Chapter Eighty-Four: Hurry is Not Enough
That night, Xu Yun waited until after seven o'clock in the morning before Pei Jinnan came back from outside.
Seeing a figure through the window, she climbed into bed and fell into a deep sleep.
And Ji Luanchuan next door managed to pry open the wooden box.
The lock on the second layer of the box couldn't be opened with wire, and other lock-picking materials were useless, so he simply smashed the wooden box, opened a small opening, and poured out the things hidden inside.
The box contained a piece of paper that had been soaked in oil and water and then dried.
White?
Ji Luanchuan's dark eyes paused.
The white paper was rummaged over and over, but no clues were found.
How could a useless piece of white paper be locked in such a sturdy wooden box with layers of locks?
Ji Luanchuan lowered his head and lit a cigarette, leaned back on the head of the bed, staring at the broken wooden box in his hand and was slightly stunned.
No useful information was found, either on the blank paper, inside or outside the wooden box.
Until Pei Jinnan's hurried footsteps came from outside the door, Ji Luanchuan wiped out the cigarette butt, lifted the quilt and went to bed.
After Pei Jinnan came back from outside, he immediately came to the courtyard where Ji Luanchuan and Xu Yun lived to take a look.
He asked the man who followed him, "Xu Yun was fine last night, right?" ”
"No, it's nothing, it's good."
The man scratched his head a little embarrassed, but he didn't let Pei Jinnan see it.
Thinking of the picture he heard outside the door last night, the man couldn't help but pity Pei Jinnan.
The women you like are with someone else, and they are still so dumb-eyed and miserable.
Of course, Pei Jinnan didn't know all this.
After looking at Xu Yun through the door and window, he turned around and went back to his room.
In the early morning, the heavy rain stopped, and the cold air hit all the time.
Maybe it was because they were busy last night, or maybe it was raining, Xu Yunji Luanchuan and Pei Jinnan slept surprisingly together until the evening before they came out of the room.
As soon as Xu Yun went out, he saw two men in black clothes and black pants guarding the corridor.
The two stood expressionlessly, one left and one right, oblivious to her appearance.
Xu Yun turned his head to look around, and there were two people guarding the other corridors every 100 meters.
She rubbed her swollen temples and raised her hand to knock on Ji Luanchuan's door.
After three thumps, the door was pulled open from the inside.
Ji Luanchuan raised his eyebrows sleepily, "What's wrong?" ”
Xu Yun pointed sideways at the bodyguard opposite and said, "Look." ”
"No fuss, I'll know at noon."
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
"Is there a difference between saying it and not saying it?"
Well, yes no.
Xu Yun was speechless for a moment, and followed Ji Luanchuan's tall back into his room.
The room was steaming, the bathroom door was wide open, and he looked like he was ready to take a shower.
Xu Yun said, "You said that these people suddenly appeared in the yard, could it be related to the box you took last night?" ”
Ji Luanchuan didn't reply, and walked towards the bathroom with a change of clothes.
"You can watch it if you want to, no need to foreshadow."
Xu Yun's face was embarrassed, and he choked for a few seconds before asking him, "Then where did you put your things?" ”
Ji Luanchuan said, "In the bedside table." ”
After speaking, his slender and straight back disappeared from sight, and he closed the bathroom door with his backhand.
Xu Yun half-squatted down and found the wooden box from the drawer of the bedside table.
A hole was broken at the top of the box, revealing the small space inside.
She picked it up and looked at it closely, and there was nothing but dusty vintage carvings.
The white paper placed under the wooden box was also clean and trance-like.
That's it??
Xu Yun lowered her head and fumbled through the drawers, and all that was left were some lighters, cigarette cases and other miscellaneous items.
She removed her glasses from the bridge of her nose and placed the piece of paper under the lamp to look at it repeatedly.
Didn't find it.
Take water and soak.
Still haven't found out.
Maybe it's because I'm too careful, but this is just a simple blank slate?
Xu Yun thought so, but her mind drifted to the list she heard in the conversation last night.
What is the list that those people have found? What is it for?
She had expected to find a copy of the list in this wooden box. But when I think about it, who still has a hand-copied list like ancient times?
Don't people use mobile phones and computers now?
It's stupid, and my IQ was taken away after the rain.
She couldn't help but silently dislike herself for a second.
The water was flowing in the bathroom, and Ji Luanchuan's voice came out through the water.
"Did you find anything?"
"Nope."
Xu Yun threw the white paper back into the drawer and said, "Maybe we think too much, this is just a piece of white paper that accidentally fell into the oil and water." ”
"We're still ......"
As she spoke, her gaze fell on the corner of the white paper, and the rest of the words suddenly disappeared between her lips and teeth.
Ji Luanchuan's dark eyes paused, and the flushing action stopped, "Why don't you say it?" ”
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, but I seem to have made a new discovery!"
Xu Yun hurriedly took out the blank paper from the drawer, walked out of Ji Luanchuan's room quickly, returned to his room, opened the suitcase, and found the magnifying glass from the suitcase.
The lamp was turned on, and white paper was laid out under the lamp.
She looked with a magnifying glass, and the scattered brown in the corner of the white paper gradually changed from small to large, and became clear in her eyes.
Brown......
Light brown ......
Dark brown ......
