Ninety-six fictional characters
Han Daring'er's reasoning was originally smooth and clear, but his words just now made everyone present confused, and they couldn't understand what he meant at all. The murder in his Red Fort was orchestrated by Martin, but he was not just trying to kill Lenny in the guise of George Brown, but above all to kill himself. Among these people, only Martin himself understood what Han Daring meant.
The policeman Mills, Carl, and the Countess, Yan Zhiyi, and others next to him all scrambled to ask, what did Han Daring mean?
Han Daring said:
"Since Lenny is pretending to be George Brown, where is the real George Brown?"
Karl Dow:
"Must have been killed! Then you don't need to ask, maybe it's George Brown with a charred human head hanging on the tree, it's winter, after the head is cut off, it can be stored outdoors for a long time! ”
Han Da'er shook his head and said:
"Nope! That's just a human head disguised as George Brown! Because when I surveyed the scene, I found something on the second floor, combined with what I learned from Lao Cai before, I can conclude that the head is definitely not the missing George Brown! ”
Han Daring took something from the Jew's hand, which was a bottle of blackened liquid.
Han Daring said:
"That's the evidence I found, it's a bottle of homemade hair dye."
Everyone didn't understand why he took out the hair dye, and their eyes were full of questions.
Han Da'er poured the hair dye into the cup, and then shook the cup to show everyone, the hair dye hanging on the wall of the white porcelain cup was much lighter in color because the hanging cup was very thin.
Han Daring said:
"This bottle of hair dye looks black, but the hair color is tan! Pretending to be George Brown Delaney, the hair color is tan, so why is there hair dye in George Brown's room? I asked Lao Cai, even Lao Cai didn't know that George Brown's room was hiding a bottle of hair dye, why was that? ”
Everyone looked at Lao Cai, and Lao Cai nodded and said:
"I really don't know why there is hair dye in the master's room, but the master's hair color is tan!"
Han Daring said:
"The reason why there is this bottle of hair dye is that George Brown needs to dye his hair often and dye his hair tan! That's because the original George Brown hair was not brown, but black, and he was originally a Chinese! ”
Everyone was taken aback after listening to Han Daring's words. Only Yan Zhiyi spoke:
"No, my master is gentle, George is indeed a foreigner! He also had his features with me, and his hair was indeed tan! ”
Han Daring said:
"This George Brown of mine and your fellow disciple are more gentle as learning to restore antiquities, and it is not the same person who later stole the "Thirteen Chapters of Supplements"!"
Yan Zhiyi immediately said:
"Impossible, the white porcelain statue of Lu Zu, the repair method is definitely the white wall Lingshuang in "Thirteen Articles of Supplemental Fraud"! I can't be mistaken! ”
Han Daring said:
"Mr. Yan, please don't be impatient! I'll explain it to you! ”
He continued:
"Some time ago, the Investigation Department of our Tianjin Police Department received a male corpse salvaged by the Wuhe Water Police in the Qiangzi River! The male corpse was a Chinese, tall, less than sixty years old, and brightly dressed, obviously a rich man! At the autopsy, in addition to the knife wound on his back, I also found a wound on the middle finger of his right hand, and some scars of various shades on his face. Originally, I didn't think there was anything strange, but just now, when I examined Lenny's body, I found that the scar on the fingers of Lenny's right hand was not only the same as mine, but also the exact same as the Chinese male corpse found earlier. What's even more suspicious is that the scars of different shades on the male corpse's face are exactly the same as those on Lenny's face, but the color contrast is more obvious! That's when it dawned on me that it wasn't a scar, but the same as Lenny, a difference in skin color caused by wearing a mask for a long time and not seeing light. ”
Han Da'er took the cup containing the hair dye in his hand and said:
"If these two things are the same, it can be a coincidence. At the time, I found some traces of dyeing on the scalp and hair roots of the male corpse, which I only thought was strange at the time, until I found this bottle of hair dye. Anyone who has dyed their hair knows that unless they are professional barbers, ordinary people dye their own hair, which is easy to dye on the scalp, and the hair of the male corpse is black. Because he's going to pretend to be a foreigner! Pretend to be the real George Brown! ”
Yan Zhi Yi:
"What do you mean by pretending to be George Brown? The British policeman disguised himself as George Brown, and the originally missing George Brown was also a Chinese pretending to be a person? ”
Han Daring said:
"That's right! The missing George Brown is also fake, a Chinese pretend! In fact, I felt a little strange from the beginning, but later I learned some things from Lao Cai, and then recalled some of the experiences after Mr. Bai Chongwei and I came to the Red Fort, which confirmed my conjecture! ”
Han Dada'er asked Lao Cai:
"You mentioned to me a dish that George Brown used to eat every early summer, do you remember?"
