Lin Shuyue's expression suddenly changed.
The deadly water delivery truck, just from the name, you can tell what kind of case this is. This mountain spring water is very popular in the whole city, and countless people in the city drink it. Looking at his 80% good and evil value, you can know how many lives he has in his hands.
The nature is extremely bad.
Lin Shuyue was not planning to go home, so she followed the water delivery truck.
Lin Shuyue called Ma Yanmin again. Ma Yanmin was having dinner and was very surprised to see Lin Shuyue's call.
"Reporter Lin, what's wrong?" Ma Yanmin took a bite of the vegetables. She couldn't eat anything too greasy now, so the boiled vegetables from her hometown became her favorite food. Unfortunately, she couldn't eat spicy food, so she couldn't dip it in the dipping sauce from her hometown.
But she would be satisfied just by eating vegetables, drinking some vegetable soup, or eating some soft porridge made with the vegetable soup.
Lin Shuyue followed the water delivery man in front of her and turned the corner, while describing the delivery man's phone number to Ma Yanmin: "Yanmin, the man who delivered water to your house, is he a round-faced, thirty-something-year-old with a scar on his chin?"
"Yes, that's what Brother Li looks like. He's a very nice guy. After knowing that I like to drink his water and that I'm seriously ill, he sold me water at a much lower price."
It was precisely because of this cheap price, and because she was seriously ill and could not eat many things, that Xu Zhenbo never stopped supplying water to Ma Yanmin.
Lin Shuyue's guess was confirmed, and she felt very heavy in her heart. She said to Ma Yanmin, "It's like this, Yanmin, I have a friend who always says that the water in Pengcheng is not good to drink, and it tastes bitter when used to cook rice and vegetables. I just chatted with him and recommended the water you drank to him, but he is from another province, and he doesn't believe that the water is so delicious. So I thought, let him go to your house to get a pot to try first, okay?"
"Originally I wanted him to go out and buy it, but the shop where he delivers water hasn't been renovated yet. He drives around the city every day, so I really can't run into him for a while."
Ma Yanmin thought something big was going on, but when she heard Lin Shuyue's words, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, let him come, I'll get him a pot."
Lin Shuyue sent her back from the hospital, saving them a lot of car fare. Just a small thing like a bottle of water didn't cost any money. How could Ma Yanmin not agree?
After hanging up the phone, Lin Shuyue saw the water delivery truck parked on the side of the road. The water delivery man was sitting in the driver's seat, staring at the rearview mirror in front of the car.
Lin Shuyue understood that he had discovered her following. Lin Shuyue's heart trembled.
She didn't follow closely, just from a distance. How sharp was this person's perception? How strong was his anti-reconnaissance ability?
Lin Shuyue calmed down, drove past him without looking away, and then turned into the country road of Jiutang Town. Not long after she turned away, the water truck was back on the road.
Lin Shuyue came back from the other side of Jiutang Town and called Wu Dongyan at the same time. Wu Dongyan answered and said that she was on a mission in the suburbs and would not be back for a while. Ye Xueyu went with her.
After Lin Shuyue hung up the phone, she called Hang Jiabai. Hang Jiabai was not busy at the time, so Lin Shuyue called and told him her guess. He then changed his clothes and walked towards the address provided by Lin Shuyue.
After getting the water, he immediately delivered it to the laboratory, and then went back to continue his work. It was not until eight o'clock in the evening that he received a call from a colleague from the laboratory.
"Ah Bai, the lead content in the water you tested is seriously excessive. Long-term drinking of water with excessive lead content will not only damage your organs, but also cause cancer."
After hearing his colleague's words, Hang Jiabai's face became heavy. After hanging up the phone, he immediately called Lin Shuyue.
After listening to Hang Jiabai's words, Lin Shuyue still felt something was wrong.
The high lead content is one thing, but it is impossible to kill a person in the short term. This is somewhat inconsistent with the four words "deadly water delivery truck" mentioned in the mission.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Shuyue went to the hospital again.
