Yin Xiuxiu's eyes wandered, she glanced at Han Yu, and hesitated slightly, she wanted to ask Zhou Erya for help, and she didn't trust any other people.

But thinking that Han Yu was Zhou Erya's friend, Yin Xiuxiu looked at Zhou Erya again, and saw that he nodded slightly, so she replied one by one: "The murder happened in the backstage dressing room, Mr. Jin tried to suppress the matter, and not many people know about it now." However, Baozhu is so famous, she has an accident, and she is afraid that she will not be able to hide it for a few days. ”

Mr. Jin is the boss of Paramount and can be regarded as a powerful figure in Shanghai, although he can't say that he covers the sky with one hand, but at least he has a little skill, so he can temporarily suppress the murder case without revealing any news.

But the jewel that Yin Xiuxiu said ......

"Could it be Li Baozhu?"

Han Yu was very surprised.

He knew this woman because she was one of the three golden flowers of Paramount.

Li Baozhu is as famous as Yin Xiuxiu, pure and beautiful, empathetic, and versatile, and is highly sought after by guests. The lace news in the newspaper also has her name on both ends of the three days.

- Something happened to her? I'm afraid that such a big thing will soon be overwhelmed......

Yin Xiuxiu glanced at Zhou Erya again, and when she saw him bowing her head, she smiled sadly, nodded and admitted: "If it weren't for Sister Baozhu's accident, I wouldn't have made this trip, this case is really a bit strange." Now everyone is also panicking, and it is up to Mr. Zhou and Mr. Han to help, as for the remuneration ......"

Only then did Zhou Erya open her mouth to interrupt her words: "Between you and me, there is no need to be so polite. ”

"Then you'll have to work for you." Yin Xiuxiu looked at him deeply, and seemed to have great expectations and trust in Zhou Erya between her words.

Han Yu was curious, and always felt that Yin Xiuxiu's eyes were different when she looked at Zhou Erya, but this was not the time to investigate the relationship between the two of them, so she looked at Zhou Erya instructively: "Otherwise, let's go to the scene first?" ”

Since Yin Xiuxiu said that it was strange, there must be something special about the scene, Han Yu is a man of action, and he feels that he has to see it in person to count.

"Okay."

Zhou Erya also nodded, "The key to killing people in the secret room is the cracking of the mechanism, and this part will trouble you." ”

Murder in a closed room?

Han Yu was stunned, and before he had time to ask, Zhou Erya had already gotten up and went out resolutely.

Adjutant Cai prepared a car and drove Yin Xiuxiu and Zhou Erya and Han Yu all the way to Paramount Gate.

In the car, Han Yu took a small notebook and asked carefully: "Why do you say it is a murder in a closed room?" ”

"Because the room where the body was found had no windows, and the door was locked from the inside." Yin Xiuxiu recalled that scene, and seemed to be a little afraid of being sad, her shoulders trembled slightly, and tears were stored in her eyes little by little.

Han Yu was surprised: "Are you sure it's anti-locked?" Isn't it suicide? ”

Yin Xiuxiu shook her head, looked at the scenery outside, and saw that she was about to arrive at Paramount Gate, and the emotions she had been holding back were a little out of control: "She won't commit suicide, and it can't be suicide, just go and see it." ”

Baozhu, like her, is desperately saving money to get out of here, seeing that she is about to succeed, how can she give up now?

Han Yu didn't ask any more questions, and wrote down the main points of the case in the notebook.

The room where the body was found was locked and windowless, and theoretically no one could kill Li Baozhu and leave.

"Are you sure it's not suicide?"

After they arrived, Han Yu walked into the scene and shook his head in distress, as if talking to himself.

Yin Xiuxiu didn't follow, maybe this incident hit her too hard, she didn't want to see the scene again, so she stayed in her dressing room and waited for them.

The scene of the death is a dressing room exclusive to Li Baozhu. Located on the third floor of Paramount Gate, through a corridor, is the innermost room.

Zhou Erya was not in a hurry to walk in, just like enjoying the scenery, she stopped outside the door to watch.

There were tightly closed windows at the bottom of the corridor, and Zhou Erya found that the latches on the windows were badly corroded, and there were no signs of opening them at all—which meant that it could not be invaded by outsiders, such as thieves or the like.

The door to the powder room is double-opened, which can only be pushed inward, and it is fitted with a new spring lock, which makes it impossible to open the door even with a key after the safety is closed in the room.

