Six years ago, my wife Russell Ying disappeared for no reason, and she was still pregnant at the time.
Not long ago, my girlfriend Hailin disappeared, and I couldn't find her.
It's like...every woman I love will be gone, no one will be seen alive or dead.
1
My name is Zhu Chengbi, and my pen name is "Chenbi". I am a self-media writer who runs a "Yunjian Fear Library".
Ten years ago, I was framed and accused of killing my mother's lover's daughter, and I was also my classmate Zhang Qi. Although the police did not have conclusive evidence to acquit me afterwards, in the minds of many classmates and teachers, I was the extremely vicious murderer.
And the person who set up a plan to frame me disappeared in the vast sea of people.
For many years, I have tried hard to get rid of the shadow of the past, but it has never helped, and even missed the job I like. Therefore, I could only start working in self-media, and fortunately some of the suspense novels I wrote were quite popular.
Recently, I have collected real events from readers as inspiration for novels, and the results have been quite good. Last night, in order to write a novel about a girl who did not hesitate to "travel through space" to save her lover until dawn. After writing, I set a regular push, thinking that I would not do anything the next day and rested lazily all day.
Who knew that I had just fallen into a confused state when I heard a fierce noise coming from the living room. I opened my eyes hard. It was 7:30 in the morning, and it was only two hours before I fell asleep.
I rubbed my eyes and came to the living room. I saw that there was a lot of luggage around me. My mother was arguing with my grandmother, and her little boyfriend was sitting leisurely on the sofa playing with his cell phone.
"I said you are not allowed to live back!" grandma roared.
Mother smiled and said, "Call the police, ask the police, my name is on the household registration book and the real estate certificate. Do I have the right to move in?"
"I have given you part of the money for selling the old house. I bought this house because I paid for it. You have never cared about Abi. Why should I let you move in?" Grandma saw me coming out and immediately stood in front of me.
"People her?" My mother laughed, she stared at me for a while, and replied coldly: "Why should I care about her? She is not my biological child."
said lightly, but I seemed to have a thunder exploded on my head.
"What did you...what did you say?" I asked with difficulty.
Mother sneered, "I said you are not my biological child, not only are you not my biological child, but you have not even completed the adoption procedures, so you are actually my niece in the household registration book. So, no matter who you are in, you can't get it."
Grandma was so anxious that she pushed her mother hard, turned to me and said, "A Bi, go in first!"
I opened a door in a daze, but it turned out to be the entrance door.
thinking that this is probably the so-called will of heaven, and I walked out mechanically.
At this time, I was only wearing pajamas and slippers, and I didn’t bring my phone with me. I was walking casually on the road in the hot summer. Maybe passers-by would think that I was a woman with abnormal mental health when I saw it. My mind was confused, I didn't know where to go, but my heart suddenly became relieved.
No wonder... She doesn't like me, it turns out that I'm not bad at all, it's not that I'm not doing well enough.
Suddenly, a sharp and sudden brake sound came from my ears. When I turned my head, I saw that the front of a car was already against my legs. I was shocked and fell to the ground.
A man got off the car and apologized to me hurriedly.
, and he and I were stunned for a moment.
"Class Zhu Chengbi?"
"Teacher Jiang?"
2
Jiang Ping was my physics teacher when I was in high school. At that time, he had just graduated from graduate school. He was serious and patient in teaching, and was very popular among students.After graduating from high school, I had no contact with him. I once heard that he started a business with his mentor and had achieved some success. He was no longer a poor teacher.
An unexpected encounter today, I found that his face was not much better than mine, and he was also distracted, as if there was something unspeakable.
He proposed to send me home, but I wanted to refuse, but then I thought, where can I go besides going home? Besides, I still have reservations about my mother’s statement. Maybe she deliberately angered my grandmother and me just to grab the property?
I secretly looked at Jiang Ping. His trance was a little better than before, but he was still a little stunned.
"Abi, what job are you doing now? I remember you said you wanted to be a magazine editor." But he spoke first and broke the silence.
I smiled embarrassedly, "In fact, I am now a unknown self-media."
"Oh? What are you operating?"
"I operate a cloud fear library and serialize some novels."
"Ah!" Jiang Ping suddenly shouted, "It turns out that you wrote the 'yin beast' series! You are Chenbi! Chenbi, Zhu Chengbi! Why didn't I expect it?"
I lowered my head a little embarrassedly, "Do Teacher Jiang also like to read suspense novels?"
While speaking, Jiang Ping had already parked the car downstairs of my house.
I was only wearing pajamas and slippers, and I felt very confused. I seemed to have been wandering outside for a long time, but in fact I only walked for more than ten minutes, not far from the community.
Hearing me ask this, Jiang Ping's expression began to become gloomy again. He whispered: "A boring man like me who only knows how to make money from work, how can I read any novels? It's my girlfriend Hailin. She likes to read suspense novels very much, and her favorite novel has been made into a movie called "The Lost Lover"."
Hailin?
I couldn't help but stare at him. When he was a high school physics teacher, I once met his newlywed wife. At that time, he was a passionate teacher. He often used all kinds of spare time to make up for the students' gaps or improve them. Sometimes he was so busy that he didn't have time to eat. His wife would come to the school to find him with snacks, and we students also took the opportunity to satisfy our desires.
I remember that at that time he called his wife "Su Ying", but why now he has become "girlfriend Hailin"? Could it be that after getting rich, he threw away his wife and replaced the old one with a new one?
probably noticed that my expression was different. Jiang Ping explained, "My wife Suying... She suddenly disappeared in the year you graduated from high school, and her whereabouts are still unknown."
