conspiracy crime 4

Chapter 7 The Girl Detective (2)
The boy thought for a while and said: "He doesn't like studying, his grades are not good, and he is always at the bottom of the class every time he takes the exam. But he is very loyal. If anyone of our friends is bullied, he will definitely help you out. You take revenge. He likes to brag, he often says that he is the son of a rich man, and he is going to live a rich life in the city. Well, also, he is not filial to his mother at all, often scolds his mother, and sometimes I'll hit her with my hands..."

"He will beat his mother?" Fan Xue couldn't help being surprised.

"Yes, he blamed his mother for not bringing him to a poor place in the countryside. He said that if he hadn't followed her, he would be the eldest son of a rich family in the city now."

Fan Xue asked again: "During the summer vacation, Chang Xiaodong's twin brother came to visit him in the village, did you know?"

The boy said: "I know. I also heard them arguing on Eagle's Mouth Cliff."

"quarrel?"

"Yes. That morning, the fog on the mountain was even thicker than today. I was hunting hogweed on the hillside when I heard Chang Xiaodong and his brother arguing from Yingzui Cliff. The fog on the cliff was so thick that I couldn't see From their silhouettes, their voices can only be vaguely heard, and I don't know what they were arguing about. Later, I heard Chang Xiaodong yelled: "Why do you stay in the city and be the young man of a rich family? It's you instead of me." ?' At this moment, the two seemed to start to move their hands, and his brother hurriedly asked: "You, what do you want to do?" Xiaodong said, "I wish I could push you off the cliff." Later, some noises were heard, as if The sound of two people fighting."

Fan Xue frowned and asked, "And then?"

The boy said: "Then I saw a man running down the mountain from Yingzui Cliff quickly. At that time, the fog was too heavy, so I couldn't see which of the two brothers it was."

Fan Xue asked: "Are you sure you only saw one person running down the mountain?"

The boy nodded and said: "Yes, I saw only one person running down. I thought it was a bit strange. I wanted to follow to see what happened, but at this moment my dad called me to go home and help him build a pigsty. I had no choice but to go down the mountain with pigweed. The next day I finished work and went to Xiaodong’s house to look for him, but his mother said that he had dropped out of school and went to work in Guangdong.”

Fan Xue stood on Yingzui Cliff, closed her eyes, and imagined the scene of the Chang family brothers quarreling that morning, but in the end only one person ran down the mountain, what about the other person?Is the one who ran down the mountain the eldest or the second?
She looked at the mountain stream under the cliff hundreds of meters away. The mountain was filled with mist, and she could only hear the roar of the stream below the mountain, but she couldn't see anything.

She thought to herself, if someone fell, it would be hard to find even the bones, right?

What happened in the thick fog of Eagle's Mouth Cliff that day?
Why did Chang Xiaochun return to the city after this incident, as if he was a different person?
"Another person?" She felt a chill in her heart, and asked again in her heart, "Is it really a different person?"

5
"What, another person?"

When Fan Xue returned home and told her father about her doubts, her father was also taken aback and asked her, "Are you suspecting that your brother Chang Xiaodong felt that his fate was unfair, so he pushed his brother Chang Xiaochun to death on the cliff? die, and then return to the city pretending to be your elder brother, and live the life he longed for as the eldest son of a rich family?"

Fan Xue's father's name was Fan Zetian. The reason why she told her father her suspicions was because her father was a senior criminal police officer. She, an amateur girl detective, wanted to hear the opinions of professionals.

Fan Xue took her father's words and said: "Yes, why Chang Xiaochun returned to the city from the countryside is like a different person. Maybe this is the only reasonable explanation I can find so far. I went to see that mountain stream, Under the cliff hundreds of meters deep, the current is fast and bottomless. If someone falls, the body will be hard to find. My younger brother Chang Xiaodong pushed his elder brother down the deep ravine on Yingzui Cliff and ran home in a panic , told his mother the truth, and his mother, who had always been guilty of him, was forced to accept the fact, and declared that her son had gone to work in Guangdong. In fact, Chang Xiaodong returned to the city as his elder brother Chang Xiaochun, and lived in the rich family he dreamed of. The young master lives. There is only one maid in the huge villa of the Chang family, and she is not close to Chang Xiaochun, and Chang Xiaodong looks exactly like her elder brother, so it is not difficult to hide it from the maid."

