Chapter 10 Chapter Nine Small Belly

I lit a cigarette and leaned against the sidewalk guardrail. The cigarettes were bought in a nearby convenience store, as were the lighters.I rarely smoke, only at certain times.For example, when things are difficult. At this moment, behind me, across a road that is not wide, is the main entrance of the No. 1 Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Shanghai.Many people are coming in and out there, and quite a few of them are pregnant women with big bellies. I've been here for a long time, looking around at these peddlers in all kinds of clothes and sitting on the floor selling accessories, what signal made them disperse one minute before the arrival of the urban management, and then returned to the nest in twos and threes.

The child under Huang Zhi's body in the Shanghai hospital was found dead in a refrigerator in Seoul, South Korea.Is Veronique, who has pleaded guilty, hiding something, or is she simply insane under pressure to spout nonsense?But even if she was not insane, she couldn't explain why Huang Zhi's child ran to her. Isn't it enough for her to kill her own child, and want the baby trafficking organization to buy babies to kill to satisfy her perverted psychology?If this is the case, she has already confessed, why not confess together? Also, how did the abnormal marks left by the baby's long-term crawling come from?Could this trace be related to his act of absorbing his siblings in his mother's body?Or, are there other, more mysterious reasons?

I believe the key is in the hospital ahead.As long as you can find the "thread" from a maternity and infant hospital, and then follow the clues, you can figure everything out. Or is it the same as before, using the convenience of being a reporter to check?But this doesn't seem to work in a maternity and infant hospital.Can I find a suitable reason to ask the hospital to read the patient's records and other required information from three years ago?Ask various relevant personnel about what happened three years ago, is this still news? And, it's not about one person.Going further down, there are also a group of people with considerable influence in the hospital who work together to plan and carry out the plan so that no water will leak.So these people will let me, a reporter, see any material that may reveal the truth?

If I could come up with the perfect answer, I wouldn't linger here for a long time.But now, since you can't think of a perfect solution, let's not think about it. I stubbed out the cigarette butt and walked to a maternity and infant hospital.In such a place where there is no way to start, the wine makes me go head-to-head like a brute and see what I get.At least one can observe who reacts suspiciously. The phone rang suddenly. "Where are you?" He Xi was the only one with such a crisp tone. "I'm on... Changle Road." "Changle Road? Are you in the hospital?"

"Ok." "Just wait, I'll be there in a while." He Xi hung up the phone after saying this. I froze for a moment, then leaned against the guardrail again, took out a cigarette and lit it. Fifteen minutes later, I received another call from He Xi. "Where is the person?" When she asked these two words, a police car drove past me and turned into the gate of a maternity and infant hospital. When I walked into the hospital quickly, He Xi in police uniform was already standing in front of the clinic gate. "Why are you here? This place is no better than Datang Village. It's impossible to get away with an expired police officer's card," I said.

"Are you here for Zha Zhiying?" He Xi asked without answering. "yes." "Then go in." He Xi left after finishing speaking, and gave me a back view, which made me hate him so much.Will you die if you speak clearly? This style is really... to my liking. "What are you doing standing there?" He Xi turned her head in front and said. "Oh...oh." I quickly followed. We directly found the director of the Maternity and Infant Hospital, a slightly bald man who seemed to be retiring in a few years. As soon as He Xi met, he showed his certificate first. I glanced at the side, and it seemed that it wasn't the expired police officer's certificate.

The director looked at the certificate carefully, then handed it back to He Xi. "He Forensic Doctor, what's the matter?" It turned out to be a forensic certificate. "There is a murder case that requires your hospital's assistance. The deceased was admitted to the hospital for a period of time three years ago. I need all the information you conducted on the patient named Huang Zhi at that time, so that I can compare it with her current autopsy results. Yes. It is important to the case." "Oh, yes, we will definitely cooperate." The director seemed unprepared, and immediately agreed.

"You speak very grandly." I said softly to He Xi. "Originally." He Xi replied. The director asked He Xi to wait in the office and ask someone to call up the relevant materials and send them over.When he called someone to do this, his tone and words were normal, and there was nothing suspicious about it. "So, are you also here to interview this murder case?" I had already handed my business card to the director, but he didn't quite understand my intention. "Oh, no, He Fayi and I are friends, and we just ran into each other at the door. But I did come to do an interview. Our newspaper wants to do a special report on the satisfaction of patients in a large Shanghai hospital. A lot of work has been done to optimize the medical treatment environment, so I want to take a look on the spot. It’s best, you can send someone to explain to me what your various links are like.” I can’t do anything while waiting here. For a reason, I want to try to learn something from another source.

