Chapter 45: The Mysterious Man
Zhou Baiman once accidentally found that Mu Hanzhi wrapped his abdomen with a white cloth, and began to think that Mu Hanzhi was for a better performance on stage, but after a long time, Mu Hanzhi's belly, which was getting bigger day by day, was no longer something that Bai Bu could hide.
Twenty years ago, reputation was very important to women, let alone a drama.
Speaking of which, I can somewhat understand the meaning of Zhou Baiman's words, even if Mu Hanzhi is excellent in Tsing Yi, she is just a drama after all, and my profession is the same, in ancient times, it was popular in the lower nine days, and there are so-called ruthless remarks about the unrighteous bitch in the market, in the eyes of most people, the gap between the drama and the bitch is not big.
In the past, there was no clear boundary between bitches and actors, and ordinary prostitutes also sold their bodies, and artists also sold their bodies, all of them ate flowers, so they were looked down upon by everyone, the so-called moral righteousness was originally intended for people with status, and people who didn't even have identity couldn't talk about this, and they weren't qualified to talk about it.
Maybe there are very few people who have such thoughts now, but Mu Hanzhi is pregnant before marriage, and this handle is sent to others, and it is difficult not to be tossed.
As Bai Man continued to tell us in the same week, Mu Hanzhi's desire to hide the fact that she had a child was broken by her belly, which grew day by day, and rumors followed, how ugly and ugly it was, so that Mu Hanzhi didn't have the heart to perform again, and she needed a friend who could confide in and help each other at this time.
This person should have been Zhou Baiman, but the words were terrifying, Zhou Baiman was worried about falling into a sentence of accusation that would gather like things, instead of standing by Mu Hanzhi's side, he chose to distance himself, which is also Zhou Baiman's regret and negligence that has been lingering after Mu Hanzhi committed suicide.
"Before you and Mu Hanzhi became estranged, did you ever hear her mention the men around her?" Yun Duruo asked seriously.
"Nope!" Zhou Baiman replied categorically. "Hanzhi almost never talks to me about this, and I won't ask if she doesn't say it."
"Then think about it, has there been a man who has appeared next to her with the word Hui in his name?" I asked by luck.
Zhou Baiman thought about it for a long time and slowly shook his head at us.
"Most of the men that Han Zhi has come into contact with are in the group, but I can guarantee that she and these people are limited to work communication, and there will be absolutely no emotion, as for those with Hui characters, there are really no people I know."
Yun Duruo and I were a little disappointed when we heard this, Zhou Baiman said so much, we have a new understanding of Mu Hanzhi, but no matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like a person with any secrets, if you really want to say that there is, it should be the man who has never shown up, Mu Hanzhi seems to be deliberately avoiding not wanting people to know about the existence of this man.
Maybe there's another possibility.
I secretly thought in my heart, maybe that man was unwilling to let Mu Hanzhi let him out publicly.
"Man......" Zhou Baiman suddenly remembered something, and said to us for a long time. I don't know about the man with the surname Hui, but I remember something. ”
"What's the matter?" Yun Duruo asked eagerly.
"Hanzhi is very self-disciplined and has a very regular life, and I never have too much contact with any man on weekdays, let alone have disputes, but one night, it was still when Hanzhi's stomach was not big, I returned to the dormitory from the practice room, and it was already night." Zhou Baiman said to us while reminiscing. "When I passed by the garden behind the troupe, I heard the sound of the cold, she usually spoke very softly, but that time I heard her voice very excited and sad, as if she was arguing with someone."
"And then?" I asked with a frown.
"I was also curious, worried about what would happen to her, so I went over and called her, and Han Zhi heard my voice turn around and take a step forward, as if he was deliberately covering the person behind her." Zhou Baiman tried to recall the situation at that time, for fear of missing something. "Oh, it's a man arguing with her, and I hear the man say on and off, wait, soon...... I didn't hear the others clearly, and I didn't hear the man speak again after I walked over. ”
"Can you remember what that man looked like?" Yun Duruo asked with some excitement.
"It was dark, and he was standing under a tree again, and I couldn't see his face." Zhou Baiman shook his head regretfully. "But...... There was a smell on the man's body, and it was very special. ”
"Taste?!" I took a serious look at Zhou Baiman. "What does it smell like?"
Zhou Baiman leaned in towards me, leaned his head into my body and sniffed for a while, then nodded affirmatively.
"That's what you smell like."
I was stunned, Yun Duruo also looked at me in surprise, I raised my hand and put it in front of my nose and sniffed it for a long time, frowning and said in surprise.
"I ...... I don't smell anything, do I? ”
"Yes!" Yun Duruo raised his head excitedly after smelling it for a moment. "You can't smell it because you're familiar with what you're smelling about, but other people can smell it."
"What does it smell like?"
"Formalin!"
It dawned on me that every day I stayed in the dissection room, all I came into contact with were corpses, and the room was filled with the smell of formalin, which I could still smell at first, but slowly, as Yun Duruo said, I was used to the smell and couldn't distinguish it at all.
