Can We Say No to Divorce?-Chapter 819 - 570: Extra Story – Drawing a Turtle (3)
"Alright then!" Song Ziyu got out of the car. "I’ll wait for your news first, remember to drive slowly!"
As Su Tianqing drove towards the quarry, Song Ziyu returned to the hospital, wanting to accompany the principal.
...
In the small town.
Holding a bag of money, Sang’s mother was instructed by Gan Zi to listen to her child’s voice after the kidnappers agreed to the deal. This was because the cooked finger of the child could mean that the child might have died. However, it was just a hypothesis and needed to be verified.
And the result? The other party said they would only let Sang’s mother hear the child’s voice after confirming the authenticity of the three million.
Sang’s mother took the three million and two sacks to the quarry.
Bai Ye brought police officers to protect her, and then the kidnappers called: "Stand on that highest rock, rip open the two sacks, I want to verify the authenticity of the money..."
Sang’s mother was worried about her son and quickly said, "I want to hear the child’s voice first!"
"Are you looking to receive another finger?" The other party threatened her sinisterly.
Sang’s mother dared not joke about her child’s fingers, so she tore open the sacks, and the money flew out, scattering notes of red hundred-yuan bills everywhere.
"The money is fake!" the other party said before hanging up the phone, "Go collect your fake money gift!"
After that, the kidnappers didn’t call again.
Sang’s mother collapsed to the ground crying: "I said to give real money, but my dead husband said to give fake money, what do we do now?"
Bai Ye, who had brought the police, had already set an ambush near the deserted quarry, yet they never saw a trace of the murderer!
If the murderer wasn’t nearby, how did she know the money was fake?
Could it be... she could turn invisible?
Sang’s mother stumbled down from the quarry, running home in a fluster to settle accounts with Sang Dafu!
Not far from her doorstep, a cake box was placed there. When Sang’s mother picked it up and opened it, she almost fainted.
It was a small piece of her child’s arm. Sang’s mother ran inside with it, "Sang Dafu, you heartless ghost, what are you doing? I said use real money, you said fake money, now look, our child’s hand is broken..."
Sang’s mother was extremely agitated, holding her son’s arm, rushing towards Sang Dafu.
Sang Dafu was also dumbfounded, not reacting for a moment.
Suddenly, he fell down with a "bang"...
Bai Ye entered with the police, pulling Sang’s mother aside, then checked on Sang Dafu, "He’s already dead! How could it end like this?"
Qiao Xiaoyan stepped forward, giving Sang Dafu a brief examination, "Poisoned!"
She donned gloves, checked the child’s arm, and saw a tiny needle head: "The murderer’s target was the entire family."
Sang’s mother, upon seeing her husband dead too, immediately fainted.
By now, Gan Zi was already outside, asking nearby residents if they had seen anyone deliver a cake box.
Everyone shook their heads, saying they didn’t know!
Moreover, many people gloated, since many town folks had lost money at Sang Dafu’s casino!
Gan Zi kept wondering, this cake box wasn’t there before they left, when was it placed?
When Su Tianqing arrived by car, he saw the forensic team taking Sang Dafu away, and the doctor was rescuing Sang’s mother.
Bai Ye came out and said, "You were right! The murderer wasn’t after the money at all, but murder instead!"
Gan Zi looked into the distance, "There’s no surveillance at Sang’s house entrance, no witnesses saw how the cake box ended up at the door, it’s possible the murderer prepared the gift in advance, guessing Sang’s actions."
Bai Ye sighed, "If Sang had brought real money, what would’ve happened? She knows human nature so well, yet kills a casino operator like Sang Dafu, I don’t even know what to say about her!"
Qiao Xiaoyan came outside: "The arm was still cooked, with a mechanism inside. As soon as someone took the arm, it would trigger the mechanism. But there was a one-minute delay. The murderer must have calculated the distance Sang’s mother would cover, so when the mechanism activated, the person who died would be Sang Dafu."
Su Tianqing nodded: "I thought she would kill Mrs. Sang directly at the quarry, but I didn’t expect she aimed to kill Sang Dafu. She exploited human weaknesses. Mrs. Sang, using counterfeit money in the deal, was bound to hate Sang Dafu, especially after seeing her son’s arm, driving her mad, holding her son’s arm to provoke Sang Dafu, so Sang Dafu was doomed to die..."
The four exchanged glances, none speaking.
Xiao Ma organized a thorough search of the entire quarry area, returning to report: "Brother Bai, not a single soul."
Bai Ye nodded, "Now, we must focus on protecting Mrs. Sang. Next, she might be the one the murderer targets."
"We don’t need to!" Qiao Xiaoyan said, "I heard from neighbors and school teachers that Mrs. Sang’s reputation is good, often helping neighbors, teachers, and children. If the murderer is punishing ’bad people’, it doesn’t include Mrs. Sang."
"We must guess her next move; otherwise, she always has the upper hand, making us passive." Bai Ye frowned.
Everyone was deep in thought.
...
City hospital.
Song Ziyu returned to the ward to accompany the principal for a while. It was then that she noticed the card on the principal’s bedside: Name: Yani, Age: 45.
Song Ziyu felt her heart ache. She hadn’t expected the principal to be so young; she always thought he was over 60, but he was only 45 and already had a brain tumor.
Song Ziyu gently wiped away her tears. Looking at Yani’s prematurely aged face, she felt a pang of sorrow.
She was also concerned about Su Tianqing’s situation that day, so after sitting for a while, she stepped outside to send Su Tianqing a message: "How’s it going?"
Su Tianqing couldn’t text back, so he called her: "Sang Dafu is dead!"
He immediately recounted the murder process, then said: "Ziyu, don’t worry, we will catch her for sure!"
Song Ziyu said: "She really is clever, understanding human nature profoundly. Even if we realized the child might not have survived, every loving parent would still hold on to a sliver of hope. She just manipulates us like that. But I don’t get it, why would such a highly educated person, who understands criminal psychology so well, choose this way to punish the world?"
"Enough with the musing, she’s just a twisted person!" Su Tianqing said, "Return to the hotel and rest up! I’ll come over tonight to accompany you."
"Okay!" Song Ziyu nodded.
...
In the town, Gan Zi smoked a cigarette, and Bai Ye and Su Tianqing each had one too.
Qiao Xiaoyan looked at them: "Now we can only wait! Wait for her to notify us of the next transaction location again."
Gan Zi glanced at them, "I once met a man who was a top student in the chemistry department..." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
"Didn’t you say the murderer is a woman?" Bai Ye interrupted.
"Yes!" Gan Zi nodded, "I’m sure it’s a woman, listen to me. This man had ill intent, he developed drugs trying to control classmates. When I was studying criminal psychology, several classmates mysteriously died. Post-mortem exams showed the cause was unknown drugs, and there was also corpse defilement, and it was of that kind..."
Bai Ye couldn’t help but interject again: "He liked men?"
"Yes!" Gan Zi continued, "When I first entered the university, naive and fearless, I investigated the case and identified him as the murderer. I remember when the police finally collected evidence, there was a chemical formula written in neat handwriting, which wasn’t his..."
"Though it ended up as an unsolved case, there was no further investigation." Gan Zi exhaled a circle of smoke, "The only thing I can think of is this girl who wrote the chemical formulas, she must be more cunning than the ill-intentioned boys at our school!"
