My Lovely Wife is a Forensic Doctor - Chapter 137
Chapter 137 Nothing Different from an Animal
“What more is there to their relationship?” Mu Yu asked curiously.
“Zhao Yongli was Kiki’s uncle.”
“What?!” Mu Yu exclaimed in shock. She then asked, “Zhao Yongli is now dead. But you said Kiki hid her relationship with him. So, how did you all find out about their undisclosed relationship?”
“Zhao Yongli’s wife, Nie Xiaoxiang. After Xiaofan and the rest took Kiki back to An City, we took her back for interrogation. Surprisingly, she played along with us, giving an account of the details about her previous two arguments with Zhao Yongli. Her statement basically matched up with that of Camphor Forest’s proprietress. However, we didn’t find any evidence indicating that she was involved in Zhao Yongli’s murder. Just when we were about to release her, Nie Xiaoxiang showed up to claim Zhao Yongli’s belongings. It was at this moment that I realized Kiki’s uneasiness, in which she tried to cover her face with her hand.”
“My intuition tells me that something is wrong, so I had Xiaofan interrogate Nie Xiaoxiang with pictures of Kiki. After the interrogation, we found out that Kiki was indeed Zhao Yongli’s niece, basically, his sister’s daughter. Therefore, we brought Kiki back for another interrogation to ask why she didn’t disclose her relationship with Zhao Yongli. Upon hearing our question, she didn’t deny, but instead cursed Zhao Yongli.”
“Did she curse Zhao Yongli because of their previous arguments?” Mu Yu interrupted.
“Yes,” Rong Jian replied, “Kiki said she first met Zhao Yongli at Camphor Forest. Both of them recognized each other, but they tacitly pretended as if they were strangers to each other.”
“Hold on, Chief Rong,” Mu Yu interrupted once again. “I just want to ask. As her uncle, shouldn’t Zhao Yongli have given her some advice when he saw that she went astray? Besides, do Kiki’s parents know that she works as an escort?”
“Her parents died when she was little, so her uncle was her only family member left. However, her uncle wouldn’t adopt her, so she had to wait until she was adopted.” Rong Jian’s voice began to take on a deeper tone. “Her foster parents were poor, and they didn’t treat her properly in which they made her marry their retarded son when she was fifteen. She refused and thus sought help from her uncle, only to be brought back to her foster parents. Seeing her adamant reluctance, her foster parents gave up forcing her to marry their son. Instead, they demanded her to repay their kindness for raising her up with the money. In the end, without any professional skills, she was recommended to work at Camphor Forest.”
“Is that why both of them acted as if they didn’t know each other, in which one hated the other for being turned away while the other was too ashamed to identify himself.”
“Maybe you’re right.”
“Then, what about the last two times when Zhao Yongli visited her? What was Kiki’s explanation?”
“Kiki said Zhao Yongli visited her to get laid.”
“What?!” Mu Yu couldn’t believe her ears. “That was her uncle! Wouldn’t that be incest?! Was he not ashamed? He was nothing different from an animal!”
“That was what Kiki thought as well. Although she has been a prostitute for five years, she still felt ashamed, yet she was also too embarrassed to tell the others that the man was her uncle. Therefore, when Zhao Yongli visited, she turned him down twice with random excuses,” Rong Jian said with a smile and added, “Of course, all this was just Kiki’s side of the story.”
Mu Yu doubtfully asked, “So you think what Kiki told you was a lie?”
Rong Jian avoided her question and asked, “Do you remember that the proprietress of Camphor Forest said that Zhao Yongli was their regular?”
“Yes, I remember. She mentioned that Kiki has always been their signature girl, but Zhao Yongli had never requested for her service.” Mu Yu pondered. “In the past five years, they were strangers to each other and had always minded their own businesses. It wasn’t until recently that they crossed paths again shortly before Zhao Yongli’s death. Therefore, it all seems too much of a coincidence, especially his second visit to Kiki’s place. Zhao Yongli was chased away by Kiki from Camphor Forest at midnight, only to be found dead in the office lounge a few hours later.”
“Therefore, I have a reason to believe that Zhao Yongli’s death has something to do with him visiting Kiki.”
