Chapter 6 Questioning Bi Fang
SME is not very far from the police station, and soon we arrived at Professor Bi Fang's office, but we couldn't find anyone else.
"The people from the School and Work Office said that he went to Wanghua Palace, should we wait here?"
Du Group looked around, this is his habit of handling cases, and if he wants to understand a person, it is a very good way to start from the environment he is familiar with.
"Bi Fang is not here, then we will talk to the students nearby."
After most of the day's visit, Du Group and I both had a general understanding of Professor Bi Fang. From graduating from university to now, he has been concentrating on the study of ancient Chinese architecture, especially interested in China's temple and Taoist culture. He was a very funny person, many of his students liked his classes, and he often took his students to his home to study ancient buildings together, and 80% of the students he took went to his home. According to students who have been to his home, Bi Fang is a crazy collector of cultural toys, he is obsessed with ancient cultural toys, and most of the cultural toys he collects are mythical.
Ren Yaoyao only started to take ancient architecture with Bi Fang last semester, because she is smart, so Bi Fang admires her very much, and he has taken her home many times after taking her for a semester. However, later I heard that because of Tao Hong's misunderstanding, Bi Fang began to gradually alienate Ren Yaoyao.
Li Ming's first analysis defined Ren Yaoyao as Bi Fang's lover, and now it seems that this idea lacks basis. Ren Yaoyao's roommate said that Ren Yaoyao's boyfriend has not been found until now, of course, Bi Fang is the person who seems to be the most like Ren Yaoyao's boyfriend at present, because they have frequent contact and close relationships, but they can't make their relationship public for special reasons.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, we waited at the gate of Wanghua Palace to see Professor Bi Fang, dressed plainly and neatly, not too impressive at a glance, an old handbag, wearing a pair of glasses with thick lenses, completely the style of an old pedant. I can't say why, I always feel that this professor Bi Fang is not like a person who will have an improper relationship with his students.
After pleasantries, he agreed to take us to his house to learn more about the situation, and I kept observing this professor along the way, but he seemed a little reserved, and did not talk to us much, probably for fear of losing too many words.
Soon we arrived at the house of Professor Bi Fang.
"I fell out with my wife last month, she moved out with her children, and now she lives alone, and the house is a little messy, please forgive me."
"It's okay, Professor Bi, I heard that you like literary play very much?" Du Group got straight to the point, and chatted with Bi Fang when he entered the house.
"I have some collections, can I show you around?"
After entering the house, I looked around, the house was a little messy as Bi Fang said, and after the living room, it was Bi Fang's collection room, which was different from the living room, it was surprisingly tidy here, and it was obvious that he cherished these literary toys of his own.
"Professor Bi, most of your literary toys are not genuine, right?"
"Officer Du has a good eye, most of the cultural toys here are replicas made by myself, you know that I am from the Cultural Relics Bureau, and sometimes I need to use them for research, so I made some imitations."
"It seems that Professor Bi is also a person who likes to work very much." Du Group fiddled with the porcelain vase in his hand while looking at Professor Bi Fang's study.
"I can't talk about it, it's just a hobby."
"I heard that you often bring your classmates back to study these games together?"
"Officer Du wants to ask about Ren Yaoyao!" Professor Bi Fang smiled, "She has a very unique view on archaeology and cultural research, I have brought her back many times, and it may be because of this reason that there are some rumors that are not very good in the outside world, and my wife has had several fierce quarrels with me for this." ”
Du Group nodded slightly, "Last time, when our police officers went to the School of Management and Economics to find a professor, the professor said that on the day of the crime, you asked Ren Yaoyao to go to the printing shop near the City God Temple to pick up some documents?" ”
Professor Bi Fang frowned, was silent for a while, and then said: "It seems that you have found out that the girl who took the document is not Ren Yaoyao, and I have nothing to hide now." ”
Professor Bi Fang's frankness caught Du Group and me a little unexpected, I thought he would argue strongly, but I didn't expect him to admit it so generously.
"Before Ren Yaoyao went to the City God Temple, she once called me from an unfamiliar number, and she asked me if I knew that there was a statue of Guan Erye in the City God Temple. You should have found that statue too, when she asked me, I could hear that she was a little panicked, there was something extraordinary in the statue, Officer Lin should be very clear about this, right? Saying that, Bi Fang smiled at me, although there was no more expression, but his smile made me a little nervous inexplicably.
"How can Professor Bi also be a contemporary old scholar, how can we listen to the rumors of these gods and ghosts, we are all communists, and we must adhere to socialist materialism, right?" Du Group lightly helped me cover up.