Doctor Zhao from the infectious disease department happened to be on duty today, and he was not very happy to see Lin Shuyue coming again.
Dr. Zhao is afraid of trouble, especially since today's reporters are different from those in the past. In order to attract attention, they can say anything outrageous.
Just last year, one of his classmates who worked in Yangcheng was stabbed twice by a patient's family member and was no longer able to work as a doctor because of a reporter's remark that was meant to attract attention.
Ma Yanmin, whom Lin Shuyue interviewed, has already been discharged from the hospital, but she still wants to come here. What is her plan?
Dr. Zhao's mood became very bad. He even felt that the reporter named Lin Shuyue was waiting for him to bribe her.
But Lin Shuyue's words made Dr. Zhao's expression change drastically: "Doctor Zhao, I still feel something is wrong. The amount of water Ma Yanmin drinks exceeds a person's normal demand for water. She drinks too much."
Ignoring Dr. Zhao's ugly expression, Lin Shuyue continued, "I asked her. Before she got sick, she liked to drink the mountain spring water sold by the vendor. I was worried, so I asked my friend, a criminal police officer from the city's criminal investigation team, to test it. The lead content in this water is much higher than that in normal water."
As a doctor, Dr. Zhao knows very well the harm that the high lead content in the water can cause to the human body.
Not to mention that Ma Yanmin is a liver cancer patient, and she has not stopped drinking such water during this period.
This will put an extremely severe physical strain on Ma Yanmin's body. Perhaps this is also the reason why her physical condition is deteriorating rapidly.
This was a serious dereliction of duty for the hospital. After all, Ma Yanmin had been in their hospital for more than a month, but during this time, they did not discover the problem.
If it was lead poisoning, then something wrong should have been detected in her blood during this period.
Doctor Zhao didn't bother to talk to Lin Shuyue. He immediately took out Ma Yanmin's information and looked at the blood test report.
After reading it, he frowned and said, "But our inspection list did not show any excessive lead content."
This result was within Lin Shuyue's expectations. If he was caught so easily, then this case would not be worthy of the name of the deadly water delivery truck! And the anti-detection awareness shown by the person who delivered water today.
Heavy metals such as lead can be excreted from the body in many ways, and drinking more water is one of them. Ma Yanmin likes to drink water, and only drinks water brought by the water deliveryman. It is too easy for him to control the lead content in Ma Yanmin's body.
The reason why Lin Shuyue came here was to verify her guess.
Compared with Lin Shuyue, Dr. Zhao felt overwhelmed.
If what Lin Shuyue said was true, and the water was really problematic, then Ma Yanmin was definitely not the only victim. The reason why Ma Yanmin's condition was so serious was because she had a pre-existing disease.
Even though he was not a policeman, he knew that this was definitely a big case.
But apart from this possibility, there is another possibility that Lin Shuyue is making fun of him, but Dr. Zhao looked at Lin Shuyue's face and felt that she would not be such a boring person.
"Reporter Lin, if the police need anything, our hospital will fully cooperate." The meaning of his words was very clear. If Lin Shuyue came again next time, he would no longer cooperate.
"Okay, thank you Doctor Zhao." After getting the answer she wanted, Lin Shuyue didn't care even if she heard the hidden meaning of Doctor Zhao's words. After thanking Doctor Zhao, she prepared to leave.
When arriving at the hospital parking lot, Lin Shuyue received a call from Hang Jiabai. Lin Shuyue just wanted to talk to him about this matter, so she drove to the Public Security Bureau.
Coincidentally, He Yuling was on duty tonight, and she also brought her daughter, who was about seven or eight years old. She was sitting next to her doing homework. Lin Shuyue went over to take a look and saw that she was doing math homework. Her handwriting was very good, just like the printed text in a book.
Lin Shuyue talked to He Yuling for a while. When He Yuling mentioned Jiang Xinxin, Lin Shuyue was stunned.
Ever since she was injured in the stomach, she has never been to Jiang Xinxin's martial arts gym again. The main reason is that Lou Fengqin does not allow her to do strenuous exercise. In addition, she has a lot of things to do, so Lin Shuyue forgot about it.
