"Why?" Zheng Min looked at me suspiciously.

"Female arsonists only feel threatened or humiliated when they are impulsively compelled to set fire to retaliate, and this retaliation may only be directed against a specific group of people, or even just a specific person, rather than a random and purposeless revenge. This revenge-like arson enjoyed the panic of the entire community before it was captured. Similarly, women do not commit crimes in order to gain recognition. The reason why they set fire is relatively passive, and even most of the reason is to protect themselves, such as arson to kill people who previously threatened their lives in order to escape some kind of control, and live only to buy time for themselves to escape. For retaliation, women are more inclined to carry out behaviors that are in line with their own body, such as poisoning, which is not too physically exhausting. "I explained a little bit to Zheng Min.

Zheng Min handed me the notebook, and on the screen was several patients found in the hospital backstage who had committed suicide in the past year. "These are the ones that a friend of mine helped me find, and his company has undertaken the back-end cooperation of several hospitals, and this is the only thing I can get, although not all hospitals, but now it can be regarded as having a scope."

"Can you find out what they did a year ago?" I flipped through the pages of my notebook.

Zheng Min shook his head: "It's difficult, there are too many areas to be authorized, and I need time." “

"How fast can it be?"

"Mobilize all relationships, 12 hours."

It's so slow, I complained in my heart. But thinking about Shi Hao's career, it is indeed much more convenient than Zheng Min. I tidied up my backpack and thought about whether I should carry Banque's box with me, but I brought it with me.

"Where are you going?" Zheng Min asked me.

I lowered the hat on my head: "Well, I'll go around the neighborhood there, and I'll call you if there's any news, but don't take the initiative to contact me, if I don't come back for more than 12 hours, and I don't contact you, as we once agreed." Get out of this place alone, the sooner the better, stop the investigation at hand and wait for me to come to you. ”

Zheng Min didn't nod. Looking at my bulging backpack, he asked me, "Have you figured out how to face Li Jing?" ”

I pouted, "Of course not, but I don't think I'm so 'lucky' to be found by him, right?" ”

"Not necessarily." Zheng Min put the realization back in front of the screen and waved his hand at me: "I will do my best to find out the information, and confirm the progress with me in 4 hours." ”

The temperature in City C is good, and the pace of the whole city is slow. It's not like where I live, there are only people walking on the street, and to be honest, it's a good place to retire. There are many teahouses in City C, and the teahouses are crowded with people playing mahjong and poker. However, some people just come here to drink tea and chat, and when the conversation is finished, they simply stay in the teahouse and ask the shopkeeper to go to the small restaurant on the opposite street to buy some food. The food in City C is extremely cheap and has an excellent taste. It may be that I have been working with Li Jing for a long time, and I have begun to like to integrate into the local life like him. I chose a small two-story teahouse on the snack street opposite the Hogil Hotel to find out.

At ten o'clock in the morning, not long after the teahouse opened, some regulars had come to the small teahouse one after another, and they tacitly sat in their fixed positions and chatted. An elderly grandmother saw me sitting alone in a teahouse. He said hello to me: "Little girl, are you waiting for someone?" ”

I quickly shook my head and explained: "No, I'm here for a tour, and I want to feel the atmosphere of the city today." ”

The old lady didn't speak with much accent, and seemed quite hospitable, and when she heard that I was coming to play, she beckoned me to come to her table to chat. There were 6 old people, 4 grandmothers, and 2 grandfathers sitting around the table. There was a pot of tea, a plate of melon seeds and a plate of peanuts on the table. Since just now, several old ladies have been chatting. The two old men only occasionally responded to a few words, but their eyes kept staring at the card table on the other side, presumably the husbands of two of the old ladies, and every time they drifted their eyes to the card table. The lady next to them would knock them on the arm with the folding fan in her hand, and immediately after being beaten, she would straighten the table and start talking about news and other things. It's just that it won't be long before your eyes drift to the table as you did just now, and the result is still a knock on the arm and a few sentences, and the cycle repeats itself, which looks quite interesting.

At the invitation of the old grandmother. Thinking that it could be a way to understand the situation in this area, I immediately sat down happily with a teapot, and asked the waiter to bring a plate of pistachios, and chatted with the old ladies. After some gossip, I started to figure out how to find out what was going on in the community. "Grandma Zhang, do you know how much it costs to rent a one-bedroom apartment in this area?"

Grandma Zhang looked at me curiously: "What?" Would you like to stay here for a long time? ”

"It's not." I hurriedly explained, "I went to other cities before, and they have that kind of short-term rental apartment, and I wanted to see if there would be one here, after all, the cost of staying in a hotel every day is too high." ”

"I haven't heard of that." The old lady shook her head.

"Huh? Little girl, how long are you going to rent? Another old lady at the same table suddenly became interested.

I pretended to think about it for a moment before I replied slowly, "It's only a month at most, after all, I have to go back to find a job." ”

"I thought you were a student." The old lady looked at me in surprise.

I was still flattered to hear others praise me for being young, but I still told the truth: "No, I've been a little depressed lately, so I quit my job and came out to relax" It's the truth, I consoled myself.

The old lady nodded to show her understanding: "I broke up with my boyfriend", it doesn't matter, we are especially suitable for healing here. ”

"Sort of, sort of. By the way, is there such a house here? "I pretended to be in a hurry.

The old lady enthusiastically sat down next to me: "If you want to rent it for a month, the price is not so cheap, but it is much cheaper than you are looking for a hotel outside." ”

As soon as he said this, the old man, who had been sitting silently and listening to our chat, suddenly made a straight face: "Oh, don't recommend that house to others, the little girl lives in such a house alone, if something happens, how can we take this responsibility at that time?" ”

The old lady gave him a blank look, but no longer made a recommendation.

