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Chapter 54 Stepmother

On the fifth day after Liang Youyou's death, that is, on September 5st, Liang Xinxin went back to school, but encountered Duan Boshan after school.She was blocked by Duan Boshan at the school gate. The two talked for nearly [-] minutes, and then they separated.

Haiyang led people to investigate Duan Boshan’s whereabouts before he was alive and found this video taken by the camera at the school gate. The police who found this video tracked Duan Boshan’s travel route all the way when Duan Boshan left home, because Duan Boshan was blind. Going out is very inconvenient for him. During the ten days when the nanny Zhang Min was on leave, the farthest distance Duan Boshan traveled was from home to restaurants in the community, and the only time he left the community was on September [-]st.So it caught the attention of the police, and the police found a video of him and Liang Xinxin meeting near the school.

Haiyang deliberately went back to the bureau to watch the video carefully, and confirmed that the girl was indeed Liang Xinxin, and the old man Liang Xinxin was with was indeed Duan Boshan. Then he called Liang Xinxin's home and told Liang Xinxin's parents in advance that he was going to visit.

Ye Chuyang followed Haiyang back to the police station. Hearing that Haiyang said he was going to find Liang Xinxin, he said, "Brother Haiyang, can I go with you?"

Haiyang didn't want to agree, but he knew very well that Ye Chuyang would not give up what he decided to do. If he refused Ye Chuyang, Ye Chuyang would find other ways, and the final result must be Ye Chuyang's hard work In the end, what he wanted was achieved. Since that was the case, he might as well simply agree, and save Ye Chuyang's troubles.

Hai Yang pointed to his nose and said: "Listen to the order, listen to the command, do you hear me?"

Ye Chuyang smiled and said, "Of course."

Haiyang asked again: "Will Jiang Ying go? You two are like partners. Does he still have to follow you?"

Ye Chuyang wanted to ask Jiang Ying if he would go, but he couldn't find Jiang Ying in the office.

Xiao Tao said, "He went out to answer the phone."

Ye Chuyang didn't pay attention to when Jiang Ying left the office: "When?"

Xiao Tao: "It's been a few minutes."

Ye Chuyang went out and found Jiang Ying in the stairwell at the end of the corridor. Jiang Ying ignored the no-smoking sign on the wall and leaned against the window sill to smoke, looking at the green grass in the police station compound outside the window. phone with screen on.

Ye Chuyang glanced at his mobile phone and said, "What are you doing here?"

Jiang Ying came to answer the phone, but said, "Look for a place to smoke."

As soon as Ye Chuyang passed by, he pinched the cigarette, crushed the cigarette butt and threw it into the trash can, and waved the smoke in the air with his hands.

Ye Chuyang still coughed, covered his nose and said, "Later, Haiyang and I will go to Liang Xinxin's house, will you go?"

Jiang Ying smiled and said, "Xing Yu called me just now. There is something wrong with the company. I have to go back."

Ye Chuyang frowned slightly, feeling very complicated; in this short 1 minute, Jiang Ying lied to him twice, Jiang Ying came out to answer the phone, but said he was smoking, at this time Jiang Ying contradicted himself and said that Zhan Xing Yu called to urge him to go back to the company, but Ye Chuyang looked at his phone just now, the screen of his phone was still on, and it stopped on the call history page. The latest number he called was a series of unfamiliar numbers, not Zhan Xingyu. .

Jiang Ying raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said, "Dr. Ye, then I'll go first."

Ye Chuyang glanced at his face, and said indifferently: "Yes."

Seeing that he was bored, Jiang Ying moved closer to his face and said with a smile, "Are you reluctant to part with me?"

Ye Chuyang rolled his eyes at him, turned around and walked towards the office, walked a few steps and looked back, the stairwell was empty, Jiang Ying went down the stairs.

Jiang Ying has never been frank enough to him. He has always been cover-up, and there are also reasons to hide from him and lie to him. Ye Chuyang is used to it, but now that Jiang Ying deceives him, he is depressed and resentful .Ye Chuyang felt that he was really making progress. After all, his relationship with Jiang Ying was barely even the word 'friend'.