“In that case, our current priority is to find out why Zhao Yongli visited Kiki twice, and why she angrily chased him away, isn’t it?”
“That’s right.” Rong Jian gently sighed. “But Zhao Yongli is now dead, and Kiki just won’t come clean. Also, Nie Xiaoxiang can’t provide any useful information. Therefore, answering these two questions simply seems impossible.”
Mu Yu pondered and said, “Chief Rong, I heard there were two things that Zhao Yongli loved the most—women and money. Regarding his notorious lechery, word has it that his wife kept a watchful eye on him, which was why he always had to sneak his way to Camphor Forest. However, his wife loved to travel and was usually away from home for at least a few months every year. Therefore, that gave him an opportunity to become a regular of Camphor Forest. Although Kiki may be pretty, she’s been doing this job for five years after all. Therefore, despite her unrivaled beauty, there are many others in Camphor Forest who are younger than her. So, I believe Zhao Yongli didn’t pay her a visit to get laid. Zhao Yongli was a greedy man and since it wasn’t about lust, he must have gone to her for money. For that, I suggest we look into their monetary transactions to see if there’re any questionable records. Besides, now that we’ve combined these two cases to investigate, we could also find out more about the relationship between Sun Meilan and Kiki because we might just stumble upon some useful clues.”
“Sure. I’ll get someone to look into it. Xiaofan is calling me now, so I’ll talk to you later.”
“Alright, Chief Rong. Please keep me posted with the latest news about the case.”
“No worries, I will. See you soon.”
Mu Yu gently replied with an affirmative hum. Then, she only put her phone back into her pocket after hearing the busy signal. Soon, she propped her head and started wandering.
“Hey? Are you being possessed?” Seeing her blank expression, Jiang Wenwen waved her hand in front of her eyes.
“What?” Mu Yu was startled before she was reminded of her friend, who was sitting opposite her. She then apologized with a smile.
“The noodles have gotten cold!” Jiang Wenwen acted as if she was unhappy and rolled her eyes at Mu Yu. Soon after, she called out to the stall owner, “Please give me another bowl of noodles.”
“Okay! Right away!” replied the owner happily.
Even so, Jiang Wenwen pulled an unhappy face while throwing Mu Yu’s already cold noodles into the trash can. “What a waste of food and money!” Mu Yu couldn’t help but sigh.
Knowing Jiang Wenwen was thrifty, Mu Yu reluctantly suggested, “Alright then, this one is on me. Okay?”
Jiang Wenwen rolled her eyes at her again. “Are you loaded with money?”
Mu Yu wasn’t pissed off hearing her sarcastic remark. She then placed her elbows on the table with her hands propping her face before sticking out her tongue to make a face at Jiang Wenwen.
“Are you a dog? Why are you sticking out your tongue?”
“Woof, woof.”
Jiang Wenwen was amused, but she managed to keep a straight face and said, “Hmph! Since you’re loaded with money, how petty you are to treat me at a roadside stall! So, consider this my treat. You could return the favor by treating me at a six-star hotel.”
In response, Mu Yu threw a melon seed shell at her and teased, “Six-star hotels are beneath you. Perhaps a ten-star hotel would be worth your time.”
“Only if Young Master Qin could build you a ten-star hotel. In that case, I could treat that place as my home where I would enjoy great delicacies every day.”
“Aren’t you worried about gaining weight?”
“Even if I became a fatty, I would be a happy one, for I’d have at least enjoyed my life.”
“Well then, you wouldn’t get a date if that was the case. Which handsome guy would want to marry a fatty? Only a fatty would marry another fatty?
“Yu, you have a lot of nerve making fun of my future husband! Take this!” Jiang Wenwen squinted her eyes to aim and threw a melon seed at her.
When Mu Yu was about to retaliate, Jiang Wenwen quickly grasped her hand and put a melon seed into her mouth while lecturing her in a deadpan manner. “Sweetie, melon seeds are food, and we shouldn’t play with our food.”
Mu Yu cracked open the seed shell and put the pulp into her mouth. Then, she pretended like she was going to spit the shell at her, only to be greeted by Jiang Wenwen’s camera. She then teased, “I’m going to show this picture of you to Young Master Qin, so that he could teach you a lesson in bed later.”