The mottled dots are unevenly distributed in hidden corners, and under the magnifying glass, they reveal a bit of dilapidated obsolescence.
Ji Luanchuan heard that there was no sound outside, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed over.
He thought something had happened to Xu Yun.
But as soon as he came in, he saw her shaking the white paper in her hand at him mysteriously.
"Big discovery."
"What discovery?"
He frowned and walked over, not forgetting to look outside the door, for fear that someone would suddenly come in.
Xu Yun said, "Look at this piece of paper. ”
"Look under a magnifying glass."
She said, handing the magnifying glass to Ji Luanchuan.
Ji Luanchuan looked at the place where her fingers were pressing, little by little, and her brows gradually twisted into a small knot.
"Bloodstains?"
Xu Yun said, "I doubt it too. ”
"But I'm not sure now, I think it's necessary to give this piece of paper to Lu Chen for them to test and test, maybe we will have some unexpected discoveries."
"For example?"
"For example?" Xu Yun said, "For example, this is the blood of the murderer, and for example, this is the blood of the victim." ”
"Maybe it's also possible that the blood of the victim and the murderer was left on this piece of paper, so that its owner bothered so much to come up with the trick of soaking in oil to eliminate the trace."
"What do you think? Don't you think so? ”
Ji Luanchuan's fingers unconsciously tapped on the table and said, "I thought about it." ”
"But why?"
Why did this piece of paper go to such great lengths to be preserved?
If the bloodstains on this piece of paper are related to the murderer, as they suspected, wouldn't it be better for him to burn them directly?
What's the point of doing all that?
Ji Luanchuan said that Xu Yun also realized this.
"But I still recommend that it be appraised by a professional later."
"After we have the result, it will be much more convenient for us to find the cause, and it will also eliminate some unnecessary detours, right?"
"Well, then I'll contact Lu Chen later."
Ji Luanchuan was talking, and there was a sudden knock outside the door.
"Xiaoyun, it's time to eat."
It was Bae Jinnan's voice.
Xu Yun and Ji Luanchuan glanced at each other, reached out and turned off the lamp, stuffed the paper into his pocket, and said to him in a low voice, "You go to the bathroom." ”
Ji Luanchuan pursed his lips and glanced at her, didn't speak, turned around and walked briskly towards the bathroom.
After he hid in the bathroom, Xu Yun opened the door, looked at Pei Jinnan at the door sleepily, and said, "You don't have to go out to be busy today?" ”
Pei Jinnan pushed the frame of the mirror and said with a smile, "It seems that I woke you up last night." ”
"I went to meet a friend last night to talk about business, and the negotiation has been completed, so I don't have to go out today."
"Didn't you say you wanted to eat together? I've booked the hotel, how about we go now? ”
"Okay."
Xu Yunzheng has a lot of questions that she wants to address.
She looked back at the messy room and said to Pei Jinnan, "Then you wait for me for a while, and I'll change my clothes." ”
“ok。”
Pei Jinnan chuckled and turned around, leaned against the wall next to him with his hands in his pockets, and said, "Don't worry, I won't peek." ”
I want to see you, too, I have to have a chance.
After closing the door, Xu Yun walked to the bathroom and pushed the door in.
Ji Luanchuan was half-leaning on the sink, holding a cigarette between his right fingers, and the smoke rose in a curling curl.
His expression was faint, and he couldn't see any emotion.
Only one hand seemed to be tapping on the sink, patting and patting, unhurried, as if thinking about something.
Xu Yun said, "I'm going to have dinner with Pei Jinnan in a while, do you have any questions for me to figure out?" ”
"Don't worry."
Ji Luanchuan said, "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it." ”
"For dinner today, don't ask too much, I'm afraid he will be suspicious."
"He's suspicious if he doesn't ask anyway."
"Otherwise, why arrange those people outside."
Speaking of those people, Xu Yun's face suddenly changed.
Ji Luanchuan raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong?" ”
Xu Yun said, "We all seem to have forgotten one thing. ”
"What's the matter?"
"There's someone guarding the door."
In other words, when Ji Luanchuan came in just now, he had already been seen.
"So if you're hiding now, aren't we already suspected?"
Xu Yun had a momentary heart stopper.
Just now, she just thought that she couldn't let Pei Jinnan misunderstand, otherwise the beauty trick would not even have a chance to come in handy.
But now it's self-defeating, and I don't know what Pei Jinnan will think.
"Don't think about it so much, when you go out in a while, you will say that there is no hot water in my room, I will come to you to take a bath."
When Ji Luanchuan came in from next door just now, he was carrying a towel, his hair was wet, and he really looked like he was taking a bath.
Pei Jinnan started knocking on the door again and asked if Xu Yun was okay.
Xu Yun pursed her lips, found a coat from the suitcase and put it on, took out a hair ring, tied a crisp and neat high ponytail three or two, put on some lipstick, and then said, "Okay." ”
After speaking, she stretched out her hand to open the door and walked out with an indifferent expression.
After going out, without waiting for Pei Jinnan to ask, Xu Yun took the initiative and said to him, "When we come back in a while, I guess we will trouble you." ”
Pei Jinnan said, "What's wrong? Are you having any problems? ”
Xu Yun said, "It's not me, it's my tour guide." ”
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