It only took five minutes for Fang Linyan to find out the person who had been trying to hide his existence.
She is the office director of the welfare home: Ma Jing!
Uncle Qin, who had regained his normal memory, took a quick glance and realized that she was not on the list at all. Uncle Qin knew all the women in the orphanage very well, even though Ma Jing's presence was very low!
Fang Linyan had to be reminded by Uncle Qin to think of this thin woman who walked without a sound and could always be found in the office on the third floor.
Fang Linyan remembered that he had spoken to this woman twice during the ten years he had lived in the orphanage.
The first time, Ma Jing was walking in front and dropped a folder. Fang Linyan helped pick it up from behind and handed it to her. Ma Jing said thank you to the child.
The second time Fang Linyan went to the dean's office, Ma Jing asked him to sweep the corridor next to him.
After successfully obtaining Ma Jing's name, Fang Linyan simply handed over the investigation to the local snake Mai Yong. Then it was already past 12 o'clock in the morning, so he went directly to Mai Yong's place to rest.
Mai Yong worked hard to get the remaining balance of hundreds of thousands. Early the next morning, he knocked on Fang Linyan's door and said that he had found Ma Jing's whereabouts in Fang County next door.
Fang Linyan immediately became energetic after hearing this. He wiped his face casually, chewed some gum and got into the car, asking Mai Yong to guide him.
This time it was probably because Mai Yong knew that the road conditions in the past were not good, so he specially changed to a domestic Great Wall pickup truck.
The price of this thing is really cheap, but at the same price, it is really the king of cost-effectiveness, with no rivals at all! It was not until JMC Baodian came into power that it could be compared with it.
After an arduous journey, Fang Linyan and his party finally arrived at Fangxian County, fifty kilometers away.
It took even a pickup truck three hours to drive a short distance of fifty kilometers, which shows how bad the road conditions are.
After arriving in Fang County, Mai Yong made a phone call, then drove to the Workers' Square in the center of the county to wait. Then a short man quickly jumped into the car to guide the way. Finally, the car was on the fifth floor of a building.
Stopped in front of a tall residential building.
After getting off the car, Fang Linyan heard the sound of gongs and drums beating in his ears, and then arrived at a temporary shed. The main body of the shed was a steel pipe, with migrant workers' plastic woven bags around it to create a wind barrier.
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After the sound of gongs and drums ended, what sounded was the sound of chanting the Buddha's name ------- It was played back with a low-quality tape, and the hoarse sound was very clear.
There were two wreaths placed at the door of the shed. Needless to say, there were more than a dozen people sitting inside, and most of them were playing mahjong, making the mahjong rumble. As for the rest, of course they were playing gold flowers.
One guy even stood up and slapped his thigh with a smile:
"Leopard leopard!"
The shouting instantly drowned out the sounds of mourning and music, so there was no sense of sadness in the temporary mourning hall at all.
Seeing this scene, an ominous feeling suddenly arose spontaneously. Fang Linyan waved his hand expressionlessly and asked Mai Yong to find out the news. After almost half a minute, Mai Yong came over with a solemn face and said:
"Ma Jing is dead."
Fang Linyan was silent for a few seconds and then said
"when?"
Mai Yong gave the little man ten yuan, threw him a pack of cigarettes and whispered a few words to him. The little man immediately blended into the crowd, and it didn't take long for him to get the first-hand news:
"Last night around 12 o'clock, I drank pesticide and then jumped down from the building. It was said that I was in a bad mood after a quarrel with my family."
Then Mai Yong also used his subjective initiative to report the rest of the news:
"Ma Jing's family is in average condition, and her personality is quite withdrawn. She was divorced ten years ago and has no children. Now it is her sister Ma Hong who is here to handle the funeral. Ma Hong is playing mahjong next to her. She must have been asked just now.
After getting the shot, I felt very unhappy when I woke up."
