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"The boss came and had two more plates of lamb"

"Okay, wait a minute" Cai Le propped his elbows on the dining table, the cup in his hand was still overflowing with white foam, Zhang Mao's mouth was stuffed with mutton and sauce and said vaguely

"Cai Le! Today's case, if the missing grand prize is found, the case can be closed" Zhang Mao picked up the wine glass and drank it all, Cai Le put down the wine glass and looked at the various ingredients boiling in the hot pot

"Didn't you eat?"

"Ahh

"Okay, then I won't force you" Zhang Mao took the chopsticks and repeatedly scooped up the ingredients in the hot pot, and finally the last piece of mutton was picked up by him

"Cai Le, you just said that this case is not that simple? I think you are stupid with your brain reading books every day, this case is actually that simple, you always think things are too complicated. Cai Le picked up the glass that had faded and took a sip gently

"No, in fact, I just think it's not as simple as we think, there are too many unreasonable things to say" Zhang Mao put down his chopsticks and stared at Cai Le

"Then tell me about it!" what's the problem?" said Zhang Mao, who didn't forget to take out a flat cigarette case from the back pocket of his pants, took out two cigarettes, and handed one to Cai Le.

Cai Le took the cigarette and sighed, the green smoke and the hot pot were entangled, Cai Le raised his head and lowered it heavily, Zhang Mao spoke

"We asked some of the audience who were there, and that one

"Lucky" audience, their answers are very reasonable, and there is an alibi" When he said the word lucky, Zhang Mao was a little helpless, this should be unfortunate!

After all, when encountering such a thing, surprise instantly turned into fright, and no one would believe this kind of thing! Zhang Mao thought of something irrelevant to the case as if he was waiting for Cai Le to overturn his words to prove him, and finally Cai Le answered him in a rhetorical tone

"What about the grand prize? How could it be gone?" Zhang Mao took out his mobile phone and put it on the desktop, the mobile phone page displayed a call recording, Cai Le looked up at Zhang Mao, picked up the mobile phone and clicked the play button, for a long time, Cai Le handed the mobile phone back to Zhang Mao, and rubbed his bangs with his right hand and lowered his head

"How about it? The people have made it very clear that the grand prize was put into the Christmas tree when it was transported by the tree, and after adding the confessions of those staff, no one except the staff approached the tree, if there is someone between them who takes it, it will definitely be honestly handed over to the police, after all, this is a dead person, no one will take this risk!"

"I know, you're right!"

"The mutton you want!" The boss smiled and served two plates of mutton, Zhang Mao deliberately lowered what he said just now, took the mutton from the boss's hand, put it on the table, and looked back at the boss into the kitchen, Zhang Mao continued

"Then there is only one possibility for the deceased to die, that is, he walked into the tree, and then he couldn't get out without knowing how, so he was frozen to death" Zhang Mao patted his head fiercely

"Yes, there is indeed a problem, if so, the deceased will not think of how to escape before he dies?" Cai Le became interested, and picked up the half-drunk wine glass

"According to your reasoning, this is one of the unreasonable, the deceased is obviously about to freeze to death, how can he choose not to come out willingly? There are two possibilities, the first is that he can't get out, or he can't get out if he is locked inside, and the second is that he locked himself up and didn't want to get out at all."

"Didn't want to go out at all? why?" Cai Le snuffed out the cigarette butt and continued with a few dry coughs

"This will have to wait until the identity of the deceased is clarified" Zhang Mao looked at Cai Le, who had a dry cough, got up and went to find the buffet cabinet near the counter, took out a porcelain teacup, took a little hot water, returned to the position just now, and put the teacup in front of Cai Le

"You always like to get to the bottom of things, like not to let go of a detail, and always make yourself so tired, I really can't understand, what are you trying to do" Cai Le blew the slightly hot boiled water, took a sip a little, smiled, and smiled apologetically, as if to say, it really doesn't matter, Zhang Mao shook his head and looked at Cai Le in front of him pouring all the mutton he had just brought into the hot pot, Zhang Mao continued

"Why are you bothered about that prize?"

"That's a corroboration of the second conjecture."

"Proof?"

"I think, maybe the deceased will choose not to go out for the sake of that grand prize, and eventually lead to freezing to death! Then ......" Cai Le leaned forward slightly, getting closer to Zhang Mao

"Then there must be a secret to that prize!"

"Secret?" Zhang Mao laughed as he tilted his head

"You just read too many books and movies, so there are so many secrets! I asked the host about that award, it's just a limited edition souvenir launched by Times Square shopping street, but it is said that that thing is really worth some money, I only believe that someone will risk stealing it because of its value, you make me think I won't figure it out, someone will exchange their lives for that kind of thing" Zhang Mao also pointed to his head by the way, Cai Le asked thoughtfully

"Since we don't care how much it's worth yet, why don't we lock it up, with a lock and a lock ring that you can hang with a lock!"

"En, I remembered when you said this, it seems that there was a curious guy who wanted to see what this limited edition souvenir looked like, and secretly took the key from the keeper's hand to satisfy his curiosity, but it seemed to mean, because the person was found by the caretaker when he checked it, and in a panic, he actually dropped the key in his hand into the lock plate of the sewer not far from the Christmas tree, and for various reasons, the door was not locked, but chose to protect it by people taking turns to guard it"

"That's it!"

"Yes, it's that simple, the deceased dies like the two possibilities you just said, and then the prize is stolen by someone at some point, it's so simple" Zhang Mao spread his hands on the table, seeing that Cai Le didn't answer, and continued

"Then if you have to have a connection between them, I can explain it this way" Cai Le drank the last bit of beer and looked at him

"First of all, the deceased was frozen to death, and then it is possible, I said it is possible, the deceased is because he wants to steal the prize, even if there is any secret to the prize you said, he really may go to the adventure because of the secret you said, and then he went into the Christmas tree, but he didn't get out alive, is this reasoning reasonable?" Cai Le shook his head, seeing Cai Le's posture, Zhang Mao didn't know what to do, so he could only choose to turn his face away and not speak

"We don't consider the reason why the deceased went in, and we don't consider whether the surveillance video captures only one person entering the Christmas tree, as far as our current clues, I can simply infer that the deceased went into the Christmas tree, can't get out or can't get out, according to the forensic opinion, without considering the complications, the deceased was frozen to death in the Christmas tree, and then our initial inference is that the relationship between the deceased and the prize, the deceased neither got the prize, nor did the prize go to anyone, but disappeared, if it is just according to what you said at the beginning, we can define this as an accident, we can really close the case as long as we find the prizeZhang Mao was speechless, and his expression was a little unnatural

"Okay, my great detective, everything you said makes sense, I still need to learn more!

"It's not too early, let's wait for tomorrow's autopsy and surveillance footage! Maybe we can solve some of the doubts by then" After settling the bill, the two men went out one after the other, each called a taxi, and went their separate ways in opposite directions.