"Does Officer Yan know the legend of the Maple Ghost twenty years ago?" Xia Baiyan said with his hands crossed against his chin.

Yan Junli nodded.

"Xie Mingqing had an affair with his friend's husband, and Xie Fengming told me personally." Xia Baiyan said, "The deceased in the tragedy 20 years ago, whose name is Hanako Nakano, is a Japanese woman of Chinese origin, and her husband is Du Yong. Xie Mingqing had an affair with Du Yong at that time and was hit by Huazi, who knows if it was an accident or a deliberate plan, Huazi was killed by Xie Mingqing. ”

Yan Junli interrupted Xia Baiyan, "We have already heard this version of the story. ”

Xia Baiyan glanced at Yan Junli meaningfully and said, "But there is a problem now. If Hanako has been killed by Xie Mingqing, who was Xie Mingqing killed? Could it be that there is really a ghost revenge in this world? ”

"Do you know that?" Yan Junli whispered.

"I don't know, but Xie Fengming knows." Xia Baiyan hooked the corners of his lips, "On the night Xie Mingqing died twenty years ago, the little girl Xie Fengming was at the scene, not only that, but she saw the appearance of the murderer head-on. She wouldn't tell me who the killer was, and maybe she couldn't remember it herself. I only know that the murderer of the case twenty years ago was neither a ghost nor a ghost, and he has lived to this day, Xie Fengming, who escaped the clutches of the murderer back then, still has not escaped this catastrophe. ”

"If you know so much, can you tell me? What exactly is the relationship between Keiko Nakano and Hanako Nakano? ”

"Unfortunately, that's something I've always wanted to figure out." Xia Baiyan spread his hands and said, "Since Xie Fengming's death, I have been following Keiko's cat, but she is not as easy to catch as the big cat I was looking for. Keiko Nakano's history is almost blank, and all her archives began after the Red Maple Garden was built, and what she had done before that, what her identity, and what family relationships she had done were all blank. It's no wonder who made her inextricably linked to the city's underground criminal network, and they have a thousand ways to erase Keiko's past without anyone knowing. Of course, it was an oversight that she still kept the last name, and it must have been because she didn't expect a detective as smart as me. ”

Yan Junli's ballpoint pen was recorded in the notebook, and after a while, he raised his head to look at Xia Baiyan and asked, "How can I know that what you told me is not telling a story?" ”

"We're all telling stories, Officer Yan." Xia Baiyan showed a smile of unknown meaning, and took a leisurely sip of coffee, "Tell an old story from twenty years ago." And all the stories are passed down by word of mouth, and there will definitely be various versions, depending on which one you want to believe, the officer. ”

"Since word of mouth is spreading, where did you hear your story?" Yan Junli leaned forward and asked as he stared at Xia Baiyan's eyes.

"I didn't 'hear' about it, I 'saw' it." Xia Baiyan smiled brightly, folded his hands behind his head, and said gracefully, "The size, height, speed and speed of human voices; Facial expressions, demeanor, movements, sights, postures, in the final analysis, are just a kind of symbols, each symbol represents a meaning, every detail means a possibility, as long as all the symbols are stitched together, it is not difficult to get a complete story. People only have a pair of eyes and a pair of ears, I don't hear more or see farther than others, everything is just a summary of countless details and symbols. ”

Yan Junli was puzzled when he heard it, and he didn't want to ask more, he just wanted to know one thing.

"Well, so be it. Then I ask you, from whom did you 'see'? ”

"Keiko Nakano." Xia Baiyan raised the corners of his mouth.

Yang Wenbin sat outside the interrogation room and chatted with Li Hong while drinking tea, and after a while, he saw Yan Junli frowning and walking out with a gloomy face.

"How?" Yang Wenbin asked.

"I don't know whether to say it's a gain or a no-gain." Yan Junli picked up the teacup on the table and took a big sip without looking, making Yang Wenbin's sentence "That's my cup" stunned. Yan Junli handed the notes from the interrogation to the two people and asked them to read them by themselves, and then said,

"If you look at Natsu Hakuhiko's testimony, Keiko Nakano is the most suspicious person. When Yang Wenbin looked for her yesterday, her secretary said that she went to sacrifice, and now she has returned? ”

"No," Li Hong said, "I went to see the Red Maple Garden and her residence today, but no one was there. Captain, are you going to be wanted? ”

Yan Junli raised his hand to refuse, "Keiko Nakano is a nail, and rash action may not be able to pull it out, and it may have to be pierced in the hand." ”

"What then?"

"Looks like I'm going to try it my way this time, go 'underground'." Yan Junli picked up his coat from the back of the chair and put it on, and turned his head to look at Yang Wenbin, "Together, Watson?" ”

Yang Wenbin pushed Yan Junli from behind, "Do you really think of yourself as Sherlock Holmes?" Do you want to nod your face. ”

Yan Junli smiled and said to Li Hong, "Putting Xia Baiyan in the detention center for at least a week is his own request." But keep an eye on him, and don't let him behave strangely. ”

Li Hong nodded, "Don't worry, Team Yan, I promise to complete the task!" ”

"Xia Baiyan asked to be detained for a week?" Yang Wenbin asked strangely.

"Xia Baiyan is a smart person, and he wants to use this method to clear his suspicion." Yan Junli said in a low voice, "Besides, before I came out, he said a word to me. ”

"What?"

"He said-", Yan Junli took a deep breath and said word by word, "There will be the next victim soon." ”

The black car drove on the asphalt road, and the destination was the notorious "underground area" of City C, Yan Junli frowned all the way, if it weren't for Yang Wenbin, he would have smoked several cigarettes a long time ago.

"Do you believe what he says?" Yang Wenbin's low question broke the silence.

"What?" Yan Junli didn't react for a while.

"Xia Baiyan. Do you believe what he says? ”

"It is better to believe what you have than to believe what you don't have." Yan Junli said.

"But don't you feel like this whole case is playing tricks on us? It's like a well-designed game. Yang Wenbin sat up straight and looked at Yan Junli, "What if Xia Baiyan is just playing with you?" If you are given a false clue that is baseless and leads you in the wrong direction, then we will lose safely. ”

Yan Junli sighed and said, "Yang Wenbin, I told you a long time ago that investigating the case is not that simple, and the case is not a game. If you had to compare the case to a game, we would never be able to win against the murderer and the criminal. Because criminals are gambling with human lives, and the meaning of solving the case is to rescue more people, as long as innocent lives can be saved, even if the criminals win? That's why I said I'd rather believe it than not, maybe there is an innocent person behind this clue waiting for us to rescue. ”