Free Web NovelChapter 594: Chapter 564 Shi Yun_1
Sun Heping was stunned and didn’t speak for a long while. Finally, quivering, he took out his cellphone, just about to dial a number, he hastily looked at Xu Dayuan.
"Can I contact my mom? She’s hospitalized in 401 Hospital, fell and hurt her leg a few days ago. I want to ask her if she remembers this Mr. Shi."
Xu Dayuan nodded.
"Use speakerphone, or video call if your mother knows how to use WeChat, just make sure the data is on, okay?"
Sun Heping nodded. At this moment, he felt even more anxious than Xu Dayuan. From this behavior, Zhou Ning could sense that the colleagues and parents in the school at the time, their personal attacks on Shi Mingchen, were definitely not as simple as he had described. Perhaps everyone in the group was involved.
Shortly afterwards, the other side accepted the video call request, even adjusting the angle to let the window light shine on the hospital bed.
"Hello? Heping, why are you calling me at this time? Aren’t you busy at the bureau? You have to be careful with your conduct or it’ll look bad!"
Sun Heping glanced at Xu Dayuan, then rotated his phone, showing his mother a view of the room, before hurriedly saying:
"Mom, I am being investigated by the Criminal Police, just being investigated, don’t worry, let me finish. The police are looking into the suicide of Shi Mingchen, the homeroom teacher of Gulou District Experimental Middle School’s Eighth Grade Class One from fifteen years ago. Do you know about Mr. Shi’s daughter?"
The old lady in the video clearly froze, her son being taken in for a police inquiry was alarming, especially with a high-ranking officer sitting opposite her, the surroundings were no different from an interrogation room in a movie, only lacking a pair of handcuffs. She stood up in a hurry, not even wearing her shoes, and leaned close to the camera.
"Why are they asking you? If they want to know about this, they could just go to our old unit, or they could have come to ask me..."
Sun Heping interrupted the old lady’s ramble, urging her quickly:
"Mom, let’s skip this part. If you don’t tell them, once my workplace finds out the police brought me in, I am ruined. Let’s not talk about other prospects, it’ll be absolutely impossible. About what happened back then and any news about Mr. Shi, just tell us whatever you know, alright?"
The old lady immediately hit a snag, sighed, and hurriedly closed the door to the hospital room before speaking:
"Shi Mingchen’s daughter is called Shi Yun, about your age, studied in Shi Mingchen’s class. His spouse was a doctor at the hospital and was pregnant at the time. Back then, punishments for breaking birth policies were harsh. She was planning on getting an abortion when an accident happened during a scuffle, which was somewhat related to this incident.
These details came from people at her spouse’s workplace, who came over to help substantiate Shi Mingchen’s story to the school. But it was 1998, and at that time, they cracked down on such filthy acts strictly. A teacher taking advantage of saving someone to molest three girls, this matter was despicable.
The school disliked how it could cause dissatisfaction among the students’ parents and did not handle it proactively. If only they had called the police, it wouldn’t have escalated like this. When the mothers of the three girls were distributing flyers at the school, all the parents were watching; one might lie, but could all three lie?
After Shi Mingchen’s spouse died, the very next day he wrote a suicide note and jumped from the top of the teaching building. We were all furiously incited at the time, but really, everyone was just afraid. If there were any teachers with evil intentions, our children would be harmed.
But no one called the police, no one considered that it might be a misunderstanding or interpreted by someone with an agenda. Later, it seems the newspapers published an apology, but after his suicide, Shi Yun never came back to school, and it seemed she didn’t even claim her school records.
However, it would not have been difficult to make up past records at another school, considering the lack of network linkage at that time. That’s all I know."
Xu Dayuan tapped on the desk, and Sun Heping promptly handed over the phone to him. Xu Dayuan didn’t take it, and as Sun Heping aimed the phone’s camera at Xu Dayuan, Xu stared at the old lady and asked:
"Does your family have any group photos from the school?"
The old lady pondered for a moment.
"Yes, it’s in the photo album. Heping knows where the album is; you can go and take it directly."
Xu Dayuan nodded.
"One last question, Shi Mingchen chose to commit suicide after his wife died. Do they have any other relatives, like grandparents or grandparents? And where did they live, was it housing allocated by their workplace? The housing renovations began a bit earlier, around 1998, right?"
The old lady contemplated for a long time, and just when Zhou Ning thought she wouldn’t know anything, she suddenly waved her hand as if having a realization.
"Shi Mingchen had only transferred to the Gulou District Experimental Middle School for a little over two years before the incident. It’s presumed he chose to switch to this school because his daughter was going to study there. We didn’t interact much, but what I remember most is that he did not compete for housing allocated by the school.
They lived in a house allocated to his spouse, not far from the school. My memory, what was the name of that hospital his spouse worked at, oh yes, I remember now, the City Hospital."
Xu Dayuan squinted, thought for a moment about the original location of the Gulou District Experimental Middle School, then squinted again. Mr. Zhao was the quickest to react, snapping his fingers as he spoke.
