Chapter XXVI: The Burned Newspaper
Without further ado, it was useless to stay here any longer, and immediately rushed to Xie Dacheng's house.
When I came to his house, I saw that the door was still half open, and it swayed back and forth with the wind.
When I entered the room, I saw a mess in front of me, and the contents of the room were spread out on the floor, mixed with the floor.
Clothing and other things almost completely cover the ground, and you can only walk by stepping on your clothes.
The clutter piled up on the ground made it a little difficult to move an inch, almost everything in the house was turned over, and after a few steps inside, valuables and so on were taken away, if it was not unexpected, Xie Dacheng should have left with something.
But the question is why did he leave?
The day before, he went to the hospital to prepare for the discharge of his wife, but the next day he was gone.
And it is precisely this Heavenly King Lianxiang who happened to die, where did such a coincidence come from.
Xie Dacheng's departure must have something to do with his wife's death.
Normally, he would not have killed his wife, and the only explanation was that he knew something.
At the beginning, I was suspicious of Xie Dacheng, but now that Wang Lianxiang's death has largely cleared up some of his suspicions, it has made me more sure that there must be something to do with the murderer.
Lao Zhang was still searching around the house, and I stood in the middle of the messy pile of clothes, lost in thought.
After a while, Lao Zhang in the house suddenly shouted, "Zhou Cheng!" ”,
I hurried in to see what was going on.
Lao Zhang was standing in front of an old cabinet, holding a photo in his hand, beckoning me over.
"This was found in a cupboard, look at it."
When I took it, the photo was badly faded and yellowed, so blurry that I had to try hard to make out what was on it.
The photo looks like it should be some years old, there are five people on it, and I can only vaguely distinguish that the people in the photo are Xie Shouyi, Xie Dacheng, as well as the dead Liu Guilan and the recently dead Wang Lianxiang.
Several people were climbing together, with hearty smiles on their faces.
There was a man standing next to them, but it was completely blurred, and it was completely impossible to see, only the outline of a person could be roughly seen.
Seeing this unrecognizable person, my heart suddenly chuckled, and I was ready to take this photo back.
After looking at it carefully for a while, I still didn't see anything, but Xie Shouyi in the photo caught my attention.
It's been a while since the incident, and it seems that he has been fading out of our sight lately.
After the old man was killed, Chen Zhi and his wife would often come to the police force to inquire about the progress of the case, hoping that we could arrest the murderer as soon as possible.
And this Xie Shouyi, who was so sad when the crime happened, seemed to have evaporated after that, almost never appeared, and he didn't hear anything about him.
I thought it was a little strange to leave Xie Dacheng's house and come to Xie Shouyi's house.
From a distance, I saw Xie Shouyi at home by the window, and he seemed to notice that we were coming, and the figure by the window flashed and disappeared.
I thought he was going to the door to open the door for us, so he didn't knock, just stood straight at the door and waited.
But after a long while, I didn't hear footsteps by the door, only some rustling in the house.
I was impatient, and was about to go up and knock on the door, but the door opened at that moment.
Xie Shouyi was not as sad as he was at this time, and it seemed that he had basically returned to normal, but when he saw us, his eyes flickered and asked us what was the matter with us.
His action aroused a hint of alarm in me, and I paid close attention to his expression without revealing it, and pretended to be very casual and told him that we were just here to ask for more details about the case.
He paused for a moment, then quickly reacted, and stood to the side, giving us a place to enter.
He brought two chairs for us to sit down and said to go and pour us a glass of water.
I waved my hand and said no, we just came and asked a few words and left.
gave Lao Zhang a look, he took out the small book on his body and handed it to me, and then asked a few questions casually.
I pretended to be taking notes, but in fact I had been observing Xie Shouyi.
It stands to reason that he should be the one who shouldn't make me suspicious, but his actions today made me a little concerned.
Lao Zhang asked only a few questions, Xie Shouyi's answer was almost the same as before, after asking, he also asked us, these questions have been asked, why do you have to ask again.
I made a perfunctory remark and dragged the topic over.
After speaking, I looked at his home, and at the same time paid attention to whether Xie Shouyi had any expression.
I deliberately made the movement obvious, and I stood up and took two steps in the direction of the house, and poked my head in to take a look.
Xie Shouyi didn't care at all, just stood up and walked to my side, asked me if I wanted to look inside, and said that he was going to open the door a little more.
I stopped him, saying I was just looking at it casually, and we were going to go first.
Xie Shouyi sent us to the door, and I looked back with some reluctance, but Xie Shouyi still didn't have any abnormalities.
Am I wrong?
I felt a little lost in my heart, and when I was about to go back, I walked a few steps and found that Xie Shouyi had been following us.
I asked him to go back and not have to send it anymore, but he insisted on sending us to the intersection, saying that it was because we had worked hard to investigate the case, and it didn't hurt for him to send it, anyway, he was fine now.
I suddenly asked him, "Haven't you gone grocery shopping now?" ”
He paused for a moment, then said no.
Then I pointed to the pile of garbage in front of his house and asked him, "Then why do you still have so many rotten vegetable leaves at the door?" ”
At this time, Xie Shouyi's face finally showed a trace of panic, and then it quickly disappeared, but it was this brief moment that was firmly captured by me.
I walked back a few more steps and came to the garbage heap, and Xie Shouyi's pretended calm appearance was imprinted in my eyes.
"Is there anything in this pile of garbage?"
Xie Shouyi said that this is just an ordinary garbage heap, and he can't eat much by himself now, and the vegetables that were sold before were piled up, and he threw them at the door when he couldn't finish eating, and then disposed of them when the garbage collector came.
I stopped talking, what he said was not unreasonable, and after turning my head and staring twice, I found that under the pile of vegetable leaves, there seemed to be a newspaper?
Xie Shouyi, a rural man who sells vegetables, how can he have the habit of reading newspapers, I walked straight over and stretched out my hand to pull out the newspaper.
Only then did I realize that this was only a corner of the newspaper, and less than a tenth of the entire newspaper remained, and the rest of the newspaper had already been burned.
I asked Xie Shouyi, "Where did this newspaper come from?" ”
Xie Shouyi looked at me deadly, and finally his face changed greatly, and he wanted to come over and grab the newspaper in my hand.