A smile appeared on the director's face. This is a promotional image of the hospital. How can I let it go? He immediately sent a girl in the office to take me down for a walk.This girl is not too young, but she is younger than the director.It is estimated that he worked as a nurse for several years, and then was transferred to the hospital office to do administration.To be honest, this is the best way out for nurses, much better than getting to the head nurse. She introduced this and that to me very enthusiastically, which made me a little embarrassed.Because this report is non-existent, no matter how much she said, I couldn't write it.

I am most concerned about obstetrics and gynecology.A man is really interested in this...but in the name of an interview, he just bite the bullet.After asking a series of questions, I figured out a series of procedures for a pregnant woman from prenatal examination to hospitalization to delivery.What's more, I visited the baby's room on the spot, and asked specifically how to wipe it clean before registering when a baby cuts the umbilical cord in the delivery room. It was reported that the baby's room was bathed with warm water by a special nurse. In short, a series of procedures are quite strict, and it is almost impossible to steal babies in large numbers.

In fact, when I was standing at the door of a woman and baby, I realized that even if there were baby abductions in such a hospital, it would not happen in large numbers.Nowadays, there are many pregnant women who do B-ultrasound secretly. It is rare for Huang Zhi to give birth without knowing whether she is pregnant with a boy or a girl, or whether she is twins or not.In addition, regardless of the registration procedures in the hospital, the husband usually waits outside the delivery room. When the baby is born smoothly, the nurse will show it to the father as soon as possible. Now think about it, to successfully steal a baby, a series of conditions must be met.First of all, the key to the twins, so that one can be hidden and the other can be kept. Secondly, the mother has never had a B-ultrasound, and does not know what is going on in her belly. This is actually risky, because many people may have B-ultrasounds done in other hospitals; and then hide The baby should not be discovered by the mother and the father who is guarding outside; in the end, the internal procedures of the hospital must be done so that there are no clues. Such harsh conditions make it impossible for this kind of behavior to take place on a large scale, let alone form a dark industrial chain, because the cost is too high. It is logical to think about it, and some related people will only do such things under very few special circumstances.It is even possible to do yellow weaving only once. Yes, special circumstances.This baby is indeed the most special. Not only did it absorb its siblings into a piece of paper, but it also had incredible long-term crawling marks when it died. Perhaps this special situation appeared when he was just born, or there are other peculiarities. The medical reason, the motivation is this.I thought of the dangerous situation last year, which finally forced He Xi to choose rebirth, which made me know that even medicine can make people do such crazy things. All the "interviews" that should be "interviewed" are over. On the way back to the hospital, I received a text message from He Xi. "I don't see a problem." The moment I saw these five words, I was a little scared.To such an almost flawless level, should I continue to investigate? "He is no longer now, he has gone abroad. What a coincidence, he just left the day before yesterday." As soon as I walked into the hospital office, I heard the director say this to He Xi. "Oh, you're still not well here." I said to He Xi, of course, I said this to the director. "No, I want to find out the details from the doctor in charge of the delivery, but he has already gone abroad." He Xi replied. "Is it Dr. Zhang? I talked to him on the phone a few days ago." I said in surprise. "How do you know?" the director asked puzzled. "I interviewed him three years ago, just because the mother gave birth to a deformed fetus." I explained. "Oh, that's right. Dr. Zhang went to the United States as a visiting scholar, and it will take half a year before he comes back." He Xi and I looked at each other, what a coincidence. "Then let's do this first. I will take the copies of these materials back. If there is any problem, I may come to trouble you." He Xi said. "Okay, okay." The director agreed. He Xi and I walked out of the office and turned a corner in the aisle. I asked, "Did you find anything suspicious?" "It looks normal on paper. I asked a doctor. People can give me more information than paper, but..." He Xi stopped suddenly when she was talking, and she stared at this person who was facing him. The nurse who came, until the nurse passed us. "What's wrong?" "I almost forgot that there is another person. In the delivery room, usually the doctor does not do anything, but just watches from the side to prevent accidents from happening. The midwife who delivered the mother was the midwife who delivered the baby for Huang Zhi at that time. I know, no less than a doctor." He Xi said, turning around and walking towards the inpatient office. "I'm really sorry, the midwife who delivered