Chapter 868: Ten Guests, Act 36
The two of them began to carefully observe the attic, the space was very large, it didn't seem to be used often, and the old furniture piled up inside was full of dust, Mo Haiyou squatted to a certain place, picked up the hay on the ground and smelled it, and then said, "Xiao Yao, come over for a while." ”
"What's wrong?" Yun Yeyao walked over and asked.
"It's the smell of perfume, and someone here who smells the same perfume has stayed, and it's not been for a short time, and you can see the dust on the walls and cabinets on the side, it's all rubbed off. There is also the hay on the ground, and the bricks laid underneath, which have been rubbed repeatedly with the soles of people's feet. This suggests that there is a person who has been here for a long time, probably just to avoid our sight. ”
"So Miss Wei is hinting at the existence of this person? But when we came up just now, Auntie and Mr. Wei behaved normally and didn't deliberately stop it. ”
"That's because they don't know that this person is hiding here, especially Auntie, I think he knows the least about the secrets of this family, of course I mean the secrets brought by the Wei Haohua brothers and sisters when they grow up." Mo Haiyou said.
"But Xiao Zuo, don't forget, when the attack happened in the living room just now, the windowsill was clean, and there was no trace of anyone stepping on it at all, and the murderer couldn't have time to clean the windowsill, so it can only be said that there was no murderer at all, it was a scene played by someone. At that time, you, Xiaomeng, and Mr. Wei were all on the periphery, and there were only two people in the family, Miss Wei and Auntie. ”
"So the person who caused the attack could only be one of Auntie and Miss Wei, am I right?"
"That's right!" Mo Haiyou replied.
Yun Yeyao continued: "If this person is an aunt, it means that she created a self-attack incident, so there is only one explanation, that is, what kind of person or secret does the aunt want to protect? Further down, the aunt will do this, which proves that she knows the secrets of the existence of this family, and there will be no less. ”
The shadow sneaked up on a window from outside, listening to the movement inside, carefully keeping the tips of his hair out of the window frame so as not to be discovered.
The medical examiner sitting on the edge of the bed seemed to notice something? I kept looking out the window, but luckily, Mr. Forensic didn't look down, just looked at the parallel place.
The shadow shrunk down, hiding as much as he could under the window frame, not daring to look up, for fear that he would meet someone as far as he could see. The dark shadow had lived in this house for so many years, and he had been in a state of fear, but the fear he had brought to him at this moment was stronger than ever.
But he can't leave, he has to listen to the thoughts of those people to determine if he will be exposed? Wei Yueming took out the perfume and made her a little vigilant, what did she want to expose herself? I still want to help another person, although the black shadow loves Wei Yueming, but he has never been able to fully trust the girl, of course, this is also normal, in the environment that the black shadow is in, he can't trust anyone.
Gradually, the voice of the person talking in the house was very low, and the dark shadow began to become more and more inaudible, and his head was unconsciously rising little by little, until the collar was grasped by a pair of strong hands and dragged into the room.
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When the aunt sent the supper into Wei Yueming's room, the scene inside almost made him throw away the tray in his hand, but before she could react aggressively, the tray had already been picked up by a person, and that person was Mo Haiyou who returned to Mingyue's room.
Mo Haiyou pointed to a man standing in the room and asked her, "Auntie, do you remember this person?" ”
"I ...... I seem to be ...... where" The aunt was a little unclear in her answer, but she looked at Wei Yueming who was sitting, and instantly understood what was going on, and asked the young man standing in front of her: "Could you be Xiaohua!" ”
The man didn't answer him, but the face that was very similar to Wei Yueming already said it all. Mo Haiyou showed the third gentle smile of the day, and said something that they couldn't understand: "It seems that I guessed correctly." ”
He was saying that he and Xiao Yao's reasoning in the attic, it was he who became the right party, and Mo Haiyou had never been interested in trying to defeat Yun Yeyao in reasoning, but his own accuracy was higher, which was also a happy thing for him.
Mo Haiyou walked out of the door and said, "There shouldn't be anything going on here, you guys have a good chat, I'll go outside." With that, he closed the door and left, leaving only the three men in the room glaring at each other.
Nian Yu on the side immediately said: "I'll just say that Xiao Zuo is not the kind of casual person!" ”
Mo Haiyou corrected and said, "Please don't call me Xiaozuo, teacher." I'm Xiao Mo. ”
"The dead duck has a hard mouth, I've been calling it for so many years, even Sister Weiyi is called that, why can't the teacher call it?" Yun Yeyao muttered on the side, but when he received Mo Haiyou's eye knife, he didn't dare to say more.
Things in the house seem to be about to be solved, but in fact things are more complicated than imagined, at this moment, in an apartment in the center of a distant city, an old man is sleeping with her little grandson, who has already entered into a dream, and the old man can't sleep.
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In the dim light, the old man's face looked much softer than during the day, except for the wrinkles, it could be seen that she should be a very beautiful person when she was young, and at this moment, hugging this small body, the old man's face could not see any expression.
Her pupils were hollow, and her thoughts were all focused on memories of the past.
The photo at the elevator door, she didn't know if the criminal police picked it up, in fact, that day, the old man and his grandson had been following behind the criminal police, she knew that the person in front of her was a very famous criminal policeman who had solved many cases, so the old man wanted to ask him for help.
Entering the community building, talking in the elevator, and leaving photos at the elevator door are all deliberate, all in the hope that the criminal police will discover the house and explore its secrets.
