Chapter 13 Seeking Help

There is an old Chinese saying that the rich do not exceed three generations, but those who can live three generations in the rich family have some real skills.

The same is true in country Y, where the Ernest family has been wealthy for five generations and is one of the three major families in country Y. One generation sees food, the second generation sees through, and the third generation reads articles, and the temperament and nobility cultivated by the fifth generation of Ernest are not comparable to the nouveau riche or the so-called nouveau riche.

As the heir to the title of this generation, Lankeith Ernest is truly distinguished by his origin, upbringing, and family background.

The school will not resume until next week due to the kidnapping, so Lan Keith stayed at home, leaning on a recliner in the recreation room and listening to "Nocturne in G minor".

The "Nocturne in G minor" slowly comes to an end, followed by Liszt's "Paganini Grand Practice Bell", which is enhanced by surround sound effects.

Lan Caith closed his eyes and listened to the beautiful notes, only to feel that the music was a small universe all-encompassing, until the butler's knock on the door made him regain his intoxication, he picked up the remote control and pressed it to stop, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

The butler had already gently pushed open the door, stood at the door and said respectfully, "Young Master, your classmate is calling for you!" said and handed the mobile phone to Lan Kais.

Lan Keyes took the mobile phone, and saw that it was Jiang Jingtong on the caller ID, so he put the mobile phone close to his ear: "HI, Oriental beauty!"

This frivolous tone made the green tendons on Jiang Jingtong's forehead who called him jump, Jiang Jingtong resisted the urge to climb over and fan Lan Keith along the mobile phone, and said straight to the point: "There is something I want to ask you for help!"

Lan Kaisi, who was holding the mobile phone, smiled, after the kidnapping case, he was taken home, and he hadn't seen Jiang Jingtong since then, and now Jiang Jingtong wanted to ask him for help, which was very interesting, so Lan Kaisi said lazily in his tone: "Let's hear it." ”

Jiang Jingtong on the phone told what happened last night.

Lan Kaisi was a little inexplicable when he heard this: "Someone killed Qing Shui Rena, you suspect that the murderer of Qing Shui Rena and Ai Pingping are the same murderer, then just react with the police, what can I help?"

Jiang Jingtong said directly: "Can you call up the police's autopsy report and investigation file on the case of Ai Pingping and Renai?"

Lan Kaisi understood at once - Jiang Jingtong wanted to use his family's power to access the police's investigation materials, but: "According to what you said, Rena Shimizu is Lang Fei's girlfriend, but you came to me for help?"

There was silence on the other side of the phone, and then Jiang Jingtong's reply came: "Lang Fei is my friend, I hope you can also help us from the position of a friend!"

The corners of Lan Kaisi's mouth twitched slightly, he recalled that after watching Jiang Jingtong's talent show in the campus forum before, he was very interested in Jiang Jingtong, an oriental beauty, and he asked Jiang Jingtong several times, but Jiang Jingtong refused. Because of Lan Caisi's illustrious background, many people have been flattering him since he was a child, even if those people don't like him as a person, they will respect him because of the power of the Ernest family, Jiang Jingtong is the first person he took the initiative to approach and show favor many times but was simply refused, and now Jiang Jingtong took the initiative to contact him for Lang Fei, and also made a special statement that it was a friend's position - interesting.

Lan Keith's eyes narrowed slightly: "If I help you, will it be your friend?"

Jiang Jingtong's tone was firm: "If you are a friend, you will help!"

The smile on the corner of Lan Kesi's mouth was even stronger: "Then you remember, I helped you, not Lang Fei!"

Jiang Jingtong: "......"

Lan Caiss: "Wait for my news!"

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The three friends watched Jiang Jingtong put down his mobile phone.

Lang Fei: "Will Lan Caisi help?"

Ouyang Le: "What did Lan Keith say?"

Wren: "How can Lan Keith help?"

Three questions, the same meaning, but reflect the different personalities of the questioners, Jiang Jingtong glanced at Ren for a moment, and then said: "Lan Kaisi agreed to help, saying that he would wait for his news!"

The three friends relaxed, they studied in country Y, and their respective family forces were not enough to mobilize the resources of country Y, so they could only turn to Lan Kaisi, who had the local power of country Y.

