Xiao Se frowned, his body stiffened. After a while, he spoke hoarsely: "Forgive or not, it's too late." Thank you for telling us this, you are good to go. ”

After Chen Jie left, Xiao Se and I sat silently opposite each other, each with their own thoughts. His brow twinked, and it was clear that those unpleasant memories were like a poisonous snake that was ferociously gnawing at his heart.

I mechanically stirred the spoon in the coffee cup, watching the ripples and swirls in the cup, and without looking up, I knew that Xiao Se was smoking again. The fog swam slowly, mixing with the heat of the coffee, the two aromas were confused, and I wrinkled my nose and sniffed, strangely, there was some kind of calming harmony.

"I'm sorry." Xiao Se suddenly opened his mouth, not loud, but still startled me.

Those painful memories of the past suddenly rushed into my heart like a tide, and the resentment and despair of the past were churning in my heart again, but when I spoke, my tone was surprisingly calm: "There is no need to say 'I'm sorry', there is no point anymore." "The love we once cherished was like the little life that shouldn't have come, which came unexpectedly, and was ruthlessly strangled in an instant. Although the innocence of Xiao Pengcheng and I has been proven, the heavy shackles that pressed on my heart have finally been removed, although I still have too much reluctance and concern for Xiao Se, but there are some precious things that can never be returned once lost.

What's more, the matter between me and Zhao Junning is still a cancer that cannot be cut off in Xiao Se's heart. Zhao Junning, the exhibitionist who plotted against me under the banner of art, turned me against Xiao Se and made a dead face to invite me. After being rejected by me again and again, he actually came to the dance company to find me. It was a dusk at the end of last month, and when I walked out of the rehearsal hall, I saw Zhao Junning standing in the corridor wet, his messy black hair hanging down in front of his forehead, and his dream-like eyes staring at my face.

I glanced at him indifferently, turned my head and was about to leave, but he called out to me: "I just want to say a few words to you, and I will leave when I am done." ”

"What?" I asked, staring.

"The first time I saw you by the river in Yejia Village, I was deeply attracted by you. Your face is full of spirituality, your figure is impeccable, and your whole person is like a beautiful work of art, which makes me involuntarily attracted to you. Later, we saw each other more and more, and our hearts became closer and closer. If it hadn't been for Xiao Se, I think you'd love me. His eyes rolled, his nostrils furled, "I will never give up on the goal I identify, one day, you will belong to me, forever and forever!" ”

When he said, "Forever and ever, it belongs to me", his eyes were so gloomy and gloomy, I still can't stop shivering when I think about it.

"What are you thinking?" Xiao Se's low voice brought me back to my senses. I looked up at him, his hand was upside down and playing with a lighter, and the expression on his face was almost calm. But when he lit another cigarette, the flame on the lighter shook secretly. He looked emaciated, emaciated, and lonely.

"Nothing." I looked away evasively.

"That night, you saw me in Xiao Yu's room, it was because my aunt entered her room and grabbed her neck with both hands, now that I think about it, my aunt came into your room the night before, not to see if your quilt was thick enough, but to go to the wrong place, those two women wanted to kill each other, but you became an innocent victim. I'm sorry, I misunderstood you, I was so confused and made an unforgivable mistake......" A bitter and self-deprecating expression appeared on his face, "Tong Xin, do I still have a chance to make up for the damage caused to you?" I promise......"

"Don't talk about it." I laughed, short and desolate, "You're not going abroad soon, what's the use of talking about this." It's time for me to go back, and I'll have to trouble you to send me. ”

"Don't be so polite." There was helplessness and frustration in his eyes.

I stood up first, habitually inserted my hands into my jacket pockets, touched something soft with my right hand, took it out and saw that it was a piece of chocolate, and then I remembered that I bought it during my period two days ago and put it in my pocket, and then I forgot about it as soon as I got it. Now that the weather is hot, the chocolate melts and becomes soft after being left in the pocket for a long time.

"What's that?" Xiao Se asked.

"Chocolate, put it in your pocket and melt." I say.

"Show me." His tone sharpened.

I handed him the chocolate in confusion, not understanding how he could be interested in a piece of melted chocolate.

He unwrapped the chocolate wrapper, revealing a slimy mess inside. In the pocket of Wen Hong's skirt, melted chewing gum and ceramic fibers were found as heat insulation. It is possible that Yin Zhenghui committed the crime and deliberately confused the presumption of death. He said as if to himself, "Kill Wen Hong before the presumption of death, and then somehow keep the body warm and hide." ”

"How do you keep warm and hide?" I asked.

"I just know that I can use such a technique, but it's just speculation, and the police have to study the specifics." He immediately called and told Mu Mian about his discovery.