Bi Fang looked at Du Group, and then shook his head again, "This Ren Yaoyao is not an ordinary student, I know that she went to the City God Temple this time because she was more than lucky, so I tried my best to dissuade her, but she didn't listen, she said that she had her own last resort." Later, she asked me to arrange for a girl to go to a copy shop near the temple to get the materials, and she said that if something happened to her, she would say that I asked her to go to the temple to get the materials, and I knew that she didn't want others to know the things in the temple. ”
Saying that, Professor Bi Fang took out a glass shard from the wooden box on the side and handed it to Du Group, "This is given to me by Ren Yaoyao before his death, since you can find the City God Temple, it means that you are not ordinary people, I have studied the temple and Taoism all my life, this thing is the most unusual thing I have ever seen, it is likely that Ren Yaoyao also died because of this, and I am worthy of Ren Yaoyao if I hand it over to you today." ”
Du Group took the fragment in Bi Fang's hand, at first glance, it seemed to be no different from ordinary glass fragments, but after careful inspection, the lines on it were clearly visible, and there were gold wires swimming from time to time.
"This thing was accidentally discovered by Ren Yaoyao when I went to Damin Mountain with me to investigate, she liked it very much and kept it with her, just a few days before her accident, she suddenly handed this to me, and said that there was a big secret in it, but she hadn't cracked it yet, she asked me to help her identify the age of this thing."
Du Group carefully examined the fragments in his hand, "Oh, did the professor see any clues?" ”
"I'm ashamed, I think I've studied antiques all my life but I can't see the age of this thing, it seems to be new and not new, it seems to be old and not old, I also invited a few old experts from our Cultural Relics Bureau to identify, but the result is still ambiguous."
Du Group handed me the fragment, perhaps because I was a demon, and I had a strange feeling the moment the fragment was placed in the palm of my hand. It was as if my whole being was suppressed, but the feeling of oppression quickly disappeared, I can't say why, but I could feel that the fragment didn't seem to be kind to me.
"How?" Du Group quickly saw my discomfort, "Is there anything unusual about this thing?" ”
I shook my head, "It's strange, this isn't like an ordinary thing, does it have anything to do with Ren Yaoyao's death?" ”
In fact, when the Du group captured the powerful ghost Liu Tian, the spirit rune he used also had the same sense of oppression for me, and the demon was naturally afraid of these things.
Du Group looked at me with a frown, he seemed to know something, but he didn't seem to be sure.
"Since Professor Bi has already told us everything we want to know, then there is no need for us to continue to bother here, but," Du Group glanced at Professor Bi Fang meaningfully before getting up, "If Professor Bi has anything to hide, please make it clear to our police as soon as possible, after all, it is related to the murder, if Professor Bi did not communicate with us in time and the murderer is at large, I think Ren Yaoyao's spirit in the sky will not rest, Professor Bi, you say yes?" ”
"Of course, Ren Yaoyao is my student, I naturally hope that the case can be solved as soon as possible, and justice will be given to the deceased, if I have a new discovery, I will definitely communicate with your police as soon as possible, Officer Du can rest assured."
After leaving the residence of Professor Bi Fang, Du Group did not immediately take me back to the police station, this case is still full of suspicions, the truth of Bi Fang's words is unknown, and the mysterious fragments and the powerful ghost Liu Tian made this case begin to be involved in some supernatural events.
"Lin Xuan, don't you think this professor Bi Fang is a little strange?"
"Sort of," I nodded, "he was visibly overly nervous when we first found him, and he was silent all the way, obviously thinking about things. ”
"That's right, before entering his house, I found that he deliberately looked at the window of his house, the second window of the study is open, normal people will not go out without closing the window, his family still lives on the first floor, although most of his collection room is imitations, but people like him who cherish their collections cannot have no sense of anti-theft."
"Du Group, do you mean that there are other people in his family besides him?"
"It's hard to say, when we went in, he took us directly to the collection room, and when I looked at his study just now, he had a noticeable sideways movement, obviously he was worried about what we would find."
"I also noticed this, judging from his quick admission that he lied yesterday, he either wanted to hide something or was afraid of our investigation, and took out the glass shards, probably to divert our attention, to attract us through our curiosity about clues, which he did very well, but it is a pity that he underestimated your observation ability."
Du Group patted the back of my head, "When did you learn this kind of flamboyant tongue?" ”
I lowered my head and smiled, and then looked at the glass shards in Du Group's hands, this case has become mysterious, since the discovery of the powerful ghost Liu Tian, the focus of our investigation of the murder seems to be more and more deviated from the line of reality, and more evidence points to some areas that we have never touched.