I was speechless for a moment, and was about to comfort him a few words, Jiang Ping suddenly lost control. He smashed his head heavily on the steering wheel and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry. Tell you these unpleasant things. But I'm so sad. After Suying disappeared for three years, I finally got out of my sadness and met Hailin. Recently, I was about to propose to Hailin, but she also suddenly disappeared."
"What do you mean? "
Jiang Ping looked ahead and said tangently: "Six years ago, my wife Russell Ying disappeared for no reason. She was still pregnant at that time. Not long ago, my girlfriend Hailin disappeared, and I couldn't find her."
Jiang Ping's tone became heavier, "It seems like my woman... all the women I love are gone, no one is seen alive or dead!"
3
I returned home with great worries, but found that there was no one. The door was covered with no lock, as if so that I could enter the house.
Listen to the fun of the neighbor aunt saying that it was my grandmother who forced her to drive away her mother and boyfriend, but because the noise was too loud, some neighbors thought that someone had died, so the police dispatched to take them all to the police station.
While they were not around, I really wanted to open the account book to see if my identity was registered on it was my mother's daughter or niece. However, years of setbacks have made me develop the habit of deceiving myself. Unless my grandmother told me in person, I would never reveal the so-called truth.
Maybe, maybe my mother deliberately said these exciting words just to anger her grandmother.
I used this technique to comfort myself, and then shifted my attention to Jiang Ping's experience.
Although he left because his boss was summoned for a while, I was very curious about his series of experiences, of course, because I wanted to divert my attention and not think about what my mother said.
According to Jiang Ping, his wife Russell Ying and her current girlfriend both disappeared without warning. They almost had dinner and dated him the previous day. The next day, there was no news, just like the world evaporated.
Six years ago, Jiang Ping was a physics teacher in our high school. He taught very seriously and responsibly and was highly praised by students' parents. That day was the second day of the college entrance examination, that is, June 8. Jiang Ping, as the teacher, needed to take the exam.
Jiang Ping's wedding room is very far from the school, and it is nearly an hour and a half drive away. In order to ensure that you are not late for the exam, Jiang Ping chose to sleep in the school office the night before.
He still remembered that at around 9 o'clock that night, he and his wife Russell Ying had a phone call and took care of his wife to go to bed early and not to watch the show too late.
"At that time, Suying was more than three months pregnant, and she was very thin and didn't look pregnant. But because the fetus was not in good condition, she took leave to rest at home. She had nothing to do anyway, so she watched TV shows day and night, and often watched them, and she cried when she was too devoted. I was afraid that such a vulgar TV series would affect her mood, so I called her to rest early." Jiang Ping said.
At 8:30 am on June 8, Jiang Ping rushed to the examination room to encourage the candidates. I have an impression of
. Jiang Ping not only arrived at the test site early to wait for the candidates, but also reminded the precautions for the exam one by one. He also forced two candidates with poor physics to memorize the electromagnetic theorem again. Maybe because this is his first time to pass the exam, it is even more nervous than the candidates.
The exam ended at 11:30 noon, and Jiang Ping returned home at about 1:40 pm.
The house was quiet and the bedroom door was closed. He thought his wife was taking a nap, so he sat in the living room and read a book for a while. About half an hour later, he wanted to see his wife's condition, but he only saw the messy bed, and Russey Young disappeared.
Next, Jiang Ping immediately called his wife's cell phone, and the phone was out of no answer. He contacted his parents-in-law immediately, but they didn't know where Russey Young went.
Jiang Ping waited at home until 7:30 pm. He contacted all his friends whom he knew, and said he had never met Russell Ying. He reported the case to the community police station. Since Russey Ying was a pregnant woman, the police took immediate action and retrieved the community's surveillance as soon as possible.
But unfortunately, the property in this community has been in a long-term disagreement with the owners' committee , and the property is in a semi-shutdown state. The surrounding surveillance has long been broken. It is impossible to determine when Russell Ying left home, whether she voluntarily ran away or someone took her away.
"That's it, my wife is gone." Jiang Ping said sadly.
4
Later, the police found through their ID card that Russell Ying bought a high-speed rail ticket to Liuzhen that night, which was a beach tourist destination, and thousands of passengers were coming every day. The police inferred that Russell Ying might be nervous during pregnancy, so she went to the scenic spot to relax.
After all, Russell Ying was an adult. At that time, there was no evidence that she was in danger. If she hid in the face of her family, it would be her freedom. Jiang Ping considered that although the ticket terminal was Liuzhen, his wife might change her mind or get off the bus when she encountered some changes. So he searched along the high-speed rail line from the city to Liu Town. The whole summer vacation passed and there were no clues.
Russell Ying disappeared into his life like this.
Why did his wife run away from home while pregnant? Jiang Ping was puzzled. For more than a year, he was distracted and almost caused teaching accidents several times. Just at this time, his tutor was given an opportunity to start a business, so he went there to help.
During his work, he met Qiu Hailin. The woman was his assistant at first, and she was gentle and friendly. It was with her company that Jiang Ping came out of the pain of losing his wife and started a new life.
Just a few days ago, Jiang Ping felt that the time was ripe and was planning to propose to Qiu Hailin, but suddenly he could not contact her.
The day before, everything was as usual, and the two of them had dinner that night. Jiang Ping solemnly asked her to have dinner in an expensive French restaurant on the weekend, intending to give her a surprise and propose to her.
Qiu Hailin's community is relatively high-end. Only in accordance with the police's requirements can the property provide surveillance video. Jiang Ping and Qiu Hailin are not related to each other, and even if they call the police, the police may not accept it.
What's worse is that Qiu Hailin grew up with her father in a single-parent family. Qiu's father stayed in the chess and card room all day long and never cared about his daughter. Even if Qiu Hailin is missing now, Qiu's father still looks indifferent and refuses to cooperate with Jiang Ping to call the police.