Lao Cai nodded and said:
"Remember, it's the scrambled eggs with locust flowers, and it's the locust tree in the courtyard, which blooms in May every year! The lord eats it almost every year in that season! ”
Han Da'er asked again:
"You've only been in Red Fort for a few years, do you know who made this scrambled eggs for George Brown in the first place?"
Lao Cai replied:
"Listen to a retired old servant, two years after the completion of the Red Castle, once, the master himself remembered this dish, and then asked the kitchen to prepare it, and the master was very intoxicated every time he ate the dish, this dish could remind him of the time, but no one understood what he meant!"
Han Daring said loudly:
"Scrambled eggs with locust flowers are a home-cooked dish for Chinese civilians, and the British eat the fruits of plants, but hardly eat flowers, and in their view, flowers are for appreciation, not dishes! Because he has been playing George Brown is a Chinese, and he is a Chinese who rarely leaves home and returns from overseas, every time he scrambles eggs with locust flowers, the fragrance of flowers and eggs will evoke his childhood memories and endless nostalgia! ”
"Of course! This alone is not fully proven! ”
Han Daring looked at Bai Chongwei and said:
"Mr. Bai Chongwei and I came to the Red Fort and found that the tea served was not the black tea that the British often drink, but Longjing. Tea was introduced to Britain in the 17th century by the East India Company, and the British were the most tea-loving people besides the Chinese and Japanese! But they almost only drink black tea, and very few people drink this kind of tea from Longjing! I later asked Lao Cai, and I also checked in the kitchen, there is only a small amount of black tea in the Red Fort, even George Brown used to drink Longjing, and George Brown's favorite drink turned out to be the favorite fragrant piece of the Chinese people, that is, jasmine tea. This is so unusual for the British! ”
"So when I went to his room with Mr. Bai, I saw that his Longjing tea had not been touched at all, and it is estimated that only when he was very thirsty, he would reluctantly use it to quench his thirst, because he was afraid that he would change his habits and attract the attention of the servants!"
"Another point, when I entered the Red Fort, I heard that the Red Fort was haunted, and I didn't need to ask if it must have been made by George Brown to the police Lenny, when he hung a lot of crosses and garlic outside the door, which were used by Western folk to exorcise demons, but I saw some Chinese Taoist artifacts in the display cabinet on the second floor, and Lao Cai and their old man were very religious in Taoism. How can a person have two different beliefs, Taoism is obviously a native religion in China, and there are very few new Taoists among foreigners, so there was suspicion at that time! ”
Han Daring said:
"I can think of a coincidence as an accident, but it is impossible for so many coincidences to come together, and the only truth is that after the completion of the Red Fort, there was indeed an Englishman who called himself George Brown who lived in the Red Fort, but it was not long, maybe only a year or two. According to an accident later, George Brown was burned and disfigured, and his hand was also injured, so he could not do antiquities restoration from then on. Due to the accident, he wore a mask for a long time and had a hoarse voice, so he has been a Chinese since then, dyeing his hair brown, making up burns, wearing a mask, and pretending to be the Englishman George Brown. ”
Yan Zhiyi asked:
"And what about the real George Brown? What about my foreigner brother who stole the "Thirteen Chapters of Supplements"? Was it killed by this Chinese? ”
Han Daring said:
"Nope! He's not dead! When I figured out that the evil accelerant used to burn the black locust tree was the special flame in the Baibi Lingshuang in the "Thirteen Chapters of Supplements", I knew that he was not dead at all, otherwise who could have made this kind of accelerant in Baibi Lingshuang that was not afraid of water! ”
Han Da'er raised his voice and said:
"The real George Brown is no one else! It's this Officer Martin G Forks! ”
Yan Zhiyi was originally very convinced of Han Daring's reasoning, but from the moment he revealed George Brown's identity, Yan Zhiyi also began to question in his heart that he was George Brown, which made him feel a little incredulous, and even began to doubt whether the reasoning he had made before was correct.
Martin burst into a burst of laughter, a completely uncharacteristically loud laugh that made the hearts of the guests tremble, and they didn't know what he was going to do next, so everyone was on guard.
