Street Hustler and His Policewoman Wife

Chapter 423: Solving the Question: Compose a Paragraph Using the Above Words!

Ye Jiadong.

Died at the age of 51.

At 48, Ye Jiadong abandoned his twenty-year teaching career to go into business.

In the interrogation record, the police asked Ye Jiadong’s children why he abandoned teaching and went into business three years before the incident.

Ye Jiadong’s son gave a simple answer: teaching was too dull, he wanted a change.

But Ye Jiadong’s daughter said in the record: "My father has always been reticent and honest, not good at social interactions. So even after many years of teaching, he remained stagnant."

"My mother has a strong personality. At first, she valued my father’s teaching job, thinking it was a stable livelihood. But later, after my father introduced her to circles she didn’t belong to, she saw many people climbing up in the world. She became disgusted with my father, thinking he was just a clean-cut college teacher on the outside but actually a coward unwilling to leave his comfort zone."

"Actually, our family didn’t lack money. My father’s salary was quite sufficient. But he couldn’t stand my mother’s nagging, so he followed others into business."

"However, my father had no business acumen, having spent his whole life on education, so he quickly lost all the startup capital."

"After losing it all, my mother resolutely divorced him. This hit him hard, and he never returned home, always wandering outside since then."

"My mother had been spoiled her entire life, becoming domineering. My father could endure what others couldn’t. The year before my father had his accident, she was beaten into being half-paralyzed, and she didn’t even dare to pursue responsibility."

"I think my brother might not mention these things to you because of face-saving reasons, but since the case is being re-investigated, I’ll tell you everything about my father, hoping it might help you."

"As for whether he was a tomb raider, from a daughter’s perspective, I don’t believe it, nor do I want to believe it. Early in his entrepreneurship, he built a warehouse, and after it was demolished, it unexpectedly became the seed fund for my brother and me to start our business."

"But if I view his mindset rationally at the time, I think he could have done anything for a windfall."

"Even though he was already a man in his fifties, tomb raiding seemed somewhat fitting with his expertise."

After reading Ye Jiadong’s daughter’s record.

Chen Xiao found Ye Jiadong to be quite thought-provoking.

Because from his daughter’s words, it’s clear that she suspected he might have engaged in tomb raiding.

This is the only record suggesting the deceased’s death might be related to tomb raiding.

Chen Xiao continued to gaze at this record, feeling an inexplicable desire to talk to Ye Jiadong’s daughter.

But considering it was already late at night, Chen Xiao decided not to disturb her.

Closing all the records,

Chen Xiao did not look at anything else.

He leaned on the chair, pondering possible connections among the six deceased.

However, trying to connect all the dots, including the messages left by the other five before their incidents, led to no common point among them.

Chen Xiao didn’t like overthinking.

Since he couldn’t find a breakthrough from the records, he wouldn’t waste more time on it.

Putting the records aside, Chen Xiao started reviewing the investigation process of the year.

Back in ’95, the criminal investigation segment of this case was headed by the deputy director of a district police department in the Provincial City.

Based on the recorded process, there seemed to be no issues with the police investigation.

They determined the cause of death was due to tomb raiding based on the method of death and the environment at the time.

Even why all six had died in the ancient tomb at the same time had been concluded in the case documents.

Reasons of living and economic reasons!

In the nineties, there were plenty of notorious bandits everywhere.

Let alone the priceless treasures in the ancient tomb.

Even if there was only ten thousand yuan inside, maybe even less, it could trigger a bloodbath!

Re-evaluating the life situations of the six deceased.

A pair of idle brothers without stable jobs.

A pair of sisters running a small commodity store.

A laborer and a university teacher who suffered a life-shattering event.

Would these individuals engage in tomb raiding for the valuable treasures within? It was completely possible!

However, Chen Xiao felt the determination back then was rushed, or the archeological work of Jingguang Tomb overshadowed the importance of factual investigation.

Although many valuable gold and silver treasures were unearthed in the ancient tomb, there were no obvious traces of theft.

Thus, this determination was inherently unreasonable!

Moreover, how exactly did these six come together?

Thinking about it, Chen Xiao couldn’t help but jot down a few numbers: 35, 33, 42, 41, 31, 51.

These were the ages of the six deceased at the time of death.

Jiang Pinggui was the youngest, Ye Jiadong the oldest.

The oldest was twenty years senior to the youngest.

In the middle, the Wu sisters were also in their forties, ten years older than Jiang Pinggui, and a few years older than the Wang brothers.

Different occupations, ages, and origins.

No matter the perspective, they were completely different, so how could they be matched?

Chen Xiao wrote down their names again.

This time, however, this wasn’t the correct approach. Instead, the task was to create a logical and reasonable sentence using these words!

"Indeed, these aren’t names but words, and the task is to form a coherent and logical statement with them!"

Chen Xiao felt as if a light bulb had turned on in his mind, and his brain began working on solving the puzzle.

Moreover, this puzzle could be reduced from six words to four.

Wang brothers.

Wu Family Sisters.

Jiang Pinggui.

Ye Jiadong!

Chen Xiao then made further modifications, replacing names with identities.

What defines social outcasts?

Much like Chen Xiao before, street loafers or bluntly put, idlers who don’t like to work, hmm... drifters in the Provincial City of Jiang Province.

Replacing Wu Family Sisters, the new term should be—Hai City Merchandisers.

Jiang Pinggui—Laborer.

Ye Jiadong—Entrepreneur.

Reaching this point, Chen Xiao encountered his first stop in the problem-solving process.

He began revisiting all the information he just reviewed, persistently feeling that due to geographical reasons, the Wu sisters from Hai City were hard to connect for the time being.

Jiang Pinggui, too, because of his status, was hard to integrate with them!

Thinking and thinking, suddenly two words became very clear in Chen Xiao’s memory.

Warehouse!

Ye Jiadong’s daughter mentioned that early in his entrepreneurship, Ye Jiadong built a warehouse for stockpiling!

Jiang Pinggui was a laborer, so could it be that during the construction of that warehouse, Jiang Pinggui was hired as a laborer to help?!!