"He said that Hailin is so big, and it is possible to go anywhere, so he doesn't want to care about her." Jiang Ping smiled bitterly, "How could there be such a father in the world?"
Well... I thought to myself, there are many such parents, but you have never seen it.
Many people are missing every day, and many of them are voluntarily disconnected from their families. Although they left for some reason, whether it was Russell Ying or Qiu Hailin, they carried their mobile phones and ID cards with them, which was also in line with the characteristics of running away from home. Unless there is evidence that they may or have been injured, the police will not spend huge manpower and material resources to find two people who actively escape from the world.
The sound of the door lock turning came from outside, and grandma is back.
The one who was with her was Pei Zikang. It turned out that he had official duties in the nearby branch, and happened to meet his grandmother and mother who were taken to the police station. After mediation, of course, most of the time was based on Pei Zikang's presence, and his mother agreed not to move back for the time being.
"I'm sorry to you again." I thanked me in a low voice, but I didn't dare to look at my grandmother.
Grandma hesitated and said, "A Bi... I have something to say to you."
Pei Zikang hurriedly said, "Then I should go back too..."
I immediately interrupted, "I'll give you my words, and I have something to say to you." Then I turned around and looked straight into my grandma's eyes and said, "Even if I must know some things, I hope the later the better, at least I'm mentally prepared."
5
Today, Pei Zikang didn't drive, and I accompanied him to walk in the community. I was in the police station just now, and I didn’t know how much he heard, but I believe that once my mother fell into madness, she would completely ignore other people’s opinions and completely ignore them.
In order to break the silence, I told him about meeting Jiang Ping, a high school teacher in the morning.
Hearing the word "Jiang Ping", Pei Zikang frowned and said, "This name is a bit familiar... What is the name of his missing girlfriend Lin?"
"Qu Hailin."
"Yes, it should be them."
Pei Zikang took out his mobile phone and clicked on his Moments. There was a photo in it. The uploader was not him, but there were about a dozen people in the photo, and the one in the center was Jiang Ping.
"About half a year ago, our department leaders gave benefits to employees and hired a popular financial manager recently to tell us how to invest and manage finance reasonably and legally. Jiang Ping is one of them. Do you see the beautiful woman with heavy makeup next to him? She is Qiu Hailin, and she is a well-known financial internet celebrity." Pei Zikang explained.
I couldn't help but feel a little upset, "Can finance also make an internet celebrity?"
Pei Zikang smiled, "Isn't it enough to be beautiful and talk to attract attention?"
Speaking of Qiu Hailin's disappearance, Pei Zikang immediately found her social account. Her online name on major platforms is "Linlin Loves Finance". As expected, it has not been updated for many days. Judging from her previous update frequency, it was basically once every other day, but the most recent one was a week ago.
"Qu Hailin is an adult, and where she wants to go is her freedom. Although Jiang Ping is her boyfriend, it is not a relative or a good person after all. If it weren't for Qiu Hailin's parents or spouse to report the case, we would be very difficult to accept. But..." Pei Zikang pondered, "You said that Jiang Ping's wife and girlfriend were both missing, which is too coincidental."
"Yes, especially Russell Ying, she was still three months pregnant at the time."
This is indeed the most suspicious. Even if the couple has a bad relationship, it is impossible for the wife to leave home and she wants to run away with her big belly. Where can a pregnant woman go? What to do if you have antenatal examination? What to do during production?
According to Jiang Ping, he accompanied the old couple of the Luo family for a full year and would rush there immediately if there was a clue. Therefore, there should be no collusion between parents-in-law and his wife.
About fifteen minutes from the community where I live to the subway station. Pei Zikang suddenly stopped and asked when he entered the station, "From your female perspective, what do you think your wife will run away from home under pregnancy?"
"Betray?"
Pei Zikang opened his eyes wide, "Who betrayed who?"
"If the child in my wife's belly is not her husband's, she is worried that she will be missed at any time when the child is born, so she simply runs away from home."
After saying this, it was not only Pei Zikang, but I was also shocked by my bold thoughts.
"It's really... the angle is a bit strange."
"What do you think?"
Pei Zikang said: "Women during pregnancy are affected by hormones and are emotionally unstable. I don't think it's strange to run away. The key is where she went and why she ran away because of something."
"The police found out that Mrs. Jiang once bought a high-speed rail ticket to Liuzhen, but Teacher Jiang has been to Liuzhen several times, but there is no news about his wife."
"Buying a ticket does not mean you have to get on the bus." Pei Zikang said quietly.
6
After Russey Ying disappeared, Jiang Ping sold the property and gave part of the money to the two elders of the Luo family. Now the two elders of the Luo family live with Russey's younger brother. It was exactly 3:00 pm, and the younger brother's wife was still at work, while the two elders were taking care of their grandson at home.
I found that after writing for a long time, one of the advantages is that my ability to speak nonsense has become very strong. When the two elders asked me what I was and wanted to know Jiang Ping from them, I said without hesitation: "Jiang Ping is about to join our company as the fund manager , so I need a background check."
Luo's mother snorted, "This kid has good fortune, the better the job is."
I know she believes in me.
"Mr. Luo, what do you think of Mr. Jiang Ping as a human being?"
Luo's father hesitated and said, "What..."
Luo's mother snatched his head and sneered, "Is it necessary to excuse such people? Maybe he has a strong working ability. Many people say that people who study physics, mathematics, etc. will be particularly good once they change careers. Harm. Maybe! But knowing people but not being aware of each other. How sincere he was when he pursued Su Ying in the past, how fickle he was secretly! "
" fickle?" I was stunned for a moment. Although Russey Ying was missing for less than three years, Jiang Ping fell in love with another woman to death, but at least in the three years I was in high school, on the surface, Jiang Ping was very diligent and honest. Usually, he kept a considerable distance from high school girls. It was impossible to tell that he was a fickle person.