Zhou Baiman said that the man who had an argument with Mu Hanzhi had the same smell on his body, and most of the people who could be contaminated with this smell were working in places related to medical affairs, and I suddenly remembered the modus operandi of the nameless female corpse case, as well as the stitches on Su Fengmei's mouth, which required extremely high medical expertise.
And the man who argued with Mu Hanzhi is likely to also be engaged in medical work, the biggest suspicion in Mu Hanzhi's case is that the mysterious man who never showed up, twenty years later, there is a murderer who is proficient in anatomy and medical knowledge, is this a coincidence!
This visit finally made a new discovery, after Yun Duruo asked Zhou Baiman carefully, the others were not of much value, and before we knew it, it was already night, and we got up to say goodbye.
When I walked to the door, I suddenly asked very luckily.
"Do you have a picture of Mu Hanzhi here?"
"Yes!"
Zhou Baiman's answer made me and Yun Duruo look at her in shock and stunned, Zhou Baiman didn't understand how Yun Duruo and I could show such expressions in an instant, she asked us to wait in the living room, she went to take it out for us, Yun Duruo and I couldn't sit still at all, and followed Zhou Baiman inch by inch, for fear that she would have any accidents like Liu Yuewu.
Zhou Baiman opened the drawer in front of us, took out a very old-fashioned photo album, and sat on the sofa, Yun Duruo and I sat on both sides, eager to see what Mu Hanzhi, who had never really seen, looked like.
Zhou Baiman's son brought us water in, and she said curiously while holding the photo.
"My mother saw this album as expensive, and she didn't let us touch it since she was a child, and she didn't know whose photos were in it."
Listening to her son's words, I can guess in my heart that this may be an ordinary photo album for others, but presumably in Zhou Baiman's mind, this is a memory and a way for her to repent.
The photo album was opened, and the first one was a photo of a woman performing on stage, with a woman wearing a green emerald cigarette shirt, a pleated skirt with scattered flowers and mist and green grass, wearing a thin veil of emerald water, with shoulders slashed into a waist, and a coquettish and boneless woman.
Even looking at the photo, I have to admit that the woman in the photo is indeed breathtakingly beautiful.
"This is Mu Hanzhi!" Zhou Baiman sighed and said apologetically at the photo. "This was taken when she was performing, and she said at the time that I would shoot for her when she performed, and she helped me shoot when I performed, and then I became estranged from her, and she returned my photo to me, but I kept her and was reluctant to give it to her."
Zhou Baiman said while slowly flipping through the album, although each photo on it has a different shape, but the woman in the photo is graceful and graceful, although Shi Fandel's facial features are as if they are finely carved and exquisite, which can be called perfect.
When Zhou Baiman opened the last page of the album, a photo of a woman without makeup appeared in front of Yun Duruo and me.
The background of the photo is in the room, it should be the bedroom, the woman is sitting on the edge of the bed, there are two delicate vases on the wardrobe in the background, the smile in the photo is smiling, dignified and generous, picturesque, bright and moving, a natural beauty embryo, Zhou Baiman handed the album to us and sighed.
"Hanzhihua is beautiful and moving without makeup, every time I see her photo, I think of the past, and her demeanor on stage is like yesterday." Zhou Baiman said to us with a sigh. "This photo is three days before Han Zhi died, I know that Xiaoxuan's birthday is coming, I remember that she took care of me so much before, and secretly went to see her, Han Zhi was particularly happy that day, saying that I hadn't taken a picture for a long time, let me take a picture for her...... I didn't expect it to become her perfect photo. ”
"This ...... This is Mu Hanzhi?! I asked, still a little incredulous, with a frown.
Zhou Baiman raised his hand and touched the tears in the corners of his eyes and nodded. Transcript: Wonderful
"You...... How did you not die? ”
After I finished speaking, I realized that I had said the wrong thing, Zhou Baiman's mother passed away today, I actually said such a thing, if it wasn't for Yun Duruo to stop me, I would have been sent directly to the surgery department and then transferred to the internal medicine department by a room of people.
Downstairs Yun Duruo was still blaming me for not being able to speak, but I rubbed my head and didn't care about this, and walked back and forth a few steps and said suspiciously.
"Someone went back to Mu Hanzhi's room and took the photo album, Liu Yuewu was killed when he gave us the photo, and then Su Fengmei, who was the closest to Mu Hanzhi, we have always deduced that the motive for the murder was that the murderer didn't want anyone to know what Mu Hanzhi looked like."
When Yun Duruo heard this, he probably also realized what I meant when I said that sentence in front of Zhou Baiman, our previous speculation about the motive was wrong, otherwise the photos that Zhou Baiman still treasured would make her the third person to be killed after Liu Yuewu and Su Fengmei.
But Zhou Baiman is safe and sound, it can be seen that the motive is not in Mu Hanzhi's photos, that is to say, there is Su Fengmei in the taken album and the photos Liu Yuewu gave us, what she knows is another secret.
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