Chapter 345 - Chapter 345: Chapter 338 Zhang Banzui’s Words Came True_1 (2/2)
Qin Niu first looked at the body hanging from the beam, its lower half undressed, hung by a white silk and dead. The tongue was sticking out of the mouth, and the expression on the face did not show fright or pain; instead, it was somewhat tranquil.
The already washed-out bedsheet had a large stain of blood on it.
Qin Niu leaned closer to examine carefully.
The substance did not seem like ordinary blood, as it appeared to be mixed with some transparent fluid.
“Could this be amniotic fluid?”
Having made this discovery, Qin Niu looked once again at the body’s abdomen.
This time, there was a new finding.
He saw shallow purple lines, spanning from the entire abdomen to the top of the thighs, like the pattern of a watermelon.
These were stretch marks from pregnancy.
“Auntie Hua, do you know if your daughter had a man in her life?”
“Master Qin, what do you mean by that? My daughter was still a virgin, and even though she did go out sometimes, she was always obedient and sensible. If she really had a man, she would have definitely told me.”
“This is odd, looking at her stomach, it seems she was pregnant, and the bloodstain on this bedsheet, it doesn’t look like simple bleeding, but rather like blood mixed with amniotic fluid after giving birth.”
Qin Niu did not understand these women’s matters very well.
He had only heard them mentioned in passing by villagers during idle chatter.
Especially the women in their forties and fifties, who loved to gossip about the households east and west, discussing nothing but the scandals of the village.
Upon hearing this, Auntie Hua wiped away her tears and stepped forward to look closely.
Her complexion changed slightly.
Being experienced herself, she immediately knew there was truth to Qin Niu’s words.
“Was your daughter acting normally last night when you came home?”
“She was normal! Didn’t that plague-stricken Zhang Banzui predict a disaster would befall my house within a month? She’s my only daughter. To be on the safe side, I didn’t let her out even yesterday.
When I came home from your place, I even brought her some food she loves.
She had a very good appetite and ate it all up.
I washed feet with her and watched her go back to her room to sleep.”
Auntie Hua recounted the events of last night.
Who could have imagined that, after just one night, she and her daughter would be separated by life and death.
“Did you sleep in the room next door all night?”
“Yes!”
“Didn’t you hear any noise?”
“I’m a heavy sleeper, I didn’t hear anything.”
Auntie Hua answered.
“Then have you noticed any strange behaviors in your daughter recently?”
Qin Niu remembered that Auntie Hua’s daughter had gone to the city to look for a job not long ago.
And she had worked for about two or three months, returning to the family home around half a month ago, and had not gone out since.
If she really was pregnant, whose child was she carrying?
After the baby in her belly was born, where did it go?
The doors and windows were intact, and it didn’t look like the place had been intruded by criminals.
“Speaking of strange behaviors, there really were some abnormalities; her appetite was noticeably larger than before. One day I even saw her sitting on the edge of the bed in the middle of the night, smiling while looking into the mirror.
Additionally, her body had grown much fatter than before.
When I asked her about it, she just said that she had been eating well while working in the city, which is why she gained weight.”
Now that Auntie Hua reflected on it closely, she realized her daughter had exhibited quite a few abnormal behaviors.
“Exactly what job was she doing in the city?”
Qin Niu pressed on.
The people of Shuangfeng Village were relatively simple, and it was improbable for there to be such vicious individuals capable of murder or causing harm.
Even Wang Haikun, who was normally fierce, had not killed anyone before.
At most, he did some wicked things, beat someone up, extorted some Silver Coin and valuables, or harassed someone else’s wife.