The Secret Past (5)

I was a little surprised, I knew that Fang Zinan was related to Yu Zhaoxia, but I didn't understand what he would have to do with Ye Yanfang, his surname was Fang and not Luo, and if he was the young man from Luojia Village who fell in love with Ye Yanfang, it would be impossible for the people here not to know him, let alone allow him to rent a house to engage in creation. ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about, I don't know Yu Zhaoxia at all, let alone Ye Yanfang." Fang Zinan denied it, although his flickering gaze had already revealed the nervousness in his heart.

"What is this polyethylene drum for?" Xiao Se touched the barrel with the tip of his shoe.

"It's the water used to clean the paint, it's useless, and I'm going to burn it together." Fang Zinan replied.

Xiao Se looked at Fang Zinan and laughed. "I'll tell you a court decision. Two years ago, a 5-year-old boy drowned in Beijiang in the city of Blue Mountains, and his body was found lying in the water, just like Yu Zhaoxia. From the corpse, it was detected that it was a plankton similar to the river water. At first, she thought it was an accident, but then the stepmother confessed to the crime, she used a polyethylene bucket of Bac Giang river water, transported it home, poured it into the bathtub, and then pressed the child into the water, causing him to drown.

I have a good friend who is a lawyer in Blue Mountains and he once told me about this case. I asked about it again today, and he told me that the case was reported by the local media at that time, which caused a great social repercussion. That day, Zhao Junning mentioned that after graduating from the Blue Mountain Academy of Fine Arts last year, you came to Haicheng to engage in creation. When the case caused repercussions, you were still in the city of Blue Mountains, and you must have seen the report, so you followed the modus operandi of the crime at that time. The polyethylene bucket on the ground turned out to be not filled with water to clean the paint, but water from the stream where Yu Zhaoxia drowned, so you plan to burn it while Zhao Junning is away. You may quibble that the water used to clean the paint is the stream water, but here there is tap water as soon as the tap is turned on, so why go far? Moreover, this bucket is not wanted, just throw it in the garbage heap, why bother lighting it and burning it. ”

Fang Zinan's cheeks twitched. "It's ridiculous that you have no basis to speculate."

"Of course I have the credentials, you can see for yourself." Xiao Se took my hand, "The red spots on her wrists and arms are evidence of your crime, which was bitten by lacquer." Lacquer bites, this is what you told us yourself, when we first met, you were working on lacquer paintings, and you were afraid that we would be allergic, so you prevented us from entering the tour. ”

"This young lady has never touched my lacquer painting at all, how could she be bitten by lacquer, didn't you say that she was bitten by mosquitoes that day, I also gave you dermatitis flat." Fang Zinan was angry, "Please go out, stop talking nonsense here!" ”

"Please be patient and listen to what I have to say." Xiao Se leisurely pulled the corners of his mouth, "On the handkerchief that covered Ye Kaitai, urushiol, that is, the composition of lacquer, was detected. Here's what I deduced: That night, after you covered Ye Kaitai with that batik handkerchief, you were going to move his body from the lychee garden to the haunted house. After passing through the lychee orchard, you will go uphill to the haunted house, where you know that there is suffocating methane gas in the haunted house, and you want to hide the truth about his death with the help of haunted legends.

But when you went to the haunted house to observe the environment, you found that Tong Xin and the three of them were also there, and you wanted to pretend to be a ghost to scare them away, but unfortunately I suddenly appeared again. You had to change your plan, go through the lychee garden and return to the 99 big house, leaving Ye Kaitai's body in the lychee garden, and when you left in a hurry, you accidentally dropped the handkerchief on the ground near the haunted house and was picked up by me. ”

Xiao Se's gaze turned from my face and stayed on Fang Zinan's face. "I still remember that when Tong Xin checked the handkerchief, her wrist touched the handkerchief, and this was the real cause of her red rash, itching, swelling and pain. You deal with lacquer all day long, and the handkerchief is inevitably stained with lacquer, and no matter how clean you wash, there is still a residue of lacquer. Tong Xin belongs to sensitive skin, as long as it touches a little, it will be itchy, and the redness and swelling will spread rapidly. But there were a lot of mosquitoes on the mountain at night, and we all thought it was a mosquito bite, and we didn't think about the bite at all.

Until she saw the dead Yu Zhaoxia on the right side of her face against her neck, she had the same rash as Tong Xin, and when she learned that the Taoist priest was doing things, Yu Zhaoxia did not have a rash, and she died soon after. It suddenly occurred to me that it was not a mosquito bite, but an allergy, and I became suspicious of you when I connected the things before and after. You live in 99 large houses, and the easiest shortcut to get to the haunted house is through the lychee garden, and you chose the same route when you returned from the haunted house that night. Tong Xin happened to see a figure in the lychee garden when he was going downhill, so he was killed. It must have been Tong Xin who told the police outside the 99 big house that when you saw the figure in the lychee garden, you heard it in the crowd at the scene, and you were worried that she would recognize her, so you followed me and Tong Xin, and once again used the legend of the haunted house to kill her. ”