Fang Linyan was stunned. Ma Hong was in a very unhappy mood because he was clicked while playing mahjong. In other words, he was originally in a very happy mood... Are they biological sisters?
Then he said to Mai Yong:
"You did a good job. You go and make arrangements so that I can meet Ma Hong."
Mai Yong said:
"Okay, I'll go right away."
So three minutes later, Ma Hong, who was a little stunned, heard the good news:
"What? Are you here to pay back the money? My sister was shortchanged by more than 8,000 yuan!!"
Fang Linyan nodded and said:
"Yes, but now it seems like something happened to Aunt Ma..."
Ma Hong suddenly realized keenly that the more than 8,000 yuan he was about to receive was about to grow wings and fly away. Immediately, his eyes turned red and he wailed:
"Yes! She said she would die, but she owed me a huge debt!!"
Oh my god, this is the first time Ma Hong has shed tears in the past month. In fact, last night, after the neighborhood committee urgently called to tell her that her sister had jumped to her death, Ma Hong almost laughed out loud.
Ever since Ma Hong borrowed money from Ma Jing twice and refused to repay it, and the two had a huge quarrel and broke out, the two parties had no contact for almost three years.
When Fang Linyan saw Ma Hong's sincere performance, he hesitated and said:
"Actually, it's not impossible if the money is returned to you, but?"
Ma Hong immediately asked nervously:
"but what?"
Fang Linyan said:
"When I borrowed money back then, I wrote an IOU to your sister. Not only that, but I also gave her a piece of jewelry that my parents had left behind as collateral. Although it wasn't worth much, it was valuable to me.
Said it was very important."
"If you are willing to let me search among your sister's belongings, then I can return the money to you."
Ma Hong hesitated for a moment, and as a shrewd woman, she quickly made an inventory in her mind and realized that the most valuable thing left by her sister was a black and white TV. This kid couldn't say that this TV was left by his parents.
Bar!
Even if this guy shamelessly says yes, then just give it to him. A second-hand black and white TV only costs fifty yuan!
So Ma Hong said shrewdly:
"Give me the money first, and I'll let you go up and look for it."
Fang Linyan threw a wad of 10,000 yuan bills over:
"Lead the way."
Under the leadership of Ma Hong, Fang Linyan stepped into this mysterious woman's home.
Obviously, since the mastermind behind the scenes chose to abandon the car to save the commander-in-chief and let Ma Jing die directly, according to common sense, he would not leave any valuable clues to Fang Linyan.
However, the mastermind behind the scenes did not hesitate to modify most of the memories in the orphanage in order to preserve Ma Jing. This shows that Ma Jing actually plays a very important link in the mastermind's system.
Therefore, Fang Linyan felt that spending 10,000 yuan to come here was definitely not a waste of time.
Calculating the time when Ma Jing jumped off the building, it should have been shortly after his group came out of the house of the concierge Uncle Qin. Obviously, when he broke the false memories implanted by Liu Qiang and Uncle Qin, the mastermind behind the scenes must have felt something.
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The key is that there are about ten retired staff members in the welfare home. After killing one, there are still many others left. The mastermind behind the scenes has nothing to do with Fang Linyan, and it is impossible to kill all the rest in one night.
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Then we can only kill Ma Jing, who is definitely exposed.
The place where Ma Jing lives is not big, just one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, and not even a bathroom. To go to the bathroom at ordinary times, you need to go to the public toilets on each floor, and at night you use the toilet.
The whole house was gloomy, with a musty smell, and everything was messy. Fang Linyan wiped it with his finger, and there was a thick layer of dust everywhere.
Then Fang Linyan discovered that in a dark corner of the dormitory, there was an old rattan chair. You could even see that there was a deep dent in the rattan chair...
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This means that Ma Jing has a big butt, ah, of course not, it means that she is just sitting here alone when she has nothing to do!
Think about it, a lonely woman in her fifties does nothing after getting up every day, nor does she clean up the messy house. She just sits in the darkest corner of the dark bedroom and stares in a daze for the whole day. This scene
It’s scary enough to think about it.