"Isn't that?" Luo's mother took about her grandson from Luo's father. The boy may be only three or four years old, but he is very strong. At first glance, he looks like a big child. Even so, Luo's mother still carefully fed the snacks to him, and she looked very pampered.
"Can you two tell me in detail? This is very important for us to understand the character of new employees."
Luo's father said carefully: "I heard Su Ying occasionally talk about this. It seems that after Jiang Ping graduated from graduate school, he went to a mountainous area in another place to teach. At that time, a girl seemed...a bit ambiguous..."
Luo's mother put the boy back to Luo's father's arms again and said unhappily: " What ambiguousness? Su Ying had seen Jiang Ping secretly hide many letters, which should have been written to him by the girl. Not long before she disappeared, she received a letter! I don’t know what happened to the two in the mountains, otherwise why would the girl keep writing to him? It’s really unforgettable to me?” ”
said this by her. I remembered that when Jiang Ping first came to teach, he was indeed praised by the head of the teaching and research group that he really wanted to teach students well, otherwise he would not have been teaching in the mountainous area for two years after graduation, and was responsible for the training of mountain village teachers.
The story of men in the metropolis being attracted by simple mountain village girls appeared in my mind, but even so, it does not mean that Russey Ying's disappearance must be related to this.
At this time, footsteps came from outside the door, and a man in his thirties opened the door and walked in.
When he saw me, he was stunned and looked at his parents with a consultative gaze.
Luo's father explained: "Chengying, this is the personnel manager of Jiangping New Company. She came to do background investigation."
It turned out that this man was Russell Ying's younger brother Luo Chengying. The man frowned and looked resentful. He seemed to be living a bad day today.
"Background investigation? It seems that he has changed his job again? I'm so happy. It's true that people with no conscience are living well."
"Forget it." Luo's father wanted to stop talking, Luo Chengying threw the briefcase in his hand on the sofa and said angrily: "I'm not wrong. My sister had just disappeared for three years, so he applied for death, not for my sister's insurance! Fortunately, my sister listed me as the beneficiary in the morning, so that the bastard was not cheap! Later, I heard that he was getting better and better, it was really unreasonable!"
"Insurance?" I couldn't help but widen my eyes.
"Yes!" When the child on the side saw his father, he stumbled forward and asked for a hug, but Luo Chengying looked bored and stuffed the child back into his mother's hand. Then he went to a room and took out a box, which was filled with photos of Russell Ying and some fragments.
"After Jiang Ping sold the house, he threw away my sister's things, or did I snatch this box and come back! Look, how affectionate this person is!"
I took the box and there was a letter under a stack of photos. The recipient was Jiang Ping. The postmark came from six years ago. There was no exact reply address below, only one Tianhai Village was written.
"Hmph, these photos and this letter were collected by my sister in a large envelope. I guess the surname Jiang is heartless and wants to throw away all the photos of my sister. I didn't find any more letters." Luo Chengying sneered.
I asked tentatively, "May I ask... can I give this letter to me?"
Unexpectedly, Luo Chengying agreed immediately, "Okay, it would be the best thing to disturb the job of Huang Jiang!"
Before leaving, I stood in the entrance hall and put on my shoes. When I heard Luo's mother whisper to her son, "Is the work not going well?"
It seems that the Luo family's resentment towards Jiang Ping is essentially based on the wealth that Jiang Ping has. She can clearly be a rich relative who can rely on, but suddenly she has no relationship with me.
7
On the way back, I searched Tianhai Village with my mobile phone. It was a small village with a very remote location, hidden deep in the remote mountains. You also need to rely on private buses to enter and exit. Only after arriving at the county town can a long-distance bus go to the train station. The letter
has been opened a long time ago, so I started reading it without hesitation.
's handwriting is very messy, and there are some typos, which seems that the writer has not received much education. The general content is to express my longing for Jiang Ping, and let Jiang Ping find a way to pick him up as soon as possible. The last sentence is terrible. The letter writer said, "Maybe the next time you see it is my ashes. I will become a curse and pester you day and night."
only has one word for the signature of the letter - "Di".
The person's name should have the word "di", which is quite in line with the concept of some rural people prefer boys over girls. It seems that Jiang Ping was teaching in Tianhai Village, so he met a woman with the word "di" in her name, and the two developed feelings for each other.
With Jiang Ping's return to the city, he might have forgotten this woman for a long time, but the woman took it seriously. From another perspective, Jiang Ping is also the best way for women to leave the countryside.
I walked out of the elevator and was about to take out the key to open the door when I heard my mother in the room with a slightly loud voice: "Don't think about her! Didn't I say it, don't think about her! I brought her to the forefront of the belt, but I still divorced the man. She was just a star of destruction!"
My heart sank to the bottom of the water, and my hand holding the key tightly hung in the air, not knowing whether to open the door or retract.
Grandma said anxiously: "I promise you, consider the house matters again. Can you leave now? She is coming back soon!"
I quietly retreated back to the stairwell and walked down the stairs mechanically. Although I comforted myself before, now I know that deceiving myself cannot last long.
The bright moon hangs high, and I walked out of the building, but I don’t know where to go. The only thing that is fortunate is that today I brought my ID card and mobile phone, so I could find a place to sleep.
I looked at the bright moon in the sky, and people passed by me one after another at night. I suddenly thought that if a woman had to run away from home, she would definitely be heartbroken by this family.
I found a chain hotel that night and my grandmother called me and I lied that I had something to do. She didn't say much, I think she should have noticed it.
I lay down on the bed and picked up the letter Russell Ying had before he disappeared. Although the postmark was already very light, it was vaguely visible to the light that it was June 8th six years ago.
