Fang Yuan used to think that Tang Li's personality was a little dull, but when she was bumped into by Tang Li and Dai Xu holding hands, she was slightly embarrassed, and before she had time to embarrass herself, she was dissolved by Tang Li's faint smile, she suddenly felt that such a person with such a character was actually quite considerate.

If one path is not in the right direction, the other path will be much more correct. Dai Xu and Fang Yuan walked down the other path again, this time, Dai Xu determined that the direction should be right, the two of them walked along the road, about more than 20 minutes, in front of them could faintly see the outline of a flat [river crab] house, and walked for about ten minutes, turned a corner, the house that Zhao Yinghua rented before his death was more than ten meters away, because it was already dark, there was no lighting on the roadside near here, it was dark, and there were no pedestrians on the road, There are even fewer vehicles passing by.

"It's about 30 minutes by foot, it's not too close, but it's not too far, and if you take a few empty paint buckets, it won't be too heavy." Fang Yuan saw the house where Zhao Yinghua lived before his death, "Even if it's not a strong man, even if it's me, you let me carry three empty paint buckets to the vicinity of the fish pond over there, smash the ice hole, throw away the paint buckets, and then walk back, it is estimated that there is no difficulty, and it does not require a lot of physical strength." ”

"Yes, not to mention that this trail is for walking, and if you drive, although the route will be a little more winding, the speed may be a little faster than walking, and both options are possible." Dai Xu nodded. Frowning and thoughtfully, he looked at the house where Zhao Yinghua lived before his death, the house is now temporarily vacant and no one lives in it. So it looks like a black hole, almost hidden in the night. Although some of the surrounding houses have a little light, they are all closed, and no one comes out.

There was no point in lingering here, so the two of them went back the way they came, back to the small fishpond. The scene over there was almost dealt with, Dai Xu and Fang Yuan found Tang Li and bumped into him. There was an exchange of information.

"In addition to the three empty paint buckets, have you found any discarded clothes, gloves or anything like that?" Fang Yuan asked Tang Li. After all, it is probably impossible to paint such a room full of scarlet paint, and the person who painted it is not stained at all on his hands and body. Although it is said that the time of the crime is already early in the morning. There are very few cars passing by here, let alone the second half of the night, but she always felt that according to the way of thinking of normal people, no one would risk walking outside in a suit stained with red paint stains after doing these things, and walk for twenty or thirty minutes to discard the paint buckets, in case this process is seen by someone, there are only a few paint buckets in the middle of the night. If it weren't for the close proximity, I'm afraid the only idea would have been raised. But a pair of clothes and shoes stained with paint stains are different, not to mention that in addition to the red paint, there should be blood stains of the deceased Zhao Yinghua on the clothes.

In addition, it is unlikely that the person who paints the paint will paint without gloves and paint with bare hands, and if they wear gloves, there is a certain chance that there will be some dandruff, nail clippings, and even hair left in the gloves that can carry DNA information, which may also be a very important gain for them. Although this is a bit of a chance in it, but after all, they mistakenly thought that the child had fallen into the ice hole, and they had already encountered the lucky thing of fishing out the paint bucket by mistake, so it was not surprising that they were lucky.

However, Tang Li's answer made her a little disappointed, in the face of Fang Yuan's eager inquiry, how could Tang Li, who was more experienced and qualified than her, not understand what she was thinking about, but the facts were in front of him, and he could only shake his head with a little regret Fang Yuan: "There are no clothes, gloves, only three paint buckets." ”

"Could it be that under the water, the position has shifted a little, and you can't hook it from the position of this ice cave?" Fang Yuan's heart sank, but he still hadn't completely given up this hope, and asked tentatively.

Tonic still shook his head at her: "No, it should be nothing." ”

"This is just a small fish pond, not a naturally formed big lake or river," Dai Xu knew that Tang Li didn't talk much, so he said a specific point for him on the side, so that Fang Yuan could understand it thoroughly, "Plus the contractor of the fish pond also said that before winter, the fish in the fish pond were sold, and the fish pond was emptied, so the water here can almost be said to be completely static, considering the time, physical strength and the situation at the time, I think the murderer dug two ice holes respectively, one to sink clothes, gloves, and one to sink paint buckets, It's not realistic, and it doesn't make much sense, and if the clothes are thrown down from the same ice hole as the paint bucket one after the other, the possibility of being able to move long distances after sinking underwater is also relatively small, so it seems that the murderer should have discarded the paint bucket and paint brush here, and the clothes he was wearing when committing the crime should have been disposed of separately. ”

Fang Yuan nodded, although he was a little disappointed and unwilling, but the facts were in front of him, and there was no way, after all, the investigation of the case relied on careful exploration and investigation bit by bit, not the good luck rewarded by God.

Because this winter is extremely dry, the snowfall in City A has been pitifully small since the beginning of winter, so not only is the ice surface of the fish pond covered with a layer of slippery ice, and there is no snow, but even the ground near the fish pond, including the winding path that Dai Xu and Fang Yuan tried to walk on just now, the soil is frozen hard, and the hardness of the asphalt road is almost comparable, and there are dots of residual ice left on it, because there is no soft snow, so it is impossible to leave any clear footprints on the ground, The idea of collecting evidence by collecting footprints will not work. The paint bucket has been soaked under the water for so long, not to mention that there may not be any valuable fingerprints on it in the first place, and even if there were, it has been washed clean now.

So they didn't linger long near the fish pond and dumped the water in the three soggy paint buckets. Together with the hard paint brush, they loaded into the car and drove back to the Public Security Bureau.