The reason for this is that the old man wants to expel those vicious people from the house that should belong to her, and in this life, she has not left any traces of herself in that house, and the only picture of her mother has also been left there by her, and she will never find it again.
She regretted that she didn't bring a photo when she got married. Maybe she was in too much of a hurry, maybe she was too scared, her desire to escape from the house was more than anything else, and now it was time for her to take it back.
That house should be worth a lot of money and can give hope to the fatherless and motherless child in her arms, a child who has been through so much suffering that God has not only taken away the love of his parents for him, but also the right to speak, which is not fair.
So while he was still alive, the old man decided to fight for the child one last time, if he could get the house, he would be blind to death.
"I always felt that my mother was not dead, didn't you see it all when she got married? What do you think about me and that person, Auntie? ”
"What else can I think? You and Xiaohua are my favorite children, after getting this house, I put the ownership of it in your name, you should know the meaning of me doing this, I don't need this house, and I also have my own retirement salary, what I need is that you don't resent the past. ”
"I've never held a grudge against the past, it's my mother's resentment that has always surrounded me, and I can't shake it off. The same is true for his brother, who chose to hide for so many years just to make the people around him forget about him. ”
"But have you forgotten? Why are you so stupid! And the things in that quagmire can easily cause misunderstanding among others, especially now that there are three policemen, how do you explain it to them? At that time, why didn't you let your family members go to the woods to look for them? ”
"Auntie, do you want strangers to find the souls of the past?"
"How many years ago was that? Even if it was found, it was done by people in the past, so what does it have to do with us? ”
"No, I've always felt like things were happening right in front of our eyes, and they didn't linger at all, as if they were happening now, and the secrets of this house's past could only be solved when my mother came back."
"Alas!" Auntie sighed and looked back, she didn't want to argue about anything? Mingyue's mind couldn't turn around, and she was also responsible, but she couldn't say this responsibility before that person voluntarily appeared.
The sky gradually brightened, and it was estimated that the person in her memory should get up early, and the aunt secretly dialed a mobile phone number in the kitchen on the first floor by making breakfast, and when the other party picked up the phone, the aunt only said three words: "Come back." ”
It was a signal, and the person on the other end of the line paused for a moment and replied, "Well, it's already early in the morning." ”
The early morning sun shone into the kitchen and shone on the person preparing to cook, softening her silhouette.
"Okay, Xiaomeng, I'll be here in a while." Yun Yeyao replied with a wave of his hand as if he had been reunited after a long absence.
Mo Haiyou snorted coldly with his nose and asked him, "Every time I see your Mr. Action, do you need to be so enthusiastic?" ”
"Xiao Zuo, are you jealous?"
"I'm just curious, let's go, let's go back to dinner." After speaking, Mo Haiyou took Yun Yeyao's hand and walked towards the place where Xie Yunmeng was standing, and the three people under the sun returned to their usual state, only Mo Haiyou understood in his heart that what he had investigated in the past few years could not be known to Yun Yeyao no matter what.
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The red star reappeared in front of her eyes, which made the old woman in the taxi excited, and she said to her little grandson, "This is the grandmother's former home, will we live here in the future?" ”
The little grandson would not answer, but it was the first time he had seen such a beautiful house, so he clapped his hands desperately to show that he was happy.
The car was parked steadily on the side of the road, and two people, an old man and a young man, walked out of the taxi hand in hand with simple luggage. When the taxi was gone, the two of them were still standing on the side of the road, not moving.
As if she was still a little worried, the old woman said to her little grandson: "When you enter the house later, grandma wants to catch up with the people inside, you must stay with the two gentlemen you have seen before, and don't run around, you know?" ”
"And," the old woman added, pointing to the woods behind the house, "it's dangerous over there, don't run in and play, remember?" ”
The little grandson nodded in agreement to the grandmother's words very obediently, and the two of them took a step towards the house.
There was already a person who greeted them at the intersection, this person was Wei Haohua and Wei Yueming's aunt, after she saw the old man, she was so excited that she burst into tears, the two were about the same age, but the old man who had just stepped out of the taxi looked much older than her.
"You must have had a hard time all these years, right?" The aunt asked the new old man.
"Fortunately, thanks to your protection, I didn't become a ghost under those quagmires, and I have the opportunity to return here today. Thank you. The old woman said, her eyes filled with gratitude.
The aunt said, "Do we still need to say such polite words between us?" Hurry up and go back with me, the three children are waiting for you, and after breakfast, Mr. Yun's reasoning will also begin. ”
"Three children?" The old woman looked at her aunt with a look of confusion in her eyes and asked, "How can there be three children?" ”
"You'll know when you go in, hurry up and let the little one go to eat, he must be hungry." The aunt said, took the backpack in the old lady's hand, and led them towards the house.
In addition to this, there are two more people in the living room, that is, Yang Yang and his grandmother, who Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng saw in the 'burning' community building, and the grandparents and grandchildren sat next to Mr. Criminal Police. Yang Yang seemed to be frightened by something, he was lying in his grandmother's arms babbling and crying, listening to his pronunciation, you could know that this child was deaf and mute.
Yun Yeyao looked around and began his reasoning: "Actually, the name of the red star, if it wasn't for Grandma Yang Yang telling me, I really wouldn't have guessed, when I came here yesterday, it was already dark, so I didn't see the scene when the sun set." ”
"Now that I think about it, the reason why this house is called Red Star should be similar to the community building we saw before, right, Aunt Wei?" Yun Yeyao called Grandma Yang Yang Aunt Wei.