Jiang Ping said that in order to avoid being late, he lived in school on the evening of June 7 and did not return home until the next day after the comprehensive science exam. This shows that the letter was in Russey's hands from the beginning. After she received the letter, she was in a state of dismay and ran away from home. Where did
go?
If it were me, where would I go?
My "mother" is not my biological mother, so where is my biological mother?
I suddenly got up. Russey Young was in pregnancy. She was stimulated after receiving this letter, so she ran away from home. Where can a woman go? Either find a best friend or go back to your parents’ home!
I immediately called Pei Zikang and explained my thoughts stammeringly. He was silent for a while, and then said, "I am with Jiang Ping, do you want to come here?"
8
The reason why Pei Zikang was with Jiang Ping was because Jiang Ping had given financial lectures for the police force, so he was quite familiar with Pei Zikang's colleagues. This time he found the police for the disappearance of his girlfriend Qiu Hailin.
Because Qiu Hailin's father refused to report the case, Jiang Ping wanted to ask the police force for help through his personal relationship.
We met on a large flat floor in Jiangping. This was the first time I saw a high-rise building with a terrace of more than 200 square meters in the city center. The terrace is 25 meters long and the river view is overlooking the distance. A landmark building in the city is almost in front of me.
These are all obtained by Jiang Ping after he changed jobs. No wonder the Luo family felt indignant.
When he heard the Luo family accusing Jiang Ping of applying for announcing his wife's death too early for insurance money, Jiang Ping immediately jumped up and said angrily: "How could it be me? It was obviously Luo Chengying who wanted to divide the marriage house between me and Su Ying, so he forced me to apply for announcing his death!"
I was stunned for a moment, but when I recalled Luo's mother's extremely doting attitude towards her grandson and careful treatment of her son, it seemed that it was not impossible.
I took out the letter and asked, "So, how do you explain this letter?"
Jiang Ping was stunned, and then went to the inside to pick up a wooden box. The box was layered and all of them were letters, and it seemed that there were at least dozens of letters.
"I admit that when I went to Tianhai Village to teach, there was a girl who showed her good feelings for me. However, I never responded to her. I reported this to the teacher who was responsible for contacting me for a long time!" Jiang Ping said solemnly.
Eight years ago, after Jiang Ping graduated from graduate school, he came to Tianhai Village to teach with enthusiasm. His main task is not to teach, but to train local mountain village teachers.
Tianhai Village is very remote. Even if you go to the nearest railway station, you still have to transfer a private van to a long-distance bus, which will take at least half a day. He was poor, backward, and very ignorant, especially boyish and girls. No woman could be respected.
While Jiang Ping was in training, he accidentally discovered that a girl often peeked outside the classroom. After inquiring, I found out that her name was Xu Aidi. She was almost eighteen years old at the time and had only been in the second grade of elementary school. Both the Xu family's parents died, and one of the older brothers worked outside, and Aidi was going out to work almost next year.
With the desire to help her, Jiang Ping encouraged her to continue her studies, and also gave her many basic reading materials and actively answered her questions. Perhaps this behavior made Aidi love from gratitude, and she boldly confessed to Jiang Ping.
Jiang Ping was shocked. He had long had his girlfriend Russell Ying. Besides, having a relationship with a girl in the teaching area would affect his future, not to mention that he only had mercy on Aidi and had no slight affection between men and women.
But Aidi was very persistent. She tried every means to get close to Jiang Ping. Every day she would come to Jiang Ping's dormitory to wash clothes and cook for him, as if she was the hostess. She even claimed to the public that when Jiang Ping finished teaching, she would take her back to the big city to get married.
This frightened Jiang Ping. In order to avoid suspicion, he specially installed a camera in the dormitory, reported all the situation to his superiors, and finally returned to the city early.
After that, Aidi kept writing letters to him, warmly expressing her longing and urging Jiang Ping to pick her away as soon as possible. Jiang Ping was very scared. He reported all the letters to his leader and kept them properly, because he was worried that one day the misunderstanding of disreputation would occur.
"I have received a total of 73 letters, and there is an average of one letter every week. I don't know where you came from?" Jiang Ping asked.
"It was found from the relics of your sister you threw away."
Jiang Ping said angrily: "Impossible! All Suying's items are here with me, I have never seen this letter!"
Pei Zikang and I looked at each other. It seemed that my thoughts were correct. Russey, who was pregnant, was greatly stimulated after receiving this letter. She brought this letter to her parents' home, and then the letter was left in Luo Chengying's hands.
But why didn’t the Luo family tell the police?
9
It was Saturday when Pei Zikang and I knocked on the door together.
The one who came to open the door was Luo's mother. She was unkempt and was holding a spatula in her hand. She was probably preparing lunch.After Pei Zikang showed his ID, I obviously saw Luo's mother trembling and said in panic: "Who are you looking for? My son and daughter-in-law are not at home." As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Chengying walked out of the bedroom yawning and asked impatiently: "Who?"
Pei Zikang explained his purpose directly and said: "I want to know with you the situation on the day Russell Ying disappeared."
Luo Chengying's voice was a little trembling, and he subconsciously looked at his mother. Luo's mother stood up in front of her son and said, "It's been six years, what else is there to ask?"
Pei Zikang looked down at the notepad in his hand and said, "Six years ago, after Russey Ying left home, because of the lack of surveillance and other related clues, it was not until three days later that she found out that she had purchased a high-speed rail ticket to Liuzhen.
But six years ago, online car-hailing was not that common, and many people who took taxis would use traffic cards. Russell Ying's traffic card was repaired due to damage to the magnetic stripe. Based on the information, we found that she took a taxi to Haihua Community at 12 noon on June 8, six years ago, at 12 noon, which is where you lived before. "
Luo Chengying's face changed. He looked at his mother and then looked at him. The helpless father sat down on the sofa and said tremblingly, "I...I don't know. It was the beneficiary of my instigation of my sister to change the insurance money, but I didn't kill her! She, she, she must have run away from home because she felt desperate about Jiang Ping!"