Fan Zetian said: "Even if he can hide it from others, can he hide it from his father, Chang Guangyu? When his father comes home, won't he still have to reveal the truth?"

Fan Xue said: "Perhaps Chang Xiaodong didn't even think about hiding it from his father. The palms and backs of his hands are full of flesh. If his father wants to call the police after he finds out the truth, he will lose two sons at the same time. In order to keep Chang Xiaodong I think he will accept this reality silently."

Fan Zetian paced around the room, thinking over the ins and outs of this matter with the thinking of an old criminal policeman, and felt that although his daughter's suspicion was mostly conjecture, it was not unreasonable.

He frowned and said, "It's not difficult to investigate this matter clearly. We only need to send an investigation report to the Guangdong police through the bureau to see if Chang Xiaodong has really appeared in Guangdong, and then we can know about you." The reasoning is correct."

A few days later, Fan Zetian told his daughter that the assisted investigation report sent to the Guangdong police had been answered.

According to Guangdong police investigation, Chang Xiaodong did go to Guangdong to look for a job during this summer vacation.

On August 8, he took his ID card and applied for a job as an assembly line worker in a shoe factory in Guangzhou, but because he was too tired, he quit the job three days later and left the factory.Half a month later, he worked as a waiter in a hotel in Dongguan, and left because he couldn't bear the hardship.Before leaving, he once told his workers that he wanted to go to Shenzhen to fish for the world, and he would never go home unless he made a name for himself.

Although there was no news of him since then, it was enough to prove that the two brothers did not kill each other, and it was enough to prove that all of Fan Xue's reasoning was groundless.

Fan Xue nodded after listening.

It stands to reason that she should breathe a sigh of relief, but when she thinks about it carefully, she always feels that something is wrong.

Dad asked her what was wrong, but she couldn't tell why.

Dad patted her on the head and said good girl, if there are any clues, our police will follow up, you girl detective should focus on your studies.

Half a month later, news suddenly came from the homeroom teacher, saying that Chang Xiaochun had written an application for withdrawal and was planning to drop out.

Fan Xue couldn't help being taken aback. Before this incident happened, Chang Xiaochun's grades had always been at the top of the class. They had agreed to be admitted to Tsinghua University together and go to Beijing to study together.How could he drop out of school suddenly?The question that has troubled her for a long time came to her mind again, is my guess correct, is it true that Chang Xiaochun is no longer the original Chang Xiaochun?Is he really a fake?
She secretly made up her mind to investigate the truth no matter what.

She sent Chang Xiaochun a text message on her mobile phone, asking him to meet him in the woods behind the school after school, but Chang Xiaochun didn't reply her.

She wrote a note to Chang Xiaochun. He had a cold expression and threw the note into the trash can.

She stopped him in the corridor stairwell when school was over, and he turned around and left without saying a word.

Fan Xue had no choice but to follow him after school on weekends.

On Friday evening, Chang Xiaochun rode his bicycle home, and Fan Xue followed him on his bicycle.

When he reached an empty cement road in the suburbs, Fan Xue suddenly accelerated, overtook Chang Xiaochun, and stopped his way.

Chang Xiaochun had no choice but to jump off the bicycle.

Fan Xue gasped and said, "Xiaochun, there is no one else here. Tell me honestly, what happened? Why did you become like this? Why did you drop out of school? Isn't your dream to be admitted to Tsinghua University and go to Beijing to study with me?" ?”

Chang Xiaochun was pushing the bicycle, his face was pale, his head was lowered, and he was silent for a while.

Fan Xue stomped her feet and said, "You are talking. Why are you completely different from before? Are you Chang Xiaochun?"

Chang Xiaochun was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his head, his eye circles were slightly red, he stared at her for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, as if he had finally made up his mind, and said in a voice almost choked up: "Xiaoxue, don't you Forced me, please don't force me anymore... Let me tell you, I will tell you everything, but in fact, I, I..."

