Things that solve crimes

"That family..." The old man sighed deeply. He also knew the missing little girl. She was cute and polite, and always had a sweet smile on her face to everyone.

After the child went missing, enthusiastic people in the community also helped to look for him, but a missing child is not so easy to find. Until now, there is no news of the child, and the poor child’s mother is crying her eyes out.

"Then do you know anything about that family?" Qin Henian asked again.

"That little girl is a good kid, but it's a pity that she has to have such a grandmother." The old man curled his lips with a look of disdain on his face.

Fang Dayan? Qin Henian and Yu Zian were both shocked. Yu Zian couldn't wait to ask, "Is there something wrong with her grandmother?"

The old man looked the two of them up and down for a few more times before saying, "That's a big problem."

The two men stared at the old man with burning eyes. Under such passionate gazes, the old man was not afraid, and a look of reminiscence appeared on his face.

"This community was actually a rural village before. After the state expropriated the land, the community was built and every family was allocated a house."

"When it was still a rural village, there was a pond in the village and all unwanted children were thrown into it, and most of those thrown away were baby girls."

After hearing what the old man said, both Qin Henian and Yu Zian took a deep breath. Some things are always different when heard with one's own ears and seen in cold words.

The old man sighed and continued, "When Fang Dayan was young, she gave birth to several daughters. Except for the first daughter, the rest were thrown into the pond."

"You keep giving birth to sons, but if you give birth to daughters you just throw them away. That's a sin."

Yu Zian hissed and said in disbelief, "Is she crazy? That's her own daughter." Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, so how could this man have the heart to do that?

Qin Henian also frowned and expressed his dissatisfaction. He really couldn't understand the thoughts of those who favored boys over girls. It was obvious that offspring depended on women to be conceived, so why did they look down on women?

The old man took off his reading glasses and wiped the lenses with a cloth while saying, "Who says it's not true? He could do this to his own daughter, which shows how cruel he is."

"Every family in our area has a daughter, but no one is as cruel as her."

"How does she treat her granddaughter?" Qin Henian asked. He didn't believe that Fang Dayan would be nice to Wang Nannan. How could someone who could be so cruel to her own daughter be nice to her granddaughter?

The old man said, "She seems to be very nice to people from outside, but I don't know what she will be like behind closed doors."

"What do you mean?" Yu Zian took out a cigarette and handed it to the old man. The old man took it and took out a lighter to light the cigarette.

The old man took a puff of his cigarette and said, "I heard from the neighbors of that family that sometimes the child's parents are not at home, and only the grandmother and granddaughter are left. Every time this happens, there will be scolding and crying."

"Why didn't you tell this to the police who handled the case?" Qin Henian frowned. He didn't see this written in the file when he was reading it.

An embarrassed look appeared on the old man's face. "Hey, we don't have any evidence of abuse, so how can we say anything?"

A distant relative is worse than a distant relative. They don't have any evidence, and if they tell others they're afraid they'll be regarded as villains who are trying to sow discord among other people's families.

Qin Henian didn't dwell on this point, but just said, "That Fang Dayan seems to be a believer in God, and even has a statue of God at home."

Modern people who can worship idols at home are probably fanatics.

"She doesn't believe in God, she believes in superstition," the old man said with disgust, and then continued, "In the past, this person prayed to gods and Buddhas everywhere in order to have a son."

"Later, a sorcerer gave her some kind of talisman, and she soon gave birth to a son. From then on, she believed even more."

"I think he joined some religion a year ago and even brought back a statue of a deity."