At this time, Mai Qiang was such a well-rounded person. When he saw Fang Linyan looking around, he immediately stepped forward to talk to Ma Hong with understanding.
After hinting that she had often received counterfeit 100 yuan bills recently, Ma Hong's smile immediately became embarrassed and stiff, and she quickly went downstairs to find the banknote detector, leaving Fang Linyan alone.
Stayed here.
As a result, Fang Linyan's behavior became more unscrupulous and he began to rummage through everything.
"What's this?"
Fang Linyan picked up something and said doubtfully.
The thing in his hand looks like a pendant, but it looks very weird.
However, after researching for a while and Fang Linyan making two phone calls, I finally confirmed that this thing... ahem, it is actually just a poorly made pendant. Facts have proved that Fang Linyan sometimes makes mistakes.
Fortunately, Fang Linyan soon found another valuable clue. This clue came from a cabinet nearby. At the bottom of the cabinet, Fang Linyan found several yellowed newspapers.
At first, he didn't pay attention to this, because at that time, every household had the habit of keeping a few newspapers at home. Even when buying peanuts on the street, he would cut half of the newspaper, fold a paper tube, and then fill it with peanuts.
you.
Newspapers can not only make a guest appearance in food bags, but can also be used as copybooks for practicing calligraphy, toilet paper for wiping buttocks, and fire starters for igniting coal stoves...
But just as Fang Linyan glanced at the newspaper, a few familiar words suddenly jumped into his eyes:
"Virgin Pregnancy?"
"Why do these four words look so familiar?"
"By the way! I got it from the notes left by Zhang Kun. He posted a lot of newspaper clippings on it!"
After discovering this, Fang Linyan immediately picked up the newspaper and found that it was true. Zhang Kun's newspaper clippings at that time were cut from this newspaper.
After discovering this, Fang Linyan's eyes suddenly brightened. Why Zhang Kun was interested in that information? In the final analysis, he noticed something wrong in his position as the dean.
This guy is also very scheming and ruthless. He is extraordinary because he does not hesitate to play the trick of "reporting himself" and evade the memory-changing brainwashing of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Obviously, the causal relationship is: Zhang Kun discovered something that was not right, then quietly investigated, and finally collected the information that Ma Jing also collected.
As soon as he thought of this, Fang Linyan immediately sketched three key words in his mind:
A girl who was mysteriously pregnant and then disappeared,
The baby Ma Jing brought back,
Zhang Kun encountered strange things one after another during this period!
Obviously, the girl who was in the newspaper is the core of this!!
Although the mastermind behind the scenes killed Ma Jing at the expense of his car to protect his commander, the other party probably never expected that a yellowed newspaper hidden at the bottom of the cabinet might not even be with Ma Jing.
The clues that Jing himself had forgotten (no normal person would remember where he placed a newspaper twenty years ago) directly opened a new door for Fang Linyan!
After searching again, Fang Linyan was basically sure that there was nothing valuable here, so he walked out directly.
At this time, you can see Ma Hong nervously checking the banknotes one by one with the banknote counting machine outside! After arriving at Fang Linyan, he immediately smiled awkwardly, but the movements in his hands did not stop at all.
However, Fang Linyan walked up to Ma Hong and sighed:
"I didn't find the mortgaged thing, but when I came here, I heard someone say that if I didn't find it with Aunt Ma Jing, then she should have given it away. If you can help me find this jewelry, I can
I’ll give you another three thousand yuan.”
Ma Hong, who had already received the money, had already ignored Lin Yan, with contempt in his eyes.
Because she felt that she had already crushed this prodigal son in terms of IQ - if she had raised such a fool, she would be so angry that she would hang herself.
However, when she heard three thousand yuan, a sincere smile suddenly appeared on her face:
"Yes, yes! Of course! Please tell me what that thing looks like."