the woman at that time is no longer here," the director said to us. "What?" I couldn't help but say. "She resigned two or three years ago, and she doesn't know where she is now." The director shrugged, "I'm sorry, I can't help you." "What's her name?" He Xi asked. "Yue Wenying." "Where are you from? Are you from Shanghai?" "Yes, she is local." "In this case, it shouldn't be difficult to find her." He Xi looked at the director and said. "Oh, yes. It will not be difficult for the public security system to find her." The director replied with a smile. One afternoon two days later, I walked into a community.This is one of the high-end riverside residential complexes in Pudong.Yue Wenying lives here. I thought that since the two people who knew Huang Zhi's pregnancy situation best were not in the hospital by such a coincidence, even the police might not be able to find Yue Wenying easily.Now it seems that this idea can not be wrong. I don't know if Yue Wenying is here, or even if she still lives here.After Yue Wenying resigned, the file has been on the street, and it seems that she never went out to work again.The phone number in the file has all been changed, but her parents can still find it.Entrusted by He Xi, the household registration police of Yue Wenying's parents' place went to their home once, and learned that they had cut off contact with their daughter. The reason was unknown, and her parents didn't want to talk about it.Because I didn't contact her, I don't even have my daughter's current phone number. The address I got was the address written on the New Year's card that Yue Wenying sent to her parents during the Spring Festival this year. It seems that what Yue Wenying did has made her parents unable to forgive her, and they are unwilling to contact her proactively. He Xi didn't come with me, and since I interviewed as a reporter, it would be less likely to arouse Yue Wenying's vigilance.Now she has to hurry up and study Huang Zhi's corpse. After all, this extremely precious corpse to her cannot be placed in the forensic anatomy room forever, day by day. Yue Wenying lives on the seventh floor, and there is a security door downstairs. The owner can see the appearance of visitors through the camera installed on the door, and there is also a walkie-talkie to talk to. I pressed the call button for room 702, and I was quite worried. If I came to the door so rashly, don't even be unable to get in this door. "Hey, who are you?" A woman's voice came from the door. "Excuse me, is Yue Wenying here?" I asked "Well, I am." I was excited and said quickly, "I'm sorry to bother you. I'm Naduo, a reporter from Morning Star News. I want to interview you." Having said that, I showed my press card in front of the camera. "Morning Star reporter? What interview?" "It's about...about some of your experience, this, can you go up and talk about it in detail?" "OK, all right." The safety door made a slight sound and opened slowly inward automatically. Just let me in?It seems to be quite easy. I took the elevator to the seventh floor, wondering what I was going to learn from her. No more nonsense this time, as soon as the doorbell was pressed, it opened. The air-conditioning came out of the door, which refreshed me.The woman who opened the door for me was wearing a knee-length silk suspender dress, with a pointed chin, and a pair of slender eyes, as if she hadn't slept enough to keep her eyes open, and she had a lazy style. However, why do I feel that this face has a sense of familiarity, as if I have seen it somewhere. Taking out the press card and business card again, Yue Wenying just looked at the business card, then looked up at me, and said, "Have you...have you interviewed a maternity and infant before?" I froze for a moment, nodded, and then suddenly remembered that the woman in front of me was the nurse who eavesdropped when Dr. Zhang told me about the situation of the paper baby when I went to interview a maternity baby three years ago.It turns out that she is a midwife. It seems that the costumes of the two are similar, so I can't tell the difference.From a feeling, she looks much more attractive now than when she was a nurse, but it may also be that my mind was all attracted by the paper baby at that time, and I didn't pay attention to her at all. Yue Wenying smiled and said, "You remember, come in and say something." I changed my shoes into the living room and sat down on the sofa.This living room has an area of ​​fifty or sixty square meters, and all the furniture, furnishings and decoration are exquisite. The living room is only this big, the whole house must be at least 200 square meters.What is the land price here now, 31,000 square meters or more?How did she get so much money? "How do you know that I live here?" Yue Wenying asked. "Oh, I asked someone to find your parents first, and they gave you this address." Listening to me talking about her parents, a trace of haze flashed across Yue Wenying's face "Actually, my coming to you today has something to do with the interview at that time." "It has something to do with that interview, that paper baby?" Yue Wenying blurted out. I nodded, but hesitated in my heart, what to say next.Should I ask directly, or in a roundabout way?This Yue Wenying suddenly left a mother and child back then, and now he is so rich, so there are many doubts. "It's