Chapter 23: Murder
"Isn't the motive just to intimidate Sister Mei, what else do you have to think about? This is what Huairou did, she is the most suspicious! ”
Zheng Qianqian insisted that it was Huairou, and watched the others stomp their feet in anger without speaking.
"When it comes to motivation, it's actually ...... Last night I saw that honey scratched Xiaorou. ”
Zhang Longfei looked at Huairou with a nervous expression, and as he spoke, everyone's eyes also fell on the three cat's claw marks on the back of Huairou's hand.
Everyone was quiet for a while, even Brother Shan stopped talking, and everyone looked at Huairou thoughtfully, with scrutinizing eyes.
The blood-stained dagger appeared in front of him, and Huairou saw Shen Lang's complicated gaze, and her dry lips were gently pursed.
It turned out that even Shen Lang thought she did it.
Huairou looked at the expressions of several people one by one, and her heart was sullen as if she had pressed a boulder, this feeling of being wronged was too uncomfortable.
"I didn't do it."
Huairou heard her voice justifying, and she didn't know why she was explaining, they had already decided that they had done it themselves.
"And how do you explain this dagger, and the honey hair on it?"
The disappointment that he had never had poured out from the bottom of Shen Lang's heart, he didn't believe it, but now that the facts were in front of him, he couldn't help but not believe it.
"You're too much, it's nothing to do with honey, there's something you can do at me!"
Sister Mei stepped in front of Huairou with a single step, her eyes were full of anger and sadness, and in her arms was a small corpse of honey, and the blood had solidified on its original snow-white and shiny fur.
Huairou felt that she had a hard time arguing, the murder weapon appeared in her luggage, and the fact that she was scratched by honey last night, everything seemed to be ironclad evidence.
She was isolated.
When she went downstairs for lunch, the waiter served the food in front of her, and the others saw her at the dinner table and shouted to go out to eat and play without calling her.
Shen Lang and Brother Shan didn't see anyone at all, and they heard the waiter say that Wang Feng persuaded Sister Mei to eat upstairs, and they didn't forget to glare at her after speaking.
It's like going back to the time after waking up in the hospital, no one paid attention to her, and she was finally kicked out after suffering from white eyes in the hospital.
Pulling the corners of her lips at herself, she stayed all day after she returned to her room, and no one knocked on the door to call her at dinner.
As if she was isolated from the world, she heard Li Mengqi happily talking about the scenery of the scenic spot in the corridor, Lu Yu's voice, and Zhang Longfei and Zheng Qianqian's discussion.
It seemed to be something from another world, and her stomach began to rattle again, but she didn't want to go downstairs to eat.
And Shen Lang didn't come this time.
Awakened in the middle of the night by hunger, she tossed and turned in bed, her stomach felt like a hedgehog had been drilled into the pain, she got up and ran to the bathroom to retch, and vomited bile.
After washing her face and sobering up, the sallow woman in the mirror startled her, pursed her lips and went back to the room to open the curtains to breathe.
A few lanterns in the quiet backyard were swayed by the wind, the back door of the inn opened, Sister Mei walked out, looked left and right, and then walked towards the flower room in the depths of the backyard, and soon a black shadow sneaked out of the corner and walked towards the flower room in the backyard.
Huairou raised her eyes and looked at the wall clock, it was already two o'clock in the morning, what was Sister Mei doing in the flower room, and who was that black shadow?
Full of questions, Huairou put on her coat and went downstairs.
She followed the old path and went to the backyard again, but this time it was dark in the flower room, and the faint fragrance of flowers was mixed with some unknown smell, which seemed to smell fishy.
Huairou regretted that she didn't bring a flashlight, and walked carefully into the flower room in the dark.
What is Sister Mei doing in the flower room at night, why don't you even take a lamp, what are you doing here in such darkness?
was full of questions, but she didn't want to alarm Sister Mei, after all, she also saw a person following.
"Bump!" Suddenly, there was a noise not far away, what seemed to be the sound of something falling to the ground, and she paused as she moved forward.
"Mm......mm
"Sister Mei? What's wrong with you! Striding forward and holding Sister Mei's hand, the cheongsam on Sister Mei's body had changed color, and the unknown fishy smell turned out to be the smell of blood.
"Save ...... Help me......"
Blood flowed from the corners of Sister Mei's mouth, and her broken voice was a little hoarse.
Only then did Huairou see that under Sister Mei's high-necked cheongsam, there was a blood mark on her slender and white neck, and at this time, blood was gurgling out because of Sister Mei's movements.
In the dark, she couldn't see how many wounds there were, she covered Sister Mei's wounds, and the sticky blood on her hands made her scalp tingle.
"Sister Mei, who did this?" shouted in a trembling voice, Sister Mei stared at her and grabbed the nails of Huairou's arm and pinched them into the flesh.
"Kill...... Homicide...... Extinguish ......" Huairou tried to get closer to Sister Mei's mouth, trying to hear what she said, but only heard a few broken words.
The person in his arms suddenly tilted his head and broke his voice, Sister Mei stared at the roof of the flower room, and Huairou pulled Sister Mei's arm and shook it.
"Sister Mei, what's wrong with you...... Sister Mei? ”
The index finger trembled and stretched out under Sister Mei's nose, there was no airflow at all, and the cold air rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head in an instant.
Sister Mei died, and Huairou looked down at Sister Mei's big eyes, like the scene when the Persian cat died.
