Seeing that Chen Peiwen still couldn't figure it out, Chu Yao said it bluntly, "Qu Huiqiao transferred the effect of the koi spitting beads to Yuan Jiahao."

Koi carp spits out pearls, which can bring the dead back to life, but if used on a living person, it will definitely cause him to die first and then be resurrected.

"You mean to say that Jiahao was kidnapped not because someone wanted to harm her, but because Jiaxiang wanted her to die first and then revive her?" Chen Peiwen said in astonishment, "This... this is too ridiculous..."

How could Yuan Jiaxiang be sure that Yuan Jiahao would be resurrected?

Chu Yao also said: "No, I suspect that Yuan Jiahao may have died once. Now she has been resurrected by the Koi Pearl, and she has returned to normal."

Therefore, when Yuan Jiahao was kidnapped, he was just pretending to be crazy and stupid, and he was not really stupid.

She knew what she was doing, so she accompanied her brother and continued to play this play.

Chen Peiwen forced herself to calm down and said, "You said the two people who killed Jiahao were actually Jiaxiang and Jiahao, right? What about the remaining half?"

Chu Yao deliberately kept it a secret: "I can tell you when we get back to the Yuan family."

The person who renewed his contract in Room 503 was undoubtedly Yuan Jiahao who had faked his death.

The reason for her renewal was very simple. She hoped that someone could solve the puzzle left by her brother and fulfill his last wish.

At the same time, the bodyguard also found the remaining two pieces of evidence.

Chen Peiwen couldn't wait to know the answer, so she and Chu Yao drove back to Yuan's house.

Although Yuan's mother no longer lives here, Chen Peiwen still hires a cleaner to clean the house regularly, but Yuan's mother has always complained about this.

"The Yuan family's land always allows outsiders to come in and out, taking away our family's luck!" She complained, "There are also Feng Shui ornaments I bought in the room. What if they are damaged?"

Chen Peiwen had no choice but to agree to clean the house every three months, and would hire someone else to do a live broadcast specifically for Yuan's mother during the cleaning process.

If Yuan's mother was not satisfied with something, she would shout loudly to stop the cleaner's behavior.

Chen Peiwen also knew that the old lady was difficult to serve, so every time she hired someone she would explain this situation in advance and pay several times the salary.

In this way, cleaners can get two to three thousand yuan for half a day of cleaning, and they are happy to serve.

Chen Peiwen rummaged in her bag for a while before she found the key to Yuan's house.

Chu Yao asked casually: "Where is the peach tree in the backyard?"

"Peach tree? Oh, that tree was so dead that I had it cut down." Chen Peiwen replied.

Every time she saw the peach tree, she always felt very uncomfortable.

It just so happened that Yuan's mother no longer lived here, so she took the initiative to get rid of the tree.

She originally wanted to pull it out by the roots, but the construction team said that the peach tree had dense roots, and if the entire peach tree was dug out, the back wall of Yuan's house would collapse.

So she just had the trunk of the peach tree cut down, and now only a stump is left.

"Sister Peiwen, there is a secret hidden under the peach tree. Do you want this secret to see the light of day?" Chu Yao asked with a smile.

However, her smile at this moment was not as nonchalant as before, but instead contained a hint of sarcasm and mystery.

Chen Peiwen thought for a moment and said, "Since you said so, it seems that we have to dig out the tree roots. Then I will ask the construction team to come."

With her boss's order, the construction team quickly arrived at Yuan's house.

After listening to Chen Peiwen's idea, the leader of the construction team studied it for a while and said, "Mr. Chen, it is not difficult to dig out the wooden piles, but after digging them out, it will take a lot of effort to fill the soil back to its original shape."

This peach tree is at least sixty or seventy years old. Even if it has withered, its roots underground have long since merged into a large mass with the soil.

The gaps underground need to be filled with special materials, which requires time to purchase materials, mix the proportions, etc.

Moreover, the tree was planted behind Yuan’s house, and I’m afraid the surrounding land would collapse.

But Chen Peiwen felt that since Chu Yao said so, she must have her reasons.

"Just listen to me, don't be afraid. I will take responsibility if there are any problems." Chen Peiwen said firmly.

This was exactly what the captain wanted to hear, so he agreed.

