"I'm going to see my old man now."

"Okay." Cheng Mingxiang replied obediently.

"What about his family?" Cheng Mingxiang asked cautiously again.

"The old lady died eight years ago, and he has lived alone ever since." The housekeeper replied.

"What about the children?"

"He has no children."

"So, only the old man lives here alone?"

"Yes."

"Who else is in such a big house?"

"In addition to me, there are two maids, a gardener, a worker, and a driver."

"The old man is Xiao Lao, right?"

A smile suddenly crossed the butler's face, "Yes." ”

"What am I going to do?" Cheng Mingxiang asked, she was eager to know the content of the work.

"You just need to chat with Xiao Lao, and he will massage him when he is tired."

The housekeeper paused and said: "Xiao Lao has been alone for a long time, sometimes he is very lonely, if you can relieve his loneliness and comfort his soul, it is more important than anything else." ”

The housekeeper still did not mention the specific scope of work.

"By the way, my name is Yue Xia, I have been working here for ten years, and I came here before the old lady passed away."

Cheng Mingxiang thought to herself, the housework of this mansion is really controlled by this woman.

"Now, then, please go and meet the old man." Yue Xia urged Cheng Mingxiang again.

It was a long corridor, and they turned a corner halfway there, and there was a room at the end. Yue Xia knocked lightly on the door: "Can you come in?" ”

The room responded, "Come in." ”

Entering the house, Cheng Mingxiang saw Xiao Lao sitting on a wide leather sofa in a luxurious lounge suit, with an expensive Havana cigar in his mouth. He looked at Cheng Mingxiang and said with a smile: "You have taken a bath and put on new clothes, you are really radiant!" ”

Cheng Mingxiang said a little embarrassedly: "Old Xiao, you have won the award." ”

Xiao Lao smiled and said: "I'm not a person who likes to brag. I'm realistic. ”

The housekeeper said to Cheng Mingxiang at this time: "You can chat with Xiao Lao." I'll take my leave. With that, she saluted Xiao Lao and turned to leave.

That night, Xiao Long came to his uncle's house. Entering the door, he walked into Xiao Lao's bedroom and talked to him alone.

"Uncle, the police are now tracking Cheng Mingxiang's whereabouts, and they are chasing him very closely. To be on the safe side. You and Cheng Mingxiang should go abroad to avoid it. Xiao Long looked at Xiao Lao and said with concern.

"The police found out about the suspicion so quickly?" Xiao Lao frowned and said.

"yes, they're witty and quick to react. I've bought you a ticket to Myanmar, so let's leave tonight, long nights. You can also do jewelry and jade business in Myanmar. Avoid the limelight and look at the situation before thinking about the next step. ”

"Oh well. I'll ask them to prepare. Xiao Wenbin looked at Xiao Long and said, "You have put a lot of thought into doing this for me, and I am also very satisfied with Cheng Mingxiang." You don't have to pay back the 200,000 you just borrowed, it's my reward for you. ”

"Thank you, uncle." Xiao Long bowed down in thanks. I thought to myself, this time I used women as a ladder, and I still gained a lot of gains. The uncle has no children, and relying on the ladder of a woman, there may be greater gains in the future.

Hao Dong got into a taxi. His destination was the spot where the suspicious woman had arrived in a taxi on the night of the fire. He had done a detailed survey of the terrain in the vicinity, and the man who had witnessed the name of the taxi dealer the woman was riding also lived in the vicinity, and later found out about the driver through the information he had given.

Therefore, instead of the route to the "Fang Xian Hotel", he focused on both sides of the road. He opened the lid of the rubbish can on the side of the road, and it was full of newspapers, rope scraps and kitchen waste.

"When was the garbage removed from the neighborhood?" Hao Dong asked the nearby residents.

"Yesterday morning."

Hao Dong seemed a little disappointed, yesterday was the third day after the fire, and it seemed that all the garbage had been removed. Despite this, Hao Dong continued to explore along the same route, opened all the garbage cans and found nothing, and it seems that the garbage in this area was disposed of on the same day.

Hao Dong is a man who is full of patience, not only around the garbage can, but also the garbage at the mouth of the alley or in the open space is picked up by him to check. He took half a stick and poked through the garbage can, and he had to rummage through the scraps of teacups, straw clippings or pieces of paper, dirt, etc.

He walked to the bottom of the stone wall, which was topped by a high platform lined with houses, and at the corner of the stone wall was a path with a long distance overgrown with weeds. Hao Dong poked through the grass with half a wooden stick and found a small ditch full of sewage at the bottom. He scooped up the sewage from the ditch, and the sedimented mud rose up like a black cloud, and teacup fragments and rubble appeared. The ditch is clean with sewage, but if you look closely, you can tell the type of sediment to some extent. He stopped stirring, just kept his eyes on it.

At this time, he noticed that there were shards of glass scattered in the pile of rubble about five or six meters from the corner of the stone wall. Hao Dong took out a piece of paper from his pocket, squatted down, and reached out to dip it into the water, and soon, the white paper was stained with two or three wet fragments, which could be seen to be glass bottle fragments at a glance. He carefully scooped up the white paper, which had been soaked in water. He took the crumpled handkerchief from his pocket, spread it out, and wrapped the pieces of white paper in it. He picked up a total of thirteen or fourteen pieces, and then rummaged for a while, but found no more. The larger fragments are about three centimeters long and one centimeter wide.

He looked around contentedly. The sunset is slanting in the west, and the roofs of every house are covered with glow, and from the high platform, the afterglow of the sunset falls on the treetops of the courtyard of the "Fangxian Hotel" 100 meters away.

He returned to the criminal investigation detachment.

"It's a glass bottle." After inspection, a colleague from the technical appraisal room said, "This curved fragment happens to be the part where the neck of the bottle is reached. Since there are so few fragments that it is difficult to determine the appearance of the entity, the bottle should be twenty centimeters high, and can hold about 300cc of liquid, assuming that it is restored to its original state. ”

"So, could it be a gasoline bottle?" Hao Dong asked excitedly.

"Well, maybe it's a gasoline bottle, it's similar in terms of thickness and pale blue color."

"How's that, can you detect gasoline residue?"

"If the bottle has been soaked in water and washed, it is difficult to check it. However, if necessary, I will still check, what is the case this time? ”

"Well, well," Hao Dong said, "This is a case that I personally pursued, and the test results should be told to me, and I don't have to tell other colleagues, they don't know the facts of the case." He pleaded in a low voice.

The police continued to track down Cheng Mingxiang, but after receiving the news, she had fled abroad, and the investigation had to be temporarily suspended.