He Yuling knew what Lin Shuyue had been doing recently. She smiled and said, "Xinxin has been contacting me a lot more frequently these days. She sends me messages every now and then, and as we chat, we end up talking about you."
He Yuling pulled out two mangoes from the drawer under the table, handed one to Lin Shuyue, and carefully peeled the other: "Xinxin is the leader of the female reconnaissance platoon. If she hadn't been injured, she would have been able to work in the army until retirement. She admires you very much."
Lin Shuyue thought about the fight between her and Jiang Xinxin. Jiang Xinxin's skills didn't look like she was seriously injured.
She was eating mangoes. Mangoes were in season this season, pink and very sweet. She asked, "Where was she injured? How did she get injured?"
He Yuling paused while peeling the skin and said, "She must have hurt her waist during daily training. She was very sad at the time, so I didn't ask any more questions."
Lin Shuyue seemed to be thinking about something, and then decided that she should not ask too much about social affairs and should just focus on herself.
At this moment, He Yuling's penguin rang. She put the peeled mango aside, wiped her hands, clicked on the message, and burst out laughing.
After she stopped laughing, she said to Lin Shuyue, "The detention center is in chaos now. The men in Wangjiang Villa are chasing each other and have had several fights."
Those who went to Wangjiang Villa were all bosses. Most of the bosses, especially the older ones, were bald, beer-bellied, fat, and big-eared. This led to the side effects of the drug that made those men with flat heads and straight faces suddenly become the targets of everyone's pursuit. Take Liu Zizhong, who had just been imprisoned, for example. He suddenly became a hot commodity among men.
Mr. He, who was in the same ward with him, had already regarded Liu Zizhong as his own. With so many "rivals" coming at once, how could he not feel a sense of crisis? After a fight, his other hand was broken, and his leg was also broken, so he was taken directly to the hospital.
After the police at the detention center sent Mr. He and others to the ambulance, they sent a message to He Yuling.
This was exactly what Lin Shuyue had expected, so she started laughing too. She hoped these bosses would compete more fiercely. Compared to the girl in Building No. 3 of Wangjiang Villa, this was nothing.
Lin Shuyue asked about the results of the investigation into the Wangjiang Villa case again.
He Yuling came close to her and whispered, "His case was personally investigated by the investigation team in the capital. It is said that Qin Da is not the owner of Wangjiang Villa, and the person behind him is in the capital. Most of the money he has collected in Pengcheng over the years has been sent to the capital. I heard that the person behind him may be very powerful."
Although Qin Da's family has fallen, he can at least be considered a third-generation red. For He Yuling to say so, the person behind him must have a greater background than his. Is he an elder in his family, or is the person behind him in a very high position?
Otherwise, someone like Qin Da would not do the job for him.
This result was also within Lin Shuyue's expectations.
In that future newspaper, the Wangjiang Villa case was implicated by Rong Lishui and her sister Yao, and that was four or five years later. At that time, we had already entered the Internet age, but their behavior was still so arrogant, and it was possible that the people behind them had a strong background.
What Lin Shuyue is worried about now is whether the mastermind behind this incident can be brought to justice, or whether he can escape legal sanctions due to family reasons.
But then she changed her mind and Lin Shuyue thought of the car that Xun Heng gave her this morning.
With Xun Heng's connections, he must have known the complexity of the matter a long time ago, but he still gave her a car. Does that mean that the person behind this is not so backed by a strong backer?
In other words, the results of the investigation are beneficial to his family?
Lin Shuyue planned to find some time to test it out.
Just as she was thinking about it, Hang Jiabai came down from the stairs. Lin Shuyue waved goodbye to He Yuling and walked out with Hang Jiabai.
As they walked, Hang Jiabai said to Lin Shuyue, "After the lead content in the kettle of water was found to be excessive in the afternoon, we started investigating the water delivery person."
