Cui Qiaoqin walked into the foyer of the first entrance, entered the hall of the second entrance, and then walked into the east room, turned on the lights, and walked to the place with the window, door and wall joint.

Zhao Zimeng, Xiang Daimo and Lu Qian stood beside them, and Director Gu and Section Chief Min stood behind Cui Qiaoqin.

Cui Qiaoqin took a step back, looked at Zhao Zimeng's face with a solemn expression, and clasped her hands together, which had naturally drooped.

"Cui Qiaoqin, what do you see?"

"That's not right!"

"What's wrong?"

"When we lived here, there was a pillow distance between the window and this wall, and now there is only a long distance left, and when we lived here, there was no such wall, this wall must have been built later."

The "later brick" is built by the tenant.

Cui Qiaoqin's words should be credible.

"When we lived here, my pillow was laid out like this." Cui Qiaoqin said as she gestured with her hand. The position of the pillow is where Cui Qiaoqin's head is, and this kind of information can only be revealed in a specific environment. When Cui Qiaoqin was there, she finally remembered something.

After that, Cui Qiaoqin looked at the pryed open green bricks again, and then walked to the southwest corner of the courtyard to take a look.

"There used to be a lot of bricks here – leftover from the old days when the house was being built, and the bricks used to build the walls must have been taken from here. There were a lot of bricks in the early days, enough to build two walls. ”

"There are bricks left, but is there lime left?"

"Nope."

The courtyard door was pushed open, and four people walked in from the alley in turn, two of them were the Che Huating brothers, and Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiao Luhan walked in front.

"My brother and sister are right, there was indeed a large pile of green bricks and a little tile in this yard at the beginning, and there was no lime." It was a man in his early forties who spoke. The man wore a military cotton cap, a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a dark woolen coat on his upper body.

"Captain Zhao, this is my eldest brother."

Zhao Zimeng shook the hand of the car boss: "Hello - you came back just in time." ”

"Captain Zhao, let's go to the wing room and have a look." The boss of the car walked in front, and the others followed.

The car boss took out a tape measure from his coat pocket, took it out, and measured the length of the floor—the floor was laid in an east-west direction.

Boss Che straightened up, put the tape measure under the electric lamp and looked at it, then looked at Che Huating and Zhao Zimeng and said: "This wall was built later, there were only two walls, and you can't see it by looking at the wall alone, but you can understand what is going on by measuring the length of the floor." Look—" said the car boss to the door of the wing, "you see—these houses have been repaired, and these floors have been replaced—the dimensions have been measured by me, and I remember them clearly, you see—is the floor different from the original?" ”

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei squatted down.

Xiang Daimo brought a flashlight and shone it back and forth on the floor a few times. Everyone finally saw that the color of the replaced floor was brighter, the color of the old floor was black, and there were traces of insect damage, and the edge of the floor was still a little rotten.

The car boss put away the tape measure: "In my memory, the length of the floor was six meters, and now it is only about five .seven meters, about 0.3 meters, which is exactly the thickness of a wall." The car boss said with great certainty, "This wall must have been built by the tenants." ”

"I think at the beginning, because the wall here is old and humid, the wall tiles are more weathered, and the surface of some green bricks has peeled off, so my father invited craftsmen to tear down the wall and rebuild it, and the craftsman said that it is too laborious to tear down the four walls and rebuild them, so it is better to build another wall in the east and west walls."

The craftsman also said: "The yin and evil qi in the alley are too heavy, and there are two walls separating them, which can also block one yin and evil qi." My dad agreed. I didn't think so, but I couldn't disobey my father's wishes, so I agreed. Later, my father entrusted me with the task of repairing the house, so I was very impressed. ”

With the appearance of the car boss, some unclear and unclear problems have become clear.

"Third child, you move three chairs here." The car boss looked at Che Huating Road.

"Big brother, what are you doing moving chairs?"

"Pry the ceiling open and it's even more obvious."

Che Huating and his wife walked out of the wing room to move chairs, and Xiao Luhan also joined in.

"Captain Zhao, our house is too old, the reason is that the wood of our house is much thicker than ordinary people's, you see-this column," Boss Che pointed to a pillar in the middle of the brick wall, "The diameter of this column is at least about fifty centimeters, except for the outer wall near the alley, it is almost enough for the thickness of two walls, in my impression, this column is protruding on the outside, but now it is sunken in the wall about ten centimeters." We rarely come here since the house was rented, so we haven't noticed the problem. ”

"Yes! We stayed here for a while and didn't even care about it. Che Huating put down his chair.