6
At this moment, there was a sudden roar of a car engine, and a small silver-gray car crashed into Fan Xue like lightning.

Chang Xiaochun was taken aback, shouted: "Fan Xue, be careful!" and threw her to the ground.

The two rolled two or three meters away at the same time.

The car ran over the two bicycles, and the bicycles were immediately crushed into scrap iron.

The small car missed a hit, and then backed up, pointing the front of the car at the two of them.

Through the front windshield of the car, Chang Xiaochun saw clearly the person sitting in the driver's seat, and couldn't help calling out: "Dad, why is it you? You are crazy, what do you want to do?"

The door of the car was opened, and the driver put one foot on the ground and poked his head out. It was a middle-aged man with a broad skin and a big face.

Fan Xue had seen news photos of this real estate agent in newspapers and on the Internet, and recognized him as Chang Xiaochun's father, Chang Guangyu.

Chang Guangyu shouted: "Xiaochun, this girl has been pestering you and investigating you secretly, she will kill you. Why don't you just let me kill her, at worst, just pay some money."

Chang Xiaochun protected Fan Xue behind her, and said loudly, "No, you can't hurt her!"

"Brat, get out, have you ever thought about it, if she continues to pursue her like this, she will kill you sooner or later."

Chang Guangyu jumped out of the car and slapped Chang Xiaochun staggeringly, almost falling to the ground.

Chang Guangyu cursed again, took off his belt, bound his hands, and dragged him into the car.Then start the car and hit Fan Xue again.

Fan Xue just woke up like a dream, her face turned pale with fright, she turned around and ran towards the intersection, calling "Help" while running, but pedestrians rarely come and go on this remote alley in the suburbs, even if she shouted, no one would hear her.

The car continued to accelerate, and it was about to hit her. At this critical moment, a siren sounded, and a police car with red lights flashing sped up from the intersection. Xue then turned the steering wheel, and was in front of the chasing car.

Chang Guangyu couldn't brake in time, and hit the police car with a bang, and the hood of the car flew up immediately.

Three police officers jumped out of the police car, and the leader was Fan Zetian, Fan Xue's father.

Fan Zetian looked back at his daughter and asked, "Xiaoxue, are you alright?"

Fan Xue restrained her pounding heart, gasped and said, "I'm fine." Then she asked, "Dad, why are you here?"

Fan Zetian said: "Girl, because of confidentiality, I haven't told you. In fact, Chang Xiaochun's case, after listening to your analysis last time, our police have been investigating the case for a long time, and now it's time to close the net."

"Close the net?" Fan Xue couldn't help but widen her eyes, "Could my reasoning be correct? Could it be that Xiaochun has really...?"

Fan Zetian nodded and said, "Your reasoning is basically correct, it's just that you got the facts upside down."

Fan Xue was startled: "It's reversed?"

Fan Zetian said: "Yes. We extracted Chang Xiaochun's fingerprints before and after the summer vacation. After technical comparison, they basically matched. This shows that Chang Xiaochun was not impersonated. Our police went to Guangdong to investigate and found that Chang Xiaodong While working in Guangdong, he showed up twice in total, but every time he appeared in Guangdong, the whereabouts of his brother Chang Xiaochun at home was a mystery. There was no evidence to prove that when his brother Chang Xiaodong appeared in Guangdong, his brother Chang Xiaochun Xiaochun is staying in our Qingyang City. Therefore, we have reason to believe that the younger brother Chang Xiaodong has never been to Guangdong at all. The younger brother looks almost exactly the same, so if you take your younger brother's ID card to find a job, you will never be seen."

Fan Xue asked, "Why did Xiaochun do this?"

Fan Zetian stared at Chang Guangyu and his son in the car and said, "As I said just now, your reasoning is not wrong, but you have reversed the murderer and the victim. The one who was killed was the younger brother Chang Xiaodong, and the murderer was the elder brother Chang Xiaochun." .”

"Ah?" Fan Xue was taken aback, "How could this happen?"