"The man who delivered water was called Li Tiangong. He lived at the foot of Luohu Mountain in Huicheng. Because Luohu Mountain was relatively close to Pengcheng, he would go back and forth to Pengcheng every day to deliver water. He was a college student in 1983, and his major was chemistry."
At this point, Hang Jiabai paused and said, "But after graduating from university, he did not go to work at the unit assigned by the school, but returned to his hometown. He said to the public that his father was seriously ill and he was the only son in the family, so he had to stay by his side."
"In the second year after he graduated, his father died of illness, and his mother also became seriously ill and is still paralyzed in bed. He is taking good care of her."
"He has been delivering water since 1985. At first he only delivered in Huicheng, and later he delivered in Pengcheng. And according to our investigation, before Ma Yanmin bought water from his family, Ma Yanmin did not know him, and their lives did not overlap at all."
It is a bit unreasonable for two people who had no connection with each other to poison each other. There must be a motive for any crime.
Lin Shuyue's eyebrows skipped a beat when she heard that Li Tiangong was a chemistry major. She told him what she had learned from her investigation in the hospital.
Hang Jiabai frowned. He couldn't understand why Li Tiangong would go to so much trouble to murder Ma Yanmin.
Both of them were thinking about Li Tiangong's motive for committing the crime, and neither of them believed that this incident was a coincidence.
Lin Shuyue looked up and saw a shop opposite the Public Security Bureau with a sign saying "For Sale". Suddenly, an idea came to her mind!
"Captain Hang, I talked to Ma Yanmin before. She said that because of her illness, her family sold the house and shop they bought. The person they sold it to was an acquaintance. When I came back today, I specially looked at the shop she sold. The signboard of her shop that originally sold wolf tooth potatoes has been changed to a sign of Luohu Mountain Spring Water. Her house will also be transferred in a few days."
Hang Jiabai had already understood Lin Shuyue's unfinished meaning. If it was for the house, then a lot of logic would make sense.
Hang Jiabai immediately took out his cell phone and called Zhao Youcheng. If the purpose was to seize the house, then Ma Yanmin would definitely not be the first victim since Li Tiangong had been delivering water for twenty years.
Zhao Youcheng hurried to retrieve the information. About half an hour later, Zhao Youcheng called and said, "Captain, we found out that Li Tiangong has many properties under his name, including five residences and four shops in Pengcheng."
There was no purchase restriction in this era, so one person could own multiple properties.
Hang Jiabai glanced at Lin Shuyue and said to Zhao Youcheng on the other end of the phone: "Check where the original household owner or the household owner's family is now."
If Lin Shuyue's guess is correct, then these houses of Li Tiangong are definitely not first-hand houses.
Zhao Youcheng acted very quickly. The information came out in less than ten minutes.
Just as Lin Shuyue thought, these houses and shops were indeed second-hand, and the purchase price was 20,000 to 30,000 yuan lower than the market price, and some were even 40,000 to 50,000 yuan lower, and most of the original owners were from other places.
Hang Jiabai hung up the phone, returned to the office, and came down from upstairs in less than ten minutes. In his hand was a printed address of all the residential and commercial properties of Li Tiangong.
Because Lin Shuyue's car had been exposed to Li Tiangong during the day, they took Hang Jiabai's car this time.
When they were about to go out, they happened to meet Wu Dongyan and Ye Xueyu who had just returned from a mission. When they knew that Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai were going out to investigate, they opened the door of the back seat of the car and got in.
Hang Jiabai drove the car out of the Public Security Bureau and said, "Li Tiangong's goal is to seize Ma Yanmin's house, so we can't alert him now. We have to think of a safe way to make Ma Yanmin stop drinking this water."
Lin Shuyue took out her cell phone and said, "This is easy. Just tell Ma Yanmin about this. But this is also a bit risky, because according to the custom of Ma Yanmin's family, if the elder sister dies, the younger sister-in-law can marry the brother-in-law. Ma Yanmin's younger sister Ma Yanzhi is now waiting for her elder sister to die and marry the brother-in-law."
