CHAPTER XIV

After calling Dong Chenghai, Ouyang Yunxi and Xiaolin drove not long to the Blue Moon Community. This is a newly developed community in Binhai New Area in recent years, and each residential building adopts a more cutting-edge architectural design style. The building is set against a light brown background, with several off-white bars at intervals on every few floors. The roof is cone-shaped, which is very conspicuous, and almost every commercial house has one or two independent balconies.

According to the property staff, there are a total of 37 buildings in the Blue Moon community, not only commercial houses and apartment buildings for the owners to live in, but also villas in the south of the community. The No. 27 building rented by Sima Yuanying is an apartment building facing the street north of the Blue Moon Community. Although it is an apartment building, it is different from ordinary apartment buildings, the apartment building in the Blue Moon Community is not similar to an ordinary hardcover dormitory building, and each house on each floor of Building 27 is transparent from north to south, and each room has either a sunny side or a sunny side. There are a total of 12 rooms on each floor, divided into three units, each unit has two elevators, which is a typical one-staircase two-family.

Ouyang Yunxi obtained the name and contact number of the owner of Room 1709 of Building 27 through the property staff. On the phone, after Ouyang Yunxi identified her identity and intentions, the owner agreed to make a special trip to open the door for them.

About half an hour later, the owner, who is also the landlord, arrived at the Blue Moon community. Ouyang Yunxi and Xiao Lin followed the landlord to the door of Sima Yuanying's off-campus residence in Room 1709, Building 27, Blue Moon Community, and after the landlord opened the door, he turned sideways and let Ouyang Yunxi and Xiao Lin enter the house first.

The first thing Ouyang Yunxi did after entering the house was to scan the house from front to back.

This is a typical one-bedroom unit, and in terms of a one-bedroom unit, the space is not small, about 40 square meters. After entering the door, there is a hall, which is extraordinarily large because the living room and dining room are combined. Ouyang Yunxi stood in the middle of the hall and looked around, the left side of the hall was the bedroom, which was much smaller compared to the hall. Next to the bedroom on the left side are two separate cubicles with doors, a bathroom and a kitchen.

"Do you know the identity of the person renting the house with you?" Ouyang Yunxi roughly observed, and then turned to the landlord who was standing by the door.

"Yes. Sima Yuanying, a graduate student at Mingchuan University next door. From the outside, he should be a good student, very introverted, not much talking, even when renting a house, he didn't negotiate after asking how much the rent was, he directly decided to rent, signed the contract on the spot, paid a month's deposit and a year's rent. To be honest, it was the first time I had seen such a cheerful tenant, especially as a student, and I was surprised at the time without bargaining or considering, and I remember it very clearly, and I told my lover about it. The landlord replied earnestly.

"How long has this house been rented?"

"It's been almost a year and a half, and the contract was signed on March 1, 2016." The landlord replied after a brief recollection.

"In this year, is there anything about Sima Yuanying that impresses you?" After a while, Ouyang Yunxi continued to ask.

"What impressed you? Probably not. I have very little contact with Sima Yuanying, he is a worry-free tenant, never called me, he has taken the initiative to find me twice in more than a year, once at the end of January and early February this year, I forgot the specific date, he took the initiative to talk to me on WeChat, said to pay this year's rent, asked me if I was a direct transfer or cash, I said directly with WeChat transfer. Another time was about three months ago, he told me on WeChat that the chandelier in the living room was broken, asked me the model of the lamp, I told him the model, and told him to come and change it the next day, he said no, just change it yourself. The rest should be gone. ”

"Don't you think he deliberately didn't let you come? Under normal circumstances, this kind of thing is usually solved by the landlord, not to mention that he is still a student, and he may not be able to change the chandelier bulb. Ouyang Yunxi asked deliberately.

"I was thinking that he was a student and might not come over the next day to change him, but he said no, and I thought to myself, forget it. At the time, I didn't think he deliberately didn't let me come, I believed him. ”

"Why do you trust him so much?"

"It's not purely because I believe it, after all, the house is rented to him, so I have to respect his privacy. Moreover, after renting the house to him, I came once, that is, in November last year, when I came to the neighborhood to run errands, thinking that the heating would be available immediately, and I was worried that there would be any problems with the heating facilities after a summer of non-use, so I came. I didn't inform him in advance, but I went downstairs and told him to ask for his opinion, and he was at school at the time and asked me to wait. It took me about 15 minutes and he arrived. After entering the house, my first feeling was that the sanitary environment of the house was cleaner than any of the tenants I had rented before, and even cleaner than when I lived in it before, and the house was full of books, and there were many calligraphy and paintings on the walls. ”

"Haven't you been here since?"

"Yes, no."

"Okay, thank you."

"That...... Can I ask Sima Yuanying what happened? ”

"We found a corpse on the beach of Yellowstone, and after our investigation, it is very likely that this corpse is Sima Yuanying." Ouyang Yunxi said calmly.

"Huh? This...... This...... How could this happen? The landlord was stunned for a moment, then spoke incoherently, with a look of surprise on his face.

"That's what we've found out."

The landlord didn't speak again, nor did he continue to ask Ouyang Yunxi any questions, just stood quietly, looking at the coffee table, as if thinking about something.

"Two police officers, you watch first, I'll wait for you outside." Ouyang Yunxi glanced at the landlord and was about to turn around and start checking the house when the landlord said to her.

"No, you just stay in the house. We have regulations that require the presence of a party or a third person to collect evidence. Ouyang Yunxi said solemnly.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you here."

Ouyang Yunxi turned around and began to look at the room carefully.

