"Early that morning, the lady was thinking that Rouge Factory had released a new product, so I accompanied her to buy it. When I was passing by the alley, someone suddenly rushed out and knocked me unconscious. When I fainted, I saw him covering it with a handkerchief. The young lady’s mouth. Later I woke up and was tied up in a small woodshed with the young lady. The murderer came in and brought tea to the young lady. He also said not to be afraid and would never hurt the young lady. Then he took me out alone. , I asked the master to ask for a ransom of three hundred taels of gold, and deliver it to the designated place at the end of the next day, otherwise the vote would be broken. Later, I was knocked unconscious and thrown at the back door of the house, and the aunt in the kitchen found me. I rescued him."
Mr. Chen sighed. Everyone knew what happened next. After paying the ransom to the designated point, Miss Chen was already killed.
"The murderer must be someone who knows Miss Chen and is very familiar with her."
As soon as Fu Xiujin finished speaking, Yao Shu immediately answered, "And he is probably someone who admires Miss Chen."
Looking at the doubtful looks in the Chen family's eyes, Fu Xiujin explained slowly, "The murderer could have knocked Miss Chen unconscious directly, but he still used a handkerchief to stun her in a gentler way. When they were locked up together, they unexpectedly I also gave Ms. Chen tea, but ordinary kidnappers might not even give her water."
Master Chen was immediately enlightened and hurriedly reported the names of several Chen Suqing's suitors. Zhao Shaobai registered them one by one. The murderer was most likely among these people.
The case found a new direction. Zhao Shaobai took the list and immediately set off to investigate. Fu Xiujin and Yao Shu rushed back to Dali Temple with the bones and files to continue analysis.
After getting off the car, Yao Shu held the box containing the bones and successfully found the place of the autopsy, Wuyantang, using the memory in her mind.
Zhou Wuzuo saw a woman coming back with a big box and hurriedly went up to help her.
"Is this the body of the Chen family's legitimate daughter in the case?"
Zhou Wuzuo was the old man who recruited Yao Shu that day. It was the first time he saw a woman working as a widower, and she had good qualifications. He liked the trainee young widower very much and couldn't help but start chatting.
Yao Shu put down the box and took a deep breath. She touched her sore shoulder and replied, "Yes, there are a lot of doubts about this corpse."
Hearing that there were many doubts about the corpse, Zhou Wuzuo became interested and helped Yao Shu dump the bones on the workbench. The two of them worked together. When Fu Xiujin arrived, the bones had been neatly arranged in the order of human bones.
Yao Shu concentrated on examining the bones and was completely unaware of Fu Xiujin's arrival. Zhou Zuo was about to say hello but was stopped by him.
"Lao Zhou, look here. There is a bone defect in the sole of the left foot. It was obviously cut off. This also explains why the severed foot was not burned because it was not connected to the torso."
Zhou Wuzuo came up to take a look, nodded and agreed with Yao Shu's point of view, "What else can you see?"
Yao Shu didn't look up. What she found strange was why the murderer cut off the corpse's feet. Why go to all the trouble to cut off the left foot when he had clearly killed the deceased with a blow to the head.
She leaned close to the body, searching every bone carefully, for fear of missing any clue. Unknowingly, a strand of hair slipped from the side of her cheek, almost brushing against the bones. A slender hand replaced her at that moment. She pulled up the strand of hair.
Yao Shu raised her head and instantly met the eyes of the owner of her hand, Fu Xiujin. The thank you was stuck in her throat and she did not say it out. Fu Xiujin relaxed his hand as if nothing had happened and motioned for her to continue the inspection.
The room was silent. No one disturbed Yao Shu. The incense burned quietly. Halfway through the burning, she made a new discovery.
"These bones were put together by two people. The left foot may belong to Chen Suqing, and the rest of it belongs to another person. The murderer cut off the left foot in order to mislead Mr. Chen and misjudge the severed foot. The corpses all belong to Chen Suqing, maybe this Chen Suqing is still alive."