Grandma Yang nodded and said, "Yes, it is precisely because the perimeter of this house is surrounded by glass, so the red sunset shines on it, and the reflected light is like the whole house is burning, however, this is not the whole meaning of the red star, the meaning of the star refers to the dagger, that is, danger." That is, there is always danger in this house. ”
"Can you explain to us the true meaning of this danger? Aunt Wei. Yun Yeyao asked.
"Yes, in fact, the danger refers to me and my children, Wei Haohua and Wei Yueming. Since our grandmother's generation, the family has been in decline, and my grandfather's business failure has affected the income of the whole family, but our grandfather is not the old man in the photo mentioned in Mr. Wei's story, but another person. Aunt Wei was very strange to call her son Mr. Wei, and she was referring to the Mr. Wei Haohua that Yun Ye Yao saw at the door of the police station.
No one raised doubts about this, and everyone listened to Aunt Wei continue with peace of mind.
"As for what they did wrong? You'll all understand in the reasoning that follows. In this house, because of superstition, the aunt wholeheartedly protected the safety of the three children, and did not let the people she thought were ominous approach, and no matter what the truth was back then, the aunt was in a hurry to act outdoors just now, and she knew that there was no way to drive Aunt Wei away, so she had the intention of killing. If it weren't for the fact that when the teacher was salvaging the bones at night, he camouflaged the flat ground and the quagmire, Aunt Wei and Yang Yang might really be in danger this morning. ”
"Our two teachers, one is a retired criminal policeman, and the other is proficient in disguise, so Auntie was deceived, and Aunt Wei and Yang Yang were also safe. The bones that were salvaged were all dead decades ago, and I think they should have been people who had fallen into the mud before, and had nothing to do with the killings. Of course, it will only be confirmed as a fact after the police investigation. ”
"But apart from the bones, there were indeed two bodies in the house, one that we didn't see, and it was hidden. The other appeared in Xiao Wei's room, and at that time we couldn't understand why Xiao Wei would bring the clothes and body worn by the attack on Xiao Zuo back to his room. ”
"But after catching the real Wei Haohua, everything will be logical. It was Xiao Hua who found the body under the carpet in her sister's room, so she threw the body into Xiao Wei's room, and Mingyue wanted to use the smell of perfume to tell us about it, no matter who gave the perfume to her, she wanted us to guess that the body in Xiao Wei's room was the first to exist in her room. ”
"It seems a bit messy to say this, then let's go in order, one by one, after listening to Xiao Wei's story last night, we went to Mingyue's room at his strong request, when Xiao Zuo entered Mingyue's room not long ago, he wanted to go back and remind Mingyue to be careful, because he saw that Xiao Wei had sat on the edge of the quagmire where he had drowned before he met us, and bones appeared in the quagmire."
"Xiao Zuo doesn't remember anything about what happened before he was ten years old, he has always wanted to get back his past memories, so after seeing Mingyue, he often came to the red star as a guest, in order to learn more about Mingyue's past, but Xiao Zuo misunderstood Mingyue's life experience, and Mingyue and Aunt also misunderstood Xiao Zuo's purpose, so it was a mistake, and finally caused a misunderstanding between the three of us."
"Everyone knows what I saw in the room, and I won't go into it here, but I'll just say about my fall into the woods. Soon after I fell into the quagmire, Xiao Meng and Xiao Zuo chased me into the woods, and they tried desperately to find me, but to no avail. Fortunately, two teachers passed by and rescued me in time, so I was able to avoid being drowned. ”
Xiao Zuo and Xiao Meng were arguing in the woods to find it, in fact, it was only a few minutes before they heard a screaming sound coming from the living room here, the scream was made by Mingyue, but the initiator of all this was the aunt upstairs, why did she do this? Hearing Xiao Wei's confession just now, I think everyone should understand. ”
"She also found out about Xiao Wei's crime, and I think my aunt can guess the reason for my disappearance, in order to protect his son's crime from being exposed, he chose to cut himself to scare Mingyue, and used Mingyue's voice to attract Xiao Zuo and Xiao Meng back. In fact, Xiao Wei was also frightened at that time, and when he heard the screams in the house, he rushed back into the house desperately, also to attract the attention of Xiao Meng and Xiao Zuo. ”
"Xiao Wei, fortunately, this plan did not succeed, otherwise the teacher would have scolded you for intentional murder, at that time, in order to cover up the crime of stealing, it was indeed too much for you to ignore my life. Although I don't want to criticize anything now, I hope you can think more about others in the future and stop being so selfish. ”
Yun Yeyao seemed very calm when he said these words, but Mr. Criminal Police and Mr. Forensic Medicine on both sides of him were not as calm as him, Mr. Criminal Police clenched his fists, looking restrained, if it weren't for so many people here, Mr. Wei would never have had such a good time. And the forensic doctor Mo Haiyou's eyes were as cold as ice when he looked at the people on the ground, as if he wanted to make two holes in his body. ”
"But the corpse can't be salvaged by my aunt, she doesn't have this ability, so it will involve my two teachers, teacher, when you rescued me, I grabbed the fingers of the corpse, did I bring the whole corpse together, so the fingers of the corpse were broken in the palm of my hand? Under the mud, even if the bones are rotten, they should not break! ”
"This was the case at the time, but we didn't realize that it was a corpse that came up with you, because he didn't show his head all, but was wrapped in dirt and leaves to show a little bit, my presbyopia itself couldn't see clearly in the dark, and Nian Yu was anxious to give you first aid, so neither of us noticed." ”
"But, Xiao Yao, what followed you should be a rotting corpse, why did it become a female corpse without decay in the room at that time?" Yanagihashi asked.