The hall is placed on a three-seater couch by the door, with its back against the wall adjacent to the bedroom, according to the landlord, this is the original sofa in the house, because this is a well-decorated one-bedroom apartment, which can basically meet the requirements of ordinary people to move in. However, the sofa cushions and pillows on the sofa are Sima Yuanying's, the sofa cushions are available on both sides, and the front is made of golden ice silk material, which is repeatedly printed with lotus patterns. The back is made of cotton, also made of lotus flower, and the seat and back cushions are the same. The four pillows on the sofa are common 45mmX45mm specifications, and the pillowcase is also made of golden ice silk, which is also printed with a lotus pattern, which looks like it should be a bunch of cushions and cushions, which may be custom-made.

The coffee table in front of the sofa is a very ordinary wooden coffee table, which has some history in terms of color, and has turned yellow in some places, and the coffee table is also the landlord's. There is a black gold tea tray on the coffee table, and there is also a set of 12 tea sets on the tea tray. On the right side of the tea tray is a purple sand tea caddy, and on the left lies a small Maitreya Buddha ornament, which looks like a backflow incense. The table top is neat, and the tea tray and tea set are very clean, not like they have been used. However, this had already surprised Ouyang Yunxi. First of all, the north is not the main tea producing area, so there are not many people who drink tea in the north, and it is better to drink tea with kung fu tea utensils. Secondly, the tea tray and tea set look quite expensive, which is in stark contrast to the old and yellowed coffee table.

Ouyang Yunxi looked into the depths of the living room, there was a refrigerator in the left corner of the wall on the side of the street, and on the wall next to the refrigerator was a simple table that had been removed, Ouyang Yunxi deduced that it should be a dining table. On the opposite wall of the refrigerator stood a row of two bookshelves almost up to the ceiling, each of which was filled with a lot of books. There is a relatively simple influence on the TV on the wall opposite the coffee table on the right side of the summer vacation, Ouyang Yunxi found that there is a three-layer small shelf under the TV, and the top layer is a DVD player and wireless router, and the bottom two layers are neatly placed with dozens of CDs.

Ouyang Yunxi walked over and took out a few CDs casually, and found that they were all playing discs of some traditional instruments such as guzheng, pipa, and erhu. This once again surprised Ouyang Yunxi, now that technology is so developed, there are still people who have such an old-fashioned machine to listen to music, and they still listen to ancient songs.

A picture appeared in Ouyang Yunxi's mind, in the picture, the DVD was playing ancient songs, the Maitreya Buddha on the coffee table was smoky, Sima Yuanying was sitting on the sofa, drinking tea quietly...... "What kind of picture is this?" Ouyang Yunxi couldn't help but ask herself, and at the same time, she replied in her heart, "Retire!" A young man in his twenties lives a life of retirement. At this moment, Ouyang Yunxi was curious about Sima Yuanying for the first time, and she was extremely curious.

Ouyang Yunxi walked into the bedroom, the bedroom was very simple, a bed, a writing desk, and a row of bookshelves. The bedding on the bed was neatly folded, and there was nothing on the writing desk except for a notebook and a few books and a few sheets of A4 paper. Like the living room, the bookshelves are a row of three bookshelves almost up to the ceiling, and there are also many books on each floor. Slightly different from the living room, the floor between the desk and the bookshelf in the bedroom is filled with a lot of books, many of which are turned upside down and look cluttered.

Since there was nothing else in the bedroom, Ouyang Yunxi left the bedroom and walked to the bathroom next door, she originally wanted to go to the bathroom to take Sima Yuanying's toiletries for DNA identification, but when she walked into the bathroom, she found that this was impossible. Since Sima Yuanying doesn't usually spend the night here, the toiletries in the restroom, from toothbrushes to towels, are disposable.

Ouyang Yunxi looked at it for a while, but had no choice but to leave, and when she arrived in the hall, she happened to meet Xiao Lin coming out of the kitchen, so she asked, "Did you find anything in the kitchen?" ”

"Nope. It seems that he has rarely cooked, and there is only a bowl, a pair of chopsticks, two plates, and a few packets of instant noodles in the cabinet under the kitchen stove. ”

Ouyang Yunxi was a little disappointed.

"It doesn't feel like there's any valuable clues. You try to take as many photos as you can. After Ouyang Yunxi finished speaking, Xiao Lin picked up the digital camera and began to take pictures.

Ouyang Yunxi re-entered the bedroom, put away Sima Yuanying's notebook and put it into a large transparent sealed bag, flipped through the books on the desk, took the book called "Critique of Pure Reason" on the desk, and put it into another smaller transparent plastic bag. The reason why she took this book was the same as when she took the books in Sima Yuanying's dormitory, she thought that these books were books that Sima Yuanying often read before the accident, so they might be helpful for the case.

"Look, if there's nothing wrong, please sign it." Ouyang Yunxi took the notebook and books in the plastic bag to the landlord, wrote a few words on the list of items for evidence collection and gave them to the landlord.

The landlord looked at the notebook and then at the list of forensic items, and then signed his name underneath.

"Xiaolin, are you done?"

"It's over."

"Brother Dong, we are about to leave Sima Yuanying's off-campus address, there is bad news, there are no valuable clues." Just when Ouyang Yunxi was about to call Xiaolin back to the police station, he received a call from Dong Chenghai.

"Then let's find something else. By the way, just now Wang Hong called me and told me that Sima Yuanying's parents will come to Linhai tomorrow morning, and a teacher from Mingchuan University will pick them up, so you can find a time to communicate with them and determine the specific time to go to the police station. ”

"Okay. Brother Dong. Although similar things have happened many times, Ouyang Yunxi is still uneasy about the parents who are about to face Sima Yuanying at this time.