Haiyang took Ye Chuyang and Xiaotao with him, and drove a police car to Liang Xinxin's house, saying, "Now there are only Liang Xinxin and the nanny in Liang Xinxin's house, and Liang Xinxin's parents are rushing home from the company."

Xiao Tao is hot-hearted and loves to talk, so he took the initiative to explain Liang Xinxin's family structure to Ye Chuyang: "Liang Xinxin's father, Liang Duo, is in the clothing trade, and the company was opened in partnership with Liang Xinxin's mother, and the business is doing well." Big. It’s a pity that the good times didn’t last long. Liang Xinxin’s mother passed away from cancer two years ago. Liang Duo’s current wife is Liang Xinxin’s stepmother. We investigated their family relationship. excellent."

Ye Chuyang sat in the back seat of the police car, slowly rolled up his shirt cuffs, and said, "What's your stepmother's name?"

Xiao Tao: "Zhang Yashu, she used to be the accountant in Liang Duo's company, but now she is the proprietress."

Ye Chuyang stopped talking, frowned slightly and looked out the window with a preoccupied look.

Haiyang glanced at him from the rearview mirror and said, "Jiang Ying is gone?"

Ye Chuyang: "Well, his company has something to do."

Haiyang felt that Ye Chuyang seemed a little uneasy, and the person who affected Ye Chuyang's uneasiness was Jiang Ying, but wasn't Duan Xiaoyun the one who showed signs of having an affair with Ye Chuyang?

Haiyang was very confused, and thought it was necessary for him to give Ye Chuyang some temptations, and said: "I am almost puzzled to death, Jiang Ying is a bastard second generation ancestor, why does he only look like a human being in front of you? He is also very courteous to you .”

In fact, what he wanted to say was; did Jiang Ying take a fancy to you?Do you have unreasonable thoughts about you?Do you want to fuck you?

But Ye Chuyang only heard Haiyang's denial of Jiang Ying's personality, which made him unhappy, and said, "You have too much prejudice against him."

Haiyang: "I really don't blame me for being prejudiced against him, just look at what he usually does."

Ye Chuyang said: "Except for the incident where he ran into Uncle Hai, did he rob the house or set fire to it? He knows how to work, be lazy, make mistakes, and distinguish between right and wrong, just like us. I also think he sometimes looks like a jerk , but he doesn't act like an asshole all the time."

Haiyang stared at him from the rearview mirror, his eyes became more and more thought-provoking: "If I say Jiang Ying, you say ten words to me, why do you defend him so much?"

Ye Chuyang seemed to have been seen through by him, and his face was a little ashamed. He blocked his face by pushing his glasses, and said, "In short, you are too harsh on him, and the fault tolerance rate for him is too low."

Liang Xinxin's house is in a high-end residential area, all of which are large-scale duplex houses. The houses are built on a foundation one floor above the ground, and a garage and basement are built below.Haiyang parked the police car outside the complex, and walked around the complex with Ye Chuyang and Xiaotao for a while before finding Building 13, Block B, Area C.

After passing through the lobby of the public area and reaching the second floor, they stopped outside the door of Room 1302, and Haiyang rang the doorbell.

The door opened quickly, and the person who opened the door was a woman in her 40s, wearing an apron, smelling of oily smoke, and holding a handful of vegetables in her hand. The woman took the lead and said, "Are you the policeman who called just now?"

Haiyang nodded and said, "Are you Miss Zhao?"

Sister Zhao opened the door and said, "Please come in, please come in, Xiaoliang and Yashu haven't come back yet, please wait for a while."

Ye Chuyang walked in and looked around, and felt the concept of the word "luxury house" personally.

Sister Zhao poured tea for them, cut the fruit, and then went back to the kitchen to get busy.

Haiyang asked, "Is Liang Xinxin not at home?"