It turned out that everything was quite similar to what I inferred. On the morning of June 8, Jiang Ping was taking the exam. Russey was very excited after receiving the letter, so she came to her parents' home with the letter.
The Luo family has always favored boys over girls, and they are very dissatisfied with Russell Ying's joint venture with her husband to buy a house. According to Luo's mother's idea, Russell Ying should first help her brother solve the problem of the wedding house before considering herself, or find someone with better financial conditions to get married, rather than Jiang Ping, who is just a middle school teacher.
After hearing his daughter's confession, Luo Chengying even added fire and said a lot of bad things about Jiang Ping. He knew that his sister and brother-in-law each bought life insurance, and the beneficiary was the other party, so he instigated his sister to modify the insurance policy, it would be best to terminate the contract in advance and raise the premiums he had paid before to buy a house for him.
Russell Ying refused to comment and then left her parents' home.
"When the police first investigated, why didn't you say it?" I asked.
"That's it..." Luo Chengying's little eyes rolled around, and his eyes hit Pei Zikang and quickly moved away. "I was just talking casually at the time. How did I know that my sister would really change the insurance policy? What if the police thought I was killing someone for the insurance money?"
A selfish family!
Perhaps it was because I thought of my "mother", I felt that this house of more than 100 square meters was very frustrated and I couldn't stay for a minute.
"Jiang Ping said that he and Russell Ying each bought an insurance after marriage, and the beneficiary was the other party. However, after he applied to declare Russell Ying dead three years ago, he accidentally found that Russell Ying changed the beneficiary to his younger brother Luo Chengying."
left the Luo family and saw that I was not very good, Pei Zikang took out a bottle of water from the trunk of the car.
Slightly cool water poured into my throat, making me feel a little more comfortable.
"Thus, the person Russell Ying is most likely to meet after leaving her parents' home is..."
"Insurance agent!" I and he said in unison.
10
Yongan Insurance is a medium-sized insurance company in terms of scale, but just like most insurance companies, agents change very frequently, and some agents change insurance companies in a few months.
The business director was the business director. He took some time and asked his superiors for instructions, and then he agreed to check the insurance policy six years ago.
"Russey Ying, 27 years old at the time." He talked in his mouth and kept pulling out relevant records from his computer.
" Found it, Russell Ying bought a two-dimensional insurance, which is the kind that takes into account both savings and personal health.The insured amount is RMB 500,000, and the beneficiary is... I saw it. It was originally her husband Jiang Ping, but later changed it to her younger brother Luo Chengying at 13:00 on June 8, 2016. "
It was indeed the same day!
" Which agent was the one who handled this business at that time? "Pei Zikang asked.
"Let's take a look. Well... Zhong Lisheng has been working for several years..." The business director said while checking the information, "But recently he seems to have asked for leave every moment and has not come to work today. ”
Pei Zikang hurriedly asked, “Can you give me his contact information? "
According to the address provided by the business director, Zhong Lisheng and an insurance agent named Otan rented a two-bedroom apartment, which was said to be two bedrooms. In fact, the landlord just separated the one-bedroom apartment into two rooms, each room less than ten square meters, and the living environment was dirty and cramped.
"He is very bored and rarely talks to me. "Oda is also an insurance company salesperson, wearing a cheap suit and a wrinkled tie hanging around his neck.
" Has he not been back for a long time? "Pei Zikang asked.
Oda replied: "Our business people go out early and come back late, and I can't be sure whether he has come back during the day. However, he is very mysterious, as if he has a secret base and often doesn't come back to sleep at night. "
Zhong Lisheng's bedroom door is empty, standing at the door, the layout of the small room is clear at a glance. It's nothing more than a single bed, a desk and a single-door wardrobe. There is a file on the desk of
. Oda smiled bitterly and said, "We are going to renew the contract with the landlord this month, but Zhong Lisheng has never come back. I am also in a dilemma. This person is really hard to communicate with, and he speaks with a strong accent. Every time he says it well, it sounds like he is saying 'No'. ”
At this time, Pei Zikang picked up the contract placed on Zhong Lisheng's desk, read it several times and said, "Although I am not a handwriting expert, I think the signature on this contract seems to be very similar to the handwriting in that letter. Of course, we also need to ask the handwriting experts in our bureau to determine the specific details. "
Zhong Lisheng imitated Xu Aidi's handwriting and continued to write to Jiang Ping. What was the purpose? He was likely to be the last person to come into contact with Russell Ying. So what happened later? Where did Russell Ying go?
Pei Zikang suddenly said, "Since Xu Aidi was taught by Jiang Ping when reading and writing, why didn't he see that this letter was a little different from the previous handwriting? Also, once a person's tone and speaking style develops habits, it is difficult to change. Can he really not see the difference between the two letters? "
At this moment, Pei Zikang's mobile phone suddenly rang.
He answered the phone, said a few words, looked at me, showing a very shocked look.
I knew something was different, Pei Zikang closed the line and said in an incredible tone: "My colleague just notified me that a seriously injured man was found in a community in the south of the city where demolition was suspended. From his ID card, he was Zhong Lisheng! "
11
It was a ruined land. It can be seen that the original appearance was some privately built houses. Some of them had been demolished and some were still standing alone. It is said that ten years ago, a developer was interested in it and prepared to relocate. However, halfway through demolition, the developer cut off funds, so this state was maintained in this long term.
Some houses that had not been demolished live in some migrant workers, just one of them lives here. The construction worker inside walked while playing with his mobile phone. He accidentally stepped into a house with a house that was closed with a false door. Only then did he find the injured.