Fang Linyan said:
"It's just an ordinary small pendant, in the shape of a gourd. I dropped it and cracked it in the middle. The color is green with a hint of white."
Ma Hong immediately said:
"I'll find it for you right now."
Then she ran upstairs, but of course she couldn't find it.
Only then did Fang Linyan say:
"I just made a phone call and heard from a neighbor that your sister gave things to another woman. She is about forty years old. Her reputation is not very good. She seems to have given birth to a child before she got married. Her mental state is
It’s not quite normal yet.”
Ma Hong expressed confusion, and finally could only admit frankly:
"Well, actually, my sister and I don't have much contact with each other. If you give me two days, I will definitely find this person."
Fang Linyan nodded and said:
"No problem, I have the money ready and waiting for you."
Then he left his phone number with Ma Hong.
After Ma Hong left, Fang Linyan assigned Mai Yong a task, which of course was to investigate the girl from back then. What happened to this girl was even published in the newspapers at the time.
Newspapers twenty years ago were not that easy to publish, so the matter must have been a bit big. In this case, as long as you are willing to spend money to investigate, you can probably find out some useful information.
At this time, Mai Yong's expertise in extensive connections was once again revealed. After a large amount of money was scattered, news came back one after another:
"This girl's surname is Fang, and her name is Fang Ting."
Hearing the news, Fang Linyan, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, also took a breath of cold air.
"It was very strange that she was pregnant at that time. The three hospitals that examined her all found that Fang Ting's vagina was intact."
"After becoming pregnant, Fang Ting's consciousness became less clear."
"Twenty years ago, Ma Jing was still living in a dormitory in Badong County. Someone did see a pregnant woman coming to see her at night, and more than one person came, indicating that the two had a close relationship."
After Fang Linyan and the others returned to Badong County, someone actually came to Mai Yong's dance hall. Fang Linyan didn't expect that the person who came was the deceased Zhang Kun's sister-in-law. Her name was Li Lan, and she was holding Yaya's hand.
With a flattering smile on her face, she is a shrewd and philistine woman.
The purpose of coming here is actually very simple, to cry out for poverty.
My sister-in-law has the unique shrewdness of rural women. Her logic is very simple. A person who is willing to give his niece a large sum of 500 yuan a month will definitely not mind giving an extra 20 yuan a month.
Even my sister-in-law has thought about how to distribute the twenty yuan. Nineteen yuan will be used to buy meat for her son's extra meals. One yuan, no! Fifty cents will buy a bowl of tofu for her niece, and then she will drink half of it.
Give the rest to my niece.
Another fifty cents will let the dead guy at home smoke two more cigarettes.
Of course, Lin Yan's explanation was that his niece was not in good health recently and he wanted to make two more eggs for her every day.
After meeting someone like Li Lan, Fang Linyan knew that it was very wise for him to only give Yaya five hundred yuan a month. If he gave more, he would not be helping her, but harming her!
The sister-in-law's plan was directly discovered by Fang Linyan, so his reply was to ask Yaya to come to Mai Yong's place for dinner every morning, and Boss Mai would take care of the trivial matter of Yaya coming to the county primary school 100 meters next to the song and dance hall.
This kind of treatment directly made rural women like my sister-in-law extremely frustrated. The disappointment was palpable. Fang Linyan said calmly at this time:
"I gave Yaya money because his father helped me a lot. If you want my money, then you have to help me."
Li Lan said "Ah" and opened his mouth. Looking at Fang Linyan's fair face and serious eyes, a bold idea suddenly came out. His face turned red and he said awkwardly:
"I need to think about this."
Fang Linyan:
"..."
Fortunately, Mai Qiang still has some discernment, so he straightened his face and said:
"I want you to tell me what is special about Zhang Kun. You should also consider it?"
Li Lan said "Ah", not sure if it was a little disappointed or a little regretful, but the look in her eyes towards Fang Linyan clearly said: "This kid is too small."