Sister Zhao: "Xinxin is in the studio, her classmate is here, and she is drawing with her classmate in the room."

Haiyang: "Where is the studio? Can I go and see it?"

Sister Zhao: "Okay, okay, it's upstairs in the east room, you can go up by yourself, I'm making soup here."

Haiyang asked Xiaotao to stay on the first floor, and went up to the second floor with Ye Chuyang.The studio is at the end of the corridor on the second floor, next to the study room, the door is open, and the smell of acrylic and gouache wafts from the door.

"The sky at sunset isn't golden, it's pink."

"But I've seen golden skies, and the pink you're talking about is a gradient of gold."

The conversation between the two girls also floated out of the room.

Standing at the door, Ye Chuyang saw several easels and sculptural models in the huge studio. A floor-to-ceiling window was opened in the direction of the door. There were two flower stands facing each other in front of the window. Two little girls were sitting On the cushion, with a paint tray in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, they are coloring the canvas.

Of the two girls, Liang Xinxin was wearing a small white apron, and the one with two braids was wearing a bob hair. The girl without the apron was Wang Shiwen.

Ye Chuyang had seen them in the photos, so he recognized them at a glance.

Ye Chuyang knocked on the door and said with a smile, "Hello."

Liang Xinxin saw two strangers outside the door, she pouted and tilted her head to show her doubts, but said politely, "Hello, Uncle."

Compared with Liang Xinxin's politeness and generosity, Wang Shiwen looked a lot more shy. She opened her big bright eyes like a deer, shrank her neck, and kept silent.

Ye Chuyang said: "Hi, can I go in?"

Liang Xinxin: "Sure." She put down the paint tray and moved two small stools, "Uncle, please sit down."

Ye Chuyang sat down on the small stool, looked at the canvas in front of her, and said, "What are you painting?"

Liang Xinxin picked up the paint tray again, dipped a little blue gouache on it, and said, "Paint the sunset."

Ye Chuyang smiled and asked Wang Shiwen again: "What about you? What are you painting?"

Wang Shiwen lowered her head, fiddled with the paint in the tray with a brush, her eyes were covered by thick bangs on her forehead.

Liang Xinxin helped her answer: "Shiwen is also painting sunsets, she is better at painting than me, and can make out many colors that I can't make out."

Ye Chuyang looked at Liang Xinxin, and saw a smiling, bright, bright, generous, beautiful little girl like a sunflower.

Ye Chuyang said: "Is your name Liang Xinxin?"

Liang Xinxin took a look at Ye Chuyang, put the paintbrush in his right hand across the paint tray, stretched out his hand towards Ye Chuyang like a little adult, and said, "Yes, uncle, do you know me?"

Ye Chuyang held her hand, smiled and said: "Yes, we are here to find you today."

Haiyang walked over, took out his mobile phone to find Duan Boshan's photo, and said, "Look, have you seen this person?"

Liang Xinxin wiped off the paint on her apron first, then grabbed Haiyang's cell phone, looked at it carefully, and said, "Yes, I saw this grandpa at the school gate a few days ago."

Haiyang: "Why did he go to school to find you?"

Liang Xin wondered, "He didn't look for me."

Ye Chuyang suddenly realized something, and turned to look at Wang Shiwen.

Wang Shiwen looked at them with flickering eyes, and when she saw Ye Chuyang looking at her, she quickly hid her face.

Liang Xinxin said again: "This grandfather is looking for Shiwen."

Ye Chuyang saw that Wang Shiwen was difficult to communicate with, so he continued to talk to Liang Xinxin: "How do you know that he went to find Wang Shiwen?"

Liang Xinxin said: "I saw this grandpa as soon as I left the school that afternoon, because my grandpa came to school to pick up Shiwen several times, so I recognized him. At that time, Shiwen had already left, so I told grandpa that Shiwen had left .”

The words stopped here, Ye Chuyang could only ask Wang Shiwen: "Student Wang Shiwen, who is Duan Boshan?"