It was a house with damaged exterior walls. The owner had already arrived outside the door. Six years ago, Zhong Lisheng rented it here for 10,000 yuan a year, saying it was used as a warehouse. Since then, he will pay the rent on time every year, so the owner rarely contacted him.
A dying man was carried into an ambulance. He looked very thin and his hand was hanging weakly under the stretcher.
According to the construction worker who found the body, Zhong Lisheng committed suicide by hanging himself.
"I walked into this room in a daze, wow! Someone hung on the beam of the house! I was scared to death." The construction worker's face turned pale, he danced unconsciously, and was extremely frightened.
According to forensic on-site analysis, after Zhong Lisheng hung himself, the rope around his neck suddenly loosened, which caused his toes to barely touch the ground, which delayed the death time.
A young policeman in police uniform showed Pei Zikang a piece of paper sealed in a plastic bag and said, "This is what we found on the table, like a suicide note."
Pei Zikang nodded and signaled to save it properly.
At this time, another policeman hurried over with a serious expression and said to Pei Zikang, "It seems something is wrong."
"What does it mean?"
"We also found a corpse at the scene!"
After saying a word, everyone present was shocked, and the people watching the fun began to talk.
The little policeman showed Pei Zikang a ring placed in a transparent plastic bag, "There is this on the body."
Although I was not very sure, I vaguely remember seeing Jiang Ping when I was studying, it seemed that she was wearing a similar ring. It is said that the ring was just sterling silver. The two of them made it themselves in the handicraft workshop, which was cheap but very attentive.
I looked in through the cordon and saw that it was just a one-bedroom house. With the dim light, I could vaguely see an altar in the room with a portrait of a girl on it.
A man wearing a hair cap and looking like a forensic doctor slowly stepped out of the house and said to Pei Zikang: "The female corpse was built on the wall with cement, but this is a dangerous building, so the wall collapsed, causing the body to be exposed. There is no trauma for the time being, and it needs further examination to know how it died."
12
It was late at night, and I came to the emergency ward of a hospital in the city. Pei Zikang was guarding Zhong Lisheng who was still in a coma with a police officer in police uniform. Seeing me coming with some midnight snacks, Pei Zikang asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "I don't want to stay in the chain hotel alone." In fact, there is another reason, that my mother called me several times recently. I thought it was just for the sake of real estate, and I really didn't feel in the mood to answer.
According to the hospital, Zhong Lisheng's brain deficiency has been too long, and the chance of waking up is probably very slim.
Pei Zikang was looking at the fluorescent light carefully to check the suicide note left by Zhong Lisheng. The content of the suicide note roughly said that he was also from Tianhai Village and had always liked Xu Aidi very much. He worked outside before, but when he came back, he learned about Xu Aidi's death. He thought that Xu Aidi was abandoned by Jiang Ping, so he thought of taking revenge on Jiang Ping.
Now he heard that this area is about to usher in a new round of demolition. Once Russey Ying's body is discovered, he will face prison. Moreover, he is alone and has no concerns, so he decided to commit suicide and follow Xu Aidi.
"It's a bit naive." I couldn't help but say.
According to forensic identification, it was basically confirmed that the body was Russell Ying. Our inference is correct. Russell Ying was stimulated after receiving the letter and was instigated by her younger brother, so she wanted to find an insurance agent to modify the beneficiary. During the contact between the two, Zhong Lisheng killed Russell Ying in order to retaliate against Jiang Ping, with the purpose of letting him taste the taste of losing his beloved.
"No." Pei Zikang shook his head, "I think the handwriting is strange. Although the handwriting of the two letters looks very similar on the surface, don't you think the way of expressing the suicide note is very difficult to pronounce? It seems that this person can't speak."
I guessed: "Maybe it is because Zhong Lisheng's educational level is not high? "
At this time, the police officer in charge of guarding Zhong Lisheng hurried to the corridor and reported to Pei Zikanghui: "I just received the news from the headquarters. They contacted the Tianhai Village Committee and confirmed that Zhong Lisheng was adopted by the Zhong family. His original surname was Xu and his name was Xu Chao! That is Xu Aidi's biological brother! "
I was shocked. The suicide note claimed to be Xu Aidi's childhood sweetheart, but in reality it was her biological brother!
Pei Zikang held up the suicide note in his hand and said firmly: "So, this suicide note is fake, Zhong Lisheng did not commit suicide at all! He was murdered! "
I stared at the crooked handwriting on the "audio letter". I looked carefully and found that these words were indeed awkward. Some places were very hard, just like... it was like someone was describing something.
Thinking of this, the special way of expression in the suicide letter seemed to be not only because Zhong Lisheng himself has a low level of education, but... it was limited to the words that could be copied.
I suddenly felt a chill, and Pei Zikang's eyes fell on me. He should have understood my thoughts from my eyes, so he nodded slowly and said, "That's right, there should be only one person in this world who can imitate Zhong Lisheng's handwriting. "
13
Even though it was the second time I set foot in Jiangping's mansion, I was still amazed at the front line of Jiangxi.
Jiangxi was wearing formal clothes and stood in the center of the huge living room waiting for me. He stared at me for a long time and said, "Abi, I asked you to come this time, and I wanted to say something to you. ”
He paused and continued, “I participated in teaching and really wanted to train local teachers. But I found that the habits in mountainous areas are difficult to change, and many things cannot be changed by your passion. The same is true for Xu Aidi. "
He could feel Xu Aidi's affection, but he could feel Xu Aidi's idea of changing her destiny through him. But he was just an ordinary man, and he could not go back to see his parents with such a mountain village girl who could not read a few words, and he also had a girlfriend Russell Ying at that time.
