Chapter 67 Mother is innocent
"It's absolutely impossible. The flip-down window is so narrow that no one, no matter how thin they are, can get through."
"That's why we say the thief was not an adult."
"Ah!" Everyone shouted almost at the same time.
"The only people who can climb through that small window and get into the house are children."
"A child?...Is the thief a child?" Long Futao shook his head at first, but then nodded again and again. Kevin continued: "Does the widowed Anne have a child?"
"Yeah, yes, she did have a little boy named Ding Ding, who seemed to be seven or eight years old at the time."
"He is eight years old." The lady's face was very ugly: "Is little Ding Ding a thief?"
"Is he the cute and clever kid who spends all day reading? ...Isn't it possible? ...Is it a mistake?" The lady said with a trembling voice in surprise: "It's impossible.
He is too young to know how to steal diamonds. His mother Anne must have instigated him to steal them."
"No! This theft has nothing to do with his mother." Kevin said with great certainty: "Anne is innocent. She is not the kind of woman who steals other people's things. She has nothing to do with her son stealing the necklace.
She was kept in the dark, and even until her death, she still didn't know that her son had stolen the necklace."
"However, the mother and son basically live in a small house. The son stole something. How could the mother know nothing about it?"
"No! He stole things while his mother was sleeping, so her mother is innocent."
For some unknown reason, Kevin has been trying his best to absolve Anne of the blame: "It's because of the disobedient child named Little Tintin."
"Let's ignore these things for now. In this case, where was the necklace hidden?" Long Futao asked.
"It was hidden in the place where the child kept his books, and then maybe placed on the bottom floor of an old wooden box. It would be fine if the security guard and Inspector Wu also checked the child's things when they consulted his innocent mother."
"In this case, who sends her two thousand gold yuan every year?"
"It's little Tintin. Although he is small, he is clever and clever, and his intelligence has already exceeded his age. He removed the diamonds from the necklace one by one and sold them to those antique jade dealers."
"People who are in the antique jade business are generally very cunning. When they see children selling such things, they will guess that these things must be stolen, or adults asked children to sell them, so they only use practical methods to sell them.
He bought those diamonds for one-tenth of the price. For this, he probably made a lot of money."
"Furthermore, Little Ding Ding did not directly receive cash from the antique dealer, but instead entrusted the merchant to send the money from the diamond sale to his mother under a false name and address. The antique dealer may have sent the money through his colleagues in Dongzhou.
The money was sent.”
"So it seems that Anne instigated her son to steal things and then asked her son to sell diamonds to antique dealers." The lady did not eliminate her suspicion of Anne.
"That's simply impossible. If that's true, why did she write to you, madam, to thank you? She thought it was the two thousand gold dollars you sent to her, and she was always very grateful in her heart. Until six years later, she still
I am incredibly grateful to Madam."
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The above is what Lang Xiaobai told Yingzi about the necklace theft case.
"In this case, that young man Kevin is the little Tintin from twenty-five years ago?" The kind-hearted Yingzi burst into tears after hearing this.
"Yes, little Ding Ding has suffered a lot since his mother died. He was able to do that kind of thing very skillfully when he was six or seven years old. As an adult, he must not have stopped doing it, but continued
Stealing other people’s things.”
"However, he is definitely not an ordinary thief. Because he has a deep understanding of his mother's suffering in poverty, and he still has fresh memories of the harsh treatment his mother suffered from Mrs. Long Futao. He also remembers that his mother often
The scene of crying alone. He will never forget these things."
"So, it was very natural for him to place his sympathy and care on those who were also poor and unfortunate, and he gradually began to hate those who only pursued fame and fortune and blindly insulted others."
"So, he only targets those evil people who rely on their status and authority to obtain ill-gotten wealth, or who obtain wealth by blackmailing servants, workers, and prisoners. After stealing the money from these people, he
The money is secretly used to help the less fortunate, or helpless women and children."
"Isn't that the same as the great thief Shiro?"
"It's really similar. Although he is not an upright person, he still has a kind side."
"Why did Mr. Kevin go out of his way to visit Long Futao's residence twenty-five years after the incident?"
"The purpose is to clear his mother's suspicion and shame! Both Long Futao and his wife thought it was Annie who stole the necklace. However, because there was no evidence, the Security Bureau and the Procuratorate did not treat her as a suspect. However,
Mrs. Long Futao always suspected that Anne had stolen the necklace. After the theft, creditors came to collect debts, which made Long Futao, who was already in poor economic condition, on the verge of bankruptcy. For this reason, Mrs. Long resented Anne very much.
She often said that it was because she stole the necklace that the family ended up in this situation. So, she bullied Anne all day long. Anne, who was loyal and honest by nature, finally couldn't bear the humiliation and left with little Tintin."
Chapter completed!