Stared at by several pairs of eyes, Wang Shiwen lowered her head timidly and awkwardly, kept stirring the paint on the plate with a brush, and said falteringly: "My mother is his hired nanny."

Although she was too cowardly, her words were still clear, Ye Chuyang asked again: "Why did he go to school to look for you on September [-]st?"

Wang Shiwen said: "I go to his house to live with my mother on weekends, and he occasionally picks me up from school on Friday afternoon."

Ye Chuyang remembered that Wang Shiwen's mother, Zhang Min, had returned to her hometown on August 26th to run an errand, leaving Wang Shiwen behind, so there was no doubt that Duan Boshan would pick Wang Shiwen home.

Haiyang said: "Did you go home with Duan Boshan on September [-]st?"

Wang Shiwen shook her head and said, "No, my mother let me live in a friend's house."

Haiyang: "Who?"

Wang Shiwen said: "I don't know the name of that uncle. My mother asked me to call him Uncle Deng."

Haiyang asked in detail: "Then where does he live?"

Wang Shiwen recited the address fluently: "Dangui Garden, Nanxing Road, No. 8, Unit 24, Building C[-]."

Seeing that she remembered so clearly, Haiyang simply asked, "Do you know his phone number?"

Wang Shiwen really nodded and recited a string of mobile phone numbers.

Haiyang felt a little strange: "Why do you remember so clearly?"

Wang Shiwen lowered her head and blushed again: "Mom said that Uncle Deng will be my father in the future, and asked me to memorize his address and mobile phone number, and call him if I need anything."

Ye Chuyang and Haiyang looked at each other, both a little surprised, they didn't expect to find Zhang Min's boyfriend by accident.

Sister Zhao, the nanny, knocked on the door and said, "Comrade policeman, my dear parents are back."

Ye Chuyang and Haiyang went downstairs. Ye Chuyang saw Xiaotao and Liang Duo sitting in the living room on the first floor, and Zhang Yashu was helping Sister Zhao to bring fruit and snacks to the living room.Liang Duo was bright and talkative, while Zhang Yashu was a little quiet, only smiling and not talking much.

Liang Duo asked Haiyang what he wanted, and Haiyang told him the truth, he was a little surprised: "There is such a coincidence."

Haiyang said: "Yes. That's all we know so far."

Liang Duo said, "When will Youyou's case start?"

Haiyang said: "The trial date is set by the procuratorate and the court, usually within two months. But don't worry, Song Youhai has been in our custody."

Liang Duo couldn't hide his anger and said, "I heard that Song Youhai hired a lawyer. How can this kind of person have the face to hire a lawyer? How can there be a lawyer willing to defend this kind of person!"

Looking at the problem from his point of view, his daughter suffered an innocent disaster and was killed by a mental patient, the murderer should pay with his life, and there are lawyers defending such scum, it is really ridiculous in the world.

Haiyang can understand him, but from a legal point of view, Song Youhai does have the right to defend himself.

Ye Chuyang listened to their conversation, but his attention was on Zhang Yashu. He quietly observed Zhang Yashu; Zhang Yashu sat alone on the other side of the sofa, keeping a distance from her husband and the police, as if she didn't care about what they were talking about , the expression on his face was also slightly cold.

But Ye Chuyang saw something on her mind from her indifferent expression.

Zhang Yashu was only in her early thirties, and she was very beautiful. She was indeed too young to be Liang Youyou Liang Xinxin's mother.She lowered her head and nailed her nails. The ten nails were exquisitely manicured, but they had been incompletely nailed. The bright red nail polish seemed to have been brushed off by a steel brush, leaving mottled messes.

When she accidentally looked up and saw Ye Chuyang staring at her, she smiled at Ye Chuyang and said, "Do you need more tea?"

Ye Chuyang said no need, but she still filled Ye Chuyang's cup with tea, the tea overflowed a little and spilled on the table, she wiped it off with a paper towel, and said with a smile: "I'm always clumsy."

Ye Chuyang said it didn't matter, and said, "I met Liang Xinxin just now."

