Wu Weiyun deliberately avoided the names of several people related to him, and if he didn't say it, couldn't the criminal police ask him directly? Such a simple question, the lonely old man has no reason to refuse to answer.

Sometimes, however, asking questions, knowing that they will get a lie, will cause the parties to be vigilant and make the investigation deadlocked. Rather than this, it is better to let go of the person concerned and let him move freely.

Mi Xiaodong left Wu Weiyun's house. Immediately began to lay out a new plan of action, and without attracting attention, followed up and collected evidence with Wu Weiyun's subsequent actions as the central point. This is also what Mo Haiyou meant by hinting at Mi Xiaodong on the phone.

The time had come to the second night of the incident, and after the criminal police left, Wu Weiyun sat for a long time, and did not stand up until it was dark. He walked over to the wall, lifted the curtain that hung there, and pulled out the urn that had been hidden inside through the gap.

This urn is very strange, small, dark brown, and there are no carvings on it, it is just an ordinary rectangular wooden box, and there is actually a lock on it.

The lonely old man stretched out his hand and gently patted the dust on the box, as if holding a rare treasure, and staggered towards the back room. He looked preoccupied, his brow wrinkled deeply, as if he had forgotten even his hunger.

At this time, Wu Weiyun could be sure that no one could see his every move. He sat on the edge of the bed, relieved of tension and fear. The old man's hand groped for the low cabinet drawer and pulled a key out of the wooden crack in the drawer.

The shape of the key is like a small tin bird, and there is a bell in a small cage hanging on the tail of the bird, and as the key moves, the sound of the bell is dull and hoarse, which should be caused by dirt accumulation on the inside of the bird.

Under the yellowing light, if you look closely, the small cage outside the bell is actually made of loofah, and it is painted the same color as the key.

Wu Weiyun gestured at the edge of the wooden box with the key, but did not open it in one breath, he was hesitating whether to unravel the scars of the past and let Luo Lingling re-enter his life.

Before this, Wu Weiyun did meet Luo Lingling once, and it was not recently, but a year ago, when Luo Lingling had just returned to China. At that time, the stubborn Wu Weiyun was unwilling to forgive Luo Lingling at all, turned around and left, not giving her a chance to explain at all.

can be stubborn and stubborn, Wu Weiyun does still have feelings for Luo Lingling, so since this year, Wu Weiyun has brought his daughter's urn into the room every night. The urn contains not only his thoughts about his daughter, but also things that must not be taken away by others.

He knew that Luo Lingling returned to China to renew the old friendship with him, and secondly, to the truth of the year.

'How can I tell you the truth?' They have been through so much, and now, what are you doing back? Trembling Weiwei inserted the key into the keyhole, Wu Weiyun squinted his eyes and thought, this thought made his heart overflow with sadness in an instant.

A voice seemed to be shouting at him, telling him to face the truth and tell the police everything he knew and guessed. Wu Weiyun bent down and sighed, the lock on the box was easy to open, but what about the lock in his heart?

Killing people is not a joke, Yun Yeyao told him at the time that he was just invited to be a guest, and nothing broke the law, so he hoped that Yun Yeyao would investigate the truth of the year.

But now, Wu Weiyun is afraid, he is afraid of the terrible corpse, afraid of the murder incident that he is inexplicably involved in! No matter what, he couldn't tell the police the name he had missed all his life.

Dark brown tin birds, intricately carved keys, plain square boxes, and a thin gold necklace interspersed with small holes in the edge of the box are all relics left by her daughter.

At the end of the necklace, there is an oval pendant, on which is inlaid with a small piece of emerald, although it is not a very valuable gemstone, in Wu Weiyun's mind, it is the 'hope of the muse' that is more important than his life.

After opening the lid a little bit, taking off the necklace, and then putting it into the box along with the charms, Wu Weiyun breathed a sigh of relief. He lowered the box to his lap and stroked it gently.

Soon, the room was pitch black, and even the sound of pins falling on the floor could be heard. At the door of Wu Weiyun's house, a familiar figure was slowly approaching, and the clock was striking seven o'clock at night......

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Next, we're going back to the Lavender Villa to continue our investigation, but before we do that, I'd like to sort out all the timing of the morning after the killing.

