Li Rui grabbed Ling Shuyao's little hand and said, "Don't hurry to go, help me analyze and analyze it again, and when I catch the mastermind behind the scenes and find the lost painting, I will accompany you down for a walk, and I won't object to it for a night." ”

Ling Shuyao raised his hand to shake off his hand, twisted it on his waist again, and scolded: "I haven't settled accounts with you yet, I laughed at me at the banquet, and now I am doing something to me, you are so bullying me Ling Shuyao?"

Li Rui pulled her to his side, hugged her waist, and said, "Good Shuyao, don't make trouble, help me think first, if you can help me find the person who stole the painting, I will definitely make you a cow and a horse, and repay you well." ”

Ling Shuyao sneered and said, "Get out of you, I see that you are a haunting bull and a horse! Let go of me! I said what were you doing when you closed the door just now, dare to hold back your emotions and make it bad." He went to break his hand.

Li Rui was really not in the mood to mess with her, so he let go of her hand, pacing around the room, and straightened out his thoughts: "These three suspects are not easy to investigate, don't talk about Principal Chi, I don't know where to start if I have the courage; Therefore, I think that instead of investigating the three suspects one by one, it is better to reason backwards from the other end, that is, to find the person who started the stealing painting, as long as you find him, all the problems are not a problem. ”

Ling Shuyao asked lazily, "How did you find the person who started stealing the painting?"

Li Rui said: "We can go to the monitoring center of the guest house to see who has been to our floor and my room during the meal just now, so that we can lock each other." We can also analyze how the thief entered my room, did he have the key card of my room, or did he slip the door and pick the lock? If it is the former, ask the front desk lady and you should be able to ask for something, if it is the latter, then I will call the police and let the police arrest the thief through the fingerprints left by the thief. ”

Ling Shuyao flattened her mouth and said, "Don't let us go, I don't get involved in this, I'm going for a walk." ”

Li Rui pleaded: "Oh, my good Shuyao, tell you directly, wait for me for a while, I'll go for a walk with you after finishing my errands, let's be close and close, why are you in a hurry?"

Ling Shuyao blushed and said angrily: "Stay on the side, who is close to you." But I can give you half an hour, half an hour, if you can catch the thief, then we will go to the riverside park for a walk, if you can't catch it then, then I won't wait, just take a shower and sleep, after all, it's not good to go out or come back too late. ”

Li Rui said: "Half an hour is too short, why should it take an hour?"

Ling Shuyao looked at the watch on her wrist and said, "I'll wait for you until nine o'clock, and I won't wait until it's too late." After speaking, he shook his willow waist lightly and walked out staggeringly.

Li Rui didn't stay, took the room card, and went straight to the front desk downstairs.

When the front desk appeared in his sight, Li Rui also found that he didn't seem to have a good excuse to apply for the surveillance video of the guest house, you must know that this is not the Shengjing Hotel, the general manager of the hotel Ouyang Xin is his own family, and if he wants to watch the surveillance video, he can watch it casually, this is the guest house of the Provincial Agricultural University, and he is a guest from afar, only the qualification to stay overnight, and he has no right to ask the other party to show the surveillance video, and if the facts are explained, it is likely to alarm Chi Guohua and his assistant, if the mastermind behind the scenes is one of the two, then it will not startle the snakeThe other side may also destroy the evidence.

When he thought of this, he suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and he had a feeling of grievance that he could only swallow his anger after being hacked, and thought that if this happened in Qingyang, he would not have to take action in person, he would be able to catch the mastermind behind the scenes, okay, the place where the crime occurred was changed to a provincial capital, and he had no power or power, so he could only be depressed.

He thought about it again, he is not powerless, if he really wants to talk about it, he is more powerful in the provincial capital, not to mention the energy of his father-in-law and his old man, just those friends he knows, with the help of one of them, he can find out this "famous painting theft case", but he easily doesn't want to trouble his friends, he just wants to use his own strength to catch the mastermind behind the scenes, which is the most depressing.

Li Rui was clever and clever in the end, and quickly thought of a reason, walked to the front desk, and said to a female front desk in the middle of it: "Hello, I want to take a look at the surveillance video in the corridor on the second floor, I lost a key when I went out of the room just now, and I can't find it when I come back, I want to look at the surveillance video to see who picked up my key." ”

He lied about losing the key, which is a legitimate reason and can be used to watch the surveillance video, so as not to make a big deal and be known by Chi Guohua and his assistant.

The female front desk stretched out her hand and waved diagonally to the opposite side, and said, "Sir, you can go to the security room there to apply for access to the surveillance video, our front desk is not responsible for this work, I'm sorry." ”

Li Rui looked back and saw that there was a door in the corner of the wall, with a sign of "Security Room" hanging on the door, the door was ajar, and it was estimated that there were people inside, so he thanked the kind female front desk and turned around and went to the security room.