Zhang Yashu glanced upstairs, and said: "She is in the studio, she likes oil painting very much."

Ye Chuyang said: "She is in a good condition, she can recover from that experience, she is very strong."

Zhang Yashu showed an emotionless smile, and said, "Well, this child has always been very sensible, and he didn't worry us much."

Ye Chuyang noticed that her expression when talking about Liang Xinxin was a little interesting, so he deliberately found a topic to chat with her a few more words.

Ye Chuyang said: "How is Liang Xinxin's grades?"

Zhang Yashu said: "Very good, she has always been No.1 in the class. Yoyo's grades are also very good, and she has never fallen out of the top three in the class."

Ye Chuyang: "Xinxin's grades are better than Yoyo's?"

Zhang Yashu: "Well, you need to be stronger in your heart, and you must be number one in everything."

Having said that, Zhang Yashu hesitated to speak, showing hesitation.

Ye Chuyang smiled and said, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Yashu covered half of her face, and said, "It's nothing, I just remembered that Yoyo also won the first place a few days before the accident."

Speaking of Liang Youyou's death, she looked very sad, her eyes were slightly red.

Ye Chuyang was suspicious, and couldn't tell whether she had feelings for the two sisters or not. Just now she looked indifferent, but now talking about Liang Youyou, she felt sad.

Zhang Yashu noticed her gaffe, and went to the bathroom to tidy up. She accidentally bumped into a handbag-style pink floral canvas bag on the armrest of the sofa, and most of the contents fell out.She quickly squatted down to pick it up.

A bell tied with a red string jingled and rolled to Ye Chuyang's feet. Ye Chuyang picked up the bell and handed it to Zhang Yashu, but Zhang Yashu snatched it and stuffed it into his bag, saying, "Thank you."

Ye Chuyang suddenly pressed her hand, looked at the pink clip in her hand, and asked, "Is this your hair clip?"

In Zhang Yashu's hand is a pink polka-dot hairpin, which is very similar to the clip Liang Youyou wore on her head when she died. Zhang Yashu looked at the clip in her hand, her whole hand trembling slightly, and said, "Yes, there are two hairpins of this kind. , it’s a pair, one is worn by Yoyo, and the other is worn by me.”

Liang Duo noticed the commotion here, and asked, "Yashu, what's wrong?"

Ye Chuyang let go of her hand and said, "Sorry."

Zhang Yashu nodded, and walked quickly with her bag in her arms.

Liang Duo said: "I'm sorry, officer, since Yoyo's accident, my wife has often been out of her mind like this."

Ye Chuyang couldn't help asking him: "Is the relationship between Ms. Zhang and your daughter good?"

Liang Duo was a little embarrassed: "Yashu and I haven't been married for long, and Yoyo and Xinxin don't accept her very well, and their relationship is not very good."

Liang Xinxin and Wang Shiwen came down from upstairs, Wang Shiwen was carrying her schoolbag, Liang Xinxin said, "Dad, Shiwen is leaving."

Liang Duo smiled and said, "Then I'll take Shiwen back."

Wang Shiwen said softly, "No need, Uncle Deng is here to pick me up."

Haiyang: "It's the Uncle Deng you told me about just now?"

Wang Shiwen nodded and said, "He's at the gate of the community."

Haiyang wanted to see this Uncle Deng, so he bid farewell to Liang Duo, and left Liang Duo's house with Ye Chuyang and Xiao Tao.

Wang Shiwen walked among the three adults, clutching her schoolbag with both hands, and said as low as a mosquito: "Uncle policeman, I want to ask you for a favor."

Haiyang said: "What's the matter?"

Wang Shiwen said: "My puppy is lost, can you help me find it?"

Haiyang smiled before asking, "Where did you lose it?"

Wang Shiwen said: "It's in this community. Last month, I brought the puppy to play with Yoyo and Xinxin. The puppy ran away and never came back. Yoyo and Xinxin and I searched for a long time but couldn't find it."

