Zhou Erya put her hands in her trouser pockets and walked along the shade of the trees, avoiding the noon sun, and responded lightly.

While talking, the two of them had already walked downstairs to Li Baozhu's apartment, and after identifying themselves to the apartment administrator, the administrator took the two of them up to the third floor and opened the door for them with the backup key.

"Two gentlemen, Boss Jin has taken care of it, please look at it casually, just ask me if you have anything."

The administrator was an old man in his fifties, who spoke Shanghainese, had gray hair, and had a skeletal eyeball.

He stood in front of the door, looked inside with some curiosity, and asked, "Is something wrong with Miss Li, Boss Jin also came here today......

Of course, the people of Paramount did not reveal the news of the murder to him, but this old fox has a sharp nose, and of course he can sense that something is wrong.

"You don't have to worry about these things."

Zhou Erya was unceremonious, so she closed the door in front of him and stopped him outside, while she paced around Li Baozhu's apartment to check.

Han Yu originally wanted to ask the administrator a few questions, but seeing Zhou Erya's style, he smiled bitterly: "He's so curious, maybe he knows something......

Zhou Erya put on white gloves and said lightly: "With Li Baozhu's character, I won't have any entanglement with him at all - my eyes were full of curiosity when I saw him just now, and even wanted to visit this room, so I knew that he hadn't gone upstairs to see the situation in Li Baozhu's room." Therefore, the Li Baozhu he saw was very superficial, and asking him was a waste of time. ”

The fact that the apartment manager was completely unaware of the furnishings in the guest rooms meant that Mr. Lai had never asked him to go upstairs to deal with issues such as water and electricity — Ms. Lai had lived here for more than a year and was too protective of herself.

"This is an inscrutable woman......"

Han Yu admired Zhou Erya's reasoning very much, looked around, and couldn't help but sigh, pitiful and thin.

The apartment is simple and elegant, with a white lace dust cover on the sofa in the living room and a half-full glass kettle on the coffee table, which makes people feel a little lively, like a place to live.

"I thought Miss Red Card's home was much more luxurious than this."

Han Yu walked around the living room and bedroom, feeling that it was no different from ordinary people, and even more simple.

Only the large wardrobe in the bedroom catches the eye, but there are not as many beautiful clothes inside as expected.

You don't need to buy your own dress, you can change it in the dressing room at Paramount.

The kitchen is very tidy, and it seems that Li Baozhu rarely cooks, and there are almost no traces of use.

Han Yu opened the cabinet and saw all kinds of tea cans hidden in the cabinet, which seemed to be a tea-loving woman.

"Could this Miss Li be able to live by just drinking water?"

Han Yu went around, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and sighed.

Zhou Erya didn't speak, just silently observed the surroundings, for the popular dancer, how can she have time to cook and eat at home? It's not bad to be able to get home and sleep every day.

More than anything else, he paid more attention to Li Baozhu's study.

This apartment is not big, with two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom, and two other rooms, one of which is a bedroom and the other has been converted into a study.

Zhou Erya stood in front of the bookshelf, looking at the books on the bookshelf.

Li Baozhu has read a lot of books, not only popular foreign novels, but also a lot of progressive ideological works, as well as some books on financial and economic majors, this kind of work is esoteric and difficult to understand, if you are not a person with cultural skills, you will definitely not be able to understand it, it seems that she was originally a female student, it should not be a blind fabrication.

On the table, there is a copy of Han Bangqing's "Biography of Flowers on the Sea", which seems to be some years old, and the paper is yellowed.

Han Yu picked it up and flipped through it, only to see that the Wu language was full of clouds, and he quickly put it down.

He is a northerner, and now he feels a little headache when he lives in Shanghai, let alone this kind of article.

"Li Baozhu is not a person of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generation, and his ancestral home is Guangxi. After many years in Shanghai, I learned the Wu dialect well. ”

Zhou Erya picked up the book, turned a few pages, and finally spoke.

The surname Li was originally two broad, and they also saw Li Baozhu's information in Paramount Gate, although it was a flower name, but the surname had not changed.

"I can't imagine that she still has this kind of leisure." Zhou Erya put down the book and commented without any emotion.

The biography of the sea flower column describes the life of the brothel, Li Baozhu doesn't know if she will hurt herself when she reads this book, but unfortunately her emotions at that time will never be known.

"The drawer is locked." Han Yu pulled the drawer, looked up and said.

"The key should be in the room." Zhou Erya knows that the keys to this kind of cabinet at home are not carried by ordinary people, and most of them are put aside.

"Found it!"

Sure enough, Han Yu quickly found the key to the desk drawer on the side of the bookshelf.

After opening the drawer, a handscroll was revealed, which was densely filled with small letters, which was actually Li Baozhu's diary.

"That's good." Han Yu was overjoyed, took out the handscroll, raised his head and said to Zhou Erya, "With this thing, at least it will be of great help to figure out Li Baozhu's mentality and interpersonal relationships, maybe you can find the murderer inside." ”

Zhou Erya's face was as usual, there was no joy, she shook her head, and said lightly: "It's not that simple." ”

He took the diary, opened it, and looked at it a few times.

"On the seventh day of August, light rain, I saw Zhuo Gongzi in Xiyuan."

"On the eighth day of August, it is cloudy, the tide is back in the house, the pages are sticky, go out to the plum blossom park, buy a begonia cake and return."

