Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 98

Qiu Minmin.

Li Zhuiyuan gently turned the soy milk bottle in his hand.

Climbing out from the underworld to take your life?
This sentence actually makes it clear.

Taking this paragraph out alone, from a normal person's perspective, it seems difficult to understand:
Why did Shi Yuqing want to be with the old professor even though she knew he had killed someone, and why did she force him to divorce his wife and marry her?

But if we switch perspectives and give more examples:

Throughout history, both in China and abroad, there are countless examples of men joining forces with their mistresses to kill their wives, and women joining forces with their lovers to kill their husbands. There are so many examples that they cannot even be portrayed in novels, dramas, or movies.

What was originally incomprehensible suddenly became normal.

Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head, looked into the straw, and silently took a sip of the soy milk.

At this moment, he felt more and more the necessity of writing a book. After each wave, he had to record examples to make a summary. The effect would definitely be much better than his own unilateral preaching.

Next, the old professor showed Li Zhuiyuan the spiritual art of an old man.

He used the method of retreating to advance, and first helped the woman vent her dissatisfaction;
On this basis, the author brings out all the beautiful things that happened between the two in the past, such as their spiritual resonance;

Then there is the prospect of looking to the future;

Finally, he mentioned the current difficulties in reality and hoped that the woman could give him more time.

It was clearly just going around in a circle, from the original problem back to the original problem, nothing was solved, no needs were met, but the woman snuggled into the old man's arms and began to sob, and then they started to whisper in each other's ears and show their love.

The two are leaving.

In order not to attract attention, the old professor left first, and Shi Yuqing left after a while.

Because the door of Li Zhuiyuan's private room was open, the two of them passed by the door when they left one after another.

The old professor is really old. He is a retired man with obvious age spots on his neck and face.

Shi Yuqing is not old. She looks to be in her early thirties, and she exudes an intellectual beauty.

Li Zhuiyuan noticed that when the old professor passed by the door, there was a hint of murderous intent in the corner of his eyes.

Since he had killed someone before, it was not impossible for him to kill again.

Qiu Minmin was so unsatisfied and kept making demands on me, which was why I sent her to death.

There was a hint of tenderness in the corners of Shi Yuqing's eyes, as if her emotional needs had been met, and she was quite happy.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, should we follow them?"

Although Tan Wenbin didn't hear what was being talked about in the next room, he could tell from the boy's expression that these two people were very important.

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head.

Said:

"Brother Binbin, call the police."

……

Tan Yunlong sat at his desk, smoking hard. The ashtray on the table was filled with cigarette butts.

Wang Chaonan readily admitted to the crime of murdering Tang Qiuying. The reason was that when Wang Chaonan was pruning the flower bed, he accidentally soiled the quilt that Tang Qiuying had hung outside to dry.

Then the two had a quarrel.

This should have been a very common quarrel in life, and it lasted very briefly. Not to mention the police, even the school security department did not send anyone out. The quarrel was only stopped by the dormitory manager who persuaded everyone to say less.

No one took this seriously at all. Later, after Tang Qiuying disappeared, when the police and the school investigated her social network, no one thought of this at all.

It's like when you are walking on the road and a cyclist passes by and splashes mud on your shoes, and you curse: What a lunatic!

But Tang Qiuying cursed: "I wish you will have no children or grandchildren."

It was later verified that Tang Qiuying and Wang Chaonan had no previous contact, so Tang Qiuying had no idea that this campus artist, who was in his thirties at the time, did not have any children.

She might have just been venting her anger by cursing someone, and the dirty word happened to flash into her mind, so she used it directly. If she had used a different word at the time, even if it was more vicious or she used more curses, it would have been fine.

But these words were kept in mind by Wang Chaonan.

He began to observe Tang Qiuying's movements, and then four months after the quarrel, he took advantage of the tree planting on the boulevard and killed Tang Qiuying when she was alone, and planted the body in the tree pit.

This type of perpetrator is the most troublesome for the police. He is the kind that is out of the three realms and not within the five elements.

No matter how carefully you screen, you won't be able to identify him, but he was the one who killed people.

The biggest problem now is that Wang Chaonan refuses to say anything about Beibei.

He was so obsessed that he would rather be shot for murder than not give up his belief that he had a son.

