"Me?" A wry smile appeared on the corner of Zhong Xian's mouth, considering whether to tell the truth, and in the end, he replied truthfully, "I'm burning paper money for my wife, and today is her death day." ”

"That's not right." Before Zheng Hanfei could speak, Meng Wu pointed out Zhong Xian's mistake, pointed to the sun that was still shining outside the window, and said, "The best time to burn paper money is generally in the morning, evening or dusk, I have never heard of anyone choosing to burn paper money at noon, when it is almost afternoon." ”

"It's my habit." Zhong Xian shook his head, glanced at Zhong Ming, whose face was a little gloomy, and said slowly, "If you don't believe it, you can ask Xiao Ming and the neighbors around you, they all know that I have this habit." ”

"He's right!" Zhong Ming glanced at Zhong Xian, and wanted to defend him, but when he thought of his dead grandmother, he could only sigh, proving that there was nothing wrong with Zhong Xian's words, "Today is indeed grandma's death day, and every year today he will choose this time to burn paper money and develop a habit, because this time is the moment when my grandmother dies." ”

"I'm sorry." Meng Wu and Zheng Hanfei apologized at the same time, none of them thought that they would ask such an unpleasant thing after asking, judging from Zhong Ming's gloomy face, his grandmother must have been very good to him.

"Nothing." Zhong Ming unexpectedly didn't have an awkward relationship with Zheng Hanfei and them, just said lightly, turned his head out of the window, looked at the sunny sky, didn't know what he was thinking, and Zhong Xian also turned his head to look out the window, and didn't speak, but everyone here understood that their grandfather and grandson must be thinking of someone, Zhong Xian's wife, or Zhong Ming's grandmother.

"Ahem." Feeling that the current atmosphere was extremely abnormal, Zheng Hanfei hurriedly coughed a few times, attracting everyone's attention, and began to change the topic, "We now know that the murder weapon is a sharp instrument, judging from the fact that no murder weapon was found at the scene, the murderer should have taken it away for some reason, not discarded at the scene of the crime, and in such a short period of time, the murderer should not be able to deal with the murder weapon, so we want to search everyone's room and find some clues, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Everyone readily agreed, after all, each of them wanted to prove their innocence, but Niu Zhen proposed that it was best to take them with them when they entered the room, so as not to Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu find something about them, Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu did not refuse, and it happened that when they checked the room, they also had many questions to ask everyone.

"This is the room between me and Huo Guojia." The first room to check was naturally Niu Zhen, who made the suggestion, and after opening the door, she made a gesture of invitation to Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu, and reminded them at the same time: "The bathroom is on the left side of the living room, I haven't cleaned it up yet, it should prove that I was taking a bath at that time." By the way, if you're looking for something, tell me, the girl's room isn't something you little furry kids can just rummage through. ”

Who do you say is the little furry boy?! Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu had the same thought in their minds, but unfortunately they didn't dare to say it, compared to Niu Zhen's age, they were indeed much younger, and there was nothing wrong with what Niu Zhen said, but listening to the other party's tone, they at least knew that Niu Zhen seemed to have a lot of opinions about them.

Whoa! Zheng Hanfei opened the door of the bathroom and carefully inspected it, while Meng Wu was standing at the door, staring at the door lock that was the same as their door, but different from Jiang Duxing's room, not knowing what he was thinking.

There are some water stains in the bathtub, the shampoo and shower gel are new, it seems that it has just been opened, and some fallen hair can be seen at the drain, and the bath towel is wet, or it was wet just now, it seems that there is no problem with what Niu Zhen said. Zheng Hanfei changed a pair of gloves again, and after checking through various clues, he believed Niu Zhen's testimony eight points, so he walked out of the bathroom.

"How?" As soon as she walked out of the bathroom, Niu Zhen walked up to Zheng Hanfei and asked confidently, "Mine is not wrong, right?" I did take a shower there at the time of the crime, and I'm sure you've found a lot of evidence to prove that I'm telling the truth. ”

"Yes, I did." Zheng Hanfei didn't have to hide it, and told him truthfully: "But the evidence can only prove that you took a bath not long ago, as for whether you took a bath at the time of the crime, I can't tell if you said that you took a bath at the time of the crime, and the credibility is only 80% now." ”

"Eighty percent is eighty percent." Although Niu Zhen said in an indifferent tone, Zheng Hanfei could still see a trace of dissatisfaction on her face, Zheng Hanfei didn't know what to say, at this time he noticed that Meng Wu was leaning against the door frame, with a thoughtful look, and he couldn't help but be a little curious, thinking that he had found something, so he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder.

