Chapter 17: The Basement
After seeing off Li Tianran from the Environmental Protection Bureau, the two came to the door of the house.
"Are you ready?" Lao Xing suddenly spoke.
"Prepare what?"
"Oh yes, there's no suspect in there." As Lao Xing said, he has never encountered any major cases, including the case of dead people, so he is more or less nervous, but Chen Yiyan, who is more than a round younger than him, has seen a lot of such scenes.
Chen Yiyan glanced blankly, twisted the handle, and opened the door.
The two walked in
"It's cold." Lao Xing said that it may be that the double feelings of psychology and physiology made him feel that this room was a little cold.
Chen Yiyan walked forward, Lao Xing followed behind him, the two walked through the circular entrance, and Chen Yiyan took a flashlight to shine on both sides of the stairs.
"If I'm not mistaken, the entrance to the basement is there, you go and see."
"Huh? Guess wrong? Guess what? ”
"Yes, I've looked around this house, there is no entrance, I haven't checked this house, it should be there."
Lao Xing smashed his mouth and looked at the narrow entrance full of cobwebs.
"I said Lao Xing, are you also afraid of spiders?"
"Afraid of what?" Under Chen Yiyan's encouragement, Lao Xing stirred the cobwebs with a flashlight, glanced at Chen Yiyan, walked in, and Chen Yiyan followed.
The entrance was figured out, and the middle was like a corridor of six or seven meters, and Chen Yiyan and Lao Xing shone the surroundings with flashlights.
"Lao Xing, here, look." Chen Yiyan shook his flashlight at the bottom of the stairs, and Lao Xing saw through the light of Chen Yiyan's flashlight that there was a door under the stairs. "I guess this is it."
"Well, I'll see." Lao Xing walked into the door and blinked, the smell was really a little smoky, as for Chen Yiyan, he seemed to be a little used to it.
Lao Xing grabbed the doorknob and pulled it back, and the door opened, it was a wooden door, only about one and a half meters high. When the door opened, Chen Yiyan covered his nose.
"Vomit Cough Cough Cough Cough"
"It's okay, Lao Xing," Chen Yiyan patted Lao Xing's back.
"Ahem, it's fine." Lao Xing also covered his nose and said, Lao Xing took a flashlight and shone it inside, it was a very simple staircase, the two exchanged glances, nodded, and went down the stairs.
The further you go inside, the bigger the flavor.
The two of them resisted the urge to vomit and walked to the end of the staircase, which was a folded staircase with a door at the bottom of the staircase, which was also unlocked.
"Slow down." Chen Yiyan turned off the flashlight, and at the same time motioned Lao Xing to turn off the flashlight.
Lao Xing didn't react, Chen Yiyan pointed to the flashlight with his finger, but Lao Xing still didn't understand.
"Moths, there should be a lot of moths in here."
Lao Xing immediately turned off the flashlight.
"I said Lao Xing, are you in such a hurry, you can't see anything now."
Lao Xing didn't reply and opened the door.
Through the street lights that filtered through the small glass windows, they finally saw the people on the recliners.
It was a man in pajamas and a coat, but the corpse had clearly begun to decompose, and it was impossible to distinguish his appearance from the appearance, only the sparse white hair on his head, which should indicate that the deceased should be older.
The two covered their noses and didn't make a sound, Chen Yiyan looked around, there was a small window on the left wall, which was the window they saw, a meter in front of them was the corpse of the old man, the corpse was facing their right side, it was a wooden desk, the same table as the one seen in the room on the first floor, there were scattered things on the table, there were photo frames, notes, pens, reading glasses, etc. In front of them were several large potted plants, planted with cute little moths on the walls around them, on their desks, and on the plants.
Chen Yiyan poked Lao Xing, who was observing the corpse, "Go and look at the desk, there should be some clues." ”
Lao Xing nodded, and the two walked into the desk and looked at the items on it carefully.
In the photo frame in the upper right corner of the desk is a photograph taken by two people in the garden, inside is a man and a woman, the man is holding the woman, and the smile is full of happiness. Next to this photo frame there is another photo frame that looks like a family portrait of an older couple standing at the end, two young couples in front of them and two laughing children below.
The notes on the desk, and the books, Chen Yiyan looked at the cover, most of them were books on architecture, entomology, and flora and fauna. There was also a doll next to the book, a doll of a rose-colored maple leaf moth.
"There was no forcible break-in, no sign of a fight." Chen Yiyan said to Lao Xing, who was still looking at the items on the desk.
"It's true that it looks like a natural death, but we still have to cordon off the scene and investigate it carefully."
"Hmm."
The two continued to observe for a moment, until the information they could gather was already in their hands, and they exited the basement.
At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was already slightly brightened.
"Have breakfast?" Chen Yiyan asked.
"I can't eat it." Lao Xing said with a smile.
"Also, then you go straight back to the police station?"
"Well, you have to call someone to watch the scene."
"Okay, then you can give me a ride."
"Okay, go back to your office?"
"Hospital."
"Going to buy salted bean curd?"
"Hmm."
Zhen City
"The cosmetics companies in this country are also troublesome, every city spends money to hire people to fight lawsuits, how much money do you say they can make here?" Little advisor to his partner.
"Brother Gu, how do I know about the affairs of other big companies, anyway, it must be able to make money, otherwise how would I do these things. Is it really to protect the reputation of the trademark? ”
"Hehe, have you ever seen someone Naike and Gucci to fight this kind of lawsuit? They are the righteous side of this kind of thing, and they can indeed do this kind of thing, but you also know that what enterprises do is linked to interests. ”
"Then they're not afraid that they're not afraid of being gossiped about when they do this?"
"Huh, gossip? If you weren't a small shop that was sued, and you knew someone related, would you pay attention to this? I can only say that those small shops that have been sued are actually victims, and if they really want to catch the source, they have to start with the manufacturers. ”
"Okay, Brother Gu, let's not care about so much, just make money."
"Yes." Xiao Gu replied at any time, but the expression on his face was not very happy.
"Brother Gu, the person you want to check, we found out, her family seems to have been prosecuted recently."
"What prosecution?"
"Isn't it the case of trademark infringement of cosmetics?"
"What? Which one? ”
"It's the one I went to buy evidence last week, Xiangxing Supermarket."
"Where's the stuff?"
"It's in the hands of the lawyer."
Xiao Gu frowned, took out his mobile phone and made a call.