Lang Fei listened to Lan Caisi's agreement, relaxed a little, after a night of tossing and turning, he calmed down a lot, the first thing he thought of was to retrieve the autopsy report and figure out the cause of Shimizu Rena's death, although it looked like Rena died of mechanical asphyxiation last night, but still looking at the autopsy report can draw a more accurate conclusion, knowing how Rena died in order to find the murderer.

Seeing that Lang Fei had regained his composure, and even asked Jiang Jingtong to help Lan Kaisi with a clear mind, they knew that he had recovered, so everyone gathered around and planned to carefully discuss the details that they had not dared to ask yesterday.

Jiang Jingtong spoke first, and he asked Lang Fei: "Yesterday we were separated in the track and field, and Ren and I went back to the dormitory, and Renai was waiting for you at the flower bed at that time, where did you go after that?"

Lang Fei: "The boulevard by the lake is there!"

Lang Fei said that the lake is an artificial lake of the school, there is a boulevard by the lake, and there are some seats, some students like to read or listen to music, or be in a daze, some literature students will run to write poems and scripts, and even some science and engineering students run there to solve problems - it may be more inspiring to face the water, and it is also a date resort for couples.

Jiang Jingtong: "When did you separate?"

Lang Fei: "It's less than 5 o'clock, I can't remember the specific time!"

Jiang Jingtong: "Where?"

Lang Fei: "By the flower bed in front of Building 3 of the girls' dormitory. ”

Jiang Jingtong: "What building does Renai live in?"

Lang Fei: "No. 1." ”

Jiang Jingtong: "Why didn't you send her to Building 1?"

Lang Fei lowered his eyes - when they parted yesterday, Rena kissed him lightly on the cheek - he was much taller than Rena, Rena had to lift his feet, he had to bend down so that Rena could kiss him on the cheek......

Lang Fei raised his head again and his eyes were clear: "Building 1 is in the innermost, Building 3 is outside, Rena kissed me in Building 3...... Shyly ran away. ”

Jiang Jingtong was silent, he felt that he was very cruel, every question he asked would deepen Lang Fei's memories of Qing Shui Rena, the deeper the memory, the greater the damage to Lang Fei, but if you want to find out who killed Rena, these have to be asked - it's better than Lang Fei's own pondering and turning into a knot.

After making up his mind, Jiang Jingtong continued to ask: "When you separated, was there anything unusual about Renai?"

Lang Fei recalled it carefully before shaking his head: "No, she looks very happy." ”

Jiang Jingtong stopped asking questions, looked at the others, and seemed to say Do you still have questions?

Wren pondered for a moment and asked Lang Fei, "When did you and Rena agree that we would have dinner together?"

Lang Fei thought for a while: "It's when I walked from the lake to the girls' dormitory." ”

Makes sense, and Wren has no problem anymore.

Lang Fei looked at Ouyang Le, meaning do you have any questions?

Ouyang Le shook his head, the two little friends he wanted to ask had already asked.

As a result, the four friends began to fall silent.

After a while, Jiang Jingtong tried to analyze: "Suppose Renai and Lang Fei went back to the No. 1 girls' dormitory building after separating......"

Lang Fei directly interrupted him: "Don't assume, I watched Rena enter the dormitory building." ”

Jiang Jingtong: "When did you see it?"

Lang Fei: "It's after Rena runs away." ”

OK, Jiang Jingtong nodded to indicate that he understood, he thought about it, took out a piece of note paper from the table and began to analyze while drawing: "After Rena and Lang Fei separated, they went back to the No. 1 dormitory building, the No. 1 girls' dormitory is on the westernmost side of the campus, and the place where Renai was found is by the river, which is in the southwest of the school, and the distance is not far, and you need to pass through the venue building from the No. 1 girls' dormitory building to the river. So the location of Rena's murder is most likely within this distance. As he spoke, Jiang Jingtong held up the paper he had sketched from dormitory No. 1 to the riverside line and pointed out the distance.

"The places where the school was monitored were the main school gate, the three school buildings, the former activity center, the library, the cafeteria and the supermarket, and the main entrance of the boys' and girls' dormitories, because the school was closed because of the kidnapping and the bombing, and there were not many students in the school," Wren recalled. There's a path over there that leads directly to the stadium building, will Rena go to the stadium building?"

Jiang Jingtong thought for a while and said: "I don't know, what we might ignore here, it's better to walk this road and take a look, it is very likely that Rena had an accident within this distance." ”

Lang Fei agreed, and Ouyang Le and Ren also did not object, so a few friends went to check the distance from the girls' dormitory to the river.