At this time, Chang Xiaochun had already broken free, jumped out of the car, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes, I did kill Xiaodong. That morning, our brothers had a fight on Yingzui Cliff. When he got agitated, he wanted to kill me. I pushed him down the cliff. I fought hard, but I missed it and pushed him down instead. I ran home in a panic and told my mother that my mother ran up the mountain to look for her, but my brother fell into a deep ravine. Where can I find him? My mother cried sadly She didn't know what to do, so she told me to call my dad. Dad told me not to panic, just do what he said, and I wouldn't be charged as a murderer. He told me to take my brother's ID , went to Guangdong twice, once to work in a shoe factory in Guangzhou, and once to apply for a job in a four-star hotel in Dongguan. My father said that as long as I showed up in Guangdong with my brother’s ID card, it would be fine. Then my mother told others that my younger brother went to work in Guangdong, so that no one would be suspicious."

Fan Zetian looked at Chang Guangyu, who was ashen-faced, and sneered, "It's a pity that you, a smart father, didn't expect that your son's psychological endurance would be so poor. Although he helped you settle everything, but you killed your son with your own hands. My younger brother felt deeply guilty, mentally broken down, and his temperament changed drastically, as if he was a different person, and finally aroused the suspicion of our young detective..."

Chang Guangyu let out a long sigh, looked at his son with pain and tears streaming down his face, and couldn't speak anymore.

7
Chang Xiaochun's seat had been vacant for a week, and Fan Xue still hadn't recovered from the grief of the accident.

That night, just after evening self-study, the guard came to call her, saying that there was a woman looking for her at the school gate.

She ran out and saw that it was Chang Xiaochun's mother Wu Lanying who was looking for her.

She was a little surprised, walked over and asked, "Aunt Wu, do you have anything to do with me?"

When Wu Lanying saw her, she shed tears and said, "Girl, I just heard his father call me about Xiaochun today. In fact, the person who killed Xiaodong was not his brother."

Fan Xue was taken aback, and asked, "Didn't Xiaochun kill Chang Xiaodong?"

Wu Lanying nodded and said: "Yes. The two brothers did quarrel that day on Yingzui Cliff, and Xiaodong did attack his brother, trying to push him off the cliff, but he was not as strong as his brother. He couldn't beat his brother, so he ran home in a fit of anger, took a kitchen knife to kill his brother. I hurriedly stopped him and dissuaded him. The kid was angry and thought I was helping his brother, so he turned around with a kitchen knife He wanted to cut me. I had nowhere to run, so I had to pounce on him to grab his knife. Unexpectedly, in the struggle, the knife cut across his neck and cut his carotid artery. He fell to the ground, bleeding violently, and soon passed away. Xiaochun sat alone on Yingzui Cliff for a while, and walked home, just in time to see this scene. After he understood what happened, he took a hoe to dig a hole in the vegetable garden behind the house, buried his brother, and put After cleaning the blood on the ground, he took out his mobile phone and called his father, saying that he had accidentally killed his younger brother. His father didn’t want to lose two sons at the same time, so he had to give him advice on how to avoid guilt..."

Fan Xue asked, "Why did Xiaochun do this?"

Wu Lanying said: "This child's idea is very simple. He always hoped that my father and I could be reunited. If his father knew that I killed Xiaodong, he would never forgive me for the rest of his life, let alone get back together with me. So he I told his father that he accidentally killed Xiaodong. I didn’t know until today that Xiaochun was arrested by the police for taking the blame for me. He is still young, and I can’t ruin his life. I can’t ask him to take the blame for me. ,So I……"

Fan Xue asked: "I'm just a student, why don't you go to the police, but come to me and talk about this matter?"

Wu Lanying smiled bitterly and said, "Son, I heard that the police officer in charge of this case is your father. I was afraid that the police would not believe me, so I came to you first. I want you to take me to see your father. If you don't believe me , I can take you and the police to my house, Xiaodong...he is still buried in the vegetable garden..."

Fan Xue nodded, took her hand and said, "My dad is still on the night shift in the Criminal Police Brigade. I'll take you to see him."

(End of this chapter)