He might even hope to be shot quickly, thinking that as long as the child could not find his biological parents, he would still be his son.

Wang Chaonan's wife has the same attitude. If Wang Chaonan's problem is extreme paranoia, then his wife definitely has mental problems.

"Brother Tan, the comrades over there have replied. Take a look."

"so much?"

The parents of the abducted children will file a report at the local police station. Once the notification is sent over, they will conduct a check and comparison and then notify parents whose conditions match.

Despair is painful, but what is more painful is giving you hope again and again in despair and then shattering it.

After hearing the news, many parents go to check again and again, and then find that the child is not their own. At the same time, they may see other parents crying with joy after finding their children.

Rationally, we should be happy for the parents who found their child, but emotionally, this is actually another knife stabbing them in the heart.

Xiao Zhou: "It's mainly boys of this age group, who are the main targets of human traffickers. And now there are many children named 'Bao Bao' and 'Bei Bei'."

"Don't you have a birthmark?"

"The birthmark is a little small."

Tan Yunlong sighed.

"Brother Tan, you don't have to sigh. We have locked the area this time, and we should be able to find the child's parents. Maybe his biological parents are already on their way."

"Xiao Zhou, you are not married yet, right?"

"Nope."

"When you get married and have your own children, you will understand."

"Yes, yes, I understand what you mean, Brother Tan, but, Brother Tan, it's time for you to treat us, right?"

"Ok?"

"You solved a case from so many years ago, and rescued a kidnapped child. You have done such a great deed, and you shouldn't have shed some money?

We are all waiting to learn from you at the wine table. So, how did you know there was a body buried under that tree?"

“My son is studying at that university.”

"We all know that."

"One day I went to see him at school and took a walk with him behind the dormitory building. I noticed that the tree was the thickest and tallest, so I became suspicious."

"That's it?"

"Otherwise, it's not like I can summon Tang Qiuying's ghost to lead me to her body, right?"

"Hahaha, Brother Tan, you only know how to joke.

But, really, it's amazing, I admire your insight."

Tan Yunlong coughed twice, reached out to pick up the teacup on the table, and took a sip of tea.

At this time, someone shouted: "Brother Tan, your phone is on."

Tan Yunlong stood up from his seat and answered the phone:
"Hello, I'm Tan Yunlong."

"Hello, I'm Tan Wenbin."

"Let the fart go."

"How dare you! What's your attitude!"

"Brat, believe it or not, I will go to your school to find you right now."

"Come on, come and hit me, come on."

Tan Yunlong took a deep breath.

He had reflected on himself before, and every time he came into contact with Xiaoyuan and then went to see his son, his nose would be not a nose and his eyes would not be eyes.

He felt that it was because of his imbalanced mentality as a father. Now he understood that there was no need to always look for problems in oneself.

"Dad, the real murderer of Qiu Minmin has been found."

……

Late at night, the police car drove into the campus again and the arrest operation went smoothly.

Tan Yunlong leaned against the car door and watched his colleagues in front of him take the old professor Chen Deliang into the police car.

On the other side, Shi Yuqing had been captured first and the interrogation began.

We learned from the intercom that the woman's psychological defenses were very weak. She had already confessed and tried her best to distance herself from the incident, saying that she was just an insider and not an accomplice.

The case happened seven years ago, and the collective disappearance of people related to the case a while ago greatly increased the difficulty of solving the case. Unexpectedly, there would be a ray of hope at this time.

On the way back, the eyes of several young police officers in the car when they looked at Tan Yunlong changed, and it was an undisguised admiration.

Xiao Zhou asked the question again:

"Brother Tan, where did you get the clue this time?"

Tan Yunlong didn't want to answer this question, but he had to because some things had to be written into the file.

“My son studies in this school.”

The other police officers in the car were listening carefully, but Xiao Zhou was the only one who felt that the beginning sounded slightly familiar.

"There is a Sichuan restaurant at the north gate of the school. I took you guys there to eat. One night I came to the school to see my son and went to eat with him in the private room on the second floor. The two suspects were next door and I heard them yelling.

Then I searched for a while and found some additional clues to prove my mistake, and then I decided to close the net." In fact, there are loopholes in Tan Yunlong's narrative, because maybe Shi Yuqing and the old professor don't go to Old Sichuan often, or maybe tonight is the first time, and this loophole will be discovered if you look closely.

