The room was quiet for a moment, and it was Feng Yan who broke the ice first, "In that case, I think it is necessary for me to confirm whether it was a simple Cinderella or a jewelry thief with ulterior motives that I fell in love with at first sight." Xiao Peng, I'm going to find my sister-in-law, she has the key to the study in her hand, and she also knows the password to the safe. ”

Peng Bo and Tong Beibei waited in Feng Yan's room. Peng Bo couldn't help but worry that Feng Yan's sister-in-law would not cooperate.

Feng Yan's sister-in-law's name is Rong Ailin, who is humble and generous, and is a kind and kind lady. She also worked in Feng's jewelry in her early years, and only in the first two years did she take a back seat due to ill health, and concentrated on becoming a virtuous helper to the Feng family's sons, and by the way, taking care of the two elders of the Feng family who enjoyed the blessings at home.

Rong Ailin has a good relationship with Feng Yan, in fact, she has a good relationship with everyone in this big family, and she has the demeanor of the hostess of the Feng family. She took the initiative to appear in Feng Yan's room, greeted Peng Bo, a well-known detective in the circle, and immediately asked Peng Bo how sure he was about this matter.

Peng Bo gave an answer, "I'm eighty percent sure." ”

Rong Ailin nodded solemnly, she deserved to be the hostess of a wealthy family, and in the face of the possible theft of the jewelry at home, she was still not surprised and kept calm, "Okay, then please come with me, I will open the study and the safe." ”

The door to the study was opened, and as far as the eye could see, it was neat and clean, and the items were well arranged. But Peng Bo didn't see any safe at a glance, it seemed that the safe where the precious jewelry was stored was hidden in some secret place.

"Huh?" Yung Ailin walked into the study first, and immediately said in amazement, "Why is the Persian carpet at the foot of the desk missing?" Could it be that the maid took it to wash? ”

Of course, Peng Bo knew that it was impossible for a jewelry thief to be comfortable with a valuable carpet, and her small handbag could not fit a corner of the carpet at all. So the detail of the carpet's disappearance became part of the ominous conjecture in his mind.

Peng Bo walked to the desk, squatted down, and carefully observed the place where the carpet should have been laid. He found a clue in the crevices of the high-end brown wood floor.

Peng Bo turned around and looked at the two large bookcases behind the desk, pointed and said, "Mrs. Feng, the safe should be behind these two bookcases." ”

Rong Ailin's face was solemn, although her face was full of question marks, wondering how Peng Bo could know the location of the safe, but she still replied happily: "Yes." ”

"Then, please enter the password, and do not open the door of the safe after entering." Peng Bo said, giving up his position in front of the bookcase.

Yung Ailin walked to the bookcase, pressed the edges of the two bookcases with her left and right hands respectively, leaned forward and forced, and the two bookcases slowly bounced open like open doors, until both sides were at right angles.

Peng Bo and the three of them stepped forward and saw the door of the nearly one-person-high safe behind the bookcase. The safe is embedded in the wall, and the door is about 1.5 meters square, but it is unknown how thick it is.

Yung walked to the door of the safe, used her body to cover the numeric keypad and entered the password, and then used her thumb to open the fingerprint lock. She just wanted to open the door of the safe, but she heard Peng Bo's voice from behind.

"Mrs. Feng, please don't open the safe, you just need to watch me open it from a distance. Trust me, it's for your good. ”

Tong Beibei looked at Peng Bo in surprise, and a sense of foreboding rose in her heart, not only was there something missing in the safe, but there were also some bad things.

Rong Ailin stepped back, walked to Peng Bo's side, and said suspiciously: "Okay, then bother Detective Peng." ”

Peng Bo walked to the safe, took out a tissue and put it in his hand, and opened the door. At the same time, his body was ready to go backwards.

"Mrs. Feng, please be mentally prepared, there is a possibility, the situation in the safe will be very bad." Before Peng Bo opened it, he decided to ask Rong Ailin again, because he had heard that the middle-aged hostess's health was not very good.

Eileen Yung swallowed, thinking to herself that the worst-case scenario would be that all the jewels in the safe would be looted. But even then she was able to hold on, after all, the jewelry was insured.

