Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1429 Hunting Crime + Fireworks 54

Min Xue was threatened by Min Shengmei. Even though there were some things she could not reveal the truth about, she was still not prepared to succumb to Min Shengmei and compromise with her.

But she didn't expect that Min Shengmei herself would be targeted by the police again.

For Min Xue, Min Shengmei had been safe and sound for nearly half a year, and she was only happy about it. Occasionally, she would think about it and pay some attention to it. She found that Min Shengmei seemed to have found a way to make money, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

However, things are not always as planned. When Min Xue was looking forward to her career, she was taken to the police station for questioning.

Xu Qin took the initiative to avoid the topic because she had sponsored Min Xue's charity home and had deeper dealings with her. Others who had simply donated money, such as Du Cheng, Shen Yi, Li Han, and Jiang Feng, did not need to avoid the topic. However, Shen Yi discovered a surprising fact: "Min Xue does not look like she is 24 or 25 years old as she claims. Her actual age may be older."

Du Cheng immediately reacted, "You mean, Min Xue concealed her age in that case, which led to her adoptive father Zhang Bin being sentenced to a heavy sentence?"

Du Cheng immediately took the case very seriously, because Min Xue was molested by her adoptive father Zhang Bin. In view of the fact that Min Xue was adopted by Zhang Bin and Min Shengmei, and the fact that Min Xue was a minor, the sentencing standards for Zhang Bin would definitely be different from those for molesting an adult.

This case may even bring discredit to Lei Yifei, who handled the case back then. All the honors he has received over the years may be revoked because of this case.

However, this case could not be concealed. Even though Director Zhang trusted his colleagues very much, he could not stop the General Administration from sending people to review the decision on the case of Min Xue being molested by Zhang Bin.

Of course Du Cheng couldn't help but make a scene in Director Zhang's office. Director Zhang had no choice but to call back Xu Qin, who had been avoiding him, to appease Du Cheng. "Although Xiao Xu had quite frequent contacts with Min Xue in the past year, they were all for the people in need of help in the charity home hosted by Min Xue. Strictly speaking, she and Min Xue didn't have any personal relationship, so there was no need to avoid suspicion like this."

Comrade Lu Haizhou, the head of the Criminal Investigation Brigade sent by the General Administration, is also a reasonable person. He must know Xu Qin's background, and he joked with Director Zhang: "We in the General Administration also envy Director Zhang for having such reasonable and generous family members as Comrade Xu Qin's parents."

Thinking of Fu Wenying's donations almost every six months, Director Zhang couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. The new equipment in He Rongyue's laboratory was all thanks to Xu Qin's mother, Ms. Fu Wenying!

So Xu Qin ended her vacation and came back to assist Lu Haizhou in reopening the case of Min Xue being molested by her adoptive father Zhang Bin. The focus of the investigation was naturally on Min Xue's age.

Lu Haizhou was more organized than Du Cheng. He first asked He Rongyue. She was one of the people who performed the biopsy on Min Xue that year. She happened to be in the police station, so he asked her about it.

He Rongyue had no intention of hiding anything. After all, there might be something wrong with Min Xue's age identification now, and those who were responsible for the identification back then were all responsible.

He Rongyue said frankly: "Based on the professional appraisal at the time, we finally concluded that Min Xue's age was under 18 years old. Although Min Xue's bone age was older in the bone age test, we could not find Min Xue's parents and could not do further cross-testing. Therefore, a single bone age test cannot be used as evidence to determine age."

"And my teacher said that based on Min Xue's height information, she is obviously short, so there is a possibility that the epiphyseal line has closed prematurely."

"Captain Lei later re-verified Min Xue's identity information, so I didn't insist. So in the end we determined that Min Xue was a minor at the time."

Lu Haizhou nodded to show that he understood, and he also knew that he could not get more useful information from He Rongyue. After all, as a forensic officer, He Rongyue had done everything he could.

So when Lei Yifei investigated Min Xue's household registration and identity information, this process and action became particularly important.

At present, Xu Qin and Shen Yi were the only ones in the group who had not worked with Lei Yifei, so they were the only ones who could help Lu Haizhou. Xu Qin drove the two of them directly to Lei Yifei's home to see if they could find any of Lei Yifei's investigation records from that year.

Lei Yifei is a typical person who works so hard that he forgets to eat and sleep. Therefore, his wife is the only one who can understand him. As for his daughter, she never understood him and even hated him as a father who was always unreliable and often missed appointments.

But now the person has been gone for several years, and the child who was always resentful has grown up, and even muttered through the door that her father was a good policeman.

Lei Yifei's belongings, apart from clothes and daily necessities, only a work notebook collected by his daughter.

On the way, Lu Haizhou looked back and forth at Lei Yifei's records on the Min Xue case. There was indeed a record of visiting the orphanage where Min Shengmei adopted Min Xue, but there was no mention of Min Xue's personality, which made him feel depressed.

Xu Qin was driving in front. He saw from the rearview mirror that Lu Haizhou's face was not very good, and he felt a little anxious.

Lu Haizhou felt Xu Qin's scrutiny, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he explained solemnly, "We need to revisit all the places that Captain Lei mentioned back then to eliminate the information asymmetry caused by backward technology and systems. Perhaps we can make some unexpected discoveries."

The picture comes from the city welfare home, where Min Xue was adopted by Min Shengmei. The person in charge still has a deep impression of Min Xue after so many years.

She said: "This child is still called Lin Xue here. A police officer also came to understand the situation."

"Lin Xue came to us as a wanderer. She said that when she was four years old, her parents died in an accident on a construction site. Her relatives were unwilling to adopt her, so it was her aunt who took her home."

"But within two years, the aunt also died of illness. All the relatives started to complain and were even more afraid to adopt her. She kept wandering around and came to us. We felt sorry for her, so we contacted the police station where her household registration was located and found out that the situation was true, so we adopted her."

Xu Qin asked: "What kind of personality does Lin Xue have?"

The person in charge couldn't help but smile when he heard this. "She is very sweet and knows how to please others. She always takes the initiative to play with the sisters. We all like her very much."

"It's just that, seeing how sensible she is, we always feel that her experience may be more complicated than other children, and she is a little more mature, so we feel more sorry for her."