Martin said to Han Daring: "A lot of people in London know me Martin Fox. You're George Brown? ”
Han Daring said:
"The moves in the "Thirteen Chapters" are estimated to be only used by George Brown, among which the white blue frost chapter, the special flame formula from the West mentioned, I think this should be Greek fire, it is a kind of flame invented in ancient Greece that can burn in water, specially used to burn enemy ships, I have seen the description of this thing in the ancient books in the library. According to the formula, there is a compound that has an erosive effect on the skin, and will make the touch slightly blue, do you dare to raise your hand to show everyone, whether there is a blue place on your hand! ”
Unexpectedly, Martin did not answer, but put his left hand into his trouser pocket, and then looked left and right and said to him:
"You and I are George Brown, do you open your eyes and see that I have a burning scar on my face? According to you, I am George Brown, why did I give such a huge asset to others, and I also found a random Chinese to impersonate me! Han Daring said:
"Accidents and burns are all fake! You came to the Tianjin Ministry of Industry 10 years ago, and George Brown came to Tianjin almost at that time. But when George Brown came to Tianjin, he was only heard of in the concession, and even in London, few people had actually seen George Brown. Because there was no such person as George Brown in the first place, this is simply Martin's fictional character! ”
The guests and the police did not expect that Han Da'er, a very famous collector, connoisseur of antiquities, and an expert in the restoration of antiquities, was actually just a fictional character in the antique art circle. If what he said is true, then all kinds of rumors about George Brown's background for a long time are just rumors, which is simply a big joke with this circle that mainly removes the false and retains the true treasure! These people think that they can distinguish the truth from the fake by their own hands and eyes, but who would have thought that they would be deceived by a fictional character for so long!
Han Daring said again:
"George Brown, who rose to fame more than twenty years ago, is a mysterious collector in London. Ten years ago, I moved from England to the Jinying Concession, and these are all fictions of Officer Martin! ”
"Officer Martin, two years after you came to Jinweiju, that is, about eight years ago, during an investigation mission, you were wounded and your right hand was smashed. A few hours ago, you opened the door to the basement of the Red Keep with your right hand, but with your left hand when you pulled out your gun. Ordinary people grope with a gun in one hand and grope with the other, and many times choose to hold a gun and grope with the other, but you are the opposite. When you open the door with the key, you use your right hand, but when you open the door, you hold the gun in your left hand, and you use your right hand to touch the light rope! Because your right hand is injured, it's okay to simply open the door and unlock it, but if you want to shoot with a gun, you can only use your left hand! ”
After listening to this, Martin subconsciously put his right hand in his trouser pocket, and stared at Han Da'er.
Han Daring said:
"It's all thanks to Mr. Zhao Jingsheng and Mr. Zhao who helped me find out the news in a very short time! And Mr. Zhao has collected much more than that! ”
Han Daring nodded to Zhao Jingsheng, and Zhao Jingsheng also returned the salute politely with a smile.
At this time, the policeman Jack said:
"It is true that the head of the head was injured in his right hand eight years ago, but what does this mean?"
Han Daring said:
"Eight years ago, after Martin was injured, the Red Fort also spread the news that George Brown was being supported, and since then he has not been helping people restore antiquities, because the person who really repaired antiquities is not the fake George Brown, not the Chinese, but the Martin police officer in front of him! Because his right hand was injured, he couldn't do delicate repair work! ”
Han Dada'er said to Yan Zhi:
"Now you're brothers and you're finally reunited!"
Yan Zhi was dumbfounded when he heard this, staring at the British policeman in front of him, and he didn't know what to do.
At this time, Karl, who was half silent, asked:
"Then since Martin asked that Chinese to pretend to be himself, then why did he kill that Chinese again, and then let the policeman Lenny pretend to be George Brown, isn't this an extra move? And then why would the Chinese be completely at the mercy of Martin? ”
Han Daring said:
"There are some antiquities on George Brown's desk on the second floor that are trying to be restored, it should be the Chinese pretending to be George Brown, who secretly learned Martin's restoration skills and wanted to try to restore antiquities, but he is far from the real antiquities restoration master Martin after all. He did it because he wanted to truly replace Martin and become the real George Brown. This threatens and angers Officer Martin, but the Chinese wasn't killed by Martin......"
Mills listened to Han Da'er's reasoning, and began to believe that his upper Sima Ding was the culprit in this case, and he blurted out and asked:
"Why didn't he kill that Chinese?"
Han Daring sighed and replied:
"After all, Officer Martin has not completely lost his humanity, and there is no way to poison a man who has been with him for decades!"
These words seemed to touch Martin, and his eyes darkened, and he sighed softly.
Mills asked again:
"Who is China Randi?"
Han Daring said:
"This is thanks to Lao Cai, I only know the identity of the dead Chinese, that fake George Brown!"