"Teacher, do you remember when Xiao Zuo followed Xiao Wei before? Is the protruding part of the human body seen underneath fallen leaves? Although it was only a little bit, and it was hidden by fallen leaves, Xiao Zuo still judged that it was the elbow or knee part of the person, and she was the female corpse that did not decompose. ”
"Xiao Hua successfully avoided Xiao Zuo's sight at that time, because the grove here stretches for a long time, and there are quagmires like the kind I fell down everywhere, Xiao Zuo is not familiar with the terrain, and it is impossible to walk as fast as Xiao Hua, so after getting rid of Xiao Zuo, Xiao Hua quickly returned to the woods behind the house, and he found two bodies floating up at the same time."
"Brother...... Why? Mingyue still couldn't understand.
Xiaohua's eyes were full of tenderness, staring at her and saying: "Since I was very young, I have been single-minded, I just want you to stay by my side, you are so beautiful, beautiful like the goddess in my heart." But I know that my bond with you will never intersect, that we are two parallel lines close to each other, and that I will not be able to fulfill my wish no matter what. ”
"So the only thing I can do is to let you stay in this house as much as possible, so that no one can covet you, which is why I did my hands and feet in your medicine, although your physique was worse than ordinary people when you were a child, but under the careful care of your aunt, your body is getting better and better, and you are yearning for the outside world more and more."
"It scared me a lot. Do you know? Mingyue, on many nights, I dream that you have left me, and every time I wake up, I am terrified, and as time goes by, I can't let go of your hand more and more......"
"Alright, don't say it!!" Mingyue interrupted her brother's words with a scream, facing him with a sad, incomprehensible expression, which made Wei Haohua feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
Yun Yeyao said: "Xiao Hua, Xiao Zuo said before that the person who uses his hands and feet in the drug is a person who can go out often, otherwise, he would not be able to get those things." But I couldn't get in touch with Xiao Wei anyway, because Xiao Wei was obviously a man of rhetoric, but not much real ability, and at the time, we had already guessed that he might be making ends meet by stealing the goods of the stumbling ones. ”
"It wasn't until you came into sight that we really determined the true identity of the suspect. Another reason is that if a person who uses his hands and feet in the medicine wants to kill Mingyue slowly and unconsciously, he can put some drugs that are more harmful to the body. Therefore, the suspect definitely did not want to kill Mingyue. ”
After saying this, Yun Yeyao secretly glanced at Mo Haiyou beside him, and the forensic doctor still maintained an indifferent expression at this moment, but Yun Yeyao could feel the sadness hidden in the depths of the forensic doctor's heart, because they are also two parallel lines that are very close to each other, and they can never intersect in reality, and can only become the most precious part of each other's lives.
Wei Yueming understood this, so she lowered her head and said, "I know, my brother and I will take care of my mother and aunt, thank you." The voice was low and muffled, revealing a faint sadness.
After everything was settled, Wei Haohua's actions were also severely reprimanded by Liu Qiaopu, asking him to take care of his sister's body and be a real head of the family.
And Yun Yeyao and Mo Haiyou have not become strangers to Wei Yueming since then, when they are free, they often come to visit her together and occasionally take her out to play. Mo Haiyou also realized that in fact, Wei Yueming had nothing to do with Yun Yeyao's mother's past, it was just his own misunderstanding in a trance. So I won't bother Wei Yueming's life alone.
This is the end of the disappearing red star, I hope you will continue to support, I will work harder, thank you.
In the midst of the chaos, there seemed to be a strange sound in the distance of the lavender field, as if something was crawling over and as if there was nothing, and above the skin covered by blood, there were two small black holes, which were not noticed by anyone.
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Everything is like a play, suddenly appearing and disappearing, just like the man who is now on the stage, this man has not acted for a long time, but at the invitation of a friend to stand on the stage, in an instant his professional sensitivity and habits are back.
This is a very intelligent man, and he is also the best of all in appearance, and he often shows his gentle side. No matter what his heart is, his smile always makes people feel happy, and now he walks around the stage in a purple costume like a lavender fluttering in the wind.
There is no audience under the stage, this is a drill, he is not really here to act, but he is just using his acting skills to let the director and assistant director sitting not far away find inspiration.
"Okay? I've been gone for so long! The man asked impatiently, but immediately got an impatient look from the director, who was writing and drawing in his notebook.
"Why is your patience so bad now, it wasn't like this when I watched you act before." The director said, and the assistant director covered his mouth and laughed next to him.
The man on the stage said: "You can't blame me for this, I haven't acted for so long, and I'm not used to this environment." ”
"It's not that you're not used to it, but you're in a hurry to go back on a date!" The assistant director immediately poked at him, and then said: "By the way, we've always heard that you're in a relationship, even if your stepmother says so, but I've never seen your girlfriend look like it, isn't it too much!" Everyone is an old friend in the entertainment industry, so let's bring it over next time. ”
"I don't want it," the man immediately refused, sticking out his tongue at the people below the stage and saying, "Wait a few more years, and I'll let you see it later." ”
The relaxed atmosphere on this side of the theater is in stark contrast to the tragic scene in the lavender field just now, which is also love, but the love in the purple flower field makes people feel extremely sad and sad.