After he refused Xu Aidi to sacrifice himself, the girl attracted even more crazy pursuits, so he applied to stop teaching and returned to the city. Since then, Xu Aidi has sent a letter every week, as if she was still looking forward to his pity.
"After Su Ying disappeared, I have not doubted Xu Aidi. "Jiang Ping sighed, "But according to the teacher in charge of teaching, Xu Aidi has passed away a few months ago. I sympathize with Xu Aidi, but so what can I do? This is her destiny, no one can change it. "
After I got the letter Russell Ying received from the Luo family, Jiang Ping immediately realized that the handwriting of the letter was different from the past. After comparison, he was more certain that this was not Xu Aidi's handwriting. Thinking of his wife's time to change the insurance beneficiary, he immediately began to suspect that this matter was related to Zhong Lisheng.
Six years ago, his wife disappeared for no reason and accidentally found a letter from her box. I found something strange
"I asked a security guard to follow Zhong Lisheng and quickly found his 'secret base'. "Jiang Ping continued, as if he didn't care whether I listened or not, but wanted to tell. "The moment I saw Xu Aidi's portrait, I mistakenly thought that Zhong Lisheng was her admirer. Who knew that he was actually an older brother, he was really worse than God’s. "
Jiang Ping believed that Zhong Lisheng must be related to his wife's disappearance, and at the same time, he suspected that Qiu Hailin had been killed, so he wanted to ask Zhong Lisheng. When he started, Jiang Ping broke a wall, revealing a skeleton that was stretching out his hand.
Jiang Ping recognized the ring on the finger of the bone at a glance, and in anger, he put a heavy hand at Zhong Lisheng.
"I pinched his neck tightly. He was very thin and his strength was far less than that of me who often exercised. "Jiang Ping smiled bitterly, "After a while, he took the initiative to give up resistance and said in a weak voice that he felt relieved when he saw my misfortune."
Next, in order to escape the legal sanctions, Jiang Ping used the letter in his hand to copy the suicide note. Since Zhong Lisheng read very few books and there were not many words that could be used in the letter, Pei Zikang discovered a loophole.
"Okay, Officer Pei, I can go with you. "
Pei Zikang walked in from a 25-square-meter terrace. It turned out that he had been looking into the distance just now.
"A Bi, when I was teaching, I also heard a lot of rumors about you and your family. "Jiang Ping said deeply, "If everything is your destiny, then no matter how difficult it is, you must accept it calmly. The result of escaping will only backfire. "
I was stunned and immediately asked, "Teacher Jiang, do you know something? "
Jiang Ping hesitated for a while and said hesitantly: "Are you an adopted daughter? "
" How do you know? "I was shocked. It turned out that this secret that I thought was unfathomable was even known to anyone who had not seen him for six years?
" Because... because after I changed careers, I met your mother Yu Yinghong at a financial lecture. She... She seems to be very interested in me. "
I suddenly felt extremely ashamed. My mother actually wanted to seduce my teacher?
" Then...she told you that I am not her biological child? "
Jiang Ping seemed to be embarrassed, "Because I found a reason why she was your mother and refused her, but she said you were not her biological child. "
I walked around like a trapped beast. The spacious and bright living room was like a cage that trapped me at this time.
Before leaving, Jiang Ping turned to Pei Zikang and said solemnly: "Officer Pei, please be sure to find Hailin. I am really worried about her safety. "
14
I was so thrilling for several days. I returned to the chain hotel weakly, fell on the bed and was stunned. I found that there was a missed call on my phone. The caller was actually my mother again. Maybe I missed it when I went to the bathroom just now. Thinking that she would actually want to hook up with Jiang Ping, and she told me about my life experience as if nothing had happened. I grabbed the phone and held it tightly in my hand, hoping to crush it directly.
I empty my head and started browsing Weibo. Suddenly I Seeing a popular news in the financial circle, saying that it was a well-known financial internet celebrity Qiu Hailin who returned to China yesterday and had registered for marriage with the second in command of a certain consortium in the UK.
I suddenly widened my eyes and sat up suddenly. What does this mean? Over the past week, Jiang Ping has been desperately looking for Qiu Hailin. Who knew she had secretly gone abroad to get married?
Then I thought, maybe this can explain why Qiu Hailin's father was unwilling to call the police, because from the beginning, he knew his daughter's whereabouts, but he just cooperated with the acting. I just want to tell Jiang Ping.
Various marketing accounts have been full of rumors, saying that Qiu Hailin and the second-in-command have known each other for a long time. At the beginning, they were just friends, and suddenly sparked a spark and decided to get married. Someone deliberately released screenshots of WeChat conversations with Qiu Hailin and asked how to explain to her boyfriend. Qiu Hailin replied lightly, "The man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried, what can I explain?"
from the beginning, she wanted to ride a donkey and find a horse.
Well... She became Jiang Ping's first in the financial circle. As an assistant, Qiu Hailin had a roughly only eye for Jiang Ping. As she became a celebrity in the circle, she naturally had a broader view and higher requirements. However, if it weren't for her reckless behavior, Jiang Ping might not have re-investigated the past, and there would have been no such result now.
Life is impermanent, but this is fate.
Mobile phone ringtone began to ring mad again, and when she saw that she was a mother again.
I answered the phone angrily and asked loudly: "What the hell is it? "
The mother was bored for a while on the other end of the phone, and then said coldly: "Your grandma was hospitalized after a stroke. She is in Tzu Chi Hospital. Come and have a look! ”
For a moment, I felt my heart stop beating. The sounds around me disappeared, and I became unable to see, hear, or speak a word, as if I fell into endless darkness.
But at this moment I don’t know that the darkest moment that really belongs to me has just begun. (Original title: "Daughter of Disaster: Missing Lover")
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