The next day, Xiao Se's suspicion was confirmed. According to Mu Mian, it is possible to keep the body warm to prevent the temperature in the rectum from dropping, confusing the presumption of death. The purpose of this is to make the presumed time of death much later than the actual time of death, and then to create an alibi for itself at the time of the presumed death. As long as the body temperature is maintained at 100 degrees, the estimated time of death can cause an error of about two hours. In other words, Wen Hong's presumed time of death was around two o'clock in the morning yesterday, and her actual time of death was likely to be around 12 o'clock in the evening.

Coincidentally, the hotel where the annual meeting dinner of China's top masters is held is also by the sea, and it is only a 30-minute walk to Chen Guanzhong's holiday villa, and it is enough to walk back and forth for 30 minutes, and if you run, you can be faster. The dinner ended at about 11:45, and it was 12:15 to arrive at the hotel KTV box, after the dinner, many people stayed to take photos and chat freely, if you leave during that time, it is possible to strangle Wen Hong to death and keep the body warm, and then return to the hotel to sing K, after more than three o'clock in the morning, and then go to the villa to take away the insulation tools.

"Insulation tool ......" I was about to ask what the insulation tool was, and a flash of inspiration came to my mind, "It's a slimming suit, wearing a slimming suit, similar to dry steaming in a sauna, and the temperature can reach 100 degrees." ”

"Yes." Xiao Se nodded and said, "Yin Jingshu mentioned during the meal that she never brought the weight loss clothes back to the dance company apartment after she brought them home during the May Day holiday. The diet suit was used as a tool to keep the body warm, but I prefer that the murderer was Yin Zhenghui's wife rather than Yin Zhenghui, Yin Jingshu said that her father was an uneducated rough person, and her mother was a high-achieving student. An uneducated coarse person should not be able to think of a way to confuse the presumption of death. ”

"We have also targeted Yin Zhenghui's wife, Wu Min." Mu Mian said that Wu Min's profession is a pharmacist, and he has both the motive and the conditions for committing the crime.

Whether the murderer is Yin Zhenghui or Wu Min, it will be an unusually heavy blow to Yin Jingshu, and her once happy home and carefree life will come to an end. During the time I was waiting for the final investigation results, I didn't dare to show anything in front of Yin Jingshu, trying to suppress my Mercedes-Benz cranky thoughts and waiting in pain in my heart.

The end ending is cruel and heavy. After the identification of the police personnel, the heat-insulating material ceramic fiber used in the slimming suit I lent to Yin Jingshu is the same material as the white thread attached to Wen Hong's clothes, and it is precisely the use of the slimming suit to wrap the corpse to suppress the temperature drop in the intestines and delay the presumed death time by about two hours. In addition, dander was also extracted from Wen Hong's clothes, which was consistent with Wu Min through DNA testing.

In front of the evidence, Wu Min confessed to the facts of her crime. Yin Zhenghui and Wen Hong's extramarital affair, Wu Min has been kept in the dark. It wasn't until Yin Zhenghui was repeatedly threatened by Wen Hong, in order to preserve her reputation and status, that she had to file for divorce from Wu Min that she learned everything. Although Wu Min was shocked and angry, she still loved her husband deeply, and went to negotiate with Wen Hong for him, but she was humiliated and abused by the other party, and in a fit of anger, she decided to get rid of this scourge. Wu Min asked a private detective to help track and investigate, and found out Wen Hong's whereabouts on the night of her murder, and then she used half an hour of free activity after the dinner to set off from the hotel with the diet clothes, ropes and medicines prepared in advance and stored in the hotel, and ran to Chen Guanzhong's holiday villa, Chen Guanzhong was so drunk that he didn't even close the door, which provided her with great convenience.

When Wu Min entered the room, Chen Guanzhong was so drunk that he was lying on the bed unconscious, and Wen Hong was lying beside him, also unconscious. She first used a lethargic gas drug, then easily strangled Wen Hong with a rope, dressed her in a diet suit, plugged in the electricity, and then ran back to the hotel. After leaving the KTV box at three o'clock in the morning, I came to the villa and took away the weight loss clothes. Yin Zhenghui stayed in the hotel with the other chefs that night, and Wu Min was staying at home, so Yin Zhenghui did not know what Wu Min had done. After learning that his wife killed Wen Hong, Yin Zhenghui was in pain and regretted it. If he hadn't been deceived by beauty and betrayed his wife, if he hadn't taken fame and fortune so seriously, such a tragedy would not have happened.

And the one who was hurt the most was Yin Jingshu, her mother became a murderer, her father had an unbearable extramarital affair, and the happy family that once gave her the richest material and spiritual life and brought her infinite happiness fell apart overnight. Since the accident at home, Yin Jingshu seems to have changed as a person, she is no longer the crazy girl who loves to talk and laugh, and she has become silent and depressed. Everyone who was with her could feel a heavy atmosphere in the air, and their mood was also heavy and nervous.