Chapter 8 The Secret of the Mechanical Clock

Xiao Yang knew this, so he didn't continue to ask, but began to eat noodles. www.biquge.info He took a big bite, and after swallowing the noodles in his mouth, he joked, "You are much younger than me, if it weren't for Sun Tou'er asking me to cooperate with you, you would think I would have listened to your arrangement and ran back and forth." ”

The noodles are good and very strong. "I don't think age is an indication of a person's ability."

He was stunned, but he was convinced, "That's what I said." However, you haven't answered me yet, when you reasoned for the first time in front of Guo Ximei, you wouldn't really think she was a murderer, but look at your appearance......"

"Guo Ximei is not a murderer." I put down my chopsticks, "And her relationship with the murderer is not as simple as answering a phone call and helping to convey a word." Do you remember when she said that they didn't have a high income, lived in poverty, and the luxury goods they used were all given by others, you reminded her to cough, and she realized that what she said was a bit redundant, so she turned around and rummaged through the cupboard. ”

Xiao Yang also put down his chopsticks, carefully recalled the scene at that time, and then vaguely confirmed and nodded.

I pulled the box out of my pocket, "Actually, she didn't know the watch was hidden in the cabinet until she rummaged through the cabinet." ”

"What did you say?" Xiao Yang was really stunned at this moment, "You said she didn't know that the drill watch was hidden in the cabinet?" Didn't she hide this diamond watch? ”

"Just imagine, if you were a murderer, after killing Jenna Lin, robbed her of her things, and hid the diamond watch in the cabinet in the living room that could be used as evidence of the murder? Even if you do, will you take the initiative to open the cabinet when the police come to your door? I threw out a few questions, which directly caused Xiao Yang to think deeply, and then slowly continued, "Because the moment she opened the cabinet, she knew that the diamond watch was placed in the cabinet, and I intuitively felt that when she rummaged through the contents of the cabinet, there was a moment of sluggishness." So I wondered if she had seen something, and I asked her if anyone had sent something to Jenna Lin. And what she found at the time was this diamond watch box, because this diamond watch was given to Lin Zhenna by someone else, when she heard me ask this question about her, her instinctive reaction should be to hide the diamond watch and answer my question, and we were behind her, and she was inconvenient to move too much to arouse our suspicions. So when she pretended to put down the diamond watch quietly, she didn't put it in a safe place, but it just fell out. When she realized that she had made a mistake, her face immediately became ugly, and then I noticed a detail, she saw the diamond watch fall to the ground, and she didn't subconsciously hide it, so she slowed you down and let you pick up the diamond watch box. I think she was hesitant at the time, and then when you asked her what was going on with the diamond watch. She first denied that the diamond watch was her own. Then I noticed her eyes, and I looked up, and then I looked to the right. Psychological research has proved that people's eyes, looking to the left, are recalling, if Guo Ximei reacted like this at the time, then what she said was what really happened in her memory. On the contrary, she first raised her eyes to look up, and then to the right, she had a memory, but after she remembered something, she didn't tell us directly what happened, instead, her eyes turned to the right, and she was using the left half of her brain to think about how to fool us. ”

"Oh, I see, no wonder you didn't wait for her to answer and start reasoning." Xiao Yang finally understood.

"Yes, because her reaction at the time made it clear that whatever she told us next, she was deceiving us. If we let her speak first and lie to us, it will not be so easy for us to change the truth she knows. Because she had already lied, it would be even more difficult to refute her testimony than to get her to tell the truth directly. So I didn't give her a chance to tell my lies, so I reasoned falsely and accused her of being the murderer. When she finds out that she has suddenly become the biggest suspect, she will justify her fear, and she must be more afraid of being taken by us as the real murderer than the details of the truth, so then her explanation has credibility. As I spoke, I opened the box of the diamond watch, "and Guo Ximei's hesitation at the time should be that she hoped that we would find this diamond watch." From the time I went downstairs, I was thinking, maybe the relationship between Guo Ximei and Lin Zhenna was not so bad. ”

Xiao Yang couldn't figure it out again, "You mean, Guo Ximei lied to us, and the relationship between her and the deceased Lin Zhenna is very bad?" ”

I nodded, "The way women express their emotions is different from that of men, for men, good is good, bad is bad, even if you pretend to be something, you can detect that there is a problem between two people." On the surface, Guo Ximei seems to look down on Lin Zhenna because of Xiaofang's affairs in the same room, and she is drifting away from Lin Zhenna, but in fact, it is not. If Guo Ximei really hates Lin Zhenna as much as she said, she won't put her luggage on her bed to pack up, you won't really believe it, it's because Lin Zhenna's bed is closer to the cabinet, if a woman hates a person, she won't save just a few steps, she will sincerely dislike all of a person,"

Guo Ximei didn't pack her luggage in the lower bunk of her bed, just because her relationship with the other two roommates was not as good as between her and Lin Zhenna, so she instinctively chose to put her suitcase on Lin Zhenna's bed to pack up. On Lin Zhenna's bed, the quilt and pillow were pushed into the corner, and even the pillow fell under the bed, probably because Guo Ximei was in a hurry to pack her luggage at that time. It's just that Lin Zhenna has been dead for three days, and she is in a hurry to pack her luggage today, why is it? Is there any reason why she had to leave today?

