"Why do you think so?"

"Because the soil in my backyard is very soft, and there are ladder marks on it, and the marks are very obvious. There are also marks on the balcony, and there are traces of the ladder leaning on the stone railing. ”

"Isn't Zhushan Park closed at night?"

"It's useless to close, you can come in from somewhere else. Also, the 14th next door is under construction, so it's easy to get in from there. ”

"In which room did the theft take place and did you lose anything else?"

"Right here, on this table, there is a three-hundred-year-old jade Buddha statue and a silver ancient carved gift box, these two things are still there, and a small ancient lamp sandwiched between them is missing."

"What does that ancient lamp look like? Is it worth it?\"

"The lamp had a very ordinary appearance, made of ordinary bronze, with a lamp with a handle, and two or three spikes on it for the wick to ignite. Neither conspicuous nor valuable. ”

"So, why did the gangsters just take a fancy to that thing?"

"Inside it is an antique, a monstrous carved in pure gold, inlaid with rubies and jadeite, which is very valuable. My insider and I stumbled upon something hidden inside the lamp, so we put the gold ornament monster inside. ”

"In this way, no one except you and your wife should know that there are antiques in the old lamps. Did you report the crime?"

"Of course, the incident was reported on the same day, but although the security guards were enthusiastic, they couldn't do anything, so I had to take a big trip."

Markovsky stood up and examined the windows, glass, latches, balconies, railings, including the scratches on them, with a magnifying glass.

"I'd like to see the ladder print."

"Okay, please come with me."

Fu Kemu and Markovsky came to the courtyard, Markovsky first observed the surroundings, sat on the bench and looked at the roof for a while, and then went to the bottom of the balcony.

A small box was fastened to the ladder to prevent it from being tampered. Markovsky knelt on the ground, his face almost touching the ground, looked carefully with a magnifying glass, measured the distance between the two ladder footprints, measured the iron fence, and walked around the courtyard again, and returned to the living room.

Markovsky pondered for a moment and spoke:

"Mr. Fu Kemu, judging from your account alone, this case is very simple, nothing more than a window thief who climbed up to the balcony with a ladder, cut the glass and opened the window, and entered the house and took away the ancient lamp."

"Is there something wrong?"

"This case has a lot of origins, and it may have something to do with Bai Lang's behind-the-scenes manipulation."

"You mean the thief Hakuro?" Fu Kemu's face immediately changed.

"It's Bai Lang's masterpiece, but the person who stole the lamp is not him, nor is it his subordinates, the only possibility is that someone from the house climbed down the balcony from the maid's room and then ......"

"From the maid's room to the balcony, what if there is no ladder?"

"Slipping down the storm pipe, I've been looking at the house for a long time, which is perhaps the best explanation."

"How do you think it wasn't Bai Lang who did it?"

"If Bai Lang comes, there will be nothing left other than the ancient lamp, and Bai Lang will never let go of these things.

"Besides, the grinding marks on the stone railing were not made by the ladder at all, but were sanded with sandpaper, and there were fragments of sandpaper on the ground.

"Moreover, the holes in the ground are not ladder prints, no one has used ladders at all, and those two holes are poked with sticks to blind the vision.

"This is evidenced by three things: the two holes under the first balcony are parallel, while the two holes under the iron fence are somewhat oblique; Second, the two holes under the balcony are 30 centimeters apart, while the two holes under the iron fence are only 28 centimeters. Thirdly, I found this stick under a laurel pot, and it was exactly the same thickness as the size of the hole. Judging from the above, the previous inferences are all wrong!"

It's so exciting! It's amazing! is worthy of being the great detective of country Y, and he really has unique insights when looking at the problem, which is really discerning. Fu Kemu admired Markovsky's sharp eye and impeccable reasoning and judgment.

Mrs. Fu Kemu disagreed, and said in a distinctly domineering tone:

"You seem to suspect that the servants you left behind are unreliable, but they are all old servants who have worked here for many years, and everyone is honest and reliable, and will never do anything to be sorry for their master."

"Ah, ma'am, I understand your trust in your servant, but I have a letter here, and I wonder how you will feel when you read it?"

Markovsky took out Bai Lang's letter and handed it to Madame, whose face changed after reading it. "White Lang...... How did you know we were going to write to you?"

"May I ask Madam, who knew that you and your wife were going to write to me to ask me to solve the case?"

"There was no one else, and I also thought of this trick by chance, and told my wife at the dinner table that there was no one else at that time except for our husband and wife and children. When the child had eaten his fill, he also left the table and went to the teacher. Fu Kemu replied in place of his wife.

"Teacher? Who is the teacher?"

"It's Miss Guan Ying, the child's tutor."

"Won't she have dinner with you?"

"No, she's always eaten alone in her room."

"Who went to the post office to deliver the letter?"

"It's the manservant Gui, but you don't have to doubt him, he's been serving here faithfully for 20 years, no problem."

"It's not just him, other people don't need to check, they are all reliable, and it's a waste of time to check."

"If you don't see it, a little more investigation can rule out a suspicion."

Bunin presents himself as a detective's assistant and is dissatisfied with Mrs. Fu Kemu's attitude.

Markovsky and Bunin left the couple and returned to their room to study the case. An hour later, the maid came to invite them to dinner, and Fu Kemu and his wife and two children, 6-year-old Fu Yuna and 8-year-old Fu Xiaowen, were already waiting for them at the table.

After dinner, while everyone was drinking coffee, the servant handed Markovsky a telegram that read:

You have made amazing discoveries in a very short period of time, and I admire you immensely.

White Lang

After reading it, Markovsky handed the telegram to Fu Kemu with a gloomy face:

"Our every move is under Bai Lang's control, there must be his inside line in the house, otherwise he wouldn't have learned about our activities so quickly and so clearly!"

During the night, Bunin, who was sleeping soundly, was quietly woken up by Markovsky. "Bunin, look outside, someone is coming in."

Bunin was startled, quickly rubbed his eyes, and looked out carefully, there were two black shadows still active against the fence. Ah, there is a situation!

The two of them went down the stairs, groped their way into the room downstairs by the backyard, observed the movement in the courtyard from the back window, and saw that two black shadows stood motionless in the courtyard. Soon a low whistle sounded from upstairs, and soon another whistle sounded, but this time it came from outside the iron fence of the park, and then the room on the second floor revealed a faint light.

"Probably Fu Kemu and his wife heard the movement and got up to check the situation, but who whistled? It's like a code. ”