Putting aside the description of love for a moment, we turn our gaze to another place, where there is a simple warehouse, it is really just a small warehouse, not a house or a villa as people imagine, and in the warehouse, there are many drawing boards stacked horizontally, and there are purple lavender flowers.
One of the canvases felt very dirty, the entire surface was broken, even the frame was broken, but this one was placed in the most conspicuous position, as if it were an extremely precious thing, carefully protected.
The man in the warehouse was drawing, and from time to time he looked at the broken drawing board on the side, and every time he looked at the drawing board, his eyes showed a deep sadness, as if he remembered a memory from the past.
Returning to the complete sketchboard at hand, the work does not look perfect, or even pretty. It's like painting an abstract painting, but no one can say what is popular about the aesthetics now, isn't it?
The paintbrush continued to move on the cardboard, and the colorful paint swayed on the paint plate in the man's hand, some of which had already flowed up his sleeve, but the man continued to shake the paint plate as if he was completely unaware, maybe it was a habit of his, but it was really a bad habit, because the sleeves and chest of the man's overalls were already stained with color, even more than on the drawing board in front of him.
At this moment, the warehouse door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man with fat and neat hair walked in, he only glanced at the drawing board in front of the man, and said loudly, "You have been getting these things for so long?" ”
"And what do you want me to do?" The man's face was indifferent, and he didn't feel any unhappiness or fear because of his questioning.
The middle-aged man said: "I want you to come up with your works, if you don't come up with your works, how can I publicize them?" ”
"Then you don't advertise it, unless you give me another month." The man's tone was still soothing.
But the middle-aged man couldn't bear it, he raised his voice and said: "For a month, you joke about me, who said that he was a well-known painter in the first place?" I still really believe you, and now that the big words are out, what do you want me to do? When the middle-aged man spoke, the fat on his face shook and looked disgusting.
The man gave him a blank look and said, "What should I do?" Keep giving me time, isn't there still a month left for the party at Lavender Villa? I was finishing the work in hand. ”
"You also call that a work? It's called graffiti. The middle-aged man yelled.
"That's good!" The woman's voice softened a lot, and she said, "Don't lie to me!" When that was over, we got married as soon as we got the money, you know? ”
"Okay, absolutely as you wish." The man smiled and kissed the face with heavy makeup in front of him, as if his love for women was very deep, but in the faint moonlight, we couldn't see much love in the man's eyes.
Maybe it's just a delusion, or maybe men are really planning something that women don't know, but no one can know about it now, so we can just wait and see how things go down.
The little reunion in the darkness soon ended, and no one saw the man and woman stop there, and of course no one heard what they said, as if they had disappeared with the evening breeze, leaving no trace.
At this moment, it has passed the beginning of summer, the wind at night is beginning to feel warm, the days are getting longer and longer, when the man rides the motorcycle back to the narrow space where he lives, the sky has gradually brightened, the time at this time is more than five o'clock in the morning, the man stretches his waist, and lies in the middle of a pile of messy things, wanting to sleep.
The place where he lived, with only a boxy room, no bathroom, no bed, not even a sink for washing hands, looked very pitiful, but looking at the man's sleeping expression, he seemed to be very satisfied with it.
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Looking back at our dear actor, a long time has passed since he helped others rehearse the play, during which his contact with his old friends has not been interrupted, but the person has become more relaxed and comfortable, and there is a lot of free time, and the actor really doesn't know how to pass the time? In addition to chatting on the computer, it is to desperately call the two people who make him worry.
No, as soon as the wall clock on the wall rang for work, the actor couldn't wait to pick up his mobile phone again.
"Xiao Meng, are you off work?"
"I'm talking about you! Do you want to make a dozen phone calls a day? I'm going to be bothered. ”
"I didn't call you during working hours, I took advantage of your break, what are you complaining about!" The actor's voice seemed reasonable, and he felt that this was also caused by boredom, and he couldn't blame himself entirely.
The person on the other end of the phone may not want to refute him anymore, so he said helplessly: "Forget it, tell me what you want to eat at night?" I'll buy it for you. ”
"Xiao Meng, let's go out to eat tonight, I know there is a very delicious Western restaurant, a friend introduced it to me, let's go there and have a look, okay?"
"And then?" The person on the other end of the line seemed to be waiting for the actor's next step.
Xie Yunmeng nodded noncommittally, while the other two identical people did not give any response, Yun Yeyao was paying attention to Mo Haiyou's emotions, thinking about how to drive the middle-aged man away as soon as possible.
"My name is Liu Yunzhao, I'm sorry to disturb you, I once saw the news of your case solving in the newspaper, and I am very fascinated by the case you have solved," Liu Yunzhao said to Xie Yunmeng with a polite smile: "I am just an ordinary mechanical assembler, but I especially like all kinds of cases, as well as terrifying spirits." It's a blessing to be able to meet you at this restaurant. As he spoke, he took out his business cards and handed them to the three of them.
"I want to invite the three of us to participate in the lavender villa party we held, just three days later, the villa is a friend of mine, if you are willing to go, everyone will be very happy, because we are all friends who like to reason and solve crimes, and a few of them are fans of Mr. Yun!"