There was a lot of noise outside, so Chen Peiwen and Chu Yao went into the house.

Chen Peiwen placed the three pieces of evidence she found on the table and arranged them again in the order in her dream.

"The murderer is the river," she said. "Isn't that right?"

Unfortunately, her dream only lasted fifteen days. If it had been longer, she might have been able to solve the mystery left by Yuan Jiaxiang.

Little did she know, it wasn't that her dream only lasted fifteen days, but that Chu Yao could only stay in the simulated memory for fifteen days.

To this day, she still doesn’t know what “river” means. Does “river” have anything to do with the old peach tree in Yuan’s family?

But Chu Yao silently changed the evidence. She put the plane ticket with the word "Sha" written on it in the first place, and put the sachet from Qian'an Temple and the marriage certificate at the end.

There is a large empty space between the plane ticket and the sachet, which should be the "Zheshi" shown on the train station sign.

Chen Peiwen asked in confusion, "Why is it arranged like this? Also, where is the 'river' in Xinhe Magazine placed?"

Chu Yao explained: "Sister Peiwen, think about it. If we sort them according to the places Yuan Jiaxiang has visited, this is the correct order."

The first time Yuan Jiaxiang took the afternoon flight back to Hongyong County, he went to the train station again and deliberately left the first recording.

Although he was not sure where the sachet was found, he had been staying with Chen Peiwen since he returned to the Yuan family, so it was impossible for him to go directly to Qian'an Temple.

Therefore, he must have got the sachet between the time he was hospitalized the next day and the time he went to the hotel.

The marriage certificate is the last one kept in the hotel as evidence.

Chen Peiwen nodded in understanding, but she soon remembered that Yuan Jiaxiang had never actually been to Xinhe Magazine.

On the night of paying the ransom, she was the only one who went to Xinhe Magazine. Yuan Jiaxiang was resting in the hospital after being hit by his mother.

Could it be that this sentence originally only had four words?

She read the marked words again, "Sha, Zhe, Si, Min."

It sounded like "whoever kills is a civilian" or "whoever kills must be killed", but she still didn't understand what it meant.

Chu Yao shook his head, pointed at the back of the ticket, and said, "No, there is a word missing in the middle. The second word should be '人'."

"why?"

"After he got off the airport, he went to another place." Chu Yao said calmly, "Ren'ai Park."

Ren'ai Park is the park that Yuan Jiahao lost.

Even if Yuan Jiahao recovered and became healthy again, she would be easily recognized by others when she walked on the street.

And she didn't have a driver's license, so the safest way was to let Yuan Jiaxiang drive out in advance, wait for her somewhere, and then take her to the hiding place.

Because Yuan Jiaxiang had to pretend that he arrived at Yuan's house at night, the place where they hid on the first day should have been in Hongyong County, and they went to the hotel later.

So, including the word "Ren" in Ren'ai Park, the first four words together still mean "the murderer is."

"Those who kill are civilians." Chen Peiwen added the last word.

They seemed to have got the order right, but this sentence wasn't much different from the previous one.

Because they don’t know who “He” or “Min” are.

"No, it's not 'Min'. 'Min' is just a decoy." Chu Yao pointed to the upper left corner of the marriage certificate.

Why is the handwriting on the marriage certificate blurred?

If not stored properly, it will at most fade and become unclear, but it will not disappear completely.

The real reason is that Yuan Jiaxiang deliberately removed the writing on the marriage certificate to blur the view.

A small piece of the marriage certificate was torn off, and because there were no words on it, people would overlook the missing part.

But therein lies the real answer.

Chen Peiwen stared at the marriage certificate for a while. She found that the grids drawn previously could be seen on it, and the missing part happened to be the top grid.

In other words, the space for filling in the name was deliberately torn off.

"If that's the case, the names could be of two people, aunt and uncle..." Chen Peiwen murmured, "But whose name is on the top and whose name is on the bottom..."

In an instant, she suddenly realized that it didn't matter whose name was torn off.

Because, there are only two people in total, and one is still alive, so she must be the murderer, and the disappeared person is the dead.

The murderer was my aunt. It was my aunt who killed her own husband.

Chen Peiwen's lips trembled. She raised her hand and pointed out the window. "So, the secret you are talking about is..."

