"It's impossible, it's too narrow to flip the window, no matter how skinny a person is, to get through."

"That's why we say that thieves aren't adults."

"Ahh The crowd shouted almost at the same time.

"The only person who can climb through that little window and get into the house is a child."

"Little children?...... Is the thief a child?" At first, Long Futao shook his head, but then nodded again and again. Kevin continued, "Does the widowed Anne have a child?"

"Ah, yes, she did have a little boy named Tintin, who seemed to be seven or eight years old at the time."

"It's eight." Madame's face was very ugly: "Little Ding Ding is a thief?" ”

"It's the one that's cute and smart...... A child who spends his whole day immersed in reading?...... Impossible, right?...... Is there a mistake?" Madame said in a trembling voice with some surprise, "Impossible. He was too young to know how to steal the diamonds, and his mother, Anne, must have instigated him to steal them. ”

"Nope! The theft had nothing to do with his mother. Kevin was very sure: "Anne is innocent, she is not the kind of woman who can steal people's things, she knows nothing about her son stealing the necklace, she has always been kept in the dark, and even until she dies, she still does not know that her son stole the necklace." ”

"However, the mother and son simply live in a hut, and the son has stolen something, so how can the mother know nothing?"

"Nope! He stole while her mother was asleep, and her mother was innocent. ”

For some reason, Kevin has been trying his best to exonerate that Annie: "It's all the disobedient kid named Little Tintin." ”

"Let's leave this stuff alone for now. In that case, where is the necklace hidden?" Long Futao asked

"Hidden in the place where the children put their own books, and then perhaps in the bottom of an old wooden box. If the security guard and Inspector Wu had consulted his innocent mother, they would have gone to check on the child's things. ”

"In that case, who sent her 2,000 gold dollars a year?"

"It's little Tintin. Although he is young, he is clever and intelligent, and his mind has long exceeded his age. One by one, he removed the diamonds from the necklace and sold them to the antique jade dealers. ”

"The man who deals in antique jade is generally very deceitful, and when he sees a child selling such things, he thinks that they must be stolen, or that an adult has asked a child to sell them, so he buys the diamonds for only a tenth of the actual price. He may have made a lot of money for this. ”

Moreover, Tintin did not directly receive cash from the antique dealer, but entrusted the merchant to send the money from the sale of the diamonds to his mother under a false name and address. And the antique dealer may have sent the money through his peers in Dongzhou. ”

"In this case, it is Anne who instigated her son to steal and then asked him to sell diamonds to antique dealers." Madame did not dispel her suspicions about Anne.

"That's not possible. If that is true, why did she write to you, Madame, to thank you? She thought that it was Madame's two thousand gold dollars that you sent her, and she was always very grateful in her heart, and she was still inexplicably grateful to Madame until six years later. ”

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The above is what Lang Xiaobai told Yingzi about the necklace theft case.

"In that case, that young man, Kevin, is the little Tintin twenty-five years ago?" Yingzi, who was kind and kind-hearted, couldn't help but cry after hearing this.

"Yes, little Tintin has suffered a lot since his mother's death, and he was able to do that kind of thing very skillfully when he was six or seven years old. As an adult, he presumably did not stop doing it, but continued to steal other people's things. ”

"However, he is definitely not an ordinary thief. Because he has a deep understanding of his mother's suffering in poverty, and he still remembers the scene when his mother was subjected to the harsh treatment of Mrs. Long Futao, and he also remembers the scene when his mother often wept alone. These are things he will never forget. ”

"Naturally, therefore, he placed his sympathy and affection on those who were equally poor and unfortunate, and grew to hate those who were only in pursuit of fame and fortune and who were bent on insulting others."

Therefore, he only targeted those who obtained ill-gotten wealth by virtue of their position and authority, or who obtained wealth by blackmailing servants, workers, and prisoners. After stealing money from these people, he secretly used it to help the unfortunate or some helpless women and children. ”

"Isn't that just like the great thief Hakuro?"

"It's really similar, although he is not an upright person, but he also has a good side."

"Why did Mr. Kevin go out of his way to visit Long Futao's residence twenty-five years after this incident?"

"The purpose is to clear his mother's suspicion and shame! Long Futao and his wife thought that the necklace was stolen by Anne, but because there was no evidence, the Security Bureau and the procuratorate did not treat her as a suspect. However, Mrs. Long Futao always suspected that the necklace was stolen by Anne, and after the theft, creditors came to the door to force debts, making Long Futao, who was already in a bad financial situation, on the verge of bankruptcy. For this reason, Madame resented Anne, and often said that it was because she had stolen the necklace that the family had come to this point. Therefore, she bullied Anne all day long, and Anne, who was loyal and honest by nature, finally couldn't bear the humiliation, so she left with little Tintin. ”

At that time, Anne's grief and resentment pierced little Tintin's young heart like the tip of a needle, and tears flowed endlessly. Little Ding Ding cried while walking out of Long Futao's mansion with his poor mother. ”