"I'm sorry, but we're all busy with work and can't find time to attend any gatherings." As soon as Liu Yunzhao's words were finished, Mo Haiyou directly rejected him.
However, Liu Yunzhao was not angry at all, he seemed to know the temperament of the three people very well, and did not refute the forensic doctor, but continued to say to Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng: "Please, this is our last gathering, and we will go our separate ways after we separate, so I will bring you a surprise no matter what, and ......" Liu Yunzhao wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was considering whether to say it or not.
After more than ten seconds, he spoke again: "I wonder if the three of you have participated in the investigation of a car accident more than two years ago?" The victim of that incident was a teenage girl who was hit and killed in a lavender field by a drunk driver, whose boyfriend was also present at the time. I don't know the details of the accident, but after the incident, the girl's boyfriend and the driver who caused the accident disappeared and have not been found yet.
"Then are you a relative of the girl?" Yun Ye asked him.
Liu Yunzhao shook his head and said, "No, I don't know the girl and her boyfriend at all. One of the people I know, a painter, who told me about it not long ago, and said that maybe the girl was killed on purpose, not in a car accident as people seemly see it. Only a few days after he said this, he died inexplicably in the apartment, and the doctor's diagnosis was a sudden myocardial infarction, which I have never been able to let go. ”
The profession of a painter is neither good nor bad in the eyes of women, it is just a little more artistic, but women never disdain to look at the things painted by their boyfriends, mainly because they think the selling price is too low, and the picture is not good-looking. Although she doesn't care whether the people around her are rich or not, having a boyfriend who can't make money is not a face-saving thing in the sister circle.
So now, the woman has kept this relationship a secret, and she hopes to wait for her boyfriend's paintings to sell well before showing them off. And the woman herself, who has a decent job, works as a white-collar worker in a huge joint venture, and gets several times more wages per month than her boyfriend.
At this moment, the black cat barked and wanted to leave the woman's arms, but the woman did not want to let it go, one hand tightly grasped the fur on the back of the black cat's neck, and raised her voice a little and said, "Don't move, be good." ”
The black cat seemed to be able to understand the hostess's words, and then lay down quietly, looking at the hostess with a pair of large glass-colored eyes, and there seemed to be a little doubt in the eyes.
'Do you know what I'm thinking? The woman asked the black cat softly, but she didn't want to answer her question, she just didn't have anything to say.
Soon she fell into deep thought again, forgetting all about the topic just now, the breeze blew into the open window, the woman felt a slight coolness on her body, she persevered for a while, and finally put down the black cat, walked over and was about to close the window, but just as the woman's fingers touched the window frame, two sharp things pierced the tips of her fingers.
Blood poured out of the wound in an instant, the woman stopped, put her finger in her mouth, and then looked at the windowsill, she didn't seem surprised by the injury just now, but showed a strange smile, and said to the empty windowsill: "It's you!" I didn't say hello when I came...... Come in, the water is ready for you. ”
Instead of closing the window, the woman opened the sash wider, as if to let something in, and then she herself returned to the edge of the table, picked up a clear glass, and poured the water from the cup into the small bowl used by the black cat on the floor.
The black cat sat silently on the side, watching her movements, without any reaction, and on the windowsill, there was the sound of something crawling.
Even if the stepmother secretly helps on the side, it is not the fundamental solution to the problem, so Yun Yeyao can still hide now.
But he didn't expect that Mo Haiyou went to the city more and more often, of course, everything the forensic doctor did was hidden from Mr. Actor, and what Mo Haiyou investigated was gradually surfacing, this is the truth that Yun Yeyao never wants to see no matter what!
Yun Yeyao nested his whole body into the sofa, he is now more and more greedy for warmth, so everything in the house is extremely soft, just like Xiao Meng's embrace, Xiao Meng never skimps on his embrace.
Thinking of the warm and broad shoulders, Yun Yeyao closed his eyes, hiding his pupils in the depths of the night, the footsteps of the night are gradually approaching, Xie Yunmeng has to work overtime tonight, even if he doesn't work overtime, he doesn't have the time to come to him every day, so Yun Yeyao will not be long-winded wherever he sleeps, and soon he will fall asleep with peace of mind.
In the dream, the turquoise sea and the sand merge into one, like two pictures, tightly spliced together, with only a thin gap in the middle, Yun Hai walked on the edge of the gap, looking at the horizon in the distance.
His steps were very slow, because there was a woman in a long dress beside him, and she was walking very slowly, it was a long dress with flowers on a white background, which covered the instep of her feet, and this woman had long black hair, which was particularly beautiful in the wind. The sea breeze always messed up her hair, and Yun Haiyou wanted to reach out to help him straighten it out, but the outstretched hand was instantly grabbed by the other hand.
It was a hand with the same distinct knots, slender and slender, with a faint green tendon on the back of the hand, exactly the same as Yun Yeyao himself.
Yun Haiyou asked, "Yun Haizuo, what are you doing?" ”
The man named Yun Haizuo, whose face was not clear, said to him, "Don't touch my mother! This simple sentence made Yun Haiyou feel a piercing coldness.
He asked Yun Haizuo: "Isn't she also my mother?" ”
"No, she is no longer your mother, when you were ten years old, your mother and brother were dead, and you are just a person who grew up under the deception of your father."
"I don't believe you, my father won't deceive me."
