mesbooks Chapter 87 A Man of Benevolence and Righteousness
Chapter 87 A Man of Benevolence and Righteousness
"The exact location?" Cao Dahua asked.
"There's a small path in the southwest corner of No. 15 Middle School, probably less than 100 meters away," Ma Dazhi said.
"It's been a long time since I've encountered a case like this!"
"Master, Master, take me with you!" Zhang Qiang was afraid he wouldn't get a chance to be there, so he quickly stood up and raised his hand high.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely take you!" Cao Dahua's eyes quickly swept over everyone. "Then Lao Ma and Jiang Yang can stay behind with the team."
Cao Dahua arranged for a group of people to stay in the office regularly.
Old Ma is too old; he's almost fifty.
At this age, it's not too old to work in other police departments, but being a criminal investigator, especially a frontline criminal investigator, is actually quite demanding.
He also has quite a few health problems.
Anything that was relatively easy was naturally left to him.
As for Jiang Yang, he was demobilized and assigned to the Third Squadron. He had just finished junior high school. His academic performance in junior high school was not very good. He was good at arresting people, but he was not good at other things.
It's impossible not to mentor newcomers and give them plenty of learning opportunities.
It would be even more inappropriate for Wu Song, a skilled detective, not to be the deputy captain.
After much deliberation, the only possible combinations are Ma Dazhi, Jiang Yang, Ma Xiaowu, and Lin Wenshu.
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The other six members of the team, except for Cao Dahua who took over the vehicle left by Xu Bin, rode their sidecars and sputtered to Gaotan Qiushi Middle School, located in Yuantou Town in the suburbs, which is backed by a mountain to the north.
This is a private high school.
It has a certain degree of fame in Gotham.
Arriving at the southwest corner of Qiushi Middle School, the crime scene is easy to find.
The place with the most people, and where you can hear crying, is the one.
"Come on, make way, make way!"
They parted the crowd and together lifted the police tape before entering.
"Captain Cao, you've arrived."
"Hu Suo."
After extending his hand to shake hands, Cao Dahua immediately went to the vicinity of the deceased.
Looking at the dead lying on the ground, covered with a cloth, showing no signs of life, everyone felt a pang of regret.
Especially when you see the face of the deceased.
The deceased was very young!
You could even say they're too young.
Judging by her face, she's clearly not even eighteen years old.
"Is this from Qiushi Middle School nearby?" Wu Song looked around, glanced at the onlookers, and, confirming that no one was carrying the black mist, his gaze fell on Hu, who was wearing a uniform.
"Hmm!" Hu nodded, pointing to the middle-aged woman at the edge of the cordon who was crying so hard she couldn't stand up, and the middle-aged man who wasn't crying, but whose face showed an intense sadness that was almost impossible to dispel.
"This morning, villagers from Yuantou Town came to the police station to report that their daughter, Hao Min, had gone missing. We and his relatives searched along the route our daughter took home from school and finally found her body here."
"Why did you only report it this morning?" Cao Dahua asked, puzzled.
"Here's the thing, her parents weren't home last night. They were with their son at the city hospital, so they let her go home by herself. This morning, when her parents brought their son home, they found that nothing had been moved. It seemed like their daughter hadn't come home at all. So they went to the school to check on her, only to find that she wasn't there. They asked her classmates and several people who knew her well, and they all said they hadn't seen her."
"That can't be right, it's August already, why are they still in school?" Liu Shutong asked, puzzled.
"These are students who will soon be in their final year of high school," the police officer explained. "They will be taking the college entrance exam next year, so their summer vacation for the second year of high school is only half a month. School starts again after the hottest days in July. The same applies to the repeat classes. Qiushi Middle School has always done it this way."
Speaking of which, this was actually the top scorer in the second year of high school graduation exam, sigh...
Director Hu sighed deeply. "To be honest, I've practically watched Hao Min grow up. My son is the same age as her. This girl has always been number one since she was little. Based on her grades, getting into a university was a sure thing, and she might even have a chance at a prestigious one. What a pity, what a pity!"
"Will he pass through this area on his way home?" Wu Song asked again.
"That little path over there is close to some school buildings, so some students take this shortcut."
"Um!"
Wu Song looked over there, walked onto the path to observe, and then discovered that there was a makeshift shack at the foot of the mountain, about thirty meters away from here.
Why would there be something like this near a school?
Wu Song couldn't help but point, "Director Hu, what's that?"
"That should be the residence of a student from Qiushi Middle School and his mother," Hu replied after glancing at it.
"Huh?" The members of the Third Squadron all looked at Hu Suo.
"Don't look at me like that. According to my son, this child is quite complicated. Why don't you let his teacher talk to him?" Director Hu waved to a bespectacled man in his thirties.
The middle-aged man immediately came up to Wu Song and explained, "That's where Chen Xiang and his mother live in our class. I'm his homeroom teacher."
"What is your surname?"
"My surname is Liu."
"Teacher Liu, how could a student be living in a place like that?"
"It's a long story!" Teacher Liu clicked her tongue. "When that child was four years old, his father passed away, his mother went insane, and later his older brothers and sisters all ran away. His grandparents also passed away. When he was in elementary school, he had to study at the same time take care of his mother at home."
Later, he did very well in the high school entrance exam, and our school waived his tuition fees. However, he still had to find a way to pay for his books, daily food and clothing, and he also had to pay for his mother's medical treatment.
He couldn't bear to pay the rent, so he built a makeshift shelter at the foot of the mountain where his mother lived. He could go back to take care of her every day after school.
"What a righteous man!" Wu Song thought to himself, then asked, "Was he in the same class as the deceased Hao Min?"
"He's my deskmate," Teacher Liu said. "His grades are also quite good. Although he's not as good as Hao Min, if he performs normally, he should be able to get into a bachelor's program, and getting into a junior college is definitely a sure thing."
"Is he in class right now? Call him over and let's take a look."
Wu Song believed that such a righteous and benevolent person was unlikely to be the murderer of Hao Min.
If he were a bad person, he wouldn't live in a place like this, nor would he have remained devoted to his mother.
But even if there's a chance, there's always a possibility. He was the same classmate as the deceased, and his residence was so close to where the body was dumped, so suspicion still exists.
Wu Song needs to meet him in person.
First, we need to rule out his suspicion.
Secondly, let's examine what kind of person performed this act, which would have been included in the "Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars" in ancient times.
Wu Song greatly admired this person's behavior.
His actions always reminded Wu Song of an old friend.
"I'll go and call him over right now." Teacher Liu turned and walked towards the school.