There was only one young security guard on duty in the security room, and after Li Rui knocked on the door and entered, he explained the reason to him and applied to see the surveillance video in the corridor on the second floor between six and half past seven.

The security guard listened to him expressionlessly, shook his head and said, "No, you don't have the right to watch the surveillance video." ”

Li Ruiqi said: "Why? I lost my things, can't I look at the surveillance video? Our five-star hotels there all provide this kind of convenience, how can you still pay attention to power in a small guest house?"

The security guard was neither angry nor raised, and said selflessly: "There are only three situations in which we can view our surveillance video, one is the police handling the case, the second is that it involves a crime, and the third is the loss of valuables." Your situation obviously doesn't fall into either of them, so you don't have access to the footage. ”

Li Rui retorted: "I lost my key, isn't it the third type of valuables lost?"

The security guard just shook his head when he looked at him, and didn't even bother to say anything to him.

Li Rui said angrily: "But I don't look at the surveillance video, how do I know who picked up my key?"

The security guard was stunned and said, "You can ask the cleaner or other waiters." After speaking, he ignored him, turned around, sat on the chair, picked up the cigarette case and lighter on the table, and reached into the cigarette case to get the cigarette, but found that it was empty, so he had to throw the cigarette case into the trash, and then threw the lighter on the table, looking very unhappy.

Li Rui was about to leave in a huff, but when he noticed his small action, a flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and he suddenly thought of something, turned around and walked out of the security room, climbed the stairs and ran back to the room on the second floor, turned out two spare boxes of soft China from his briefcase, stuffed them into his pocket, ran out of the room again, went straight to the stairs, and the next moment, he was back in the security room.

"Brother, do me a favor, I beg you, okay? Anyway, you don't have anyone else here now, if you secretly show me the video, no outsiders will know, and you are not considered a violation of discipline, how about it? I beg you, make it convenient!"

Li Rui stuffed a cigarette into the security guard's hand with a vivid expression of pleading.

The security guard was still very principled just now, but seeing that he sent two boxes of soft China, and his words were so polite and sincere, he naturally felt a little proud, but he didn't rashly agree, and refused: "Alas, don't be like this, I can't violate discipline, it's not good for people to see it......" said no, but there was already a smile on his face, even if it was a bitter smile, but it was still a smile.

Li Rui stuffed two boxes of cigarettes into his trouser pocket, one left and one right, and said: "Don't worry, no one will see it, I'll finish reading it soon, good brother, just help me with this, discipline is not more than human affection, a good person has a safe life." ”

The security guard sneered, "You ...... I've never seen you like this, well, that'...... Then I'll call it out for you, you hurry up and leave after reading it, don't embarrass me, fortunately, I'm on duty tonight, and no one will come over......" As he spoke, he had already gone to operate the computer and transferred the surveillance video to him.

Li Rui was secretly proud, thinking to himself, this is mixed in society, tobacco and alcohol are really good things, there is no need to mention wine, cigarettes are treasures, not only can relieve fatigue and refreshment, but also bring feelings closer and be a stepping stone, if there are no two boxes of cigarettes today, I really can't succeed easily.

The security guard quickly called up two surveillance video videos in the corridor on the second floor between six and eight o'clock, each of which lasted for an hour, and said: "You watch now, I'll fast-forward the video, and tell me if I find a clip of picking up your key, I'll stop and show you the details." ”

Li Rui agreed, approached, and watched him fast-forward video with wide eyes, the screen time started at six and a half, and each fast-forward jump was ten seconds, and the time jumped quickly, six and a quarter, seven, and half past seven......

Unbelievable things happened, until he watched the whole video, Li Rui didn't see anyone entering or leaving his room, let alone anyone passing by with a picture scroll in the corridor.

"Could it be that the painting had wings and flew away on its own?"

Li Rui was shocked, thought about it, and asked the security guard to fast forward again.

The security guard accepted his cigarette, and naturally responded, so he fast-forwarded and played it again, this time he deliberately stuck the time, so as to stagger the fast-forward screen from the last time, and strive to cover more video clips, but until the fast-forward was completed, there was still no scene he wanted to see on the video screen.

"Are you mistaken, you didn't lose the key in the hallway?"

The security guard was also suspicious, and played the surveillance video twice, but did not see the person who picked up the keys, indicating that the set of keys had never been picked up from beginning to end, and Li Rui had not found them, so he suspected that he had lost them in the wrong place. How did he know that Li Rui didn't lose the key at all.