What should she do? What is she going to do now?
Huairou's head was in a panic, and the blood on Sister Mei's body was still flowing out, and her body was already stained with these red liquids.
After working with Brother Shan for a long time, Shen Lang, who was about to rest when he returned to the room, took off half of his coat, and heard the sound of slamming the door in a hurry, and when he put on his clothes and opened the door, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
Huairou, covered in blood, stood at the door, her lips were white, and her hands and body were covered with blood, looking shocking.
He had never seen Huairou like this, as if he was frightened by something, but usually Huairou looked cold, as if nothing could move her.
"Xiao Rou? What happened? ”
Shen Lang grabbed Huairou in shock, but found that she was trembling all over, her face was pale, and her eyes were dull as she looked at him and her teeth bumped.
"Dead ...... Dead ......"
Huairou looked at Shen Lang with empty eyes, her lips were pale and trembling and she couldn't say a complete sentence, she grabbed Shen Lang's arm tightly, and her slender fingertips pinched into the flesh to make Shen Lang feel pain.
Raising his hand to caress Huairou's back, he found that Huairou was cold at this time, looking overly frightened.
"What? Who died? You speak slowly. ”
Sister Mei is dead.
Without any warning, the throat was brutally cut in the flower room, the police blocked the Meilaiju Inn to investigate the scene, and after careful investigation, there were only Huairou's fingerprints on the body, but the murder weapon was not found at the scene.
After a whole day's work, everyone in the neighborhood knew that the proprietress of the Meilaiju Inn had been killed, and the guests who were supposed to stay had also left their rooms.
Huairou talked about the person who sneakily followed Sister Mei, but after the police investigation, no one else witnessed it except Huairou.
Everyone in the inn was informed that they could not leave the inn pending further investigation and questioning by the police.
Huairou sat in the corner of the sofa wrapped in a blanket, Shen Lang sat next to him without saying a word, opposite Wang Feng with red and swollen eyes, Brother Shan was also smoking in a depressed mood, Li Mengqi snuggled up to Lu Yu and cried quietly, Zhang Longfei looked at Huairou with a worried face, Zheng Qianqian bowed her head uncharacteristically and was silent.
"You say, Meizi, how could she suddenly encounter such a thing!" Brother Shan sighed deeply, his eyes suddenly turned a little red, and he rubbed his palms against his eyes.
Brother Shan's words made several people's hearts sad, thinking of Sister Mei, who was so beautiful, everyone felt that it was like a dream.
"Why were you there?" Wang Feng raised his scarlet eyes to stare at Huairou, his fingers snapping as he held them.
"What do you mean?"
Shen Lang looked at Wang Feng, who had an unkind face.
"What do I mean? Honey was just killed by her, and then Plum died, what do you mean by me! ”
"She's already said that she's going to see someone go."
"Really? Except for her, no one saw the so-called stalker. How could it be so coincidental that Meizi just buried the honey during the day and was killed at night? I think she killed Meizi! ”
Wang Feng became emotional as he spoke, clenched his fists and got up, looking at Huairou's eyes as if he had identified her as a murderer.
"Impossible, Sister Mei was not harmed by her."
Shen Lang said firmly, and the angry Wang Feng stepped forward and punched Shen Lang on the left cheek, which frightened Zheng Qianqian and exclaimed.
With a sneer, he wiped the corners of his mouth with broken skin, Shen Lang pushed away Brother Shan, who was persuading, and went up and smashed Wang Feng's nose with a heavy fist, and the two quickly scuffled, and no one else could stop him.
Huairou clenched her palms tightly, and her mind was full of pictures of Sister Mei's death, and she could conclude that it was the person who followed Sister Mei.
But why did that person kill Sister Mei, how did he get into the inn and no one found out?
Looking up at the chaotic environment of the hall, he tore off the blanket and took the flashlight, but he couldn't settle down in his heart, and exited the chaotic hall and walked to the backyard.
Huairou arrived at the crime scene again, the flower room had been fenced off, and she walked to the location where Sister Mei was killed again, where the police had drawn a human shape with a white line, and Ni Huairou felt uncomfortable in her heart.
There was some congealed blood on the broken flower pot shards next to her, and the light slowly moved to the flower pot on the shelf, and suddenly something shiny caught her eye.
Fingers pinched up and placed under the lamp, like a miniature pushpin, carved on the top of what shape is not clear, what should be a small part on something.
"What are you doing?" Zheng Qianqian's voice suddenly sounded from behind her, and Huairou quickly stuffed the parts into her pocket and got up.
The light shone on Zheng Qianqian's face, and with no interest in answering this question, Huairou walked around her and walked out the door.
"You're not here to wreak havoc, are you? What did you just pick up? Give me! Zheng Qianqian blocked the way, her eyes fell on Huairou's pocket, and then she reached out to grab it.
"What are you doing!" Huairou dodged sideways, pressed her pocket with her left hand and frowned.
"What are you hiding in your pocket? Take it out! Zheng Qianqian ignored Huairou's dodge and threw herself at her again.
Turning around and raising her legs, Zheng Qianqian slammed into the door of the flower room in embarrassment.
"What are you doing?"
A policeman in charge of protecting the scene held Zheng Qianqian, and looked at the two people with very stern eyes.
"Officer, she's destroying the scene, she's a murderer!"
Zheng Qianqian pointed at Huairou angrily, but the police first kicked the two people out of the flower room and warned them strictly against going inside.