Upon saying that, Jiang Wenwen mischievously winked at her, as if she was implying something else.
In response, Mu Yu kicked her leg under the table in a childish manner, at which both ladies laughed together.
“By the way, were you talking to Chief Rong about the case, in which a girl named Kiki was suspected of murdering Zhao Yongli?”
“Hold your tongue! Everything is still under investigation,” Mu Yu immediately warned.
“Okay, my bad. So, is Kiki a suspect? Is she from Camphor Forest? Is she working there as an escort?”
“That’s enough. Stop being a busybody!”
“Come on. Just tell me a bit about the case.”
Mu Yu rolled her eyes at Jiang Wenwen. “But you’re not a reporter.”
“I’m not, but I’m a message man anyway.”
“Alright, it’s getting late. It’ll be a chilly night, so let’s finish up our meal and go home.” The noodles happened to arrive just in time. Therefore, Mu Yu seized the opportunity to begin eating and ignored Jiang Wenwen’s questions.
“Yu? My good little girl, just a little, wouldn’t you?” Seeing Mu Yu’s adamant refusal, Jiang Wenwen acted as if she was angry while she pouted and looked askance at her.
Mu Yu kept a straight face while ignoring her friend.
Running out of options, Jiang Wenwen reached out for her phone while she threatened her, “If you don’t tell me about the case, I’ll send your pictures to Young Master Qin. By then, if he leaves you, don’t come crying to me.”
Mu Yu reminded her with a smile. “Go ahead. But don’t text him because he doesn’t check his inbox. So, you should send him the pictures on Wechat instead. I dare you to do it now.”
“Hmph! You think I dare not add Young Master Qin as a friend on Wechat? I’ll do it now. Look, I’ve already copied his number and… I’m going to add him now.”
While adding Qin Jinhuan on Wechat, she flashed her phone in front of Mu Yu, which she didn’t even bother to look at. Therefore, knowing she wouldn’t fall for it, Jiang Wenwen snorted, “Fine. Instead of adding Young Master Qin on Wechat, I might as well post your pictures on my news feed and tag your name. I believe Young Master Qin will soon see these pictures for himself. I… Hey! Xiaoyu! Look! Isn’t that Young Master Qin? Why is he here?”
Nonetheless, Mu Yu didn’t even bat an eye, hearing what she said. Instead, she teased, “It’d be great if he was really here, so that you could just show him my ugly pictures and save yourself the trouble of adding him on Wechat.”
“No! I mean I really saw him! He is here! And it seems like he is with another woman! Man! Yu, it looks like you have a love rival.”
Upon noticing Jiang Wenwen’s serious look, Mu Yu immediately looked back.
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“Not there, it’s here! In the picture!” Jiang Wenwen quickly brought her phone close to her eyes.
Seeing the picture of herself spitting the seed shell on the screen, Mu Yu thought Jiang Wenwen was pulling a prank on her, which she pushed the phone back to her.
“Oh dear!” Jiang Wenwen quickly moved closer and showed her phone to Mu Yu once again. She then anxiously said, “Stop looking at yourself in the picture. Look behind you! See, it’s really Young Master Qin! There was also a woman holding his arm!”
Mu Yu immediately took the phone from Jiang Wenwen to look closer. As expected, she saw two familiar figures in the picture.
It was Qin Jinhuan and Yin Anran.
She then looked at her watch and found that it was already half-past nine in the evening.
Soon after, she shifted her gaze to the bright crowded street ahead of her and saw nothing else but shops on both sides of the street. Also, behind the noodle stall was a residential building, where there was no sign of any hotel or motel nearby.
Therefore, she couldn’t help but wonder. What are they doing here so late at night?
Could they be…
“Xiaoyu, I just showed the picture to the stall owner, and he said he knows the girl. She lives in this building in unit 701. She had ordered a delivery from him before. So, judging from the direction they were heading to, it was possible that they were on her way to her home. Therefore, let’s go catch them in the act!” Jiang Wenwen yelled angrily while trying to drag Mu Yu along with her to the building.
“Wenwen…”
Mu Yu stopped in her tracks with her eyes seemingly hesitant.
Catch them in the act? Was it really necessary?
