138 A Problem One After Another (2/2)
Long Tianze and Mei Yangyang sat at a table in the hallway. When they had just finished ordering, they saw Jin Qingyue enter and head towards their direction.
What a small world this is!
Mei Yangyang pretended that she did not see her and kept An Xiaoning words in mind, refraining from talking to her.
Jin Qingyue was not so tactless as to sit at the same table as them. Instead, she sat at the table beside them.
After she sat down, she turned and cast a glance at them, suddenly regretting her act of following them here.
But it was not nice to sit there without ordering anything, so she still ordered two dishes and took her own sweet time to eat.
Throughout the whole time, Long Tianze did not initiate a word of conversation with her at all.
After eating a few bites, Jin Qingyue moodily paid for her meal and left.
Sitting in the car, she felt extremely uncomfortable.
The feeling of something she did not want getting into others' hands was something she could not get used to.
Ultimately, she decided to forget it. She didn't care for it anyway.
She finally drove off.
An Xiaoning stood before a rusty front gate and reached out to knock on the door. ”Is anyone there?”
”Who's that?” A bright voice of a female sounded from inside.
”Madam, I'm from the police force. I need to understand the situation again.”
Hearing this, the door was opened almost immediately. An old lady of about sixty stood before the door. Her hair had all turned white, and she was wearing an old blouse. Looking at her, she remarked, ”What are you still here for, it's been so many years and the case still isn't solved. You police are certainly a bunch of useless things.”
As she finished speaking, she turned and headed inside the house. An Xiaoning followed behind her and explained, ”Madam, our higher-up takes this case very seriously. Even though there were no results from past investigations, we are now re-investigating it, and I will be leading my team. This case, we will definitely try our best to solve it.”
The old lady passed her a chair and said, ”Take a seat.”
An Xiaoning sat down and watched as the old lady called her spouse out. The three faced each other and, looking at their accustomed expressions, An Xiaoning said, ”I've read the information from this case. It says that on the night your son, Jiang Ying, daughter-in-law, Liu Yan, and granddaughter, Jiang Shui, were murdered, both of you were not at home but at your eldest daughter's house. Is that right?”
”Yes, according to the time that the police investigated, we can confirm that we were indeed not around. Let me say it like this, I'm not on good terms with my son and daughter-in-law. Even if I were at home and something had happened to them, we wouldn't find out at the first moment.” As she spoke about this, the old lady appeared downcast. ”Because of this, we have no clue who did it either.”
An Xiaoning nodded and asked them frankly, ”Madam, do you believe in fortune-reading?”
The old lady sneered. ”Why should I believe in that sort of thing? I don't.”
”But, I'm a police officer who can read one's fortune. Can you tell me when your son was born?”
The old woman replied, ”XXXX, the seventh day of the eighth lunar month.”
”What time was he born?”
The old lady looked at her husband and asked, ”I've forgotten. You can remember, when was it?”
”Around four to five in the afternoon.”
An Xiaoning recorded it down, then asked, ”Do you know your daughter-in-law's?”
”No.”
”How about your granddaughter's?” An Xiaoning looked at the two of them. ”Do both of you know when your granddaughter was born?”
The couple shook their head in unison. ”No, when my daughter-in-law gave birth, her own mother accompanied her there. We didn't go, so the child's grandmother would be more clear on that.”
”Where does her grandmother live in?” An Xiaoning looked at them earnestly. ”Sir and Madam, if I know your daughter-in-law and granddaughter's birth characters, this case will have a ninety percent chance of being solved. Please believe me.”
The couple turned and looked at each other, still in doubt. But since she was a police officer, the two thought it over and replied, ”Forget it, I'll just bring you to where my daughter-in-law's family lives.”
An Xiaoning nodded. ”Alright, is it far from here?”
”It's just the village beside ours, it's not too far.”