The boys in the girls' dormitory building can't get in, so the four friends stand downstairs in the girls' dormitory and look at the building and sigh.

Jiang Jingtong deduced: "If Rena was killed in the girls' dormitory, the dormitory should be blocked, but look at it now-" There are still occasional girls in and out of the building, and there is nothing unusual, then, "Look at the classmates in the building are still living normally, and the dormitory is not the scene of the crime?"

The friends looked at the girls' dormitory building and were not sure.

In view of the fact that everyone in the women's dormitory could not enter, the four friends started from the No. 1 girls' dormitory building and walked to the river, along the sidewalk of the road is the world's famous street tree - "French plane tree", which is also often seen in Chinese parks and beside the road. However, that is a misinformation based on false rumors. In fact, this tree is a kind of "plane tree", and the "French plane tree" that the Chinese are used to calling is just one of the plane trees.

There are 8 species in the genus Plane Tree, which are native to North America, Mexico, the Mediterranean and India. There are three species that have been introduced to China. The fruit of the plane fruit stalk has 1 fruit bulb, some 2 fruit balls, and some more than 3 fruit balls, so the names are different, respectively called one-ball plane tree, two-ball plane and three-ball plane tree, which are three different species.

It is said that there were more than 200,000 plane trees in Nanjing, China, and a famous host (Meng Fei) once said: "Elsewhere, the French plane tree is just a tree species; in Nanjing, the French plane tree is the most important symbol and symbol of the city, it is the common life memory of several generations of Nanjing people, and it is a piece of Chinese history that should be respected. ”

The French sycamore is even regarded as Nanjing's business card.

Why is the plane tree called "French plane tree"? Because the leaves of this tree are very similar to the plane tree, the Chinese people think it is the plane tree, but in fact the "plane tree" is not produced in France but in the 17th century, in Oxford, England, people use a ball of plane tree (also called the American plane tree) and a three-ball plane tree (also called the French plane tree) as parents, hybrid into a two-ball plane tree, named "English plane tree". Because it is a hybrid, there is no place of origin. After it was widely cultivated in Europe, the French brought it to Shanghai and planted it as a street tree on Xiafei Road (in the area of present-day Huaihai Middle Road). People call it "French Sycamore", and people follow it and regard it as a sycamore tree.

There are many sidewalks in the C size that have this two-ball plane tree.

In autumn, the leaves are still lush and green, but because this road is the westernmost road of the school, and there is a fence outside, there are not many people walking.

The four friends started walking from the No. 1 women's dormitory building, and it took about six or seven minutes to reach the sports stadium building, and then the river that flowed through the campus was the one that flowed through the campus.

The friends stood on the side of the sports stadium building and looked around, where the corridor was winding and secluded, few students passed by, and even during the day, it looked gloomy because of the mottled shadows of the trees.

Ouyang Le looked around and asked Lang Fei, "Will Rena come to this place?"

Lang Fei looked around and couldn't make sure if Rena had come.

Wren suddenly noticed something and walked towards a thickly wooded bush, and the friends followed him for some reason.

He didn't get far before Wren stopped in front of a charred mark hidden by the bushes, crouching down to inspect it.

Other friends also followed to take a closer look.

Wren twisted the ashes from his hands and examined them carefully.

Lang Fei asked, "What can you see when this is all dust?"

Wren looked up at him: "This ash is not wet, London is foggy, if it was burned last night, after a night of dew or fog, it should be wet, but now the ash is dry." ”

Lang Fei looked at Wren: "What do you want to say?"

Jiang Jingtong really can't stand it, Ren is still studying anthropology, he is more sensitive than Lang Fei, who is studying law, he simply said for Rene: "What Ren wants to say is that when Rena was found, she had no clothes on her body, could this be the ashes of the murderer who burned her clothes, but the fire is too eye-catching to burn things at night, if it is daytime, even if someone sees it, they will think that the cleaner is burning fallen leaves or dead branches!"

Wren praised Jiang Jingtong's keenness, he twisted the ashes in his hand, and then touched the charred ground and speculated: "This place is not cold yet, if it was burned by the murderer, then he will not be away for too long." ”

When the Chinese Three Musketeers heard this, they all raised their eyes and looked around: the road is deep, there are many shrubs on both sides of the road, because this is the westernmost side of the school, so it is inaccessible, and there are no surveillance cameras, it is indeed very suitable for the murderer to burn the evidence, so the murderer has just come?