Problematic house? As if it was a good entry point, I hurriedly said, "What's wrong with that house?" It doesn't matter, I'm very adaptable, and I usually only live there. If the conditions are just a little rudimentary, I have no problem at all, I just want to find a cheap place to stay. ”

The old man just shook his head and motioned for me not to ask any further, regardless of the fact that this strange house had nothing to do with the fire we were checking about. But something unusual is always the first key to solving the puzzle.

The old man probably felt that I couldn't get off the stage just now, and his eyes never glanced at the card table again, but he stared at the teacup in his hand in a daze, and the whole atmosphere was a little embarrassing. I glanced at my watch, and it was time to eat. I beckoned a few old people to have a meal together, originally a few old people wanted to be the east, but at my insistence, I still paid the waiter to go to the restaurant next to me to simply ask for a few dishes. Before the dishes were served, I went out to find a corner and called Zheng Min, padding the weight of the backpack, I found that the urn with Banque was inconvenient to move, not only increased the weight of the carry, but also always carried a big bag It is really strange. Forget it, today I'm playing a backpacker anyway. But I still have to be grateful for solving the case and finding a place to bury Banque.

Although Zheng Min told me that the investigation was difficult, three hours after I left, Zheng Min had already found the corresponding information of most of the people. Zheng Min asked me when I was going back, I glanced at the table just now, and agreed to meet Zheng Min at the train station. If Li Jing was smart enough, he would definitely know that I was in the city, and he would do everything he could to find me, and the train was not a good idea.

I went back to the table, and the atmosphere was much better than before. I sat down and just wanted to continue eating, but the old man who I didn't want to rent just now suddenly put down his chopsticks with a stern expression, and I unconsciously put down my chopsticks when I looked at him. The old man wanted to open his mouth several times, but swallowed the words back. In the end, I had to speak first: "Old man." If you have something to say, you can say it directly, we can be considered friends when we met, and since you don't let me rent, there must be your reasons, if it is convenient to say, you can be regarded as satisfying my curiosity. Tell me a story. ”

The old man frowned and said, "This is not a story, child, have you ever heard that curiosity kills cats?" ”

I laughed and shook my head: "But I'm not a cat." ”

The old man had to sigh when he heard me say this: "If you really don't give up, then I'll tell you about the house I wanted you to rent." That house is very cheap, and if you think about it, there are a few cheap houses that are clean. ”

Not clean? I thought to myself, but I was still pretending to be stupid: "Do you mean haunted?" ”

The old man's eyes widened instantly: "Haunting is a rumor among old ladies, in fact, it is no different from an ordinary house, and you live for a short time, so there should be no problems." It's just that if you don't know and live in, we still can't bear it. Someone died in that house a year ago. ”

"Huh?" It seems a little bit like what I expected in the morning.

"Even though you young people must say that I am superstitious, I still have to tell others everything about nuts at this age. There were people in that house before, but not now, it was more than a year ago, the mistress of that house was murdered, originally thought it was a fire, but later when the autopsy was performed, the police said that the mistress died before the house caught fire. However, after looking around, I didn't find the murderer. The murderer is cruel, you are a little girl, I say this you don't get me wrong, but in fact, the mistress of the house experienced a violation after being killed, after which the murderer set a fire and left. Later, although the house was tidied up, because the hostess died too miserably, the people around who knew about it always felt that there was the hostess's resentment in it, so they didn't dare to rent the house. The old man's brows were not lifted when he spoke.

After listening to this, I was more concerned about another question: "Did the murderer catch him?" ”

The old man shook his head: "A fire has almost wiped out all the evidence." Maybe if you catch it, the hostess's resentment will be dissipated. After saying that, the old man sighed heavily.

"But didn't you say that the hostess was violated after her death, leaving no DNA evidence?" I'm skeptical of the old man's words, but for more specific things, I can ask Zheng Min to check it for me.

"I really don't know that, the police just said nothing and didn't find out."

"Does she have any other relatives?" It seems that only the hostess was killed.

The person who sat next to him and looked like his wife hurriedly said: "She also has a son, but the son was not at home at the time, so he escaped the disaster, but looking at his son's appearance, he seemed to be stupid at that time, and he looked at the room in a daze and did not speak." ”

I blinked and didn't say anything more, but I began to wonder if the whole thing would have anything to do with the cases I was investigating. The old people on the other side saw that I didn't speak, thinking that they were frightened, so they stopped talking about it, but comforted me a few words. The grandmother who went to rent the house was a little embarrassed to explain that he just thought that the house was cheap, if you don't dislike where it was not cleaned up after the fire, in fact, the traffic is very convenient for tourists.

"Haven't you cleaned up?" I asked the grandmother.

"Where's it! Let me tell you, Amei's son must have been scared silly at the time, you don't know how miserable it looked at the time, or the police helped clean up the house and sweep the ashes. The neighborhood committee helped to ask someone to paint the wall, and the house was considered inhabitable. But ah, the home is thrown away, it's just an empty house, and I think it's a backpacker like you. Saying that, the old grandmother glanced at the large backpack I put on the chair, "I should be carrying that sleeping bag or something, so I don't care too much about whether there is a bed or not, but after my old man reminded me, I do think it's not appropriate for you to rent there, I don't believe in cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, but you are a little girl, it's still not very safe." Blame the old lady for not thinking about it just now. ”

I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "It's okay, you also feel sorry for me that I will spend too much money alone, so I recommended it there." But the owner of the house must have a place to live somewhere else, right? Didn't you say he had a son? If this is the only place to stay, I would have renovated it before moving in, right? (To be continued.) )