Now the lock has been broken by a strong bang, and the door of Lihuamu has cracked open, because Li Baozhu has not responded for too long, and Mr. Jin has let the security guard break the door.

The furnishings in the room are gorgeous, but they are also quite simple.

Because the windows are sealed, they are lit with chandeliers all year round, making them look jeweled. On the right side is a large dresser, and in front of it is a small stool.

- This is where Li Baozhu hanged, but by this time the body had been removed, and only the rope was still hanging in its place.

On the left side there is an armchair, next to which is a small coffee table, on which a tea set is set, and the deceased enjoyed her English afternoon tea in her last moments.

"None of us believed that Miss Li would commit suicide."

The security manager was a simple middle-aged man surnamed Hou, who accompanied Zhou Erya and Han Yu to check the scene. When something like this happened, of course he would not be happy in his heart, and he had a sad face and sighed endlessly.

"Every night before going to work, Miss Li will arrive at the company early and rest in the dressing room for two or three hours, which is already her habit."

"It's not suicide, indeed." Zhou Erya said lightly.

A woman who can prepare milk tea leisurely should not suddenly think of committing suicide.

What's more, Li Baozhu is now popular, earns a lot of money, has no bad habits, and has not heard of any emotional entanglements, even Han Yu feels that there is no need for her to end her life.

"I want to see the corpse." Zhou Erya said.

Han Yu was carefully inspecting the traces in the room, and the scratches on the door caught his attention, but for the time being, he was not sure what caused the traces, so he still had to ask more.

Manager Hou consulted Boss Jin and took the two to the morgue.

Because the weather is very hot and the corpse is easy to decompose, Boss Jin is ready to let Li Baozhu bury as soon as possible.

Li Baozhu was lying quietly in the mahogany coffin, her face was still beautiful, as if she was asleep, there was a deep strangulation mark on her neck, which had turned purple and black, and it looked particularly shocking.

Han Yu only glanced at it, then looked away, feeling very sorry that such a beautiful woman would die like this.

And Zhou Erya put on white gloves very carefully and leisurely, and looked carefully at the scar on her neck: "Strange." ”

"What's weird?" Han Yu immediately asked.

"Look at the scar." Zhou Erya said to him, and then picked up Li Baozhu's hand and looked at it carefully.

Only then did Han Yu find out that Li Baozhu's strangulation marks were a bit weird - ordinary people who hanged themselves only had traces on the front of their necks, but there were also traces on the back of her neck, forming a complete circle.

"She committed suicide by wrapping the noose around her neck a few times?" Han Yu shook his head, "This is also too strange. ”

"It's murder." Zhou Erya put down Li Baozhu's hand, took off her gloves, threw them aside, and said surely.

"Murder ......" Han Yu thought of the rope placed at the scene, and really felt that this kind of suicide around the neck was very rare, so he took out his notebook and wrote down these circumstances.

"Then what was unusual about Miss Li yesterday?"

Walking out of the room where the corpse was parked, Han Yu asked Manager Hou first.

Manager Hou thought for a long time, frowned and said: "If you have to say anything abnormal, it is that Miss Li came to the company at noon, and she was a little unhappy after making a phone call, and then she went out shopping and came back, and she was fine again." ”

"Do you know who she called?" Han Yu's eyes lit up.

Manager Hou hesitated and shook his head: "This is Miss Li's private matter, we don't want to ask too much." ”

If you have to check, you have to look for the records of the telephone company.

Han Yu wrote this matter down in his notebook as a clue.

"Did you see any suspicious people on the third floor that afternoon?" Han Yu continued to ask.

Manager Hou thought for a while and shook his head again: "The third floor is Mr. Jin's office and the dressing rooms of several young ladies, and usually only Miss Li is the earliest, like Miss Yin and Miss Ji have to arrive at dinner time, and Mr. Jin usually has to appear in the hall after dinner on the Bund, and he will not go to the third floor at all before......"

"The rest of the idle people and others generally don't dare to come up easily."

The third floor of Paramount is a symbol of status in itself, Mr. Jin is the boss of Paramount, Li Baozhu, Yin Xiuxiu and Ji Meiyun are the three golden flowers and pillars of Paramount, except for them, there are very few who can go to the third floor.

"Are there any conflicts between the two of them and Miss Li?"

Han Yu hesitated for a moment, but still asked.

In front of Yin Xiuxiu, it seems that he is a little ungentlemanly, but for women, jealousy and strife are inevitable.