But he didn't want to say directly that it was his son who heard it, as it would be a bit troublesome to go through the subsequent procedures, and Xiaoyuan didn't like trouble.

In addition, as long as the evidence is detailed and the other party is confirmed to be guilty, it is actually not that important as to how the clues were "triggered".

Sometimes, in order to protect the whistleblower, the police will deliberately blur the report.

For example, in a certain criminal case, the victim's family dreamed at night about where their relatives were buried. The police went to dig and actually found the body. Finally, they followed the clues and found the real murderer from the same village.

It is obvious that someone witnessed the murderer burying the body and while reporting it, he also hopes to hide his identity as the reporter.

The other police officers in the car were sighing at Tan Yunlong's luck, only Xiao Zhou said:
"Brother Tan, your son really brings you good luck."

……

"Oh, it feels so good."

Tan Wenbin stretched out on the bed. He was possessed by a ghost yesterday. After eating and drinking his fill and having a good sleep, he felt like he was fully alive again.

"Hey, Brother Xiaoyuan, why are you here?"

Tan Wenbin rubbed his eyes. Normally, Brother Yuanzi should be with A'li at Liu Yumei's place at this time.

"Brother Binbin, don't you see what time it is?"

Tan Wenbin turned his head to look at the clock. It was already eleven o'clock in the morning, and their plan yesterday was to set off to Tongan Town to find the acrobatic troupe at twelve o'clock today.

"Fuck me!"

Tan Wenbin got up immediately, took the basin and went to wash up. When he came back and wanted to pack his things, he found that they had already been packed by the boy.

"Um, Brother Xiaoyuan, why didn't you call me?"

"There's still time. It doesn't matter if you sleep a little longer."

Tan Wenbin leaned towards the desk and saw a set of talisman needles on the table.

The young man tied the evil-breaking talisman, the mind-clearing talisman and the sealing talisman onto the needle with red thread.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, is this used for firing?" Tan Wenbin said as he made a needle-dropping gesture.

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "This is for Lin Shuyou. Based on the understanding of spirit possession in the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra, I came up with a simple and crude way to increase the power."

"Ayou will be very touched."

Tan Wenbin knew that this set of needles was just something that Brother Xiaoyuan made this morning. In fact, Brother Xiaoyuan had already designed a series of rich and interesting things for Lin Shuyou.

After this incident, Lin Shuyou's understanding of Guan Jiangshou will definitely be greatly improved.

In this way, when he returns, he will have the confidence to challenge his master and grandfather and usurp the throne.

of course,

The premise is that he was not killed or disabled by Brother Yuanzi.

"It's almost time, let's go."

"The Dragon King is coming~"

Tan Wenbin picked up his backpack and followed Li Zhuiyuan out of the dormitory.

When passing by Lu Yi's door, Tan Wenbin deliberately chanted:
"Even if there are thousands of people, I will go~"

Then, the two stopped at the corner of the stairs.

After a while, the door of Lu Yi's dormitory was pushed open, and Lin Shuyou walked out cautiously with his schoolbag on his back.

After hearing the noise of him coming out, Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Wenbin continued to go down the stairs.

The two walked in front, and Lin Shuyou followed behind, thinking that no one could notice them.

At the school gate, Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Wenbin stood separately to hail a taxi, which is a way nowadays to increase the success rate of hailing a taxi.

Then, Li Zhuiyuan got a car first, but he didn't rush to get in. Instead, he negotiated the price with the driver.

Li Zhuiyuan got in the car only after Tan Wenbin also stopped a car. Tan Wenbin immediately left the taxi he had stopped and ran to the car in front to sit with Li Zhuiyuan.

The driver who was stood up was about to start cursing when the rear door opened and Lin Shuyou got in:

"Master, hurry up and catch up with the taxi in front."

Tomorrow is the day for the human traffickers to conduct transactions, but considering that the acrobatic troupe needs to set up the venue and do publicity in advance, they may have arrived today.

During a normal exam, there is no point in entering the examination room early...but what if the test paper is already on the table?
Li Zhuiyuan had read the file about "Grandma Yu", but it was as good as not reading it.

Because what the police collected was only a branch of Granny Yu. They might have learned from her or they might have been a member of this gang and later worked on their own.