The timing here is staggered, including Xie Yunmeng's actions. So it may seem a little confusing to everyone.

First of all, Xie Yunmeng and Fu Zhi returned to the warehouse together in the middle of the night, and both of them fell asleep unconsciously. In the warehouse, Xie Yunmeng did not see the so-called Wu Xinghan. At about five o'clock in the morning, Bai Yun and An Lingxiang got up at the same time.

The two of them were in the West House and the East House respectively, An Lingxiang went downstairs first after washing up, and came in the direction of the West House, on the way to find that the soil under the cut lavender branches was abnormal, which was different from what she imagined, so An Lingxiang was very angry and was going to ask her boyfriend for a good question, but before she walked to the door of the West House, she met Wu Xinghan who pushed the door out.

Bai Yun didn't walk out of the room immediately after getting up, but smoked on the bed, and only thought of going downstairs to wash up after about ten minutes, and the time when she arrived at the gate of the Westinghouse was about 20 minutes away from An Lingxiang. Bai Yun saw Yong Poppy's body and An Lingxiang who fell to the ground and was injured, and also saw Fu Zhi, the murderer who attacked her.

Secondly, between 5:45 and 5:55 in the morning, Xu Qing, who lived with Bai Yun, and Xie Yunmeng in the warehouse walked out of the room at the same time, and after a few words of greeting, the two went downstairs together, and in the stairwell, Xie Yunmeng vaguely heard the sound of someone crawling outside, and immediately ran outside the door to check, and found the three victims lying at the door, among which Bai Yun was still very conscious, An Lingxiang was already unconscious, and Yong Poppy had been dead for a long time!

Here we have to mention that Xu Qing and Bai Yun live together, which means that Xu Qing's own room is vacant, and it is unknown whether he hid Wu Xinghan or some stranger in his room.

Then, Xie Yunmeng asked Xu Qing to go upstairs and call everyone else up, and in ten minutes, Wen Yuan and Canglu Lu arrived downstairs, and Fu Zhi was still nowhere to be found.

After Xie Yunmeng heard Xu Qing's report, he thought that Fu Zhi was no longer in the West House, so he decided to go to the East House to find it in person, but when he passed by the gap between the two houses, he found that there was a thing wrapped in a sheet hanging outside the window of the warehouse, and the time at this time should have been around half past six.

Xie Yunmeng climbed up the wall and confirmed that the sheet was wrapped in the unconscious Mr. Fu Zhi, so he rescued him, took him back to the second floor of the West House, and put it in Fu Zhi's own room, at this time, Xie Yunmeng found those traces in Fu Zhi's room for the first time, but did not look closely.

After that, he exited the room and waited for Fu Zhi to wake up, the time at the moment was close to seven o'clock, Fu Zhi woke up because of the bloody handprints and bloody footprints in the room, he was frightened, standing in the center of the room in a daze, Xie Yunmeng had been listening to his movements, until around 7:15, Mr. Criminal Police knocked on the door of Fu Zhi's room.

There is also a clue here, that is, before Xie Yunmeng brought Fu Zhi into the room, that is, before 6:45 a.m. the next day, the door of Fu Zhi's room was actually not locked, but just bluffed shut.

Xu Qing still has a little suspicion here, that is, after he went upstairs to get everyone up, he told Xie Yunmeng that he had knocked on Fu Zhi's door for a long time and did not answer the door, during this time, didn't he think about turning the doorknob? If there was, then Xu Qing should know that Fu Zhi's door was not locked, why did he hide this from Xie Yunmeng?

In the end, Xie Yunmeng returned downstairs to ask everyone about the situation at the time of the crime, Bai Yun and An Lingxiang argued with each other because of Fu Xu's suspicion, and Xu Qing was also silent, unwilling to reveal anything. The killings are at an impasse. So Xie Yunmeng decided to check everyone's room first and then ask further.

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At 12 noon sharp, the day after the Lavender villa killing, inside the villa

After Xie Yunmeng went upstairs, he stayed in Fu Zhi's room, carefully observing every trace. While observing, he restores the process of the formation of these traces in his mind.

Assuming that Fu Zhi and An Lingxiang were telling the truth, yesterday afternoon, a person entered this room while no one was watching. The windows of the room are facing west, so it's easy to avoid those playing cards in the flower fields.