Although Xu Zhenbo and Ma Yanzhi's good and evil values are both around 10%, the good and evil values will change, because Lin Shuyue has heard of love murder cases countless times.
She wanted to believe Xu Zhenbo and Ma Yanzhi, but she was a little hesitant to take the risk.
But no matter how much she dared not gamble, Lin Shuyue still could not bear to see a life disappear in front of her. Ma Yanmin's body could no longer withstand the ravages of such heavy metals.
Lin Shuyue hung up Ma Yanmin's phone.
•••••
Ma Yanmin's home.
Ma Yanmin was lying on the bed, Ma Yanzhi was lying beside her, and Xu Zhenbo was in another room.
Because she was discharged from the hospital today, Ma Yanzhi did not go to the night stall this afternoon. The two sisters lay on the bed and whispered to each other.
Before Lin Shuyue called, Ma Yanzhi said she didn't want to marry Xu Zhenbo. She told Ma Yanmin, "Sister, I still think it's weird to marry my brother-in-law in the future. Can you tell our parents that I won't marry my brother-in-law? I have someone I like?"
Ma Yanzhi's words surprised Ma Yanmin: "Who do you like?"
Ma Yanzhi blushed: "It's the man who sells spicy hot pot next to us. He takes good care of me."
Ma Yanzhi could not deny that Xu Zhenbo was a good man worthy of entrusting one's life to, as could be seen from the fact that he had treated her sister the same way for many years. But she also knew that her sister and brother-in-law had a deep relationship and she could not interfere.
She also didn't want to spend her whole life trying to get rid of her sister's traces from Xu Zhenbo's heart. That would be unfair to her sister.
They had been together since their youth and had worked hard together until now. Her sister had lost a child due to overwork and her health had also declined at that time. Why should she be forgotten? She should be remembered by Xu Zhenbo for the rest of his life!
Her sister is five years older than her. Ever since her sister could hardly walk steadily, she had been pulling her around in a cart. She was cowardly and often bullied when she grew up. It was her sister who helped her get revenge. It was also her sister who pulled her out of that cannibalistic in-laws' family and brought her out of that remote mountain village.
Therefore, she did not want to marry Xu Zhenbo, but she also knew that marrying Xu Zhenbo was the hope of both families.
But she also has someone she likes.
Ma Yanzhi hugged Ma Yanmin's thin body, smelled the smell of medicine on her body, and thought of her sister who was thin before but full of strength. She also thought of the faint smell of vanishing cream on her body, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Ma Yanmin patted Ma Yanzhi's body and made no promise. She was dying, and the one she was most worried about was her younger sister, Ma Yanzhi. There were many children in her family, and she and Ma Yanzhi were daughters, so they were naturally not valued as much as the other brothers and sisters because they were the older ones, and they could not compare with their older brothers and sisters because they were not the older ones.
The middle child is the least valued and the most mistreated.
She didn't know what Ma Yanzhi would do if she was gone. If she hadn't gotten sick, she would have been happy to know that Ma Yanzhi had someone she loved.
Lin Shuyue called at this time. Ma Yanmin was even more surprised than before after receiving calls from this reporter Lin three times in one day.
She glanced at Ma Yanzhi and pressed the answer button. Her phone was loud, and even from a distance, Ma Yanzhi could hear Lin Shuyue's voice.
Lin Shuyue apologized to Ma Yanmin on the phone because she lied to her this afternoon. "Because I think you drank too much water, it's a bit abnormal, so I asked my friend to go to your house to get a bottle of water for monitoring. The monitoring results just came out, and the lead content in the bottle of water brought back from your house exceeded the standard."
Ma Yanmin didn't know what lead was. She was not well educated, but she was smart. When she heard the word "exceeding the standard", she knew it was not good. She held down Ma Yanzhi, who got up from the bed in shock, and asked in her calmest voice: "Then reporter Lin, what should we do next?"
There was no grudge between them, and Ma Yanmin didn't think Lin Shuyue wanted to harm her. What's more, when she saw Lin Shuyue, she felt that she was trustworthy.