The clay statue stands very well, but it is really just a mascot.

This kind of person is really strange. They believe in ghosts and gods, but do evil things that are condemned by both humans and gods.

Tan Wenbin turned his head and saw Brother Xiaoyuan holding a hardcover notebook and drawing on it.

He saw clearly that they were two lines extending from one endpoint.

The endpoint is labeled "self".

A line extends from the end point of "myself", followed by "dormitory", "sound of high heels", "Lu Yi's possession", "suppressing the female ghost", "Ran Qiuping's letter"... then extends all the way to "Beibei", and finally to "Grandma Yu".

The second line also extends from the endpoint of "myself", followed by "affordable store", "Sun Hongxia", "Run Sheng attack", "faceless death", "Ran Qiuping's letter"... and then extends all the way to "Chen Deliang" and "Shi Yuqing".

Chen Deliang and Shi Yuqing are a parallel fork here.

The two lines have a brief intersection in the middle, which is "Ran Qiuping's Letter".

Tan Wenbin put himself in the shoes of Brother Xiaoyuan when he was explaining the problem to him before, and asked, "Brother Xiaoyuan, is this the event line, or... the cause and effect line?"

"Well, I'm trying to figure out the questioner's thinking."

Ever since he confirmed that his route to the river was open, Li Zhuiyuan paid special attention to these two lines, wanting to resolve them as soon as possible.

Currently, both lines are resolved.

The line of high-heeled shoes Tang Qiuying eventually led to Grandma Yu.

But Qiu Minmin's line ended here.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, apart from the fact that they all involve 'Ran Qiuping's letter', are there any other connections between them?"

"You can go against the grain instead of following the path."

"what?"

“I think the lines are mutual.”

"Oh?"

"Brother Binbin, do you think everything is constant? What has happened must have happened."

"Brother Xiaoyuan, what else?"

“From a macroscopic omniscient and omnipotent perspective, this is correct; but from our individual perspective, from our point of view, are those things that have happened and are unknown to us really unchangeable?
Theoretically, the engraver can still modify his work until the second before the black cloth is unveiled. "

"Brother Xiaoyuan, do you mean that we are all being guided in the dark?"

"I was pushed by the river. When she was pushed towards me, I was pushed towards her.

However, in the specific implementation process, whoever can grasp this line first will be able to maintain the initiative in this wave and the next wave.

Just like us now.

You see, if we push the line of Tang Qiuying in the opposite direction from Grandma Yu, can we also push it to us?

Wang Chaonan was supposed to take his fellow villager to the circus to buy a child tomorrow."

"So, if we didn't follow this line to find Granny Yu in advance, Granny Yu would have found us along this line? We would be the passive party."

"Well, it's just..."

Li Zhuiyuan drew two circles at the two small forks of Chen Deliang and Shi Yuqing.
"But why can't we connect with Qiu Minmin's thread?"

……

"Liangliang, come, chase daddy. As long as you catch up with daddy, daddy will buy you a toy car."

"I'm coming, Dad, Dad, wait for me, I'm coming!"

A father and son were chasing and playing in an open field.

During the chase, the two came to a shed that was being built.

Several trucks were being unloaded with various performance props.

"Dad, I caught you. I want a toy car, hehe."

The man lowered his head, touched his son's head, and asked, "Liangliang, how much do you want to buy the car for?"

"I don't know, I like whatever my dad buys me, no matter how much money it costs, hehe."

"Our Liangliang is really good. Daddy will ask you how much it is for sale, okay?"

"Okay, Dad."

The man raised his head and looked at the two women who were walking towards him from the other side of the shed.

One woman was young and beautiful with a graceful figure, while the old woman she was supporting was hunchbacked, with long cheeks and noticeable sagging skin on both sides of her mouth.

The man asked them, "Name a price, how much can it be sold for?"

When asking this question, the man's eyes revealed deep resentment.

Haha, Shi Yuqing, you didn’t expect that I would sell the illegitimate child between you and him!
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I can’t hold on any longer after the continuous outbursts. My eyes are starting to blur and my brain is starting to feel numb. I’ll write less tonight. I need to take a break and relax.

The main reason is that everyone’s monthly votes have been so powerful that I would feel embarrassed to write more... Don’t panic, hug you all!

(End of this chapter)