As we said before, the front wall of the West House of Lavender Villa slopes from east to west, and from the position at the end of the east side, you can't see the west corner at all, let alone the people or things hidden behind the corner.

The path in the middle of the lavender field starts from the center of the entire lavender villa and gradually slopes in an arc from west to east. The place where the cards were played was 1/3 of the way near the edge of the road, so it was even more impossible to notice the people moving on the westernmost side of the house.

The location of the above house can prove that the possibility of Wu Xinghan sneaking into the house exists. But it is only a possibility, and it will not rule out the suspicion of Fu Zhi's existence. After all, it was not difficult for her to make some traces in her room and frame them for a false suspect.

Our gaze returned to the interior of the man's room, there were footprints under two leather shoes on the window frame, Xie Yunmeng had just seen the soles of everyone's shoes, and the patterns were not the same. Judging from the size and depth of the footprints, the shoes worn by the suspect were about 42 sizes, and the feet were very the ground, and the pattern on the soles was clearly printed on the windowsill.

Due to the curvature of the sill, there is a footprint that breaks in the middle. From the inside of the room, it doesn't look complete, it looks like it's only half. But as soon as you stick your head out of the window frame, you can see the half-heel mark left on the outside.

The footprints were directed towards the inside of the house, and could only have been imprinted when someone had climbed into the house. Xie Yunmeng lowered his head and searched carefully on the floor of the room, and there were no other footprints near the windowsill. Mr. Detective immediately had a certain number in his mind.

It is common sense that a person does not have to land his feet on the windowsill to climb into a room. As long as the front foot steps on the window sill, the back foot can follow into the room, so generally there should be only one footprint on the window sill, and even if there are two footprints, it will not be side by side.

But now it's two footprints side by side in front of the window frame, as if someone was crouching there to observe the situation in the room.

Xie Yunmeng calculated, no matter from which aspect, the possibility of the suspect squatting on the windowsill to observe was almost zero.

Yesterday afternoon, Fu Zhi left the room, and An Lingxiang was pulled into the room by Wu Xinghan, the interval was very short, An Lingxiang herself said that she and Fu Zhi went upstairs in anger without a few words, and Fu Zhi went to the living room to find the maid.

In such a short period of time, the suspect had to make handprints and blood stains on the walls of the room, and he had to step so many footprints in the kitchen, turn on the kitchen faucet, and mess up the things in the room, which was simply reluctant.

Even if he is given enough time to commit the crime, there is no need for the suspect to squat on the windowsill to observe the situation first, instead of squatting in such a conspicuous place, it is better to hang it outside the windowsill! If the people in the room leave to hear with their ears, why bother to observe with their eyes wide open like an owl?

Xie Yunmeng squatted on the ground, his eyes were level at the red finger prints on the snow-white wall, he touched it lightly with his hand, and the blood stains were very thin, almost blending into the wall. Leaning over to smell it, I could still smell a little bit of blood, and I was sure that it was real blood.

Then Xie Yunmeng stood up, turned around and walked into the bathroom, the bloody footprints in the bathroom were very messy, caused by indiscriminate trampling, all concentrated in the center of the floor tiles, indicating that the suspect who left the footprints did not want these traces to be covered, but wanted them to be discovered.

Could it be that this person did not enter the room immediately, but squatted on the windowsill to observe the situation in the room first?

Mr. Detective's gaze shifted to the sink, and the water in the faucet still kept flowing down without overflowing the sink. According to Fu Zhi's recollection, he only found out that the faucet was unrelated this morning. When An Lingxiang was talking to Wu Xinghan yesterday, she didn't notice the sound of water flowing at all.

For most of the day, the sound of water flowing in the room was actually not noticed by anyone except Fu Zhi. Either the soundproofing of the room is too good, or someone has found out and deliberately pretended not to know!

In order to confirm the facts, Xie Yunmeng withdrew from the man's room, wanting to stand at the door and listen to the sound of the water. He thought that if he could hear it, then everyone else could hear it.

But before he could focus his attention on the interior of the room, he heard footsteps from the stairwell, the voice was slow and soft, it should be a woman coming up, and sure enough, in less than two minutes, Xie Yunmeng saw Ms. Wen Yuan walking towards him.