To confirm my analysis, we returned to the village once again.

One person arrived at Jia Tianwei's house and met his wife.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, I did not reveal my identity, only asked some questions under the guise of a case investigation.

According to her description, Jia Tianwei went out after receiving a phone call that night, looking quite happy when he left.

But the voice on the other end of the phone was a man's, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

This made me have doubts.

In my opinion, it should have been Lin Lan making the call, why was it a man's voice?

Could it be that I was wrong, and it was really Jia Tianwei who temporarily decided to find her?

The problem seemed to return to square one.

From the phone Jia Tianwei left behind, I found that number and noted it down.

Dejected, I returned to Lin Lan's house, only to find the door tightly locked and the house in complete darkness.

"What's going on? Didn't I tell them to wait here, why did they all leave?"

Feeling something was unusual, I immediately dialed Jiahao's number.

"Bro, I'm at the hospital. Jiajia's nose won't stop bleeding, she's being examined."

I rushed to the hospital non-stop, and the examination results were out;

What shocked everyone was that Jiajia was diagnosed with leukemia and needed treatment.

This bad news left us at a loss.

"Jiahao, don't tell Lan yet. You and Kaige stay at the hospital to take care of Jiajia, leave the rest to me."

I took a bank card out of my pocket and stuffed it into his hand.

"Jiahao, I know you don't have much money either, your parents are sick too, take this money, it should be enough for a while. If it's not, let me know."

Upon leaving the hospital, I returned to Lin Lan's house to see if there were any new clues.

After some searching, I quickly found a slip in a drawer, it was Jiajia's medical notification slip.

It was clearly written: Leukemia.

With this slip, it was certain that Lin Lan already knew about Jiajia's condition earlier.

According to normal logic, a mother would stay by her daughter's side without any hesitation if she had a terminal illness, but she didn't!

What kind of reason made her choose like this?

What exactly is she hiding?

And, since Lin Lan already knew about her daughter's condition, why didn't she go for treatment?

Was it because of lack of money?

If that's the case, what she's doing now not only means her own death but her daughter's death too due to lack of treatment.

Unless...

Unless her death would bring hope for her daughter's life!

At this thought, my eyes lit up!

Based on years of experience, I had a bold guess.

She was taking the blame for someone else! To exchange for more money to treat her daughter's illness.

This is the only reason that could explain her unreasonable behavior.

In other words, that night, there must have been a third person present!

That person is the real murderer.

I suddenly felt enlightened, many questions were answered at that moment.

Why she resisted us finding clues, she was afraid of exposing the real murderer.

Why she could fight back in desperation, because she wasn't the one who killed the person.

Why she would abandon her terminally ill daughter, because she was using her own life to extend her daughter's life.

But, this third person, who exactly is he?

What kind of deep grudge does he have against Jia Tianwei to design such a complex plan?

Was calling him out for a drink that night also part of the plan?

And, the man who called him out, does he have any connection with the murderer?

I suddenly thought of that phone number.