Chapter 242: Chapter 242

Su Xiaojuan seemed to completely relax and began to share her experience in selecting tutoring teachers with Zhang Xiao.

"It’s hard to find teachers who are still working; tutoring is not allowed anymore."

"But the one we found last time was particularly good."

"She was busy studying during the day and tutored kids at night. She graduated from a prestigious normal university. The key thing is, her tutoring fee wasn’t high, and she was young, able to chat easily with the kids..."

"Really? Do you have the teacher’s contact information? I’d like to get in touch too."

"Yes, but since that girl suddenly left my house, I haven’t been able to contact her. Otherwise, I wouldn’t worry about finding a tutor..."

The two chatted for about half an hour more before Zhang Xiao left with his colleague.

After leaving the villa’s gate, Zhang Xiao and his colleague walked away briskly.

After turning at a corner of the community, when Zhang Xiao could no longer see the villa, he hurriedly asked.

"Nothing special found, everything in the room seemed normal, nothing unusual."

Zhang Xiao’s colleague certainly didn’t go to Zhao Wenjun’s house to admire the good decoration.

After doing two rounds, they simply conducted a basic search of the villa.

Sure, it’s not very formal, but it’s effective.

"How about your side, how did the conversation go?"

"There were some discoveries, but they need to be verified."

Zhang Xiao squeezed the phone in his pocket, where he stored a phone number given by Su Xiaojuan.

"The number you have dialed is currently switched off. Please try again later, sorry, the number..."

Zhang Xiao dialed again; it’s still switched off.

Impossible, Zhang Xiao recorded the number from Su Xiaojuan’s phone in the living room just now.

Hanging up, Zhang Xiao dialed another number.

"Old Sun, it’s me..."

"Help me check the owner information of a phone number. Yes, I’ll send the number over to you."

The owner information for the number provided by Su Xiaojuan came through.

Chen Lili, female, twenty-two years old, with a real-name verified ID card...

After obtaining the information, Zhang Xiao returned directly to the Criminal Investigation Team.

"Group Leader Ren, I have news!"

In Ren Qiang’s office, Zhang Xiao was reporting the results of the investigation he just conducted.

"Eight months ago, Zhao Wenjun’s family hired a tutor for their child."

"She’s a fresh graduate from a normal university, preparing to take the city’s school exam, named Chen Lili, twenty-two years old."

"But now, this person cannot be contacted."

The situation Zhang Xiao reported caught Ren Qiang’s attention.

There were no anomalies in Zhao Wenjun’s social relations, nor was there anyone missing among those he contacted.

Now, this tutor, Chen Lili, is the only one.

"The phone is off, and she has been out of touch. I’ve already sent someone to investigate at the tutoring agency."

"What’s crucial is that Chen Lili resigned from Zhao Wenjun’s house on the second of last month, exactly thirty-six days after we discovered the body!"

"Moreover, according to the information provided by Zhao Wenjun’s wife, this tutor just sent a message to resign, after which she couldn’t be reached."

"Su Xiaojuan tried calling her but no one answered; later the phone was off, and she didn’t respond on WeChat either, not even asking for a month’s tutoring fee."

Currently, all information about Chen Lili is from what Su Xiaojuan said; much other information is still under investigation.

Despite this, the Bailan River case seems to be not far from being solved.

After quickly understanding the situation, Ren Qiang integrated all the forces from the second action team, fully investigating the situation related to Chen Lili.

The next morning, at the Crime Scene Investigation office.

"I heard there’s been a discovery on Ren Qiang’s side?"

The Crime Scene Investigation team didn’t have a heavy task in this case; they were busy only for the first few days, and after that, it was mostly routine tasks.

Lu Chuan raised maggot larvae for a week and now had nothing to do, the petri dishes in the laboratory had long been cleaned.

"The person was caught in Tianzhou City yesterday, still in the interrogation room now."

Lu Chuan nodded and handed a Chunghwa cigarette to Yang Sen.

While wiping the leaves of a flamingo-lily, they chatted.

"The identity of the deceased was only confirmed this morning; she’s called Chen Lili and used to work as a tutor at the perpetrator’s house."

The investigation made a breakthrough last night, around midnight.

Ren Qiang and others found relevant information about Chen Lili and obtained DNA information from Chen Lili’s father.

The DNA information from the decomposed body had long been collected, and after comparison, it was confirmed as a parent-child relationship.

"But it seems the perpetrator hasn’t confessed yet, and Ren Qiang is interrogating."

"Zhao Wenjun, where were you on March 2nd?"

Wearing glasses and looking very polite, Zhao Wenjun didn’t appear to be a fruit wholesaler; it seemed more acceptable to say he was a teacher or professor.

"I really forgot, Officer, I am in the fruit business, running around every day. A month’s old event, I really can’t recall."

Ren Qiang looked intently at Zhao Wenjun, feeling a sense of helplessness inside.

In the early hours of today, the deceased’s identity was finally confirmed; the clue Zhang Xiao found was very accurate. The deceased was indeed Zhao Wenjun’s child’s tutor, Chen Lili.

However, even after confirming the identity, there is still no evidence linking Zhao Wenjun to being the perpetrator.

"Chen Lili tutored my daughter, but she resigned last month."

Zhao Wenjun claimed to know nothing about Chen Lili’s disappearance.

"The tutoring for the child was always my wife’s concern, I really don’t know what happened."

Ren Qiang stood up, walked up to Zhao Wenjun, leaned down, and said: "Chen Lili was your daughter’s tutor, suddenly disappeared on March 2nd."

"A week ago, we found her body on the Bailan Riverbank."

"Upon examination, we found that Chen Lili’s body had been refrigerated for twenty-five days."

"And at the cold storage you rented, we found a large amount of bloodstain."

"Tell me, Chen Lili’s death has nothing to do with you?!"

All logical deductions pointed to Zhao Wenjun as the perpetrator.

However, what Ren Qiang had was only logical deduction, not solid evidence.

Zhao Wenjun clearly knew this part too.

"Officer Ren, Chen Lili knows more people than just us. I’m not the only person renting cold storage."

"She indeed was our tutor, but we paid her money."

"We were mere employers, you can’t say just because she tutored at my home and now she’s dead, that I’m the perpetrator."

"I’ve explained the bloodstains in the cold storage, they were from an accident when I was moving fruits and got hit by a shelf."

"If you don’t believe me, you can check with the hospital; surely there must be a record of my medical treatment, even my wife knows."