I was standing in an eerie Western-style house, surrounded by vintage furniture, and the fire in the hearth wall had not yet been extinguished, adding a touch of warmth to the chilling room.

No matter how warm the room is, it can't stop the cold air wafting behind him, and with the evil air of resentment, he decisively looks back and sees his friends who have been with him for many years, squatting at the door of the bathroom. His left hand wiped the blood on the ground, and in his right hand he held bread that had not yet been opened.

"This is the scene of the murder, can you eat it?" I asked.

"Yesterday dinner, I came overnight after receiving your notice, and I didn't eat anything all the way here, just because I wanted to be your assistant, and now I am not allowed to eat, is it intolerable?"

"Okay, you hurry up and finish eating, we still have business to do."

At this time, my friend stood up, pointed to the bathroom and said: "The deceased was dragged in from the door, and there is only this clue left, and the evidence to solve the case is not enough at all." ”

"Let's say that there are few murder cases in the closed room, but when you go to see the wall of fire, I always feel strange?"

"Yes, but you have to be careful when you go into the bathroom, there is still water on the floor, don't slip."

"Thank you for your concern!"

When I stepped into the bathroom, I saw that the floor was full of water, and everything around me was so dark that there was only one curtain. Sunlight shone in through the window, forming a radiant electric lamp that shone inside the blood-drenched bathtub.

I only saw the hideous old woman lying there, and her death was terrible, and her face was not bloody. His head was outside the bathtub, his hair was scattered, and he was wearing only a thin pajamas. Next to the tub was a small table with wine glasses on it, and a plate of steaks, the fork of which had disappeared.

"The fork is in the stove, you hurry up and take a look!" My friend hurried in.

I quickly turned around and replied, "Take it out with pliers, or you'll be scrap metal later." ”

"Understood."

I then went into the hall and sat in a chair to think.

My friend said: "I have seen the wounds on the corpses, they were all pierced with forks, probably from excessive blood loss!" ”

"Your statement is not wrong, but before the old woman dies, it is impossible to be at the mercy of the murderer, right?"

"How do you explain that?"

"The case is easy to solve. Murder in a closed room is often committed by acquaintances, and only the people who live here are so familiar with the environment, and every step of the plan in the house is perfect. In the first step, the murderer first bought sleeping pills and put them in red wine. In the second step, after the old woman fell unconscious, she was dragged to the bathroom door and killed. In the third step, the murder weapon fork was thrown into the stove and the body was dragged into the bathtub to form a bloodstain. The fifth step is to light a fire on the furnace wall, and finally go out through the window in the bathroom, so it forms a closed room murder case. But the murderer never imagined that he could only close the window from the outside and not close the curtains. So I concluded that there must have been footprints behind the wall in the bathroom, and that the murderer would soon be found by removing the size of the footprints and comparing them with the old woman's acquaintances. ”

"I know the process of committing the crime now, but what was the motive for the killing?"

"A couple who are about to enter a hundred years, unless there is a property problem, or in order to cheat the insurance, I think there should be no other motive."

"The head of your reasoning is the Tao, in fact, on the way to the scene of the crime, I checked a lot of information. The owner of the villa is the husband of the old woman, a lawyer who is about to retire, and the financial situation has not been good in recent years, so he wants to sell the house and buy a smaller bungalow. Unexpectedly, he encountered obstacles on this issue, that is, his wife, who did not agree to do so, and this villa also has an old woman's share. After the two quarreled, the husband applied for life insurance, up to 700,000 yuan. ”

"This is the husband's motive for killing, if we don't solve this case, the murderer is likely to run away with this money, plus the money from the sale of the house, it will add up to a total of 1.3 million, enough for him to eat for several lifetimes."

"And where are we supposed to arrest him?"

"Accident insurance company, or the owner of the house who bought the house."

As soon as I finished speaking, my friend ran out of the villa, leaving me alone, looking at the eerie surroundings, I always felt that things were not so simple.