I figured out why the two rooms on the third floor gave me such strange feelings, and I called Xu Yi to check again. After changing into clothes, we immediately opened the door, and the building was completely dark, so dark that it seemed that there was no end in sight. I turned on my flashlight and was about to go out when I heard the door closing.

The sound came from downstairs, the voice was very soft, but Xu Yi was frightened by it, and in the exceptionally quiet night, we could hear many sounds clearly. Xu Yi grabbed my hand and asked me if someone had come in, I leaned on the handrail and shook my flashlight to observe carefully for a while, but the downstairs was empty, and there was no one.

It's not that someone is coming in, it's that someone is going out.

Xu Yi and I changed our leather shoes and high heels into flat shoes, and we walked like this, almost without sound. I led Xu Yi to our opposite door, put my ear to the door, and there was a thunderous snoring of the criminal policeman inside, and a criminal policeman sent a sack to Ma Tao for me and did not come back, so there was only one person left.

The criminal police didn't go out, that is, Sun Xiang went out, I pulled Xu Yi upstairs quickly, Sun Xiang's room door was locked, I listened with my ears sideways, there was no sound inside. I looked at the wooden door covered with yellow talismans, and the charms on it were dense, and the people who watched it were inexplicably flustered.

Both rooms were locked, I thought about it, and then took Xu Yi to the first floor and opened the door. It was already early in the morning, the lights were turned off in every house, and on a sweltering summer night, there was no wind at all, and the whole village was surrounded by the chirping of insects, and from time to time there was a cat meow like a cry of a baby in the grass.

There was no one around, so I took a few steps forward, went around the house with a flashlight, and carefully jotted it down. Xu Yi asked me if I was looking for something, but I was not sure in my heart and did not answer Xu Yi for the time being. It should be Sun Xiang who went out, and Xu Yi and I waited for a while and didn't see Sun Xiang come back.

After discussing with Xu Yi for a while, we decided to go upstairs and wait, so as not to collide with Sun Xiang who came back. We locked the door again, and were about to head up the stairs when my eyes fell on the small warehouse at the bottom of the stairs. When Sun Xiang's arm was attacked by a snake, I observed this small warehouse, but at that time, the light of the oil lamp was blocked by everyone, and I only saw a large stack of paper money piled up inside.

"Li Ke, what's wrong?" Xu Yi deliberately lowered his voice when he spoke. I thought about it, walked to the small door of the warehouse, and pulled it open. Unlike the other dilapidated doors of Sun Xiang's house, this door is very new, as if it has just been installed, and there is no sound even when the door is opened and closed.

I opened and closed the door a few times, but I still couldn't hear any sound, and it was not strange to say that the warehouse had a new door, but I had a strange feeling in my heart. Under the beam of the flashlight, I poked my body into this small warehouse. In order to make full use of the space, many families will use the triangular space under the stairs to set up a small warehouse, and Sun Xiang's family is no exception.

The warehouse is small, and the floor is full of paper money, which seems to have been piled up for a long time, some of which have become damp, and some of which are covered with mold. The smell in the warehouse is terrible, and the paper money is stacked so high that it almost fills the entire warehouse, and there is no space left.

At this moment, there was a sound of the key about to be inserted into the keyhole from the door, and Xu Yi and I were immediately alert, I closed the door of the warehouse, pulled Xu Yi and rushed upstairs. The moment we ran to the second floor and turned off the flashlight, the downstairs door just opened.

We hid in the room and closed the door.

Xu Yi sat on the edge of the bed and patted her chest, she didn't dare to gasp for breath, and I also held my breath, putting my ear to the door and listening to the movement outside. The sound of the door being closed was very small, and if I hadn't listened carefully, I wouldn't have heard it at all, and the sound of him walking was even quieter, and it was silent for a while before I faintly heard the sound of cloth shoes stepping on the ground.

He had already walked outside our room, the footsteps stopped abruptly, I motioned to Xu Yi not to make a sound, Xu Yi sat on the edge of the bed, she couldn't hear the movement outside, but she understood what I meant, and immediately didn't even dare to move. The moon ran out of the dark clouds, and the pale yellow afterglow spilled in through the glass window, Xu Yi's fair face had no blood, her upper teeth bit her lower lip, and her lips seemed to be oozing blood at any time.

The footsteps disappeared outside the door, and I'm pretty sure I heard you right. The person outside should be Sun Xiang, he must be standing outside the door at the moment listening to the sound of our house, my heart is beating very hard, for Sun Xiang's matter, I seem to have guessed a lot, I just lack a clue to string things together.

I thought about it carefully, I was worried that we had just gone downstairs and were found by him, and I deliberately paid attention to the fact that whether it was the gate or the door of the warehouse, when we came back, they were restored as they were. I don't know how long I stood like that, but there was no sound outside, and even when I began to wonder if it was my hallucination, the sound finally came.

There was a soft sigh, and then he shuffled his feet and walked away, and after two seconds, the footsteps disappeared.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and it was a long time before Xu Yi dared to speak. Her face was already dripping with sweat, and so was I, my shirt sticky to my body. Xu Yi still lowered his voice and asked me what I heard, and I honestly told Xu Yi that I heard human footsteps.

The footsteps were so soft that I could only hear him when he was outside our door, and I couldn't hear anything less than two seconds after he left.

"Is it Sun Xiang?" Xu Yi asked.

Me: "I should." ”

Xu Yi: "Why did he go out so late?" ”

I won't answer anymore, because I can't tell clearly, there are too many strange things about Sun Xiang. Xu Yi asked me again if I wanted to go back to the city at dawn, and I thought about it for a long time, and finally told Xu Yi that we must stay in this place.

"What about Jiang Jun?" Xu Yi said worriedly. Jiang Jun will soon be handed over to the procuratorate for prosecution, and there are two ways before us, one is to go back to the city and start with Ma Tao to find out evidence of his favoritism, and the other is to stay here and continue to look for clues to Jiang Jun's innocence.

After thinking about it, I still decided to believe Ma Tao, if he really took the opportunity to fabricate false appraisal results to frame Jiang Jun, then he could completely use the high-sounding reason of pressure from superiors and public opinion to completely exclude us from the investigation activities. Ma Tao was really there to help us, so I decided to stay in this weird village.

I replied to Xu Yi, there must be something we don't know about in this village, and I have a hunch that this matter has a lot to do with Qian Er's death. Xu Yi looked at me blankly, and I asked her if she didn't think the two-room room on the third floor was weird. Xu Yi nodded, the two of us had a strange feeling when we looked at those two rooms, I didn't understand it before, but I figured it out now.

As soon as I went downstairs, I took a closer look at the brick house, the brick house is boxy, and the corridors in the corridor are the same width and length, so each room should be exactly the same size. But when we went to see the two houses on the third floor, the size of the two rooms was not the same at all.

"Sun Xiang's room is relatively large?" Xu Yi asked.

"Nope." I replied.

Sun Xiang's room did look bigger than the one covered with yellow talismans, but that was actually our delusion. Sun Xiang's room was empty, with nothing but a bed, and the room opposite the door was full of discarded wooden furniture and some waste, and the space was occupied.

We first observed Sun Xiang's empty room, and then looked at the room full of things, so that when we compared, we would feel that Sun Xiang's room was very large, and the room full of things was very small. But I thought about it carefully, Sun Xiang's room should be a little smaller than the other rooms.

I measured the distance between the wall and the edge of the window in our room, about a meter and then thought about it carefully, and the wall of Sun Xiang's room was next to the edge of the window, and even stranger, only the wall at the head of the bed was like this.