"Hmph, I don't have anything to say if you choose to be stupid, but I won't be as stupid as you!" After speaking, Yun Haizuo took his mother's hand and walked quickly towards the far side of the beach, leaving Yun Haiyou alone in a daze.
"However, just over five months after the accident, I suddenly started receiving money from an anonymous person, every month, and I used to look for the address on the envelope, which was the hometown of my daughter's boyfriend, and his parents told me that since my daughter was in a car accident, their son had never been home, but only wrote back that he had to catch the person who killed my daughter before he would stop, and his parents gave me a ring, saying that on the day of the accident, the young man was going to propose to my daughter."
"When I took the ring, I seemed to realize the young man's sincerity, and the resentment in my heart disappeared at once, and I only hoped that he would return to his normal life, come back as soon as possible, and not sacrifice more for the dead. Over the past few years, I have been inquiring about his whereabouts, but I have found nothing, and I think he is probably no longer in the city. ”
"So that's the case, it seems that the incident back then is really worth scrutinizing, since he loves your daughter so much, why didn't he send people to the hospital immediately, but abandoned the body to track down the perpetrator, this is not a normal reaction!"
"This is also what I can't understand, my daughter was abandoned alone in the lavender field, and died a miserable death, and the police said that if she hadn't been abandoned at that time, there might have been hope of survival, why didn't he save my daughter? What are the perpetrators to chase?! Although I have been telling myself for the past two years that there may be some special reason for this, I have not figured it out until now, and even the police have not figured out why. ”
"Mr. Wu, what's the name of your daughter's boyfriend?"
"I don't know!"
"Didn't you ask his parents in the first place?"
"Actually, after my daughter's car accident, I found out that she had a boyfriend who I didn't know about before. When I first went to find his parents, the situation of their family was also very miserable, my mother was sick in bed, I couldn't speak at all, my father lived on a few acres of thin fields, and he was also a disabled person, I could hardly believe that there were such poor people in this world. ”
"The dialect they spoke was already difficult to communicate, and there was a resentment in my heart when I went, so I didn't remember to ask the young man's name until I left."
After hearing this, Yun Yeyao put his finger on the tip of his nose, there was a small mole on the tip of his nose, which was very cute, and the actor habitually touched this mole with his hand and said, "Mr. Wu, if you don't mind, can you leave this matter to me to investigate?" I promise to give you a satisfactory answer, but how long will it take? I can't predict that right now. ”
At 12:55 p.m. on the first day of the party, our three protagonists are standing in front of the door of an old warehouse with wide eyes, which is not at all the same as the lavender villa they imagined. Not only the house, but also the surrounding area is even more outrageous, and the place that I thought could be called a lavender villa should be surrounded by purple romantic flowers.
But if you look around, there are no purple flowers? There is not even a single dog's tail grass to be found, and the front of the warehouse is like a huge garbage dump, with only a few scattered people picking up scrap there.
Mo Haiyou and Xie Yunmeng's car will meet halfway, they arrived together, as soon as they got out of the car, even the forensic doctor who had always been calm was stunned, he looked at Yun Yeyao and asked, "Are you sure you remember the wrong address?" ”
"How is that possible! That's what he told me. Yun Yeyao hurriedly retorted, and before the words fell, the mobile phone in his pocket rang.
It was Liu Yunzhao who called, and his voice was no longer as kind as before, but said in a provocative tone: "The three of you must be very troubled now, right?" ”
Yun Yeyao realized that something was wrong, and immediately sank his face and asked in a low voice, "What do you want to do?" ”
"I don't want to do anything! I just wanted to play a game with you, I have learned about the big and small cases that the three have solved over the years, and I am also fascinated, and I heard that you have been looking for the scenery in your mind, right? ”
"Make it clear, don't go around in circles!" The night is on guard.
Xie Yunmeng, who was on the side, realized that Yun Yeyao's tone was wrong, snatched the phone in his hand, and was about to question the microphone, but he didn't expect to be preempted by the person on the other side of the microphone.
There was no sound of speech coming from across the microphone, but the terrible screams of a woman and the sound of something constantly smashing, and after a few seconds, the microphone fell silent.
Xie Yunmeng roared angrily: "Hey! Speak!! ”
But the person on the other side of the microphone was not ready to deal with the criminal police immediately, he gasped heavily, as if he had thrown away something, and after more than ten seconds, he said intermittently: "Yes...... Mr. Detective...... Hahaha... Do you know? I just killed someone I didn't like, and in six hours, I'll be killing people in the Lavender Villa...... Now, there are a total of seven people in the Lavender Villa partying, can these seven people leave survivors behind? It's up to you...... Can you get there in time! ”
Finally, when it was approaching one o'clock in the afternoon, the two cars stopped in a place far away from the warehouse where there was no garbage.
The dark shadow's heart suddenly rose to his throat, he watched the three people get out of the car, watched the three people talk to each other, and after a while, he picked up the mobile phone, which he was going to use today and immediately throw it away, no longer using it, even the phone number.
In order to keep the fingerprints from being left anywhere, the black shadow also carefully put on gloves.
Unfortunately, all of this turned out to be useless, the call went out as planned, and the other party fully received the message that the black shadow was trying to convey, but when the messenger was about to leave, his neck was ruthlessly broken, leaving only a smashed wooden box and a wisp of blood from the corner of his mouth to accompany it.
When the black shadow died, he saw the murderer's true face, his twitching fingers digging into the ground, while his eyes rested on the cracks in the wooden box, staring at the other pair of horrible white eyes inside......
