Chapter 398 - 254: The Mysterious Mother and Daughter
Just as Ran Yan had scheduled, the facial reconstruction was completed the following afternoon. Without the means to apply pigmentation, Ran Yan was forced to forgo it, instead sketching the likeness of the deceased based on the reconstruction.
Outside, a rustling snowstorm was underway. Ran Yan leaned over the desk, her brush giving life to the image of a woman in her early twenties on the paper before her, her features gentle and round with the delicate beauty of a young lady, yet her hair was styled in an extravagant half-flipped bun, creating a somewhat dissonant appearance.
Xiao Song stood by her side and saw her set down the brush before shifting his attentive gaze to the paper. At a glance, he was slightly surprised, "This lady..."
"Is there something amiss?" Ran Yan rarely saw such a natural expression on his face and couldn’t help but ask with curiosity, "Have you met her?"
After a moment’s pause, Xiao Song replied, "No, when I was capturing Dou Chengfeng, I found out he was staying in a lady’s house, and that woman looks quite similar to the one in your drawing, at least sixty percent, except there’s an age difference."
"Could they be sisters?" Ran Yan suggested.
Xiao Song shook his head, "I’m guessing they are mother and daughter. The lady is thirty-eight, still quite charming, with a red mole near the corner of her eye. She also admitted to having an affair with Dou Chengfeng."
"Then her daughter..." Ran Yan frowned. The mother had relations with Dou Chengfeng, and yet the daughter went on a countryside outing with him. What did this imply? Did Dou Chengfeng have that kind of relationship with both mother and daughter?
It seemed Xiao Song was thinking along the same lines, "This young lady is around twenty, the age when one would normally be married with children. If she had a husband, her lengthy disappearance should have led someone to report it to the officials, yet not a word came from her mother about her missing, which is quite peculiar."
The whereabouts of the other two remained as elusive as ever, their fate unknown without a single clue. Xiao Song had already ordered thorough searches of all possible leads and had scrutinized every place they might have gone, all to no avail. Fortunately, Dou Chengfeng had finally regained consciousness, and under Xiao Song’s relentless interrogation, had revealed the identity of one other person.