As she said that, she turned around towards Haiyang, looked up into Haiyang's eyes for the first time, and said, "Uncle Policeman, Lele is my best friend, can you help me find it?"

Haiyang looked at her, and couldn't bear to refuse, so he said, "Okay, do you have a picture of the puppy?"

Wang Shiwen finally smiled, very sweetly: "Yes, I took photos of Lele with Grandpa Duan's camera, in my room."

Haiyang took out the pen and paper from his pocket, wrote down his mobile phone number and handed it to Wang Shiwen, saying: "Then send me the photo, and I will help you find a solution."

Wang Shiwen caught the note, carefully folded the note and put it away.

Several people continued to walk towards the gate of the community, Ye Chuyang led Haiyang a few steps away, and said in a low voice: "Brother Haiyang, do you think there is something wrong with Zhang Yashu?"

Haiyang said seriously: "She is indeed a bit strange. She was very flustered when she mentioned the issuing card just now. I have to find a chance to test the issuing card."

After a few words, I left the gate of the community. A dusty Dongfeng car was parked at the gate of the community. A man in orange overalls was standing beside the car smoking a cigarette. The words 'Gas Company' were printed on the overalls.

Wang Shiwen waved to him and said, "Uncle Deng."

Deng Weiqiang is tall and strong, with dark skin, and his upright and honest face was broken by a scar on the left side of his face. The scar looks like it was burnt out, and it looks fleshy brown. The scar skin is loose and ugly, and it looks a bit fierce. .

Deng Weiqiang threw the cigarette on the ground and stamped it out, took Wang Shiwen's schoolbag, and stared at Ye Chuyang and the others with a pair of black eyes, because the two policemen were also staring at him.

Wang Shiwen took Deng Weiqiang's hand and said with a smile, "Uncle Deng, they are the police and will help me find Lele."

When Deng Weiqiang heard the word "police", his face suddenly became unnatural, he nodded to Haiyang hastily, and was about to lead Wang Shiwen into the car.

Haiyang stopped him and said, "Wait a minute."

Haiyang walked over, briefly asked his name, and talked to him a few words.

During this period, Xiao Tao kept rubbing his chin and looked at Deng Weiqiang thoughtfully. Haiyang let Deng Weiqiang go after he initially understood the situation. As soon as Po Dongfeng turned around the intersection, Xiao Tao slapped his thigh suddenly: "I remembered! "

Haiyang: "Why are you so surprised!"

Xiao Tao: "Captain Hai, I've seen that man before!"

Haiyang: "Where did you see it?"

Xiao Tao said: "When I saw the scar on his face, I remembered it. He went to Duan Boshan's house to change the gas pipe a month ago!"

Haiyang became excited in an instant: "You fucking didn't say it earlier! Hurry up and catch up!"

Two policemen drove a police car to chase after Deng Weiqiang's Po Dongfeng, leaving Ye Chuyang standing alone at the gate of the community.Ye Chuyang was not as efficient as the police. He stood still and analyzed the possible relationship between Deng Weiqiang and Duan Boshan's murder for a while, and found that it was indeed necessary for Haiyang to stop Deng Weiqiang because Zhang Min was suspected of murdering his boss for money. It is suspected of tampering with the owner's safe, but Zhang Min may not be able to do it alone, so there is a high probability that she will have a helper, and this helper may be her boyfriend Deng Weiqiang, plus Deng Weiqiang went to Duan Boshan a month ago It is definitely not a coincidence that such a coincidence happened to change the ignition pipe at home.

Ye Chuyang sorted out this relationship first, and then walked to the nearby bus station. After walking a few steps, his cell phone rang, and the person who called him was Hai Hongcheng.

Ye Chuyang: "Hello? Uncle Hai."

As soon as Hai Hongcheng spoke, his desire to take the bus home was shattered, and he had to pay dozens of dollars more to take a taxi.

Hai Hongcheng said: "Xiaoye, hurry to the hospital, something happened to Jiang Ying!"

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