"Huh? What's the matter? Meng Wu looked up and saw Zheng Hanfei's eyes full of inquiry, his heart was suddenly full of doubts, and he asked out loud, "Why are you looking at me like this?" ”

"What do you think?" Hearing this, Zheng Hanfei roughly knew that Meng Wu should be thinking about something that was not important to the case, but his heart was still full of a little expectation, and asked him, "Looking at the way you thought about it just now, I thought you had found some clues." ”

"No, no, no ......" Meng Wu hurriedly waved his hand, suddenly, the things in the trash can in the living room came into his eyes, regardless of Zheng Hanfei's question, he ran to the trash can, and then he saw that the trash can was stuffed with hand paper, and the surface of the hand paper was dyed very red, just like blood, Meng Wu pointed to the trash can, looked at Niu Zhen and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"I accidentally spilled the red ink." Niu Zhen didn't have a trace of panic, and said very calmly, "I scattered a table, it took me a long time to clean up this, but my clothes and body were also stained with red ink, so I decided to take a bath, if you don't believe it, just look at the table next to the trash can, and there are also knocked red ink bottles in the trash can." ”

Hearing this, Meng Wu rummaged through the trash can, and as Niu Zhen said, he found an empty bottle of red ink from it, and at the same time he also saw that there were traces of wiping on the table next to the trash can, and Meng Wu could even see some red ink that had not been wiped clean, pinched his chin, and didn't know what he was thinking.

……

"You've been here talking about merfolk treasures?" Seeing the notebook, paper, blue gel pen, mineral water bottle and two chairs near the table on the table, Zheng Hanfei turned his head to look at Yu Haobu and Huo Guojia and asked, "Never left?" Didn't you bring anything else? ”

"Nope." Yu Haobu and Huo Guojia replied in unison. Then Yu Haobu said: "I brought so many things, the backpack is full of daily necessities, you checked, there is nothing suspected of being a murder weapon at all, as for Guojia, you have also checked it, right?" ”

Zheng Hanfei didn't answer, Niu Zhen and Huo Guojia's room he wasn't going to inspect, he had already handed it over to Nan Ruoxun and Qu Menghan, and it would take a while to know the result, suddenly he walked to the pendulum clock near the door, looked at it, and said suspiciously: "Anyway, the pendulum clock in your room is too special!" Although it looks like a big pendulum clock, why does this clock not have a pendulum, but is supported by a small passage, and a small steel ball can be seen underneath, Yu Haobu, do you know what's going on? ”

"I've heard of this!" Yu Haobu helped his eyes on the bridge of his nose and recalled, "It is said that as soon as this pendulum clock reaches the hour, the ball will bounce up and hit the top of the pendulum clock, thus making a huge sound to tell the time, which is similar to the time of the pendulum clock, I once heard it when I came over, but I don't know what happened, the time signal function seems to have been broken, and I have not heard this sound in recent years. ”

......Zheng Hanfei was silent for a while, glanced at Mengwu, but found that the other party was studying the door lock of the door, which is a kind of door lock that switches up and down, as long as the door lock is pushed downward, the door lock will automatically go to the bottom, making a snapping sound, and the door will be automatically locked, and then the door lock will be lifted up, and the door lock will run to the top, and there will be a snapping sound again, and the door will open. Since Meng Wu has been opening and closing the door lock, the crackling sound continues.

"I say, enlightened! What are you thinking? Is there something so engrossed? Zheng Hanfei pulled Mengwu up, took him out of the room, and asked in the corridor, he always felt that Mengwu was a little abnormal, although he had known him for a short time, but he was also a detective, and he knew that showing this kind of puzzled and distracted expression proved that he had doubts in his heart, and there were mysteries that could not be solved temporarily.