a little bit related. Later, I have been in touch with that woman named Huang Zhi. At that time, I didn't have enough interview experience. I only asked a doctor to interview, and the final report was not written. I knew that you were the paper baby who delivered the baby. I should interview you as well." I babbled away from the subject and asked abruptly, "But why did you suddenly leave a mother and child? I heard that the income and treatment there are still very low. Not bad." You have to find a way to figure this out before you can decide what strategy to use next. Yue Wenying smiled, but there was a lot of unexplainable content in the smile. "Oh, I'm too presumptuous." I said hypocritically. "There's nothing bad to say, you already know from my parents that I live here, can't you guess the reason?" "Ah." I really didn't realize what she was referring to. She smiled again and said, "I can't afford this kind of house, and my name is not on the real estate certificate." Next, she told me all her stories like pouring beans in a bamboo tube.It turned out that she was a canary. The so-called canary looks very beautiful and has a beautiful cry, but it is the kind that is locked in a cage and cannot fly out no matter what.Over the years, these three words have had specific meanings. The reason for her resignation is completely wrong because I was misled by other information.In fact, it is very simple. She met a wealthy Taiwanese businessman and was hired as a mistress. There are many women who are willing to become mistresses. In addition to money, love is also very important.Yue Wenying liked that man so much that she was so desperate that even if she fell out with her parents, she would not break up.Her parents are both intellectuals, and they are very decent and old-fashioned. Their daughter was taken as a mistress by a Taiwanese, which was completely beyond their tolerance. It was even more embarrassing to talk about it, so they had no choice but to act as if they did not have this daughter. , cut off contact. The more intense the love, the shorter the duration.Today, it is not just feelings that keep Yue Wenying in this state.Most of the time, she lived alone in this big house, lonely, and she couldn't even find anyone to talk to.Today I ran here so that she could have someone to talk to, and she and I were strangers, to some extent, it was easier to talk and vent without scruples. After hearing Yue Wenying's story, I finally felt relieved, and the first thing I said to her was: "Huang Zhi is dead." "Huang Zhi, the mother who gave birth to the paper baby, has been killed." Under Yue Wenying's shocked eyes, I narrated the whole thing.From Huang Zhi's mental illness, to my daughter's disappearance, I went to find her, and how I found her dead in a small hotel in Shanghai, and DNA tests matched the dead babies in South Korea's refrigerators, etc. The occurrence of a series of events and the weird connections between them make it impossible for anyone to sort out the clues.Yue Wenying was stunned for a while after I finished speaking, and then said: "Now you suspect that Huang Zhi gave birth to more than just a paper baby? The other one ran into a refrigerator in South Korea?" I nodded: "Because there is no other possibility, Huang Zhi's pregnancy record is only two times." "But I was the one who delivered the baby, so she only gave birth to that freak!" Yue Wenying said with her eyes widened. "How come?" I carefully looked at her expression, it didn't look like she was lying. "That was the most impressive time I have been a midwife in the past few years. How could I remember it wrong." Yue Wenying said firmly, "Besides, if she really gave birth to another healthy baby, we would have given it to her at that time , how could it be hidden." Speaking of this, she saw my strange expression, and suddenly exclaimed: "So you really suspected that we hid the baby." I coughed and said, "This is the most logical judgment based on the facts, and this time I went to a maternity and infant survey, and Dr. Zhang and you, the two people who know the facts the most, happened to be away..." "But the fact is that Huang Zhi only gave birth to a paper baby. Anything you just said is very strange, so strange that it cannot be understood normally, so adding another unexplainable fact will not let you I find it unacceptable." I smiled wryly: "I wanted to get a little breakthrough from you, but now... think about it again, did you find anything strange at that time?" "Strange thing?" Yue Wenying smiled, "Isn't it strange that a person gave birth to such a thing?!" Although she said this with a smile, that expression made me feel that to this day, she still has lingering fears when thinking of the scene of that day. "However, looking back now, there are still some unusual things. Everyone present at the time was stunned, and some small details were ignored." "Oh, what's there?" I couldn't help sitting up straight. "It's afterbirth." "afterbirth?" "It is a layer of membrane that protects the fetus before the fetus is formed. It is like an eggshell, but it is soft. Generally, after the fetus is born, the placenta falls out before the mother is considered safe. There is a medicine called Taibao powder. It’s made of afterbirth, which is very filling.” Very nourishing...... Such medicine sounds a little disgusting. "But