"City Hospital is quite close to the Gulou District in a straight line distance of about seven kilometers, and City Hospital had built a batch of housing for their unit in 1995, which is the Medical Community Phase One and Two, located right between the two sites. It is not far from either side."
As he spoke, Mr. Zhao sent his guess over, and Xu Dayuan glanced at his phone, then looked at the old lady in the video with a calm gaze.
"Does Shi Mingchen’s family live in the medical district?"
The old lady slapped her thigh, not sure if she had agitated a wound, for her expression showed some pain, but she seemed not to mind it much.
"Right, his spouse works at the municipal hospital. It is said his father-in-law was originally a doctor at the hospital’s predecessor, Puji Hospital. As for owning an old house, I’m not sure about that. However, being old residents of Qindao and doctors, it’s possible they own several houses. The school can’t find this out, but you could check with his spouse’s workplace."
"What is Shi Mingchen’s spouse’s name?"
The old lady shook her head.
"You’re overestimating my memory. Shi Mingchen wasn’t our colleague for long, and I only remember that his spouse is very beautiful, seems like her surname is... Yun."
Xu Dayuan nodded and ended the video call. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
Mr. Bai hurried over, and Xu Dayuan gestured for Mr. Bai to come closer.
"Take Sun Heping to his mother’s house, find the old photo albums, and look for a picture of Shi Mingchen."
Sun Heping stood up, now as docile as a quail.
"Director Xu, I’ll cooperate sincerely. Do you think you could avoid contacting our unit?"
Xu Dayuan glanced at him and said indifferently,
"Don’t rush, I’ll call Mr. Sun in a while and let him know that our city bureau needs to temporarily transfer you to help identify some people, and it will take two days. Rest assured, not only will there be no trouble, but you will also get a chance to make an appearance. However, I hope you can communicate more with those classmates and get them to help, to recall as much as possible."
Sun Heping was almost in tears, grabbing Xu Dayuan’s hand and vigorously shaking it.
"Thank you, Director Xu. I don’t know what to say, I’m grateful. I’ll go persuade them now. Give me five minutes, that’s all. As for going to my mom’s house, that will be quick. I know where the album is, and wouldn’t it be great if someone knew Doctor Yun’s whereabouts?"
Xu Dayuan nodded and gave Mr. Bai a look, then he and Sun Heping went out.
Without needing Xu Dayuan’s call, Zhou Ning and the others hurried to the interview room. Looking at the few people, Xu Dayuan sighed.
"Trying to save someone, and in the end, the rescuer is accused of molestation. A group of parents come forward to testify. I just checked, and there was no police report at the time. Both father and pregnant mother died tragically overnight, leaving the family ruined. Such hatred is like a thorn in the heart of a thirteen-year-old child, and seeking revenge for a lifetime is very likely.
Back in ’98, although the school and household registration systems were interconnected in many places, they weren’t very strict. I keep feeling that Shi Yun was taken away by relatives, and her name and identity changed, living somewhere else. Li Li and the other two didn’t expect that, after fifteen years, Shi Yun would come back to take revenge."
"Li Li’s poisoning, Liu Meiling’s disappearance, and possibly the next step planned for Zhang Fangfang, seem to all be the work of Shi Yun. But without fingerprints, identity information, or a description, even though we know such a person exists, we have no direction on how to find her."
Mr. Zhao shook his head.
"That’s not right, it’s not that we have no information at all. We also know that Shi Yun is 28 years old, female!"
Xu Dayuan was about to lose his temper, but Liu Yongxin stopped him.
"Leader, don’t rush. Mr. Zhao is right, these two are known conditions. If we find Shi Mingchen and Doctor Yun’s photographs, I think Mr. Xia can try to simulate what Shi Yun might look like as an adult. If she hasn’t drastically changed her appearance, this clue could help us in the search." ƒгeewebnovёl.com
These words brightened Xu Dayuan’s eyes, and he quickly looked at Zhou Ning.
"Can Zhou Xiaozhou do it?"
"We could try, judging a child’s likely appearance based on the parents. Mr. Xia has done this before, but it’s hard to say how accurate it would be. I think we should try it. After all, we don’t have any other leads. By the way, is Zhang Fangfang still uncooperative?"
Xu Dayuan sighed again.
"No progress. Zhang Fangfang has repeatedly ditched the people sent by Liu Yufei. When Liu Yufei told her about Li Li’s death, she didn’t care at all. She even thought the police were sick. The reason I sent Liu Yufei to Huining was that previously, we brought Fang Mu from there, to sort of flaunt our success."
Mr. Zhao snickered, and Xu Dayuan gave him a glance, prompting Mr. Zhao to quickly wave his hand.
"I’m not laughing at that. Actually, I think it’s better not to send Mrs. Fei over there, considering she was the one who recruited people last time. They are most guarded against her, while they might have little impression of Fang Mu, especially since back then he was just an ordinary deputy head of the criminal police team, without any notable achievements over there."