"I know the secret of the peach tree."

This was the circle of friends that Yuan Jiaxiang posted at the time, and after Chu Yao saw it, he immediately thought that Yuan's mother might be the murderer.

In order to further confirm his thoughts, Chu Yao borrowed Chen Peiwen's mobile phone at that time, just to confirm whether "Huakai Fugui" was Yuan's mother.

After seeing the note "Aunt" on Chen Peiwen's phone and the identical profile picture, Chu Yao was certain.

Ever since Yuan Jiahao disappeared, her attitude has been very abnormal. On the surface, she seems to want to find her daughter very much, but in fact, she is not in a hurry at all.

What's more, what she cared about most was the green coat that was stolen from Yuan's father.

Now that I think about it, it was probably because the evidence of her murder was left on the clothes, so she was worried about being discovered by the police.

"I don't understand, there must be something wrong, how could it be my aunt..." Chen Peiwen kept muttering, "She obviously wanted to find my uncle so much, and why did she kill my uncle? Wasn't all her suffering for so many years because my uncle just left..."

"It's simple. The answer is on this piece of paper." Chu Yao picked up the marriage certificate. "She lied. This certificate is not her marriage certificate, but a divorce certificate."

"You mean, this is the divorce certificate of my aunt and uncle? Where is the evidence?" Chen Peiwen couldn't help but ask.

Chu Yao placed the divorce certificate in front of her and said, "You can touch the numbers at the bottom and you will understand the reason."

Chen Peiwen picked up the divorce certificate and stroked the protruding characters on the back.

It was the first time she had done this and she was very unskilled. It took her twenty or thirty attempts before she could barely feel the difference between the numbers.

"Zero, two, one, six... Yes, this is exactly what I remember. But..." She bit her lower lip, "There is too much space between zero and two."

The explanation given by Yuan's mother was that this was the registration date of the marriage certificate, which was February 16, 1977.

But there is a gap of one character between zero and two. Furthermore, few people in that era would write "February" as "02yue", which means that the "zero" is actually in the year, not the month.

The last digit of the year is zero, so it is impossible that Yuan's father and mother got married in 1970, as neither of them reached the legal age for marriage at that time.

Then, it can only be 1980, so this is not a marriage certificate, but a divorce certificate.

"So, the correct number is actually February 1980, 2." Chu Yao said slowly.

"1980?!" Chen Peiwen exclaimed, "Isn't that the year Jiahao was born? Jiahao's birthday is February 2th..."

In other words, this divorce certificate was issued on the third day after Yuan Jiahao was born.

"I guess it must be that after Yuan's father knew that his daughter was born with intellectual disability, he applied for this certificate and asked Yuan's mother to sign it." Chu Yao analyzed, "And she certainly didn't want to divorce her husband. After seeing that Yuan's father had made up his mind, she decided to kill him."

She lived under the same roof with her husband day and night, and was bound to discover something he wanted to hide.

For example, the thermos cup that the husband secretly brought to the magazine office every day, the meals he carefully prepared, or the token of trust that he and the woman went to the temple to obtain.

But she still had a glimmer of hope that she could use her daughter to keep her husband.

Unfortunately, she failed.

What the husband wanted was a healthy daughter so that he could marry into a rich family, rather than a daughter who would be a burden and could not be used to please Qu Huiqiao.

In this case, his wife is naturally useless.

Yuan's mother waited in the hospital for three whole days, but instead of waiting for her husband to change his mind, she received a cold divorce certificate.

He was still going to leave her, but how could she let him go so easily?

Chen Peiwen suddenly calmed down. She frowned and said, "No, that's not right. How could a weak woman like my aunt kill my uncle? This is unrealistic. My uncle is very tall. Ordinary men can't compete with him."

"That was when he was healthy, but what if... he was poisoned?" Chu Yao said calmly.

"Poison?" Chen Peiwen pondered the possibility, "Arsenic? Cyanide? My aunt can't get such things."

She was an ordinary housewife. Although she had worked before, she had a low level of education and had no access to such dangerous chemicals.

Chu Yao did not respond, but turned around and entered Yuan's mother's bedroom.

She was so skilled that it didn't seem like her first time, but Chen Peiwen's mind was in a mess and she had no intention of paying attention to the details.


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