"Big brother is right, when we lived here, this column was so thick beyond the brick wall." After Cui Qiaoqin put down the chair, he gestured with the index finger and thumb of his right hand, and Zhao Zimeng visually measured it, and the length of Cui Qiaoqin's gesture was about fifteen centimeters.

Boss Che stacked the chairs brought by Xiao Luhan on top of the two chairs, and then climbed up with the help of his younger brother Che Huating, the height was just right, and Boss Che stood on the chair and bent down and bowed his head.

Above the head of the car boss, there is an entrance with a side length of about fifty centimeters, the car boss holds up the cover of the entrance, slowly moves it to the side, and then takes the flashlight from Xiang Daimo's hand, and finally straightens up his waist and sticks his head into the mouth. The light of the flashlight was aimed at the herringbone beam.

Everyone else tilted their heads and craned their necks to focus on the entrance.

The entrance is only about 30 centimeters from the east gable.

"This wall was built from behind." Boss Che muttered to himself.

"Big brother, what do you see?" Che Wah Ting Road.

"Captain Zhao, come up and take a look—you'll understand what's going on." The car boss slowly climbed out of his chair.

Boss Che and Linghu Yunfei put Zhao Zimeng on a chair.

After Zhao Zimeng stood firm, the car boss handed the flashlight to Zhao Zimeng.

Zhao Zimeng put his right hand into the mouth, and then put his head in as well.

Sure enough, there was an extra wall below the pried-up ceiling. Although all the timber of the herringbone beam is also relatively thick, it is much inferior compared with the column below, and there is an extra wall, which is not obvious when viewed below, because the column is very thick, protruding, or concave, it is not obvious, and the top is different, because the diameter of the herringbone beam is about 30 centimeters - this is already very thick, so if there is an extra wall on the herringbone beam, it is very abrupt.

The first wall is only built below the ceiling, and if you keep it up, the herringbone beams will be invisible.

The first wall was built by the tenants, and that was a certainty. Next, conducting a thorough survey of guests has become a top priority.

After talking about the case, Boss Che suddenly mentioned his father Che Rengui: "Captain Zhao, I heard Huating say that the age of the deceased was between 56 and 58 years old, and the time of the accident was around eight or six years. ”

"Not bad. However, from the analysis of height, teeth and many other aspects, your father Cha Rengui has nothing to do with this case. ”

"My father also ran away from home during this time, but—"

"What do you want to say?"

"I never believed that he ran away from home, and I always felt like something had happened to him."

"Why do you think that?"

"Yes, my father has been away for a while before, but he came back soon, this time he ran away from home, it has been more than five years now, his greatest pride in life is to have such a big family business, relatives, friends, neighbors, there is nothing that is not envious, he left such a big family business and ignored it, this is impossible. The first two departures were preceded by signs, but this time, without warning. In every way, he didn't look like he was going to go far away. ”

Since Boss Che mentioned his father Che Rengui, Zhao Zimeng had to listen patiently to Boss Che.

"You might as well talk about it."

"That morning, the morning of the day he left, my father and I walked out of the courtyard gate, I went to work, and he went to have morning tea. I face east, he faces west, and he has to go to the 'first packet' every morning for morning tea. ”

"The 'first bun' is a famous steamed bun shop on Qixing Street, and his xiaolongbao is the most famous in the south of the old city, and my father goes to his house every morning to eat a steamed bun." Che Huating explained.

"When we broke up, he also asked me not to forget to bring back an osmanthus duck from Mingwa Corridor, he usually likes to eat osmanthus duck - so he often asks me to bring it."

"My eldest brother happened to pass by Mingwa Corridor on his way from work, where there is a marketing point for osmanthus ducks." Che Wah Ting Road.

"Is this clearly a desire to drink with osmanthus duck at night? When he left, he had two hands empty, and when he came home in the evening, we waited for my father to come back for dinner—this was our habit for many years, but that night, he never came back, and my mother said that since he had gone out with me in the morning, my father had never come back, and he had not come home for dinner at noon, and if he had run away from home, he should have gone home and got something! ”

"On the third day, my mother couldn't hold it back, so she asked me to go to Lin Fengyan's house to find it, Lin Fengyan is the woman my father just hooked up, with my understanding of my father, no matter what kind of woman it is, as long as my father catches up, it will always take about half a year to play - I will let go after the freshness has passed, but my father and Lin Fengyan have only been together for a week or two, and it is unlikely that they will find a new love so soon. Lin Fengyan also said that it was very strange, she said, my father promised to give her a sum of money to buy goods - my father never broke his word. ”