Chapter 86

"How would I know? They only met once during the blind dating. They haven't had any other contact."

"Living in the same village, how could they have only met during the blind dating ?" Zoey pressed on, not letting her off the hook.

Renee was already very impatient but had to brush them off. "They met when they were kids, but then they went to school. The village chief's son grew up in the county, so he didn't see Janet again. Now that he's grown up and returned, they met again for blind dating. What's wrong with that?"

Zoey looked at her coldly, "We have interviewed other villagers, and they told us that Janet didn't want to get married. She plans to go out to work next month. Did she mention this to you?"

Upon hearing this, Renee's mocking smile almost overflowed, "Janet, an illiterate girl, wants to go out and earn money? How much can she earn? I think she just wants to go out and be taken advantage of by city folks. She might as well get married early and be a proper woman, taking care of her husband and children at home."

Zoey mocked, "Like an idiot like you?"

Renee was puzzled.

Renee, was a woman who had been living in the countryside for years. How could she be intimidated by a young girl like Zoey?

Renee's shrewish demeanor instantly surfaced, "You little girl, you really have a sharp tongue. Did your mother teach you to talk like this to your elders? A child like you must have a bad mother. Seeing you, I can almost imagine what your mother is like!"

"Really? Keep cursing." Zoey said.

Renee fell silent, thinking Zoey was crazy.

Zoey's words were more effective than a hundred retorts, which stunned Renee directly.

Zoey looked at her calmly and said, "I don't mind at all if an idiot like you curses another idiot in front of me."

After all, she felt satisfied.

Renee, who made her unhappy, also cursed someone who made her equally unhappy. Why wouldn't she enjoy such a good thing?

Renee fell silent.

The other members of the criminal investigation team didn't understand what was going on.

They thought Renee was about to face a more violent retaliation.

However, Zoey didn't say anything next, with a slight smile on her lips.

The others remained silent.

"You're not afraid of anything, are you? Hmm? You're quite something. Today, I'll make you regret doing it!" Renee stepped forward, unable to control herself.

Alexander saw that they were about to fight.

Thinking of Brian's mother's incident, he quickly stepped in front of Zoey, trying to calm the situation.

He smiled and explained the misunderstanding, "Mrs. Fuller, we're here to ask about Janet's whereabouts, nothing else. You might have misunderstood her words. She didn't mean it that way."

"Right!" Robert also helped change the topic, "The night before last, the day of the incident, did Janet show any unusual behavior? Also, what time does she usually go to bed?"

Renee knew they were all in this together.

Seeing the men protecting Zoey, she couldn't find any opportunity to strike.

Renee glared at Zoey behind Alexander and replied angrily, "In the countryside, we go to bed around nine after finishing work. I'm usually too busy to care about her."

Robert added, "Before this, did Janet ever go out in the middle of the night?"

Renee replied, "I don't know. I sleep too deeply every night, from night till morning. Even if she went out, I wouldn't know. She might have gone out to mess with the men and got herself killed. When she suddenly told me she wanted to go out to work, I knew she wasn't a good person! She deserved to die. If she hadn't died, the Fuller Family's dignity would have been ruined."

Renee's response was simply shocking.

They couldn't understand why working would be equated with going out to fool around.

Janet was clearly Renee's daughter.

How could a mother use such despicable words to describe her daughter?

Robert asked some other questions.

Renee's answers were almost always the same, either "I don't know" or cursing Janet.

Renee complained that Janet was inefficient at work, and cursed her for dreaming of going out to work.

Cursed her for not contributing anything to the Fuller Family and dying after they raised her for so many years.

Robert and the other members of the criminal investigation team couldn't listen any longer, each with deeply furrowed brows.

Robert raised his hand to stop Renee's continued cursing and asked, "Can we take a look at Janet's room?"

"Go ahead, it's the first room on the left." After Renee finished speaking, she pointed it out to everyone.

The group went in and found that Janet shared a large rural bed with Renee, a large rural bed.

On the bed was an old wooden box filled with clothes, looking very worn out.

There were traces of insects gnawing everywhere.

On the wooden box was a cheap makeup cream used by Renee and Janet.

Inside the wooden box were a few patched-up clothes, and nothing else.

Most of the clothes were Renee's.

Janet had very few clothes, and the few she had were altered from Renee's clothes.

After leaving Janet's house, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Renee was the epitome of victim-blaming.

Renee's shallow thinking led her to believe that Janet must have done something wrong to get herself killed.

After all, rural people have simple minds, and their families had no known enemies.

No one would be so insane as to rape and kill, and then leave the victim's pants half off, even in death, to humiliate the victim.

Renee even told them, "I don't think you can find out anything. You might as well send Janet's body back early so I can hold a funeral and see if I can get some money. I don't want to have raised her for nothing! My son will be back soon, and we need money for many things."

Everyone was speechless.

"Aren't rural people supposed to be simple and honest? Why do I see a different side in Renee?" Dennis complained, "She is worse than a beast! Even animals know to protect their young. I often watch nature shows, and mother deer will slow down to let lions and tigers chase them to protect their fawns. Isn't that what motherly love should be?"

At least, in Dennis's understanding, it was a bit terrifying.

Zoey calmly opened a bottle of water and took a sip, "Isn't this normal? There are plenty of people like this."

She seemed used to it, even though she was the youngest in the criminal investigation team, she acted more mature than the others.