Chapter 29: No Clues
Chen Chaoyan quietly swept to the rest of the study and asked Mrs. Zhou, "Are you sure that your father-in-law hasn't gone out since he came back last night?" β
Mrs. Zhou wiped her tears and nodded, "The stable is outside the gate, Zhang Da will sleep there, and if Xianggong goes out, he will be alarmed." I asked Zhang Da in the morning, but Zhang Da didn't hear the sound of Xianggong going out. β
The study is about 30 square meters, in addition to the bookcase and two rows of bookshelves, there is a lacquered coffee table and a low bamboo couch in the southeast direction. The surface of the coffee table and the bamboo couch are old, but they are very clean. The crevices and floors of the bamboo couch are also not abnormal.
Could it be that Zhou Zhongcai really committed suicide at the bookcase?
Just just that there is no blood spilled out?
But the corpse spasm is a matter of a moment, and if you want to reach this moment, you can't start slowly. And as long as you move quickly, there will be some blood splattered out.
If only there was a occult blood blue light reagent.
Is there a splash of blood, but it was artificially erased, and you will know as soon as you spray it.
Chen Chaoyan sighed secretly and moved his gaze to the window on the right hand side of the bookcase.
The window was about thirty inches away from the bookcase. At this distance of thirty inches, the footprints on the ground are equally messy. Chen Chaoyan glanced at it twice, and then ignored it. Signaling Yuejian to push her to the front and back of the window, Chen Chaoyan saw that there was a distance of about sixty or seventy inches between Zhou Zhongcai's study and the outer wall of Zhou's house. In these sixty or seventy inches, two or three rows of green bamboos are planted.
The branches of the green bamboo are straight and the branches and leaves are dense.
Through the gap between the branches, you can see that the mottled faΓ§ade is only about forty-five inches high.
If Zhou Zhong was the one who killed him, and the Zhou family did not hear any movement, then the murderer, on the premise of excluding his own family, could only climb in from the outer wall here, and then enter the house through the window to commit the murder.
Chen Chaoyan looked at the window frame.
The windows are about thirty inches above the ground.
At this height, you can easily flip in and out with your hands.
If Zhou Zhong is the one who kills him, the window frame is a place where it is very likely to leave traces.
But the window frames were clean.
It's so clean that it's almost spotless.
Chen Chaoyan looked at the green bamboo leaves and the loess wall, and asked Mrs. Zhou, "Is the study cleaned every day?" β
Mrs. Zhou whimpered: "After the Xianggong goes to the government every day, I will come over to clean it. β
Chen Chaoyan nodded and motioned to Yuejian: "Push me to take a look outside." β
In the bamboo forest between the study and the outer wall, there is a narrow road that cannot be passed by wheelchairs.
Chen Chaoyan took Tsukimi's arm and took two steps forward, and after making sure that her knees were safe, she let go of Tsukimi and stepped on a path full of fallen leaves into the bamboo forest.
The wind is slow, and the bamboo leaves rustle. Chen Chaoyan faced the wind, and under Xie Xuan's follow, walked to the window of the study.
Because of the wide field of vision, there is no green bamboo planted in front of the window to the path. The occasional ones that grew were also dug up. Standing on the path, you can clearly see the study.
Chen Chaoyan turned around and looked at the exterior wall with his back to the window.
Xie Xuan stood side by side with her, also looking in the direction of the outer wall.
"Outside this wall is ......"
"It's a little alleyway." Ling You held the wine jug in one hand and the deed of loan in the other, dexterously walked through the gap in the green bamboo, and after looking out twice, he said quickly, "On the other side of the lane, there is another person." β
Chen Chaoyan glanced at the few green bamboos he walked through and asked, "Is it easy to go out over the wall?" β
"Just this wall, anyone can climb out." Ling You, raising his elbow and pushing against the outer wall. The exterior wall was rammed with yellow mud, which must have been some years old, and when he hit it so hard, the earth fell down in a slump.
Seeing this, Chen Chaoyan immediately walked through the green bamboo after his mind moved.
The height of the faΓ§ade was almost as high as her eyes.
This made her unable to see the plane of the faΓ§ade at all.
Chen Chaoyan stood on tiptoe, still couldn't see it, couldn't help but take two steps back, and subconsciously looked up at Xie Xuan who came over. Facing Xie Xuan's playful eyes, Chen Chaoyan calmly followed the root of the wall to inspect the inside of the outer wall.
