Chapter 276

The room became completely quiet.

Qi Fei picked up the two phones and held the lit screens toward Huang Xuewen: "The messages from Huang Ruifen over the past two months were sent to you by Sheng Tianbao."

Huang Xuewen seemed not to understand Qi Fei's words: "What, what do you mean?"

Qi Fei compared the chat history on the phones and patiently analyzed it for Huang Xuewen: "Everyone has their own habits when sending messages. Although these messages sent to you were trying their best to imitate Huang Ruifen's tone, look, none of the messages have punctuation marks; they are all spaces. Huang Ruifen's previous messages all had complete punctuation."

"What, what punctuation..." Huang Xuewen, who was not well-educated, clearly had difficulty understanding.

"See these?" Zhong Kui stepped forward and pointed at the commas and periods in the chat history, "Huang Ruifen's previous messages to you had these, but there haven't been any for a month, which shows that the person sending the messages has different habits."

Qi Fei opened Sheng Tianbao's chat history and flipped through several of them in order: "Sheng Tianbao never adds punctuation to the messages he sends, but more powerful evidence is this."

As he spoke, he opened the chat history between Sheng Tianbao and Huang Ruifen: "Starting from two months ago, Sheng Tianbao and Huang Ruifen haven't sent any messages to each other."

Hearing this, Huang Xuewen panicked: "What does this mean?"

Qi Fei's expression was grave: "It means Sheng Tianbao knew there was no need for messages between him and Huang Ruifen. This is not a simple missing person case."

After hearing Qi Fei's report, Liu Tong opened the thermos on his desk and took a sip: "I didn't expect a simple medical dispute case to become so complicated?"

"Captain Liu, the practice of perpetrators using the victim's phone to send messages to relatives to cover up the fact that the victim is already dead is not uncommon. It seems we need to hurry up and track down Huang Ruifen's whereabouts." Qi Fei frowned tightly, "A girl under twenty years old with an eight-month-old child..."

The gentle smile that often hung on Liu Tong's face disappeared: "Although Sheng Tianbao is dead, don't we still have two important witnesses we can investigate?"

As soon as Qi Fei returned to his office, he saw Zhong Kui and Wu Shanqiu looking intently at Sheng Tianbao's phone together.

"What are you looking at?" Qi Fei also leaned in.

"Brother Fei, this Sheng Tianbao really has quite a few perverted tastes!" Wu Shanqiu said immediately.

"Hmm?" Qi Fei leaned in and saw extremely bloody and violent videos playing on the phone screen, "What the hell is this?"

"I asked Shanqiu to look at Sheng Tianbao's video account with me. These were discovered in his browsing history. I find this short-video account thing quite interesting; I can consider expanding into the business of online fortune-telling." Zhong Kui said with quite a bit of insight.

Qi Fei scrolled through Sheng Tianbao's video history and became more and more uneasy: "Besides watching the news about their family suing Dr. Li, this person only watches these violent videos. He is very immersed in these bad habits! If he is keen on this, then what Huang Ruifen said about being hit really isn't as simple as a normal argument." He took a deep breath, grabbed his credentials, "Let's go! Go to Nancheng Hospital to find Zhang Yingdi."

In the hospital ward, Zhang Yingdi was not immersed in the grief of losing her son as imagined, or rather, this way of expressing grief was something Qi Fei could not understand.

In the ward, Zhang Yingdi was telling the tragic story of losing her son to her phone with snot and tears.

Wu Shanqiu whispered in Qi Fei's ear: "I followed Zhang Yingdi's video account. She hasn't stopped since she found out Sheng Tianbao died; she has posted at least twenty videos. I don't understand, such a big change in the family, and the first thing she does is go online to post videos..."

Qi Fei shook his head: "Truly hopeless."

Zhong Kui, who was on the side, had a different opinion: "There's nothing strange about it. I've learned a lot about this field that this Great Immortal wasn't familiar with over the past two days, and I've found it very interesting. In Zhang Yingdi's cognition, in the past, only the death of a crown prince would be announced to the world. Now she can do it too, posting about herself to everyone. This strong sense of presence is something no one can refuse. People, these social animals, always have a desire to be seen."

"I don't care whether she exists or not; I want to know if Huang Ruifen is alive or dead now." Qi Fei said and strode toward Zhang Yingdi.

The camera on Zhang Yingdi's phone was suddenly covered by a large hand.

Qi Fei appeared in her line of sight.

As soon as Zhang Yingdi saw it was Qi Fei, she immediately begged: "Police Officer, they won't let me see my son. I beg you, let me see my son. My poor Tianbao!" She wailed, beating her chest and stamping her feet.

"It looks like you've recovered quite a bit; we can arrange for you to identify the body today." Qi Fei's tone was much colder than last time, "In addition, we received a report that your daughter-in-law Huang Ruifen is missing. I need to understand the situation from you."

Zhang Yingdi clearly didn't expect this question and was stunned.

"What did you say? Afen? Then, what about my grandson?" Compared to Huang Ruifen, Zhang Yingdi was clearly more concerned about that little grandson.

"Both mother and child are missing."

Zhang Yingdi slumped on the bed, muttering: "What's wrong with my family? One unlucky thing after another..."

"According to what we've learned, Sheng Tianbao often hit Huang Ruifen, is that right?"

Zhang Yingdi denied it flatly: "Nothing of the sort! It was Afen who hit first, and Tianbao had no choice but to fight back. My daughter-in-law has a hot temper, and our Tianbao suffered quite a few grievances!"

Qi Fei knew it was impossible to get an objective answer from Zhang Yingdi and could only ask more specific questions: "On which day did Huang Ruifen go back to her maiden home?"

"Uh, it was around the 15th of the 7th lunar month. I've forgotten the exact date." Zhang Yingdi complained, "I've been missing my grandson for these two months, and I asked her to have a video call, but she wouldn't answer. I also asked Tianbao if the two of them were bickering again. Tianbao even spoke up for her, saying she was busy looking after the baby alone in the countryside and told me not to disturb her."

"Did you see her leave with your own eyes?"

"Not really. I remember that day his father and I went out to collect waste. When we came back, Ruifen and the baby weren't home; only Tianbao and Old Mother were there. Tianbao said Ruifen had taken the baby back to her maiden home. I even complained, saying she didn't discuss it with us before going back, but Afen is a very willful girl." Zhang Yingdi answered, gradually sensing something was wrong, and looked at Qi Fei with worry, "Why are you asking if I saw it with my own eyes? Did Afen not go back to her maiden home?"

Seeing Qi Fei didn't speak, Zhang Yingdi suddenly gritted her teeth and muttered to herself: "Could it be that this girl ran away! I'm going to find that Huang family and get my grandson back."

Qi Fei put away his notebook and said to Zhang Yingdi: "I'll take you to see Sheng Tianbao."