After some preparation, I gathered everyone together again, and at this time, Officer Hu also called the clerk of the juice shop according to my request

"Okay, okay, what are you afraid of, just ask you something, what are you afraid of?"

After everyone arrived, Officer Hu said something to me

"Another thing you asked me to do, the amount is a bit large, so it's still being done, don't worry, you start your reasoning first."

I nodded to Officer Hu and was about to speak, but Du Ruo took the lead and said angrily

"What's the reason? You mean you know who the killer is? ”

Du Ruo, who has always been introverted, would use this tone to talk to people, which surprised the people in the repertory troupe, and Zhu Jian whispered to Du Ruo

"Du Ruo, let's be quiet and listen to him."

But Du Ruo seemed to be a different person, and continued to make things difficult for me

"Whether you want to reason or whatever, and the murderer is not among us, what do you mean by calling us here?"

I looked at Du Ruo quietly, remembering that when Officer Hu suspected that the murderer was among us, he was also very excited, as if he wanted to defend someone, before Zhang Kexin's intelligence said that Du Ruo had always liked Yang Zijing, could it be... At that time, he knew that the murderer was Yang Bauhinia? So to maintain her? I found the answer through a combination of the efforts of Zhang Guoguan and the others, is he really that smart?

"Hey, Xiao Song, Xiao Song." Seeing that I was lost in thought, Officer Hu on the side reminded, "You go on." ”

That's when I came back to my senses and continued

"The man who committed this murder was..."

"It is a crime to slander someone, and you must think clearly before you speak." Du Ruo interrupted me again, I knew that he was constantly pressuring me, trying to break my self-confidence and shut me up, but the more I did this, the more sure I was of my reasoning, and said without thinking

"The murderer is Yang Bauhinia!"

As soon as these words came out, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and everyone talked about it, and Wu Tong asked Yang Bauhinia excitedly

"Sure enough, you killed the jacaranda?"

I couldn't help but be surprised

"Sure enough? Did he use the word really? Could it be that Wu Tong also suspected that the murderer was Yang Zijing before? ”

Faced with Wu Tong's questioning, Yang Zijing denied it emotionally

"Don't listen to his nonsense, I have such a good relationship with Jacaranda, she is like my sister, how could I kill her?" Then he turned his head and scolded me

"Hey, little ghost! Don't talk nonsense, you say I'm a murderer, but you say how can I have time to kill? ”

"yes." Shu Yanan also helped Yang Zijing speak

"Little handsome guy, don't forget, Jacaranda left the juice shop at 1:15, and she arrived at the lake at the earliest at 1:25, if the murderer was Bauhinia, she wouldn't have been able to return to the small hall at 1:35."

I'll explain it slowly

"That's right, this is what has always bothered me, but then I found out that the murderer, oh, that is, Yang Bauhinia, she used some kind of trick to create a hallucination for us."

Wu Tong hurriedly asked

"What's the trick!?"

I asked Su Yong to hand me the spare garment, and I said as I showed it to everyone

"According to Yan... According to Ms. Yang Yanyan, the way she tied the waist rope was the same every time, but this one was different, so we can believe that someone has ever touched this dress, right? ”

Yang Yanyan saw me looking at her and said embarrassedly

"That's true... But I can't say that..."

"So what?" Du Ruo interjected again, and his tone was full of contempt.

His attitude disgusted me a little, causing my tone to slowly become provocative

"This proves that the jacaranda in the juice shop at that time was most likely another person wearing this costume and pretending, and the clerk just took it for granted based on the exaggerated clothes and makeup that it was the deceased, and in fact the real jacaranda had been brutally murdered before that, so that the murderer would have enough time to return to the small hall."

After speaking, I glanced at Yang Zijing, she was faintly trembling, which made me more convinced of my reasoning and more confident to confront Du Ruo.

"Enough!"

As I thought, Du Ruo continued to fight back

"You want to prove that someone wore this garment based on a loincloth? If I say that I am idle and bored to go backstage and untie it and retie it, can't I? ”

"Du Ruo..." Shu Yanan read Du Ruo's name lightly, and shook her head slightly, signaling that he couldn't speak like that.

Maybe Du Ruo also felt that it was a bit inappropriate for him to say this, and even apologized to me

"I'm sorry, it's a bit of a sophistry for me to say this, but just based on a waist rope to prove that someone wore that dress, and even want to say that Bauhinia is the murderer, I believe everyone can't accept it, right?"

"Hmph, have you started playing the emotional card?" I sneered inwardly and continued

"Of course I won't say who the murderer is based on just a waist rope, I'll prove it to you now!"

As I spoke, I put all the borrowed phones on the table, ten in all, each with a picture of a girl on it, and I turned back to call the staff at the juice shop

"Dude, please come over now and find out, which of these is the guest who went to your store in the afternoon."

As the saying goes, being a thief has a weak heart, I don't know what is going on with this clerk, I didn't do a thief and still had a weak heart, I walked to the table with anxiety, looked at a few mobile phones over and over again, and actually watched it for about 5 minutes, I really couldn't stand it, and slapped the table and shouted

"Hey! Can you even recognize it? ”

"I... I... I..."

I saw that he couldn't speak for a long time, and he couldn't get up and shout impatiently

"If you can't see it, just say it directly, if you confess and we can't catch the murderer, you will be held legally responsible."

As soon as he heard this, the clerk seemed to be frightened, and quickly shook his head and said

"No, no, no, I don't know, I don't recognize which one is."

His answer was indeed expected by me, and I said with great pride

"See, he doesn't recognize it at all, it means..."

"Senior Brother Song Yang!" Du Ruo interrupted me again, and although I was angry, I could only listen to him quietly

"How do I feel that you are intimidating people, Officer Chen, is this considered an inducement?"