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Yun Yeyao and Mo Haiyou's reasoning is correct, there is indeed the first clue left by the murderer in the warehouse, that is, the proof that a homicide will definitely happen - a corpse!
Not one, but two dead bodies, one male and one female, each carrying identification. Mo Haiyou immediately began to examine the body, while Xie Yunmeng immediately called the nearby police station and asked them to bring someone over to support.
Yun Ye looked around the inside of the warehouse, this should be the place where some painter lived, there were a lot of drawing boards piled up on the ground and walls, some of them were only sketched with an outline, some of them were already colored, and the painting work was very beautiful. In particular, the paintings leaning against the window show the beautiful back of a girl and a lavender field like purple waves.
Looking down at the male corpse on the ground again, he fell in the middle of the warehouse, his mouth and eyes were wide open, as if he was frightened by something terrifying, until Mo Haiyou lifted the man's collar, Yun Yeyao found that the man's neck was twisted in a strange posture, almost the entire neck was swollen, and the bruises covered the skin, which looked very scary.
It was not completely detached, but the part that Mo Haiyou lifted was slowly separated from the body below as if it had been torn apart, and he could sense that some of it was still adherent. When Mo Haiyou untied the clothes of the female corpse, the scene exposed inside made everyone unbearable to look at it directly. The part below the shoulder of the corpse was brutally painted with a knife, some of the flesh and texture had been cut off, while some were still adherent, and under the broken skin, blood vessels and mental experiences were vividly visible, and in some places you could even see a yellow-white layer of fat.
"The murderer of this woman must have hated her to the core, otherwise it would have been impossible to use such cruel means. There was not a single trace of blood on the skirt, which proves that the skirt was changed into later. ”
Mo Haiyou's words made Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng turn their heads to look at the corpse in his hand at the same time, Yun Yeyao immediately turned his head and couldn't bear to look at it directly, while Xie Yunmeng cursed fiercely, he felt that the murderer was simply crazy.
Mo Haiyou continued to examine the knife wounds of the corpse with a cold face, he gently broke open each knife with his fingers, and found that they were all deep, the murderer used enough strength when killing people, and at the edge of the knife edge, in addition to the dried blood, there were some other colors mixed with blood.
Mo Haiyou peeled off a piece of blood scab, approached the tip of his nose and smelled it, a smell of turpentine and a faint pungent smell rushed into his nose, it was the smell of oil paint, Mo Haiyou stood up and said to Yun Yeyao: "The murderer who killed this woman should often come into contact with paint, and there is a more or less smell of turpentine on every knife edge of her knife, indicating that when the murderer killed her, his fingers and the parts that could be touched were stained with oil paint, so this murderer is likely to be the person who lives here to paint." ”
At this moment, Yun Yeyao was observing the oil paintings on the windowsill, and Xie Yunmeng was behind them, uncovering the drawing boards on the other side of the warehouse one by one, these drawing boards were very large, Xie Yunmeng stacked them on the floor, and after a while, they were already piled high, and they felt a little crumbling.
Yun Yeyao said to Mo Haiyou: "Xiao Zuo, I think these paintings on the windowsill are also hints left by the murderer. ”
"How?"
"First of all, they all depict the same girl, and the same lavender field, and although the girl only has her back, the outline of the back is exactly the same, even the length of her hair, the shape of her ears, and the pearl earrings hanging from her ears. Then there are lavender fields. Yun Yeyao pointed to the paintings he had grouped together.
Mo Haiyou replied: "The ring did not appear at the scene of the car accident at all, but after a long time, the father of the deceased got it from the parents of his daughter's boyfriend, and no one can be sure who bought the ring." Maybe it was a lie made up by his parents in order to correct their son's name? The deceased's boyfriend had been living in the city for many years, and any change was possible, and I'm not saying that he was necessarily responsible for the car accident that year. ”
"I'm just bringing up this possibility, and any possibility has to be put in our minds until the final result is investigated, Xiao Haruka."
"Okay, I admit that I can't completely deny what you said Xiao Zuo, so what about the fourth judgment?" Yun Yeyao asked.
But Mo Haiyou stopped, he looked at Yun Yeyao and said, "You really can't think of what the fourth judgment is?" Because it involved Yun Yeyao's old friend, Mo Haiyou didn't want to say it directly, he stared at Mr. Actor, whose face was gradually similar to himself, and waited.
After a while, Yun Yeyao tilted his head to the window and said, "I know, you are referring to Mr. Wu, her daughter's boyfriend is poor, and the conditions of her parents' family are extremely poor, so it is impossible to bring his daughter a rich life. And Mr. Wu told me that he never knew that his daughter had a boyfriend until she died. This is suspicious enough. ”
"Yes," Mo Haiyou said, "After you called me the day before yesterday, I immediately went to dig out the car accident file of that year, Mr. Wu's daughter had been dating her boyfriend for many years before she died, why didn't he find out?" Ordinary parents are not dull to this extent, not to mention that it is his only daughter, so it is possible that the person who wants to get out of trouble is not his daughter's boyfriend, but Mr. Wu himself. ”
"As for the driver who caused the accident, Mr. Wu could have hid him in his house to avoid investigation, Mr. Wu was the biggest victim at that time, and there were no clues related to him after investigation, so it was impossible for the police to search his home, and it was precisely because of this that the driver who caused the accident could have disappeared for so many years safe and sound.