"It's broken!" After Xiao Yang figured out all this, he shouted, causing the people around him to look sideways from time to time, and then he retracted slightly, lowered his head and expressed his apologies for disturbing other people's meals, and whispered, "Guo Ximei is in danger." ”

"Don't worry, it's okay for the time being." Guo Ximei will be in danger, I have already guessed.

"That's ......" Xiao Yang was puzzled.

"Now someone protects her." I continued to eat noodles and was relieved.

"Who?" Xiao Yang asked.

I looked up at him without hurrying, but I didn't say anything, so he wondered for a while, but he understood a little. "You mean, Guo Ximei's neighbor?"

I nodded again, "As Guo Ximei said." In order to find Lin Zhenna to answer the phone, she called the phone next door in the middle of the night, just ask, if the relationship between Guo Ximei and the other party is just the neighbor next door, the other party received her call in the middle of the night when she was sleeping soundly, instead of scolding, she also went to the other side to help her call Lin Zhenna to answer the phone. It can be seen that both Guo Ximei and Lin Zhenna have a lot of trust with their neighbor. ”

"No wonder Guo Ximei herself proposed to let us go next door to confirm the phone number." Xiao Yang sighed.

"Yes, whether she was in cahoots with her neighbors or not, when she said this, it was clear that she trusted that person very much, and believed that that person would not say anything unfavorable to us." Based on this alone, I was already sure that this neighbor must have a good relationship with them, so after we left, there was no need to worry about Guo Ximei's safety at all. "Do you remember what Guo Ximei said about Duang, Duang, Duang's voice?"

Xiao Yang was very impressed, "I remember." You are suspicious of the Shen family's mechanical clock. ”

"That's right, not only that, I was thinking just now, in Guo Ximei's description, I heard three Duang, Duang, Duang's voices, if the voice on the phone at that time was really the sound of the mechanical clock, I'm afraid it was exactly the time when the murderer called Guo Ximei. As far as I know, the clock strikes the same number of times as the time on the hour, and only once at half-hour. ”

So when we were at the Shen family's mansion at half past five in the afternoon, we only heard a Duang.

"Three o'clock?" Xiao Yang finally caught up with my train of thought.

"There are three things that you need to do," I ate the noodles in the bowl cleanly, picked up the bowl and drank two mouthfuls of soup before continuing, "The first thing is that you need to go to the bathing city where they work to check what time it was when Guo Ximei received the call that night, if we can determine that it was three o'clock in the morning when she received the call, then we can basically determine based on this information that the sound of Duang, Duang, and Duang that Guo Ximei heard is the sound of the clock." The second thing is that you need to confirm the time of Jenna Lin's death. The third thing, I think the murderer will attack the witness, that is, Guo Ximei, tonight......"

"I understand." Xiao Yang has been a police officer for many years and knows how to protect witnesses. But after thinking about it, he was curious, "You asked me to do it all, so what do you do?" ”

"Go back to self-study." I finished eating and stood up, "My school is in front, you can go and do these three things after eating, leave me alone." ”

Without waiting for him to say yes, I packed up my things and took the box with me. "I'll take this back and study it again, you won't suspect that I want to take it for myself."

Xiao Yang cut coldly.

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"You rarely have such a dilemma, is it because this case is difficult to handle?"

I sat alone in the library, and although there were many classmates around, no one ever wanted to sit with me, so I always occupied a large table by myself, and they avoided me like a plague.

Sitting across from me was a young professor at the school, Nguyen Van Giang.

At just 30 years old, he is the youngest and most famous professor in law school today, and he is also a classmate of my brother.

"It's fine." I was in a daze and was interrupted. "It's just that there are so few clues now, and I don't know how to prove my guess."

"Don't worry, the truth will never be buried, only time will tell." He pushed his eyes and said politely.

I bowed my head.

"What is this?" Professor Ruan asked, pointing to the box in my hand.

"A diamond watch should be a very important clue, but I can't find the meaning of its existence." Guo Ximei especially let us pay attention to this diamond watch, is it just to ask us to check the person who sent Lin Zhenna a diamond watch? But I always felt no, and if that was the case, she shouldn't have reacted like that. I think there are still some things that she is inconvenient to say explicitly, hinting at us.