Although neither of them was at the scene, there was generally no suspicion, but Han Yu felt that he still had to ask clearly.

Manager Hou didn't expect him to be so straightforward, wiped his sweat, secretly glanced at Yin Xiuxiu, who was standing beside Zhou Erya, and replied: "Miss Yin is the best, and she has plans to retire recently, Miss Li and her are always polite on the surface." Ms. Ji...... Young and vigorous, she has fought with Miss Li a few times, but she is not polite to anyone she talks to, and she is not ...... Not...... To do such a thing, and not to be here at the time, it could not be them. ”

Because of his nervousness, he was a little embarrassed, for fear of offending anyone.

At this time, Zhou Erya suddenly spoke, he exited the door, pointed to the next room and asked, "Is this Miss Ji's dressing room?" Can I go in and have a look? ”

The door was locked, but of course Manager Hou had the key.

"This ......"

Manager Hou was a little embarrassed, "Miss Ji was not on the big stage from yesterday afternoon to evening, and accompanied Sun Gongzi of Cili Foreign Company to dinner. We have also checked Miss Ji's dressing room before, and there is nothing unusual. ”

Although there was a case, as a big stage, I still didn't want to affect more people, especially Ji Meiyun is the current pillar of Paramount, and Manager Hou didn't dare to offend this aunt.

"We just look at it casually and don't touch anything."

Zhou Erya's tone was indifferent, but with a strong tone that could not be refused.

Han Yu rarely saw him show a strong attitude, and Manager Hou certainly didn't dare to disobey the will of the Overseer's son and take the key.

Zhou Erya took the key from Manager Hou's hand, glanced at it, and without waiting for Manager Hou to say which one, she accurately picked out the key to Miss Ji's door, opened the door, and walked into Ji Meiyun's dressing room.

Han Yu wanted to ask him how he guessed the key, but before he could read it, he was attracted by Ji Meiyun's dressing room.

The style of this dressing room is completely different from that of Li Baozhu, and there is a youthful atmosphere on the face.

The pink interior walls are decorated with gold paper and her beautiful posters, as well as several beautiful flower baskets.

There was also a beautiful flower basket on the dressing table, and various makeup utensils were stacked on the table in a disorderly manner.

It was crowded and crowded, but it was also much more lively than Li Baozhu's room.

"Is Miss Ji much younger?"

Han Yu looked around and asked Manager Hou.

"Miss Ji is nineteen years old."

Yin Xiuxiu and Li Baozhu have been famous for many years, so Han Yu knows a lot of their romances from the newspapers and the gossip of the people around them, but Ji Meiyun has only recently become popular, he has not had a chance to collect information, he only knows that he is one of the three beauties, originally a female student from a wealthy family, because her parents were mourned and her family was in the middle of the road, so she went to the sea to be a dancer. Because he was born beautiful and smart, he was even liked by young sons, so he had a situation where he was juxtaposed with "Xiu" and "Zhu".

Now Yin Xiuxiu has retreated, Li Baozhu has an accident again, and Ji Meiyun is the golden signboard of the Paramount stage.

So Manager Hou didn't want to offend Miss Ji, she had always disliked people entering her dressing room, if she knew, she would have to scold her, so she asked with a smile: "Two Mr. Detectives, you see that there is really nothing to do here, let's take a look elsewhere, shall we?" ”

"Wait a minute."

Zhou Erya shook his head, he slowly walked to the dresser and looked carefully.

The location he could see was the same place where Li Baozhu hanged himself in the dressing room next to him.

Manager Hou didn't feel a little hairy in his heart, and persuaded in a low voice: "Mr. Zhou, the murder scene is on the other side, there is really no problem here......

Zhou Erya smiled at this time.

He stretched out his hand, and Adjutant Cai, who was standing at the door, immediately took out another pair of white gloves and handed them over.

Zhou Erya put on her gloves slowly, and her slender fingers gently grabbed the thumb-sized puppet doll hanging on the side of the vanity mirror, and took it off and put it in the palm of her hand to look at it carefully.

"It's ......"

Han Yu's eyes widened, and he looked at the rope that had turned around the puppet doll's neck in disbelief.

- This is clearly hanging.

This strange puppet is already full of weirdness, but its location corresponds to the location of the deceased next door.

This cannot but provoke reverie.

"This case suddenly became interesting."

Zhou Erya played with the puppet, ignoring the stunned Manager Hou, and showed a meaningful smile.