The interior walls are mottled with sporadic weeds and moss. Its vitality and natural state have clearly not been disturbed.
Chen Chaoyan came back from an inspection, and saw that there was a three-inch-high stone in the position where he was standing before, and he couldn't help but look at Xie Xuan.
Xie Xuan nodded at the stone with his lower jaw, "You're welcome." β
Chen Chaoyan pursed his lips and smiled lightly, and stood on the stone with his skirt lightly. The surface of the stone was not smooth, and after Chen Chaoyan stepped on it, he subconsciously helped his arm. Once she had steadied herself, she didn't think much about checking the marks on the top of the exterior wall.
On the top of the outer wall, except for a few traces that Ling You had previously collided with, the rest of the places are the same as the inner wall, with wild grasses and moss growing vigorously, showing a leisurely and wanton appearance that has never been disturbed.
"What is Miss Chen looking at?" Ling You bent his legs, kept his gaze at the same level as her, and after looking left and right for a while with her movements, he asked curiously.
Chen Chaoyan looked at the ants crawling towards the moss, and asked casually: "Is there any way to get in and out without climbing the wall or using the wall as a support?" β
"Fly." Ling You said, on tiptoe, and the person stood outside the wall like a shock. Then on tiptoe, he floated back into the wall.
Chen Chaoyan looked at him steadily, blinked, and blinked again, "It turns out that people can really fly." β
Ling You said as a matter of course: "As long as you learn light skills, of course you will fly." β
"Is it easy to learn?" Chen Chaoyan asked.
"Does Miss Chen want to learn?" Ling You looked her up and down, "Although it's a little late to learn now, as long as you work hard, there should be no problem in learning to climb over the wall." β
Can you climb over the wall, Chen Chaoyan asked excitedly: "How long does it take to learn to climb over the wall?" β
Ling You looked her up and down again, and said, "At your current age, why don't you study for three or four years?" β
Three or four years, forget it. Who knows when you wake up one day, you will have traveled back in time. When the time comes, if you have already learned half of it, wouldn't it be very frustrating? When the excitement dissipated, his mind turned back to the case. Chen Chaoyan asked him: "Is it true that people who know martial arts will do light work?" β
"Of course not." Ling You said patiently, "But generally people who have studied martial arts will learn light skills." It's just that it's hard to practice light skills, and there aren't many people who have learned something. β
"There are not many people who have learned something, and they will climb over the wall?" Chen Chaoyan asked further.
Ling You looked at the outer wall of the Zhou family, "At such a height, as long as you have studied martial arts, you will definitely be able to climb in." β
"You can turn ......"
Chen Chaoyan glanced at the outer wall, and when he retreated down the stone with his skirt, he accidentally stepped on the bamboo shoots that had just burst into the soil. Under the unstable feet, retracted feet, and unstable center of gravity, she couldn't help but fall backwards.
Almost instinctively, she grabbed Xie Xuan beside her.
Xie Xuan didn't refuse her, and the moment she grabbed his arm, he helped her up with a light and dark force.
After standing firm in shock, Chen Chaoyan thanked him.
Xie Xuan glanced at the folds on his arm, and then at her, "Miss Chen knows that my coat is ......."
Chen Chaoyan smoothed out the folds with quick movements, and said, "I don't have any money." β
Xie Xuan looked at his arm again, and then at her, the smile on his lips was quite intriguing.
Chen Chaoyan pretended not to see it, in order to avoid the part of talking about money, "There are no clues here, let's go." β
Xie Xuan chuckled.
Chen Chaoyan still pretended not to hear, but when she raised her feet, the pain in her knees made her gasp.
A few steps away, Tsukimi, who had never made a sound, quickly stepped forward to support her, and sighed: "You almost fell down just now, and I'm afraid that the scab that just formed will crack again." β
When you walk, you need to use the knee joint, and when you use the knee joint, the wound on the knee will inevitably crack. Chen Chaoyan furrowed his eyebrows slightly, and looked down at the knees covered by his skirt.
"There was no flesh on her knees, and Miss Chen was too slender, she fell down several times, and although the bones were fine, the skin on the bones was almost gone." Tsukimi saw what she was thinking and explained, "Later, when I went into the water and was eaten by fish, it was injured and injured, so it must not be easy to get better." β
Chen Chaoyan frowned dissatisfiedly, his bones were too weak.