Lin Shuyue looked at Hang Jiabai beside her, and Hang Jiabai picked up the phone: "Hello, Ms. Ma, I am Hang Jiabai from the Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment. Wait a moment, my colleague will disguise himself as a water meter repairman and come to your house to collect samples of the remaining buckets of water. Before he comes in, you must check his ID first. His last name is Zhao. If he is not this person, you must not open the door."
Hang Jiabai's words made Ma Yanmin suddenly nervous.
She held the phone with all her strength and asked, "Officer Hang, is that you? I still want to ask, what harm does this lead have on the body?"
Hang Jiabai said: "After lead enters the body, some of it will be excreted through the body's metabolism, but if lead poisoning lasts for a long time, it will damage the internal organs to a certain extent and may also cause cancer."
Ma Yanmin touched her belly unconsciously. Was her liver deteriorating so quickly because of the lead?
She thought again of the shop and house that her family had sold to Li Tiangong at a price below the market price, and her pale face turned red with hatred.
Lin Shuyue took the phone from Hang Jiabai and said, "Yan Min, if Li Tiangong wants to seize your house, then he must have a backup plan. You must calm down and cooperate with the police to bring this man to justice."
"The main thing is, you must not drink this water anymore."
Ma Yanmin was able to create such a large family business with Xu Zhenbo. She was not lacking in character. She took two deep breaths and said, "I understand, reporter Lin. I will cooperate with your work."
After hanging up the phone, Ma Yanzhi ran next door and told Xu Zhenbo what Lin Shuyue said on the phone. Xu Zhenbo was shocked and angry after hearing it. He immediately ran to Ma Yanmin's room. He tripped over the stool on the ground but didn't feel any pain at all.
Ma Yanmin had already sat up from the bed with difficulty. She waved to Xu Zhenbo, who immediately walked to her side. Ma Yanmin held her hand and said to him, "Old man, you must calm down. Captain Hang said that the reason that man gave me this water was because of our house and shop. The shop has been sold to him, but he has not paid for the house. It is still ours, and we can't let him take the house away."
"This is our root, don't be impulsive."
Xu Zhenbo had always thought that his wife's disease was a natural disaster, but now he suddenly realized that there was a man-made element involved. He hated him so much that if Li Tiangong were in front of him now, he would definitely take a knife and cut him into pieces.
Faced with his wife's earnest instructions, he finally calmed down. In his family, Ma Yanmin has always been the one in charge, and it is enough for him to just listen to Ma Yanmin.
He closed his eyes: "I'll listen to you."
At this moment, Xu Zhenbo's cell phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Li Tiangong calling. He could not suppress his anger. Ma Yanmin also saw the caller ID. Fearing that Xu Zhenbo was up to something bad, she took the phone, took a deep breath, put it to her ear, and Li Tiangong's voice came immediately.
"Brother Xu, are you asleep? It's like this. The water in your house has been delivered for a long time. Can I send you another batch tomorrow? It's still the same price as before."
"Brother Li, Zhenbo is taking a shower. Can you bring it over tomorrow morning? We'll be waiting for you at home."
"Okay, I'll deliver it to your house at three o'clock." Ma Yanmin's tone was normal and Li Tiangong didn't notice anything unusual.
After hanging up the phone, Ma Yanmin called Lin Shuyue.
Hang Jiabai parked the car on the side of the road and finally decided to split the troops into two groups.
Wu Dongyan, Hang Jiabai and Zhao Youcheng went to visit the people living around the house and shop that Li Tiangong had bought before.
Ye Xueyu and Lin Shuyue went to Ma Yanmin's house, pretending to be relatives from their hometown, and checked the water sent by Li Tiangong.
Lin Shuyue had already met Li Tiangong. She was afraid that he would recognize her, so she disguised herself.
At the same time, she called Ma Yanmin's home. She waited at Ma Yanmin's home until three in the morning. She and Ma Yanzhi went to move the water sent by Li Tiangong. As soon as she got the bucket, Lin Shuyue realized something was wrong.
The water is too heavy, so heavy that it goes against common sense.