the paper baby's afterbirth is larger than that of a normal fetus." My eyes lit up and I said, "It's like a double-yolk egg is bigger than a single-yolk egg?" Yue Wenying nodded: "For such a paper baby, the afterbirth was a bit too big. Another thing is, I always thought it was my illusion. I... think Huang Zhi's belly is bigger than her newborn baby's." In the hospital, it was a little smaller." "Your stomach is smaller?" My eyes began to twitch involuntarily.What the hell does this message indicate... "If it weren't for what you said just now, I wouldn't dare to tell you how I feel, because it's simply impossible. I've always thought I was overthinking. But now it looks like it's too demonic. It's too demonic." I could not help but shiver when I heard her utter two words of "monster" in succession. "Wait. I just interviewed a maternity and infant hospital. I learned that midwives generally do not have contact with patients before delivery. It is other nurses who take care of pregnant women who live in the hospital before delivery. You How could Huang Zhi notice the size of her stomach when she was admitted to the hospital?" "It's because of a poker friend." "A poker buddy? A mahjong poker buddy?" "Playing card friends. Wait a moment." Yue Wenying said, took out this photo album from the cabinet, and turned to one of the pages for me to read. "This photo was probably taken a few days before Huang Zhi gave birth. It shows a poker friend who often plays cards together. I'm talking about this person." The background of the photo is about a corner of the hospital, with six girls on it.In fact, it should be said to be five.The one Yue Wenying was referring to was older, at least thirty years old.Six people stood in two rows, and this person stood in the middle of the back row. When I looked carefully again, I suddenly found that there seemed to be another person standing between this person and the girl on her left.But the man was extremely short, like a child, with only a little hair showing, his face could not be seen clearly, and he was basically blocked. My whole face became stiff all of a sudden, and a chill came over me. what is this? Under normal circumstances, when a child takes a photo with adults, the child will always be in a conspicuous place, and there is no reason why the child will be completely blocked by the adults, leaving only a vague outline of hair. What's more, Yue Wenying just said very clearly that this is a group photo of her poker friends.Of course, her poker friends couldn't possibly include such a child! So who is this person, or rather, what is this? I think of those ghost photos circulating on the Internet, the ghosts of children appearing behind people for no reason... "This, what is this?" I asked Yue Wenying, I felt my tongue was a little stiff. "Ah. This?" Yue Wenying looked at the place I was pointing at, then at my face, and laughed. "This is a little girl, I forgot her name, but she is the daughter of the mother." "Huang Zhi's daughter? Zhou Xianxian?" "Zhou Xianxian? It seems to be the name. That's why I noticed Huang Zhi. My poker friend is Xue Ying, a nurse who was taking care of another woman in the same ward as Huang Zhi. Zhou Xianxian The little girl is withdrawn and doesn't talk to adults very much, but she gets along very well with my friend and is very close. So when I took pictures, I took the little girl with me, but she refused to stand in the front and kept going back. Shrink it, and it looks like this." I shrugged. It turned out that this was the case. It really shocked me. "Because you, a nurse friend, got along with Zhou Xianxian, that made you notice her mother?" "Yeah, in fact, although this little girl doesn't like to talk, she always hides in the corner, but for some reason, people can't ignore her. And there are really very few women who only bring such a daughter to the hospital to give birth. Yes. Oh, yes..." Yue Wenying thought of something, and said again: "Speaking of strange things, Xue Ying resigned shortly after that. It was quite abrupt, and the phone was changed, so this person could not be found. He and the little girl walked away before. It's very close, I think that girl is closer to her than to her mother. So, it can be regarded as a strange relationship with Huang Zhi." "Shortly after that? How soon?" "About two or three weeks. I didn't say hello to the little sisters who played cards with us, so I just resigned." I thought about it and said, "Do you mind if I retake these photos?" "It's okay, you're done." I took out the digital camera I carried with me and took this photo as clearly as possible. Why didn't this woman resign suddenly? If she really liked Zhou Xianxian, she might keep in touch with Huang Zhi after she was discharged from the hospital.Reminiscent of Datang Village, I heard that before Zhou Xianxian disappeared, strangers from the village often stayed with girls. Could it be her? Leaving from Yue Wenying had some gains, but more doubts. Belly getting smaller? Afterbirth too big? I was thinking about what was hidden behind these messages when my phone rang suddenly. "Hi, I'm Wang Xuanren." "Oh, Inspector Wang." I was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this was the Inspector in charge of investigating the case of Huang Zhi's murder. "I'll tell you one thing, the murderer has been caught!"