Peng Bo's right hand was forced, the door of the box was wide open, and he stepped back sideways, so that the three people behind him could all see the situation in the safe clearly.

Rong Ailin screamed on the spot, and as soon as her body became weak, she was about to faint. Fortunately, Feng Yan dragged it with both hands. Feng Yan was also stunned by the situation in the safe, but now the more important thing is Rong Ailin's safety, he immediately dragged Rong Ailin's limp body and asked Tong Beibei to call the maid over.

Soon, two maids and housekeepers arrived, carried Yung Ailin downstairs, and were taken directly to the hospital by the driver. Feng Yan immediately went to inform his sister who was resting on the fourth floor, and asked her sister to accompany Rong Ailin to the hospital, while he himself wanted to stay and solve the family affairs with Peng Bo.

The family thing Feng Yan said was of course the corpse in the safe.

When the door of the safe opened, the first thing I saw was a precious Persian carpet soaked in blood, the carpet wrapped around the body of a man, the man's head exposed, his old face distorted, and the dazzling jewels hanging on the top of his head and shoulders, the light and shadow of which contrasted with the lifeless old face.

The blood had not yet dried due to the unventilated condition of the safe, and when the door opened, the blood trickled down the carpet and fell to the floor.

Tong Beibei was stunned for a moment after Rong Ailin fainted and Feng Yan asked someone to take her to the hospital, Peng Bo had long expected that there would be a corpse in the safe, so he didn't want to let Ailin open the door. But he really overestimated Rong Ailin's ability to bear, and he knew that this was the case, he should have let Rong Ailin wait outside the door.

But after thinking about it, how could Eileen Yung be willing to wait outside the door? Leave the open safe alone with her husband's half-brother and two strangers?

"Tong Beibei, call Tong Rui," Peng Bo said, "Instead of calling the police, it is better to call them directly, anyway, based on the location of the crime, this case will definitely be handed over to Ma Jin of the City Bureau." ”

Half an hour later, Ma Jin's criminal investigation team, technicians, and forensic doctors arrived at Feng's house.

The intervention of the police still alarmed the Feng family's patriarch who was recuperating in the courtyard at the back of the Feng family's mansion, and the two elderly people who were in their late teens were helped to the hall on the first floor of the mansion to ask what was going on in their house.

In the study on the second floor, after taking pictures of the corpse, Forensic Doctor Ye Chen instructed his assistant and another technician to lift the carpet-wrapped body out and lay it flat on the ground for his preliminary post-mortem work.

Just as the two men carried the body out of the safe, there was a crisp sound of an object falling to the ground, and everyone noticed that a small object rolled off the carpet and fell to the ground.

Ye Chen was standing where the thing fell, and he picked it up, "Earrings?" Or shell earrings? ”

Peng Bo at the door heard Ye Chen's word "earrings", he walked to the door of the study and said to Ye Chen: "Forensic Ye doctor, I want to see the earrings you found." ”

Ye Chen naturally also recognized Peng Bo, a private detective, and he turned his inquiring gaze to Ma Jin.

Ma Jin hesitated, but nodded at Ye Chen. After all, Peng Bo helped the police a lot in the previous case, and Peng Bo is the reporter in this case, so there is nothing wrong with letting him participate in the case a little, but there may be some unexpected gains.

Peng Bo took the evidence bag from the technician's hand, looked at the blood-stained shell earrings for three seconds, handed them back, and said, "Sure enough, the woman in red last night was the suspect." She's not just a jewelry thief, she's also a murder suspect. ”

"What's going on?" Ma Jin stepped forward and asked Peng Bo, "There is a suspect?" ”

Peng Bo told Ma Jin all the information he knew, and finally concluded, "I have seen this earring in the surveillance, it is the earring worn by the woman in red, and now, the other earring is in Feng Yan's hand." He kept it as Cinderella's crystal slipper in a high-end box. ”

Ma Jin nodded frequently after hearing this, "The jewelry thief is still a woman!" Immediately ask someone from the Feng family to count the jewels in the safe. ”

Before waiting for the members of the Feng family to arrive, Peng Bo stood at the door and observed the deceased from a distance.