Back to the Public Security Bureau. It's already past the end of work, but Tang Hongye is still there, and it seems that he hasn't been back from outside for a long time, and his ears that have been frozen red haven't warmed up in the room temperature.

"Why are you still here? What's the catch? Dai Xu saw that Tang Hongye had obviously gone out before, but at this time, he had just come back not long ago. knew that he must not have run in vain.

Tang Hongye nodded, waved his hand again, and sat down in front of them: "Isn't it." Of course I'm out of the horse! But let's not talk about my side, what did you three do just now? ”

Dai Xu told Tang Hongye about the notification that Tang Li received from the local police station, and by the way, he also showed him the only loot that the three of them went to the scene and came back - three empty paint buckets.

"It must be the paint that the murderer used to paint the crime scene, right?" Tang Hongye looked at the paint buckets and asked. Although it is said that the color is consistent. Normal people don't want to sink the paint bucket into someone else's fish pond after brushing the paint, or they still go to great lengths to smash the ice and sink it, so it's suspicious enough to rush this treatment method, but they always need to be rigorous and rigorous in collecting evidence, and there can be no sloppiness, so naturally it is safer to confirm more, "Do you have to send it for testing?" ”

"Yes, that's not a problem. Send it for testing the composition of the paint to see if it is consistent with the red paint at the scene of the crime. After all, although the things added by different brands of paint are similar, there are still minor differences. Dai Xu nodded to him, and then said to the other three people, including Tang Hongye, "I think the biggest significance of tonight's discovery may be that it can preliminarily rule out Yao Xiangyang's suspicion." ”

"Exclude Yao Xiangyang? Didn't he run a furniture factory? The most important thing is to paint in various colors, right? Why did you find three empty paint cans and eliminate them instead? Tang Hongye asked a little puzzled.

Fang Yuan frowned slightly and thought about it, but quickly turned the corner, she asked Dai Xu: "Do you mean to say that it is because Yao Xiangyang runs a furniture factory, so whether it is especially or tools, it will naturally be more complete, although as the owner of the furniture factory, whether he buys paint or uses paint, it is very convenient, and it will not make people have any suspicion, it is really normal, but when the current furniture factory paints furniture, it is not the old yellow calendar of the small workshop in the past, The last time we went to understand the situation, I saw that the workers there did not use paint brushes, but used spray guns to paint the processed furniture. Yao Xiangyang, as the owner of the furniture factory, naturally owns the painting machines in the factory, and there is no need to buy or rent them, and there is no cost problem. Yao Xiangyang also has a car, and if he uses a car to carry a painting machine, the convenience of carrying it is not a problem. I'm a layman in this regard, but I guess the efficiency of spray paint is definitely higher than that of painting, if the suspect is really Yao Xiangyang, why should he put the painting tools that he can or get in his factory without using them, and he has to get a paint brush, brush by brush? The most plausible explanation is that the real suspect does not have easy access to paint and paint tools, so it is natural to choose a paint brush with a relatively low cost to deal with the problem of painting. Am I right? ”

Dai Xu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "That's right, that's what I want to say." Another point is also related to Yao Xiangyang. Just like Fang Yuan just said, he has a car, if Yao Xiangyang is really the suspect we are looking for, then he can completely kill people at the scene of the crime, spray paint, and then put the empty paint buckets into the car, together with the painting tools brought out from the factory before, drive the car all the way back to his furniture factory, and stack the three paint buckets and other empty paint barrels in the factory together, and dispose of them in a unified manner, which is probably more secure and safer than putting stones and sinking into the fish pond. After all, others are not engaged in this kind of business, and inexplicably suddenly there are three empty paint buckets around him, which is indeed more abnormal, only for Yao Xiangyang, paint, paint buckets, and spray paint tools are very daily and will not arouse anyone's suspicion. ”

"It's quite reasonable to say this, I didn't turn this corner in my head just now, such a comparison, if it was really Yao Xiangyang, he brushed the paint to paint the wall, and then took a lot of trouble to chisel the ice and throw the paint bucket, it's really a bit of a shortcut and don't go far away, the meaning of abandoning the original and chasing the end!" Tang Hongye suddenly realized, stretched out his hand and patted his head, and after the thought came back, the thoughts in his mind began to become clear, "Then if you say so, you say, from the very beginning of this case, a room of red paint is a feature that makes us feel particularly incomprehensible." If it is said that the suspect used this way to display his 'works' for the purpose of changing his [river crab] status, there are no other similar cases except for Zhao Yinghua. If it is to highlight something about Zhao Yinghua, after investigating for so long, there is no gain in this regard. The only explanation that makes sense may be to divert our attention and let us associate such a possibility in the direction of changing the [river crab] state to kill. But there are many different ways to create the illusion of killing people in the state of [river crab], why choose to paint red? Originally, I thought I was quite confused, but now I understand a little bit all of a sudden, the suspect we are looking for should know the existence of such a person as Yao Xiangyang, so from deliberately using paint, something closely related to Yao Xiangyang's profession, in fact, the fundamental purpose is to transfer the suspicion to Yao Xiangyang's body, right? In that case, this murderer not only knows Yao Xiangyang, but also has to know that there is no public relationship between Yao Xiangyang and Zhao Yinghua, otherwise it is impossible to deliberately commit a crime for no reason and frame a person who has no intimate relationship with the deceased, even if the other party is the deceased's employer, this matter will still be a bit far-fetched, do you say that is so reasonable? ”

Fang Yuan nodded, feeling that what Tang Hongye said was still very reasonable, and listening to Tang Hongye's combing like this, she felt that some of her thoughts were also beginning to come out, but they were not clear enough, and it always seemed to be covered with a thin veil. (To be continued.) )