"Uh... That's it. Officer Chen looked at me with some embarrassment and reminded

"Xiao Song, pay attention to the way you speak."

At this time, I also realized my gaffe, allowing Du Ruo to gain the upper hand in momentum again, and continued

"He just didn't recognize which one was a jacaranda, which doesn't prove that the person sitting there at the time was really not a jacaranda, right?"

I smiled and replied coldly

"I have the proof, of course." As I spoke, I looked at Officer Chen, who flipped through his phone, shook his head, and whispered

"It's going to be a few minutes."

Although Du Ruo didn't know what I was having, he seemed to believe that I had a way to prove that the person sitting in the store at that time was not Jacaranda, so he changed his tone and said

"Well, even if, as you said, the person sitting there at that time may not be a jacaranda, then what evidence do you have to prove that it was Bauhinia who pretended to be a jacaranda at that time?"

I waited for him to ask this question, and then came the climax of my reasoning

"Of course there is a way, first of all, there are only a few of you who know that the repertory troupe has spare costumes, and the height of the jacaranda is about 165 cm, in the repertory troupe, the only ones who can wear this dress are the deceased jacaranda, Shu Yanan, Yang Yanyan, Yang Bauhinia who is less than 168 cm tall..."

Speaking of which, I don't forget to make fun of Du Ruo

"Oh, by the way, you're also one, you should be about 170 centimeters tall, barely able to squeeze in.

Du Ruo didn't bother with me, gave me a blank look, and said angrily

"So what, although it's not good to say that, then why do you say that Yanan and Yanyan are not murderers, don't you say that the murderer may have committed the murder before 1:15? Then they also have time. ”

Hearing this, Yang Yanyan didn't seem to react, and Shu Yanan was very sad, with a face full of words

"How can you say that..."

I nodded first and agreed with Du Ruo's statement

"You're right, the murderer is the one who killed before 1:15, or even earlier, you all have time, but you don't forget one thing."

"What's the matter?"

"At 1:15, the murderer was still sitting in the juice shop pretending to be jacaranda, and Yang Yanyan and Shu Yanan had already come back before that, in other words, the people who came back before 1:15 were not murderers, indeed, and the other people who came back at 1:15 couldn't wear that dress, so there was only one person who could wear that dress and came back after 1:15, and that person was you, Yang Bauhinia!"

At this time, Yang Zijing didn't say a word, just lowered her head and let me say, at this time I felt that I had won the battle, and said a little proudly

"It's so ironic that I originally wanted to use time as my talisman, but I ended up exposing my crimes because of time."

But Du Ruo on the side still refused to give up and continued

"You're right, if it wasn't a jacaranda sitting there at the time, it was indeed very likely to be Bauhinia, but you still have no way to prove that it wasn't a jacaranda sitting there at that time, right?"

"Of course I have a way to prove it...", as he spoke, a police officer ran in and handed Officer Hu a document, I knew that what I wanted had arrived, and I turned to everyone and said as if announcing a major matter

"When Guan Shuang investigated just now, I knew one thing, the paper cups of this juice shop, except for the takeaways, everything that is drunk in the store, the clerk will throw the paper cups into a big trash can, and when the store is closed every day, they will be thrown into the garbage dump.

Du Ruo stood up with some excitement

"Just... Even if you find a paper cup with Bauhinia fingerprints, so what? She's going to drink juice today, isn't it? There is no time on the paper cup, how can you prove that Bauhinia is the juice that was drunk at 1:15? ”

I shook my index finger and said with some arrogance

"No, I'm not looking for Yang Bauhinia's fingerprints, I'm trying to prove that in these paper cups, I can't find a cup with jacaranda fingerprints, so as to prove that Jacaranda hasn't been to that store at all today."

Hearing me say this, Du Ruo sat down on the chair as a whole, as if he had given up resistance, silently, panting heavily, looking at Yang Zijing from time to time, with a hint of apology in his eyes, as if he was apologizing for failing to protect her.

After Officer Hu glanced at the test report, he gently pulled down my clothes, but I was carried away by the victory, and I didn't notice what he meant

"Look, everyone!"

When I saw the content, I was dumbfounded

"The number of paper cups tested was 78, and the number of fingerprints taken was 84, which was the same as the number of cases of the victim, Ms. Jacaranda, by 1."

After reading the data, it was my turn to sit there and keep muttering

"How... How could it be. ”

Guan Shuang on the side said

"Is it possible that the jacaranda did go to the juice shop before she was killed today..."

"Impossible." This conjecture was directly rejected by me, and I continued to explain

"Jacaranda has been wearing that costume today, and if someone enters the store twice in such an exaggerated costume, the clerk will definitely notice, right?"

After saying that, I glanced at the clerk, who nodded again and again

"That's right, that's right, I'm sure only one person in this kind of clothes has ever been here today."

"It seems that you also understand the righteousness." Du Ruo said with a smile, regained his previous momentum, stood up, and said to everyone

"I have to admit that Senior Brother Song Yang's imagination is really rich, however, imagination is imagination, and we also have to thank him, he proved that it was the jacaranda that went to the store, which also proved that the jacaranda was alive before 1:15, proving that none of us were murderers, everyone dispersed."

I sat there with a blank stare, unable to figure out why there were jacaranda fingerprints, could it really be that I was thinking too much? The murderer is not Yang Bauhinia?

At this time, Yang Yanyan handed over the juice that Guan Shuang bought for us just now and said

"You're thirsty after talking so much, aren't you?"

I said "thank you", and was just about to take the juice, when I suddenly figured it out and hurriedly called everyone

"Don't go, I know what's going on!"