The deceased was an elderly man, who appeared to be about sixty years old. His posture is extremely bizarre, his entire body is on a hunch, his knees bent, his arms crossed in front of his chest, and his head and shoulders at right angles.

Because he was killed last night, the corpse mortis had already formed at this time, and it was stuffed into a cramped safe, so it is not surprising that the corpse is now fixed like this.

But what made Peng Bojie pregnant was the arms of the deceased, which were very deliberately crossed in front of his chest, made a cross, and crossed the tips of his fingers on his shoulders. This posture is definitely not due to the space inside the safe, so why?

It seems that the deceased was stabbed in the abdomen, and under normal circumstances, shouldn't he have concentrated his hands on the wound in the abdomen, or made a posture to fight the murderer?

Even if the murderer rolls the body into the carpet after the killing, to cover up the blood-stained carpet and avoid blood soaking the floor, to prolong the time the body is found and ensure that he leaves the ball safely. But there was no need for him to pose such a pose for the deceased.

Ma Jin also saw the strangeness of the deceased's posture, and said to himself: "Does this deceased have any beliefs?" What is this posture for praying before dying? You don't have to look like a mummy, do you? ”

Peng Bo secretly thought, yes, the gesture of the deceased is a mummy. Why the hell is that!

Within ten minutes, the third generation of the Feng family, the eldest grandson Feng Lei and granddaughter Feng Qixin received the news of the accident at home and rushed back from the company together. Unlike Feng Yan, who is in charge of administrative personnel, one is a jewelry designer for the company, and the other is preparing to take over the family business, and they are the most familiar with their own jewelry.

Tong Rui directly found them to the study and counted the jewels in the safe under the watchful eyes of the police.

"No, no, no!" Feng Qixin wore gloves, squatted in a pool of blood, picked up a piece of luxurious jewelry, and put them on the tray held by Feng Lei one by one.

"It's all there, but there is no set of award-winning works without mine!" Feng Qixin cried and simply sat on the ground.

"Xiaoxin, don't be like this, I believe that the police will be able to recover the Night Star Series and recover the loss of our family." Feng Lei comforted his sister.

Feng Qixin didn't give up, and scolded her brother Feng Lei: "I'll just say, don't show my dark night stars at the new product exhibition, you just don't listen to it." This is good, don't worry about any imitations on the market, the real thing has been stolen! ”

Peng Bo and Ma Jin stood at the door, watching the situation in the study. He doesn't have a good impression of this Feng Qixin, but Feng Lei looks stable and old, and has the demeanor of some business successors.

"Has the deceased been identified?" Peng Bo asked Ma Jin.

Ma Jin fell into the inertia of unconscious cooperation again, and replied: "Feng Yan has just identified the deceased, who is their family's family doctor Wu Zihao. This Wu Zihao opened a physical examination hospital by himself, is a director, and is now 58 years old. Last night, Wu Zihao also attended the Feng family's dance as a guest, it seems that he was killed in the study at that time, and he couldn't get out of the Feng family's mansion. ”

The deceased was a doctor, and he could also serve as the family doctor of the wealthy Feng family, and he was also a dean. Would a medical practitioner make a prayer posture before dying, praying for his ascension to heaven? Peng Bo felt that this was unlikely. There must be some other explanation for that weird pose.

"What do you suspect Wu Zihao was killed?" Peng Bo asked.

The initial suspicion was that Wu Zihao accidentally bumped into the suspicious woman in red, so he followed him all the way, until he saw the woman in red enter the study, and he also followed. In order to avoid people's eyes, the woman in red had no choice but to do nothing, kill Wu Zihao, and steal jewelry. In order to delay the Feng family from learning that the jewelry had been stolen and the doctor had been killed, the murderer wrapped the body in a blood-stained carpet and stuffed it into a safe. ”

"If so, then there is a doubt. Why did Wu Zihao follow the woman in red alone after discovering the sneaky whereabouts of the woman in red, instead of informing the security guards at the dance scene? Peng Bo asked rhetorically.

Ma Jin let out a sigh, "That's right, this Wu Zihao also has suspicions." It is not ruled out that the two of them are male and female thieves who should cooperate inside and outside, and in the end, the woman in red simply killed her accomplices in order to monopolize the jewelry. ”