“……”

These diaries are simply a record of events, without any feelings of the parties, and not even a word is revealed.

"She's really a very depressed person." Zhou Erya flipped through the diary and put it down, her slender fingers knocked on the table, thoughtfully, "All emotions have never been revealed, it seems that no one can really understand her." ”

Such a victim is the most annoying one.

- It's like a black box, devouring all information, and you have to analyze the clues from the eyes of others, and finally piece together a complete image.

It's just that they have found that Li Baozhu in the eyes of different people is simply a completely different person, and it is difficult to piece it together.

Zhou Erya and Han Yu had already asked Boss Jin, and Boss Jin was full of praise for Li Baozhu, and there was almost no criticism.

"Baozhu came to Paramount at the age of eighteen, and generally speaking, it is a bit late to be a dancer at this age. But she was not only beautiful, but also willing to work hard to learn things, and within two or three months she was already more shrewd than the dancer who had been a dancer for several years. ”

Those who come out to be dancers are generally from poor families, and many of them come to the industry at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Relatively speaking, Li Baozhu went to the sea a little late at the age of eighteen.

But she has her own advantages, she is knowledgeable, good at learning, and can write in foreign languages.

In addition to the Chinese guests, even the British and French were captivated by her beauty and conversation, praising her as a "Far Eastern beauty".

With this capital, coupled with her mental strength, she is like a fish in water in this drunken ten-mile ocean field.

"And Baozhu is very strict in self-discipline, and the dancer never touches her bad habits, which I especially admire her."

Boss Jin took out a cigar and wanted to light it, but seeing Zhou Erya's cold and indifferent expression, he suddenly remembered some of the quirks of the Overseer's sons - Boss Jin often corresponded with rich boys, and he paid great attention to collecting the preferences of these sons on weekdays.

In addition, those rich children occasionally talk about the third son of the Overseer's family when they come to the scene, and some time ago, the Gu family case made Zhou Erya angry, Boss Jin still remembered that he liked cleanliness and hated the smell of alcohol and smoke, so he immediately put down his cigarette again, and continued: "The life of a dancer is boring, and she has to mix the scene, so it is inevitable that she will get some bad habits, but she rarely even touches tobacco and alcohol. ”

Nowadays, although the country is very strict about smoking bans, smoking a big cigarette in private has also become a common hobby among dancers.

Li Baozhu would never be, she wouldn't even take an extra sip of wine if she didn't have to, and she would smoke a lady's cigarette by chance, and she would be elegant and decent.

"She is also frugal on weekdays, and everyone will talk behind her back that she has saved a lot of money, and I don't know which man will be cheaper in the future......"

Boss Jin estimated Li Baozhu's savings, which was a lot of money that even he would envy.

Han Yu kept nodding his head to record, thinking that although the place where Li Baozhu lived before was high-end, it was very simple inside, and there were not even many clothes, which showed that he was indeed thrifty and thrifty, and the money rewarded by his sons and buddies on weekdays must be a lot - property may also be the motive for murder.

What's more, until now, they have not found out where Li Baozhu's savings are.

In Boss Kim's description, Li Baozhu is a beautiful and shrewd self-made dancer who should be successful and wealthy and put her life back on track.

- She should have come close to making it.

Unfortunately, a murder stopped her.

"In Paramount, who does Miss Li have the best relationship with? What other guests does she have that she is more familiar with? ”

With no clue for the time being, Han Yu can only start from interpersonal relationships and want to know more about Li Baozhu's situation.

"Speaking of which, in Paramount, of course she has the best relationship with Xiuxiu. Inviting you to come this time is also Xiuxiu's main initiative...... The rest of the people are probably mediocre. ”

Boss Jin thought about it, and really didn't expect that in addition to Yin Xiuxiu, Li Baozhu had any particularly good friends, between women, as long as the scene was passable.

"As for the guests, there are too many familiar ones, let Manager Hou give you a list later. It's just that these guests are either rich or expensive, and when you ask the two gentlemen to ask, don't be too aggressive......"

Boss Jin still had his own worries, and with an apologetic smile, he glanced at Zhou Erya.

Of course, Han Yu agreed.

However, Zhou Erya didn't plan to interrogate the guests at the beginning, after all, for the murderer who happened in the backstage dressing room of Paramount, it is relatively unlikely that he will have contact with the guests at the front desk.

They still went to ask Yin Xiuxiu first.

Regarding Li Baozhu's death, Yin Xiuxiu may be the saddest one.

Her eyes were slightly swollen, and she cried secretly a few times, and she didn't receive guests today, so she waited for Zhou Erya and them to investigate in the background.

"She came a few months before me, and as soon as I arrived at Paramount, she took care of me. If it weren't for her, I probably wouldn't have survived the previous while. ”

Although Yin Xiuxiu didn't come out to study, she was also everyone's lady, if it wasn't for the disaster, because of some special reasons, it would never be possible to show up to be a dancer.

At that time, when she first entered this door, her psychological pressure was very high, Li Baozhu and her were in a similar situation, and the two became good sisters.

If it weren't for Li Baozhu's relief and relief to her, there would be no Yin Xiuxiu today.

As they grew older, they all had plans to retire and leave the circle, but they didn't expect Li Baozhu to die without warning!

Yin Xiuxiu must find out and let Li Baozhu leave.